Jon Pertwee stories

JON PERTWEE

The Third Doctor (1970-1974)

Selling the third Doctor

• See the table in SELLING DOCTOR WHO for a list of the countries that screened the Third Doctor.

The Pertwee series was sold in six "Groups" of stories.

Click on the story title to go to the list of (known) countries where that serial was screened.

GROUP A

AAA	Spearhead from Space	4
BBB	Doctor Who and the Silurians	7
CCC	The Ambassadors of Death	7
DDD	Inferno	7

• Some countries that bought Group A did not get Spearhead from Space.
• Inferno did not sell to any Commonwealth countries in the 1970s, due to censorship issues.

GROUP B

EEE	Terror of the Autons	4
FFF	The Mind of Evil	6
GGG	The Claws of Axos	4
HHH	Colony in Space	6
JJJ	The Daemons	5

• The Mind of Evil and The Daemons did not sell to any Commonwealth countries in the 1970s, due to censorship issues.

GROUP C

KKK	Day of the Daleks	4
LLL	The Sea Devils	6
MMM	The Curse of Peladon	4
NNN	The Mutants	6
OOO	The Time Monster	6

• This group of stories often aired in production code order.

GROUP D

PPP	Carnival of Monsters	4
QQQ	Frontier in Space	6
RRR	The Three Doctors	4
SSS	Planet of the Daleks	5/6
TTT	The Green Death	6

• This group of stories often aired in production code order.
• The Green Death did not sell to any Commonwealth countries until 1978, due to censorship issues.

GROUP E

UUU	The Time Warrior	4
XXX	Death to the Daleks	4
YYY	The Monster of Peladon	6
ZZZ	Planet of the Spiders	6

GROUP F

WWW

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

5/6

• This story was not available for sale until after 1985; even then it was issued as a re-edited five-part story.

FORMATS

Prior to 1985, the Pertwee episodes were distributed in a number of different formats:

GROUP A

code	title	B/W	NTSC
AAA	Spearhead from Space	X
BBB	Doctor Who and the Silurians	X	X
CCC	The Ambassadors of Death	X	X
DDD	Inferno	X	X

Spearhead from Space was also available on 16mm colour film. It was made available in NTSC after 1985.

GROUP B

code	title	B/W	NTSC
EEE	Terror of the Autons	X	X
FFF	The Mind of Evil	X	X
GGG	The Claws of Axos	X	X
HHH	Colony in Space	X	X
JJJ	The Daemons	X	X

GROUP C

code	title	B/W	NTSC	PAL
KKK	Day of the Daleks	X	X	X
LLL	The Sea Devils	X	X
MMM	The Curse of Peladon	X	X
NNN	The Mutants	X	X
OOO	The Time Monster	X	X

GROUP D

code	title	B/W	NTSC	PAL
PPP	Carnival of Monsters	X	X	X
QQQ	Frontier in Space	X	X	X
RRR	The Three Doctors	X	X	X
SSS	Planet of the Daleks	X		X
TTT	The Green Death		X	X

Planet of the Daleks wasn't available in NTSC until after 1985.

GROUP E

code	title	B/W	NTSC	PAL
UUU	The Time Warrior	X	X	X
XXX	Death to the Daleks		X	X
YYY	The Monster of Peladon		X	X
ZZZ	Planet of the Spiders		X	X

This serial was available only after 1985:

GROUP F

code	title	NTSC	PAL
WWW	Invasion of the Dinosaurs	X	X

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