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'''[[Wikipedia:Denmark|DENMARK]]''' is a small kingdom located in west Europe, to the north of France. It is not a member of the British Commonwealth.
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'''[[Wikipedia:Denmark|DENMARK]]''' is a constitutional monarchy located in north [[:Category:Europe|Europe]], and bordered to the south by [[Germany]].  
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==Profile==
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|'''Country Number (49?)'''||1979||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
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|-
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|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Europe|Europe]]||
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|-
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|'''Television commenced'''||2 October 1951||
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|-
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|'''Colour System'''||1969||[[:Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]]
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|-
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|'''[[WRTH|Population]]'''||1979||5,055,000
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|-
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|'''[[WRTH|TV Sets]]'''||1979|| 2,000,000
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|-
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|'''Language/s'''||Danish (Danske)||Subtitled
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|-
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|}
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==Television Stations / Channels==
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Denmark began its television service in October 1951.  
  
{{Place-name
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There is just one television station: '''[[wikipedia:DR (broadcaster)|Radio Denmark]]''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster, also known simply as '''DR'''. 
|First broadcast        = 1951
 
|First colour broadcast = 1969
 
|Colour                = [[wikipedia:PAL|PAL]]
 
|Doctors seen          = [[Tom Baker stories|T Baker]]
 
}}
 
  
==Population==
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Colour transmissions began in 1969 using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
  
When '''Doctor Who''' screened in Denmark in 1979-1980, the population was XXXX million, and licensed TV sets numbered XXXX (per [[WRTH]], 1979).
 
  
==TV & system==
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==Language/s==
  
Denmark began its television service in 1951.  
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The language of Denmark is Danish (Danske), however all foreign television programmes are broadcast with the original language soundtrack intact with Danish subtitles. For the Danish broadcasts of '''Doctor Who''', Jan Grodin is credited with the TV listings as being the translator.
  
There is just one television station: '''Radio Denmark''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster.
 
  
Colour transmissions began in 1969 using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
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=='''DOCTOR WHO IN DENMARK'''==
  
==Language/s==
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Denmark was about the '''49th''' country to screen '''Doctor Who'''; it was the '''third''' in [[:Category:Europe|Europe]] (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
  
The main language of Denmark is Danish, however all foreign television programmes are broadcast with the original language soundtrack with Danish subtitles.
 
  
=='''DOCTOR WHO IN DENMARK'''==
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==DALEK MOVIES==
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===[[Peter Cushing|PETER CUSHING]] Movies===
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[[File:DanishDaleks.JPG|riht|thumb|250px|Danish movie poster (Thanks to The Space Museum)]]
  
Denmark was the 52nd country to screen '''Doctor Who''' (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
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The second of the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies was released in Danish cinemas on '''10 May 1974'''. It was called '''"Dr Who's Hemmelige Våben"''', which translates as "Dr Who's Secret Weapon".  
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{{clear}}
  
 
==[[BBC Records]]==
 
==[[BBC Records]]==
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[[File:DWinDenmark.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Sale of Doctor Who to Denmark reported in Daily Express, 9 June 1979]]
  
'''The Eighties''' (The Eighties The Lost Chapters) records a sale of '''three''' stories (by XX February 1987).
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On '''26 March 1968''', the NZBC ([[New Zealand]]) sent the 16mm film prints of [[An Unearthly Child]], [[The Daleks]] and [[Inside the Spaceship]] to Denmark. These must have been as Audition Prints (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]). However Denmark TV did not take up the offer to purchase the series at that time. (As to what then happened to those prints is anyone's guess...)
  
In '''DWM''', Denmark is identified in '''one''' story Archive: {{4J}}.
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'''The Eighties''' - [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(3)"''' stories (by February 1987).
  
On XXX, the NZBC ([[New Zealand]]) sent the 16mm film prints of [[An Unearthly Child]], [[The Daleks]] and [[Inside the Spaceship]] to Denmark. These must have been as Audition Prints (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]). However Denmark TV did not take up the offer to purchase the series at that time.  
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In '''DWM''', Denmark is identified in just '''one''' story Archive: {{4J}}.
  
