Viewers furious as Crocodile Dundee gets a ‘woke’ edit with famous scenes cut from iconic Aussie megahit

British television viewers are fuming after the UK’s Channel Five edited crucial scenes of the classic Aussie film, Crocodile Dundee, for a Boxing Day broadcast.

The film, released in 1986, follows Paul Hogan as Northern Territory crocodile hunter Mick Dundee as he is introduced to life in New York City by journalist Sue Charlton, played by Linda Kozlowski, who would go on to marry Hogan.

The movie’s tagline at the time was “From the Outback of Australia to urban jungle of New York, there’s no wilderness he can’t tame!”

The film was aired at 5.15pm, a family friendly time, with several scenes cut from the movie, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Among those scenes are a sequence in which Mick meets transgender woman Gwendoline in a New York bar, approaches her and grabs her groin area.

Also cut from the broadcast was a scene in which Mick asks limousine driver Gus about his heritage.

However, perhaps one of the biggest disappointments was the decision to cut the iconic scene in which a man pulls a knife on Mick and Sue, to which the Aussie responds: ‘That’s not a knife, this is a knife.’

Viewers fumed on X, following the screening of the film.

“Just watching Crocodile Dundee on Channel 5. What on earth is going on at all??? Half the script has changed coz of this woke world we live in!!!” one exploded.

“Channel 5 Oh Dear! Why bother showing Crocodile Dundee in this country so woke that the lefty snowflakes get offended and triggered by a classic film!!!” another fumed.

“Channel 5 have so far cut out 20 per cent of the film so not to offend people. What’s the point of showing it at all. Ruined it. #woke,” yet another wrote.

“Stop censoring films to appease the woke snowflakes with thin skin. You ruined Crocodile Dundee. Just sat at mate’s watching it, he never seen it before (sic) and said parts don’t make sense ... I told him you took the jokes out. Idiots.”

The film cost just $9 million to produce and brought home nearly $330 million at the worldwide box office.

It also made Paul Hogan a huge star in the United States, spawning the sequels Crocodile Dundee II in 1988 and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles in 2001.

The screening comes just weeks after one of the movie’s stars, Burt, the crocodile who was featured in the film died.

The death was announced by the staff at Crocosaurus Cove, a reptile attraction and habitat in Darwin, Australia, where Burt had lived since 2008.

He was estimated to be about 90 years old.