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'''Doctor Who''' has aired on a number of cable and satellite stations over the years, and this was the only method by which some countries - particularly those in [[:Category:Europe|Europe]] - could view the series on a regular basis.  
 
'''Doctor Who''' has aired on a number of cable and satellite stations over the years, and this was the only method by which some countries - particularly those in [[:Category:Europe|Europe]] - could view the series on a regular basis.  
  
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Although '''BroaDWcast''' is primarily an index to the terrestrial broadcasts, it would be remiss not to cover (albeit briefly) '''Doctor Who''' on satellite and cable channels.
  
 
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==AUSTRALIA==
 
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'''Doctor Who''' screened on [[Australia]]'s [[wikipedia:Foxtel|FOXTEL]] / UKTV from '''1 August 1996'''.
 
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Details about those screenings can be read on the dedicated [[Australia]] pages.
 
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==UNITED STATES and CANADA==
 
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'''Doctor Who''' aired on at least two (known) major cable channels in the US in the 1980s and 1990s:
 
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==UK STATIONS==
 
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'''Doctor Who''' aired on two local UK satellite stations:
 
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* '''[[wikipedia:British Satellite Broadcasting|BSB's Galaxy channel]]''' (short-lived run from '''1 April 1990 to 29 December 1990''')
 
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* '''[[wikipedia:UK Gold|UK Gold]]''' (15 year run, from '''2 November 1992 to 14 April 2007''')
 
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However, for detail about these stations we recommend the following websites:
 
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* '''[http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/skytv/bsb.html BSB]''' – for images of on-screen idents, etc
 
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* '''[http://whogold.blogspot.com/2010/07/uk-gold-air-dates-1992-2007.html UK GOLD]''' for the full background plus a '''downloadable''' schedule of all 15 years worth of airdates and screenings
 
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==UK / EUROPE==
 
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===SUPER CHANNEL===
 
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[[File:SuperCh4E.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Super Channel credits for Genesis of the Daleks with Sylvester McCoy title sequence and logo]]
 
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[[File:SuperChl4R.JPG |right|thumb|200px|Listing for Robots of Death, 1 September 1988]]   
 
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Satellite television station '''[[wikipedia:NBC Europe|Super Channel]] ''' was launched on 30 January 1987, and broadcast across Europe.
 
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From '''24 March 1987''', '''Doctor Who''' was part of Super Channel's regular schedule, although they were limited to a 16 story / 66 episode package of just the first fourteen [[Tom Baker stories]] – [[Robot]] to [[The Deadly Assassin]] - plus [[The Robots of Death]] and [[Horror of Fang Rock]], which were repeated a number of times, either episodically or as omnibus editions.
 
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Some of these omnibuses, such as [[Genesis of the Daleks]], had the Sylvester McCoy opening credits with Tom Baker's face superimposed over McCoys, as well as newly-created story title and writer captions, as illustrated here.
 
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The final episode of '''Doctor Who''' to screen on Super Channel was the second airing of part four of [[Horror of Fang Rock]] on '''6 August 1989'''.
 
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In 1989, the channel was purchased by NBC. It was later re-branded as '''NBC Super Channel''' until 1996. The Europe broadcasts ceased from 20 December 1998.
 
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'''Super Channel''' was available in most countries in western Europe. We know for sure that it was accessible in:
 
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**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBo3JO85w10 SUPER CHANNEL IDENT 1987]
 
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**[http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/superchannel.html Gallery of SUPER CHANNEL IDENTS]
 
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===BBC PRIME===
 
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This station was launched in 1987 as '''[[wikipedia:BBC TV Europe|BBC TV Europe]]'''. It changed its identity to '''[[wikipedia:BBC World Service Television|BBC World Service Television]]''' from 11 March 1991, then to '''[[wikipedia:BBC Prime|BBC Prime]]''' from 26 January 1995. BBC Prime was replaced by '''BBC Entertainment''' from 11 November 2009.
 
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[[File:Prime 1993.JPG |right|thumb|250px|Dr Who (Colin Baker) – BBC Prime, 4 April 1993]]
 
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The station transmitted via the [http://wn.com/Intelsat_5 IntelSat] satellite, broadcasting on frequency '''601 27.5º west, at 10,995 and 11,155 gigahertz'''.
 
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It was the BBC's first entertainment channel available via satellite and cable across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, broadcasting 24 hours a day.
 
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BBC Prime aired a selection of BBC as well as ITV programming.
 
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We are not sure when '''Doctor Who''' started on this station.
 
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For a time episodes aired twice on Saturdays, with the following episode later the same day – e.g. an episode would air at 1.05am, then repeated at 10.00am, with the next episode on at 5.30pm the same day. Sometimes, the early morning episodes were not available in Africa.
 
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*According to a TV listing from a Spanish newspaper for Sunday, '''4 April 1993''' (see illustration), the [[Colin Baker stories|Colin Baker era]] was airing at that time.
 
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*By the middle of 1995 – around the same time the station was re-branded as '''BBC Prime''' – the [[Jon Pertwee stories]] (the standard mixed format package of all 24 serials) were screening.
 
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*[[The Ambassadors of Death]] part one in colour and the re-colourised episode five aired in colour for the first time on BBC Prime.
 
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*[[The Mind of Evil]] aired in '''September 1995'''.
 
