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'''[[Wikipedia:UNited Arab Emirates|UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]]''' is a country city which borders the south shores of the Persian Gulf, in the [[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]].
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'''[[Wikipedia:United Arab Emirates|UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]]''' is a state in the Persian Gulf, [[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]].  
  
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{{Place-name
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Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the two major cities in the Emirates (UAE) - and the country is only ever identified in BBC records under those names rather than as the UAE.
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|First broadcast        = 1969
 
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|First colour broadcast = 1974
 
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|Colour                = [[wikipedia:PAL|PAL]]
 
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|Doctors seen          = [[Jon Pertwee stories|Pertwee]], [[Tom Baker stories|T Baker]]
 
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==Population==
 
  
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When '''Doctor Who''' screened in Abu Dhabi in the 1970s, the population was 200,000, and licensed TV sets numbered only 16,000 (per [[WRTH]], 1974).
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==Profile==
  
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==TV & system==
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|'''Country Number (xxx)'''||1974?||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
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|-
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|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Middle East| Middle East]]||.
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|-
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|'''Television commenced'''||1969||.
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|-
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|'''Colour System'''||1974||[[:Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]]
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|-
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|'''[[WRTH|Population]]'''||19xx|| xx mill
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|-
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|'''[[WRTH|TV Sets]]'''||19xx|| xx mill
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|-
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|'''Language/s'''||[[Arabic]] and English||.
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|-
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|}
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==Television Stations / Channels==
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TV started on the XXXXXXX channel, based in Abu Dhabi.
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In 1977, a secondary channel commenced - based in Dubai. This catered specifically for both [[Arabic]] and English broadcasts.
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NEED TO GO THOUGH ALL WRTHs AND TABLE THE DIFFERNET STATIONS BETWEEN 1975 AND 1984.
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NEED TO READ PAGES FROM THAT BOOK TO FIND OUT ABOUT CHANNELS AND LANGUAGES
  
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Abu Dhabi began its television service in 1969.  
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AT A GUESS, I WOULD SAY THE FIRST BATCH OF PERTWEES (dubbed into Arabic) AIRED ON ABU DHABI CHANNEL (7?????). POSSIBLY JUST AAA TO ACCOUNT FOR SJW DATING - although it says 1977 (AND MAYBE CARRY-OVER ONTO 1987 LIST????)
  
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Colour transmissions began in 1974 using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
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THE NEXT RUN WAS ON DUBAI CHANNEL 10 - TO END OF 4L
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(NEED TO DETERMINE WHEN THIS STATION STARTED)
  
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There is just one television station: '''United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Television Service''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster. '''Doctor Who''' screened on its channel 5.
 
  
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==Language/s==
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THE NEXT RUNS - 4M onwards - WERE ON DUBAI CHANNEL 33.
  
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The main languages of Abu Dhabi is [[Arabic]] and English.
 
  
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=='''DOCTOR WHO IN ABU DHABI'''==
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== '''ادكتورهو''' (Al Doctor Who) ==
  
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Abu Dhabi was the 41st purchaser of '''Doctor Who'''; it was the second in the UAE, the other being [[Dubai]] (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
 
  
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==[[BBC Records]]==
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=='''DOCTOR WHO IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES'''==
  
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'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - The Lost Chapters] records a sale of '''1''' story (by 10 February 1987).
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It appears that the Emirates was also the only country to screen [[Planet of the Daleks]] in colour.
  
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Abu Dhabi is not named in any of the '''DWM''' story Archives.
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The Emirates was one of the first countries to be sold the [[Tom Baker stories]] at the same time as the [[Netherlands]], and certainly before [[Australia]].  
  
