Spanish

EL DOCTOR MISTERIO

To Latin American audiences, Doctor Who is known as Doctor Misterio (Dr Mystery), and the character as El Dr Misterio (El is Spanish for "The", the definitive article.)

In certain Spanish newspapers, the programme was billed as Dr Who, El Dr Misterio or just Dr Misterio. (According to the 1983 Radio Times 20th Anniversary Special, some Latin American countries knew the series as Dr Insolito (Dr Strange), but to date we have found no evidence of the series having ever been called this.)

WILLIAM HARTNELL

Twelve of the first seventeen William Hartnell stories were dubbed into Spanish and sold to Latin American countries, comprising 56 episodes:

Title	Spanish	Translation
*An Unearthly Child
An Unearthly Child	Senorita Sistema Solar	Miss Solar System
The Cave of Skulls	La Caverna de las Calaveras	.
The Forest of Fear	La Selva del Terreno	The Forest of the Land
The Firemaker	El que Sabe Hacer Fuego	The One Who Makes Fire
*The Daleks
The Dead Planet	El Planeta Muerto	.
The Survivors	Los Sobrevivientes	.
The Escape	La Huida	.
The Ambush	La Emboscada	.
The Expedition	La Expedición	.
The Ordeal	El Ataque	The Attack
The Rescue	El Rescate	.
*Inside the Spaceship
The Edge of Destruction	La Edad de la Destrucción	The Age of Destruction
The Brink of Disaster	Al Borde del Desastre	At the Border of Disaster
*The Keys of Marinus
The Sea of Death	El Mar de la Muetre	.
The Velvet Web	La Trampa de Terciopelo	The Trap of Velvet
The Screaming Jungle	La Selva de los Gritos	The Forest of Shouts / Screams
The Snows of Terror	Las Nieves del Terror	.
Sentence of Death	Sentencia de Muerte	.
The Keys of Marinus	Los Microcircuitos de Marinus	The Microcircuits of Marinus
*The Aztecs
The Temple of Evil	El Templo del Mal	.
The Warriors of Death	Los Guerreros de la Muerte	.
The Bride of Sacrifice	La Novia del Sacrifício	.
The Day of Darkness	El Día de la Obscuridad	.
*The Sensorites
Strangers in Space	Extraños en el Espacio	.
The Unwilling Warriors	Guerreros Involuntarios	Involuntary Warriors
Hidden Danger	Peligro Oculto	.
A Race Against Death	Carrera Contra la Muerte	.
Kidnap	Secuestro	.
A Desperate Venture	Una Aventura Despesperada	.
*Planet of Giants
Planet of Giants	Un Planeta de Gigantes	.
Dangerous Journey	Jornada Peligrosa	.
Crisis	Crisis	.
*The Dalek Invasion of Earth
World's End	El Fin del Mundo	.
The Daleks	Los Daleks	.
Day of Reckoning	El Día del Juicio	The Day of Judgement
The End of Tomorrow	El Fin de la Mañana	.
The Waking Ally	El Vigilante Aliado	The Allied Vigilante
Flashpoint	Exterminación	Exterminating
*The Rescue
The Powerful Enemy	El Poderoso Enemigo	.
Desperate Measures	Desesperación	Desperation
*The Web Planet
The Web Planet	El Planeta Misterioso	The Mysterious Planet
The Zarbi	Los Zarbi	.
Escape to Danger	Escape del Peligro	.
The Crater of Needles	El Cráter de las Agujas	.
Invasion	Invasión	.
The Centre	El Centro	.
*The Space Museum
The Space Museum	El Museo del Espacio	.
The Dimensions of Time	Las Dimensiones del Espacio	The Dimensions of Space
The Search	La Busqueda	.
The Final Phase	La Fase Final	.
*The Chase
The Executioners	Los Verdugos	.
The Death of Time	La Muerte del Tiempo	.
Flight Through Eternity	Vuelo a Traves de la Eternidad	Flight Across Eternity
Journey into Terror	Viaje al Terror	.
The Death of Doctor Who	La Muerte del Doctor Misterio	.
The Planet of Decision	El Planeta de la Decision	.

