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 *'''MELBOURNE''' and '''SYDNEY''' were the first to air {{GGG}}, from Friday, '''29 December 1972'''. The following week, the other regions began, with either {{EEE}} or {{GGG}}.
 *From '''18 to 25 January 1973''', {{XX}} was repeated in BRISBANE. In '''May 1973''', each region played the usual school holiday repeats, with {{BBB}} in SYDNEY, and {{YY}} in BRISBANE and MELBOURNE.
-*From '''12 to 19 January 1973''', a weekday afternoon repeat of {{XX}} played in MELBOURNE between parts three and four of {{GGG}}. A re-run of {{YY}} was scheduled during the school holidays, from '''14 to 21 May 1973''' between {{KKK}} and {{LLL}}. As far as we can tell, this was the final screening of {{YY}} in Australia. There is no clear record that {{ZZ}} was repeated in MELBOURNE.
+*From '''12 to 19 January 1973''', a weekday afternoon repeat of {{XX}} played in MELBOURNE between parts three and four of {{GGG}}. A re-run of {{YY}} was scheduled during the school holidays, from '''14 to 21 May 1973''' between {{KKK}} and {{LLL}}. As far as we can tell, this was the final screening of {{YY}} in Australia. There is no clear record that {{ZZ}} was repeated in MELBOURNE. A series of rolling power cuts due to industrial strike action in Melbourne meant that the scheduled screening of {{LLL}} part 6 on 22 June 1973 never took place, with power blackouts occurring between 5pm and 7pm that evening.
 *The run ended in each region at different points: BRISBANE stopped on '''23 February 1973''' at the end of {{GGG}}; HOBART on '''9 March 1973''' at {{HHH}}. SYDNEY continued, running through to '''1 February 1974''' with part six of {{SSS}}. For the August / September 1973 school holidays, SYDNEY played repeats of {{CCC}} and {{EEE}}, from '''27 August to 10 September 1973''', and later {{GGG}} and {{HHH}} from '''6 to 17 May 1974''', then {{KKK}} to {{SSS}} from '''30 September to 12 December 1974'''.
 *'''PERTH''' and '''ADELAIDE''': The run of new Jon Pertwee episodes commenced in both regions on Friday, '''5 January 1973''', starting with {{EEE}}; dates for '''PERTH''' after {{HHH}} part six are not known, but are presumably the same as '''ADELAIDE''', through until '''13 February 1974''', with {{SSS}}. Repeats of {{ZZ}}, {{AAA}}, {{BBB}}, {{CCC}} and {{EEE}} occurred at various points during the run of new episodes, during the January 1973, May 1973 and May 1974 school holidays. Then, from '''14 October''' to '''12 December 1974''', repeats of {{GGG}} to {{OOO}} (in production order) aired. From '''2 January 1975''' to '''29 January 1975''', was the last run of black and white repeats, {{PPP}} to {{SSS}}.

