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	*Similarly, [http://www.nairaland.com/986883/some-funny-really-nice-nigerian/2 THIS WRITER], recalls "watching Doctor Who every Sunday" [likewise, this might be a reference to the 70s/80s screenings]		*Similarly, [http://www.nairaland.com/986883/some-funny-really-nice-nigerian/2 THIS WRITER], recalls "watching Doctor Who every Sunday" [likewise, this might be a reference to the 70s/80s screenings]
	*This [http://www.bombasticelement.org/2010/03/zimbabwe-nigeria-old-rumor.html BLOG] says "state TV stations in Nigeria back in the day played those early seasons of Tom Baker as Dr. Who over and over again all through the late 80s and probably into the 90s. Ask many Nigerian, Tom Baker (Dr. Who from '74 - '81) is the one and only Dr. Who."		*This [http://www.bombasticelement.org/2010/03/zimbabwe-nigeria-old-rumor.html BLOG] says "state TV stations in Nigeria back in the day played those early seasons of Tom Baker as Dr. Who over and over again all through the late 80s and probably into the 90s. Ask many Nigerian, Tom Baker (Dr. Who from '74 - '81) is the one and only Dr. Who."
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		+	====<u>NTV–JOS (Zone D)</u>====
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		+	Nigerian playwright and poet '''Inua Ellam''' (who contributed a script to the 2025 series of '''Doctor Who''') says he'd watched the programme as child: "For as long as I can remember television, I've been a Doctor Who fan. I started watching when I was 10 in Nigeria..." He was born in October 1984 in Jos, which was NTA Zone D. For him to have been watching when he was 10, the series would have to have been airing on that Channel (or another in the same or a neighbouring Zone) in '''1994'''.

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 These episodes had been cut by the New Zealand censors. (The first few minutes of the opening TARDIS control room scene, which had the first onscreen appearance of Steven Taylor, was also removed -- but it's not known whether this was done by the NZBC or by MidWest.)
-The prints of [[The War Machines]] that were supplied to Nigeria came via [[Singapore]]. [[Singapore]] had in turn received the prints from [[New Zealand]]; they had been dispatched by the NZBC on '''10 January 1972'''. The prints had been cut by the New Zealand censors; although it appears that the Nigerian station or the [[Singapore]] broadcaster had made further cuts to episodes two and three.
+The prints of [[The War Machines]] that were supplied to Nigeria came via [[Singapore]]. [[Singapore]] had in turn received the prints from [[New Zealand]]; they had been dispatched by the NZBC on '''10 January 1972'''. The prints had been cut by the New Zealand censors.
 [[The Wheel in Space]] films, as noted above, were ''possibly'' "borrowed" from [[Gibraltar]]; the episodes would have been sent there by the BBC or via [[Singapore]] in early 1973, but since they were not due to air until later in the year, there was plenty of time for them to be sent to, screened in, and returned by the station in Nigeria.
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 It's not clear from these listings if '''Children's Time''' was a separate programme, with '''Dr Who''' screening after it, or if the Monday segment was actually '''Doctor Who''' for the full hour. That the Monday timeslot being an hour as opposed to half an hour at it was on the other two days of the week does offer the strong possibility that two episodes aired back-to-back.
-If two episodes aired each week, they did so without being edited together - i.e. there was no reports of evidence of such cuts or splices in the recovered film prints. (There ''were'' unusual edits made to the cliffhanger of part 2 and recap in part 3 of [[The War Machines]], which ''might'' indicate they had been spliced together in error, but one would expect parts 1 and 2, and 3 and 4 to be combined, not the middle two episodes.)
+If two episodes aired each week, they did so without being edited together - i.e. there were no reports of any cuts or splices in the recovered film prints.
 Four newspapers from this period were missing - 7 May, and 11, 18, 25 June - so we assume they each would have the same billings as the issues before and after.
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 Episode one of [[The Time Meddler]] was missing parts of the opening TARDIS scene. This may have been cut in [[New Zealand]] because [[The Chase]] did not screen, and viewers may have wondered who Steven was. Or did the Nigerian station cut the scene for similar or other reasons (timings, perhaps)?
-The recovered prints of [[The War Machines]] exhibited the cuts made by the New Zealand censor, as well as additional cuts to parts two and three, which were made by [[Singapore]] or the Nigerian station.
+The recovered prints of [[The War Machines]] exhibited the cuts made by the New Zealand censor.
 The BBC already held copies of [[The Web Planet]]: a set of uncut negatives plus a set of prints, which were incomplete (part one was missing the opening recap from [[The Romans]] and part six had an alternative "NEXT EPISODE" closing caption). The returned "Nigerian" prints were complete and uncut.

