Scotland

Ident for BBC Scotland repeat screening of Planet of the Daleks on BBC2 in 1993

SCOTLAND is part of the United Kingdom. As such, it receives BBC transmissions from London.

However, from time to time the network's regional output station BBC Scotland altered its TV schedules to make way for local and alternative programming, and Doctor Who was sometimes shown at times that were different to the rest of the network:

• 1982: Castrovalva 1 was shown in an earlier timeslot (at 3.30pm, three and a half hours before the regular BBC transmission. Imagine if the Internet had existed back then!)
• 1993: Planet of the Daleks 1-6 repeats were shown on BBC2 rather than BBC1 and in an earlier timeslot
• 1998: During the BBC Choice repeats, BBC Scotland aired three additional episodes - Terror of the Zygons 1-3
• 1999: BBC Choice rescreened Terror of the Zygons 1-3 only in Scotland

BBC2 Scotland Idents and logos

Scotland in Doctor Who

General References

• The Inspector at the Liverpool police station asks the Doctor if he is Scottish (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, is mentioned in The War Machines, The Faceless Ones, The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Ghost Light.
• The Doctor plays the traditional Scottish lullaby "O Can Ye Sew Cushions?" on his recorder in The Power of the Daleks
• The Highlanders is set in and around Culloden Moor and Inverness, and features many Scottish characters, such as Alexander, Jamie, MacKay, Colin McLaren, and his daughter Kirsty
• The Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon (played by the English-born Frazer Hines) was a Highlander; the Doctor wanted to be taught how to play the bagpipes
• The Doctor says he took a degree in Glasgow in 1888 (The Moonbase)
• Colonel / later Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) was of Scottish descent
• Jamie sees a misty image of his homeland in The Mind Robber
• Jamie is returned to his home in The War Games
• Jo phones and speaks with Mr Campbell in UNIT's Scientific Supplies section, calling him a "dolly Scotsman" in Terror of the Autons
• New Glasgow is mentined in Frontier in Space
• The Highlands of Scotland are mentioned, and Grover says there were RAF early warning stations in Scotland (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
• Terror of the Zygons is set in and around Loch Ness and the (fictional) village of Tullock, with characters such as the Duke of Forgill, the Caber, Sister Lamont, Angus McRanald - and Nessie! Inverness is mentioned.
• The Doctor dropped off Sarah Jane Smith in what he thought was South Croydon; it was actually Aberdeen (The Hand of Fear)
• The Doctor recites a passage from The Ballad of Flannan Isle in Horror of Fang Rock
• The Doctor tells Leela he has been to Aberdeen, aka the Granite City - see above! (Underworld)
• The absent portrait of Lady Morgana Montcalm was by the Scottish painter Ramsey (The Stones of Blood)
• The Doctor met HG Wells in the highlands of Scotland not far from Inverness; the Borad was sent through the Timelash to Loch Ness
• The seventh Doctor wore a Paisley scarf
• Sergeant Paterson (played by Julian Holloway) was Scottish (Survival)

Cast / Crew

• Donald Wilson (BBC's Head of Drama Serials) grew up in Dunblane
• Gordon Flemyng, who directed the Peter Cushing Daleks movies, was from Glasgow
• Hannah Gordon (Kirsty in The Highlanders) was from Edinburgh
• William Dysart (Alexander in The Highlanders / Reegan in The Ambassadors of Death) was from Glasgow
• Angus Lennie (Storr, The Ice Warriors / Angus, Terror of the Zygons) was born in Glasgow
• James Copeland (Selris, The Krotons) was born in Scotland
• Prentis Hancock (Spearhead from Space, Planet of the Daleks, Planet of Evil, The Ribos Operation) was born in Glasgow
• George Cormack (Dalios in The Time Monster, and K'Anpo in Planet of the Spiders) was from Edinburgh
• Duncan Lamont (born in Portugal) grew up in Scotland (Galloway in Death to the Daleks)
• Donald Douglas (Vural in The Sontaran Experiment) was from Falkirk
• Robert Banks Stewart (writer of Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom) was born in Edinburgh
• Lillias Walker (Sister Lamont / Zygon in Terror of the Zygons) was from Kinross
• Russell Hunter (Uvanov in The Robots of Death) was born Adam Russell Hunter in Glasgow
• David McKail (Sgt Kyle in The Talons of Weng-Chiang) was from Glasgow
• Iain Cuthbertson (Garron in The Ribos Operation) was born in Glasgow
• Ken Grieve, the director of Destiny of the Daleks, was from Edinburgh
• Kenny McBain, the director of The Horns of Nimon, was from Glasgow
• Graham Crowden (Soldeed, The Horns of Nimon) was born in Edinburgh
• Andrew McCulloch (co-writer of Meglos) was from Ayr
• Andrew Smith, who penned Full Circle, was from Rutherglen, Glasgow
• Peter Grimwade (director of four stories, and writer of three) was born in Scotland
• John Fraser (the Monitor in Logopolis) was born in Glasgow
• Fiona Cumming (director of Castrovalva, Snakedance, Enlightenment, Planet of Fire) was from Glasgow
• Jeffrey Stewart (Dukkha in Kinda) was born in Aberdeen
• Colette O'Neil (Tanha in Snakedance) was from Glasgow
• Ian McCulloch (Nilson, Warriors of the Deep) was born in Glasgow
• Sylvester McCoy was born (as Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) in Dunoon
• Rona Munro (writer of Survival and The Eaters of Light) was from Aberdeen

New Series (Cast /Crew)

• Steven Moffat was born in Paisley
• John Barrowman (Capt Jack Harkness) was born in Glasgow
• David Tennant was born (as David McDonald) in Bathgate
• Karen Gillan was born in Inverness
• Peter Capaldi was born in Glasgow
• Michelle Gomez was born in Glasgow

Links

• BBC Repeats