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-The remaining two serials of the Second Doctor, and the first three of the Third aired back to back. The final serial of Pertwee's first season, {{DDD}}, had been given an "A" classification, and therefore did not screen. All episodes aired on Sundays across all regions, at 6.05pm or 5.50pm. PERTH and BRISBANE screened the same episodes. During this run, '''Doctor Who''' started in Northern Territory; the series was now screening in all eight regions. {{YY}} was on at 6.05pm, with {{ZZ}} at 5.30pm, and the other serials at those times, 5.44 or 5.55pm.
+The remaining two serials of the Second Doctor, and the first three of the Third aired back to back. The final serial of Pertwee's first season, {{DDD}}, had been given an "A" classification, and therefore did not screen.
 *'''MELBOURNE''': The series resumed from '''21 March 1971'''. Jon Pertwee made his debut appearance in Australia on '''11 July 1971'''. Midway through {{BBB}}, August school holiday weekday afternoon repeats of {{RR}} and {{UU}} played between '''23 August and 3 September 1971''', with {{UU}} parts four and five airing back to back. The run came to a close on '''7 November 1971'''. Two months later, {{VV}} was repeated, between '''17 and 26 January 1972'''. This was presumably the final airing of that serial in Australia (any additional later regional screenings not withstanding).
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 [[File:QLD18Jan73.JPG |right|thumb|350px|Queensland TV listings; The Seeds of Death ep 1,2 repeat (1.50pm), and first run Terror of the Autons ep 3 (6.30pm); Gympie Times, 18-19 January 1973]]
-The next new Jon Pertwee story, {{EEE}}, screened on its own, Fridays at 6.05pm or 6.30pm. When the tenth season aired, the stories played out of order, with {{PPP}} first, then {{RRR}} followed by {{QQQ}}. There was then a long break of over six months before the next set of new third Doctor episodes. Most regions aired repeats of Troughton episodes during this period. Serials {{FFF}}, {{JJJ}} and {{TTT}} were given "A" classifications, and therefore did not screen. These ratings may have been why there was a six month delay between {{EEE}} and {{GGG}}. {{LLL}} and {{MMM}} played in production order, rather than correct story order.
+The next new Jon Pertwee story, {{EEE}}, screened on its own, Fridays at 6.05pm or 6.30pm. When the tenth season aired, the stories played out of order, with {{PPP}} first, then {{RRR}} followed by {{QQQ}}. There was then a long break of over six months before the next set of new third Doctor episodes. Most regions aired repeats of Troughton episodes during this period.
 For the sake of simplicity, rather that treating {{EEE}} as a Block of its own, for this summary we have combined it with the Block of stories from the same season.
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 ('''NOTE''': We do not have any details about the transmissions for DARWIN beyond this point. On 24 December 1974, Darwin was hit by the devastating [[wikipedia:Cyclone Tracy|Cyclone Tracy]]. It wasn't until February 1975 that television services were re-established.)
 *'''MELBOURNE''' and '''SYDNEY''' were the first to air {{GGG}}, from Friday, '''29 December 1972'''. The following week, the other regions began, with either {{EEE}} or {{GGG}}.

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 Synchronised broadcasts across regions were by now becoming more frequent, so the number of regional variances was decreasing. Colour episodes of '''Doctor Who''' commenced from March 1975, Fridays evenings at 6.30pm.
-*'''SYDNEY''' and '''CANBERRA''': The new run opened on Friday, '''7 March 1975''', and ended on '''6 June 1975'''.  (NOTE: We have no further airdates for CANBERRA beyond this point.)
+*'''SYDNEY''' and '''CANBERRA''': The new run opened on Friday, '''7 March 1975''', and ended on '''6 June 1975'''.
 *'''MELBOURNE''' and '''HOBART''': The new run opened on Friday, '''14 March 1975''', and ended on '''13 June 1975''' in the former, but a week later on '''20 June 1975''' in the latter (no episode aired 13 June).
 *'''PERTH''': The new run opened on Saturday, '''15 March 1975'''; we do not know the end date. (NOTE: We have no airdates for PERTH between 1975 and 1980.)

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 *'''ADELAIDE''': Ahead of the new episodes, ADELAIDE reran {{YY}} between '''12 and 18 May 1972''' (with double episodes on two of the dates), then a weekday August school holiday re-run of the preceding story, {{XX}}, from '''28 August to 4 September 1972'''.
 *'''SYDNEY''' and '''CANBERRA''': Both regions were in sync for the weekday afternoon school holiday repeat of {{ZZ}} from '''8 to 12 May 1972''', with two episodes airing back to back each afternoon, at 2.10pm or 2.40pm. The evening of the same day that parts nine and ten of {{ZZ}} aired, the short run of {{EEE}} also commenced, and ended on '''2 June 1972'''. A repeat of {{AAA}} played during the 1972 August holidays, '''28 to 31 August 1972'''.
 *'''BRISBANE''': From for the week of '''9 to 12 May 1972''', {{WW}} was repeated during school holidays.

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	*'''HOBART''': This run began from Sunday, '''9 May 1971'''. Hobart repeated {{UU}} and {{VV}}, weekday afternoons between '''27 August and 14 September 1971'''. Pertwee debuted on '''29 August'''. There was a break of one week (no episode on 12 December); midway through {{CCC}} was a repeat of {{WW}}, from '''17 to 22 December 1971'''. The last episode of {{CCC}} was on '''2 January 1972'''. A repeat of {{XX}} aired weekdays, from '''14 to 21 January 1972'''.		*'''HOBART''': This run began from Sunday, '''9 May 1971'''. Hobart repeated {{UU}} and {{VV}}, weekday afternoons between '''27 August and 14 September 1971'''. Pertwee debuted on '''29 August'''. There was a break of one week (no episode on 12 December); midway through {{CCC}} was a repeat of {{WW}}, from '''17 to 22 December 1971'''. The last episode of {{CCC}} was on '''2 January 1972'''. A repeat of {{XX}} aired weekdays, from '''14 to 21 January 1972'''.

