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=2021 Updates=
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==August==
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==October==
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*'''2 August''': A couple of 'tweeks' to the recent [[France]] update to clarify some points regarding The Ark in Space...
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*'''21 October''': Big update to [[KPTS]].
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*'''1 August''': Major update to [[France]]; a set of French TV listings magazines has been found online; these give story titles for the 1989 run of Tom Baker episodes, and provide further listings for the [[TV Movie]] and the [[Peter Cushing]] films.
 
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*Also updated [[Luxembourg]], [[Portugal]] and [[Spain]] to add additional details about the [[TV Movie]] and [[Peter Cushing]] movies.
 
  
  
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*'''18 July''': Turns out the series was shown on a regional basis in [[Yugoslavia]]; screenings in 1987 now added.
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*'''23 August''': Update to [[South Africa]], including screenings of the Peter Cushing films at cinemas and on TV.  
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*'''14 July''': We've created new profiles for [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]] (where the [[TV Movie]] was shown), and revised the profile on [[Yugoslavia]] to accommodate.
 
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==June==
 
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*'''6 June''': '''NEW''' profile added for [[Syria]], where a poster for the second Peter Cushing movie was found.
 
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*'''6 June''': Updates to [[Hungary]] (to add the Peter Cushing movies, and other general info), and [[Germany]] (to clarify what happened to the Pertwee screenings that were planned for 1991...)
 
  
  
 
==May==
 
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*'''29 May''': Updates to [[Norway]], [[Sweden]] and [[Finland]]: new info regarding VHS releases added.   
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*'''8 May''': Updates to the [[list of Celebration & Tour stops]].  Did we miss a stop? Let us know: {{email}}
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*'''27 May''': The [[TV Movie]] was first shown on UK TV '''25 years''' ago. We've been trying to catalogue all the known '''foreign editions''' that were released on VHS: so far more than '''15''' have been identified, and there are likely to be more...
 
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*'''20 April''': Filling in some gaps in [[Austin]] and [[Arkansas Educational Television Network|Arkansas]].
 
  
  
 
==March==
 
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*'''8 March''': [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]: coverage of the Peter Cushing movies has been expanded.  
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*'''15 March''': More updates to [[WTEV]], plus some nice scans from TV Guide.
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*'''3 March''': Updates to [[WTEV]], which was the '''first US station''' to air the Tom Baker serials.
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*'''1 March''': An small update to Tom Baker's first run on [[WOR]], although we're mostly guessing.
  
  
 
==February==
 
==February==
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*'''20 February''': Between 1976 and 1989, each new season of '''Doctor Who''' made its overseas broadcast debut in a different country - either the [[Netherlands]], [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] or the [[United States]]...
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*'''8 February''': Was it [[The Curse of Peladon]] or [[The Monster of Peladon]] that screened in [[Ireland]]?
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:''Or that's what we thought'', but it turns out that bar a handful (due to extra-special circumstances) '''all''' those fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor series had their foreign premieres in '''West Germany'''!    Although the German broadcaster RTL-Plus began screening McCoy episodes in late 1989, those episodes - and a whole lot more - had already been aired in parts of West Germany by the '''[[British Forces Broadcasting Service]] (BFBS)''', which operated a closed-system  television network that was available only at British military bases dotted around the country. The McCoy stories were also shown by the BFBS on  the [[Falkland Islands]].
 
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::*We've added the '''[[BFBS|new BFBS profile]]''', and a page for the [[Falkland Islands]], plus made various changes and additions to the pages for the [[Netherlands]] (parts of which could receive the military signals), [[Germany]], [[Belize]], [[Gibraltar]] and [[Cyprus]] accordingly. 
 
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*'''19 February 2021''': This is our '''tenth''' anniversary. The site was officially launched on '''19 February 2011''' at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles. A big ''Thank you'' to all our readers and supporters - and an even bigger special '''Thank you''' to our contributors - see the very long list on the Main Page.  We couldn't have done this without you.
 
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*This website turns '''TEN''' on '''19 February'''. We were going to have a party with cake, balloons and clowns, but that's been scrapped due to COVID. Instead, each day over the next ten days we'll be Tweeting a "Fun Fact" highlighting something of interest that was discovered during research. On the tenth day, we'll be uploading a new profile - that of a previously unfamiliar broadcaster who was actually the first to... Well, that would be telling!
 
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*'''17 January''': Update to [[Portugal]] and [[Brazil]] to include further info regarding the [[Cushing Daleks|Peter Cushing Dalek films]].
 
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==Previous Updates==
 
==Previous Updates==
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*'''[[What's New 2023|What was New in 2023]]'''
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*'''[[What's New 2022|What was New in 2022]]'''
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*'''[[What's New 2021|What was New in 2021]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2020|What was New in 2020]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2020|What was New in 2020]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2019|What was New in 2019]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2019|What was New in 2019]]'''

Latest revision as of 00:37, 22 October 2024

This page will list UPDATES and NEW pages added.

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2024 Updates

October

  • 21 October: Big update to KPTS.


August

  • 23 August: Update to South Africa, including screenings of the Peter Cushing films at cinemas and on TV.


May


March

  • 15 March: More updates to WTEV, plus some nice scans from TV Guide.
  • 3 March: Updates to WTEV, which was the first US station to air the Tom Baker serials.
  • 1 March: An small update to Tom Baker's first run on WOR, although we're mostly guessing.


February


Previous Updates

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