Jon Pertwee stories

JON PERTWEE

The Third Doctor (1970-1974)

Selling the Third Doctor

• See the table in SELLING DOCTOR WHO for a list of the countries that screened the Third Doctor.

The Pertwee series was sold in six "Groups" of stories.

Click on the story title to go to the list of (known) countries where that serial was screened.

GROUP A

AAA	Spearhead from Space	4
BBB	Doctor Who and the Silurians	7
CCC	The Ambassadors of Death	7
DDD	Inferno	7

• Some countries that bought Group A did not get Spearhead from Space.
• Inferno did not sell to any Commonwealth countries in the early 1970s, due to censorship issues. It was subsequently sold to Canada in 1977.
• These stories may have been subtitled in Arabic.

GROUP B

EEE	Terror of the Autons	4
FFF	The Mind of Evil	6
GGG	The Claws of Axos	4
HHH	Colony in Space	6
JJJ	The Daemons	5

• The Mind of Evil and The Daemons did not sell to any Commonwealth countries in the 1970s, due to censorship issues.
• These stories may have been subtitled in Arabic.

GROUP C

KKK	Day of the Daleks	4
LLL	The Sea Devils	6
MMM	The Curse of Peladon	4
NNN	The Mutants	6
OOO	The Time Monster	6

• This group of stories often aired in production code order.
• These stories may have been subtitled in Arabic.

GROUP D

PPP	Carnival of Monsters	4
QQQ	Frontier in Space	6
RRR	The Three Doctors	4
SSS	Planet of the Daleks	5/6
TTT	The Green Death	6

• This group of stories often aired in production code order.
• The Green Death did not sell to any Commonwealth countries until 1978, due to censorship issues.
• Some of these stories may have been subtitled in Arabic.

GROUP E

UUU	The Time Warrior	4
XXX	Death to the Daleks	4
YYY	The Monster of Peladon	6
ZZZ	Planet of the Spiders	6

• These stories may have been subtitled in Arabic.

GROUP F

WWW

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

5/6

• This story was not available for sale until 1984; even then it was issued as a re-edited five-part story. All six parts were not made available until the early 1990s.

FORMATS

Prior to 1985, the Pertwee episodes were distributed in a number of different formats:

GROUP A

code	title	B/W	NTSC
AAA	Spearhead from Space	X
BBB	Doctor Who and the Silurians	X	X
CCC	The Ambassadors of Death	X	X
DDD	Inferno	X	X

• Spearhead from Space was also available on 16mm colour film. It was made available in NTSC after 1985.
• No countries bought these stories in the original PAL format, the tapes having been wiped by the end of 1973.

GROUP B

code	title	B/W	NTSC
EEE	Terror of the Autons	X	X
FFF	The Mind of Evil	X	X
GGG	The Claws of Axos	X	X
HHH	Colony in Space	X	X
JJJ	The Daemons	X	X

• No countries bought these stories in the original PAL format, the tapes having been wiped by the end of 1973.

GROUP C

code	title	B/W	NTSC	PAL
KKK	Day of the Daleks	X	X	X
LLL	The Sea Devils	X	X
MMM	The Curse of Peladon	X	X
NNN	The Mutants	X	X
OOO	The Time Monster	X	X

• Only Day of the Daleks was available in the original PAL format. The rest had been wiped by the end of 1973.

GROUP D

code	title	B/W	NTSC	PAL
PPP	Carnival of Monsters	X	X	X
QQQ	Frontier in Space	X	X	X
RRR	The Three Doctors	X	X	X
SSS	Planet of the Daleks	X
TTT	The Green Death		X	X

• Planet of the Daleks was not sold in its original PAL format, episode three having been wiped by late 1973.
• The same serial wasn't available in either colour format until 1985. It was released in PAL with part three in B/W, and in NTSC with part three edited 'around'.

GROUP E

code	title	B/W	NTSC	PAL
UUU	The Time Warrior	X	X	X
XXX	Death to the Daleks		X	X
YYY	The Monster of Peladon		X	X
ZZZ	Planet of the Spiders		X	X

• The Time Warrior was the last serial to be fully tele-recorded onto B/W 16mm film.

GROUP F

code	title	NTSC	PAL
WWW	Invasion of the Dinosaurs	X	X

• This serial was not available in any format prior to 1984. It was later issued in PAL and NTSC without Part 1 which existed only as a b/w film print. It wasn't until the early 1990s that all 6 episodes were sold together.

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