Death to the Daleks - Revision history

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Jon Preddle at 21:47, 25 September 2023

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Jon Preddle at 22:16, 10 February 2020

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Jon Preddle at 04:20, 2 July 2018

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 *The video tapes for this serial had been sent to the [[United Arab Emirates]] on '''14 November 1974'''. Although exact airdates are unknown, the serial would have been shown there in early/mid-1975.
 *If this story was telerecorded as a black and white film print for foreign sales, the prints were never used.
-* This serial was the first colour Jon Pertwee serial to be received by [[New Zealand]], and assessed by its censors in '''December 1974'''. It had to sit "on the shelf" for a couple of years to wait until earlier Pertwee serials had been acquired and screened. Of course, by then, most of his stories had already been wiped and were no longer available in PAL...
+* This serial was the first colour Jon Pertwee story to be received by [[New Zealand]], and assessed by its censors in '''December 1974'''. It had to sit "on the shelf" for a couple of years to wait until earlier Pertwee serials had been acquired and screened. Of course, by then, most of his stories had already been wiped and were no longer available in PAL...
 * [[New Zealand]] sent the tapes (after making transmission copies to screen in August) to [[Brunei]] on '''18 February 1976'''. The serial screened there under a year later. ([[Brunei]] appears to have sourced the bulk of its Pertwee tapes from [[Australia]], but this Dalek story was instead sourced from NZ probably because the ABC tapes were edited.)
 *Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode 1. (Was it damaged during the conversion to NTSC for Canada in 1977?) A copy was retrieved from [[Australia]], but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An uncut NTSC copy of part 1 was later recovered from [[Canada]]. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL master copy, which was used for the 1987 VHS release. (The source tapes used for this VHS release were ones returned by the ABC, which is why some brief moments - such as close-ups of Bellal that had been removed by the Australian censors - were missing.)

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 * This serial was the first colour Jon Pertwee serial to be received by [[New Zealand]], and assessed by its censors in '''December 1974'''. It had to sit "on the shelf" for a couple of years to wait until earlier Pertwee serials had been acquired and screened. Of course, by then, most of his stories had already been wiped and were no longer available in PAL...
 * [[New Zealand]] sent the tapes (after making transmission copies to screen in August) to [[Brunei]] on '''18 February 1976'''. The serial screened there under a year later. ([[Brunei]] appears to have sourced the bulk of its Pertwee tapes from [[Australia]], but this Dalek story was instead sourced from NZ probably because the ABC tapes were edited.)
-*The serial aired in [[Boston]] only; the rest of the [[United States]] did not get the serial until the 1983 re-issue. This appears to have been a special one-off deal struck between [[WGBX]] and the BBC that was in addition to the standard Time-Life deal that was available elsewhere. (The BBC took the opportunity to also sell the serial to [[Canada|Canadian]] stations [[TVO]] and [[CKVU]] at the same time, presumably to cover the costs of having NTSC conversions made.)
+*Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode 1. (Was it damaged during the conversion to NTSC for Canada in 1977?) A copy was retrieved from [[Australia]], but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An uncut NTSC copy of part 1 was later recovered from [[Canada]]. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL master copy, which was used for the 1987 VHS release. (The source tapes used for this VHS release were ones returned by the ABC, which is why some brief moments - such as close-ups of Bellal that had been removed by the Australian censors - were missing.)
 * The [[Saudi Arabia]] TV station that screened the series, changed to PAL in 1979. But since the BBC no longer had a copy of Part One by early 1978, the tapes sent to Saudi Arabia had to be from a set already in circulation.
 * In '''1991''', a complete set of PAL tapes - including an uncut copy of part 1 - was returned from the [[United Arab Emirates]]. The BBC now finally had an uncut full PAL copy of the episode.
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 * The serial was issued in mid-1983, as part of a package of 14 full colour [[Jon Pertwee stories]] sold to the [[United States]].
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 *The serial aired in [[Boston]] only; the rest of the [[United States]] did not get the serial until the 1983 re-issue. This appears to have been a special one-off deal struck between [[WGBX]] and the BBC that was in addition to the standard Time-Life deal that was available elsewhere. (The BBC took the opportunity to also sell the serial to [[Canada|Canadian]] stations [[TVO]] and [[CKVU]] at the same time, presumably to cover the costs of having NTSC conversions made.)
 *Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode 1. (Was it damaged during the conversion to NTSC in 1977?) A copy was retrieved from [[Australia]], but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An uncut NTSC copy of part 1 was later recovered from [[Canada]]. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL master copy, which was used for the 1987 VHS release. (The source tapes used for this VHS release were ones returned by the ABC, which is why some brief moments - such as close-ups of Bellal that had been removed by the Australian censors - were missing.)
-* The [[Saudi Arabia]] TV station that screened the series, changed to PAL in 1979. But since the BBC no longer had a copy of [[Death to the Daleks]] by early 1978, the tapes sent to Saudi Arabia had to be from a set already in circulation.
+* The [[Saudi Arabia]] TV station that screened the series, changed to PAL in 1979. But since the BBC no longer had a copy of Part One by early 1978, the tapes sent to Saudi Arabia had to be from a set already in circulation.
 * In '''1991''', a complete set of PAL tapes - including an uncut copy of part 1 - was returned from the [[United Arab Emirates]]. The BBC now finally had an uncut full PAL copy of the episode.

