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*It has also aired numerous times on various other UK and US cable and satellite stations, too many to try to catalogue here. | *It has also aired numerous times on various other UK and US cable and satellite stations, too many to try to catalogue here. | ||
*On '''31 August 2013''', [[BBC America]] screened the movie as part of [[The Doctors Revisited]] series. | *On '''31 August 2013''', [[BBC America]] screened the movie as part of [[The Doctors Revisited]] series. | ||
| − | *Since then it has | + | *Since then it has been officially available on [[:Category:Online Services|online platforms]] in the UK only: from '''9 September 2014''', it has been available to stream on [[Netflix]] UK ([https://flixlist.co/titles/70272989 here]) (from '''14 April 2015''' it was also available on [[Netflix]] Australia ([https://netflixaustralia.org/movies/doctor-who-the-movie/ here])). The only other UK site known to provide it is [[BritBox]] UK. |
Revision as of 03:53, 12 November 2020
| Story Code: TV Movie / Season - | UK Airdate: 27 May 1996 | Doctor: Paul McGann |
| First airings by location | UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite | Previous Story / Next Story |
This story aired in the following known 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.)
| Canada | 12 May 96 | |
| United States | 14 May 96 | |
| United Kingdom | 27 May 96 | |
| Australia | 7 Jul 96 | |
| New Zealand | 30 Oct 96 | |
| Greece | 1996 or 97 | |
| France | 18 Mar 97 | Le Seigneur du Temps / Docteur Who: Le Film (dubbed) |
| Argentina? | 1997 | |
| Japan | 1997 | |
| Poland | 1997 | |
| Finland | 13 Feb 99 | |
| HBO OLE Cable | From 16 Feb 99 | |
| Luxembourg | 27 Feb 99 | Le Seigneur du Temps (dubbed) |
| Italy | 1999 | (dubbed?) |
| Netherlands | 5 Aug 99 | |
| Ireland | 1 May 00 | |
| Brazil | 27 Jul 00 | Doutor Who - O Senhor do Tempo (dubbed) |
| Czech Republic | 9 Sept 00 | Doktor Kdo (dubbed) |
| Austria? | 24 Jun 01 | |
| Iraq? | 17 Feb 02 | |
| Lithuania? | 25 Jul 03 | |
| India? | 25 Sep 04 | |
| Norway | 2005 |
- Fox aired the movie on over 150 channels in the United States.
- In the UK, the movie was officially released on VHS tape on 22 May 1996, five days ahead of its broadcast on BBC1 (with some stores staying open late on 21 May to sell the tape from midnight). The tape and the TV version were edited to remove scenes of repeated gun-fire (in the wake of the recent mass shooting at a school in Dunblane, Scotland) as well as some other graphic content.
- The Movie was marketed by Fox and BBC Worldwide as a "Movie for Television" and therefore it had a far wider international sales distribution; the film was screened in a number of countries that had never seen the series.
- In most non-English-speaking countries, the film was shown with subtitles, but a small number aired a dubbed version (noted above). (The subsequent VHS tape was also subtitled or dubbed - see list below.)
- The French dub of the film - with the new title Le Seigneur du Temps - screened in France, Luxembourg, and on the Canadian station Ztélé. (France appears to have been the only foreign country to create its own opening title graphics and closing credits roll translated; all other foreign 'dubs' retained the English titles and credits.)
- The film was available on the In-flight TV Systems of Singapore Airlines, and was shown 99 times between July and September 1996 by British Airways. It was also available on Merchant Navy vessels (although of which countries is not known - see list of possibilities HERE).
- The Movie was also distributed on VHS tape by Universal's home entertainment division, MCA/Universal/CIC Video, to many other countries around the world; these commercial releases (either subtitled or dubbed) were mainly for the rental market, and for a handful of those countries, the series had never been shown on TV, and the video tape was the only form in which Doctor Who was known - See the list below.
- The Movie aired on UK Gold on 7 February 1998, BBC Choice on 22 November 1998, by BBC Prime on 2 and 7 May 1999, with a third showing on 30 December 1999 - the actual date on which the story is set!
- Between February 1999 and December 1999, the Movie was available to several Central and South American countries via the HBO Olé cable links.
- On 13 November 1999, the uncut US version (with the "Based on the original series broadcast on the BBC" caption intact) was shown during BBC2's Doctor Who Night special event.
- The US Sci-Fi Channel screened the Movie for the first time on 15 July 2001. The station held the exclusive US cable rights to the film, screening it multiple times until mid-2004...
- Sci-Fi Channel's UK/Europe station aired the film for the first time on Saturday, 2 November 2002, and then several more times during the next ten months. It aired again on 25 August 2008 - twice!
- The film also played several times during 2002 and 2003 on the Sci-Fi Channel in South Africa.
- In 2004, the US Sci-Fi Channel's exclusive rights to the Movie expired; these were picked up by Starz, which aired the film (apparently also with a Spanish dub) numerous times on its various channel streams through until late 2005.
- It has also aired numerous times on various other UK and US cable and satellite stations, too many to try to catalogue here.
- On 31 August 2013, BBC America screened the movie as part of The Doctors Revisited series.
- Since then it has been officially available on online platforms in the UK only: from 9 September 2014, it has been available to stream on Netflix UK (here) (from 14 April 2015 it was also available on Netflix Australia (here)). The only other UK site known to provide it is BritBox UK.
TV Movie on VHS
Between 1996 and 1998, the movie was released on rental or sell-through VHS (published by MCA/Universal/CIC Video, sometimes through a local distributor) in several countries that did not screen the movie on TV. The tapes were either (S)ubtitled or (D)ubbed. In most cases, the title was simply "Doctor Who" (using the movie's logo on the box cover), but some countries gave the film an alternative cover title (see the merchandise sections in the relevant country profiles for cover slicks and further details):
- Sweden (S)
- Spain (D)
- Argentina (as El Doctor Who) (S)
- Mexico (S)
- Hong Kong (laser-disc as 時空謀殺案) (S)
- Germany (D) (later released on DVD and Blu-ray as Doctor Who Der Film)
- Japan (S)
- Hungary (D)
Tapes were also released in a number of countries that did screen the movie on TV. Some of the tapes ((S)ubtitled or (D)ubbed) had an alternative cover title that was different to that used on TV (see the merchandise sections in the relevant country profiles for cover slicks and further details):
- Brazil (also O Senhor do Tempo) (S)
- Australia / New Zealand (same tape was released in both countries; later released on DVD / SE and Blu-ray)
- Italy (D)
- Netherlands (S)
- Finland (as 1999 Maailman Tuho) (S)
- Czech Republic (as Boj S Časem) (D)
Intriguingly, in some of the tape dubs (notably the German, Spanish and Czech) there are no Dalek voices in the pre-credits scene! (Is this because there were rights restrictions regarding use of the Daleks so they had to be omitted for 'foreign' editions of the tape, or was it simply a matter of the companies that recorded the new soundtracks electing not to bother attempting to reproduce the few lines of 'mechanised' sound used in the English original?)
Of note, the Movie could not be sold on tape in the United States or Canada due to a conflict over the rights: the worldwide VHS rights to the film were held by Universal while the North American VHS rights to Doctor Who the series were owned by CBS/Fox Video; Universal therefore couldn't distribute tapes to a territory that it didn't have the exclusive rights to.
Rights issues were eventually resolved, and a DVD special edition with the title Doctor Who: The Movie was released in 2011.
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