Michael Ward's Labour candidate character (variously referred to by Rigsby as both dishonest and gay) was named Pendry in the original episode as transmitted. Real-life Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde Tom Pendry successfully sued Yorkshire Television for libel. YTV were said to have wiped the master tape; consequently the only copy believed to have survived is a slightly low-quality, smeary Canadian NTSC recording. The offending pink banners bearing Pendry's name are now blurred out, and this is the version used for transmissions and on DVD. No-one knows if the original PAL master now actually exists or not.