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'''[[Wikipedia:Guam|GUAM]]''' is a small island to the south of the [[Philippines]] in [[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Asia]]. It is a territory of the [[United States]].
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'''[[Wikipedia:Guam|GUAM]]''' is a small island to the south of the [[Philippines]] in the western Pacific Ocean ([[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Asia]]). It is a territory of the [[United States]].
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==Profile==
  
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==Profile==
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{| {{small-table}}
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|'''Country Number (34=)'''||1972||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
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|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Australasia/Asia]]||
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|'''Television commenced'''||1956||
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|'''Colour System'''||1967||[[Wikipedia:NTSC|NTSC]]
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|'''[[WRTH|Population]]'''||1974|| 85,000
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|'''[[WRTH|TV Sets]]'''||1974|| 42,500 (5,000 colour)
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|'''Language/s'''||English||
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* Since the island is technically part of the [[United States]] (which was the 34th country to screen the series), we haven't separated it in the [[Selling Doctor Who]] profile, and have counted it with the USA.
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|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Australasia/Asia]]||1972
 
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|'''Television commenced'''||19xx||.
 
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|'''Population'''||xx mill||[[WRTH]], 1972
 
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* Since the island is technically part of the [[United States]] (which was the 33rd country to screen the series), we haven't separated it in the [[Selling Doctor Who]] profile.
 
  
 
==Television Stations / Channels==
 
==Television Stations / Channels==
  
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In 1972, Guam had two television stations: '''KGZZ (channel x)''' and '''KGTV (channel x)'''; '''Doctor Who''' aired on channel x. Both stations used the [[Wikipedia:NTSC|NTSC]] colour 525 line system.
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The island had two local television stations: '''KUAM Television''' (Channel 8) and '''KGTF Television''' (Channel 12), which was launched on 20 October 1970. Both were PBS stations. The island also had a direct cable feed that gave it programming from three local [[Los Angeles]] stations. In later years, the number of "cable" feeds from the US increased.
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'''Doctor Who''' aired on '''[[wikipedia:KGTF|KGTF]]'''.  
  
  
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==[[BBC Records]]==
 
==[[BBC Records]]==
  
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Guam is named in a memo of overseas sales of '''Doctor Who''', dated 10 December 1973.  
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Guam is named in a memo listing overseas sales of '''Doctor Who''', dated '''10 December 1973'''.  
  
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Guam is not named in '''The Seventies'''; '''The Eighties''' ([http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm THE LOST CHAPTERS]); or '''DWM'''.
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Guam is not named in '''The Seventies''', '''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS], or '''DWM'''.
  
  
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13 stories, 72 episodes:
 
13 stories, 72 episodes:
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[[File:Guam KKK.JPG|thumb|right|200px|"The Daleks" (Day of the Daleks), 28 May 1973]]
  
 
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|FF||[[The Highlanders]]||4
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|BBB||[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]||7
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|CCC||[[The Ambassadors of Death]]||7
 
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|GG||[[The Underwater Menace]]||4
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|DDD||[[Inferno]]||7
 
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|HH||[[The Moonbase]]||4
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|EEE||[[Terror of the Autons]]||4
 
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|JJ||[[The Macra Terror]]||4
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|FFF||[[The Mind of Evil]]||6
 
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|KK||[[The Faceless Ones]]||6
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|GGG||[[The Claws of Axos]]||4
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|HHH||[[Colony in Space]]||6
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|JJJ||[[The Daemons]]||5
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|KKK||[[Day of the Daleks]]||4
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|MMM||[[The Curse of Peladon]]||4
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|LLL||[[The Sea Devils]]||6
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|NNN||[[The Mutants]]||6
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|OOO||[[The Time Monster]]||6
 
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Guam therefore bought the standard 13 story / 72 episode package of [[Jon Pertwee stories]].  
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Guam therefore bought the standard 13 story / 72 episode package of colour [[Jon Pertwee stories]] that was sold to the US by Time-Life Films.  
  
