Brazil

BRAZIL is he largest country in the South American continent.

Population

When Doctor Who screened in Brazil in the late 1970s, the population was 95 million, and licensed TV sets numbered 8.6 million (per WRTH, 1974).

LOOK AT 1979 WRTH

TV & system

Brazil began its television service in 1950.

Due to its vast size, Brazil was services by a number of private stations, but the main networks were based in the capital Brasilia, or Buenos Aires.

In 1974, Brazil had two national broadcasters, plus as many as 67 independent relay stations, many of which were cable-only, so therefore Doctor Who would have screened on any one of these 67 stations, which might not have had TV listings in the papers.

It is not known on which station Doctor Who aired.

Colour transmissions test began in 1972, and regular transmissions commenced in 1978 PAL colour broadcast system. Brazil was therefore the only South American country to broadcast in PAL (the others used NTSC).

Language/s

The main language of Brazil is Portuguese.

DOCTOR WHO IN BRAZIL

Brazil was the 50th country to screen Doctor Who; it was the fourth in South America (see Selling Doctor Who).

BBC Records

In DWM, Brazil is identified in 20 story Archives, all Tom Baker stories from his first four seasons 4A to 4Z, with the exception of three - 4C, 4L, 4S - which is probably an oversight rather than an indication that these three didn't air (the same three stories also omit Guatemala). The year of sale is given as 1979.

Stories bought and broadcast

TOM BAKER

23 stories, 98 episodes:

4A	Robot	4
4B	The Sontaran Experiment	2
4C	The Ark in Space	4
4D	Revenge of the Cybermen	4
4E	Genesis of the Daleks	6
4F	Terror of the Zygons	4
4G	Pyramids of Mars	4
4H	Planet of Evil	4
4J	The Android Invasion	4
4K	The Brain of Morbius	4
4L	The Seeds of Doom	6
4M	The Masque of Mandragora	4
4N	The Hand of Fear	4
4P	The Deadly Assassin	4
4Q	The Face of Evil	4
4R	The Robots of Death	4
4S	The Talons of Weng-Chiang	6
4V	Horror of Fang Rock	4
4T	The Invisible Enemy	4
4X	Image of the Fendahl	4
4W	The Sun Makers	4
4Y	Underworld	4
4Z	The Invasion of Time	6

Brazil therefore bought GROUPs A to D of the standard package of Tom Baker stories.

The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks. Since the tapes were in the PAL format, it's likely that Brazil was sold the series by the BBC rather than through Time-Life, which distributed the series in NTSC throughout North, Central and South America.

Transmission

TOM BAKER

No details.

TV listings

No details.

Novelisations

And the time that the Baker stories were airing, a series of translations of the Target Books novelisations was published:

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Brazil in Doctor Who

• In Black Orchid, Amazon, nuts.

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