The War Machines
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| Story Code: BB / Season 3 | UK Airdate: 25 Jun to 16 Jul 1966 | 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. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)
| Australia | Apr 67 | b/w |
| Barbados | May 68 | b/w |
| Zambia | Sep 68 | b/w |
| New Zealand | Jun 69 | b/w |
| Sierra Leone | Aug 70 | b/w |
| Singapore | Feb 72 | b/w |
| Nigeria | Apr 73? | b/w |
- New Zealand sent its film prints of this serial to Singapore on 10 January 1972. The sale to Singapore was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening Jon Pertwee stories by this time.
- After screening the serial in February 1972, Singapore sent the prints to Nigeria.
- The Australian print of part two was later found in the possession of an Australian film collector, and a copy was returned to the BBC in the late 1970s. This in effect became the first of the missing episodes to be recovered from overseas...
- All four episodes were recovered from Nigeria in 1984, these being the one that had originated in New Zealand, and sent to Singapore. New Zealand and either Singapore or Nigeria had made censor or timing edits to all bar part one.
- The prints still held by Sierra Leone were reportedly lost when the film storage facility was destroyed in 1999 during the 1991-2001 civil war.
Reissue
- The newly-recovered serial was quickly made available to:
| United States | from Sep 85 | b/w |
| Canada | 1990s | b/w |
- Apparently the regeneration sequence from Hartnell to Troughton was grafted onto the end of part four.
- For the later DVD release, the films were restored by combining elements from the New Zealand / Singapore / Nigeria prints with a print of part two and censor clippings recovered from Australia.