  
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
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[[File:Denm Super.jpg|thumb|right|250px|New Science Fiction series - Supermanden Dr Who]]
  
 
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
 
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
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Three stories, 12 episodes:
 
Three stories, 12 episodes:
  
{| {{small-table}}; border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
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{| {{small-table}}
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!!!English Title!!eps!!Danish Title!!Translation
|FF||[[The Highlanders]]||4
 
 
|-
 
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|GG||[[The Underwater Menace]]||4
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|4A||[[Robot]]||4||Robotten||Robot
 
|-
 
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|HH||[[The Moonbase]]||4
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|4J||[[The Android Invasion]]||4||De Fremmede||The Strangers / The Aliens
 
|-
 
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|JJ||[[The Macra Terror]]||4
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|4C||[[The Ark in Space]]||4||Rum-Arken||Space-Ark
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|KK||[[The Faceless Ones]]||6
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks. Subtitles in Danish were superimposed for transmission.
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The sale to Denmark was reported in the UK newspaper, ''Daily Express'', the day after the first episode had aired.
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==Transmission==
 
==Transmission==
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The three stories were aired in three separate runs.
 
The three stories were aired in three separate runs.
  
The first consisted of just [[Robot]] - translated as '''Robotten'''. The four episodes aired on Fridays, starting on 8 June 1979 at 6.55pm.  
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The first consisted of just [[Robot]] - translated as '''Robotten'''. The four episodes aired on Fridays (Fredag), starting on '''8 June 1979''' at 6.55pm.  
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The second story aired four months later, on '''16 October 1979''', this time screening four nights a week, Tuesday to Friday, also at 6.55pm. This was [[The Android Invasion]] - translated into '''De Fremmede''', which means '''"The Strangers"''' or '''"The Aliens"'''.
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After a three month gap, the third story, [[The Ark in Space]] - called '''Rum-Arken''' ("Space-Ark") - aired from '''1 January 1980''', screening daily, Tuesday to Friday, at 7.00pm.
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The second story aired four months later, on 16 October 1979, this time screening four nights a week, Tuesday to Friday, also at 6.55pm. This was [[The Android Invasion]] - translated into '''De Fremmende''', which means “The Strangers” or “The Aliens.”
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'''OTHER SCREENINGS'''
  
After a three month gap, the third story, [[The Ark in Space]] - called '''Rum-Arken''' (“Space-Ark”) - aired from 1 January 1980, screening daily Tuesday to Friday, at 7.00pm.  
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Denmark did not screen any further '''Doctor Who'''. But from '''24 March 1987''', the series was available on the UK satellite station [[Super Channel]], and in the 1990s on [[BBC Prime]]. From '''3 March 2008''', it was available on the Scandinavian satellite station [[TV4 Science Fiction]].  
  
There is no record that Denmark screened '''Doctor Who''' again.
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<!--And a run of [[Jon Pertwee stories]] is also known to have aired via cable in the late '''2000s'''. [Possibly Tv4???] -->
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==TV listings==
 
==TV listings==
TV listings have been obtained from the Danish newspaper ''Berlingske Tidende''.
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TV listings have been obtained from the Danish newspaper, ''Berlingske Tidende''.
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The first story is called '''Robot''' in the newspaper listings, but '''Robotten''' in other publications, such as the ones shown below.
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The listings give the name of the writer ("Manuskript") and director ("Instruktion"), and that of the translator ("Danske tekster"): Jan Grodin.
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In the synopses, the Tom Baker is the '''"Doktoren"''', "who moves freely in space and time".
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Curiously, the "Manuskript" for [[The Ark in Space|Rum-Arken]] is credited to '''John Lucarotti''', rather than Robert Holmes. (Holmes rewrote Lucarotti's original drafts.)
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|[[File:Denm Rob 1.JPG|thumb|200px|Robotten Part 1]]||[[File:Denm Rob 2.JPG|thumb|200px|Robotten Part 2]]||[[File:Denm Rob 3.JPG|thumb|200px|Robotten Part 3]]||[[File:Denm Rob 4.JPG|thumb|200px|Robotten Part 4]]
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|-
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|[[File:Denm TAI 1.JPG|thumb|200px|De Fremmende Part 1]]||[[File:Denm TAI 2.JPG|thumb|200px| De Fremmende Part 2]]||[[File:Denm TAI 3.JPG|thumb|200px| De Fremmende Part 3]]||[[File:Denm TAI 4.JPG|thumb|200px| De Fremmende Part 4]]
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|-
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|[[File:Denm Ark 1.JPG|thumb|200px|Rum-Arken Part 1]]||[[File:Denm Ark 2.JPG|thumb|200px|Rum-Arken Part 2]]||[[File:Denm Ark 3.JPG|thumb|200px|Rum-Arken Part 3]]||[[File:Denm Ark 4.JPG|thumb|200px|Rum-Arken Part 4]]
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|-
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|}
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==Publicity==
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Although the above article, and those below, feature photographs of Louise Jameson (Leela), Mary Tamm (Romana) and K9, none of their stories screened in Denmark. The Doctor is cited as being a '''superman''' on the run from the evil Time Lords.
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{| {{small-table}}
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|-
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|[[File:Denm Arts.JPG|thumb|left|250px]]||[[File:Denm Arts 2.JPG|left|thumb|250px]]
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* '''Clippings from ''Image Magazine''.''' The three on the left are from June 1979, during the screening of '''[[Robot|Robotten]]''', and the two on the right are from '''[[The Android Invasion|De Femmende]]''' in October 1979, and '''[[The Ark in Space|Rum-Arken]]''' in January 1980 respectively.
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** The captions translate as PÅ VEJ MOD JORDEN – ON TOWARDS EARTH, and KAPLØB MED TIDEN – RACE WITH TIME.
  
