Ashton7@aol.com wrote:
I never heard of an instance where the first episode wasn't shown. Has anyone else ever heard of this happening?
Nope. "The Way Back" was definitely shown when the show first aired here in Dallas. (In '84 or '85, I believe.)
I suspect Mr. Thomas was mistaken, or was generalizing from some isolated case he'd heard about. Since PBS stations operate independently in this sort of thing, it's certainly possible that some station, somewhere, decided not to air the first episode. That hardly equates to it being "banned in the US", but Gareth Thomas might not be aware that what one station does is not applicable to the rest of them.
- Lisa
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