The War Machines

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.
• An 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 later recovered from Nigeria in 1984, these being the ones 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.
• See also Hartnell Junkings

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.

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