Worthy Site Footnotes #9

Here are a couple more Worthy Site Footnotes.


Perdita Avery in Family Affairs
This was a Channel 5 UK soap opera which ran from 1997 to 2005.  She played a regular character called Meredith Lovechild.
This scene is from a 2005 episode .


Perdita Avery














Zoë Eeles in The Vanishing Man
This was a science fiction series made by ITV which lasted just for just one 6-episode series in 1998 following a pilot episode in 1997.  It starred Neil Morrissey as a convict who gains invisibility powers after he is experimented upon in prison.
This scene is from the final episode titled Retribution and takes place in the changing room of a gym.
 

Zoë Eeles












The same scene had some topless women in in who I think are uncredited extras, but if anyone recognises any of them please let me know.

Extras in The Vanishing Man

Heads Up #6: In Deep

Coming up next Wednesday the Drama Channel is an episode of In Deep that had a topless scene featuring Victoria Leigh.


In Deep
Series 2, episode 6 & 7: Abuse of Trust
Wednesday 26th November 2014 at 10:00pm on Drama
Originally shown: Jan 2002 on BBC1



Victoria Leigh












It is being shown as a single feature-length episode although it was originally a two-parter with the topless scene occurring in episode 1.

Heads Up #5: Ultimate Force

Coming up next Friday on the recently added Freeview channel CBS Action is the episode of Ultimate Force that has a topless scene featuring actress Caroline Trowbridge.

Ultimate Force
Series 2, episode 3: Wannabes
Friday 21st November 2014 at 10:00pm on CBS Action
Originally shown: July 2003 on ITV

Caroline Trowbridge in Ultimate Force

The series is being shown every weeknight, so the episodes featuring Heather Peace are also imminent.



Ultimate Force
Series 3, episode 1: Deadlier Than the Male
Thursday 27th November 2014 at 10:00pm on CBS Action
Originally shown: Jan 2005 on ITV

Heather Peace in Ultimate Force (s3)

Also in the same episode were two uncredited bit-part actresses.
They were identified as flight crew in the scene and both had brief lines of dialogue - the first was blonde and unnamed, the other was brunette and named as Geraldine - neither of them were acknowledged in the credits and had no other role in the episode besides this scene.  Their glamour girl type figures hint the possibility they might have been real-life models at the time.
If anyone can put a name to either or both of them that would be useful.



Uncredited Actresses














Series 3 only contained four episodes, so following on pretty swiftly in the following week will be the series 4 opener:-

Ultimate Force
Series 4, Episode 1: The Changing of the Guard
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 at 10:00pm on CBS Action
Originally shown: April 2006 on ITV



Heather Peace in Ultimate Force (s4)












Heather Peace is seen topless again in a bedroom scene in series 4, episode 2: Charlie Bravo, on the next day - but this is only very brief.

Missing But Not Forgotten #4: Wire in the Blood (ITV/2007)

WIRE IN THE BLOOD
Episode: The Names of Angels
First Broadcast: 2007 on ITV

This is a slightly different situation in that the missing scene was never present in the UK transmission in the first place. 

In the UK broadcast actress Leanne Lakey (playing the innocent girlfriend of the killer) did not have any nudity.  However when the American DVD release of it came out it emerged there was a brand new scene that UK viewers never saw.

The missing scene

This Robson Green crime-solving series was one that could only ever be shown post-watershed due to the often grisly nature of the murder scenes.  So the cut had nothing to do with timeslot editing.

I'm unclear whether or not it is now present on any UK DVD releases, but when the episode was shown again on ITV3 this year I checked to see if the scene had been reinstated - but it was still not there.

In the scene she is sitting on a bed naked as her scary boyfriend Luke picks out some jewellery he wants her to put on which he throws onto the bed beside her - the camera tracks up to her unhappy looking face (in a continuous shot) as she prepares to do what he wants.  A portion of the missing scene does appear near the end of the UK episode in a flashback montage but only her face close-up is used from the scene - making it a flashback to something that "never happened".

