Two plays were controversially pulled from transmission shortly before broadcast due to concerns over their content: these were Dennis Potter's "Brimstone & Treacle" in 1976 and Roy Minton's "Scum" the following year. In the case of "Brimstone & Treacle" it was due to concerns over the play's depiction of a disabled woman's rape at the hands of a man who may or may not be the devil, and with "Scum" the worry was its supposed sensationalism of life in a young offenders' institution (then still known as a borstal). "Scum" and "Brimstone & Treacle" were eventually transmitted, although in the meantime both had circumvented their withdrawal by being re-made as cinema films.