The Invasion
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| Story Code: VV / Season 6 | UK Airdate: 2 Nov to 21 Dec 1968 | 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.)
| Australia | Jul 70 | b/w |
| Hong Kong | Sep 70 | b/w |
| Singapore | Jan 71 | b/w |
| Gibraltar | Mar 72 | b/w |
- Hong Kong presumably sent its films to Singapore soon after transmission, as that was the fate of the RTV prints of The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear.
- The ABC in Australia returned its prints to the BBC on 4 June 1975.
- Only six prints were apparently held by the BBC in 1976: 1,2,3,4,7,8, with a different six prints held by late 1977: 2,3,5,6,7,8.
- Note: The list of what was held in 1976 might be incorrect, and the episodes held then were in fact the very same ones still held in 1977. But it is remotely possible that the BBC did actually possess episodes from two completely different sets, some of which were disposed of between 1976 and 1977, with the others newly-acquired around the same time... (In 1976, ep 3 was recorded as being "A+B", which indicates that the film was split into an A roll and a B roll -- a status not accorded to the existing print of part 3. Was the "A+B" print of part 3 disposed of in early 1977, with a different single roll print of part 3 turning up later that same year? Or is the 1977 print merely a combined print from the two 1976 "A+B" prints?)
- The "A+B" notation might not actually mean "A Roll / B Roll" at all, but could in fact be the initials of the two researchers - "Anne" (surname unknown) and Bridget Cave or Ben Shephard - who viewed the various film prints for the Lively Arts documentary Whose Doctor Who, and who complied the list of prints held in 1976 mentioned above.
- It's also possible that "A+B" means something else entirely!
- The prints of eps 5,6 and 7 currently held can't have come from Australia, as those three do not display the cuts made by the censors. The generally poor condition of eps 2 and 3 suggests they had been played multiple times which would be true in terms of the regional and repeat screenings by the ABC, whilst ep 7 was "dirty" and ep 8 was "excellent" (as described on the Restoration Team's website). That the condition of the prints was so variable does indeed suggest they came from multiple sources. (If the prints were all returns from overseas as opposed to unsold "on the shelf" copies (which the 1976 "A+B" ep 3 certainly would have been), eps 2 and 3 may have come from Australia, with the others hailing from Singapore and/or Gibraltar.)
- See also the Troughton Junkings page.
