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'''[[Wikipedia:Canada|CANADA]]''' is in the [[:Category:North America|North American]] continent.  
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#REDIRECT [[:Category:Canada]]'''[[Wikipedia:Canada|CANADA]]''' is of the [[:Category:North America|North American]] continent, and shares its borders with the [[United States]].  
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==Profile==
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|First broadcast        = 1946
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|First colour broadcast = 1966
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|'''Country Number (3)'''||1965||[[Selling Doctor Who|FIRST and SECOND WAVE]]  
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|Doctors seen          = [[William Hartnell stories|Hartnell]], [[Jon Pertwee stories|Pertwee]], [[Tom Baker stories|T Baker]], [[Peter Davison stories|Davison]], [[Colin Baker stories|C Baker]], [[Sylvester McCoy stories|McCoy]]
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|'''Region'''||[[:Category:North America|North America]]||Commonwealth
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When '''Doctor Who''' screened in Canada in 1965, the population was 19.9 million, and licensed TV sets numbered only 5.1 million (per [[WRTH]], 1966).
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|'''Television commenced'''||1946||
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Colour transmissions began in 1966 using the [[Wikipedia:NTSC|NTSC]] colour broadcast system.
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|'''Colour System'''||1966||[[Wikipedia:NTSC|NTSC]]  
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|'''[[WRTH|Population]]'''||1966||19.9 million  
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|'''[[WRTH|TV Sets]]'''||1966|| 5.1 million
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|'''[[WRTH|Population]]'''||1976||22.659 million
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|'''[[WRTH|TV Sets]]'''||1976|| 9.39 million
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|'''Language/s'''||English||also dubbed into French
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==Television Stations / Channels==
 
==Television Stations / Channels==
  
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During its run on Canadian television, '''Doctor Who''' was screened by '''five''' different broadcasters:
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Canada has a number of major television networks providing broadcasts across the country. The country is also served by broadcasts from several hundred small privately-owned commercial stations across all the Provinces.
  
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* CBC (1965)
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During its regular runs on Canadian television, '''Doctor Who''' was screened by these ''known'' broadcasters:
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* CKVU (1976 to 1982)
 
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* TVO (1976 to 1989)
 
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* YTV (1989 to 1994) "YOUTH TELEVISION" (YTV)
 
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* SPACE (1997)
 
  
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BACKGROUND OF EACH STATION TO GO HERE
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* '''[[Canada CBC|Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)]]''' in 1965
  
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CKVU commenced regular broadcasts '''one week''' ahead of TVO.
 
  
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Canada had regional screenings, with different cities across the country airing the series at different times according to the world time zones (Canada has five zones), but on the same day.
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After an eleven year gap, '''Doctor Who''' returned, screening simultaneously on (at least these) three channels:
  
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=='''DOCTOR WHO IN CANADA'''==
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* '''[[Canada CKVU|CKVU]]''' in Vancouver from 1976 to 1982
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* '''[[Canada TVO|TV Ontario (TVO)]]''' from 1976 to 1991 (?)
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* '''[[Canada Other|Co-operative Programming Network (CPN)]]''' in Saskatchewan from 1978 to 1979
  
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Canada was the 3rd country to screen '''Doctor Who''' (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
 
  
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==[[BBC Records]]==
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When '''TVO''' lost its licence, the series was picked up by:
  
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'''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''"(6)"''' stories by 28 February 1977. '''The Handbook''' identifies five of these to be: {{A}}, {{B}}, {{C}}, {{D}} and {{E}}. The other story is the Pertwee serial {{UUU}}.
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* '''[[Canada YTV|YTV]]''' from 1989 to 1994
  
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'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(64)"''' stories (by 10 February 1987).
 
  
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As far as we can determine, this total is made up of 11 Pertwees, 40 or 41 Tom Bakers and 13 or 12 Davisons.
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The one-off [[TV Movie]] debuted on:
  
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In '''DWM''', Canada is identified in '''57''' story Archives: 5 Hartnells (same as above); no Troughtons; 16 Pertwees; 27 Tom Bakers; 7 Davisons; no Colin Bakers; and 2 McCoys.
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* '''[[Canada Other|CITV]]''' in 1996
  
  
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==CBC (1965)==
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The final station to screen the series was:
  
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* '''[[Canada Space|SPACE]]''' from 1997 to 2000
  
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===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
 
  
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Five stories, 26 episodes:
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Of course, for many Canadians, another primary source of '''Doctor Who''' was PBS broadcasts from those of the [[United States]] that bordered with Canada. For instance, WTVS in Detroit, [[Michigan]] could be viewed in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and many parts of southern Ontario; and KSPS in Spokane, [[Washington]], was available in Alberta.
  
