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<span style="font-size:200%;">'''''NOTE: THIS PAGE IS DUE TO BE FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED'''''</span>
 
 
 
 
 
There are potentially dozens of different paths the film prints of the [[William Hartnell]] and [[Patrick Troughton stories]] could have taken as they were bicycled from country to country over the years.
 
 
 
This table summarises a series of '''possible distribution paths''' taken by groups of consecutive stories, taking into account some of the available "film traffic" information – with a smattering of educated guesswork!
 
 
 
We have tried to keep each "chain" as simple as possible without resorting to the complicated exchange of different countries supplying different stories to different recipients; generally, the same grouping of consecutive stories would have been bicycled from the same provider to the same recipient, as opposed to stories being split up and sent to different recipients.
 
 
 
* The groups have been placed in roughly the order by which the first country in each group was first sold and/or aired the series.
 
* Within some of these "chains" there may have been an intermediary, such as a distribution agency or even the BBC itself, which received the films from Country A and was responsible for sending them on to Country B.
 
* If a country was in the distribution network of [[TIE Ltd|Television International Enterprises Ltd]], it is marked as such. (We have assumed that prints distributed by TIE were only ever bicycled to other countries within TIE's distribution circuit.)
 
* Final fates of the films in each chain are also noted but only when the actual '''definite''' fate is '''proven'''.
 
 
 
 
 
=='''SEASONS ONE -- TWO'''==
 
 
 
===Suppressed Field Telerecordings===
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
! scope="col" width="30%" |'''Countries in Bicycling Group'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" |'''Group of Stories'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" | '''Proven Final Fate'''
 
! scope="col" width="20%" | '''Notes'''
 
|-
 
|'''[[Australia]]'''
 
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{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}
 
 
 
{{M}}---{{N}}---{{P}}
 
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*Most of these episodes were junked
 
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|-
 
|'''[[Australia]] --- [[New Zealand]]'''||{{H}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
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* {{H}} and {{J}} were both destroyed in 1971
 
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*{{K}} did not screen in [[New Zealand]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Australia]]'''||{{Q}}---{{R}}---{{S}}
 
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*Most of these prints were returned to the BBC in 1975
 
 
 
*{{R}} episode one was junked, but salvaged in Australia
 
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|-
 
|'''[[New Zealand]] --- [[Denmark]]'''||{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}
 
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*Sent to [[Denmark]] in 1968
 
 
 
*Did not screen in [[Denmark]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Malta]] --- [[Cyprus]] --- [[Uganda]] --- [[Ghana]]'''||{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}
 
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*Uganda may have already received a set (from [[Zambia]]?), so sent them to [[Ghana]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Malta]] --- [[Cyprus]] --- [[Hong Kong]]'''||{{D}}---{{E}}
 
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||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Malta]] --- [[Cyprus]]'''||{{F}}---{{G}}---{{H}}
 
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*Some films destroyed during civil war
 
 
 
*Remaining films discovered in [[Cyprus]], and returned to the BBC in 1984
 
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*{{H}} did not screen in [[Cyprus]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Malta]]'''||{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}||||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Canada]]'''||{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}||||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Singapore]] --- [[Hong Kong]]'''
 
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{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}
 
 
 
{{F}}---{{G}}---{{H}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
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||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Singapore]] --- [[New Zealand]] --- [[Iran]]'''||{{D}}
 
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*Episodes one and two only sent to [[Iran]] in 1967
 
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*Did not screen in [[Iran]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Singapore]] --- [[New Zealand]]'''||{{M}}---{{N}}---{{P}}
 
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*{{P}} was junked in 1974. The film print of part one was salvaged, and returned to the BBC in 1999
 
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*{{N}} and {{P}} did not screen in [[New Zealand]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Singapore]]'''
 
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{{E}}
 
 
 
{{Q}}---{{R}}---{{S}}
 
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|-
 
|'''[[Aden]] --- [[Kenya]]'''
 
||
 
{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{H}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Trinidad & Tobago]] --- [[Jamaica]] --- [[Barbados]]'''||{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{H}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
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*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]
 
 
 
*Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of some of these serials?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Jamaica]] --- [[Barbados]]'''||{{M}}
 
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*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]
 
 
 
*Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of this serial?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Barbados]] --- [[Jamaica]]'''||{{N}}---{{P}}---{{Q}}---{{R}}---{{S}}
 
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*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]
 
 
 
*Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of these five stories?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Bermuda]]'''||{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}
 
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*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
 
 
*Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of these five stories?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Nigeria]] --- [[Rhodesia]] --- [[Zambia]] --- [[Uganda]]'''
 
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{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}
 
 
 
{{F}}---{{G}}----{{H}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
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|-
 
|'''[[Nigeria]] --- [[Rhodesia]] --- [[Zambia]] --- [[Uganda]] --- [[Ghana]]'''||{{D}}---{{E}}
 