−	*'''DARWIN''': While the rest of the country was watching - or about to watch - Jon Pertwee's first season, viewers in Northern Territory saw '''Doctor Who''' for the first time. Unable to play from the very beginning (the ABC no longer had the rights to screen anything more than two years old) the first serial to air from Darwin on Sunday, '''15 August 1971''', was {{RR}} (marking its final screening in Australia). This was followed by {{TT}}, with all subsequent serials in story order on a weekly basis until part ten of {{ZZ}}, on '''23 July 1972'''. After a short break, the series resumed on Thursday, '''10 August 1972''', with {{AAA}}, and the run ended with {{CCC}} part seven on '''7 December 1972'''. ~~(Sometime prior to 1978, the ABC returned its prints of {{TT}} (and possibly along with other serials of the same season) to the BBC in London.)~~	+	*'''DARWIN''': While the rest of the country was watching - or about to watch - Jon Pertwee's first season, viewers in Northern Territory saw '''Doctor Who''' for the first time. Unable to play from the very beginning (the ABC no longer had the rights to screen anything more than two years old) the first serial to air from Darwin on Sunday, '''15 August 1971''', was {{RR}} (marking its final screening in Australia). This was followed by {{TT}}, with all subsequent serials in story order on a weekly basis until part ten of {{ZZ}}, on '''23 July 1972'''. After a short break, the series resumed on Thursday, '''10 August 1972''', with {{AAA}}, and the run ended with {{CCC}} part seven on '''7 December 1972'''.

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 *'''BRISBANE''': The run resumed from '''27 April 1973''', with {{HHH}}, followed by repeats of {{YY}} from '''7 to 14 May 1973''' and {{ZZ}} from '''13 to 24 August 1973''', coming to an end on '''19 April 1974'''. {{AAA}} and {{BBB}} were then repeated from '''6 to 17 May 1974'''. Weekday afternoon repeats of {{EEE}} to {{PPP}} played from '''14 October to 12 December 1974''', then {{RRR}} to {{SSS}} from '''2 to 23 January 1975'''.
-*'''HOBART''': The Pertwee series continued from '''11 May 1973''' with {{KKK}}, and ended on '''29 March 1974''' at {{SSS}}. A repeat of {{BBB}} played from '''5 to 14 February 1974'''. {{HHH}} to {{PPP}} were repeated from '''7 October to 25 November 1973''', and {{RRR}}, {{QQQ}}, {{SSS}} and {{GGG}} in that order from '''2 January to 5 February 1975'''.
+*'''HOBART''': The Pertwee series continued from '''11 May 1973''' with {{KKK}}, and ended on '''29 March 1974''' at {{SSS}}. A repeat of {{BBB}} played from '''5 to 14 February 1974'''. {{HHH}} to {{PPP}} were repeated from '''7 October to 25 November 1973''', and {{RRR}}, {{QQQ}}, {{SSS}} and {{GGG}} in that order from '''2 January to 5 February 1975'''. This screening of {{GGG}} was the last black and white broadcast of '''Doctor Who''' until 1984.
 [[File:Persp290574.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Perspective – "'C' for Computer" – 29 May 1974, 8.50pm (Sydney)]]

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 The ABC commenced '''colour''' transmissions from Saturday, '''1 March 1975''' (although some of the smaller regional stations probably still transmitted in black and white, in which case they may have transmitted [[The Time Warrior]] off the 16mm film prints rather than colour video tapes). However, the majority of the population still watched the series in black and white. (Even by 1977, still less than 50% of the population owned a colour television receiver.)
-Serial {{WWW}} had not been purchased because it was only available in black and white. For reasons that are not clear, {{ZZZ}} was received nearly a year after the rest of the season, and was held over to 1976.
+Serial {{WWW}} had not been purchased because it was only available in black and white. For reasons that are not clear, {{ZZZ}} was received nearly a year after the rest of the season, and was held over until early 1976 so it could play immediately ahead of Tom Baker's debut as the fourth Doctor.
 Synchronised broadcasts across regions were by now becoming more frequent, so the number of regional variances was decreasing. Colour episodes of '''Doctor Who''' commenced from March 1975, Fridays evenings at 6.30pm.