NOTE: In the above collage, for a better balance, I've reversed the sequence so it looks like it's moving down.  In the actual scene it starts low and moves upwards.

Film Report: More Than Dreams (1998)

More Than Dreams is a low-budget Swiss/UK film from 1998 film which has recently had a restored re-release and has been found to have previously undiscovered nudity involving former Eastenders' actress Leila Birch.

The film tells the story of an out-of work actor called Sean (Nick Gatt) who does part-time bar work while trying to get an acting part.  His relationship with his girlfriend Claudia (Leila Birch) is strained and he is into taking drugs.  He reaches a new low when he catches Claudia in bed with his more successful flatmate Peter (John Pickard) and to escape his troubles he heads off to Switzerland to catch up with some family there with whom he shared a happy childhood.

Whilst it is not an especially engaging film, to its immense credit it does have two topless scenes involving Leila Birch, who it seemed (until now) had never done any nudity.  She appeared in Eastenders as Teresa Di Marco from 1998-2000.

The first scene occurs during the opening credits in which she is seen taking a shower.  This is a well-lit scene although unfortunately her face and breasts are not seen together in a continuous shot.  This would normally lead to immediate suspicions of a body double being used.

However in a later sex scene, her left breast and nipple are seen in the same shot as her face - this scene is not so well lit, but has been brightened for the collage.


Scene 1



Scene 2

Since there was no attempt to utilise a body double in the second scene this lends a degree of credence to it being her during the shower scene.  And while I obviously can't be completely sure, this seems to be supported by the presence of two faint birth marks seen above her right breast which seem to match those seen on a cleavagy lads' mag type photograph of her (in terms of their relative placement and distance apart).

The film also has another topless scene involving a Swiss actress called Céline Pisar who appears in a small role in a scene set in Geneva.

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Thanks to the contributor who discovered this film and let me know about Leila Birch.

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Missing But Not Forgotten #3: Jack The Ripper (ITV/1988)

JACK THE RIPPER

This was a lavish 2-part (4-hour) drama made by Euston Films for ITV which starred Michael Caine and Lewis Collins as the detectives investigating the Whitechapel murders.

The original ITV broadcast contained a brief topless scene as prostitute Annette (Kelly Cryer) is sitting at her brothel dresser and pulls a black shawl around herself when Sgt George Godley (Lewis Collins) enters the room to question her.  This moment opens the scene and modern versions remove the brief topless lead-in and instead begin the scene just after she has covered herself up (so approximately from the final picture in the collage below).

This is a slightly different situation to timeslot-editing in that its editing wasn't done by a TV channel for pre-watershed showing but seems to have been done at source.  The edit was present when this was a Daily Mail DVD giveaway in 2008 as part of a Michael Caine Collection (other films of his that contained nudity weren't edited).  And more recently the Drama Channel showed it post-watershed and it contained the exact same edit.  So chances are it was edited for a commercial DVD release and this is now the only version made available.

Kelly Cryer in Jack The Ripper (ITV/1988)

(The face images come from the Daily Mail DVD and the rest are from an archive clip of the original broadcast)

Now Identified: Uncredited "Miriam" Character from Skins Episode 1

A long-standing mystery has been the identity of the actress seen naked in the first episode of Channel 4's Skins from 2007.  She plays the woman who is seen flaunting herself at her bedroom window as seen by teenager Tony from the house opposite, making a daily early morning exhibition of herself to the exasperation of her husband.  She has a bit of dialogue and is called "Miriam" by her husband, but did not get a credit.

Uncredited "Miriam" from episode 1 of Skins

I've previously mentioned this query on the blog in the post Actresses to be Identified #1

The other day I stumbled upon the answer on the Vintage Erotica Forum (VEF) site.  Tucked away on a thread dedicated to the 90s model Louise Downie, a user identified her as being the uncredited woman in Skins.

Of course I needed to check it out to see if the identification passed reasonable scrutiny.  Fortunately the VEF thread for Louise Downie included some scans from a men's magazine layout she did which proved useful.

