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==The Philippines in Doctor Who==
 
==The Philippines in Doctor Who==

Revision as of 02:03, 14 January 2011

PHILIPPINES is a group of islands in Asia, to the east of China / Japan, wherever... .

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Population

When Doctor Who screened in the Philippines in 1976, the population was 39.4 million, and licensed TV sets numbered only 450,000 (per WRTH, 1974).

ALSO LOOK AT 1979

TV & system

The Philippines began its television service in 1953.

There are many TV stations

Doctor Who screened on channels 2 and 4, which were part of the Radio Control Office network.

Colour transmissions began in 1966 using the NTSC colour broadcast system.

Language/s

The main language of the Philippines is English, plus local XXXXX.

DOCTOR WHO IN THE PHILIPPINES

The Philippines was the 39th country to screen Doctor Who, and the 6th in Asia (see Selling Doctor Who).

BBC Records

The Seventies records a sale of "(2)" stories by 28 February 1977. The Handbook identifies these as being LLL and NNN.

The Eighties (The Eighties - htttp;//xxxxxxxxxxx The Lost Chapters http:// xxxxxxx) records a sale of "(13)" stories (by 10 February 1987). There is an overlap of these same two stories.

In DWM, the Philippines is identified in 6 story Archives: DDD, EEE, KKK, MMM, LLL, NNN.

Stories bought and broadcast

JON PERTWEE

13 stories, 72 episodes:

BBB Doctor Who and the Silurians 7
CCC The Ambassadors of Death 7
DDD Inferno 7
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
KKK Day of the Daleks 4
MMM The Curse of Peladon 4
LLL The Sea Devils 6
NNN The Mutants 6
OOO The Time Monster 6


The Philippines therefore bought GROUPs A to C of the standard package of Jon Pertwee stories sold in the NTSC format.

The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.

Origin of the Prints?

Since the Philippines is in Asia, they may have been served by BBC Sydney. But since the islands are a protectorate of the United States, and broadcast in NTSC, it's more likely they were supplied by Time-Life.


Transmission

JON PERTWEE

The series started on XXXXX GGGGGGGGGG


There is no record that the Philippines screened Doctor Who again.

TV listings

TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper XXXXXX.

Listings initially gave the series name as Dr Who, CCCCCCCCCC

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

The Philippines in Doctor Who


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