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	*In [[The Highlanders]], Solicitor Grey was planning to ship the Scottish prisoners to work as slaves in Jamaica, [[Barbados]] and the West Indies.		*In [[The Highlanders]], Solicitor Grey was planning to ship the Scottish prisoners to work as slaves in Jamaica, [[Barbados]] and the West Indies.
	*Actor Roy Stewart (Toberman, [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]; Strong Man, [[Terror of the Autons]]) was born in Jamaica.		*Actor Roy Stewart (Toberman, [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]; Strong Man, [[Terror of the Autons]]) was born in Jamaica.
		+	* Cafe proprietor John's great-grandfather was sold as a slave in Kingston ([[Remembrance of the Daleks]]).

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 [[File:Jam TARDIS.JPG|thumb|right|250px|6 March 1966 preview]]
 [[File:Jam Who.JPG|thumb|right|250px|1 May 1966]]
-[[File:Jam Sea.JPG|thumb|right|250px|4 August 1966: The Sea of Death and The Velvet Web]]
+[[File:Jam Sea.JPG|thumb|right|250px|4 August 1966: The Sea of Death and The Velvet Web aired the same night]]
 [[File:Jam Reign 1.JPG|thumb|right|250px||New Serial: The Reign of Terror, 5 November 1966]]
 [[File:Jam JBCTV.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic Thursday 1966 listing]]
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 We did not find any listings for the follow-up film, which may not have been shown on the island.
 ==[[BBC Records]]==
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 If the series did debut on 24 February, then there is an extra airdate at some point during the run unaccounted for. On this basis, we think the series did start on '''3  March''', and the references to it being "Cave of Skulls" is a mistake.
 A couple of episodes were pre-empted due to sporting events coverage, such as cricket, or the Commonwealth Games (in August 1966). For this reason two episodes of [[The Keys of Marinus]] aired back to back on '''4 August 1966''', a fact mentioned in the TV Highlights page of the paper.
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 Two years later on '''2 February 1969''', the series resumed, now on Sundays at 6.02pm. The first story was likely to have been [[The Web Planet]].
-The '''"This Week in View"''' TV preview page of the ''Kingston Gleaner'' for 18 May 1969 identifies the story starting that night as [[The Space Museum]] - and yet, that serial should have aired four weeks earlier (from 20 April), and the story staring that week should be [[The Chase]]. It's entirely possible the newspaper printed the wrong info, and the Dalek serial did commence on 18 May, OR the serials in this batch of episodes aired out of order, with [[The Web Planet]] and [[The Crusade]] instead followed by [[The Time Meddler]], [[The Space Museum]] then [[The Chase]] in that order. (Was this on account of the rights issues over the Daleks that had recently been resolved by this time?)
+The '''"This Week in View"''' TV preview page of the ''Kingston Gleaner'' for 18 May 1969 identifies the story starting that night as [[The Space Museum]] - and yet, that serial should have aired four weeks earlier (from 20 April), and the story starting that week should be [[The Chase]]. It's entirely possible the newspaper printed the wrong info, and the Dalek serial did commence on 18 May, OR the serials in this batch of episodes aired out of order, with [[The Web Planet]] and [[The Crusade]] followed by [[The Time Meddler]], then [[The Space Museum]] and [[The Chase]] in that order. (Was this on account of the rights issues over the Daleks that had recently been resolved by this time?)
 After a 25 week run (no episode aired on Easter Sunday '''6 April 1969'''), the series came to a conclusion on '''20 July 1969'''.
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 }}
-There is no clear record that Jamaica screened '''Doctor Who''' after 1969. (Surprisingly, it does not appear to have been one of the '''nine''' Caribbean countries that had been offered the series in July 1985 – see [[:Category:Caribbean|Caribbean Sales]].)
+There is no clear record that Jamaica screened '''Doctor Who''' after 1969. (The first of the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek films screened in theatres in '''December 1970''' -- see above.)
 ====Fate of the Prints?====
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 </table>
-Many of the daily listings were illustrated with a small photo of William Hartnell - one of these was a standard publicity head-shot (sometimes flipped or cropped differently), the other being from [[The Romans]] (see above). None of the episodes was titled within the actual TV listings, but sometimes the title was named in the general TV pages, such as [[The Reign of Terror]] in the '''5 November 1966''' issue, and (an out of sequence?) [[The Space Museum]] on 18 May 1969.
+Many of the daily listings were illustrated with a small photo of William Hartnell - one of these was a standard publicity head-shot (sometimes flipped or cropped differently), the other being from [[The Romans]] (see above). None of the episodes was titled within the actual TV listings, but sometimes the title was named in the general TV pages, such as [[The Reign of Terror]] in the '''5 November 1966''' issue, and (an out of sequence?) [[The Space Museum]] on '''18 May 1969'''.
 As noted above, Jamaica did not screen the series again – we checked newspapers for 1985, 1986 and 1987, but there were no further listings; however it should be noted that there were no listings available for Sunday programmes for those years, so it '''IS''' possible the series aired on that day...