Probably the most persuasive bit of supportive evidence can be seen in this comparison in which a tattoo on her left hip seen in the modelling shot is also sported in the same position by "Miriam".

Her face appears to be similar enough so as not to cast any obvious doubt.  Some copy shown on the magazine scans mentions that she had just appeared in the film Scandal which was from 1989.  So the gap between those modelling pictures and the Skins images would be approximately 17-18 years.  This would seem to fit in with "Miriam" looking to be in her latter 30s.

There is a noticeable difference between the size of her right and left areola which can be seen in both Louise Downie's 1989 modelling pictures and in the 2007 Skins scene.

So all in all the identification seems to be a good one with enough indications fitting together to make coincidence seem unlikely.

I think this can therefore now be considered solved.

If anyone comes across any online articles or interviews that help support it further then please let me know.

One thing I did find: The public-facing information on what seems likely to be her Facebook account (going by the accompanying picture) states she lives in Bristol.  This is where Skins was filmed.

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As well as being a model Louise Downie appeared in topless bit-part roles in several films and TV shows in the late 1980s and early 1990s when she was a younger woman.

Here are some of those appearances:-

Visions of Ecstasy (1989)
A controversial short, banned until recently, in which she plays a nun called St Teresa of Avila.















Bye Bye Baby (1992)
A C4 film in which she plays a stripper

Cracker (ITV/1993)
The very first story of Cracker entitled "The Mad Woman In The Attic" in which she plays a murder victim. Her scenes from Cracker are a bit gruesome, playing a blood-soaked corpse in a train carriage, so I'll just show the missing person's photo of her that was seen during the story.

Splitting Heirs (1993)
Playing a stag-do stripper (credited as Louise Downey)

If she did appear in the final cut of Scandal as stated then she has never been spotted and certainly wasn't credited.  She may possibly have been one of the background participants in the orgy sequence, or perhaps one of the dancers in Bridget Fonda's troupe.

And according to IMDB she also played a stripper in a 1989 episode of Casualty.  I haven't seen that although I would guess it's perhaps unlikely she was actually seen topless in that.

Worthy Site Footnotes #8

Here are a couple more Worthy Site Footnotes.

Both of these are from long-running ITV police drama The Bill.

 

Firstly Tania Emery in an episode from 2001 called Aftershock.  This was the second of a six-part storyline.

Tania Emery

This post doubles up as a Heads Up!  If you are interested in seeing it, the Drama Channel's run will be reaching this episode in a few days time, at the end of this week.

• First showing: Friday 12th Sept at 12:00 midday
• Second Showing: Friday 12th Sept at 11:55pm
• Third Showing: Monday 15th Sept at 11:00am

 

The other footnote is Kim Tiddy in an episode from 2005.  They had stopped using episode titles by then so the only way to identify it is by the original broadcast date which was 28th April 2005.  This is the episode in which she gets married.

Kim Tiddy

It'll be quite sometime before they reach this episode though.  If Drama keep going with their current five-episodes-a-week schedule, it'll not be until December of next year they get to that one! (The Bill was on twice-a-week all-year-round back then).

Query Solved: The Detective (BBC1/1985)

Update to the post: Unknown Actress in The Detective (BBC1/1985)

Where we left it: See the earlier post for the story so far in which my own research into a clip from the 1985 BBC serial The Detective took me as far as finding that an actress called Julia Stockwell seemed to be the most likely contender for being the girl in the pool with Hugh Grant.  But no further, since it seemed she had done nothing else and I couldn't find any pictures of her to be really sure.

Now thanks to some sterling research by a blog reader, who found a contemporaneous image of Julia Stockwell in the Spotlight Directory for 1985/1986, I think it can now be confirmed.

Here is the new picture of Julia Stockwell, first alone and then again with images from The Detective scene for a side-by-side comparison.

As you can see she has very similar looking chin, eyebrows and hairline.  Taking that in combination with the earlier research that threw up her name as the probable candidate, it seems almost certain she is the actress in the scene.

