Am watching the 2nd DVD-disc of Season One. At about 15:40 during the episode "The Murdering Class" a line of dialogue is bleeped-out. Since the characters are discussing an African-American man, it appears that the bad-guy (of course) uses the n-word.
weird, huh?
He was using some racist phrase, so the censored the word. Something about a "N-word" in a woodpile.
shareglad someone else noted this too. really amazed that a line like that would have found itself into a series like this.
shareGood call, you can actually hear the beep, and that's unfortunate 'cause I find him to be one of the better villains. You can still hear the word in the Starsky & Hutch episode Manchild on the Streets (#3.11) at the scene of the shooting.
'Huuutch!' - Starsky
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Yeah just came across that while watching it on Youtube. It's bizarre. I figured it was just a youtube thing - extra bizarre that's it's like that on the DVD.
shareThis was bleeped some time ago. I noticed it was bleeped when it aired in syndication on WGN-Chicago and WOR-Secaucus in the 80's. Nowadays they just silence-dead air until the next non offensive dialogue is spoken. Remember, this was '72, long before the term or mindset of PC was coined. Not so surprising for the time, and I'm Black and only in my early 40's. They not only used the term and phrase, but demonstrated the villains sense of entitlement and willingness to frame a Black man for his own crime. The old phrase was commonly used in the U.K., and meant to symbolize something suspicious or not quite right was going on, and used quite literally in this episode. Agatha Christie, renowned mystery writer, and a remarkable racist even for her time, used this phrase in one or more of her novels. Andrew Parks son of actress Betty Garrett portrays the villain with a sinister reality.
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