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{| {{small-table}}
 
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|A||[[An Unearthly Child]]||4
 
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|B||[[The Daleks]]||7
 
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|C||[[Inside the Spaceship]]||2
 
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|D||[[Marco Polo]]||7
 
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|E||[[The Keys of Marinus]]||6
 
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Canada therefore bought GROUP A of the [[William Hartnell stories]].
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=='''DOCTOR WHO IN CANADA'''==
  
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The programme was supplied as 16mm black and white film prints with English soundtracks.
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Canada was the '''third''' country to screen '''Doctor Who''' (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]). On '''9 December 1964''', a 16mm film print of the first episode was evaluated by technical quality advisers.  
  
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[[File:CANADA Dalek.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Doctor Who sold to Canada; Winnipeg Free Press, 31 August 1965]]
  
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===Transmission===
 
  
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'''CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'''
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==[[BBC Records]]==
  
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The series started on Saturday, 23 January 1965, at 5.00pm on the CBC channel 3.
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The '''Stanmark Productions Ltd''' advertisement from 1966, identifies Canada as one of '''sixteen''' countries screening '''Doctor Who''' by January 1966.  
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From 21 April, the series moved to Wednesdays (with the third serial). For the final 6-parter, the series screened on weekdays, from Monday, 28 June to XXXXXX.
 
  
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'''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''"(6)"''' stories by 28 February 1977. '''The Handbook''' identifies five of these to be: {{A}}, {{B}}, {{C}}, {{D}} and {{E}}. The sixth story is the Pertwee serial {{UUU}}.
  
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====Fate of the Prints====
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'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(64)"''' stories (by 10 February 1987).
  
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Received and viewed part one on DDDDDDD.
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As far as we can determine, this total is made up of the '''14''' Pertwees that aired on '''CKVU''' and '''TVO''', plus '''37''' Tom Baker and '''13''' Davison serials that were sold to '''TVO'''.  
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UNKNOWN
 
  
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In '''DWM''', Canada is identified in '''57''' story Archives: '''five''' Hartnells (the same as above); no Troughtons; '''16''' Pertwees; '''27''' Tom Bakers; '''seven''' Davisons; no Colin Bakers; and '''two''' McCoys. The sales years are given as 1965, then 1977 to 1989. These 57 are a combination of the '''CBC''' and '''TVO''' screenings. ('''DWM''' includes Canada in {{AAA}}, {{FFF}}, and {{4W}}, which must be a mistake, as those three did not screen in Canada until the 1990s.)
  
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===TV listings===
 
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{{airdates-left|Canada (CBC)}}
 
  
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'''1960s'''
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==CANADIAN AIRDATES==
  
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TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''Globe and Mail'' from Toronto.
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The usual categories – '''Stories Bought and Broadcast, Transmission, and TV listings''' – are detailed on a separate profile page for each of these broadcasters:
  
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==CKVU (1976-1982)==
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** '''[[Canada CBC|CBC]]'''
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** '''[[Canada CKVU|CKVU]]'''
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** '''[[Canada TVO|TVO]]'''
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** '''[[Canada Other#CPN_.28Saskatchewan.29_.281978-79.29|CPN]]
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** '''[[Canada YTV|YTV]]'''
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** '''[[Canada Other#CITV_.281996.29|CITV]]'''
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** '''[[Canada Space|SPACE]]'''
  
  
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CKVU commenced broadcasts from Sunday 4 September 1976, from 4.00pm.
 
  
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==PETER CUSHING MOVIE==
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[[File:CANADA MOVIE.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1969]]
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The first Aaru movie played in theatres across Canada. The initial release dates are not known, but the film was played in provincial theatres in the late 1960s. In '''April 1969''' the film played at the Chateau in Pine Falls, Manitoba.
  
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===PETER CUSHING===
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It also aired on television - see the section on [[Canada Space|SPACE]].
  
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DR WHO AND THE DALEKS - PETER CUSHING
 
  
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==Novelisations==
  
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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For many years the Target novelisations were readily available in Canada – the back covers of most but not all of the books bear a price in Canadian dollars. (From 1983 to 1989, '''CANCOAST BOOKS''' in Toronto, Ontario, is identified as the distributor.) New books published in 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982 and 1992 do not have Canadian prices (*).
  
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XXX stories, at least 59 episodes:
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* '''1973''': 95c
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* '''1974''': 95c; $1.25; $1.35
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* '''1975''': $1.35
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* '''1976''': none
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* '''1977''': none
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* '''1978''': $1.50
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* '''1979''': $1.50; $1.75; $1.95
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* '''1980''': $1.95; $2.25; $2.50
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* '''1981''': none
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* '''1982''': none
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* '''1983''': $3.75
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* '''1984''': $3.95
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* '''1985''': $3.95; $4.50
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* '''1986''': $3.95; $4.95
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* '''1987''': $4.50; $4.95
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* '''1988''': $4.95; $6.95
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* '''1989''': $4.95
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* '''1990''': $4.95; $6.25; $6.50
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* '''1991''': $5.95; $6.25
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* '''1992''': none
  
