The famous ‘don’t mention the war’ episode of classic 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers was temporarily removed from a streaming service because it contained “racial slurs”.

UKTV, which is owned by the BBC, said it had temporarily made The Germans unavailable while it carries out a review.

The episode first aired in 1975 and sees John Cleese’s misanthropic hotel owner Basil Fawlty goose-stepping around while shouting “don’t mention the war” in front of a group of visiting Germans.

We asked your opinions and here’s what you told us…

Yvonne Parr: “What on earth is the world turning into? There is far more important work to be done globally surely?”

Gary Selby: “Absolutely ridiculous! Once again we lose a classic, that was actually funny.

“Instead we are left with modern day, politically correct, humourless sitcoms.”

Daniel Adams: “It starting to become clear that streaming services and cloud data storage may not be a very good idea, perhaps it’s time to revert to physical ownership and localised storage in an effort to make sure things cannot be wiped like this."

Stephen James West: “I don’t agree with that. John Cleese is honourable, and it is perfectly in tune with the character he was playing.

“Today’s comedies are way more offensive, and Fawlty Towers is a brilliant, light-hearted comedy.”

Carla Lockley: “To me the episode just highlights Basil’s ignorance (as well as being one of the funniest things I have ever seen on TV).”

Christine Hedges: “I feel like a stranger in my own country, thank goodness I was born when I was, it won’t be long before there is riots here.”

Paul Redwood: “This is censorship, plain and simple and a very dangerous thing to encourage.

“If they want to take a stance, then put a warning at the beginning for instance saying “Warning: This program contains language that may be considered racist in nature as well as other racist references such as blackface."

“At least that way you’ve been warned, you’ve been educated, you have a choice.”

Chris Palfreyman: “That’s just pathetic. The world is going mad, soon all our freedoms, entertainment and pastimes will be controlled by the government.”

Noddy Tracy Mackeddie: “I find what is happening here really weird. Who is making these decisions?

“ It’s got nothing to do with BLM as nobody has called for this.

“Somebody, somewhere is doing this, and I’d really like to know who is behind it.

“It looks like some kind of provocation to me.”

Andrew Nelson: “If we remove everything that offends a minority then you may as well not have any TV, films, music or literature as the tolerance is getting to a point of stupidity.”

John Scott: “It’s close to 200 years since we abolished slavery, yet we’re still talking about not having achieved even equality of opportunity.

“How is removing statues and deleting old TV programmes improving the future prospects of anyone?

“At this rate they’ll still be discussing inequality in another 200 years’ time!

“We need to acknowledge the past, learn from it, teach it’s lessons so we (hopefully) don’t make the same mistakes again, the bit our species is least good at.

“Revising history won’t lessen the pain or suffering of the past.

“We have to focus on now and seek to create a better future.”

Daniel Nesbitt: “It’s our history, it might not be pretty but it is fact.”

Liam Campbell: “What can you say really, we now have people running our lives who have no sense of humour whatsoever, it’s a worry.”