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Question about a replaced line for Andrew Marshall


Hi,
I'm going to sound a right geek now :)

In Episode 6.2 'The Lady Vanishes', one of Bill's lines is 'Boy George on a bad night' but am I right in saying that it's been dubbed. If so I was wondering what the original line was?

Thanks!
Rich B

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Dear Rich,

When Princess Diana died, we went through the programmes and found quite a lot of lines that might have seemed tasteless in that immediate context, if the show were to be unexpectedly pulled from the shelf and repeated (which it sometimes was, at quite short notice) and so modified them wherever possible. The original line in this case was "Princess Diana on Panorama". Now that time has past it's probably time the embargo on the original versions was lifted, but no member of the team is still at the BBC to do this...

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Thanks :)

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