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*During the run of [[The Creature from the Pit]], the 1996 [[TV Movie]] aired on '''30 December 1999''', the actual date on which the movie was set. 
 
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*[[Peter Davison stories]] played from '''September 2000'''
 
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As noted above, several European countries were able to receive Super Channel and BBC Prime, but one digital satellite station was established solely for the Scandinavian market:  
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As noted below, several European countries were able to receive Super Channel and BBC Prime, but one digital satellite station was established solely for the Scandinavian market:  
  
 
[[File:TV4SFlogo.JPG |right|thumb|250px|TV4 Science Fiction logo]]
 
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'''[[wikipedia:TV4 Science Fiction|TV4 Science Fiction]]''' is a satellite and cable television channel dedicated to the science fiction genre owned by TV4 AB. It was launched on 29 February 2008, and was broadcast to [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Finland]], and [[Norway]].
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'''[[wikipedia:TV4 Science Fiction|TV4 Science Fiction]]''' is a satellite and cable television channel dedicated to the science fiction genre owned by TV4 AB. It was launched on 29 February 2008, and was broadcast to [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Finland]], and Norway.
  
  
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'''Doctor Who''' aired briefly on this Latin America station:
 
'''Doctor Who''' aired briefly on this Latin America station:
  
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==AUSTRALIA==
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'''Doctor Who''' screened on [[Australia]]'s [[wikipedia:Foxtel|FOXTEL]] / UKTV from '''1 August 1996'''.
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==UNITED STATES and CANADA==
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'''Doctor Who''' aired on at least two (known) major cable channels in the US in the 1980s and 1990s:
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==UK STATIONS==
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'''Doctor Who''' aired on two domestic UK satellite stations, both of which have their own dedicated page:
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* '''[[British Satellite Broadcasting]] (BSB)''', a short-lived run from '''1 April 1990 to 1 December 1990'''
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===[[Super Channel|SUPER CHANNEL]]===
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Satellite television station '''[[Super Channel]] ''' was launched on 30 January 1987, and broadcast across Europe.
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This station, launched in 1987, was the BBC's first entertainment channel available via satellite and cable across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, broadcasting 24 hours a day.
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BBC Prime aired a selection of BBC as well as ITV programming, including '''Doctor Who'''.
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Cable and Satellite Stations

Doctor Who has aired on a number of cable and satellite stations over the years, and this was the only method by which some countries - particularly those in Europe - could view the series on a regular basis.

Although BroaDWcast is primarily an index to the terrestrial broadcasts, it would be remiss not to cover (albeit briefly) Doctor Who on satellite and cable channels.

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EUROPE

As noted below, several European countries were able to receive Super Channel and BBC Prime, but one digital satellite station was established solely for the Scandinavian market:

TV4 Science Fiction logo

TV4 SCIENCE FICTION

TV4 Science Fiction is a satellite and cable television channel dedicated to the science fiction genre owned by TV4 AB. It was launched on 29 February 2008, and was broadcast to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway.


TRANSMISSION

TV4 SF screened all the available serials from the first seven Doctors. Episodes screened three times daily, usually early evening, just after midnight, then around 3.00am the following morning. It would appear that Doctor Who was part of the regular schedules since launch date in February 2008.

By May 2008, the Jon Pertwee stories were screening. By August, they had reached the Tom Baker stories, starting with Robot from the first Friday of that month.

By March 2009, the Sylvester McCoy stories were screening.

The series later moved to TV4 Guld (TV4 Gold):

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LATIN AMERICA

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Doctor Who aired briefly on this Latin America station:

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IMAGEN SATELITAL

Imagen Satelital, a Latin American broadcaster, licensed season 13 (Tom Baker's second season) and possibly also some of the Leela stories from season 14, in 2001, and broadcast to:

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Chile
  • Paraguay
  • Uruguay
  • And possibly other countries within Central America, such as Belize (Terrance Dicks has mentioned at conventions that he once signed autographs during a visit to Belize in December 2003)


TRANSMISSION

From 1 October 2001, the series was (probably) available on the following satellite channels:

Episodes aired on Sundays at 9:30pm, and again on Monday, at 4:30am!

The serials were broadcast in English but with Spanish subtitles, the first time this method was adopted; previously, broadcasts in Spanish-language countries were dubbed. It would seem that by 2001, the original dubbed tapes that were used from the late 1970s (and owned by Time Life / Lionheart) were no longer available.

Regular screenings had concluded by January 2003.

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AUSTRALIA

Doctor Who screened on Australia's FOXTEL / UKTV from 1 August 1996.

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UNITED STATES and CANADA

Doctor Who aired on at least two (known) major cable channels in the US in the 1980s and 1990s:

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And of course most of the Canadian broadcasts of the series were on cable:

  • See our dedicated Canada pages.
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UK STATIONS

Doctor Who aired on two domestic UK satellite stations, both of which have their own dedicated page:


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UK / EUROPE

SUPER CHANNEL

Satellite television station Super Channel was launched on 30 January 1987, and broadcast across Europe.

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BBC PRIME

This station, launched in 1987, was the BBC's first entertainment channel available via satellite and cable across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, broadcasting 24 hours a day.

BBC Prime aired a selection of BBC as well as ITV programming, including Doctor Who.

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