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*[[Cyprus]] sent its copies of {{D}} and {{E}} to [[Uganda]] '''after''' those serials had already been aired there, so presumably [[Uganda]] sent the unwanted "extra" prints to [[Ghana]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Gibraltar]]'''
 
||
 
{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{H}}---
 
 
 
{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}---{{M}}---{{N}}---{{P}}---{{Q}}---{{R}}---{{S}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]
 
|-
 
|}
 
===Stored Field Telerecordings (Dubbed)===
 
*In late 1966 / early 1967 the first of the "non-English" sales were made, so prints of serials without an English soundtrack were required for those markets. The BBC therefore created fresh sets of telerecordings of twelve season one and two serials with no dialogue track using the superior "Stored Field" method
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
! scope="col" width="30%" |'''Countries in Bicycling Group'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" |'''Group of Stories'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" | '''Proven Final Fate'''
 
! scope="col" width="20%" | '''Notes'''
 
|-
 
|'''[[Tunisia]]'''
 
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{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{J}}
 
||
 
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*Prints from negatives dubbed into [[Arabic]] in [[Lebanon]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Morocco]]'''
 
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{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
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*Possibly returned to the BBC before 1976 (to account for the set of Arabic prints held by the BBC at that time)
 
 
 
*[[Arabic]] print of {{F}} part four (with [[Morocco]] TV label) junked, but was salvaged by collector
 
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*Prints from negatives dubbed into [[Arabic]] in [[Lebanon]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Saudi Arabia]] --- [[Jordan]]'''
 
||
 
{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Prints from negatives dubbed into [[Arabic]] in [[Lebanon]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Libya]] --- [[Algeria]]'''
 
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{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Prints from negatives dubbed into [[Arabic]] in [[Lebanon]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Venezuela]] --- [[Chile]]'''
 
||
 
{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}---{{N}}---{{Q}}---{{R}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Prints from negatives dubbed into [[Spanish]] in [[Mexico]]
 
 
 
*{{R}} didn't screen in [[Venezuela]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Mexico]] '''
 
||
 
{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}---{{N}}---{{Q}}---{{R}}
 
||
 
*The films were still held by the Televisa SA TV station in [[Mexico]] in 1984; presumably they are still there now!
 
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*Prints from negatives dubbed into [[Spanish]] in [[Mexico]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Iran]] '''
 
||
 
{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}---{{N}}---{{Q}}---{{R}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Dubbed into Farsi
 
 
 
*{{D}} had also been sent by [[New Zealand]] in 1967 as Audition copy
 
|-
 
|}
 
===Stored Field Telerecordings (English)===
 
*At the same time that the new "non-English" telerecordings were being made, the BBC took the opportunity to replace all of their old "Suppressed Field" telerecordings in English of the season one and two serials with newly struck "Stored Field" telerecordings. The following chains of countries would have been the likely recipients of those new superior prints
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
! scope="col" width="30%" |'''Countries in Bicycling Group'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" |'''Group of Stories'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" | '''Proven Final Fate'''
 
! scope="col" width="20%" | '''Notes'''
 
|-
 
|'''[[Thailand]]'''||{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{H}}---{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Although Music/Effects Tracks would have been sent to enable dubbing into Thai, prints with the English soundtrack intact would also have been sent to enable simulcast in both languages
 
|-
 
|'''[[Nigeria]] --- [[Zambia]]'''||{{M}}---{{N}}---{{P}}---{{R}}||||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Nigeria]] --- [[Zambia]] --- [[New Zealand]]'''||{{Q}}||
 
||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Nigeria]] --- [[Zambia]] --- [[New Zealand]] --- [[Nigeria]]'''||{{S}}
 
||
 
*[[New Zealand]] sent films to [[Nigeria]] in 1973
 
 
 
*Films discovered in [[Nigeria]], and returned to the BBC in 1984
 
||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Mauritius]] --- [[Sierra Leone]] --- [[Ethiopia]]'''||
 
{{A}}---{{B}}---{{C}}---{{D}}---{{E}}---{{F}}---{{G}}---{{H}}
 
 
 
{{J}}---{{K}}---{{L}}---{{M}}---{{N}}---{{P}}---{{Q}}---{{R}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]
 
 
 
*{{K}} did not screen in [[Sierra Leone]]
 
 
 
*{{R}} did not screen in [[Mauritius]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Mauritius]] --- [[Sierra Leone]]'''||{{S}}
 
||
 
||
 
*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]
 
|-
 
|'''[[Nigeria]]'''||{{N}}
 
||
 
||
 
|-
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
 
 
=='''SEASONS THREE -- FOUR -- FIVE -- SIX'''==
 
*All the serials from these four seasons were telerecorded using the superior "Stored Field" method
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
! scope="col" width="30%" |'''Countries in Bicycling Group'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" |'''Group of Stories'''
 
