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==Language/s==
 
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The principal language of Nepal is Nepali.  
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The principal language of Nepal is Nepali. Foreign-language television programmes are usually subtitled.  
 
   
 
   
  
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==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
  
If the reference to "black and white" episodes is accurate, Nepal presumably bought the standard reissue package of the 17 complete [[William Hartnell stories]], and/or the five complete [[Patrick Troughton stories]], and/or some of the black and white [[Jon Pertwee stories]]. If the package also included colour episodes, there were likely to have been [[Tom Baker stories]] as well.  
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The majority of all television sets sold and owned in Nepal were black and white, so the reference to "black and white" episodes does not necessarily mean that TV25 screened William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton stories. In all likelihood, the episodes would have been the more widely-sold [[Tom Baker stories]].  
  
  
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==TV listings==
 
==TV listings==
  
We have no information regarding what screened or when, other than it being in "the early 1990s".
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We have no information regarding what screened or when. With the station having launched in the mid-1980s, '''Doctor Who''' could have aired several years earlier than the cited "early 1990s".
  
  

Revision as of 21:49, 16 March 2012

NEPAL is a land-locked nation in central Asia.

Profile

Country Number (N/K) 1990s? THIRD WAVE
Region Asia
Television commenced 5 January 1984
Colour System 1984 PAL
Population 1987 17 million
TV Sets 1990 27,000
Language/s Nepali, English Subtitled

Television Stations / Channels

Nepal began its PAL colour television service in 1984.

There is just one Government-owned television service, Nepal Television Corporation (Channel 25 / TV25), operating from Kathmandu.

In more recent years, a number of privately-owned stations have been established.


Language/s

The principal language of Nepal is Nepali. Foreign-language television programmes are usually subtitled.


DOCTOR WHO IN NEPAL

BBC Records

Nepal is not named in any of the main BBC Records sources that we have used. With the series said to have aired in the early 1990s, records for that period have not been accessed.

This FORUM POSTING says "I have a friend who grew up in Nepal who said he watched black and white Dr. Who episodes in the early 1990s…", which is all we have to go on.


Stories bought and broadcast

The majority of all television sets sold and owned in Nepal were black and white, so the reference to "black and white" episodes does not necessarily mean that TV25 screened William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton stories. In all likelihood, the episodes would have been the more widely-sold Tom Baker stories.


Transmission

TV listings

We have no information regarding what screened or when. With the station having launched in the mid-1980s, Doctor Who could have aired several years earlier than the cited "early 1990s".


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