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	*One of the BBC Library 'stock' music-tracks was used in [[The Faceless Ones]] was called "Nigerian Drums".		*One of the BBC Library 'stock' music-tracks was used in [[The Faceless Ones]] was called "Nigerian Drums".
	*The African diplomat at the World Peace Conference appears to be wearing traditional Nigerian attire ([[Day of the Daleks]]).		*The African diplomat at the World Peace Conference appears to be wearing traditional Nigerian attire ([[Day of the Daleks]]).
		+	*Illarrio Bisi-Pedro (Kurkutji in [[Four to Doomsday]]) was born in Lagos.

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 *[[Wikipedia:List of television stations in Nigeria|Television stations in Nigeria]]
-Despite the country's large population, it was only the wealthy who could afford to own a television set in the earlsy years, but bars and restaurants often had a set for the benefit of their customers.
+Despite the country's large population, it was only the wealthy who could afford to own a television set in the early years, but bars and restaurants often had a set for the benefit of their customers.
 Of the TV stations named above, the five marked '''(#)''' are known to have screened '''Doctor Who'''…
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 It has been reported that a TV station in Nigeria had contacted the BBC (by phone or by fax) in '''1997''' to inform they had a set of black and white episodes of '''Doctor Who''', and that after determining that they were from the first two seasons, the BBC staff member told them they were not required and that they could be destroyed! For the prints to still be in Nigeria as late as that, it could only be if those films had not been bicycled to another country, and had been retained by one of the remote relays since 1967…
-One needs to also keep in mind that only 14 films were found by the NTA in the mid-198s (see section on MidWest TV below), so one has to wonder why these 81 Season 1 and 2 episodes weren't also recovered at that time.
+One needs to also keep in mind that only 14 films were found by the NTA in the mid-1980s (see section on MidWest TV below), so one has to wonder why these 81 Season 1 and 2 episodes weren't also recovered at that time.
 One possible solution is that the films had come from another broadcaster and had somehow ended up at the NTA (it's important to take into account that RKTV no longer existed in 1997, and it would have likely been the NTA (see below) that phoned the BBC). If the films had come from another country in Africa, there are only a few possibilities.
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 Maybe the films were sent to Nigeria because that was where they had originated from - it was the station at the end of that particular bicycling chain who had returned them to their point of origin (a cheaper option than sending them to England?!).
-Keep in mind too that four countries in North Africa used prints that had been dubbed into [[Arabic]], so it's possible this set of films had come from that region and order destroyed because they were of little use being in a foreign language - and if so, the set would not have included any missing episodes, such as [[Marco Polo]], [[The Reign of Terror]] or [[The Crusade]].
+Keep in mind too that four countries in North Africa used prints that had been dubbed into [[Arabic]], so it's possible this set of films had come from that region and were ordered to be destroyed because they were of little use being in a foreign language - and if so, the set would not have included any missing episodes, such as [[Marco Polo]], [[The Reign of Terror]] or [[The Crusade]].
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 Film prints that had originated in [[Hong Kong]] and [[Singapore]] had previously made their way to Nigeria -- see both above -- so it is very likely that RTS was being used as the go-to supplier for all further film prints required by Nigeria. One or both of these season six serials may have come from that source.
-Alternatively, the film prints of one or both of these two serials were supplied from [[Gibraltar]].
+Alternatively, the film prints of one or both of these two serials were supplied from [[Gibraltar]] (who may in turn have got them from [[Singapore]]!).
 ===Transmission===
-'''No''' specific listings for '''Doctor Who''' could be found in any Nigerian newspapers in late 1975 or during 1976. However, as noted above, '''TV Kaduna /RKTV''' had several non-descript '''"Children's Hour"''' type listings, any one of which could easily have included '''Doctor Who'''.
+'''No''' specific listings for '''Doctor Who''' could be found in any Nigerian newspapers in late 1975 or during 1976. However, as noted above, '''TV Kaduna / RKTV''' had several non-descript '''"Children's Hour"''' type listings, any one of which could easily have included '''Doctor Who'''.
 We therefore have no firm idea when and where these nine episodes aired.
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 The first was in the late 1970s / early 1980s, with a second in the late 80s / early 90s.
-Since there were seven '''Zones''', there is a good chance that these episodes aired '''seven times each''', with the possibility of repeats in some Zones years later.
+Since there were seven '''Zones''' to begin with, there is a good chance that these episodes aired '''seven times each''', with the possibility of repeats in some Zones years later.
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 Within a short time he was offered his own television show, which ran for four years -- which is where those '''"Magic Hour – Son of Dr. Who"''' listings from 1975 enter the narrative.
-Shotolu performed on Nigerian television with other magicians such as Professor Peller (from Nairobi, Kenya) and Dr Ogboni. (In his online biography, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120406145630/http://aborigineogboni.org/bio.html?q=blog Dr. Oluaiye Mobolaji Alimi Salami Naibi Oba Ogboni], reports that he studied magic in London, and on returning to Nigeria became "''the in-house magician performing on NTA Channel 10 with [the] late Professor Peller and [Son] of Dr. Who between 1976 – 1978.''") [NTA Channel 10 was the post-1976 identity for what had previously been '''NBC-TV'''!].
+Shotolu performed on Nigerian television with other magicians such as Professor Peller (from Nairobi, Kenya) and Dr Ogboni. (In his online biography, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120406145630/http://aborigineogboni.org/bio.html?q=blog Dr. Oluaiye Mobolaji Alimi Salami Naibi Oba Ogboni], reports that he studied magic in London, and on returning to Nigeria became "''the in-house magician performing on NTA Channel 10 with [the] late Professor Peller and son of Dr. Who between 1976 – 1978.''") [NTA Channel 10 was the post-1976 identity for what had previously been '''NBC-TV'''!].
 "The Son of Dr Who?" also practiced as an "Occultist Spiritualist", selling talismans and charms. (One of his print advertisements was published in

