@Ghitulescu: A friend of mine also has the non-remastered version, so I was able to make a comparison.
original release:
http://i.imgur.com/cXylYNW.png
remastered version:
http://i.imgur.com/tKgHFgj.png
As you can see, the dot crawl is there, just not as visible, due to the lower image quality probably.
From what you can see on
http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/pal/, that BBC decoder does a great job. Would be great to have that as an Avisynth filter, not sure if it is possible on digital video though. I could be completely wrong there, but it may need frequency information from between frames.