  
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==Origin of the Tapes==
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===Origin of the Tapes===
  
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The television distributor for Guam was [[Time Life Films]]. They supplied the programme on colour video tape in the NTSC format.  
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The television distributor for Guam was Time-Life Films. They supplied the programme on colour video tape in the NTSC format.  
  
  
 
==Transmission==
 
==Transmission==
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[[File:Guam HHH.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Colony in Space, 16 April 1973]]
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[[File:Guam FFF.JPG|thumb|right|200px|"The Mine of Evil" (sic), 6 August 1973]]
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[[File:Guam colour Aug 1973.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Sample listing that shows the episodes were broadcast in Colour]]
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[[File:Guam CCC.JPG|thumb|right|200px|The Ambassadors of Death, 5 November 1973]]
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[[File:Guam CCC 2.JPG|thumb|right|200px|The Ambassadors of Death, 12 November 1973]]
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[[File:Guam DDD.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Inferno, 31 December 1973]]
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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The first newspaper billing for the series was on Tuesday, '''29 August 1972''' at 6.00pm, and the second the following week - however there was no billing the week after that, or indeed again for the next three months, so it appears that the intended 29 August debut of the series was dropped before anything had been shown.
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Of note, had the 29 August screening gone ahead, KGTF would have been the '''second''' US station to air the series (the first being [[WPHL]] in Philadelphia).
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The series did subsequently reach the screens on Monday, '''20 November 1972''', at 6.00pm. Although this makes KGTF the fourth US station to show it, it was the '''first''' PBS station.
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There was no episode listed on Friday, 24 November 1972, but the following Friday, '''1 December 1972''', the series was in the 8.00pm slot; this was a '''repeat''' of the Monday edition. (It's possible that an episode ''did '' air on 24 November, being a late replacement for the scheduled cookery show.)
  
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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This twice per week cycle continued for the entire run, although the days of the week did later change.
  
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The series started on Monday, 27 November 1972, at 6.00pm. On the Friday, at 8.00pm, the same episode was repeated.  
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It's clear from the listings (see below) that the serials did not play in the correct story order, with the three season 7 serials airing towards the end of the run, rather than at the start. The identity of the first story to air is not known, but would be [[The Curse of Peladon]], [[The Sea Devils]], or [[The Mutants]], as these are the only three serials that are not identified by title in any of the newspaper billings.  
  
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It's clear from the listings (see below) that the stories did not play in correct story order, with the three season seven serial airing towards the end of the run, rather than at the start. The first story to air is notknown, but would be [[The Curse of Peladon]], [[The Sea Devils]], or [[The Mutants]], as these are the only three that are not identified in at least one billing.  
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From '''13 October 1973''', the Friday repeat shifted to Saturday afternoons at 3.30pm, and the Monday episode shifted to a 6.30pm timeslot.
  
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From 13 October 1973, the Friday repeat shifted to Saturday afternoons at 3.30pm, and the Monday episode shifted to a 6.30pm timeslot.
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Two of the Friday repeats – 9 March and 20 April 1973 - were pre-empted. There was also a pre-emption (by a Christmas show) of the Monday episode on 24 December 1974, which should have been the first showing of [[Inferno]] part 1. (If the episode didn't air on this day, then its "repeat" on the Friday was actually its '''first''' screening!) These missed episodes do not appear to have been rescheduled.
  
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The final episode and repeat aired 1 and 6 April 1974; the series had run virtually uninterrupted for 17 months. However, the tally shows that these were episode # 71, when it should be 72. The only likely place for this discrepancy to occur is at the beginning of the run (the named episodes at the end of the run fit with the number of airdates) - perhaps the series started one week earlier than 27 November 1972? But there was certainly no evidence of this in the paper. Or did two episodes air back to back on one of the dates, but the timeslot being billed for only 30 minutes?
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The final episode and repeat aired '''1 and 6 April 1974'''; the series had run virtually uninterrupted for 17 months, with four pre-emptions, taking the episode tally to 140 out of the full 144 (i.e. 72 first runs, plus 68 repeats).  
  
