The War Machines

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Story Code: BB / Season 3 UK Airdate: 25 Jun to 16 Jul 1966 Doctor: William Hartnell
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 Apr 67 b/w
Barbados May 68 b/w
Zambia Sep 68 b/w
New Zealand Jun 69 b/w
Sierra Leone Aug 70 b/w
Singapore Feb 72 b/w
Nigeria Apr 73? b/w
  • New Zealand sent its film prints of this serial to Singapore on 10 January 1972. The sale to Singapore was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening Jon Pertwee stories by this time.
  • After screening the serial in February 1972, Singapore sent the prints to Nigeria.
  • The Australian print of part two was later found in the possession of an Australian film collector.
  • The films were recovered from Nigeria in 1984. New Zealand and Nigeria had both made censor or timing edits to the prints.
  • The prints still held by Sierra Leone were reportedly lost when the film storage facility was destroyed in 1999 during the 1991-2001 civil war.


Reissue

  • The newly-recovered serial was quickly made available to:
United States from Sep 85 b/w
Canada 1990s b/w
  • Apparently the regeneration sequence from Hartnell to Troughton was grafted onto the end of part four.
  • For the later DVD release, the films were restored by combining elements from the New Zealand / Singapore / Nigeria prints with a print of part two and censor clippings recovered from Australia.


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