Articles that appeared in magazines previewed the news series (see right); although the photographs feature Mary Tamm as Romana and K9, none of their stories screened. In the article, the Doctor is compared to other superheroes such as Superman!
 
  
==Denmark in Doctor Who==
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{| {{small-table}}
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|[[File:Denm Rob art 2.JPG|TV thumb|right|150px|Doctor Who Danske TV|Robotten]]||[[File:Denm Rob art.JPG|Rummennesket|thumb|right|150px|Rummennesket ("Space Man") Dr Who]]||[[File:Denm New SF.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Ny serie >>Dr Who<<]]||
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* '''Articles from ''Berlingske Tidende'':''' the first and second for "Robotten", and the third is for "Rum-arken".
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==Web Pages==
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* [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who DANISH WIKIPEDIA]
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* [http://www.steenschapiro.dk/doctorwho.html DANISH FAN SITE] ''(and source of the above clippings)''
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''(Thanks to Steen and Henrik for clippings and other information.)''
  
There are no instances where Denmark is mentioned in the series.
 
  
Denmark has been mentioned directly or indirectly in:
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==Denmark in Doctor Who==
  
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* The Doctor claims to have given Danish writer, Hans Christian Anderson, the idea for ''The Emperor's New Clothes'' ([[The Romans]]). Barbara considers telling some of Anderson's stories in [[The Crusade]].
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* William Shakespeare is inspired to write of ''Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'' in [[The Chase]]. 
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* Gravitron moonbase crewman, Nils Jensen (played by Michael Wolf), is a Dane.
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* The Doctor apparently helped write the first draft of ''Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'' ([[City of Death]]).
  
==References==
 
<references />
 
  
==Link==
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==Links==
 
*[[Main Page]]
 
*[[Main Page]]
 
*[[Broadcasts around the World]]
 
*[[Broadcasts around the World]]
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*[[BBC Records]]
 
*[[BBC Records]]
 
*[[Doctors]]
 
*[[Doctors]]
**[[Tom Baker stories]]
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**[[Tom Baker stories]]
  
 
[[Category:Europe]]
 
[[Category:Europe]]

Revision as of 03:47, 22 January 2021

DENMARK is a constitutional monarchy located in north Europe, and bordered to the south by Germany.

Profile

Country Number (49?) 1979 SECOND WAVE
Region Europe
Television commenced 2 October 1951
Colour System 1969 PAL
Population 1979 5,055,000
TV Sets 1979 2,000,000
Language/s Danish (Danske) Subtitled

Television Stations / Channels

Denmark began its television service in October 1951.

There is just one television station: Radio Denmark, a government-owned commercial broadcaster, also known simply as DR.

Colour transmissions began in 1969 using the PAL colour broadcast system.


Language/s

The language of Denmark is Danish (Danske), however all foreign television programmes are broadcast with the original language soundtrack intact with Danish subtitles. For the Danish broadcasts of Doctor Who, Jan Grodin is credited with the TV listings as being the translator.


DOCTOR WHO IN DENMARK

Denmark was about the 49th country to screen Doctor Who; it was the third in Europe (see Selling Doctor Who).


