Troughton Junkings

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This Table summarises the possible sequences of bicycling of the Patrick Troughton stories from country to country between 1967 and 1976.

We have tried to keep it as simple as possible, and without resorting to the complicated exchange of countries supplying different stories to different recipients; generally, the same grouping of stories would have been supplied by the same provider.

  • BOLD text in the Received from and Final Fate columns denotes our favoured preference if more than one option is offered


Story Country Received from Final Fate
The Power of the Daleks Australia
  • returned to BBC in 1975
New Zealand
Singapore
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
The Highlanders,

The Underwater Menace,

The Moonbase,

The Macra Terror,

The Faceless Ones

Australia
  • to BBC in 1975 / or junked
Uganda
  • Print 2 (from BBC London)
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Singapore
  • [1]
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked, or
  • [1]
Hong Kong
  • [1]
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked, or
  • [1]
New Zealand
  • [1]
  • returned to BBC London in 1970 (KK)
  • junked in 1974? (GG, HH)
Zambia
  • Print 6 or 5 (from BBC London), or
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
The Evil of the Daleks Australia
  • returned to BBC in 1975
Hong Kong
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Singapore
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
New Zealand
  • Destroyed
The Tomb of the Cybermen Australia
  • returned to BBC in 1975
Singapore
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Hong Kong
  • prints retained, and recovered in 1991
New Zealand
  • junked?
The Abominable Snowmen,

The Ice Warriors,

The Enemy of the World,

The Web of Fear

Australia
  • returned to BBC in 1975
Hong Kong
  • back to BBC, or
  • junked
Singapore
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
New Zealand
  • returned to BBC in 1974, or
  • junked in 1974
Gibraltar
  • Print 5 or 4 from BBC London, or
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Zambia
  • Print 6 or 5 from BBC London (NN, OO, PP only), or
  • = to Nigeria (NN, PP, QQ only) in 1974, or
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Nigeria (BPTV)
  • Print 7 or 6 or 5 from BBC London, or
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Fury from the Deep,

The Wheel in Space,

The Dominators,

The Mind Robber,

The Invasion,

The Krotons

Australia
  • returned to BBC in 1975 / or junked
Hong Kong
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Singapore
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
New Zealand
  • returned to BBC in 1974, or
  • junked in 1974
Gibraltar
  • Print 5 or 4 from BBC London, or
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Nigeria (BPTV)(NBC)
  • Print 6 or 5 or 4 from BBC London, or
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
The Seeds of Death,

The Space Pirates,

The War Games

Australia
  • returned to BBC in 1975
Hong Kong
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Singapore
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Gibraltar
  • Print 4 from BBC London, or
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked
Zambia
  • Print 5 or 4 from BBC London, or
  • = from BBC, being prints returned from the other countries
  • returned to BBC, or
  • junked

GENERAL SUMMARY

Keeping the bicycling routes as simple as possible, if we assume that country X always supplied country Y with its prints, even after an interim period of three years, then:

  • Australia – always had its own prints, and returned all but a few to the BBC in 1975
  • Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand probably always got their own sets of prints
  • Gibraltar may have got all its prints from the same source: Singapore, over a two year period
  • Zambia may have got all its prints from the same source: Hong Kong, with an interim period of three years
  • Nigeria may have got only the few complete stories that Hong Kong and New Zealand still had at the time (1974); in other words, Hong Kong sent the first consignment of ten stories to Zambia in 1973, then started disposing of the others. When Nigeria 'called' in 1974, Zambia sent what they could, and Hong Kong sent what they could. Then, in 1976, when Zambia wanted more, none of the other countries still had any prints, but the BBC had XX, YY and ZZ, which were the only three returned copies they still had (which could have come from Australia, Gibraltar, Singapore and/or Hong Kong...)


NOTES:

  • [1] Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand cannot have shared any of these prints between them if only for the fact that the censorship and/or airdates across all three countries either overlap or are far too close once one factors in the time required to transport in, prepare, screen, and transport out prints in time to meet the next country's schedule