So this query can now be considered solved.

Missing But Not Forgotten #2: Lovejoy

Continuing the theme that highlights scenes that are nowadays routinely edited out of serial dramas when they are shown on repeat channels to make them suitable for an intended pre-watershed audience. 


LOVEJOY

From 1986 here is Cassie Stuart in a scene from episode 4 of the first series of Lovejoy entitled Friends, Romans and Enemies.

Cassie Stuart in Lovejoy

In the scene she is swimming in an indoor pool when Lovejoy arrives to visit Charlie Gimbert (her brother) who berates her for swimming naked in company which results in her mischievously defying him by jumping up high in the water to contrarily show even more - much to her brother's exasperation.

It is the only episode of Lovejoy with any nudity.

Film Report: Delicious (UK 2013)

Delicious tells the story of a young chef from France called Jacques (Nico Rogner) who comes to England to work for top restaurateur Victor Ellwood (Adrian Scarborough) whom he secretly believes to be his father.  While working there Jacques takes up lodgings in a flat where he meets his abrasive downstairs neighbour Stella (Louise Brealey) whom Jacques soon realises has a severe eating disorder which is making her miserable.  Jacques decides to try to help her by introducing her to the culinary treats his skills can conjure up.

Louise Brealey (known for TV series Sherlock and Casualty) has some nudity in the film.

There are two scenes.  In the first she is standing naked in her flat when Jacques looks in through the window trying to gain her attention when he wants to borrow some coffee and accidentally sees her naked.  In the other scene she is in a bath.

Heads Up #4: Taggart

Coming up on Saturday on the Freeview channel True Entertainment is a 1997 episode of Taggart entitled Apocalypse.

Saturday 16th August 2014 at 9:00pm on True Entertainment
Originally shown: January 1997

This story had a couple of topless scenes featuring actresses Clare Scott-Campbell and Georgina Sowerby.

Clare Scott-Campbell in Taggart: Apocalypse

Georgina Sowerby in Taggart: Apocalypse

Update (Sun 17th Aug)

They showed a different episode!

Checking more closely it seems Apocalypse was originally a 3-part story (three hours with ads) and yet they had scheduled it into a two-hour slot (with ads) so they substituted the episode Out of Bounds in its stead which was originally a single 100-minute episode.

They'll have the same problem with (today's) Sunday's billed episode called Babushka which is another 3-parter but again scheduled for only two hours.

Missing But Not Forgotten #1

Here's the start of another occasional theme which will highlight some of the scenes that nowadays get routinely edited out of long running dramas shown on repeat channels when they are re-targeted to make them suitable for an intended pre-watershed audience.  Often the bulk of the episodes are entirely suitable and so the odd one or two that aren't are adjusted to fit in.

Mainly these channels are ITV3 and The Drama Channel.   And even when one of those channels has another showing of the same episode after midnight they often still seem to lazily use the same daytime friendly version of the episode.  Although I've only occasionaly checked this because once bitten ...

That isn't to say these channels edit everything and when a programme is intended for post-watershed viewing usually things seem to be left alone.

I'll start off with one where it might come as a surprise that it had any nudity at all:-

Rumpole of the Bailey

I'm aware of two episodes of this ITV series that originally had topless nudity.  Both of them were from the 5th series in 1988.

When the Drama Channel recently showed this series in their daytime schedules, I watched the two episodes in question just to see how they would (presumably) circumvent the nudity.

In Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation, Claude Erksine-Brown goes into a strip club and a newspaper hack gets a compromising photo of him ogling a stripper which gets printed in a newspaper.  In the edited version we see him enter the club but don't see any of the events that go on inside, which are implied-only by the subsequent newspaper story.  The performer playing the stripper was uncredited.