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{| {{small-table}}
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The first '''Doctor Who The New Adventures''' novel, '''Timewyrm Genesys''' was priced $8.75 in 1991, but Canadian prices did not appear again until 1996's '''Just War''' ($6.99). The final '''New Adventures''', '''The Dying Days''', was $7.99 in 1997.
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|AAA||[[Spearhead from Space]]||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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|DDD||[[Inferno]]||7
 
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|EEE||[[Terror of the Autons]]||4
 
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|FFF||[[The Mind of Evil]]||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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|LLL||[[The Sea Devils]]||6
 
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|MMM||[[The Curse of Peladon]]||4
 
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|NNN||[[The Mutants]]||6
 
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|OOO||[[The Time Monster]]||6
 
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|PPP||[[Carnival of Monsters]]||4
 
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|QQQ||[[Frontier in Space]]||6
 
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|RRR||[[The Three Doctors]]||4
 
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|SSS||[[Planet of the Daleks]]||6
 
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|TTT||[[The Green Death]]||6
 
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|UUU||[[The Time Warrior]]||4
 
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|WWW||[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]||6
 
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|XXX||[[Death to the Daleks]]||4
 
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|YYY||[[The Monster of Peladon]]||6
 
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|ZZZ||[[Planet of the Spiders]]||6
 
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Canada therefore bought xxxxDDDDxx and of the [[Jon Pertwee stories]].  
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(*) One of the reasons why a Canadian price is absent from the books published in these years may be due to the agreement signed between the Canadian government and the European Economic Community (EEC) in July 1976, which provided Canada with mutual commercial and economic cooperation. And then in 1982, Canada was granted greater political independence from the UK. Of course, this could be a coincidence...  
  
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The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
  
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In order to fulfill the network's mandate as an educational broadcaster, TVO's transmissions of the Third Doctor's stories were hosted by Dr. Jim Dator while the first season of Fourth Doctor stories were hosted by science fiction writer Judith Merril, who called herself the "UnDoctor". Both hosts would fill out the show's half-hour time slot introducing each new episode and, afterwards, discussing it critically for several minutes often explaining how a story was at variance with scientific concepts or how it related to science fiction genres.[2][3][4]
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==Canadian Merchandise==
  
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Ark in Space was the last story to air on ABC for a while… although 4D, 4E, 4F, 4H are censored in 1975/76 and placed into storage… 4D and 4E aired in mid 1977. (Zygons in Feb 78.)
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There are only a few known examples of exclusively Canadian items of merchandise. In 1984, Waddingtons Games Canada released four '''Doctor Who''' jigsaw puzzles; these featured artwork of Omega, Davros and the Daleks, Sontarans, and K9 taken from Andrew Skilleter's Profile Prints series.  
  
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In mid-1976 Canada picks up the ‘first refusal’ rights…
 
  
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Canada: also sold through Time-Life (and later Lionheart), so would have been supplied with dupes from the same NTSC tapes as USA.
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==Canadian Fandom==
  
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Interestingly, Season 10 and 11 stories were not made available to the US until mid 1983, which means these NTSC conversions were done solely for these Canadian sales - RRR and UUU being the only two available that BBC London still had in full PAL colour at that time. (Frontier and Planet not done probably because BBC London no longer had all in colour]) - but why not PPP? Did BBC London also no longer have PPP available on PAL? (Was the only copy available one held by BBC Australia? / Was the fact that ABC had a longer version of ep 2 have any impact on the availability of PPP elsewhere?) [PPP wasn’t made available to US stations until late 1983…]
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The Canadian fan club, '''Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN)''' was founded in 1980; they produce the excellent fanzine '''ENLIGHTENMENT'''.
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* '''[http://www.dwin.org/ DWIN WEBSITE]'''
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* '''[http://dwin.org/home/enlightenment ENLIGHTENMENT]'''
  
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It’s possible (unlikely?) that PPP wasn’t able to be converted to NTSC due to technical reasons - but these were resolved by 1983, when the serial was able to be supplied to the US market.
 
  
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Green Death, Death to the Daleks, Monster of Peladon, Planet of the Spiders are all newly converted to NTSC for this sale to Canada.
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On '''25-26 May 1985''', Jon Pertwee appeared at the '''Who Party 7''' convention in Kitchener, Ontario. He was interviewed for '''CKCO-TV'''.
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**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK1Z3etIymc JON PERTWEE INTERVIEW for CKCO]
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**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myrjOWIilTQ&feature=related JON PERTWEE AT WHO PARTY 7]
  
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Taking into account that OOO screened as part of the second batch, I will assume it was sold along with the first (but simply scheduled later):
 
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The FIRST batch (1976) was:
 
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GGG
 
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KKK
 
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MMM
 
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NNN
 
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OOO
 
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RRR
 
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UUU (32 eps)
 
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The SECOND batch (1977) was:
 
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TTT (newly available)
 
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XXX
 
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YYY
 
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ZZZ (22 eps)
 
  
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Australia’s first to screen rights on TTT expire (after three years), so Canada is able to purchase TTT.
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We are grateful to Enlightenment, Michael J Doran, Ed Conroy, Alex Frazer-Harrison, Graeme Burk and Doug Orlowski for research material and general information about Canadian broadcasts.  
  
