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Revision as of 02:16, 10 December 2010
GUAM is a small island to the south of the Philippines in Asia. It is a territory of the United States.
Since the island is technically part of the United States (which was the 33rd country to screen the series), so we haven't counted it separately in the Selling Doctor Who profile.
Contents
Profile
| Region | Australasia/Asia | . |
| Television commenced | 19xx | . |
| Colour System | PAL/SECAM|SECAM/NTSC|NTSC | 19xx |
| Population | xx mill | WRTH, 19xx |
| TV Sets | xx mill | WRTH, 19xx |
| TV Language/s | English | . |
| Commonwealth? | YES/NO | . |
Television Stations / Channels
In 1972, Guam had two television stations: KGZZ (channel x) and KGTV (channel x); Doctor Who aired on channel x. Both stations used the NTSC colour 525 line system.
DOCTOR WHO IN GUAM
BBC Records
Guam is named on a memo of 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:
| FF | The Highlanders | 4 |
| GG | The Underwater Menace | 4 |
| HH | The Moonbase | 4 |
| JJ | The Macra Terror | 4 |
| KK | The Faceless Ones | 6 |
Guam therefore bought the standard 13 story / 72 episode package of Jon Pertwee stories.
Origin of the Tapes
The television distributor for Guam was Time Life Films. They supplied the programme on NTSC colour video tape.
Transmission
JON PERTWEE
The series started on Monday, 27 November 1972, at 6.00pm. On the Friday, at 8.00pm, the same episode was repeated.
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.
From 13 October 1973, the Friday repeat shifted to Saturday afternoons at 3.30pm, and the Monday episode shifted to a 6.30pm timeslot.
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?
There is no clear record that Guam screened Doctor Who again after 1974.
TV listings
JON PERTWEE
TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper Guam xxxx.
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".)
From 6 July 1973, the newspaper was generally better with providing titles.
Guam in Doctor Who
There are no instances where Guam is mentioned in the series.
