Some material from Sanford and Son is now considered too controversial to air on network television and is routinely edited in syndication, specifically, derogatory racial references. The episode "Fred Sanford, Legal Eagle," was edited before being aired on the cable TV network TV Land. In the unedited version, Fred represents Lamont in traffic court as his legal counsel. In the TV Land version of this episode, Fred's questioning of the policeman abruptly ends after "Well where are they?". Here is the unedited clip.