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{{episodes|N|2|1|13 Feb to 20 Mar 1965|The Romans|The Crusade|}}

This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to [[Selling Doctor Who]] for expanded airdates.)

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|[[Australia]]||Feb 66||b/w
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|[[Gibraltar]]||May 66||b/w
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|[[Singapore]]||Jul 66||b/w
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|[[Nigeria]]||Sep 66||b/w
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|[[Zambia]]||Nov 66||b/w
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|[[Barbados]]||May 67||b/w
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|[[Mauritius]]||Nov 67||b/w
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|[[Mexico]]||Apr 68?||b/w
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|[[Sierra Leone]]||Jun 68||b/w
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|[[Venezuela]]||Nov 68||b/w
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|[[Jamaica]]||Feb 69||b/w
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|[[Chile]]||Nov 69||b/w
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|[[Iran]]||May 70||b/w
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|[[Ethiopia]]||Nov 71||b/w
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|[[Nigeria]] (again)||Apr 73?||b/w
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*[[New Zealand]] received prints in mid-1967, but the serial was not screened due to censorship issues.

* In the [[Spanish]] dub, the Animus speaks with a '''male''' voice, whereas in the original English, it was '''female'''. 

* In the [[Spanish]] edition of part six, the "Next Episode" is given by voice-over as '''"EL LION"''' to match the caption - and yet [[The Crusade]] did not screen in any [[Spanish]]-language countries. 

* The positive print of part six that the BBC retained until 1984 had a different "Next Episode" caption that read '''"THE SPACE MUSEUM"'''. It was thought that this change was done because [[The Crusade]] was deliberately withheld from sale to Muslim countries, due to the story's content and subject matter. But since only '''nine''' serials from {{A}} to {{L}} were dubbed into Arabic, and [[The Crusade]] was not sold outside the Commonwealth, the caption must have been changed for other reasons...
* The telerecording negative of part six also held by the BBC, however, retained the original caption. 
* The BBC was still offering [[Inside the Spaceship]], [[The Web Planet]], [[The Space Museum]], [[The Time Meddler]] and [[Galaxy 4]] for sale as late as 1974. We therefore think that the BBC amended the caption at that point, to reflect that [[The Space Museum]] was now the next serial after [[The Web Planet]] in terms of the package that was available. On that basis, the "Next Episode" captions for the last installments of the other serials would also have been amended accordingly... 
*In fact, the BBC's existing master negative of [[Inside the Spaceship]] part two has a splice five minutes before the cliffhanger ending: the negative is a Stored Field telerecording, but the last five minutes is from an earlier Suppressed Field recording. This '''does''' suggest that the ending was re-edited as part of this 1974 package, and that the full ending was later replaced by splicing from the earlier inferior copy. (The BBC also holds a version of [[Inside the Spaceship]] without the final cliffhanger link to [[Marco Polo]], but this edit appears to have been made in the mid-1980s, along with similar edits to other stories, when the reissued package of 17 William Hartnell stories was released for syndication to the [[United States]].)
* A complete print of part six with the original caption was recovered from [[Nigeria]] in the mid-1980s; a TV station in [[Nigeria]] had bought the serial in 1966, but a different broadcaster in the same country aired the serial in 1973. 
* See [[Hartnell Junkings]]


==Reissue== 
* The serial was reissued by the BBC in late 1985, and sold to: 
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|[[United States]]||from Sep 85||b/w 
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|[[Canada]]||1990s||b/w
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|[[New Zealand]]||Jul 00||b/w
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