- For the 1989 reissue/restoration, the director trimmed approx. 7 minutes from the original. The initial home video release in 1981 on the Magnetic Video label contains the full-length original, which includes the following footage/dialogue cut from the reissue:
- Tom running from Squire Western; Black George caught for killing sheep; trial
- Sophie: "Oh, my little bird."
- Molly being called a slut by her family: "You will have a bastard"
- Tom/Sophie montage: Tom reading, eating nuts, picking berries, Tom and Sophie singing
- Teachers fighting Tom; Tom going around tree; riding teacher
- Tom's dream at the Inn
- Sophie and Lady Fitzpatrick: Trimmed frames from laughing
- Sophie and Lady Fitzpatrick: "What will you do in London?" "I have a friend..."
- Sophie and Lady Fitzpatrick: "What about your friend?" "He is away for a few days. When he returns we shall make other arrangements."
- Lady Bellaston and Lady Fitzpatrick: "The girl is obviously intoxicated and nothing less than ruin will content her."
- Lady Bellaston muttering French phrase at dinner
- Lady Bellaston: Dialog after "Are you afraid of the word 'rape'?"
- Transition from Bellaston and Fellamore to Tom and Partridge
- Transition from Tom and Partridge to "Rape"
- Partridge and Tom: "She'll be the one to break it off"; transition to note; dialog: Narrator reads letter, Bellaston remarks to maid not to receive Tom Jones again.
- "Scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."; transition
- Partridge looking for people to uphold Tom's character (in the original he approaches one man, then two more - scene of him approaching the first man was cut)
- No reprise of song for Tom as he's going to be hanged
- End titles (re-done for reissue with restoration credits and extended music by 15 seconds, while cutting some of the original company credits)
- When the film was first submitted to the BBFC, director John Trevelyan suggested to Tony Richardson that the film would pass as an 'A' (under 16's accompanied) if he removed a shot of Mrs Waters cradling an oyster on her tongue before swallowing it during the famous eating sequence. Richardson refused and the film was passed as an 'X' (no over-16's allowed). All UK releases since then have been cut by 12 secs to remove shots from a cockfight scene, which is regarded as cruel animal activity by the BBFC.
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