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 After a long eight month break with no holiday repeats, the series returned with the final Jon Pertwee story, {{ZZZ}}, and the first three Tom Baker serials, which screened in production order, screening on different days of the week in each region, usually at 6.00pm.
-Following the publication in Australia of Target books' ''"The Making of Doctor Who"'' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories had never been shown on the ABC, and planned to stage a demonstration demanding that these stories be shown.
+It is possible that that part 4 of {{4C}} may not have aired at all (or only in some regions?) having been replaced by coverage of cricket.
-The ABC had been receiving complaints from viewers about the "endless" repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had a further two, {{4F}} and {{4H}}, classified by the censors.
+Following the publication in Australia of Target books' '''"The Making of Doctor Who"''' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories (such as [[The Daleks' Master Plan]]) had never been shown on the ABC, and planned to stage a demonstration demanding that these stories be shown.
 On learning of the ABC's decision, the fans decided to change the focus of their demonstration from demanding that the "banned" stories be shown to that of getting the ABC to reverse their decision to drop the series. The group assembled outside the ABC's Sydney office on '''24 August 1976'''. As a result of this action, the ABC relented, and scheduled the remaining purchased Tom Baker serials for the following year. It was as a direct result of the successful demonstration that the first '''[http://www.dwca.org.au/?q=section/about-dwca Australian Doctor Who Fan Club]''' was formally established.
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 *'''ADELAIDE''': ADELAIDE's delay in screening the last Block of stories enabled them to screen the new Block straight away, from '''17 July 1977''' until '''25 September 1977''', followed by repeats of {{UUU}} and {{XXX}} only.
-Of note, the weekly repeats of these last few Pertwee episodes was the last time that '''Doctor Who''' aired on a weekly basis only; from 1977 until 1987, the series would always only air on weekdays, mostly on a daily basis.
+Of note, the repeats of these last few Pertwee episodes was the last time that '''Doctor Who''' aired on a weekly basis only; from 1977 until 1987, the series would always only air on weekdays.
 (NOTE: We have no transmission dates of these serials for the other regions.)

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 The ABC had been receiving complaints from viewers about the "endless" repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had a further two, {{4F}} and {{4H}}, classified by the censors.
-On learning of the ABC's decision, the fans decided to change the focus of their demonstration from demanding that the "banned" stories be shown to that of getting the ABC to reverse their decision to drop the series. The group assembled outside the ABC's Sydney office on '''24 August 1976'''. As a result of this action, the ABC relented, and scheduled the remaining purchased Tom Baker serials for the following year. It was as a direct result of the successful demonstration that the first '''[http://www.drwhoaustralia.org/history.php Australian Doctor Who Fan Club]''' was formally established.
+On learning of the ABC's decision, the fans decided to change the focus of their demonstration from demanding that the "banned" stories be shown to that of getting the ABC to reverse their decision to drop the series. The group assembled outside the ABC's Sydney office on '''24 August 1976'''. As a result of this action, the ABC relented, and scheduled the remaining purchased Tom Baker serials for the following year. It was as a direct result of the successful demonstration that the first '''[http://www.dwca.org.au/?q=section/about-dwca Australian Doctor Who Fan Club]''' was formally established.
 *'''HOBART''': Sundays, commencing with {{ZZZ}} on '''7 March 1976''', and concluding on '''20 June 1976''', with {{4C}}.
 *'''SYDNEY''' and '''CANBERRA''': {{ZZZ}} also started on Sunday, '''7 March 1976''', ending '''11 April 1976'''. Tom Baker debuted in New South Wales on Friday, '''23 April 1976''', and the run ended on '''25 June 1976'''
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 *'''MELBOURNE''' then aired {{6C}} parts three and four back to back on '''8 June 1982''' in order to catch up, having pre-empted the series on '''12 April 1982'''.