  
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'''TV ONTARIO'''
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==Canada in Doctor Who==
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After an eleven gap, the returned, skipping the entire Patrick Troughton era, and starting with Jon Pertwee in [[The Three Doctors]] – guest-starring Patrick Troughton! 26 episodes aired without break from 18 September 1976 to 12 March 1977.
 
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Then, six months a second run, of 28 episodes, commenced n Friday, 16 September 1977. During this run, [[The Green Death]] aired, which was the first time that serial has screened since its UK broadcast in 1974. (It was "rejected" in Australia in 1973, and unable to be screened in the Commonwealth. The fact that Canada screened it – and therefore paid for all the rights clearances – meant that [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] were able to screen the serial in 1978.)
 
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TVO - REPEATS
 
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1979 The Three Doctors
 
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1979 Day of the Daleks
 
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1979 The Curse of Peladon - returned by 4/81
 
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TVO - REPEATS
 
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1980 The Time Monster - returned by 4/81
 
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1980 The Green Death
 
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1980 Death to the Daleks
 
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1980 The Monster of Peladon
 
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1980 Planet of the Spiders
 
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'''CKVU – VANCOUVER'''
 
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CKVU began broadcasts (channel 21) from 1 September 1976 - so DW can’t have started until then.
 
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No details know – except they aired [[Inferno]] in 1979.
 
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NOTE: It’s been thought that CKVU actually got the full 13 story Pertwee package (plus Green) [and some of S11??] rather than just these six, for which airdates are unknown. It seems they may also have gotten season 11 at the same time as TVO got them (which may explain the two Canada listings for Monster of Peladon in the music clearances), as well as the ‘dregs’ of what was available of the earlier Pertwees that TVO didn’t purchase.
 
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TVO bought a batch of ‘old’ Pertwees, plus TTT and Season 11
 
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CKVU bought the remaining ‘old’ Pertwees that TVO didn’t want, plus TTT and Season 11 [screening on repeat until 1982] [A factor that goes against this thought is that both channels got GGG; but none bought PPP - WHY?]
 
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===Transmission===
 
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====Fate of the Tapes====
 
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A number of the NTSC colour video tapes of Pertwee stories that had screened across Canada, were found and returned to the BBC, replacing many episodes that the BBC only held on black and white 16mm film:
 
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From CKVU, by March 1983:
 
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* [[Colony in Space]]
 
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* [[The Sea Devils]]
 
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===TV listings===
 
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TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''Globe and Mail'' from Toronto.
 
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{{airdates-left|Canada (CKVU)}}
 
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==TVO (1976-1989)==
 
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
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Eleven stories, 54 episodes:
 
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|RRR||[[The Three Doctors]]||4
 
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|KKK||[[Day of the Daleks]]||4
 
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|MMM||[[The Curse of Peladon]]||4
 
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|GGG||[[The Claws of Axos]]||4
 
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|NNN||[[The Mutants]]||6
 
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|UUU||[[The Time Warrior]]||4
 
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|OOO||[[The Time Monster]]||6
 
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|TTT||[[The Green Death]]||6
 
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|XXX||[[Death to the Daleks]]||4
 
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|YYY||[[The Monster of Peladon]]||6
 
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|ZZZ||[[Planet of the Spiders]]||6
 
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Canada therefore bought xxxxDDDDxx and of the [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
 
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The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
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===Transmission===
 
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- some Pertwees
 
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====Fate of the Tapes====
 
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A number of the NTSC colour video tapes of Pertwee stories that had screened across Canada, were found and returned to the BBC, replacing many episodes that the BBC only held on black and white 16mm film:
 
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* [[The Claws of Axos]]
 
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* [[The Curse of Peladon]]
 
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* [[The Mutants]]
 
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* [[The Time Monster]]
 
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Of note, the tape cassette of part 2 of [[The Curse of Peladon]] had a label on it that said HBO TIME-LIFE DISTRIBUTORS. EXPLORE BACKGROUND TO HBO and TL.
 
