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The selling and buying of Doctor Who - and any other TV series, for that matter! – was a fairly complicated process.
This 'chapter' covers the selling, distribution of Doctor Who around the world.
SUB CHAPTERS
Contents
Buying and Selling a TV Programme
For a summary of the processes relating to the buying of a TV programme, click HERE.
The THREE WAVES of Doctor Who
From as early as mid 1964, the BBC began offering Doctor Who to foreign broadcasters, starting with regular purchasers such as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong, soon followed by other Commonwealth countries in Africa, North America, the Caribbean and Europe.
A few years later, they began to exploit the series to non-Commonwealth and non-English speaking territories such as Thailand, the Middle East and other Arabic nations, and Latin American countries.
There were in effect three major "waves" during which the BBC exploited Doctor Who, with each wave spanning a period of around six years. The following tables list the countries in chronological broadcast order.
FIRST WAVE
The first wave of airdates was of William Hartnell stories and Patrick Troughton stories.
| 1 | New Zealand | 18 Sep 1964 |
| 2 | Australia | 16 Jan 1965 |
| 3 | Canada | 23 Jan 1965 |
| 4 | Singapore | 7 Apr 1965 |
| 5 | Gibraltar | 8 Apr 1965 |
| 6 | Malta | 24 May 1965 |
| 7 | Aden | 4 Jul 1965 |
| 8 | Nigeria | 3 Aug 1965 |
| 9 | Rhodesia | 26 Sep 1965 |
| 10 | Zambia | 19 Oct 1965 |
| 11 | Trinidad & Tobago | 31 Oct 1965 |
| 12 | Bermuda | 13 Dec 1965 |
| 13 | Uganda | 18 Jan 1966 |
| 14 | Jamaica | 3 Mar 1966 |
| 15 | Cyprus | 12 Mar 1966 |
| 16 | Barbados | 25 Apr 1966 |
| 17 | Hong Kong | 26 Apr 1966 |
| 18 | Kenya | 16 Jun 1966 |
| 19 | Ghana | 11 Jul 1966 |
| 20 | Thailand | 20 Aug 1966 |
| 21 | Mauritius | 21 Oct 1966 |
| 22 | Venezuela | 26 Feb 1967 |
| 23 | Sierra Leone | 12 Apr 1967 |
| 24 | Tunisia | 13 Apr 1967 |
| 25 | Mexico | 25 Mar 1968 |
| 26 | Morocco | circa 1968 |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | circa 1968 |
| 28 | Iran | 11 Jul 1968 |
| 29 | Dominican Republic | circa 1968 |
| 30 | Chile | 5 Jan 1969 |
| 31 | Jordan | circa 1969 |
| 32 | Libya | circa 1969 |
| 33 | Ethiopia | 22 Oct 1970 |
SECOND WAVE
In the mid 1970s, the BBC began exploiting the Jon Pertwee stories, both in colour and black and white, and the Tom Baker stories, in PAL and NTSC colour. (Overlapping with this wave was the final sale of William Hartnell stories, sold to Algeria in 1973.
Several countries that had screened a brief run of Hartnells in the 1960s later purchased new Pertwee and/or Baker episodes. These are marked #.
| 34= | United States | 21 Aug 1972 |
| 34= | Guam | 27 Nov 1972 |
| 35 | Algeria | 31 Dec 1973 |
From this point on, we have not numbered the countries, as there are too many first airdates that we have not been able to identify. Instead, we have grouped countries in
| . | United Arab Emirates | circa 1973 |
| . | Netherlands | 28 Jul 1975 |
| . | Bahrain | circa 1975? |
| . | Philippines | 6 Mar 1976 |
| . | Brunei | 8 Aug 1976 |
| # | Canada | 18 Sep 1976 |
| . | Qatar | circa 1977? |
| . | Lebanon | 22 Apr 1977 |
| # | Saudi Arabia | 26 Apr 1977 |
| . | Turkey | circa 1978 |
| . | Swaziland | 11 Feb 1978 |
| . | Japan | 3 Mar 1978 |
| . | Ecuador | circa 1978 |
| . | Brazil | circa 1979 |
| . | Guatemala | circa 1979 |
| # | Malta | 20 Apr 1979 |
| # | Mexico | 4 May 1979 |
| # | Chile | 9 May 1979 |
| # | Venezuela | circa 1979 |
| . | Denmark | 8 Jun 1979 |
| . | Costa Rica | 4 Feb 1980 |
| . | Italy | 6 Feb 1980 |
| . | Bangladesh | 1 Jul 1980 |
| . | Nicaragua | 6 Aug 1980 |
| # | Rhodesia | 2 Oct 1980 |
| # | Jordan | 7 Apr 1981 |
THIRD WAVE
After minimal success with offering the series to TV stations in Europe in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the BBC had further success with selling Doctor Who to the continent in the mid-1980s, but usually only Tom Baker stories. Only Netherlands and Germany bought Peter Davison stories, Colin Baker stories and/or Sylvester McCoy stories.
