The Reign of Terror
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| Story Code: H / Season 1 | UK Airdate: 8 Aug to 12 Sep 1964 | 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. 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 | Sep 65 | b/w |
| Singapore | Dec 65 | b/w |
| Gibraltar | Dec 65 | b/w |
| Malta | Jan 66 | b/w |
| Aden | Mar 66 | b/w |
| Nigeria | Apr 66 | b/w |
| Rhodesia / Zimbabwe | Jun 66 | b/w |
| Zambia | Jun 66 | b/w |
| Trinidad & Tobago | Jul 66 | b/w |
| Uganda | Sep 66 | b/w |
| Jamaica | Nov 66 | b/w |
| Cyprus | ------ | b/w |
| Barbados | Jan 67 | b/w |
| Hong Kong | Jan 67 | b/w |
| Kenya | Mar 67 | b/w |
| Mauritius | Jun 67 | b/w |
| Thailand | Jul 67 | b/w |
| New Zealand | Jan 68 | b/w |
| Sierra Leone | Jan 68 | b/w |
| Ethiopia | Jul 71 | b/w |
- The story was not dubbed for screening in any Spanish or Arabic language countries. And like Marco Polo, The Crusade and The Time Meddler, the negatives were not kept by the BBC.
- Cyprus TV received the serial along with the first seven William Hartnell serials as part of a package offer, but they did not purchase the screening rights, perhaps due to censorship. The unaired prints of parts one, two, three and six were subsequently found at CBC in late 1984. (Parts four and five had apparently been destroyed during the July 1974 revolution.)
- The CBC probably retained the Suppressed Field prints because the BBC had replaced the foreign sales copies with the superior Stored Field recordings in 1967, so the older format prints were no longer being bicycled, and with Cyprus being the last station to acquire the prints within this bicycling chain, they were never issued with instructions to move them on.
- In mid-1967, New Zealand was sent the prints that had been used by the ABC in Australia. (The Reign of Terror was the first story in a consignment of 17 episodes.)
- The New Zealand prints were destroyed on 18 June 1971.
- In 1982 a Stored Field copy of episode 6 and three years later a Stored Field print of part 3 were discovered to be held by a private collector in the UK. Both may have been unused spares that the BBC had junked, but if they were returns from overseas, the likely source/s would be Mauritius, Sierra Leone (which returned all its prints to the BBC in 1974), and/or Ethiopia, the last country to acquire Stored Field prints.
- A print of episode 1 was sold on eBay in March 2012; this appears to be an original copy (Suppressed Field) rather than a dub. Its origin is unknown, however the markings visible on the metal film can are consistent with those seen on other films had been held by the RTS in Singapore!
- See Hartnell Junkings