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===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
 
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41 stories, 172 episodes purchased, although not all of them aired:
 
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|4A||[[Robot]]||4
 
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|4B||[[The Sontaran Experiment]]||2
 
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|4C||[[The Ark in Space]]||4
 
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|4D||[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]||4
 
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|4E||[[Genesis of the Daleks]]||6
 
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|4F||[[Terror of the Zygons]]||4
 
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|4G||[[Pyramids of Mars]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4H||[[Planet of Evil]]||4
 
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|4J||[[The Android Invasion]]||4
 
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|4K||[[The Brain of Morbius]]||4
 
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|4L||[[The Seeds of Doom]]||6
 
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|4M||[[The Masque of Mandragora]]||4
 
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|4N||[[The Hand of Fear]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4P||[[The Deadly Assassin]]||4
 
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|4Q||[[The Face of Evil]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4R||[[The Robots of Death]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4S||[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]||6
 
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|-
 
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|4V||[[Horror of Fang Rock]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4T||[[The Invisible Enemy]]||4
 
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|4X||[[Image of the Fendahl]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4W||[[The Sun Makers]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4Y||[[Underworld]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|4Z||[[The Invasion of Time]]||6
 
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|5A||[[The Ribos Operation]]||4
 
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|5B||[[The Pirate Planet]]||4
 
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|5C||[[The Stones of Blood]]||4
 
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|5D||[[The Androids of Tara]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|5E||[[The Power of Kroll]]||4
 
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|5F||[[The Armageddon Factor]]||6
 
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|5G||[[The Creature from the Pit]]||4
 
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|5H||[[City of Death]]||4
 
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|5J||[[Destiny of the Daleks]]||4
 
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|5K||[[Nightmare of Eden]]||4
 
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|5L||[[The Horns of Nimon]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|5N||[[The Leisure Hive]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|5Q||[[Meglos]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|5R||[[Full Circle]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|5P||[[State of Decay]]||4
 
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|5S||[[Warriors' Gate]]||4
 
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|5T||[[The Keeper of Traken]]||4
 
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|5V||[[Logopolis]]||4
 
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In a way, without Canada, '''Doctor Who''' wouldn't exist!
  
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Canada therefore bought GROUP ONE and GROUP TWO of the [[Tom Baker stories]].
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* [[wikipedia:Sydney Newman|SYDNEY NEWMAN]], the man who devised '''Doctor Who''', was born in Toronto in 1917
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* Andrew Cartmel, the series' script editor from 1987 to 1989, was born in Canada
  
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The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
  
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===Transmission===
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Several Canadian-born actors appeared in the series:
  
 +
* Robin Phillips (Altos; [[The Keys of Marinus]])
 +
* Shane Rimmer (Seth Harper; [[The Gunfighters]])
 +
* Robert Beatty (General Cutler; [[The Tenth Planet]])
 +
* Garrick Hagon (Ky; [[The Mutants]])
 +
* Jeremy Wilkin (Kellman; [[Revenge of the Cybermen]])
 +
* Robert Jezek (Sgt Zbrigniev; [[Battlefield]])
 +
* The 1997 TV Movie [[TV Movie]] was filmed in Vancouver, and features Canadian actors
  
−
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−
- all but a couple of Bakers (Talons)
+
Other references to Canada include:
  
−
[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]] did not air due to problems with the story's apparent racism towards the Chinese.
+
* Two of the Moonbase technicians - P Baker No 1 and E Braun No 12 – are Canadian ([[The Moonbase]])
−
 
+
* Mention is made of the wheat plains of Canada in [[The Enemy of the World]]
−
===[[Peter Davison stories|PETER DAVISON]]===
+
* There is a T-Mat station in Ottawa ([[The Seeds of Death]])
−
 
+
* Algonquin (Ontario) is named in [[The Ambassadors of Death]]
−
20 stories, equivalent of 74 half-hour episodes:
+
* Ottawa is mentioned in [[The Claws of Axos]]
−
 
+
* New Montreal is mentioned in [[Frontier in Space]]
−
{| {{small-table}}
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* One of the sacred books of Marb Station is ''UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose'' by HM Stationery Office ([[The Trial of a Time Lord]])
−
|-
 
−
|5Z||[[Castrovalva]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|5W||[[Four to Doomsday]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|5Y||[[Kinda]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|5X||[[The Visitation]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6A||[[Black Orchid]]||2
 
−
|-
 
−
|6B||[[Earthshock]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6C||[[Time-Flight]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6E||[[Arc of Infinity]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6D||[[Snakedance]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6F||[[Mawdryn Undead]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6G||[[Terminus]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6H||[[Enlightenment]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6J||[[The King's Demons]]||2
 
−
|-
 
−
|6K||[[The Five Doctors]]||1
 
−
|-
 
−
|6L||[[Warriors of the Deep]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6M||[[The Awakening]]||2
 
−
|-
 
−
|6N||[[Frontios]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6P||[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]||(2/4)
 
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|-
 
−
|6Q||[[Planet of Fire]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6R||[[The Caves of Androzani]]||4
 
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|-
 
−
|}
 
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−
 
 
−
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−
 
 
−
The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
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===Transmission===
 
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All played on Saturday
 
−
 
 
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−
===[[Colin Baker stories|COLIN BAKER]]===
 
−
 
 
−
11 stories, equivalent of 44 half-hour episodes:
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
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{| {{small-table}}
 
−
|-
 
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|6S||[[The Twin Dilemma]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6T||[[Attack of the Cybermen]]||2/4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6V||[[Vengeance on Varos]]||2/4
 
−
|-
 
−
|6W||[[The Two Doctors]]||3/6
 
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|-
 
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|6X||[[The Mark of the Rani]]||2/4
 
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|-
 
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|6Y||[[Timelash]]||2/4
 
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|-
 
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|6Z||[[Revelation of the Daleks]]||2/4
 
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|-
 
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|7A||[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]||14
 
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|-
 
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−
 
 
−
Canada therefore bought GROUP ONE and GROUP TWO of the [[Colin Baker stories]].
 