 
There is no clear record that Guam screened '''Doctor Who''' again after 1974.
 
There is no clear record that Guam screened '''Doctor Who''' again after 1974.
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====Fate of the Tapes?====
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The nearby [[Philippines]] commenced screening the series in '''March 1976'''; it's more than likely that that Guam sent its tapes there.
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==TV listings==
 
==TV listings==
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{{airdates-left|}}
  
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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TV listings have been obtained from the issues of the ''Pacific Daily News''. The Sunday issues also sometimes had the listings for the full upcoming week.
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* [[Airdates in Guam|AIRDATES for GUAM]]
 
  
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TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''Guam xxxx''.
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Listings initially gave the series name as the usual abbreviation of '''"Dr Who"'''. None of the listings for the first few months identify any episodes by title.
  
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Listings initially gave the series name as '''DrXXXXX Who'''. None of the listings for the first few months identify any episodes by title. The first named episode is on 16 April 1973 - [[Colony in Space]. After a break of a week, the next episode is labelled '''"(New Series)"'''. The episode five weeks later (28 May), title is '''"The Daleks"'''. (Publicity material for this package of Pertwee stories issued by Time Life referred to [[Day of the Daleks]] as simply "The Daleks".) 
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The first episode to be named by title was that on 16 April 1973 - [[Colony in Space]]. After a break of a week, the next episode is labelled only as '''"(New Series)"'''. Since the next story after that is named five weeks later, we can take it that the 5-part [[The Daemons]] aired after [[Colony in Space]].  
  
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From 6 July 1973, the newspaper was generally better with providing titles.  
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The 28 May episode is titled just '''"The Daleks"''', although this is actually [[Day of the Daleks]]. (Publicity material for this package of Pertwee stories issued by Time-Life referred to [[Day of the Daleks]] by that abbreviated title; an 'error' that many US newspapers repeated in the 1970s.)
  
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Some of the listings have '''(C)''' printed next to the title, indicating it is '''Colour'''. Although only some listings have this, all the episodes would have been shown in NTSC. 
  
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==Guam in Doctor Who==
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From '''6 July 1973''', the newspaper was generally better with providing titles - and on some occasions a story synopsis - through to the end of the run. A few printing errors crept in, with '''"Mine of Evil"''', '''"Time Monsters"''' (plural), and just '''"The Ambassadors"''' appearing on occasion.
  
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There are no instances where Guam is mentioned in the series.
 
  
 
==Links==
 
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[[Category:North America]]
 
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[[Category:Australasia/Asia]]
 
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[[Category:PBS stations]]

Latest revision as of 02:13, 5 March 2020

GUAM is a small island to the south of the Philippines in the western Pacific Ocean (Asia). It is a territory of the United States.

Profile

Country Number (34=) 1972 SECOND WAVE
Region Australasia/Asia
Television commenced 1956
Colour System 1967 NTSC
Population 1974 85,000
TV Sets 1974 42,500 (5,000 colour)
Language/s English
  • Since the island is technically part of the United States (which was the 34th country to screen the series), we haven't separated it in the Selling Doctor Who profile, and have counted it with the USA.


Television Stations / Channels

The island had two local television stations: KUAM Television (Channel 8) and KGTF Television (Channel 12), which was launched on 20 October 1970. Both were PBS stations. The island also had a direct cable feed that gave it programming from three local Los Angeles stations. In later years, the number of "cable" feeds from the US increased.

Doctor Who aired on KGTF.


DOCTOR WHO IN GUAM

BBC Records

Guam is named in a memo listing overseas sales of Doctor Who, dated 10 December 1973.

Guam is not named in The Seventies, The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS, or DWM.


Stories bought and broadcast

JON PERTWEE

13 stories, 72 episodes:

"The Daleks" (Day of the Daleks), 28 May 1973
BBB Doctor Who and the Silurians 7
CCC The Ambassadors of Death 7
DDD Inferno 7
EEE Terror of the Autons 4
FFF The Mind of Evil 6
GGG The Claws of Axos 4
HHH Colony in Space 6
JJJ The Daemons 5
KKK Day of the Daleks 4
MMM The Curse of Peladon 4
LLL The Sea Devils 6
NNN The Mutants 6
OOO The Time Monster 6

Guam therefore bought the standard 13 story / 72 episode package of colour Jon Pertwee stories that was sold to the US by Time-Life Films.


