Yugoslavia

YUGOSLAVIA (now Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is in eastern Europe.

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Country Number (N/K)	1986?	THIRD WAVE
Region	Europe
Television commenced	1971
Colour System	1971	PAL
Language/s	Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian	subtitled

Television Stations / Channels

Yugoslavia began its television service in 1971, adopting the PAL colour broadcast system.

There is just one television station: Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija, a government-owned commercial broadcaster.

Foreign programmes usually retained their original soundtracks, with subtitles.

BBC Records

The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS records a sale of "(3)" stories (by 10 February 1987).

The country is not named in any of the DWM story Archives.

Stories bought and broadcast

Since Yugoslavia was a PAL broadcaster, the stories that aired could be any of the surviving full PAL Jon Pertwee stories, or Tom Baker stories. It's unlikely to be any of the later Doctors...

Given the proliferation of the Tom Baker stories being sold to European countries during the late 1980s (such as Spain, Greece and Poland), it is more than likely to have been his stories that aired.

The programme was supplied (presumably) on PAL colour video tapes complete with the original English soundtrack. These were broadcast with subtitles.

TV listings

The series apparently debuted in 1986 (which confirms the listing in the 1987 sales memo), but we do not have any specific dates for the broadcasts or newspaper listings.

The closest we have is this comment on a general Croatian website (Do Croats ‘get’ the series?), which mainly covers the new series, but has a general reference to the "old series":

"The problem with the reception of Doctor Who in Croatia lies in the fact that it has been ‘marketed’ (and scheduled) as a show for kids, which – despite some episodes – it is not. On top of that, the gap between the airings of the original series (way back when) and the new is so large, the ‘new’ Doctor Who was completely lost on the generations that might have watched or have watched the ‘old’ series."

WEBSITES

The new series gets general coverage on these Croatian websites:

• Doctor Who in Croatia
• Doctor Who in Croatia
• Doctor Who returns to Croatia

Yugoslavia in Doctor Who

• Chameleon Tours fly to Dubrovnik (The Faceless Ones).
• The city Belgrade is mentioned in Frontier in Space.
• The Doctor's companion Tegan Jovanka was named after Yugoslav President Tito's wife, Jovanka.
• It was because of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Yugoslavia that the BBC was forced to re-edit Resurrection of the Daleks and screen it as two-45 minute episodes.
• The abandoned Coast to Coast Doctor Who movie was to be have location-filming in Yugoslavia.

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