Chile

CHILE is located on the west of the South America.

Population

When Doctor Who screened in Chile in 1969, the population was around 8.5 million, and licensed TV sets numbered only 50,000 (per WRTH, 1966).

In 1979, it was XXXXXXXXX

TV & system

Chile began its television service in 1957.

The country had several broadcasters. Doctor Who aired on channel 13 of Universidad Carolica, a government ?????

Colour transmissions began in 1972 using the NTSC colour broadcast system.

Language/s

The main language of Chile is Spanish.

DOCTOR WHO IN CHILE

Chile was the 30th country to screen Doctor Who, and second in South America, and the fourth and last to broadcast in Spanish (see Selling Doctor Who).

BBC Records

Chile is not listed in The Seventies, or The Handbook. identifies these as being: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S.

The Eighties the Lost Chapters records a sale of 23 stories (by 10 February 1987).

In DWM, Chile is identified in 28 story Archives: K, L, N, Q and R for Hartnell, and all 23 stories from 4A to 4Z for Tom Baker.

Venezuela, Mexico and Dominican Republic were the three previous Spanish language countries to screen the Hartnell episodes in the late 1960s, so Chile may have received its prints from one of those three.

Mexico was five days ahead of Chile in screening the Tom Baker package of 98 episodes.

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Stories bought and broadcast

WILLIAM HARTNELL

Twelve stories, 56 episodes:

A	An Unearthly Child	4
B	The Daleks	7
C	Inside the Spaceship	2
E	The Keys of Marinus	6
F	The Aztecs	4
G	The Sensorites	6
J	Planet of Giants	3
K	The Dalek Invasion of Earth	6
L	The Rescue	2
N	The Web Planet	6
Q	The Space Museum	4
R	The Chase	6

Chile therefore bought the standard package of GROUP A, B, C and D of the William Hartnell stories dubbed into Spanish.

The programme was supplied as 16mm black and white film prints with Spanish soundtracks.

TOM BAKER

23 stories, 98 episodes, although the stories did not air in the correct order.

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

Chile therefore bought the standard package of Tom Baker stories that was packaged for the North, Central and South American markets by Time-Life.

The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with Spanish soundtracks.

Curiously, some of the Chilean episode titles differ from those used in Mexico - see the Spanish page for a list of the different Spanish translations.

Transmission

WILLIAM HARTNELL

The series started on Sunday, 5 January 1969, at 5.30pm on channel 13. From 27 April, 6.00pm became the new regular slot, until 19 October when the start time switched to the earlier time of 1.35pm. There were no episodes on four of the weeks during the run, which ended on 15 March 1970. There were 59 listed episodes, which suggests that three episodes were pre-empted.

TOM BAKER

The run of 24 colour episodes commenced on Wednesday, 9 May 1979 (five days after the series debuted in Mexico), airing on channel 13 episodically, weekdays at 5.45pm, without interruption. Six stories aired, of which only five can be identified:

• unknown 4 parter
• El Planeta del Mal
• La Venganza de los Hombres Metalicos
• Robot
• El Experimento de Sontaran
• Las Semillas de la Ruina

Six months later, on Sunday, 6 January 1980, at 3.00pm, the series returned, now playing in the omnibus "movie" format rather than episodic, as had been with the previous run. Again, the stories did not air in the correct story order. There were 27 weeks uninterrupted. With there being only 23 stories, but 27 "episodes', it appears that the six stories from the first run were repeated, and that the four six-parters screened in two halves (the timeslot was 3.00pm to 4.30pm for all 27 segments).

TV listings

TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper El Mercurio, from Santiago.

Listings were for El Dr Misterio', Doctor Misterio or just Dr Misterio.

The 5 January 1969 episode was called a "nueva serie ciencia ficcion" ("a new science fiction series"). Only three episodes of the entire run were identified by name, and the used the same titles that were used in Mexico.

A printing error gave the full title of part two of The Daleks as "La Selva del Terror: Los Sobrevivientes", the first four words of which were actually the title of part three of An Unearthly Child!

A preview feature in the 9 May 1979 issue - "!Cuidado, Monstruos, Viene el Doctor Misterio!"(Lookout! Monsters from Dr Who!") - was illustrated with a photo of the Antiman from Planet of Evil. The article makes no mention of the fact that Dr Misterio had previously screened on channel 13 in the 1960s.

The first three episodes are not titled, but the next five (!) are labelled "El Planeta del Mal"' (Planet of Evil); presumably the first story was actually a different four parter.

The next five are identified as "La Venganza de los Hombres Metalicos" (Revenge of the Cybermen), the first of which was most likely part four of Planet of Evil. A further error crops up on the 4 June episode, which should have been part one of The Seeds of Doom rather than The Sontaran Experiment.

For the omnibus editions starting from January 1980, the first was previewed with a statement that the series starred Tom Baker and Liz Shaw (!), and that the stories were based on the books written by Terrance Dicks!

Only thirteen of the adventures are identified by a title. Although The Brain of Morbius is listed for 16 March, this must have been the second half of The Talons of Weng-Chiang; The Brain of Morbius gets its airing on 22 June instead. There are two listings for The Ark in Space, so presumably one of these was actually a different episode.

The story we know as Underworld is called "Bajo mundo", whereas in Mexico it was "Los Forjadores del Sol". Revenge of the Cybermen is "La Venganza del los Hombres Metalicos", but in Mexico it was "La Venganza del Hombre Cibernetico" (which is in the singular). "La Cara del Mal" (The Face of Evil) was "La Cara del Demonio" in Mexico.

There are a few typographical errors in the listings: "Las Garras de Yeng-Chiang" is more likely to be the same as the Mexican title "Las Garras de Weng-Chiang", "los Alesios" is probably a miss-spelling of "los Dalekios". "Los Summakers" seems to be a misprint of the English title.

Fate of the Prints

Chile was the last country to air Doctor Who in Spanish in the 1960s.

Chile in Doctor Who

There are no instances where Chile is mentioned in the series.

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