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Tom Baker mentions being a star in Abu Dhabi on pages 195 and 257 of his 1997 autobiography '''Who on Earth is Tom Baker'''.
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==[[BBC Records|BBC Records]]==
  
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A BBC memo dated 10 December 1973 records Abu Dhabi as one of the countries to which episodes "dubbed into [[Arabic]]" had been sold.
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In 1973, BBC Managing Director, Huw Weldlon, spoke of seeing "Dr Who dubbed into Arabic'' (see the [[Arabic]] and [[WRTH]] pages for more on this).
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'''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''"(22)"''' stories to '''Dubai''' by 28 February 1977. This 1977 memo actually records Dubai '''twice''' for {{AAA}}, so the correct total is actually '''21''': {{AAA}}, {{KKK}}, {{RRR}}, {{PPP}}, {{QQQ}}, {{SSS}}, {{UUU}}, {{XXX}}, {{YYY}}, {{ZZZ}}, {{4A}}, {{4B}}, {{4C}}, {{4D}}, {{4E}}, {{4F}}, {{4G}}, {{4H}}, {{4J}}, {{4K}}, and {{4L}}.
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In '''DWM''', Dubai is identified under ''25''' story Archives: nine Pertwees: the same as above, but not {{XXX}}; and the same 11 Tom Bakers as above, plus: {{4M}}, {{4N}}, {{4P}}, {{4Q}}, and {{4R}}.
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In '''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS], there are '''"(37)"''' sales noted for Dubai, plus '''"(1)"''' recorded for Abu Dhabi. It's not clear why there should be a separate listing for Abu Dhabi in 1987; it's possible this is a carry-over of a pre-1977 sale, or simply a "duplication" of the sales to Dubai.
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The total of "(37)" would apply to the '''ten''' Pertwees, plus '''27''' Bakers - which takes the tally up to the middle of season 16. Or alternatively, it is the 11 Bakers plus an additional 16, which takes the tally up to the middle of season 18. This is supported by the fact that season 18 was indeed airing through to late 1986.
  
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
  
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XXX stories, XX episodes:
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Ten stories, 48 episodes:
  
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|AAA||[[Spearhead from Space]]||4
 
|AAA||[[Spearhead from Space]]||4
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|-
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|KKK||[[Day of the Daleks]]||4
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|-
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|PPP||[[Carnival of Monsters]]||4
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|-
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|RRR||[[The Three Doctors]]||4
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|-
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|QQQ||[[Frontier in Space]]||6
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|-
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|SSS||[[Planet of the Daleks]]||6
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|-
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|UUU||[[The Time Warrior]]||4
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|-
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|XXX||[[Death to the Daleks]]||4
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|-
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|YYY||[[The Monster of Peladon]]||6
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|-
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|ZZZ||[[Planet of the Spiders]]||6
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
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The programme was supplied as 16mm colour film or PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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UAE therefore bought the standard package of [[Jon Pertwee stories]], from GROUPs A to XXXXX.
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The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks, with [[Arabic]] dubs.
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====Origin of the Tapes====
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Hew Weldon mentions viewing episodes of "Dr Who dubbed in to [[Arabic]]" in early 1973.
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Since UAE only got {{AAA}}, {{KKK}}, {{RRR}}, {{PPP}}, {{QQQ}}, {{SSS}} from the Pertwees first three seasons on PAL video tape, and these were dubbed into [[Arabic]] in early 1973, that seems to suggest that the original PAL master tapes of the other Pertwee stories had already been wiped by then. {{WWW}} was also not supplied to UAE; again, the master tapes were not available at that time because they had been wiped in August 1974.  
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===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
 
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
  
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XXX stories, XX episodes:
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xx stories, xxx episodes  
  
