when fox t.v. showed a new hope the special edition along with phantom menace and attack of the clones they did some rediculous trims for time. A lot of threepio scenes were trimmed in between commercials , and it was the 1997 edition and this was before revenge of the sith was in theaters even before the 2004 box set. I think it was in 2003 ? or 2004? they showed the story of star wars bit with threepio and artoo relating the story of anakin skywalker . It was the premiere of attack of the clones i think for t.v. when they showed a marathon of these films. Oddly enough they showed empire on a different showing but not return of the jedi amd empire was uncut version from 1997.

i remember let the wookie win being cut for time during this broadcast as well as some lines from threepio in the desert before captured by the jawas, and sold to uncle owen and luke.

I do not think the edits had anything to do with offensive dialogue or scenes but more to do with allowing space for advertisements. The average viewer probalbly would not have noticed.

I find this to be odd because I have on tape a television station edit of the undiscovered country star trek 6 that does similar trims.