Poland
POLAND is located in Eastern Europe.
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Population
When Doctor Who screened in Poland, the population was over 38 million (per WRTH, 1990).
TV & system
Poland began its television service in 1953. Colour transmissions began in 1971 using the SECAM colour broadcast system that was common throughput Europe. There is just one television station: Telewizja Polska. TVP1
Language/s
The official language of Poland is Polish.
DOKTOR WHO IN POLAND
Poland was the 68th – and it would seem last in terms of the dates covered by BroaDWcat - country to screen Doctor Who (see Selling Doctor Who).
In Polish, the series was called Doktor Who.
BBC Records
Poland is not mentioned in The Seventies, The Handbook or DWM.
Poland is however mentioned as having aired the series in the 2003 Panopticon Convention guide, under the 40 Fabulous Facts section: "Doctor Who has been shown in 66 countries around the world, from Abu Dhabi and Algeria, to Poland, Qatar, Taiwan and Zimbabwe". (The reference to 66 countries is out slightly – at best count, Polish was the 68th country.)
Stories bought and broadcast
TOM BAKER
The Polish version of WikiPedia: (POLISH DOCTOR WHO) says:
W Polsce widzowie mogli po raz pierwszy zobaczyć Doktora Who pod koniec lat 70. XX w., kiedy TVP1 pokazała dwa niekanoniczne filmy kinowe o jego przygodach (Doktor Who i Dalekowie oraz Inwazja Daleków). Na początku lat 90. XX w. jedna z prywatnych stacji telewizyjnych wyemitowała kilkanaście odcinków z Tomem Bakerem w roli czwartej inkarnacji tytułowej postaci. W 1997 r. TVP1 pokazała film telewizyny BBC Doctor Who z 1996 r.
This translates as:
In Poland, viewers could see the Doctor Who at the end of the 1970s when TVP1 showed two non-canonical motion pictures about his adventures (Dr Who and the Daleks, and Dalek Invasion). In the early 1990s a private television station aired a few episodes with Tom Baker as the fourth incarnation of the title character. In 1997, TVP1 showed the 1996 TV Movie version of the series.
It is not known what "private station" this is, as n private TV stations are recorded in the 1990 WRTH. It is not known which Tom Baker stories would have been screened, but since the BBC always seemed to offer new purchasers Baker's first season - starting with Robot – it's likely these stories were the ones seen.
Transmission
- In Poland, foreign programmes are usually always dubbed.
- The 1996 Paul McGann TV Movie screened by Filmnet by October 1997. The sale of this film was reported in issue 235 (October 196) of the DWAS newsletter Celestial Toyroom.
TV listings
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Novelisations
Three of the Target novels were published in Poland, issued by Publishing Empire in 1993-1994:
- Dzień Daleków (Day of the Daleks translates as Day Daleks)
- Wladcy Czasu (The Three Doctors translates as Rulers of Time)
- Zemsta Cyborgów (Revenge of the Cybermen translates as Revenge Cyborgs)
Poland in Doctor Who
- Actress Ingrid Pitt (The Time Monster, Warriors of the Deep) was born in Poland.
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