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This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to [[Selling Doctor Who]] for expanded airdates.)
 
This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to [[Selling Doctor Who]] for expanded airdates.)
 
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[[File:Winnipeg Yeti article.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Article about filming The Abominable Snowmen; this is from Canada, a country in which the story did not air!; Winnipeg Free Press, 25 September 1967]]
 
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|[[New Zealand]]||Sep 70||b/w
 
|[[New Zealand]]||Sep 70||b/w
 
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|[[Gibraltar]]||Apr 73||b/w
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|[[Gibraltar]]||Mar 73||b/w
 
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|[[Zambia]]||Jul 73||b/w
 
|[[Zambia]]||Jul 73||b/w
 
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|[[Nigeria]]||Oct 74?||b/w
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|[[Nigeria]]||74 and 75?||b/w
 
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*The [[Hong Kong]] prints were presumably sent to [[Singapore]] soon after transmission.
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*[[Singapore]] presumably sent the films to [[Nigeria]], since that was also the final destination of RTV's prints of [[The Enemy of the World]] and [[The Web of Fear]].
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* The sale to [[Gibraltar]] was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening [[Jon Pertwee stories]] by this time.
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* The [[New Zealand]] prints were likely disposed of by the end of 1974.  (The NZBC's rights to screen the story had expired on '''31 August 1973'''.)
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* The ABC in [[Australia]] returned its prints to the BBC on [http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=who&action=display&thread=7782&page=14#198 4 June 1975].
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* The print of episode two that was subsequently recovered in 1982 may have been the print returned from [[Australia]] in 1975, or a print returned from [[Gibraltar]] or [[Zambia]], and which had been salvaged by a film collector after being junked by the BBC.
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* See also the [[Troughton Junkings]] page.
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==Reconstruction==
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*The story was animated in full (in colour/widescreen, and b/w 4:3 ratio) and released on DVD/Blu-ray in '''September 2022'''. 
  
* Did New Zealand sent its prints to [[Zambia]] or [[Nigeria]]? The sale to [[Zambia]] was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening [[Jon Pertwee stories]] by this time.
 
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==

Latest revision as of 08:09, 4 November 2022

Story Code: NN / Season 5 UK Airdate: 30 Sep to 4 Nov 1967 Doctor: Patrick Troughton
First airings by location UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Article about filming The Abominable Snowmen; this is from Canada, a country in which the story did not air!; Winnipeg Free Press, 25 September 1967
Australia Aug 68 b/w
Hong Kong Oct 69 b/w
Singapore Mar 70 b/w
New Zealand Sep 70 b/w
Gibraltar Mar 73 b/w
Zambia Jul 73 b/w
Nigeria 74 and 75? b/w


Reconstruction

  • The story was animated in full (in colour/widescreen, and b/w 4:3 ratio) and released on DVD/Blu-ray in September 2022.


Links