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This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to [[Selling Doctor Who]] for expanded airdates.)
 
This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to [[Selling Doctor Who]] for expanded airdates.)
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[[File:FInalTestABC67.JPG|right|thumb|375px|The episode later found in Australia in 1984; Melbourne Age, 12 January 1967]]
 
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* [[New Zealand]] sent its film prints of this serial to [[Singapore ]] on '''20 September 1972'''. The sale to Singapore was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening [[Jon Pertwee stories]] by this time.
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* [[New Zealand]] sent its film prints of this serial to [[Singapore]] on '''20 September 1972'''. The sale to Singapore was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening [[Jon Pertwee stories]] by this time.  
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*[[Sierra Leone]] sent its prints back to the BBC in 1974.
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* A print of episode four - "The Final Test" - was found in the ABC's film library in early 1984, and was returned to the BBC on 13 February. <!-- DE--> The print was missing the "NEXT EPISODE: A HOLIDAY FOR THE DOCTOR" caption. This was because the ABC often chopped out the "NEXT EPISODE" captions from the final episodes because they would sometimes screen serials out of sequence during subsequent repeat runs.
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<!--***Note: Since [[New Zealand]] was the only country to screen [[The Celestial Toymaker]] and [[The Savages]], but '''not''' [[The Gunfighters]], it is logical to think that the excision of the NEXT EPISODE caption could have been done in New Zealand. The NZ prints of the serial were sent to Singapore in September 1972 - so how then did part four end up in the ABC film store? Did Singapore return the print to the ABC in error? Was it intended for the offices of [[BBC Sydney]]...? But probably not - see [[Australia]] for more about the origin of that print...
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***The New Zealand censors requested removal of Cyril's line "-- or you will be killed". The surviving print does not exhibit this censor cut. So, maybe this isn't the New Zealand / Singapore print after all! Or was the censor cut carefully spliced back in? Another censoring method adopted was to mask the relevant parts of the optical soundtrack with black tape, which meant the physical print need not be damaged by cutting and splicing. It's also possible that the offending line was not removed...
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Or it could have been that the person who had "borrowed" the print from then returned it to the ABC had chopped off the credit?-->
  
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* A print of episode four was found in the ABC's film store in 1984. The print was missing the '''"NEXT EPISODE HOLIDAY FOR THE DOCTOR"''' caption.
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* See also [[Hartnell Junkings]]
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**'''CONSPIRACY THEORY''':
 
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**The recovered episode was a Stored Field telerecording print, a transfer process adopted by the BBC in late 1966.
 
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**The prints of this serial were examined by the Australia censors in October 1966, so it's entirely possible they were '''not''' Stored Field, but the older Suppressed Field format. Therefore, the recovered missing episode may not have actually originated from Australia...
 
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**Since [[New Zealand]] was the only country to screen [[The Celestial Toymaker]] and [[The Savages]], but '''not''' [[The Gunfighters]], it is logical to think that the excision of the NEXT EPISODE caption was done in New Zealand. The NZ prints of the Toymaker were sent to Singapore in September 1972 - so how then did part four end up in the ABC film store? Did Singapore return the print to the ABC in error? Was it intended for the BBC's Sydney office...?
 
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**The New Zealand censors requested removal of Cyril's line "-- or you will be killed". The surviving print does not exhibit this censor cut. So, maybe this isn't the New Zealand / Singapore print after all! Or was the censor cut carefully spliced back in? Another censoring method adopted was to mask the relevant parts of the optical soundtrack with black tape, which meant the physical print need not be damaged by cutting and splicing. It's also possible that the offending line was not removed...
 
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**ABC records indicate that their prints of The Celestial Toymaker parts one to three were destroyed, so logically their prints could not have been sent to another country. 
 
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**So - if New Zealand's copies did not come from BBC Sydney (who only supplied Suppressed Field prints), they were probably sent from one of the two previous broadcasters, who'd have had Stored Field prints. Records held at TVNZ indicate that episodes of '''Dad's Army''' were sent from New Zealand to Zambia in 1971, and later to Barbados in 1974, which shows that there '''was''' an exchange of BBC programmes between these three countries. Zambia's prints could logically have remained in Africa and been sent to Sierra Leone, which strongly suggests that Barbados was therefore the supplier of the prints of this serial, as well as the others that screened in New Zealand at the time ([[The Space Museum]]? to [[The Smugglers]])...
 
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**Mysteries, mysteries, mysteries...
 
  
  

Latest revision as of 02:25, 13 May 2019

Story Code: Y / Season 3 UK Airdate: 2 Apr to 23 Apr 1966 Doctor: William Hartnell
First airings by location UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

The episode later found in Australia in 1984; Melbourne Age, 12 January 1967
Australia Jan 67 b/w
Barbados Mar 68 b/w
Zambia Jun 68 b/w
New Zealand Apr 69 b/w
Sierra Leone Feb 71 b/w
Singapore Feb 73 b/w
  • New Zealand sent its film prints of this serial to Singapore on 20 September 1972. The sale to Singapore was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening Jon Pertwee stories by this time.
  • Sierra Leone sent its prints back to the BBC in 1974.
  • A print of episode four - "The Final Test" - was found in the ABC's film library in early 1984, and was returned to the BBC on 13 February. The print was missing the "NEXT EPISODE: A HOLIDAY FOR THE DOCTOR" caption. This was because the ABC often chopped out the "NEXT EPISODE" captions from the final episodes because they would sometimes screen serials out of sequence during subsequent repeat runs.


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