! scope="col" width="25%" | '''Proven Final Fate'''
 
! scope="col" width="20%" | '''Notes'''
 
|-
 
|'''[[Australia]]'''||{{T}}---{{T/A}}---{{U}}---{{V}}---{{W}}---{{X}}---{{Y}}---{{Z}}---{{AA}}---{{BB}}---
 
 
 
{{CC}}---{{DD}}---{{EE}}---{{FF}}---{{GG}}---{{HH}}---{{JJ}}---{{KK}}---{{LL}}---
 
 
 
{{MM}}---{{NN}}---{{OO}}---{{PP}}---{{QQ}}---{{RR}}---{{SS}}---
 
 
 
{{TT}}---{{UU}}---{{VV}}---{{WW}}---{{XX}}---{{YY}}---{{ZZ}}
 
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*Most of the films were returned to the BBC in 1975 or 1976; those that weren't returned were junked in 1976 (see note [2] below)
 
 
 
*{{Y}} episode four was retained in error by the ABC, and returned to the BBC in 1984
 
 
 
*{{BB}} episode two and {{KK}} episode one were salvaged after junking in Australia
 
 
 
*Episode three of {{T}} and episode two of {{GG}} were junked shortly after their return from Australia, but salvaged in early 1980s, and subsequently returned to the BBC in 2011
 
 
 
*{{TT}} was retained by the BBC
 
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*{{T/A}} and {{V}} did not screen
 
 
 
*{{XX}}, {{YY}} and {{ZZ}} may have been sent by the BBC to [[Zambia]] in 1976 (see note [3] below)
 
|-
 
|'''[[Barbados]]'''||{{T}}---{{U}}---{{W}}---{{X}}---{{Y}}---{{Z}}---{{AA}}---{{BB}}---{{CC}}||
 
||
 
*see note [1] below
 
 
 
*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Zambia]] --- [[Sierra Leone]]'''||{{T}}---{{U}}---{{W}}---{{X}}---{{Y}}---{{AA}}---{{BB}}---{{CC}}
 
||
 
||
 
*see note [1] below
 
 
 
*[[Sierra Leone]] distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Zambia]] --- [[Sierra Leone]] --- [[Singapore]]'''||{{Z}}
 
||
 
||
 
*see note [1] below
 
 
 
*[[Sierra Leone]] distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
 
 
*[[Singapore]]'s prints of {{Z}} ''may'' have been supplied directly from the BBC (perhaps being the prints ''not'' supplied to New Zealand?)
 
|-
 
|'''[[New Zealand]] --- [[Singapore]]'''||{{T}}---{{U}}---{{W}}---{{X}}---{{Y}}---{{AA}}---{{CC}}---{{DD}}---{{EE}}
 
||
 
*NZ sent to [[Singapore]] in 1972
 
||
 
|-
 
|'''[[New Zealand]] --- [[Singapore]] --- [[Nigeria]]'''||{{BB}}
 
||
 
*NZ sent to [[Singapore]] in 1972
 
 
 
*Singapore sent to [[Nigeria]] in 1973
 
 
 
*Discovered in [[Nigeria]], and returned to the BBC in 1984
 
||
 
|-
 
|'''[[New Zealand]]'''||{{FF}}---{{GG}}---{{HH}}---{{JJ}}---{{KK}}---{{LL}}
 
 
 
{{MM}}---{{NN}}---{{OO}}---{{PP}}---{{QQ}}---{{RR}}---{{SS}}
 
||
 
*{{KK}} returned to the BBC in 1970 (Is the existing print of part 1 from this return?)
 
 
 
*Others destroyed or junked by the end of 1974
 
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*{{KK}}, {{OO}} and {{RR}} did not screen
 
 
 
*BBC may have forwarded some or all of the NZ prints of {{KK}} to [[Zambia]] in 1970
 
|-
 
|'''[[Uganda]] --- [[Singapore]] --- [[Hong Kong]] --- [[Zambia]]'''||{{FF}}---{{GG}}---{{HH}}---{{JJ}}---{{KK}}
 
||
 
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*[[Zambia]]'s prints of {{KK}} may have been the ones returned to the BBC by [[New Zealand]]
 
 
 
*Did Zambia receive a damaged print of episode 3 from Hong Kong, and received a replacement via [[New Zealand]]? Is the damaged print of part 3 the one later recovered in 1987? Is the print of part one held by the BBC also from [[Zambia]]? Or is it the one returned from [[New Zealand]]?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Singapore]] --- [[Hong Kong]]'''||{{MM}}
 