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|-
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|??||???||??
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|4A||[[Robot]]||4
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|-
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|4B||[[The Sontaran Experiment]]||2
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|-
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|4C||[[The Ark in Space]]||4
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|-
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|4E||[[Genesis of the Daleks]]||6
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|-
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|4D||[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]||4
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|-
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|4F||[[Terror of the Zygons]]||4
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|-
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|4H||[[Planet of Evil]]||4
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|-
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|4G||[[Pyramids of Mars]]||4
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|-
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|4J||[[The Android Invasion]]||4
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|-
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|4K||[[The Brain of Morbius]]||4
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|-
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|4L||[[The Seeds of Doom]]||6
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
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The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks, with [[Arabic]] dubs.
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|4M||[[The Masque of Mandragora]]||4
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|-
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|4N||[[The Hand of Fear]]||4
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|-
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|4P||[[The Deadly Assassin]]||4
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|-
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|4Q||[[The Face of Evil]]||4
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|-
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|4R||[[The Robots of Death]]||4
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|-
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|4S||[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]||6
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|-
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|4V||[[Horror of Fang Rock]]||4
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|-
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|4T||[[The Invisible Enemy]]||4
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|-
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|4X||[[Image of the Fendahl]]||4
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|-
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|4W||[[The Sun Makers]]||4
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|-
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|4Y||[[Underworld]]||4
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|-
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|4Z||[[The Invasion of Time]]||6
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|-
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|5A||[[The Ribos Operation]]||4
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|-
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|5B||[[The Pirate Planet]]||4
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|-
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|5C||[[The Stones of Blood]]||4
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|-
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|5D||[[The Androids of Tara]]||4
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|-
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|5E||[[The Power of Kroll]]||4
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|-
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|5F||[[The Armageddon Factor]]||6
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|-
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|4K|[[The Brain of Morbius]]|omnibus
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|-
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|5J||[[Destiny of the Daleks]]||4
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|-
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|5H||[[City of Death]]||4
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|-
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|5G||[[The Creature from the Pit]]||4
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|-
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|5K||[[Nightmare of Eden]]||4
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|-
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|5L||[[The Horns of Nimon]]||4
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|-
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|5N||[[The Leisure Hive]]||4
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|-
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|5Q||[[Meglos]]||4
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|-
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|5R||[[Full Circle]]||4
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|-
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|5P||[[State of Decay]]||4
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|-
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|5S||[[Warriors' Gate]]||4
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|-
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|5T||[[The Keeper of Traken]]||4
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|-
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|5V||[[Logopolis]]||4
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|-
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|}
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UAE therefore bought GROUPs A to XXXX of the [[Tom Baker stories]].
  
 
The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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===[[Peter Davison stories|PETER DAVISON]]===
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Fifteen stories, 90 half-hour episodes:
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|5Z||[[Castrovalva]]||4
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|-
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|5W||[[Four to Doomsday]]||4
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|-
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|5Y||[[Kinda]]||4
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|-
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|5X||[[The Visitation]]||4
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|-
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|6A||[[Black Orchid]]||2
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|-
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|6B||[[Earthshock]]||4
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|-
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|6C||[[Time-Flight]]||4
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|-
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|6E||[[Arc of Infinity]]||4
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|-
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|6D||[[Snakedance]]||4
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|-
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|6F||[[Mawdryn Undead]]||4
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|-
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|6G||[[Terminus]]||4
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|-
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|6H||[[Enlightenment]]||4
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|-
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|6J||[[The King's Demons]]||2
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|-
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|6P||[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]||4
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|-
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|6R||[[The Caves of Androzani]]||4
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|-
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|}
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UAE therefore bought all of GROUP A and B and only part of GROUP C of the [[Peter Davison stories]].
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The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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===[[Colin Baker stories|COLIN BAKER]]===
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One story, 4 episodes:
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Six stories, equivalent of 26 half-hour episodes:
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One story, equivalent of 14 half-hour episodes:
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|6S||[[The Twin Dilemma]]||4
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|-
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|6T||[[Attack of the Cybermen]]||2/4
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|-
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|6V||[[Vengeance on Varos]]||2/4
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|-
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|6W||[[The Two Doctors]]||3/6
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|-
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|6X||[[The Mark of the Rani]]||2/4
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|-
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|6Y||[[Timelash]]||2/4
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|-
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|6Z||[[Revelation of the Daleks]]||2/4
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|-
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|7A||[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]||14
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|-
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|}
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UAE therefore bought all of the [[Colin Baker stories]].
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The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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===[[Sylvester McCoy stories|SYLVESTER McCOY]]===
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Eight stories, 28 episodes, not screened in correct order:
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|7D||[[Time and the Rani]]||4
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|-
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|7E||[[Paradise Towers]]||4
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|-
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|7F||[[Delta and the Bannermen]]||3
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|-
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|7G||[[Dragonfire]]||3
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|-
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|7H||[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]||4
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|-
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|7J||[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]||4
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|-
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|7K||[[Silver Nemesis]]||3
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|-
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|7L||[[The Happiness Patrol]]||3
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|-
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|}
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UAE therefore bought GROUPs A and B the [[Sylvester McCoy stories]].
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The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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There is no indication that the UAE bought season 26.
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==Transmission==
 