Origin of the Tapes

The television distributor for Guam was Time-Life Films. They supplied the programme on colour video tape in the NTSC format.


Transmission

Colony in Space, 16 April 1973
"The Mine of Evil" (sic), 6 August 1973
Sample listing that shows the episodes were broadcast in Colour
The Ambassadors of Death, 5 November 1973
The Ambassadors of Death, 12 November 1973
Inferno, 31 December 1973

JON PERTWEE

The first newspaper billing for the series was on Tuesday, 29 August 1972 at 6.00pm, and the second the following week - however there was no billing the week after that, or indeed again for the next three months, so it appears that the intended 29 August debut of the series was dropped before anything had been shown.

Of note, had the 29 August screening gone ahead, KGTF would have been the second US station to air the series (the first being WPHL in Philadelphia).

The series did subsequently reach the screens on Monday, 20 November 1972, at 6.00pm. Although this makes KGTF the fourth US station to show it, it was the first PBS station.

There was no episode listed on Friday, 24 November 1972, but the following Friday, 1 December 1972, the series was in the 8.00pm slot; this was a repeat of the Monday edition. (It's possible that an episode did air on 24 November, being a late replacement for the scheduled cookery show.)

This twice per week cycle continued for the entire run, although the days of the week did later change.

It's clear from the listings (see below) that the serials did not play in the correct story order, with the three season 7 serials airing towards the end of the run, rather than at the start. The identity of the first story to air is not known, but would be The Curse of Peladon, The Sea Devils, or The Mutants, as these are the only three serials that are not identified by title in any of the newspaper billings.

From 13 October 1973, the Friday repeat shifted to Saturday afternoons at 3.30pm, and the Monday episode shifted to a 6.30pm timeslot.

Two of the Friday repeats – 9 March and 20 April 1973 - were pre-empted. There was also a pre-emption (by a Christmas show) of the Monday episode on 24 December 1974, which should have been the first showing of Inferno part 1. (If the episode didn't air on this day, then its "repeat" on the Friday was actually its first screening!) These missed episodes do not appear to have been rescheduled.

The final episode and repeat aired 1 and 6 April 1974; the series had run virtually uninterrupted for 17 months, with four pre-emptions, taking the episode tally to 140 out of the full 144 (i.e. 72 first runs, plus 68 repeats).

There is no clear record that Guam screened Doctor Who again after 1974.

Fate of the Tapes?

The nearby Philippines commenced screening the series in March 1976; it's more than likely that that Guam sent its tapes there.


TV listings

Airdates in Guam
 ← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

TV listings have been obtained from the issues of the Pacific Daily News. The Sunday issues also sometimes had the listings for the full upcoming week.

Listings initially gave the series name as the usual abbreviation of "Dr Who". None of the listings for the first few months identify any episodes by title.

The first episode to be named by title was that on 16 April 1973 - Colony in Space. After a break of a week, the next episode is labelled only as "(New Series)". Since the next story after that is named five weeks later, we can take it that the 5-part The Daemons aired after Colony in Space.

The 28 May episode is titled just "The Daleks", although this is actually Day of the Daleks. (Publicity material for this package of Pertwee stories issued by Time-Life referred to Day of the Daleks by that abbreviated title; an 'error' that many US newspapers repeated in the 1970s.)

Some of the listings have (C) printed next to the title, indicating it is Colour. Although only some listings have this, all the episodes would have been shown in NTSC.

From 6 July 1973, the newspaper was generally better with providing titles - and on some occasions a story synopsis - through to the end of the run. A few printing errors crept in, with "Mine of Evil", "Time Monsters" (plural), and just "The Ambassadors" appearing on occasion.


Links

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