The film’s transmission was scheduled for mid-December, a couple of weeks before the airing by the BBC of Christmas tributes to the presenter of Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It, who died in October 2011.
Pulling the film avoided a potential embarrassment for the corporation, which was elsewhere feting him as a hero to the public.
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