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Post by Vaughan Stanger on Nov 21, 2019 13:52:06 GMT
We’re only a few weeks from MBW. If there is anything I’d expect it then. Indeed. There is an intriguingly-sized discrepancy between the runtime for Session One (120 minutes) and the aggregate duration of the four advertised programmes. That said, which is more likely to fill the gap: a recovered Doctor Who ME or 25 minutes' worth of interviews, clips, etc.? I hope for the former, but (hugely) expect the latter.
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Post by davidgreen on Nov 23, 2019 10:32:52 GMT
My friend’s late wife was from Zimbabwe. Dr Who was definitely shown there in the 70’s and 80’s. i tried to jog her memories with photos from various stories, I’m sorry to say to no avail. It’s not impossible that something may be waiting to be discovered.
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Post by Richard Marple on Nov 23, 2019 11:08:27 GMT
My friend’s late wife was from Zimbabwe. Dr Who was definitely shown there in the 70’s and 80’s. i tried to jog her memories with photos from various stories, I’m sorry to say to no avail. It’s not impossible that something may be waiting to be discovered. I was wondering if much if any BBC programming was shown there between 1965 to 1980, were shows already in the country repeated out of contract?
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 24, 2019 18:05:14 GMT
Probably, we’ve touched on this before when discussing how British TV ended up on film in Apartheid South Africa, possibly through Rhodesia.
In the years of UDI, (65 to 79), the Rhodesian government had no reason to respect any broadcast agreements made with British organisations as the country was under economic sanctions for much of the time.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Nov 24, 2019 20:10:20 GMT
Economic sanctions only applied to the importing / exporting of goods and materials for commercial purposes, which didn't apply to books, newspapers, films or other forms of entertainment.
Hartnell (up to The Rescue) was shown in the mid-60s, and Tom Baker in late 70s/early 80s.
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 24, 2019 21:17:27 GMT
What I was saying was that the siege mentality in the country at the time could have overridden any sense of wrongdoing in showing out of contract television. I’ve absolutely no evidence for this but you never know.
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Post by John Wall on Nov 25, 2019 11:44:43 GMT
What I was saying was that the siege mentality in the country at the time could have overridden any sense of wrongdoing in showing out of contract television. I’ve absolutely no evidence for this but you never know. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence for Dr Who in SA.
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 25, 2019 19:58:24 GMT
What I was saying was that the siege mentality in the country at the time could have overridden any sense of wrongdoing in showing out of contract television. I’ve absolutely no evidence for this but you never know. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence for Dr Who in SA. That’s true, but we are talking about Ian Smith era Rhodesia and it’s a more general point about the potential to screen out of contract programs. Admittedly OT but there we are! 😂😂
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Post by Jon Preddle on Nov 25, 2019 20:33:31 GMT
Just to throw this out there, while it's fun to speculate that a TV station might show something "out of contract", are there any known examples of this actually happening? And more to the point, what clear evidence is there that it was out of contract?
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 25, 2019 22:21:47 GMT
The only one that springs to mind was the report of a screening of The Savages in Sierra Leone. Not sure if it was ever proved or not. I think someone thought it might have been a Pertwee instead. Not sure about any other examples. Does anyone else know of any?
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Post by John Wall on Nov 25, 2019 22:52:27 GMT
The only one that springs to mind was the report of a screening of The Savages in Sierra Leone. Not sure if it was ever proved or not. I think someone thought it might have been a Pertwee instead. Not sure about any other examples. Does anyone else know of any? Probably Monster of Peladon
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Post by Richard Marple on Nov 26, 2019 13:26:24 GMT
I did wonder the mentions of Troughton stories being shown by local stations in Nigeria in the 1980s have been proved one way or the other.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Nov 26, 2019 20:13:08 GMT
I did wonder the mentions of Troughton stories being shown by local stations in Nigeria in the 1980s have been proved one way or the other. There's no first-hand evidence that any Troughton was shown in the 80s. All the available mentions online (Twitter/Facebook etc) of Nigerian viewers watching DW in the late 70s, the 80s and 90s are for Tom Baker only. So, lots of eye-witnesses seeing Baker but none for Troughton.
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Post by Robert Lia on Nov 26, 2019 21:37:19 GMT
apart from the repeats of the surviving Patrick Troughton story's in the USA in the 1980's. Makes me wonder if there were any sales of these to other country's not counting Australia, New Zealand and Canada of course?
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Post by Jon Preddle on Nov 26, 2019 21:54:08 GMT
apart from the repeats of the surviving Patrick Troughton story's in the USA in the 1980's. Makes me wonder if there were any sales of these to other country's not counting Australia, New Zealand and Canada of course? Only sold to those four, as well as UK Gold in the UK. That's all.
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