Complex sentence: An interesting side note to the show's popularity in Britain is an incident that occurred in China the 1980s: a British tourist was nearly arrested when a Chinese soldier thought the man depicted on her Sgt. Bilko T-shirt was the Dalai Lama.
Split into simpler sentences: An interesting side note to the show's popularity in Britain is an incident that occurred in China the 1980s. A British tourist was nearly arrested when a Chinese soldier thought the man depicted on her Sgt. Bilko T-shirt was the Dalai Lama.