 *From '''9 June 1982''', the day after part four of {{6C}}, a run of regional repeats commenced, mainly to accommodate coverage of the football World Cup.  To begin with, only '''SYDNEY''' and '''BRISBANE''' saw two episodes back to back of {{4N}}, picking up from where the October 1980 repeat had ended. This was followed a few weeks later by {{4M}}, again with two episodes back to back. (ADELAIDE may have had all four episodes back to back.) This was followed by {{4C}}, screening two episodes back to back across two days nation-wide. The rest of season 12 and 13 aired Mondays to Thursdays, then a jump to {{4Q}}; after {{4R}} part four on Thursday, '''23 September 1982''', the TV schedules were dominated by coverage of the Commonwealth Games for the next two weeks.
-*The repeats resumed from '''11 October 1982''' with {{4S}} through to {{4W}}, with some regions then skipping {{4Y}}, and the run ended with {{4Z}} (some regions aired parts one and two back to back) in early December.
+*The repeats resumed from '''11 October 1982''' with {{4S}} through to {{4W}}, with some regions then skipping {{4Y}}, and the run ended with {{4Z}} (some regions aired with parts one and two back to back) in early December.

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 *'''MELBOURNE''' then aired {{6C}} parts three and four back to back on '''8 June 1982''' in order to catch up, having pre-empted the series on '''12 April 1982'''.
 *From '''9 June 1982''', the day after part four of {{6C}}, a run of regional repeats commenced, mainly to accommodate coverage of the football World Cup.  To begin with, only '''SYDNEY''' and '''BRISBANE''' saw two episodes back to back of {{4N}}, picking up from where the October 1980 repeat had ended. This was followed a few weeks later by {{4M}}, again with two episodes back to back. (ADELAIDE may have had all four episodes back to back.) This was followed by {{4C}}, screening two episodes back to back across two days nation-wide. The rest of season 12 and 13 aired Mondays to Thursdays, then a jump to {{4Q}}; after {{4R}} part four on Thursday, '''23 September 1982''', the TV schedules were dominated by coverage of the Commonwealth Games for the next two weeks.
-*The repeats resumed from '''11 October 1982''' with {{4S}} through to {{4W}}, with some regions then skipping {{4Y}}, and the run ended with {{4Z}} (usually with parts one and two back to back) in early December.
+*The repeats resumed from '''11 October 1982''' with {{4S}} through to {{4W}}, with some regions then skipping {{4Y}}, and the run ended with {{4Z}} (some regions aired parts one and two back to back) in early December.

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 On learning of the ABC's decision, the fans decided to change the focus of their demonstration from demanding that the "banned" stories be shown to that of getting the ABC to reverse their decision to drop the series. The group assembled outside the ABC's Sydney office on '''24 August 1976'''. As a result of this action, the ABC relented, and scheduled the remaining purchased Tom Baker serials for the following year. It was as a direct result of the successful demonstration that the first '''[http://www.drwhoaustralia.org/history.php Australian Doctor Who Fan Club]''' was formally established.
 *'''HOBART''': Sundays, commencing with {{ZZZ}} on '''7 March 1976''', and concluding on '''20 June 1976''', with {{4C}}.
 *'''SYDNEY''' and '''CANBERRA''': {{ZZZ}} also started on Sunday, '''7 March 1976''', ending '''11 April 1976'''. Tom Baker debuted in New South Wales on Friday, '''23 April 1976''', and the run ended on '''25 June 1976'''
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 *A month later, from Monday, '''18 February 1980''', the new season started, again screening four nights a week, at 6.30pm. The fourth part of {{5L}} aired '''20 March 1980'''.
 * Tom Baker undertook a second promotional tour of Australia from '''27 February 1980'''.
-*The following week, a further run of repeats, starting with {{4A}}, getting only as far as {{4H}}, after which, from '''12 May 1980''', came repeats of {{4V}} through to {{5L}}, only six months after the initial screening. It was then back to season 13 again, with {{4G}} from '''15 September''', with the run ending at {{4M}} on '''14 October 1980''', in SYDNEY and BRISBANE. In MELBOURNE and HOBART the run ended two days later, on '''16 October 1980'''; at least two episodes would have been pre-empted at some stage to push those two regions out of sync.
