The BBC admitted it was a mistake to show the episode at a time when the plight of hostages in Iraq was at the forefront of the public mind. Five viewers complained about the BBC One show.
In future, BBC production teams will ensure potentially sensitive scenes are written about more carefully on the corporation's compliance forms.
Of the 146 complaints about 96 different programmes on BBC TV, radio and online, 19 complaints were upheld.
These included two for BBC News 24, which included a viewer criticising a report on Israel for being biased where the interviewer asked a Middle East specialist, "How does Israel continue to get away with these atrocities?"
BBC News 24 recognised the question was not impartial and ensured it was edited out before the item was rebroadcast.
The second complaint was about a report on the Hunting Bill that gave an exaggerated impression of the economic effects if hunting was banned in an Exmoor village.
The report suggested that all hunting-related activity would cease if a ban was introduced, having a harmful effect on the economy, although the viewer said this was not an accurate nor balanced view.
BBC News 24 producers and reporters have therefore been instructed to outline the balance of their reports to senior editors before transmission.
Elsewhere, BBC One hospital drama 'Holby City' came under fire for accuracy about an item that may have unnecessarily alarmed parents whose children are born with Hyperplastic Left Heart Syndrome.
In the episode in question, last October, a woman 26 weeks' pregnant was seen by an obstetric and gynaecological registrar who diagnised her unborn child with HLHS.
However, the nature of the disease is such that a consultant would have made the diagnosis.
The medical advice that the unborn child had no realistic prospect of survival reflected the circumstances of the Holby City case as the foetus was only 26 weeks old.
In the absence of indications to the contrary, viewers might have formed the impression that the same advice applied to babies with HLHS born at or near full term, when survival rates are in fact high.
The executive producer discussed the finding with the programme team and re-emphasised the importance of accuracy when portraying medical conditions.
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