Frontier in Space

Story Code: QQQ / Season 10	UK Airdate: 24 Feb to 31 Mar 1973	Doctor: Jon Pertwee
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.)

Australia	Nov 73	b/w
Singapore	Feb 74	b/w
Hong Kong	May 74	b/w
United Arab Emirates	75	PAL
Brunei	Oct 76	PAL
Gibraltar	Apr 77	b/w
Saudi Arabia	77?	NTSC or b/w

• The story was dubbed into Arabic
• Full PAL colour copies of the serial were sent to Australia along with b/w prints in 1973. The ABC planned to screen the story in b/w in 1973, with the repeat in colour in 1975. However, the repeat aired a year early, in b/w. The tapes went into storage and, basically, were forgotten about...
• Meanwhile at the BBC in London, soon after the 1974 sale to United Arab Emirates, the PAL tapes of parts one, two, three and six were wiped. They continued to sell the serial in black and white.
• When New Zealand purchased colour Pertwees in 74/75, the BBC said Frontier was no longer available in that format.
• When the serial was sold to Brunei in 1976 via BBC Sydney, the colour tapes were retrieved.
• In 1982, the ABC in Australia bought a repeat run of colour Pertwees. The colour tapes were again retrieved, by which time BBC London wanted them back.
• These tapes were subsequently returned to the BBC, but too late to be included in a package of full colour stories that had been sold to the United States.

Reissue

• It was released again in early 1985, as part of a package of all 24 Jon Pertwee stories, and sold to:

United States	from Mar 85	NTSC
New Zealand	Apr 86	PAL
Canada	1990s?	NTSC

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