==Transmission==
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
  
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Apparently screened some Pertwees. Other than {AAA}}, don't know what else.
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Some of the Pertwee and early Baker stories have a year of sale recorded against them in BBC records, such as those used by '''DWM'''.
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The ten Pertwee serials {{AAA}} to {{ZZZ}} and 11 Bakers {{4A}} to {{4L}} inclusive were sold by February 1977, if not actually all being screened by then. If BBC documents recording when payments were made for music clearances also reflect the year of broadcast and the order in which the stories aired, then those Pertwee and first 17 Baker serials aired in this order:
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'''1975''': {{AAA}}, {{KKK}}, {{PPP}}, {{QQQ}}, {{RRR}}, {{SSS}}, {{UUU}}, {{ZZZ}}, {{4A}}, {{4B}}, {{4C}}, {{4D}}; '''1976''': {{4E}}; '''1976''':{{4K}}; '''1977''': {{4L}}, {{4M}}, {{4N}}, {{4P}}, {{4Q}}, {{4R}}, {{4S}}; '''1978''': {{YYY}}, {{XXX}}, {{4F}}, {{4G}}, {{4H}}, {{4J}}.
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It is known that some of the BBC records are rife with anomalies and inconsistencies with regard to sales dates, so we will give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that '''some of''' these 27 serials did indeed screen out of sequence.
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Of note, there are potentially 25 too many airdates from 1977 to 1978 to support the number of available episodes. So, either some episodes were repeated, or several stories aired way out of order.
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Of note, the Pertwees and first run of Tom Baker serials aired on the Arabic-only language channel 10. From June 1978, the series switched to the all-English channel 33. This channel switch seems to have coincided with
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UUU, XXX YYY potentially at same time as [[Australia]].
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ZZZ '''before''' [[Australia]].
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It may even be that they acquired 4F to 4L first, as these were the "latest", then got 4A to 4E (so that they had all 11 by Feb 77). However they were contractually obligated to screen 4F to 4L first (and not necessarily in order; 4L was second to last), which they did till August 1977. They then aired 4A to 4E with the odd interruption by '''Family Affair''', from October 1977 to March 1978...
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Another possibility - they started screening season 14 on channel 10, but had to replace with '''Family Affair''' because it was taking too long to dub the episodes. With channel33 due to start up shortly, '''Doctor Who''' was dropped, pending its transfer to the English-language only channel, and replaced with '''Family Affair'''. For the last 10 weeks billed with '''Doctor Who''', these were possibly repeats (a 4-parter and 6-parters?).
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The first serials to air on channel 33 was 4M - which might have already screened in Arabic on channel 10.
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====Fate of the Tapes====
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PAL video tapes of [[The Three Doctors]], [[Planet of the Daleks]] (4-6 only), [[Death to the Daleks]] and [[Planet of the Spiders]] were returned to the BBC in 1991. The BBC had lost its own copy of [[Death to the Daleks]] part one, so that episode's return from Dubai, meant the BBC once again had a compete copy of the serial.  
  
  
 
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
 
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
  
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Baker says he's popular in Abu Dhabi in his autobiography!
 
