Death to the Daleks

Story Code: XXX / Season 11	UK Airdate: 23 Feb to 16 Mar 1974	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	Apr 75	PAL
United Arab Emirates	75	PAL
Hong Kong	Jun 75	PAL
New Zealand	Aug 76	PAL
Brunei	Jan 77	PAL
United States	Sep 77	NTSC
Canada	Dec 77	NTSC
Saudi Arabia	Dec 81?	PAL

• The serial was dubbed into Arabic.
• If this story was telerecorded as a black and white film print for foreign sales, the prints were never used.
• This serial was the first colour Jon Pertwee serial to be received by New Zealand, and assessed by its censors in December 1974. It had to sit "on the shelf" for a couple of years to wait until earlier Pertwee serials had been acquired and screened. Of course, by then, most of his stories had already been wiped and were no longer available in PAL...
• New Zealand sent the tapes (after making transmission copies) to Brunei on 18 February 1976. The serial screened in Brunei nearly a year later.
• The serial aired in Boston only; the rest of the United States did not get the serial until the 1983 re-issue. This appears to have been a special one-off deal struck between WGBX and the BBC that was in addition to the standard Time Life deal that was available elsewhere. (The BBC took the opportunity to also sell the serial to Canadian stations TVO and CKVU at the same time, presumably to cover the costs of having NTSC conversions made.)
• The Saudi Arabia TV station that screened the series, changed to PAL in 1979.
• Around this time the BBC lost its PAL copy of episode one. A copy was retrieved from Australia, but that was missing segments that had been cut by the censors. An NTSC copy was later recovered from Canada. A composite from the two formats was made to restore the PAL copy.
• In 1991, a complete set of PAL tapes - including an uncut copy of part one - was returned from the United Arab Emirates.

Reissue

• The serial was issued in mid-1983, as part of a package of 14 full colour Jon Pertwee stories sold to the United States.

US TV Guide descriptions

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• Episode 1: Dr. Who and Sarah touch down on a paradise, only to find that they are surrounded by hostile inhabitants and their ship's power source has been drained.
  
• Episode 2: The Daleks are forced to cooperate with the earth party—but not for long.
  
• Episode 3: The Doctor meets an unexpected ally who tells him the history of the Exxilons.
  
• Episode 4: The Doctor matches wits with the brain of the city, while Sarah and Jill deal with the Daleks.
  

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