When I was about 11 years old, this aired on channel 7 ABC in L.A. on a weekday at about 3-4pm (after school) and showed all, with no warnings before or during that the following feature film was, "viewer discretion advised".
Just crazy, nudity, vulgar language. I couldn't believe it, I showed my brother and my sisters and we were blown away. Someone must have lost their job after airing it.
Anyone remember?
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It was probably rated R mostly for the gore in the operating room. There was no violence and very little explicit sex. I guess the shower scene, but there really isn't that much shown and it only lasted a few seconds.
I remember an interview with Alan Alda about the operating room scenes in the TV show, about how in the first couple of seasons they hardly showed any blood at all, then as time progressed there was more realism. But it never even approached what is in the movie. They could never have shown that much blood on TV.
I'm amazed that it was shown uncut on broadcast TV. Cable, yeah, but the Big Three? Wow.
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Yeah--they WERE more liberal in the 70s. When I was about 12 they showed a documentary with a film crew following a troop of Army guys in combat in Vietnam called "A Face of War". It was shown at 2pm on a local TV station. No warning or parental advisory but the movie contained swearing, blood, gore and a real life childbirth caught on camera! It opened my eyes at an early age about what war really is. No way would this be shown today on commercial TV.
shareIn the mid 80's I saw the movie on TV (evening hours) and the scene I remember them cutting out was the scene where Hawkeye treats the patient with the blood spurting from the neck (I know because I was surprised to see it once I got it on video). They kept in Sally's shower scene (it was so brief, you couldn't really see anything anyway).
I'm sure on your broadcast, they cut the f word (as they did on mine)
Polls... One of the Main Stream Media's Jedi Mind Tricks.
<<In the mid 80's I saw the movie on TV (evening hours) and the scene I remember them cutting out was the scene where Hawkeye treats the patient with the blood spurting from the neck (I know because I was surprised to see it once I got it on video). They kept in Sally's shower scene (it was so brief, you couldn't really see anything anyway).
I'm sure on your broadcast, they cut the f word (as they did on mine)>>
I saw and taped Channel 8 Hartford CT's telecast late one night near the end of 1980, and was surprised by how much was shown, including Sally's shower scene (Pazuzu is correct about it not showing more than a fine rear end from a oblique angle) and much of the gore. The spurting throat wound was cut, but even Painless Pole's standard-smashing O-line comment (with the word bleeped, but clearly discernable) was in there. And Hot Lips and Frank's tent tryst was there in its entirety.
In the '70s, they seemed to be a little less lenient on television's content than they are today. Today there are so many parent groups, church groups, and people representing every race and religion in the world who protest what we see on television. Back then, people were a little more open-minded. Case in point: All in the Family. You think they could do a show like that today?