  
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There is no record that Abu Dhabi screened '''Doctor Who''' again; however given that the countries of the Persian Gulf could receive tramsissions from each other's broadcasts, it is certain that viewers in Abu Dhabi viewed screenings of '''Doctor Who''' from [[Bahrain]], [[Dubai]], [[Kuwait]], [[Qatar]] and [[Saudi Arabia]].
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4A to 4L '''before''' [[Australia]].
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*'''Channel 10''':
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'''Doctor Who''' returned
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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*'''Channel 33''':
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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====Fate of the Tapes====
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Tapes of [[Pyramids of Mars]] were returned to the BBC in 1991.
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===[[Peter Davison stories|PETER DAVISON]]===
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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===[[Colin Baker stories|COLIN BAKER]]===
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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===[[Sylvester McCoy stories|SYLVESTER McCOY]]===
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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==TV listings==
 
==TV listings==
  
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'''1970s'''
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* [[Airdates in United Arab Emirates|AIRDATES for UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]]
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TV listings have been obtained from several newspapers, including ''New United Arab Emiratesn'', ''xxxxxx'' and ''xxxxx''.
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
  
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'''1980s'''
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
  
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None found.
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
  
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==Abu Dhabi in Doctor Who==
 
  
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There are no instances where Abu Dhabi is mentioned in the series.
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==United Arab Emirates in Doctor Who==
  
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Abu Dhabi has been mentioned directly or indirectly in:
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* Although it falls outside the coverage of '''BroaDWcast''', the 2009 David Tennant story, "Planet of the Dead", was filmed in Dubai.
  
  
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==References==
 
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<references />
 
  
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==Link==
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==Links==
 
*[[Main Page]]
 
*[[Main Page]]
 
*[[Broadcasts around the World]]
 
*[[Broadcasts around the World]]
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**[[Jon Pertwee stories]]
 
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**[[Tom Baker stories]]
 
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*[[Arabic]]
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**[[Peter Davison stories]]
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**[[Colin Baker stories]]
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**[[Sylvester McCoy stories]]
  
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[[Category:Middle East]]
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[[Category:Middle East| Middle East]]

Revision as of 02:24, 8 January 2011

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES is a state in the Persian Gulf, Middle East.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the two major cities in the Emirates (UAE) - and the country is only ever identified in BBC records under those names rather than as the UAE.


Profile

Country Number (xxx) 1974? SECOND WAVE
Region Middle East .
Television commenced 1969 .
Colour System 1974 PAL
Population 19xx xx mill
TV Sets 19xx xx mill
Language/s Arabic and English .


Television Stations / Channels

TV started on the XXXXXXX channel, based in Abu Dhabi.

In 1977, a secondary channel commenced - based in Dubai. This catered specifically for both Arabic and English broadcasts.

NEED TO GO THOUGH ALL WRTHs AND TABLE THE DIFFERNET STATIONS BETWEEN 1975 AND 1984.

NEED TO READ PAGES FROM THAT BOOK TO FIND OUT ABOUT CHANNELS AND LANGUAGES

AT A GUESS, I WOULD SAY THE FIRST BATCH OF PERTWEES (dubbed into Arabic) AIRED ON ABU DHABI CHANNEL (7?????). POSSIBLY JUST AAA TO ACCOUNT FOR SJW DATING - although it says 1977 (AND MAYBE CARRY-OVER ONTO 1987 LIST????)

THE NEXT RUN WAS ON DUBAI CHANNEL 10 - TO END OF 4L (NEED TO DETERMINE WHEN THIS STATION STARTED)


THE NEXT RUNS - 4M onwards - WERE ON DUBAI CHANNEL 33.


ادكتورهو (Al Doctor Who)

DOCTOR WHO IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

It appears that the Emirates was also the only country to screen Planet of the Daleks in colour.

The Emirates was one of the first countries to be sold the Tom Baker stories at the same time as the Netherlands, and certainly before Australia.

BBC Records

A BBC memo dated 10 December 1973 records Abu Dhabi as one of the countries to which episodes "dubbed into Arabic" had been sold.

