• Director(s)

    George Egan

  • Production Year

    1974

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Cast

    Jack Hargreaves, Simon Baddeley

TV Show

Further Out Of Town

FURTHER OUT OF TOWN is a British documentary series featuring digitally restored footage from the 1960s series ‘Out of Town’; in this episode, presenter Jack Hargreaves’s pet mule undergoes a surgical procedure.…

FURTHER OUT OF TOWN is a British documentary series featuring digitally restored footage from the 1960s series ‘Out of Town’; in this episode, presenter Jack Hargreaves’s pet mule undergoes a surgical procedure.

  • Director(s)

    George Egan

  • Production Year

    1974

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Cast

    Jack Hargreaves, Simon Baddeley

mild surgical detail
Classified Date:
27/03/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There is grainy 1960s footage, including several close-up images, of a surgical operation being performed on a mule’s larynx in order to partially remove its voice. Though this surgery is now illegal in the UK, it is explained in the episode as a humane measure to avoid having to rehome the animal.
scenes of animal killing
Classified Date:
27/03/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
theme
An item in the work shows rabbits being hunted by the legal method of sending ferrets into burrows to chase out the rabbits, which are caught in nets or by dogs, and killed quickly and cleanly by humans, without any bloodshed.
additional issues
References to a species of dove being called the “Pakistani pigeon” carry no discriminatory connotations.
images of dead animals, very mild violence, threat, language
Classified Date:
27/03/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
There is grainy 1960s footage of a staged gunfight during a live ‘Wild West’ show. Performers theatrically fall to the ground after being ‘shot’ and a ‘bandit’ briefly takes a female hostage, but there is no blood, and it is obvious that the violence is not real.
threat and horror
Rodeo riders are shown being bucked off horses and steers, all without visible injury.
language
Very mild bad language includes ‘my God’, ‘darn’ and ‘good lord’. The ‘Wild West’ show segment also features a use of the term ‘Indians’ to refer to Native Americans.
injury detail
We watch a dead chicken being plucked and butchered for food; the footage shows the bird's legs and head being cut off and its internal organs being removed, but the images are not bloody and the tone of the segment is matter-of-fact and informative. The actual killing of the chicken is kept off screen, though there is a verbal reference to the bird’s neck having been ‘wrung’. Other scenes show fishermen catching fish.
additional issues
Footage from the 1960s occasionally shows people smoking cigarettes or pipes. Horsewhips are swung near horses’ heads during a ‘Wild West’ riding display in order to prove that the horses have not been trained with cruelty and therefore remain calm and unafraid.
Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

  • Classified date

    27/03/2023

  • Distributor

    Network

  • Language

    English