History BannedInChina / UnitedKingdom

* The UK had a strong backlash against horror comics in the 1950s, blaming them for juvenile delinquency (using much the same logic that led to UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode in the U.S. around the same time). In fact, a 1955 law was introduced specifically to ban the sale of American horror comics to children; it remains in force, although there have been no prosecutions since the 1970s.

* Creator/EdWood's debut film ''Film/GlenOrGlenda'' was banned for its focus on crossdressers and [[UsefulNotes/Transgender transgender]]people. It was one of the first movies to explore the topic back when it was controversial.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvi'' has "The Banagic Incident", which got banned in the UK supposedly due to the titular item looking not only rather phallic, but the way it shoots out it's innards looked a little too on the nose seemingly according to their censors. The episode is able to be seen on Disney+, though.

* "WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil" has "The Banagic Incident", which got banned in the UK supposedly due to the titular item looking not only rather phallic, but the way it shoots out it's innards looked a little too on the nose seemingly according to their censors. The episode is able to be seen on Disney+, though.

* Though technically not banned, ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' was never broadcast on British television.

* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is a downplayed example, [[TooHotForTV it's not allowed on Television at all]] for its extreme sexual references and strong use of bad language, with Funimation trying to do a censored edition to get it on Creator/AdultSwim, and got fans to back it up but it was ultimately rejected. That said, it is still allowed on Blu-Ray and DVD[[labelnote:*]]Though it is rated 18 which is a higher rating than most adult comedies like ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''[[/labelnote]], so it's only a soft-ban at best.

** The government tried to ban the Thames Television documentary ''Death on the Rock'', which suggested that the government may have unlawfully killed some IRA members. It didn't work, so she just mass-deregulated ITV and watched the company in question get outbid and replaced (which in turn led to ITV's NetworkDecay and mass consolidation).

* Four episodes of season one of ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'' were skipped by [=BBC1=] after parents allegedly complained about their content. One of these episodes was the one in which Spike gets pregnant, which proved to be bad timing as Amanda Stepto, who played Spike, was doing publicity in the UK. This is slightly averted however, as the "banned" episodes were released on VHS and aired months later in a later timeslot on [=BBC2=], before the network dropped the show altogether, instead airing reruns.[[note]]Degrassi Junior High is reported to have also aired on pay television networks such as UK Gold in the 1990s, though no information on whether season 2 and 3, or even ''Series/DegrassiHigh'' was broadcast, is currently available.[[/note]] The BBC's Genome TV listing database also insinuates that only a handful of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' season eight episodes were shown.

* The Thatcher-era United Kingdom [[{{Bowdlerize}} censored]] the 1987 ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' to make it "less violent." Mikey's nunchucks were digitally erased, and the word "ninja" was replaced with "hero" in the title. For whatever reason, the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles movies]] also kept the original Ninja Turtles name, despite being released when the 1987 cartoon was still airing, but any scene with Michelangelo's nunchucks had to be cropped or blurred out, as the U.K. had (until 1999) a rule against showing StockNinjaWeaponry. Laws have relaxed considerably since then, though, and the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 cartoon]] survived unchanged there

** These days, broadcast rights for different seasons rotate between Sky and Channel 4. Sky are considerably more relaxed about content than Channel 4. In fact, it's sometimes possible to see broadcasts of the same episode on both channels within a short space of time, when it can be seen just how much Channel 4 sometimes excise from their airings. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Q8XPOmtwo This video]] shows various cuts made to episodes when they're broadcast on Channel 4.

* In 1934 the WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon "Red Hot Mama" was banned because its depiction of Hell was “unsuitable for public distribution in this country.”

* ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'': The third DVD volume was infamously [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-08-08/bbfc-comments-on-paranoia-agent-censorship/.161910 refused classification]] by the BBFC because of a scene in episode 8 where characters, including a child, try to hang themselves from a tree branch for fun (until the branch snaps). 80 seconds of footage were cut for the DVD to pass with an 18 rating. The episode was finally passed uncut for the 2021 Blu-ray, also with an 18 rating.

* ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'': The third DVD volume was infamously [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-08-08/bbfc-comments-on-paranoia-agent-censorship/.161910 refused classification]] by the BBFC because of a scene in episode 8 where characters, including a child, try to hang themselves from a tree branch for fun (until the branch snaps). The episode was finally passed uncut for the 2021 Blu-ray with an 18 rating.

* The Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} article for the Music/{{Scorpions|Band}}' album "Virgin Killer" -- which featured a naked ten-year-old girl on the cover -- was blacklisted and blocked by the [[MoralGuardians Internet Watch Foundation]] in December 2008, since it was considered to be "potentially illegal" according to the Protection of Children Act 1978. After four days of blocking, this decision was reversed.

* For a while, any scenes that depicted ninja weapons, like [[FightingWithChucks nunchucks]] or [[StockNinjaWeaponry shuriken]], were censored. This included Creator/BruceLee's iconic nunchuck scene in ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.