In 1973, BBC Managing Director, Huw Weldlon, spoke of seeing "Dr Who dubbed into Arabic (see the Arabic and WRTH pages for more on this).

The Seventies records a sale of "(22)" stories to Dubai by 28 February 1977. This 1977 memo actually records Dubai twice for AAA, so the correct total is actually 21: AAA, KKK, RRR, PPP, QQQ, SSS, UUU, XXX, YYY, ZZZ, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E, 4F, 4G, 4H, 4J, 4K, and 4L.

In DWM', Dubai is identified under 25 story Archives: nine Pertwees: the same as above, but not XXX; and the same 11 Tom Bakers as above, plus: 4M, 4N, 4P, 4Q, and 4R.

In The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS, there are "(37)" sales noted for Dubai, plus "(1)" recorded for Abu Dhabi. It's not clear why there should be a separate listing for Abu Dhabi in 1987; it's possible this is a carry-over of a pre-1977 sale, or simply a "duplication" of the sales to Dubai.

The total of "(37)" would apply to the ten Pertwees, plus 27 Bakers - which takes the tally up to the middle of season 16. Or alternatively, it is the 11 Bakers plus an additional 16, which takes the tally up to the middle of season 18. This is supported by the fact that season 18 was indeed airing through to late 1986.

Stories bought and broadcast

JON PERTWEE

Ten stories, 48 episodes:

AAA Spearhead from Space 4
KKK Day of the Daleks 4
PPP Carnival of Monsters 4
RRR The Three Doctors 4
QQQ Frontier in Space 6
SSS Planet of the Daleks 6
UUU The Time Warrior 4
XXX Death to the Daleks 4
YYY The Monster of Peladon 6
ZZZ Planet of the Spiders 6

UAE therefore bought the standard package of Jon Pertwee stories, from GROUPs A to XXXXX.


The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks, with Arabic dubs.


Origin of the Tapes

Hew Weldon mentions viewing episodes of "Dr Who dubbed in to Arabic" in early 1973.

Since UAE only got AAA, KKK, RRR, PPP, QQQ, SSS from the Pertwees first three seasons on PAL video tape, and these were dubbed into Arabic in early 1973, that seems to suggest that the original PAL master tapes of the other Pertwee stories had already been wiped by then. WWW was also not supplied to UAE; again, the master tapes were not available at that time because they had been wiped in August 1974.


TOM BAKER

xx stories, xxx episodes

4A Robot 4
4B The Sontaran Experiment 2
4C The Ark in Space 4
4E Genesis of the Daleks 6
4D Revenge of the Cybermen 4
4F Terror of the Zygons 4
4H Planet of Evil 4
4G Pyramids of Mars 4
4J The Android Invasion 4
4K The Brain of Morbius 4
4L The Seeds of Doom 6

The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks, with Arabic dubs.


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
5A The Ribos Operation 4
5B The Pirate Planet 4
5C The Stones of Blood 4
5D The Androids of Tara 4
5E The Power of Kroll 4
5F The Armageddon Factor 6
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5J Destiny of the Daleks 4
5H City of Death 4
5G The Creature from the Pit 4
5K Nightmare of Eden 4
5L The Horns of Nimon 4
5N The Leisure Hive 4
5Q Meglos 4
5R Full Circle 4
5P State of Decay 4
5S Warriors' Gate 4
5T The Keeper of Traken 4
5V Logopolis 4


UAE therefore bought GROUPs A to XXXX of the Tom Baker stories.

The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.


PETER DAVISON

Fifteen stories, 90 half-hour episodes:

5Z Castrovalva 4
5W Four to Doomsday 4
5Y Kinda 4
5X The Visitation 4
6A Black Orchid 2
6B Earthshock 4
6C Time-Flight 4
6E Arc of Infinity 4
6D Snakedance 4
6F Mawdryn Undead 4
6G Terminus 4
6H Enlightenment 4
6J The King's Demons 2
6P Resurrection of the Daleks 4
6R The Caves of Androzani 4

UAE therefore bought all of GROUP A and B and only part of GROUP C of the Peter Davison stories.