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 We have checked with various international Colleges of Magic, and none has any record of a Nigerian magician using the stage-name "Son of Dr Who"; but of course this person may not even have been a magician nor registered with a College.
-But there ''was'' someone calling themselves "The Son of Dr Who?" (with a question-mark). An Occultist Spiritualist, Talisman and Charm dealer based in Lagos state called '''THE SON OF DR WHO?''', [https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22son+of+dr+who%22+%2B+Occultist&tbm=bks advertised their services in a 1979 African publication called "Drum"].
+But there ''was'' someone calling themselves "The Son of Dr Who?" (with a question-mark). An Occultist Spiritualist, Talisman and Charm dealer based in Lagos state called '''THE SON OF DR WHO?''', [https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=74E6AQAAIAAJ&q=lagos+%2B+%22dr+who%22+occultist&dq=lagos+%2B+%22dr+who%22+occultist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtmu-CpOfVAhWEy7wKHWYrCKYQ6AEIJjAA advertised their services in a 1979 African publication called "Drum"].
 And there is also a [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Son-of-Dr-WHOLagos-Nigeria/255611147789660 placeholder Facebook page] for a "public figure" in Lagos of the same name and also with a question-mark!

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	==Nigeria in Doctor Who==		==Nigeria in Doctor Who==

−	* Gravitron Moonbase crewman Ralph deBayo (played by Mark Heath) wears a Nigerian flag ~~(albeit upside down!)~~ on his tunic ([[The Moonbase]]).	+	* Gravitron Moonbase crewman Ralph deBayo (played by Mark Heath) wears a Nigerian flag on his tunic ([[The Moonbase]]).

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 *'''NTV-Jos''' (Channel 7; previously '''BPTV''' – see above)
 *'''NTV-Kaduna''' (Channel 4,6; previously '''RKTV''' – see above)
-*'''[http://www.ntakano.org/about.php NTV-Kano]''' (Channel 10)
+*'''[http://www.ntakano.org/about.php NTV-Kano]''' (Channel 5)
 *'''NTV-Lagos''' (Channel 10)
 *'''NTA 2 Lagos''' (Channel 5)

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 The prints of [[The War Machines]] that were supplied to Nigeria came from [[Singapore]]. [[Singapore]] had in turn received the prints from [[New Zealand]]; they had been dispatched by the NZBC on '''10 January 1972'''. The prints had been cut by the New Zealand censors; although it appears that MidWest (or whoever the broadcaster was, if not MidWest) or the [[Singapore]] broadcaster had made further cuts to episodes two and three.
-It is not known where the MidWest copy of [[The Web Planet]] came from; the serial did not screen in [[New Zealand]] due to censorship, and the fate of the film prints held by the NZBC was not recorded, but it is possible that [[The Web Planet]] was sent to Nigeria at the same time as [[The Time Meddler]]. Or, since Singapore sent [[The War Machines]] to Nigeria, they may have also been responsible for supplying [[The Web Planet]].
+It is not known where the MidWest copy of [[The Web Planet]] came from. The returned film prints still had the original BBC countdown clock leaders on them; since these are ''usually'' (but note, not always) removed by a broadcaster, it's possible that the prints were a fresh set sent by the BBC. Alternatively, the films were bicycled from a previous broadcaster.
 The film prints for [[The Time Meddler]] were sent to Nigeria from [[New Zealand]] on '''2 March 1973''', which was only a month ahead of the MidWest transmission.