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 ==Language/s==
 [[File:Jam SF.JPG|thumb|right|250px|27 February 1966 Preview: Note: use of the term "Serial A", and The Caves of Sklls (sic)]]
 [[File:Jam TARDIS.JPG|thumb|right|250px|6 March 1966 preview]]
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 [[File:Jam Reign 1.JPG|thumb|right|250px||New Serial: The Reign of Terror, 5 November 1966]]
 [[File:Jam JBCTV.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic Thursday 1966 listing]]
 [[File:DWBongoHerman.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Bongo Les & Herman "Dr Who"]]
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-==[[BBC Records]]==
+==DALEK MOVIES==
 The '''Stanmark Productions Ltd''' advertisement from 1966, identifies Jamaica as one of the '''twelve''' countries screening '''Doctor Who''' in that year.
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-Two years later on '''2 February 1969''', the series resumed, now on Sundays at 6.02pm. The first story was [[The Web Planet]]. After a 25 week run (no episode aired on Easter Sunday '''6 April 1969'''), the series came to a conclusion on '''20 July 1969''', with part four of [[The Time Meddler]].
+Two years later on '''2 February 1969''', the series resumed, now on Sundays at 6.02pm. The first story was likely to have been [[The Web Planet]].
 While this run was on the air, [[wikipedia:Bongo Herman|Bongo Herman]] and Les Chen released an instrumental called '''"Dr Who (Part I)" and "Dr Who (Part II)"'''; produced by D Harriott, and published in '''1969''' by Explosion records (catalogue number EX-2002).
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-TV listings have been obtained from the Kingston, Jamaican newspaper, ''The Daily Gleaner'' and ''Sunday Gleaner''.
+TV listings have been obtained from the Kingston, Jamaican newspaper, ''Kingston Gleaner'' / ''Daily Gleaner'' and ''Sunday Gleaner''.
 Listings give the series name as '''"Dr Who"'''.
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 </table>
-Many of the daily listings were illustrated with a small photo of William Hartnell - one of these was a standard publicity shot (sometimes flipped or cropped differently), the other being from [[The Romans]] (see above). None of the episodes was titled within the actual TV listings, but sometimes the title was named in the general TV pages, such as [[The Reign of Terror]] in the '''5 November 1966''' issue.
+Many of the daily listings were illustrated with a small photo of William Hartnell - one of these was a standard publicity head-shot (sometimes flipped or cropped differently), the other being from [[The Romans]] (see above). None of the episodes was titled within the actual TV listings, but sometimes the title was named in the general TV pages, such as [[The Reign of Terror]] in the '''5 November 1966''' issue, and (an out of sequence?) [[The Space Museum]] on 18 May 1969.
 As noted above, Jamaica did not screen the series again – we checked newspapers for 1985, 1986 and 1987, but there were no further listings; however it should be noted that there were no listings available for Sunday programmes for those years, so it '''IS''' possible the series aired on that day...