DALEK MOVIES

PETER CUSHING Movies

Danish movie poster (Thanks to The Space Museum)

The second of the two Peter Cushing Dalek movies was released in Danish cinemas on 10 May 1974. It was called "Dr Who's Hemmelige Våben", which translates as "Dr Who's Secret Weapon".


BBC Records

Sale of Doctor Who to Denmark reported in Daily Express, 9 June 1979

On 26 March 1968, the NZBC (New Zealand) sent the 16mm film prints of An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and Inside the Spaceship to Denmark. These must have been as Audition Prints (see Selling Doctor Who). However Denmark TV did not take up the offer to purchase the series at that time. (As to what then happened to those prints is anyone's guess...)

The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS records a sale of "(3)" stories (by February 1987).

In DWM, Denmark is identified in just one story Archive: 4J.


Stories bought and broadcast

New Science Fiction series - Supermanden Dr Who

TOM BAKER

Three stories, 12 episodes:

English Title eps Danish Title Translation
4A Robot 4 Robotten Robot
4J The Android Invasion 4 De Fremmede The Strangers / The Aliens
4C The Ark in Space 4 Rum-Arken Space-Ark

The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks. Subtitles in Danish were superimposed for transmission.

The sale to Denmark was reported in the UK newspaper, Daily Express, the day after the first episode had aired.


Transmission

TOM BAKER

The three stories were aired in three separate runs.

The first consisted of just Robot - translated as Robotten. The four episodes aired on Fridays (Fredag), starting on 8 June 1979 at 6.55pm.

The second story aired four months later, on 16 October 1979, this time screening four nights a week, Tuesday to Friday, also at 6.55pm. This was The Android Invasion - translated into De Fremmede, which means "The Strangers" or "The Aliens".

After a three month gap, the third story, The Ark in Space - called Rum-Arken ("Space-Ark") - aired from 1 January 1980, screening daily, Tuesday to Friday, at 7.00pm.


OTHER SCREENINGS

Denmark did not screen any further Doctor Who. But from 24 March 1987, the series was available on the UK satellite station Super Channel, and in the 1990s on BBC Prime. From 3 March 2008, it was available on the Scandinavian satellite station TV4 Science Fiction.


TV listings

Airdates in Denmark
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

TV listings have been obtained from the Danish newspaper, Berlingske Tidende.

The first story is called Robot in the newspaper listings, but Robotten in other publications, such as the ones shown below.

The listings give the name of the writer ("Manuskript") and director ("Instruktion"), and that of the translator ("Danske tekster"): Jan Grodin.

In the synopses, the Tom Baker is the "Doktoren", "who moves freely in space and time".

Curiously, the "Manuskript" for Rum-Arken is credited to John Lucarotti, rather than Robert Holmes. (Holmes rewrote Lucarotti's original drafts.)


Robotten Part 1
Robotten Part 2
Robotten Part 3
Robotten Part 4
De Fremmende Part 1
De Fremmende Part 2
De Fremmende Part 3
De Fremmende Part 4
Rum-Arken Part 1
Rum-Arken Part 2
Rum-Arken Part 3
Rum-Arken Part 4


Publicity

Although the above article, and those below, feature photographs of Louise Jameson (Leela), Mary Tamm (Romana) and K9, none of their stories screened in Denmark. The Doctor is cited as being a superman on the run from the evil Time Lords.

Denm Arts.JPG
Denm Arts 2.JPG
  • Clippings from Image Magazine. The three on the left are from June 1979, during the screening of Robotten, and the two on the right are from De Femmende in October 1979, and Rum-Arken in January 1980 respectively.
    • The captions translate as PÅ VEJ MOD JORDEN – ON TOWARDS EARTH, and KAPLØB MED TIDEN – RACE WITH TIME.


Robotten
Rummennesket ("Space Man") Dr Who
Ny serie >>Dr Who<<
  • Articles from Berlingske Tidende: the first and second for "Robotten", and the third is for "Rum-arken".


Web Pages


(Thanks to Steen and Henrik for clippings and other information.)


Denmark in Doctor Who

  • The Doctor claims to have given Danish writer, Hans Christian Anderson, the idea for The Emperor's New Clothes (The Romans). Barbara considers telling some of Anderson's stories in The Crusade.
  • William Shakespeare is inspired to write of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in The Chase.
  • Gravitron moonbase crewman, Nils Jensen (played by Michael Wolf), is a Dane.
  • The Doctor apparently helped write the first draft of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (City of Death).


Links