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−
The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
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−
===Transmission===
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
ALL played on Saturday
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
- all C Baker eps played
 
−
 
 
−
Reported in CT July 1987, the new Canadian distributor of DW is Cinar Films, who operate from Toronto and Montreal, and who specialise in comedy and drama.
 
−
 
 
−
In August 1989, after 15 years, TVO dropped '''Doctor Who'''...
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Sylvester McCoy stories|SYLVESTER McCOY]]===
 
−
 
 
−
Four stories, 14 episodes:
 
−
 
 
−
{| {{small-table}}
 
−
|-
 
−
|7D||[[Time and the Rani]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|7E||[[Paradise Towers]]||4
 
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|-
 
−
|7F||[[Delta and the Bannermen]]||3
 
−
|-
 
−
|7G||[[Dragonfire]]||3
 
−
|-
 
−
|}
 
−
 
 
−
Canada therefore bought GROUP ONE and GROUP TWO of the [[Sylvester McCoy stories]].
 
−
 
 
−
The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
−
 
 
−
From mid 1987, the new distributor of '''Doctor Who''' in Canada is Cinar Films, who operate from Toronto and Montreal, who specialise in comedy and drama.
 
−
 
 
−
===Transmission===
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
S24: 9 Jan 89 to 10 April 1989; Sat with a repeat on Thurs
 
−
 
 
−
Screened season 25 from September 1989, Sundays, at 7.30pm, with old repeats weekdays 5.30pm (Enlight 34)
 
−
 
 
−
ALL played on Saturday
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
See Handbook (Telos) for McCoy detail.
 
−
 
 
−
TVO loses rights in July 1989
 
−
 
 
−
Contract expires in August 1989. So ended a 13 year relationship between TVO and the good Doctor.
 
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−
 
 
−
===TV listings===
 
−
 
 
−
TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''Globe and Mail'' from Toronto.
 
−
 
 
−
{{airdates-left|Canada (TVO)}}
 
−
 
 
−
==YTV (1989-1994)==
 
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The first Canadian cable network to air Doctor Who was YTV which, from 1989 to the mid-1990s, aired all existing episodes of the series up to Season 26 in a weekday afternoon timeslot. The final two Sylvester McCoy seasons were aired in a separate evening time slot.
 
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−
===[[Sylvester McCoy stories|SYLVESTER McCOY]]===
 
−
 
 
−
Eight stories, 28 episodes (although they did not necessarily screen in the correct order):
 
−
 
 
−
{| {{small-table}}
 
−
|-
 
−
|7H||[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|7L||[[The Happiness Patrol]]||3
 
−
|-
 
−
|7K||[[Silver Nemesis]]||3
 
−
|-
 
−
|7J||[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|7N||[[Battlefield]]||4
 
−
|-
 
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|7Q||[[Ghost Light]]||3
 
−
|-
 
−
|7M||[[The Curse of Fenric]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|7P||[[Survival]]||3
 
−
|-
 
−
|}
 
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===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
 
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{| {{small-table}}
 
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|-
 
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|A||[[An Unearthly Child]]||4
 
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|-
 
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|B||[[The Daleks]]||7
 
−
|-
 
−
|C||[[Inside the Spaceship]]||2
 
−
|-
 
−
|E||[[The Keys of Marinus]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|-
 
−
|F||[[The Aztecs]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|G||[[The Sensorites]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|J||[[Planet of Giants]]||3
 
−
|-
 
−
|K||[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|L||[[The Rescue]]||2
 
−
|-
 
−
|M||[[The Romans]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|N||[[The Web Planet]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|Q||[[The Space Museum]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|R||[[The Chase]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|S||[[The Time Meddler]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|X||[[The Ark]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|Z||[[The Gunfighters]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|BB||[[The War Machines]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|}
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Patrick Troughton stories|PATRICK TROUGHTON]]===
 
−
 
 
−
Five stories, 36 episodes:
 
−
 
 
−
{| {{small-table}}
 
−
|-
 
−
|TT||[[The Dominators]]||5
 
−
|-
 
−
|UU||[[The Mind Robber]]||5
 
−
|-
 
−
|WW||[[The Krotons]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|XX||[[The Seeds of Death]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|ZZ||[[The War Games]]||10
 
−
|-
 
−
|}
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
−
 
 
−
24 stories, 127/128 episodes:
 
−
 
 
−
{| {{small-table}}
 
−
|-
 
−
|AAA||[[Spearhead from Space]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|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
 
