Wales
WALES is part of the United Kingdom.
Prior to 1964, Wales was a broadcast region of the BBC, and as such, it received transmissions by relay from London. But from April 1964 with the launch of BBC2, BBC Wales (aka BBC Cymru) was treated as a separate third channel, but which continued to carry almost all BBC1 programmes.
However, from time to time the BBC Wales altered its TV schedules to make way for alternative programming. As a result, Doctor Who was sometimes shifted to a different timeslot, delayed by a few days, or dropped entirely:
- 1967: The Abominable Snowmen 1-6 = all episodes aired in an earlier timeslot
- 1972: The Mutants 4 was shown in an earlier timeslot
- 1972: The Time Monster 1 was shown in an earlier timeslot
- 1973: Day of the Daleks omnibus repeat was shown three days later
- 1973: The Time Warrior 2 was shown two days later, on Monday
- 1974: The Time Warrior 3-4 and Invasion of the Dinosaurs 1 were shown three days later, on Tuesday
- 1974: Invasion of the Dinosaurs 2 to Planet of the Spiders 6 were all shown on Sundays
- 1975: The Ark in Space omnibus repeat was shown in a later timeslot
- 1977: The Deadly Assassin 4 repeat was shown on a different (unknown) date
- 1978: The Invisible Enemy repeat was not shown
- 1978: The Sun Makers 4 repeat was shown on a different date
- 1979: The Pirate Planet and The Androids of Tara repeats were not shown
- 1980: Destiny of the Daleks and City of Death repeats were not shown
- 1981: Full Circle and The Keeper of Traken repeats were not shown
- 1982: Castrovalva 1 to Time-Flight 4 = episodes shown by the network on Mondays were seen in a later timeslot, and those shown on Tuesdays were instead aired in Wales on Wednesdays
- 1982: The "Doctor Who and the Monsters" repeats were not shown
- 1983: Terminus 1 aired a day earlier than the rest of the network
Peter Cushing and the Daleks
S4C is a Welsh-language station, also broadcasting programmes in English (often but not always with subtitles). Much of the un-dubbed/un-subbed English-only content was the simultaneous or deferred transmission of programmes from the UK station Channel 4. When C4 aired the two Peter Cushing Dalek movies in widescreen several times between 1994 and 1999, they were seen on S4C on a deferred basis two weeks later.
Wales in Doctor Who
The following stories were either filmed and/or set in Wales:
- The Abominable Snowmen: filmed as a stand-in for the Himalayas
- The Green Death: filming for the fictional town of Llanfairfach, with Welsh characters such as Professor Cliff Jones, Hughes, Dai Evans, Dave, and Bert
- The Masque of Mandragora: filmed as a stand-in for Italy
- The Pirate Planet: filming for the valleys and mines of Zanak
- Warriors' Gate: Powis Castle in Welshpool for the mirror world
- The Five Doctors: filmed as the Eye of Orion and the Death Zone on Gallifrey
- Delta and the Bannermen: filming as the Shangri-La holiday camp, with Welsh characters such as Billy, Ray, Burton, and Goronwy
- The New Series is made there, of course!
Some of the Welsh-born actors / crew who have worked on the series are:
Actors
- Philip Madoc (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD, The Krotons, The War Games, The Brain of Morbius, The Power of Kroll)
- Hywel Bennett (Rynian in The Chase)
- Michael Elwyn (Algernon ffinch in The Highlanders) was from Pontypridd
- Windsor Davies (Toby in The Evil of the Daleks)
- Raymond Llewelleyn (Sapan in The Abominable Snowmen) was born in Gwent
- Charles Morgan (Songsten in The Abominable Snowmen and Gold Usher (The Invasion of Time)
- Derek Pollitt (Driver Evans in The Web of Fear / Shada)
- Clyde Pollitt (brother of Derek above, was a Time Lord in The War Games and The Three Doctors)
- Talfyn Thomas (Welsh hospital porter Mullins in Spearhead from Space / Welsh miner Dave in The Green Death)
- Cynthia Grenville (Maren in The Brain of Morbius) was from Glamorgan
- Mostyn Evans (miner Dai Evans in The Green Death / Exxilon High Priest in Death to the Daleks)
- Gareth Armstrong (Giuliano in The Masque of Mandragora)
- Glyn Houston (Watson in The Hand of Fear / Wolsey in The Awakening)
- Davyd Harries (Shapp in The Armageddon Factor)
- Emrys James (Aukon in State of Decay)
- Clinton Greyn (Ivo in State of Decay / Stike in The Two Doctors)
- Nerys Hughes (Todd in Kinda)
- Owen Teale (Maldak in Vengeance on Varos)
- Richard Davies (Burton in Delta and the Bannermen)
Crew
- Terry Nation (creator of the Daleks)
- Paul Erickson (writer of The Ark)
- Innes Lloyd (series producer 1966-68) was born (full name George Innes Llewelyn Lloyd) in Penmaenmawr
- Hugh David (director of The Highlanders, Fury from the Deep)
- Elwyn Jones (credited co-writer on The Highlanders)
- Pennant Roberts (director of The Face of Evil, The Sun Makers, The Pirate Planet, Shada, Warriors of the Deep, Timelash)
- Producer / writer of the New Series, Russell T Davies was born (as Stephen Russell Davies) in Swansea
Other contributors
- Target book cover artist Jeff Cummins was born in Wales
Other references:
- The Inspector at the Liverpool police station asks the Doctor if he is Welsh (The Daleks' Master Plan)
- Trask uses the phrase "bold as a Welsh pirate" in The Highlanders
- Euro Sea Gas supplied gas to the whole of Wales (Fury from the Deep)
- The metal from the guerilla's weapon was mined from North Wales (Day of the Daleks)
- Vivien Fay mentions the stone circle called the Gorsedd of Bryn Gwyddon in Wales. Emilia Rumford can read Old Welsh; she also mentions Cardiff (The Stones of Blood)