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 '''PERSPECTIVE – "'C' FOR COMPUTER"'''
-As noted in Block 3, it was during this run on '''29 May 1974''', at 8.50pm on the ABC, that the '''"'C' for Computer"''' episode of '''"Perspective"''' screened. This segment featured several clips that had been taken from {{EE}} parts four and five, which indicates that the ABC had retained those episodes until at least 1974. (The film prints of the serial were apparently returned to the BBC in mid-1975.)
+As noted in Block 3, it was during this run on '''29 May 1974''', at 8.50pm on the ABC, that the '''"'C' for Computer"''' episode of '''"Perspective"''' screened. This segment featured several clips that had been taken from {{EE}} parts four and five, which indicates that the ABC had retained those episodes until at least 1974. (The film prints of the serial were returned to the BBC in June 1975.)
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-Serial {{WWW}} had been classified "A" by the censors, and did not screen. For reasons that are not clear, {{ZZZ}} was received nearly a year after the rest of the season, and was held over to 1976.
+The ABC commenced '''colour''' transmissions from Saturday, '''1 March 1975''' (although some of the smaller regional stations probably still transmitted in black and white, in which case they may have transmitted [[The Time Warrior]] off the 16mm film prints rather than colour video tapes). However, the majority of the population still watched the series in black and white. (Even by 1977, still less than 50% of the population owned a colour television receiver.)
-The ABC commenced '''colour''' transmissions from Saturday, '''1 March 1975''' (although some of the smaller regional stations probably still transmitted in black and white, in which case they would have broadcast off 16mm film rather than colour video tapes). However, the majority of the population still watched the series in black and white. (Even by 1977, still less than 50% of the population owned a colour television receiver.)
+Serial {{WWW}} had not been purchased because it was only available in black and white. For reasons that are not clear, {{ZZZ}} was received nearly a year after the rest of the season, and was held over to 1976.
 Synchronised broadcasts across regions were by now becoming more frequent, so the number of regional variances was decreasing. Colour episodes of '''Doctor Who''' commenced from March 1975, Fridays evenings at 6.30pm.

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 *'''DARWIN''': While {{EEE}} was screening in other regions, Darwin was still playing catch-up; by '''May 1972''' they had reached {{YY}}… On Thursday, '''7 December 1972''', DARWIN had reached the end of the first run of Jon Pertwee stories.
-('''NOTE''': We do not have any details about the transmissions for DARWIN beyond this point. On 24 December 1974, Darwin was hit by the devastating [[wikipedia:Cyclone Tracy|Cyclone Tracy]]. It wasn't until February 1975 that television services were reinstated.)
+('''NOTE''': We do not have any details about the transmissions for DARWIN beyond this point. On 24 December 1974, Darwin was hit by the devastating [[wikipedia:Cyclone Tracy|Cyclone Tracy]]. It wasn't until February 1975 that television services were re-established.)
 *'''MELBOURNE''' and '''SYDNEY''' were the first to air {{GGG}}, from Friday, '''29 December 1972'''. The following week, the other regions began, with either {{EEE}} or {{GGG}}.
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 *'''SYDNEY''' and '''CANBERRA''': The new run opened on Friday, '''7 March 1975''', and ended on '''6 June 1975'''.  (NOTE: We have no further airdates for CANBERRA beyond this point.)
 *'''MELBOURNE''' and '''HOBART''': The new run opened on Friday, '''14 March 1975''', and ended on '''13 June 1975''' in the former, but a week later on '''20 June 1975''' in the latter (no episode aired 13 June).
-*'''PERTH''': The new run opened on Saturday, '''15 March 1975'''; we do not know the end date. (NOTE: We have no further airdates for PERTH between 1975 and 1980.)
+*'''PERTH''': The new run opened on Saturday, '''15 March 1975'''; we do not know the end date. (NOTE: We have no airdates for PERTH between 1975 and 1980.)
 *'''ADELAIDE''': The new run played from Friday, '''4 April 1975''' to '''4 July 1975'''.
 *'''BRISBANE''': The new run opened on Friday, '''11 April 1975''', and ended on '''18 June 1975''' (there was no episode on 25 April).