The Three Doctors

Story Code: RRR / Season 10	UK Airdate: 30 Dec 1972 to 20 Jan 1973	Doctor: Jon Pertwee
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following known countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

New Orleans, Jan. 3, 1988

Australia	Nov 73	b/w	WH,PT
Singapore	Mar 74	b/w	WH,PT
Hong Kong	Jul 74	b/w	WH,PT
United Arab Emirates	74 or 75	PAL
New Zealand	Oct 75	PAL	WH,PT
Canada	Sep 76	NTSC	WH
Brunei	Nov 76	PAL
Gibraltar	Jun 77	b/w	WH,PT
Swaziland	May 78	PAL
Malta	May 79	PAL	WH
Sierra Leone	79?	PAL	WH
Sri Lanka	May 81	PAL

• It's interesting to note the number of countries that screened this story who never got the Hartnell and/or Troughton stories, given that the narrative of The Three Doctors relies heavily on the lore and mythology of the series, and on viewers being familiar with who the "other Doctors" were. (Which of the other Doctors viewers would have seen is noted.)
• The story was dubbed into Arabic.
• United Arab Emirates appears to have been the first to air this story in PAL colour. (They returned some of their tapes of this story in 1991.)

Reissue

• The story aired in colour for the first time in Australia in a May 78 repeat.
• The serial was issued in mid-1983, as part of a package of 14 full colour Jon Pertwee stories, to the USA:
• Several US stations considered this episode to be a special, not billing it as Doctor Who (see clipping above).

United States

from Jun 83

NTSC

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