Unknown in "The Bubble Reputation"

In Rumpole and the Quality of Life, the episode opens with Helen Fitzgerald (as Lady Perdita Derwent) who is sitting topless posing for her much older artist husband Sir Daniel Derwent (William Squire) while his resentful daughter Helen (Caroline Goodall) from his first marriage, who is older than Perdita, snipes at her.  The full episode includes close-up shots of Helen Fitzgerald topless which were all missing although one brief topless long shot was left in - the whole scene couldn't have been easily cut entirely because it was an important scene setter which established the family dynamics when later Perdita is defended by Rumpole for the possible murder of Sir Daniel.

Helen Fitzgerald in "The Quality of Life"

The episodes are complete on the DVD release.

Worthy Site Footnotes #7

Here are some more Site Footnotes:-


Lucinda Dryzek in BBC1 sitcom Life Of Riley from 2011.
The bottom row has magnified versions of some of the frames

Michelle Dockery in BBC2's Shakespeare series The Hollow Crown from 2012.

Rarity Showcase: Susannah Doyle in Breakfast

Here is Susannah Doyle in scenes from an obscure short film called "Breakfast".

Breakfast was a 9-minute film made in 1988 by students of the National Film and Television School (NFTS).

It is known about because it received a television airing in an edition of the Thames Television arts programme First Run broadcast in 1989.

The episode featured three shorts made by first year students of the NFTS as an exercise in collaboration and self-expression.  The programme explains that they were given a poem by French poet Jacques Prévert called Breakfast and asked to make a film on the subject.  Eleven films were made and three of them were showcased in the programme.  It was the first serious attempts at filmmaking by the students involved.

Although the film did not include any cast credits, Susannah Doyle has been recognised.
Her appearance in Breakfast is not shown on IMDB but by way of an independent confirmation of her involvement it IS shown on her listing in a 1994 edition of Who's Who on Television.

Susannah Doyle found TV fame a few years after this as "Joy" in C4 comedy Drop The Dead Donkey from 1991-1998

Scene Description: Topless with her right breast seen as she wakes up on a hot morning beside a man with his head resting on her chest - then fully topless as he rolls off of her and she recalls the drunken details of the night before - then full frontal nudity laying in bed after the man gets out of bed - then rear nudity and full frontal nudity and she gets out of bed and stands by a fan and puts on an open shirt - then she lays down on the bed and flicks through a magazine listening to the noises outside which are aggravating her hangover - then lower nudity laying on her side in bed as it starts to rain and thunder outside.

Short Films Featured in First Run
1. "Les Maladroits" - Directed by Shoko Omori  (in B&W and French)
2. "Breakfast" by Linda Hassani
3. "The Soulful Shack" by John Roberts

The only one with any nudity was "Breakfast"


Text of the poem "Breakfast" by Jacques Prévert can be found here.   (http://hellopoetry.com/poem/15459/breakfast/)


Susannah Doyle also had a topless scene in a 45-minute black comedy called Hero Hungry shown on C4 on 19 July 1990.  It was also made by the NFTS.  It was shown at 11:50pm which perhaps explains why it remains elusive in collector's circles because not many people watched/recorded it.  I've only seen a very brief mute clip from it which shows her opening up her shirt in an office for reasons that can't be determined from the clip because there is no preamble included.

Unknown Drama #8

Here is a scene from another unknown TV drama from the 1980s.  In this case neither the actress nor the programme are known.

In the 10-second clip, there is no dialogue or music.  We just hear the sound of echoing footsteps as she quickly gets out of bed and rushes down some stairs.

There are no clues with this one to make much headway so any pointers to her identity or what the programme was called would be most welcome.

Drama Channel Heads Up #3

Here's another tip for for a drama coming up this week (and next) on the Drama channel.

The Murder Room
(The second of two Adam Dalgliesh mysteries starring Martin Shaw)
Originally shown on BBC1 in 2005.
It is a two-part story starting on Wednesday 25th June 2014 at 9:00pm on the Drama Channel.

Part 2 will presumably be on the following week on Wednesday 2nd July.

It featured topless scenes for Ty Glaser (in part 1) and Janie Dee (in part 2).

Ty Glaser

Janie Dee

Catherine Zeta Jones Rarity

This post is about an early obscure Catherine Zeta Jones topless scene whose origins have up to know proved oddly hard to substantiate.

