Day 129: The Smugglers Episode 3

This story has only a handful of surviving clips, most of which are from the Australian censors, to prevent young children from being traumatised by too much violence. The clips in question consist of a man being stabbed, and a man wiping blood off of a pike. It's curious to note the changing tastes in violence over time, because these scenes aren't exactly violent. But what it does do is show us how violent the series is, or rather isn't. There haven't been any other censor clips so far, because nothing of violence has popped up in the series, instead it's all been rather tame sword fights and ray guns. But to be confronted with blood and death before your eyes shows you how much more adult the series has become. But this is adult in a different sense, before we've dealt with darker themes but we've moved into the world of the less subtle. Doctor Who has changed, and it's about to change more.