The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.

COLIN BAKER

One story, 4 episodes: Six stories, equivalent of 26 half-hour episodes: One story, equivalent of 14 half-hour episodes:

6S The Twin Dilemma 4
6T Attack of the Cybermen 2/4
6V Vengeance on Varos 2/4
6W The Two Doctors 3/6
6X The Mark of the Rani 2/4
6Y Timelash 2/4
6Z Revelation of the Daleks 2/4
7A The Trial of a Time Lord 14

UAE therefore bought all of the Colin Baker stories.

The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.


SYLVESTER McCOY

Eight stories, 28 episodes, not screened in correct order:

7D Time and the Rani 4
7E Paradise Towers 4
7F Delta and the Bannermen 3
7G Dragonfire 3
7H Remembrance of the Daleks 4
7J The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 4
7K Silver Nemesis 3
7L The Happiness Patrol 3


UAE therefore bought GROUPs A and B the Sylvester McCoy stories.

The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.

There is no indication that the UAE bought season 26.


Transmission

JON PERTWEE

Some of the Pertwee and early Baker stories have a year of sale recorded against them in BBC records, such as those used by DWM.

The ten Pertwee serials AAA to ZZZ and 11 Bakers 4A to 4L inclusive were sold by February 1977, if not actually all being screened by then. If BBC documents recording when payments were made for music clearances also reflect the year of broadcast and the order in which the stories aired, then those Pertwee and first 17 Baker serials aired in this order:

1975: AAA, KKK, PPP, QQQ, RRR, SSS, UUU, ZZZ, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D; 1976: 4E; 1976:4K; 1977: 4L, 4M, 4N, 4P, 4Q, 4R, 4S; 1978: YYY, XXX, 4F, 4G, 4H, 4J.

It is known that some of the BBC records are rife with anomalies and inconsistencies with regard to sales dates, so we will give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that some of these 27 serials did indeed screen out of sequence.

Of note, there are potentially 25 too many airdates from 1977 to 1978 to support the number of available episodes. So, either some episodes were repeated, or several stories aired way out of order.

Of note, the Pertwees and first run of Tom Baker serials aired on the Arabic-only language channel 10. From June 1978, the series switched to the all-English channel 33. This channel switch seems to have coincided with


UUU, XXX YYY potentially at same time as Australia.

ZZZ before Australia.

It may even be that they acquired 4F to 4L first, as these were the "latest", then got 4A to 4E (so that they had all 11 by Feb 77). However they were contractually obligated to screen 4F to 4L first (and not necessarily in order; 4L was second to last), which they did till August 1977. They then aired 4A to 4E with the odd interruption by Family Affair, from October 1977 to March 1978...

Another possibility - they started screening season 14 on channel 10, but had to replace with Family Affair because it was taking too long to dub the episodes. With channel33 due to start up shortly, Doctor Who was dropped, pending its transfer to the English-language only channel, and replaced with Family Affair. For the last 10 weeks billed with Doctor Who, these were possibly repeats (a 4-parter and 6-parters?).

The first serials to air on channel 33 was 4M - which might have already screened in Arabic on channel 10.

Fate of the Tapes

PAL video tapes of The Three Doctors, Planet of the Daleks (4-6 only), Death to the Daleks and Planet of the Spiders were returned to the BBC in 1991. The BBC had lost its own copy of Death to the Daleks part one, so that episode's return from Dubai, meant the BBC once again had a compete copy of the serial.


TOM BAKER

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Fate of the Tapes

Tapes of Pyramids of Mars were returned to the BBC in 1991.


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TV listings

TV listings have been obtained from several newspapers, including New United Arab Emiratesn, xxxxxx and xxxxx.

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United Arab Emirates in Doctor Who

  • Although it falls outside the coverage of BroaDWcast, the 2009 David Tennant story, "Planet of the Dead", was filmed in Dubai.


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