It's one I've known about for quite a while but had never previously been able to verify the scant information known about it.  Its existence became known to me in the early 2000s via an old collage I saw which stated it came from something called "Resurgence".  There was also a mute 17-second clip showing the same scene.  Since then I've seen nothing else about it at all.

In the (silent) clip a young looking Catherine Zeta Jones is seen topless in a tennis clubhouse as a man opens up the door to the shower rooms just as she is coming out and she unabashedly flirts with him as she heads off to another room.  She looks similar in age to her "Darling Buds of May" days (1991-1993) and so it seemed likely it would be from the early 1990s sometime.

Back when I first came across it and was trying to find out further details, there was nothing on her IMDB entry to indicate she had ever been in anything with the name "Resurgence" - so it was a bit of mystery.

I initially put it on the site's Actress Database area as a query and had a response from an emailer who remembered seeing it and supplied the information that it was from a series called "Love At First Sight" with "Resurgence" being the episode title.  This was useful but actually got me no further in confirming anything because there was no trace of that on her credits either.  Nor any indication of there ever having been a series with that title at all.

I used that information on the site but it always nagged me that it was such an unconfirmable mystery series that seemed to have eluded all the reference sources I had ever looked at.  I've occasionally revisited it over the years when new reference sources turn up but still always turning up a blank.

But recently I revisited it again and discovered a new retrospective item had been added to Catherine Zeta Jones' IMDB credits that refers to "Resurgence".  And furthermore it helps explain why I've never been able to find any reference to a British series with that name.  Because it's actually a French series called "Coup de foudre"

This French anthology series had started in 1988 and she appeared in a 1992 episode entitled "Résurgence" broadcast in France on 28th August 1992.  Coup de foudre means "Thunderbolt".

Episode Cast for Coup de foudre: Résurgence

Dora Doll / Serge Dupire / Jessica Forde / Roland Giraud / Dominic Gould / Catherine Zeta-Jones

There is no plot summary given for it.

Some relevant series facts from IMDB:-

• Each episode was 26 minutes in length;
• It was an international co-production involving: France, Italy, UK, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland;
• The production companies involved were: Antenne-2, Canal+, Harlech Television (HTV), Reteitalia.

HTV was the ITV region which served both Wales and the West of England (as two separate channels).  This is promising for it having been shown in the UK, which clearly it must have been given the existence of the clip and collage and my contributor's recollection. 

A search of a newspaper's TV listings pages from the time reveals that it was indeed shown.  But seemingly it was only shown in the HTV West region and it appears not to have been picked up for network broadcasting nationwide (not even in HTV Wales).  ITV London was showing a current affairs programme called "The London Programme" at the same time.  But that all helps with piecing together corroborating evidence since it was HTV who co-produced it.

It was shown at 11:10pm on HTV West on Friday, March 19th 1993, which was about 7 months after the French air date.  This listing shows it was given a time slot of 30 minutes which matches the stated length of the episodes.

There is no mention on IMDB of the series having been given an alternate English title of "Love At First Sight" but that now seems to be supportable with enough connecting information to make it seem likely that the same series is being referred to. 

One final check was to see if any of the male cast members listed for that episode matched the man seen in the clip and thankfully this also checks out:-  he closely resembles Roland Giraud.

So there seems to be little doubt that the clip's source has now been properly validated as being from Coup de foudre aka Love At First Sight.

Catherine Zeta Jones in Coup de foudre/Love At First Sight: Resurgence

The Houseman's Tale (BBC/1987)

The Houseman's Tale was a 1980s BBC drama tinged with notoriety because the original version of it was "banned" by BBC bosses and had to be re-edited for transmission.

The story centres around Dr David Campbell, a young medical intern gaining hands-on experience working in a busy teaching hospital (such a person is termed a "Houseman").  It starred Colin Forsythe as David Campbell.