For reasons not readily clear, five stories were not dubbed into Spanish: Marco Polo, The Reign of Terror, The Romans, The Crusade, and The Time Meddler. One possibility as to why these historical were not dubbed - but that The Aztecs was – is that the programme purchasers (or maybe the BBC themselves) considered stories set in 13th century China, revolutionary France, Nero's Rome, Palestine during the Third Crusade and 1066 Northumbria would hold little interest or historical significance to Spanish viewers. The sole historical that was dubbed into Spanish, The Aztecs was, of course, set in Mexico, and therefore had some relevance to Latin Americans.

Interestingly, at the end of the final episode of The Web Planet, the Spanish narrator gives the title of the next episode as "EL LION", although The Crusade was not dubbed into Spanish.

These stores were sold to the following countries:

• Venezuela
• Mexico
• Dominican Republic
• Chile

BBC Archive holdings

In late 1976 when the Lively Arts documentary Whose Doctor Who was being researched, the BBC held at least the following prints with Spanish soundtracks:

K	The Dalek Invasion of Earth	6
N	The Web Planet	1-6
Q	The Space Museum	4

By late 1978, only The Web Planet part 6 was still held.

A Spanish print of Inside the Spaceship part 1, and Planet of Giants part 3 are known to exist in private hands.

Extracts on DVD / Video

• The Spanish soundtrack for The Web Planet 6 appears as an alternative language option on the DVD release of that story. Interesting, in the original English, the voice of the Animus is female, but in the Spanish dub, it is male.

TOM BAKER

Within a year of Doctor Who taking off in the United States in 1978, the existing Time-Life videos of the first 23 Tom Baker stories (98 episodes, complete with Howard da Silva narrations, were dubbed into Spanish for the Latin American market covering Central and South America.

These 23 Tom Baker stories were given the following titles:

Title	Spanish
Robot	El Robot / Los Hombres de Metal
The Ark in Space	El Arca del Espacio
The Sontaran Experiment	El Experimento del Sontaran
Genesis of the Daleks	El Genesis de los Dalekios
Revenge of the Cybermen	La Venganza de los Hombres Metalicos / La Venganza del Hombre Cibernetico
Terror of the Zygons	El Terror de los Sigons
Planet of Evil	El Planeta del Mal
Pyramids of Mars	Les Piramides de Marte
The Android Invasion	La Invasion de los Androides
The Brain of Morbius	El Cerebro de Morbius / El Cerebro del Doctor Morbius
The Seeds of Doom	Las Semillas de la Ruina (The Seeds of Ruin/Decline) / Las Semillas del Mal (The Seeds of Evil)
The Masque of Mandragora	La Mascara de Mandragora
The Hand of Fear	La Mano del Miedo
The Deadly Assassin	El Gran Reto del Amo (The Great Challenge of the Master)
The Face of Evil	La Cara del Demonio (The Face of the Demon/Devil) / La Cara del Mal (The Face of Evil)
The Robots of Death	El Robot de la Muerte
The Talons of Weng-Chiang	Las Garras de Weng-Chiang
Horror of Fang Rock	Horror en Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy	El Enimigo Invisible
Image of the Fendahl	La Imagen de los Fendalines
The Sun Makers	Los Forjadores del Sol
Underworld	El Mundo Subterraneo / Bajo mundo
The Invasion of Time	La Invasion del Tiempo

Some of these titles had variants country by country, such as:

Of particular note, some of the listings used in Mexican newspapers, such as El Dia and El Mercurio, were illustrated with composite images that appear to have in part cut from Chris Achilleos's artwork from the covers of The Doctor Who Monster Book (Target Books, 1976) and The Second Doctor Who Monster Book (Target Books, 1977).

The following countries are known to have screened these Baker serials:

• Chile
• Mexico
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Venezuela
• Costa Rica
• Nicaragua
• Honduras

A number of Baker serials also aired in Spain in the late 1980s, but this time they were dubbed into Galician.

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