+*The following week, a further run of repeats, starting with {{4A}}, getting only as far as {{4H}}, after which, from '''12 May 1980''', came repeats of {{4V}} through to {{5L}}, only six months after the initial screening. It was then back to season 13 again, with {{4G}} from '''15 September''', with the run ending at {{4M}} on '''14 October 1980''', in SYDNEY and BRISBANE. In MELBOURNE and HOBART the run ended two days later, on '''16 October 1980'''; at least two episodes would have been pre-empted at some stage to push those two regions out of sync. In '''PERTH''', the run concluded on '''21 October 1980'''.
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 There were no screenings at all in '''1981''', mainly due to further complaints about the number of repeats of the same early Tom Baker serials over and over (for instance, by this time {{4A}} had already aired '''five''' times). Although they had purchased the bulk of Tom Baker's final season in early 1981, the ABC decided to delay screening them, instead choosing to wait until Peter Davison's first season was available, and airing the two back to back.
-*Tom Baker's final season commenced on Monday, '''8 March 1982''', at 6.30pm. In '''HOBART''', the season commenced the following day, placing that region out of sync with the rest of the country by one day for the full run.
+*Tom Baker's final season commenced on Monday, '''8 March 1982''', at 6.30pm in all regions bar '''HOBART''', were it commenced the following day, placing that region out of sync with the rest of the country by one day for the full run.
 *'''ADELAIDE''' was a day late getting part one of {{5T}} on '''13 April 1982''', putting them out of step by one day as well.
 *'''Peter Davison''' made his Australian debut on Monday, '''26 April 1982''', a matter of four months after his arrival on British screens.
 *'''MELBOURNE''' then aired {{6C}} parts three and four back to back on '''8 June 1982''' in order to catch up, having pre-empted the series on '''12 April 1982'''.
 *From '''9 June 1982''', the day after part four of {{6C}}, a run of regional repeats commenced, mainly to accommodate coverage of the football World Cup.  To begin with, only '''SYDNEY''' and '''BRISBANE''' saw two episodes back to back of {{4N}}, picking up from where the October 1980 repeat had ended. This was followed a few weeks later by {{4M}}, again with two episodes back to back. (ADELAIDE may have had all four episodes back to back.) This was followed by {{4C}}, screening two episodes back to back across two days nation-wide. The rest of season 12 and 13 aired Mondays to Thursdays, then a jump to {{4Q}}; after {{4R}} part four on Thursday, '''23 September 1982''', the TV schedules were dominated by coverage of the Commonwealth Games for the next two weeks.
-*The repeats resumed from '''11 October 1982''' with {{4S}} through to {{4W}}, with some regions then skipping {{4Y}}, and the run ended with {{4Z}} in early December.
+*The repeats resumed from '''11 October 1982''' with {{4S}} through to {{4W}}, with some regions then skipping {{4Y}}, and the run ended with {{4Z}} (usually with parts one and two back to back) in early December.

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 After a long eight month break with no holiday repeats, the series returned with the final Jon Pertwee story, {{ZZZ}}, and the first three Tom Baker serials, which screened in production order, screening on different days of the week in each region, usually at 6.00pm.
-Following the publication in Australia of Target books' "The Making of Doctor Who" in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories had never been shown on the ABC, and planned to stage a demonstration demanding that these stories be shown.
+Following the publication in Australia of Target books' ''"The Making of Doctor Who"'' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories had never been shown on the ABC, and planned to stage a demonstration demanding that these stories be shown.
 The ABC had been receiving complaints from viewers about the "endless" repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had a further two, {{4F}} and {{4H}}, classified by the censors.
-On learning the ABC's decision, the fans decided to change the focus of their demonstration from demanding that the "banned" stories be shown to that of having the ABC to reverse their decision to drop the series. The group assembled outside the ABC's Sydney office on '''24 August 1976'''. As a result of this action, the ABC relented, and scheduled the remaining purchased Tom Baker serials for the following year. It was as a direct result of the successful demonstration that the first '''[http://www.drwhoaustralia.org/history.php Australian Doctor Who Fan Club]''' was formally established.
