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The Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) said it had scrubbed the episode because it "centres around alternative sexual explorations".
 Ally's colleague Ling Woo, played by Lucy Liu
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"We do this without compromising the programme's integrity and appeal."
Called Buried Pleasures, the banned episode shows the main character Ally, a lawyer played by actress Calista Flockhart, and her colleague Ling Woo (Lucy Liu) going out on a date in a dream sequence.
When the episode, which also features a scene of actress Portia de Rossi being spanked with a hairbrush, was shown in the US last November, it drew the show's largest audience ever.
Ally McBeal is one of TCS's top-rated shows, however Singapore is known for its tight controls on media and for its support of family-oriented "Asian values".
Censorship
Last year Singapore's censors targeted the spy spoof, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - renaming it Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shioked Me.
 Shiocking: Mike Myers and co-star Kristen Johnson
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Most of Singapore's 3.2 million people are ethnic Chinese, Malay or Indian.
TCS has also slapped "parental guidance" ratings on two other episodes of Ally McBeal's new season, scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
In last year's season, two episodes were also rated PG because of sexually explicit content.
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