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 * [[New Zealand]] sent the tapes (after making transmission copies to screen in August) to [[Brunei]] on '''18 February 1976'''. The serial screened there under a year later. ([[Brunei]] appears to have sourced the bulk of its Pertwee tapes from [[Australia]], but this Dalek story was instead sourced from NZ probably because the ABC tapes were edited.)
 *The serial aired in [[Boston]] only; the rest of the [[United States]] did not get the serial until the 1983 re-issue. This appears to have been a special one-off deal struck between [[WGBX]] and the BBC that was in addition to the standard Time-Life deal that was available elsewhere. (The BBC took the opportunity to also sell the serial to [[Canada|Canadian]] stations [[TVO]] and [[CKVU]] at the same time, presumably to cover the costs of having NTSC conversions made.)
-* The [[Saudi Arabia]] TV station that screened the series, changed to PAL in 1979.
+*Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode 1. (Was it damaged during the conversion to NTSC in 1977?) A copy was retrieved from [[Australia]], but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An uncut NTSC copy of part 1 was later recovered from [[Canada]]. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL master copy, which was used for the 1987 VHS release. (The source tapes used for this VHS release were ones returned by the ABC, which is why some brief moments - such as close-ups of Bellal that had been removed by the Australian censors - were missing.)
-*Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode 1. A copy was retrieved from [[Australia]], but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An uncut NTSC copy of part 1 was later recovered from [[Canada]]. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL master copy, which was used for the 1987 VHS release. (The source tapes used for this VHS release were the ones returned by the ABC, which is why some brief moments - such as close-ups of Bellal that had been removed by the Australian censors - are missing.)
+* The [[Saudi Arabia]] TV station that screened the series, changed to PAL in 1979. But since the BBC no longer had a copy of [[Death to the Daleks]] by early 1978, the tapes sent to Saudi Arabia had to be from a set already in circulation.
 * In '''1991''', a complete set of PAL tapes - including an uncut copy of part 1 - was returned from the [[United Arab Emirates]]. The BBC now finally had an uncut full PAL copy of the episode.

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 *The serial aired in [[Boston]] only; the rest of the [[United States]] did not get the serial until the 1983 re-issue. This appears to have been a special one-off deal struck between [[WGBX]] and the BBC that was in addition to the standard Time-Life deal that was available elsewhere. (The BBC took the opportunity to also sell the serial to [[Canada|Canadian]] stations [[TVO]] and [[CKVU]] at the same time, presumably to cover the costs of having NTSC conversions made.)
 * The [[Saudi Arabia]] TV station that screened the series, changed to PAL in 1979.
-*Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode 1. A copy was retrieved from [[Australia]], but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An uncut NTSC copy of part 1 was later recovered from [[Canada]]. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL master copy, which was used for the 1987 VHS release.
+*Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode 1. A copy was retrieved from [[Australia]], but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An uncut NTSC copy of part 1 was later recovered from [[Canada]]. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL master copy, which was used for the 1987 VHS release. (The source tapes used for this VHS release were the ones returned by the ABC, which is why some brief moments - such as close-ups of Bellal that had been removed by the Australian censors - are missing.)
 * In '''1991''', a complete set of PAL tapes - including an uncut copy of part 1 - was returned from the [[United Arab Emirates]]. The BBC now finally had an uncut full PAL copy of the episode.

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-|[[Saudi Arabia]]||Dec 81?||PAL
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