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 ==Language/s==
 The principal language of Jamaica is English.
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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
-[[File:Jam SF.JPG|thumb|right|250px|27 February 1966 Preview: Note: use of the term "Serial A", and The Caves of Sklls (sic)]]
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 It's possible the meaning of "the second in their new series" is that '''Doctor Who''' was the second of two new series starting on JBC-TV, and although the episode was billed as "The Cave of Skulls", it was in fact "An Unearthly Child".
-If the series did debut on 24 February, then there is an extra airdate at some point during the run. On this basis, we think the series did start on '''3  March''', and the references to it being "Cave of Skulls" is a mistake.
+If the series did debut on 24 February, then there is an extra airdate at some point during the run unaccounted for. On this basis, we think the series did start on '''3  March''', and the references to it being "Cave of Skulls" is a mistake.
 A couple of episodes were pre-empted due to sporting events coverage, such as cricket, or the Commonwealth Games (in August 1966). For this reason two episodes of [[The Keys of Marinus]] aired back to back on '''4 August 1966''', a fact mentioned in the TV Highlights page of the paper.
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 From '''10 September 1966''', the series moved to Saturdays (still at 6.00pm), with part six of [[The Keys of Marinus]].
-In '''October 1966''', all episodes of [[The Sensorites]] were paired and screened back to back (with a timeslot of 5.45pm to 6.30pm), the only other instances in which episodes were doubled-up.
+In '''October 1966''', all episodes of [[The Sensorites]] were paired up and screened back to back (with a timeslot of 5.45pm to 6.30pm), the only other instances in which episodes were doubled-up.
 The run ended on Saturday, '''25 March 1967''', with part four of [[The Romans]].
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 Two years later on '''2 February 1969''', the series resumed, now on Sundays at 6.02pm. The first story was [[The Web Planet]]. After a 25 week run (no episode aired on Easter Sunday '''6 April 1969'''), the series came to a conclusion on '''20 July 1969''', with part four of [[The Time Meddler]].
-There is no clear record that Jamaica screened '''Doctor Who''' again. (Surprisingly, it does not appear to have been one of the '''nine''' Caribbean countries that had been offered the series in July 1985 – see [[:Category:Caribbean|Caribbean Sales]].)
+While this run was on the air, [[wikipedia:Bongo Herman|Bongo Herman]] and Les Chen released an instrumental called '''"Dr Who (Part I)" and "Dr Who (Part II)"'''; produced by D Harriott, and published in '''1969''' by Explosion records (catalogue number EX-2002).
 ====Fate of the Prints?====
-The run of serials [[An Unearthly Child]] to [[The Romans]] (57 episodes) was likely sent to [[Barbados]].
+The run of serials [[An Unearthly Child]] to [[The Romans]] (57 episodes) was likely sent to [[Barbados]]. The remaining five serials (24 episodes) were returned to '''TIE Ltd''', the BBC, or destroyed, or they went to [[Ethiopia]].
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 The Sunday '''6 March 1966''' issue had a brief summary illustrated with a photo of the crew standing around the TARDIS console.
-Many of the daily listings were illustrated with a small photo of William Hartnell - one of these was a standard publicity shot (sometimes flipped or cropped differently), the other being taken from [[The Romans]]. None of the episodes was titled within the actual TV listings, but sometimes the title was named in the general TV pages, such as [[The Reign of Terror]] in the '''5 November 1966''' issue.
+<table>
 As noted above, Jamaica did not screen the series again – we checked newspapers for 1985, 1986 and 1987, but there were no further listings; however it should be noted that there were no listings available for Sunday programmes for those years, so it '''IS''' possible the series aired on that day...

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	====Fate of the Prints?====		====Fate of the Prints?====

−	The run of serials [[An Unearthly Child]] to [[The Romans]] (57 episodes) was likely sent to [[Barbados]]. The remaining five serials (24 episodes) were returned to '''TIE Ltd''', the BBC, or destroyed.	+	The run of serials [[An Unearthly Child]] to [[The Romans]] (57 episodes) was likely sent to [[Barbados]].
		+
		+	The remaining five serials (24 episodes) were returned to '''TIE Ltd''', the BBC, or destroyed, or they went to [[Ethiopia]].

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 ====Origin of the Prints?====
-[[Trinidad & Tobago]] was the previous Caribbean nation that screened the first eleven serials, a matter of months earlier than Jamaica; both countries were serviced by the programme distributor '''[[TIE Ltd|Television International Enterprises Limited / TIE (Programmes) Ltd]]''', so it’s more than likely that Jamaica was sent the same set of 53 prints that had been used by [[Trinidad & Tobago]].
+[[Bermuda]] was the previous Caribbean nation to screen the first five serials, and both countries were serviced by the programme distributor '''[[TIE Ltd|Television International Enterprises Limited / TIE (Programmes) Ltd]]''', so it’s more than likely that Jamaica was sent the same set of 26 prints that had been used by [[Bermuda]]
 Since it was the first in the Caribbean to screen [[The Romans]], Jamaica's prints were supplied direct by '''TIE Ltd''' or the BBC.