| . | Sri Lanka | 4 Apr 1984 |
| * | Netherlands | 30 Sep 1985 |
| # | Trinidad & Tobago | 11 Dec 1985 |
| # | Barbados | 30 Dec 1985 |
| . | Malaysia | 6 Feb 1986 |
| . | Korea (South) | 15 Mar 1986 |
| . | Taiwan | 18 Aug 1986 |
| . | Greece | 5 Dec 1986 |
| . | Dominica | by Feb 1987 |
| . | Honduras | by Feb 1987 |
| . | Yugoslavia | by Feb 1987 |
| . | Seychelles | 14 Feb 1987 |
| . | France | 19 Feb 1989 |
| . | Spain | circa 1989 |
| . | Germany | 22 Nov 1989 |
| . | Poland | circa 1990 |
FINAL WAVE
While countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and United States screened repeats of the series throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s, only one new country is known to have screened any Tom Baker stories in the 1990s:
| . | Sweden | circa 1997 |
Refer to each of the Doctor profile pages for further information on what stories and to which countries:
- William Hartnell stories
- Patrick Troughton stories
- Jon Pertwee stories
- Tom Baker stories
- Peter Davison stories
- Colin Baker stories
- Sylvester McCoy stories
Ratio: Doctor per Country
Not every country saw all seven Doctors, and not every story of each Doctor was seen. Some countries saw just one Doctor, others just two.
With the exception of Australia and New Zealand, the only two countries to purchase and screen Doctor Who in chronological order, most countries saw only one or two Doctors. This table illustrates the nineteen known combinations of Doctor/s per country:
| 1st Dr | 2nd Dr | 3rd Dr | 4th Dr | 5th Dr | 6th Dr | 7th Dr | No. | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | 15 | Aden, Algeria, Bermuda, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran, Kenya, Jamaica, Libya, Mauritius, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia | ||||||
| X | X | 2 | Uganda, Zambia | |||||
| X | X | X | 1 | Singapore | ||||
| X | X | X | X | 1 | Hong Kong | |||
| X | X | X | X | X | 1 | Gibraltar | ||
| X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 2 | Australia, New Zealand |
| X | X | X | 1 | Nigeria | ||||
| X | X | 1 | Sierra Leone | |||||
| X | X | X | 2 | Malta, Saudi Arabia | ||||
| X | X | X | X | X | X | 1 | Canada | |
| X | X | 7 | Barbados, Chile, Jordan, Mexico, Rhodesia, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela | |||||
| X | 9 | Abu Dhabi, Ascension Island?, Bangladesh, Korea (South)?, Kuwait?, Lebanon, Philippines, Qatar, Turkey? | ||||||
| X | X | 3 | Brunei, Dubai, Sri Lanka | |||||
| X | X | X | 1 | Swaziland | ||||
| X | X | X | X | X | 1 | United States | ||
| X | X | X | 1 | Japan | ||||
| X | 19 | Bahrain, Brazil, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan?, Yugoslavia? | ||||||
| X | X | 2 | Netherlands, Seychelles | |||||
| X | X | X | 1 | Germany | ||||
| 34 | 8 | 24 | 42 | 9 | 5 | 6 |