+On learning of the ABC's decision, the fans decided to change the focus of their demonstration from demanding that the "banned" stories be shown to that of getting the ABC to reverse their decision to drop the series. The group assembled outside the ABC's Sydney office on '''24 August 1976'''. As a result of this action, the ABC relented, and scheduled the remaining purchased Tom Baker serials for the following year. It was as a direct result of the successful demonstration that the first '''[http://www.drwhoaustralia.org/history.php Australian Doctor Who Fan Club]''' was formally established.
 *'''HOBART''': Sundays, commencing with {{ZZZ}} on '''7 March 1976''', and concluding on '''20 June 1976''', with {{4C}}.

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 ===Block 13: T BAKER ---- '''January 1980 to October 1980'''===
-[[File:4KOmnibus2.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Sydney Morning Herald)]]
+[[File:Adel4K78.JPG|thumb|right||250px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (TV Week)]]
-[[File:4KOmnibus.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Melbourne Age)]]
+[[File:4KOmnibus2.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Sydney Morning Herald)]]
-[[File:Adel4K78.JPG|thumb|right||350px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (TV Week)]]
+[[File:4KOmnibus.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Melbourne Age)]]
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 *'''PERTH''', '''SYDNEY''', '''CANBERRA''', '''MELBOURNE''', '''BRISBANE''', '''ADELAIDE''' and '''HOBART''': Seven regions commenced the new episodes simultaneously, starting with {{4F}}, screening four nights a week, from Tuesday, '''7 February 1978''', at 6.30pm. '''BRISBANE''' also started the series on the same day, but only three times a week, skipping the Friday episodes, putting Queensland out of sync with the rest of the country. Newspapers announced that {{4K}} would screen the week after {{4J}}, but the "A" rated serial was replaced with {{4M}}, which was brought forward in story order. With the screenings now out of sync, and the tapes of the next few serials not received or cleared by the censors, the ABC scheduled repeats of {{4A}} and {{4B}} between {{4L}} and {{4N}} in March 1978. Some newspapers advertised {{4P}} to follow {{4N}}, but the "A" rated serial was usually replaced with {{4Q}}.
 *'''MELBOURNE''' fell out of step by one day due to no episode airing '''27 March 1978'''.
-[[File:Adel4K78.JPG|thumb|right|Brain of Morbius compilation, in Adelaide only, 11 October 1978]]
+[[File:ADEMorbius78.JPG|thumb|right|Brain of Morbius compilation, in Adelaide only, 11 October 1978]]
 *'''SYDNEY''' and '''HOBART''': The run of now-colour Jon Pertwee repeats commenced from Friday, '''5 May 1978''' in these two regions, with '''BRISBANE''' starting the run from Monday, '''29 May 1978'''. {{TTT}} debuted from '''30 May 1978'''. The re-run of Pertwees was followed by a complete run of the Tom Bakers, from {{4A}} again through to {{4S}}, with {{4M}} screening in its correct position, but with {{4G}} and {{4H}} screening this time in production order. The run concluded on '''11 October 1978''' in SYDNEY; '''12 October 1978''' in HOBART; '''8 November''' in ADELAIDE; and prematurely with {{4R}} part four on '''28 November 1978''' in BRISBANE.
-*'''ADELAIDE''': On Wednesday, '''11 October 1978''', at 9.30pm, the 60 minute edited compilation of {{4K}} screened for the first time but only in ADELAIDE. (It would not screen in other regions until January 1980…)
+*'''ADELAIDE''': On Wednesday, '''11 October 1978''', at 8.30pm, the 60 minute edited compilation of {{4K}} screened for the first time but only in ADELAIDE. (It would not screen in other regions until January 1980…)
 (NOTE: We do not have many clear transmission dates for PERTH and HOBART from this point on; with the occasional pre-emption aside, those regional screenings would have mostly mirrored those of the regions that are noted.)
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 [[File:4KOmnibus2.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Sydney Morning Herald)]]
 [[File:4KOmnibus.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Melbourne Age)]]
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