−
|-
 
−
|LLL||[[The Sea Devils]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|MMM||[[The Curse of Peladon]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|NNN||[[The Mutants]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|OOO||[[The Time Monster]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|PPP||[[Carnival of Monsters]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|QQQ||[[Frontier in Space]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|RRR||[[The Three Doctors]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|SSS||[[Planet of the Daleks]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|TTT||[[The Green Death]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|UUU||[[The Time Warrior]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|WWW||[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]||5/6
 
−
|-
 
−
|XXX||[[Death to the Daleks]]||4
 
−
|-
 
−
|YYY||[[The Monster of Peladon]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|ZZZ||[[Planet of the Spiders]]||6
 
−
|-
 
−
|}
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
 
−
 
 
−
As with TVO above.
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Peter Davison stories|PETER DAVISON]]===
 
−
 
 
−
As with TVO above.
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Colin Baker stories|COLIN BAKER]]===
 
−
 
 
−
As with TVO above.
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Sylvester McCoy stories|SYLVESTER McCOY]] (continued)===
 
−
 
 
−
See above, and with TVO above.
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
===Transmission===
 
−
 
 
−
'''YOUTH TELEVISION (YTV)'''
 
−
 
 
−
Screened season 25 from September 1989, Sundays, at 7.30pm, with old repeats weekdays 5.30pm (Enlight 34)
 
−
 
 
−
See Handbook (Telos) for McCoy detail.
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
S25: 3 Sep 89 7pm, Sunday - or 7.30pm???? - Happiness Patrol first to 10 Oct (7H ep 4 in error for 7J ep 4), so was 15 eps in run
 
−
 
 
−
S26: 1990, Sat 5.30pm - not in correct story order
 
−
 
 
−
Sep 1989 to Aug 1994, all existing complete stories WH to SM, with ads, at varying times
 
−
 
 
−
Old repeats weekdays 5.30pm - per Enlightenment 34.
 
−
See also Enlight 39 for letter from YTV.
 
−
The first Canadian cable network to air Doctor Who was YTV which, from 1989 to the mid-1990s, aired all existing episodes of the series up to Season 26 in a weekday afternoon timeslot. The final two Sylvester McCoy seasons were aired in a separate evening time slot.
 
−
===TV listings===
 
−
 
 
−
TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''Globe and Mail'' from Toronto.
 
−
 
 
−
{airdates-left|Canada (YTV)}}
 
−
 
 
−
==SPACE (1997-)==
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
 
−
 
 
−
===[[Patrick Troughton stories|PATRICK TROUGHTON]]===
 
−
 
 
−
===Transmission===
 
−
 
 
−
* '''William Hartnell''':
 
−
* '''Patrick Troughton''':
 
−
The original Hartnell and Troughton-era episodes aired daily on the Canadian science-fiction channel Space following the channel's launch in late 1997; however the black and white episodes did not attract the hoped for viewership and were dropped after a year.
 
−
===TV listings===
 
−
 
 
−
None available.
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
==Novelisations==
 
−
 
 
−
The Target novelisations were widely available in Canada – the back covers of the books had a prvc eof XXX. However, from XXX Canada disappeared from the back prces, until XXX, whne XXXXX.
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
==Fandom==
 
−
 
 
−
DWIN commenced in 1980
 
−
 
 
−
* WEBSITE:  [[http://www.dwin.org/ DWIN]]
 
−
 
 
−
==Canada in Doctor Who==
 
−
 
 
−
Goodness – where does one start?!
 
−
 
 
−
* Sydney Newman
 
−
* Actor Robin Phillips (Altos; [[The Keys of Marinus]])
 
−
* Actor Robert Reilly (General Cutler; [[The Tenth Planet]])
 
−
* Ottowa ([[The Seeds of Death]])
 
−
* The wheat plains of Canada ([[The Enemy of the World]])
 
−
* Al Quonquin ([[The Ambassadors of Death]])
 
−
* Ottawa ([[The Claws of Axos]])
 
−
* Actor Garrick Hagon (Ky; [[The Mutants]])
 
−
* New Montreal ([[Frontier in Space]])
 
−
* UK Habitat of the Canadian Goose ([[The Trial of a Time Lord]])
 
−
* Actor Robert Jezek (Sgt Zbrigniev; [[Battlefield]])
 
−
* The 1997 TV Movie [[TV Movie]] was filmed in Vancouver
 
  
  
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CANADA is of the North American continent, and shares its borders with the United States.

Profile

Country Number (3) 1965 FIRST and SECOND WAVE
Region North America Commonwealth
Television commenced 1946
Colour System 1966 NTSC
Population 1966 19.9 million
TV Sets 1966 5.1 million
Population 1976 22.659 million
TV Sets 1976 9.39 million
Language/s English also dubbed into French


Television Stations / Channels

Canada has a number of major television networks providing broadcasts across the country. The country is also served by broadcasts from several hundred small privately-owned commercial stations across all the Provinces.

