RWels
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Post by RWels on Aug 9, 2014 22:19:14 GMT
The past days I was browsing a catalog of East German (I mean DDR) productions and I suddenly wondered: Did they (= Eastern Europe during the Warsaw Pact) never show Doctor Who? GF base is silent about it.
And yet the Iron Curtain did not necessarily stop TV shows from crossing, as I know a few examples of (non-UK) shows that did. Or, it might not even have been authorised (the Eastern Bloc did a lot of industrial copying for example).
Is the answer "No.", or "We don't know."?
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Post by lousingh on Aug 14, 2014 13:13:20 GMT
Far as I know, nothing ever made it over there *legally* - and with Vlad the Dictator in power, we may never know unless England wants to become a playground for Russian organised Crime Lords. On the other hand, 2000 kg of plutonium have been lost from the old CCCP, so you never know.
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Post by RWels on Aug 14, 2014 22:28:00 GMT
Far as I know, nothing ever made it over there *legally* - and with Vlad the Dictator in power, we may never know unless England wants to become a playground for Russian organised Crime Lords. On the other hand, 2000 kg of plutonium have been lost from the old CCCP, so you never know. OK, but apart from Soviet Russia (where time travels through YOU!), there were all the other states in the USSR. And apart from the USSR there was East-Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria. Also the non-aligned Yugoslavia and Albania. There's no particular reason why they should have aired DW, but I was just curious if none of them ever tried it. |
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Post by James Bellerby on Aug 15, 2014 10:39:11 GMT
I remember seeing an episode from Robot in Yugoslavia some time in the late 80's, so they must have shown some Who
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Post by anthonyforth on Aug 20, 2014 11:44:21 GMT
According to Jon Preddle's fab broadwcast.org site, the only screenings behind the Iron Curtain were of Revenge of the Cybermen, Robot and The Ark in Space (in that order) in Yugoslavia from 5 October to 9 November 1986 (two episodes shown back to on Sunday afternoons).
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Post by RWels on Aug 20, 2014 22:21:28 GMT
According to Jon Preddle's fab broadwcast.org site, the only screenings behind the Iron Curtain were of Revenge of the Cybermen, Robot and The Ark in Space (in that order) in Yugoslavia from 5 October to 9 November 1986 (two episodes shown back to on Sunday afternoons). The Warsaw Pact countries for the most part aren't even on that site. That says "no information" to me, rather than "we know they never had Who". I have no evidence to suggest it, but I'm not ruling out the possibility either. As it happens I know that East Germany got its own dub of a Dutch b/w show as late as 1977, so b/w wasn't such a problem, apparently. |
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Post by johnnyharley on Aug 21, 2014 7:23:27 GMT
Anyone who screens Revenge of The Cybermen and Ark in Space can't be all bad can they?
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Post by RWels on Aug 21, 2014 8:51:44 GMT
Anyone who screens Revenge of The Cybermen and Ark in Space can't be all bad can they? Perhaps the former inspired them for their own civil war...  |
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Post by johnnyharley on Aug 23, 2014 6:51:35 GMT
I see you have no love for The skulking Tin soldiers on an ancient spaceship, RWels!
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Post by anthonyforth on Aug 23, 2014 14:50:47 GMT
If a country isn't listed on broadwcast.org it's because Doctor Who didn't screen there. The list is believed to be complete now.
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