[octothorpe]

Yeah, there was a VHS called Too Hot for TV, which served as the UK premiere for The Cartridge Family since as the video tape's name suggests, it hadn't aired on television.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that! I digress here, but I've often wondered how many people have actually bought a VHS/DVD of any show in the past and watched a yet-to-air episode, and actually how many of them were aware of that. E.g. when the unaired Mr. Bean episode (the haircut/pet show one) was released on home media before TV; various episodes of late My Family had that happen to them as well (two episodes released on the series 10 DVD that didn't air until the series 11 TV run, with the series 11 DVD released early too), and I personally took advantage of that at the time.

I do have some info on Cartridge's postponement that I've just found, though, that it was due to air 30/11/1997, in the run of Season 9, but was replaced with the premiere of "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"; Sky released a statement regarding the fact they weren't airing the episode on SkyText in July 1998, that they "feel it is too strong, even for a late slot." I gathered this information years ago and unfortunately don't have a source, so take it for what you will. There was also an episode in Season 24 that they postponed for a couple of months because the content was too strong for the teatime slot it had been originally scheduled for, and is one of those few episodes I aforementioned that Sky will refuse to air pre-watershed.

Regarding Cartridge, the only explanation I can come up with is maybe Dunblane? That happened a year-and-a-half before the pencilled airdate, but if the Twin Towers episode was effectively banned from the airwaves on both sides of the pond for a good few years after 9/11...? I'm guessing maybe they thought an episode with guns wasn't necessarily 'too strong' to show in itself in a late-night slot, as there will have been ten-a-penny shows/imports on that late with violence involving guns, etc., but perhaps they didn't want to take the risk that some of the younger viewers that became fans of the show might spot it on late at night, potentially moreso if marked new, and watch it, an episode obviously unsuitable for them?

And some other fact about "A Streetcar Named Marge" is that, according to my notes, it was never repeated on BBC2, and was also the last of the 61 episodes the BBC originally bought of the show!