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 [[File:Jam TV.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic 1966 Thursday listing]]
 [[File:Jam JBC.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic 1969 Sunday listing]]
-[[File:Jam SUN.JPG|thumb|right|250px||Generic Sunday 1969 listing]]
+[[File:Jam SUN.JPG|thumb|right|250px||Generic Sunday 1969 listing with photo from The Romans]]
 The '''Stanmark Productions Ltd''' advertisement from 1966, identifies Jamaica as one of the '''twelve''' countries screening '''Doctor Who''' in that year.
 '''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''"(16)"''' stories by 28 February 1977. '''The Handbook''' identifies these as being: {{A}}, {{B}}, {{C}}, {{D}}, {{E}}, {{F}}, {{G}}, {{H}}, {{J}}, {{K}}, {{L}}, {{M}}, {{N}}, {{P}}, {{Q}}, {{S}}.
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 ====Origin of the Prints?====
-[[Trinidad & Tobago]] and [[Bermuda]] are two other Caribbean nations that screened the series only a matter of months earlier than Jamaica; all three countries were serviced by the programme distributor '''[[TIE Ltd|Television International Enterprises Limited / TIE (Programmes) Ltd]]''', so it’s more than likely that Jamaica was sent the same set of prints that had been used in one or both of those countries.
+[[Trinidad & Tobago]] was the previous Caribbean nation that screened the first eleven serials, a matter of months earlier than Jamaica; both countries were serviced by the programme distributor '''[[TIE Ltd|Television International Enterprises Limited / TIE (Programmes) Ltd]]''', so it’s more than likely that Jamaica was sent the same set of 53 prints that had been used by [[Trinidad & Tobago]].
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 ===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
-Due to confusing TV listings, the series started either on Thursday, '''24 February 1966,''' or the following week, on '''3 March 1966''', at 6.00pm.
+Due to confusing TV listings, the series started at 6.00pm on either on Thursday, '''24 February 1966,''' or the following week, on '''3 March 1966'''.
 The TV listings for 24 February records an episode of a series called "Fury" (presumably the 1950s [[wikipedia:Fury (TV series)|US western series]]) airing in the 6.00pm slot, but the Sunday, 27 February paper's preview of the upcoming week refers to '''Doctor Who''' as being "the second in their new series", and the instalment is named as "THE CAVE OF SKLLS" (sic), making the 3 March episode part two.
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 ====Fate of the Prints?====
-The next [[:Category:Caribbean|Caribbean]] country to air '''Doctor Who''' was [[Barbados]], from April 1966. Since both countries were serviced by the programme distributor '''[[TIE Ltd|Television International Enterprises Limited / TIE (Programmes) Ltd]]''', it is likely that Jamaica sent its prints of the 1966-1967 run of Hartnell stories to [[Barbados]].
+The run of serials [[An Unearthly Child]] to [[The Romans]] (57 episodes) was likely sent to [[Barbados]]. The remaining five serials (24 episodes) were returned to '''TIE Ltd''', the BBC, or destroyed.
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 The Sunday '''6 March 1966''' issue had a brief summary illustrated with a photo of the crew standing around the TARDIS console.
-Many of the daily listings were illustrated with a small photo of William Hartnell - one of these was a standard publicity shot, the other being taken from [[The Romans]]. None of the episodes was titled within the actual TV listings, but sometimes the title was named in the general TV pages, such as [[The Reign of Terror]] in the '''5 November 1966''' issue.
+Many of the daily listings were illustrated with a small photo of William Hartnell - one of these was a standard publicity shot (sometimes flipped or cropped differently), the other being taken from [[The Romans]]. None of the episodes was titled within the actual TV listings, but sometimes the title was named in the general TV pages, such as [[The Reign of Terror]] in the '''5 November 1966''' issue.
 As noted above, Jamaica did not screen the series again – we checked newspapers for 1985, 1986 and 1987, but there were no further listings; however it should be noted that there were no listings available for Sunday programmes for those years, so it '''IS''' possible the series aired on that day...

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 ===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
-The series commenced '''24 February 1966''', and screened weekly on Thursdays at 6.00pm. (NOTE: The TV listings for this day records an episode of a series called "Fury" (presumably the 1950s [[wikipedai:Fury (TV series)|US western series]]) airing in the 6.00pm slot, but the following week, '''Doctor Who''' is listed as being "the second" episode "THE CAVE OF SKLLS" (sic), which indicates the first episode of '''Doctor Who''' aired in place of "Fury".)
+The series commenced '''24 February 1966''', and screened weekly on Thursdays at 6.00pm. (NOTE: The TV listings for this day records an episode of a series called "Fury" (presumably the 1950s [[wikipedia:Fury (TV series)|US western series]]) airing in the 6.00pm slot, but the following week, '''Doctor Who''' is listed as being "the second" episode "THE CAVE OF SKLLS" (sic), which indicates the first episode of '''Doctor Who''' aired in place of "Fury".)
 There appears to have been a one-week pre-emption during March, a month for which no papers were held. This break probably came between the first serial and the first Dalek story.