Kuwait
KUWAIT is a country at the north of the Persian Gulf, in the Middle East.
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Population
When Doctor Who screened in Kuwait in the late 1970s, the population was 830,000, and licensed TV sets numbered 130,000 (per WRTH, 1974).
TV & system
Kuwait began its television service in XXXX.
Colour transmissions began in XXXX using the PAL colour broadcast system.
There is just one television station: Television of Kuwait, a government-owned commercial broadcaster.
Language/s
The main languages of Kuwait are Arabic and English.
DOCTOR WHO IN KUWAIT
Kuwait was the 44th purchaser of Doctor Who; it was the tenth in the Middle East (see Selling Doctor Who).
BBC Records
Kuwait is not named in The Seventies, The Handbook or DWM. The only indication that the series may have aired there was the markings on the PAL video tapes that had been returned to the BBC form Dubai in 1991 – labels attached to the tapes themselves identified a Kuwait TV broadcaster. (Of course, this might merely be a transportation sticker, rather than ones of broadcast...)
Stories bought and broadcast
Unknown
The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
Origin of the tapes?
Kuwait, like the other Persian Gulf states – Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia - all seemed to get PAL tapes of Doctor Who (Pertwees and Bakers) around the same time.
Transmission
No details.
TV listings
1970s
1980s
None found.
Kuwait in Doctor Who
There are no instances where Kuwait is mentioned in the series.
Kuwait has been mentioned directly or indirectly in:
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