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*{{MM}} discovered in [[Hong Kong]], and returned to the BBC in 1992
 
||
 
|-
 
|'''[[Hong Kong]] --- [[Singapore]]'''||{{LL}}---{{OO}}---{{RR}}
 
||
 
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*see note [2] below
 
 
 
*Were the films of {{OO}} and empty can for {{RR}} the ones found at the BBC in 1988?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Hong Kong]] --- [[Singapore]] --- [[Nigeria]]'''||{{NN}}---{{PP}}---{{QQ}}---{{SS}}
 
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*{{PP}} and {{QQ}} (but not ep 3) discovered in [[Nigeria]], and returned to the BBC in 2013
 
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*One of the film cans for {{QQ}} has markings on it which record that the film prints were examined by the RTS in [[Singapore]] on '''6 May 1970'''
 
|-
 
|'''[[Hong Kong]] --- [[Singapore]] --- [[Gibraltar]]'''||{{UU}}---{{VV}}
 
||
 
||
 
*[[Gibraltar]] distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
 
 
*see note [2] below
 
|-
 
|'''[[Hong Kong]] --- [[Singapore]] --- [[Gibraltar]] --- [[Nigeria]]'''||{{TT}}---{{WW}}
 
||
 
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* These two possibly sent from [[Gibraltar]] to BBC first, then sent to [[Nigeria]] years later
 
 
 
*[[Gibraltar]] distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
 
 
|-
 
|'''[[Hong Kong]] --- [[Singapore]] --- [[Gibraltar]] --- [[Zambia]]'''||{{XX}}---{{YY}}---{{ZZ}}
 
||
 
||
 
* These three possibly sent from [[Gibraltar]] to BBC first, then sent to [[Zambia]] years later (see note [3] below)
 
 
 
*[[Gibraltar]] distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Gibraltar]] --- [[Zambia]]'''||{{NN}}---{{OO}}---{{PP}}---{{QQ}}
 
||
 
||
 
*[[Gibraltar]] distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
|-
 
|'''[[Gibraltar]]'''||{{RR}}---{{SS}}
 
||
 
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*Distributed by [[TIE Ltd]]?
 
 
 
*see note [2] below
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
 
 
=='''General Summary'''==
 
 
 
 
 
'''WILLIAM HARTNELL STORIES'''
 
 
 
Keeping the bicycling routes as simple as possible, if we assume that country X generally '''always''' supplied country Y with its prints, then:
 
 
 
* Australia – always had its own prints, and returned all but a few to the BBC in 1975
 
*[[Zambia]] and [[Sierra Leone]] likely shared prints; of note, [[Nigeria]] acquired [[The War Machines]] from [[Singapore]] in 1973, which suggests perhaps the other African countries [[Zambia]] and [[Sierra Leone]] no longer still had their prints by then
 
*The New Zealand censors classified these episodes between May and July 1968, which was before or during the broadcasts in [[Barbados]] and [[Zambia]], so New Zealand's prints cannot have been sourced from either of those countries
 
*It's a matter of recorded fact that [[New Zealand]] sent its prints to [[Singapore]] in 1972; since New Zealand did not have [[The Gunfighters]], [[Singapore]]'s prints of that must have been supplied from elsewhere (from [[Sierra Leone]] perhaps?)
 
 
 
 
 
'''PATRICK TROUGHTON STORIES'''
 
 
 
Keeping the bicycling routes as simple as possible, if we assume that country X generally '''always''' supplied country Y with its prints, even after an interim period of several years, then:
 
 
 
* [[Australia]] – always had its own prints, and returned all but a few to the BBC in 1975
 
* [[New Zealand]] – always had its own prints, and destroyed most of them by 1974
 
* [[Hong Kong]] and [[Singapore]] always shared prints; the majority of these prints may have ended up in Africa
 
 
 
 
 
====Notes====
 
*[1] - There is a window of only three to four months between the airdates in [[Barbados]] and [[Zambia]], but [[Zambia]] could well have received its prints before [[Barbados]], but scheduled the serials to screen much later; therefore we have not factored in that [[Barbados]] may have sent its prints to [[Zambia]], although it could have done!
 
*[2] – It's possible that some of the stray Patrick Troughton episodes kept by the BBC and those recovered from UK film collectors were all from the same sources: [[Australia]], [[Singapore]] and [[Gibraltar]]
 
*[3] – It's possible that [[Australia]] and [[Gibraltar]] had returned all retained prints to the BBC by 1975; these three stories were then sent to [[Zambia]] in 1976 - what was despatched to ZTV may well have been a miss-matched batch of film prints from '''both''' countries, including some of the ex-ABC films with censor cuts
 
 
 
 
 
* For an alternative take on what happened to the prints, refer to [http://missingepisodes.blogspot.co.nz/p/howmanyprints.html THE DESTRUCTION OF TIME site]
 

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