The Houseman's Tale was originally made by BBC Scotland in 1985 as a four-part drama with each episode lasting 50 minutes.  However it was considered too controversial to be shown in its original form and it was edited down into a two-part drama for eventual transmission.  This was finally broadcast on 21st and 28th March 1987.  The original episodes 1 and 2 were merged into a single first episode lasting 75 minutes (losing approximately 25 minutes of material) and episodes 3 and 4 were amalgamated to become the new part two lasting 80 minutes (losing 20 minutes of material).

The programme has never been commercially released and only a few retained collectors' clips from the broadcast version have emerged showing Julie Graham in two topless scenes.

Two full episodes were posted on YouTube in 2011 (in multiple parts) and interestingly it turns out to be the unbroadcast version rather than the transmitted version.  The YouTube posting includes the whole of episode 1 and 2 and about the first 10 minutes of episode 3.  For some reason the rest does not seem to have been posted. 

Here is a YouTube collection link which contains most of the parts although the last few are separately posted and not on this link, but can be searched for separately.

Watching it now it is hard to see what was so controversial about it.  In many ways it actually seems quite a modern drama, so perhaps its storytelling style was too ahead of its time?  It shows the overworked Dr Campbell's daily routine treating ward patients and socialising with other junior doctors and nurses.  From watching just episodes 1 and 2, there isn't too much of an actual story plot that drives it, and is mainly just slice-of-life stuff - the only recurring thread being a mystery illness which the doctors seem unable to properly diagnose.

Nudity
It was already known that Julie Graham had some nudity in the broadcast version, but now it can be seen that these scenes were different in the untransmitted version.  And additionally there are a couple of scenes featuring other actresses that quite possibly didn't make it into the broadcast version at all.

Julie Graham
In the unbroadcast original version of episode 1, Julie Graham, who is playing Dr Campbell's girlfriend Nurse Joan Masson, is seen fully frontal as she is getting dressed for work while she chats to Campbell who is still in bed.

However in the transmitted version (as seen via collectors' retained clips) she is just seen topless in the scene.  This was achieved in a somewhat sneaky way by placing a bannered caption across the picture telling us her character name which also serves to hide her lower parts.  This captioning device was already being used by the programme to display each characters' name on screen when they first appear, so the editors simply took advantage of this and moved her caption to serve a dual purpose.

This shows how the broadcast version differs from the original

Later in the same episode Julie Graham had a further topless scene in bed when she is complaining of stomach pains and Campbell examines her.  This scene appeared in the broadcast version but in a shortened form and the scene ended before the part where Campbell pulls the sheets further down to examine her abdomen.

 

Julie Graham's two scenes

Other Actresses
The unbroadcast version contains nudity that has never previously been seen in vintage collectors' clips or screenshots and so it's a fair bet that they were edited out entirely.

In the original episode 2, Juliet Cadzow has a topless bed scene with Dr Campbell.  It occurs after a party when Campbell takes her back to his room to console her for her boyfriend going off with another woman at the party.  It seems possible that the entire (quite long) party scene was dropped because the original end credits show the name of the actor playing the party's DJ (Alex Mathieson).  This actor's name does not appear on any of the official credits for the broadcast version either on IMDB or Kaleidoscope Guide perhaps suggesting that the party scene was not used. 

Juliet Cadzow

And in episode 3 (in the first 10 minutes thereof that appears on YouTube).  Mary Ann Reid is seen topless in a hospital bed scene where her breasts are being examined by a consultant and his staff (including Campbell) prior to having a removal operation.  This scene is especially cringe worthy for the insensitive way the senior consultant treats her and you can see why it might have decided not to use it in the edited version, if that was indeed the case.  Mary Ann Reid still appears in the official episode credits so she wasn't edited out entirely.  Because the posted material ends soon after that scene I don't know how her storyline progressed.

Mary Ann Reid

Even in its edited form it clearly wasn't considered something that many viewers would want to watch because it was tucked away in a very late Saturday night slot (10:30pm).  Perhaps so as to "offend" as few people as possible!  But no doubt if it was repeated today, in either form, it would be reassessed as groundbreaking.