During its regular runs on Canadian television, Doctor Who was screened by these known broadcasters:


After an eleven year gap, Doctor Who returned, screening simultaneously on (at least these) three channels:


When TVO lost its licence, the series was picked up by:

  • YTV from 1989 to 1994


The one-off TV Movie debuted on:


The final station to screen the series was:


Of course, for many Canadians, another primary source of Doctor Who was PBS broadcasts from those of the United States that bordered with Canada. For instance, WTVS in Detroit, Michigan could be viewed in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and many parts of southern Ontario; and KSPS in Spokane, Washington, was available in Alberta.


DOCTOR WHO IN CANADA

Canada was the third country to screen Doctor Who (see Selling Doctor Who). On 9 December 1964, a 16mm film print of the first episode was evaluated by technical quality advisers.

Doctor Who sold to Canada; Winnipeg Free Press, 31 August 1965


BBC Records

The Stanmark Productions Ltd advertisement from 1966, identifies Canada as one of sixteen countries screening Doctor Who by January 1966.

The Seventies records a sale of "(6)" stories by 28 February 1977. The Handbook identifies five of these to be: A, B, C, D and E. The sixth story is the Pertwee serial UUU.

The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS records a sale of "(64)" stories (by 10 February 1987).

As far as we can determine, this total is made up of the 14 Pertwees that aired on CKVU and TVO, plus 37 Tom Baker and 13 Davison serials that were sold to TVO.

In DWM, Canada is identified in 57 story Archives: five Hartnells (the same as above); no Troughtons; 16 Pertwees; 27 Tom Bakers; seven Davisons; no Colin Bakers; and two McCoys. The sales years are given as 1965, then 1977 to 1989. These 57 are a combination of the CBC and TVO screenings. (DWM includes Canada in AAA, FFF, and 4W, which must be a mistake, as those three did not screen in Canada until the 1990s.)


CANADIAN AIRDATES

The usual categories – Stories Bought and Broadcast, Transmission, and TV listings – are detailed on a separate profile page for each of these broadcasters:


PETER CUSHING MOVIE

Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1969

The first Aaru movie played in theatres across Canada. The initial release dates are not known, but the film was played in provincial theatres in the late 1960s. In April 1969 the film played at the Chateau in Pine Falls, Manitoba.

It also aired on television - see the section on SPACE.


Novelisations

For many years the Target novelisations were readily available in Canada – the back covers of most but not all of the books bear a price in Canadian dollars. (From 1983 to 1989, CANCOAST BOOKS in Toronto, Ontario, is identified as the distributor.) New books published in 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982 and 1992 do not have Canadian prices (*).

  • 1973: 95c
  • 1974: 95c; $1.25; $1.35
  • 1975: $1.35
  • 1976: none
  • 1977: none
  • 1978: $1.50
  • 1979: $1.50; $1.75; $1.95
  • 1980: $1.95; $2.25; $2.50
  • 1981: none
  • 1982: none
  • 1983: $3.75
  • 1984: $3.95
  • 1985: $3.95; $4.50
  • 1986: $3.95; $4.95
  • 1987: $4.50; $4.95
  • 1988: $4.95; $6.95
  • 1989: $4.95
  • 1990: $4.95; $6.25; $6.50
  • 1991: $5.95; $6.25
  • 1992: none

The first Doctor Who The New Adventures novel, Timewyrm Genesys was priced $8.75 in 1991, but Canadian prices did not appear again until 1996's Just War ($6.99). The final New Adventures, The Dying Days, was $7.99 in 1997.

(*) One of the reasons why a Canadian price is absent from the books published in these years may be due to the agreement signed between the Canadian government and the European Economic Community (EEC) in July 1976, which provided Canada with mutual commercial and economic cooperation. And then in 1982, Canada was granted greater political independence from the UK. Of course, this could be a coincidence...


Canadian Merchandise

There are only a few known examples of exclusively Canadian items of merchandise. In 1984, Waddingtons Games Canada released four Doctor Who jigsaw puzzles; these featured artwork of Omega, Davros and the Daleks, Sontarans, and K9 taken from Andrew Skilleter's Profile Prints series.


Canadian Fandom

The Canadian fan club, Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN) was founded in 1980; they produce the excellent fanzine ENLIGHTENMENT.


On 25-26 May 1985, Jon Pertwee appeared at the Who Party 7 convention in Kitchener, Ontario. He was interviewed for CKCO-TV.


We are grateful to Enlightenment, Michael J Doran, Ed Conroy, Alex Frazer-Harrison, Graeme Burk and Doug Orlowski for research material and general information about Canadian broadcasts.


Canada in Doctor Who

In a way, without Canada, Doctor Who wouldn't exist!

  • SYDNEY NEWMAN, the man who devised Doctor Who, was born in Toronto in 1917
  • Andrew Cartmel, the series' script editor from 1987 to 1989, was born in Canada


Several Canadian-born actors appeared in the series:


Other references to Canada include:


Links

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