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Post by andrewfrostick on Sept 19, 2018 5:34:29 GMT
In the latest DWM Special Edition, Marcus Hearn says; ‘A selection of First Doctor episodes were dubbed into Spanish by a Mexican Studio, making their debut in Venezuela in 1967, Mexico in 1968 and Chile in 1969’. I can’t find any mention in ‘Wiped!’ of these sales, does anyone know any more details?
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Post by Charles Daniels on Sept 19, 2018 7:44:52 GMT
In the latest DWM Special Edition, Marcus Hearn says; ‘A selection of First Doctor episodes were dubbed into Spanish by a Mexican Studio, making their debut in Venezuela in 1967, Mexico in 1968 and Chile in 1969’. I can’t find any mention in ‘Wiped!’ of these sales, does anyone know any more details? They didn't buy any missing stories. They aired An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, Inside the Spaceship, The Keys of Marinus, The Aztecs, The Sensorites, Planet of Giants, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Rescue, The Web Planet and The Space Museum. It is my understanding that the prints still exist and are safely archived in Mexico. When I've inquired about this before there's been defeaning disinterest in approaching the relevant archives, even though I assume it's possible that they have superior prints of some episode of The Daleks than what we have? Sorry if any of this is grossly incorrect. It's been a long time and I'm rusty. Edit: I've just realised that the BBC held some Spanish prints by the late 70s, didn't they? Memory kicking in better after a strong coffee. In that case I imagine Mexico bought a set of prints and kept those forever. Venezula therefore must have sent it's prints to other Spanish speaking countries - bicycled those around -- before I imagine those prints were eventually returned to the BBC from another Spanish speaking country. OR maybe there were a lot of Spanish dubs kicking about?
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Post by Jon Preddle on Sept 19, 2018 9:44:01 GMT
In the latest DWM Special Edition, Marcus Hearn says; ‘A selection of First Doctor episodes were dubbed into Spanish by a Mexican Studio, making their debut in Venezuela in 1967, Mexico in 1968 and Chile in 1969’. I can’t find any mention in ‘Wiped!’ of these sales, does anyone know any more details? BroaDWcast covers all that here
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Post by Richard Bignell on Sept 19, 2018 9:51:40 GMT
In the latest DWM Special Edition, Marcus Hearn says; ‘A selection of First Doctor episodes were dubbed into Spanish by a Mexican Studio, making their debut in Venezuela in 1967, Mexico in 1968 and Chile in 1969’. I can’t find any mention in ‘Wiped!’ of these sales, does anyone know any more details? It's covered in Wiped! in Chapter 5 under 'Foreign Language Versions'.
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Post by andrewfrostick on Sept 19, 2018 15:25:01 GMT
Thanks for the info and for spotting the Wiped! Section I had missed. Adios amigos!
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Post by Robert Lia on Sept 19, 2018 20:32:34 GMT
And for those who are wondering those Spanish language episodes would have been viewable by people in the United States (if you spoke Spanish) on XEWT- TV 12 Tijuana BC Mexico whose signal covered the San Diego, California broadcast market and could occasionally be received in Los Angeles as well. I could pick up the station from time to time on my old black and white set connected to a roof top antenna in the middle70's to the mid 1980's.
I can confirm this as the TV Guide in Los Angeles also listed KCOY- TV 12 from Santa Maria, California as airing Space 1999 I tuned into watch but instead got the signal from south of the border.
Broadwcast has all the details for those who are intersted
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Post by Charles Daniels on Sept 20, 2018 9:12:36 GMT
Is there any hope that the prints held in Mexico are stored field recordings?
This would mean we could get better quality copies of The Daleks 5 and 7, and of Edge of Destruction 2.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Sept 20, 2018 19:52:02 GMT
They would have been Stored prints, but I suspect they were no longer being stored! When Paul Vanezis wrote to the Mexican TV station in the mid-1980s they replied with a list of episodes they once had. I think this has somehow become misread as being a list of films they still had.
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Post by George D on Sept 23, 2018 11:50:41 GMT
If they were showing them up to the mid 80s then they likely had them at the time of letter.
Shame more was not done to preserve them.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Sept 23, 2018 19:25:19 GMT
If they were showing them up to the mid 80s then they likely had them at the time of letter. Shame more was not done to preserve them. The Hartnells were last shown in 72/73. (No newspaper listings found to confirm exact dates.) The Mexico station screened Tom Bakers from 1979 to 1981. Chances are they'd have disposed of the Hartnell films by then.
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