Invasion of the Dinosaurs
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| Story Code: WWW / Season 11 | UK Airdate: 12 Jan to 16 Feb 1974 | Doctor: Jon Pertwee |
| First airings by location | UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite | Previous Story / Next Story |
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- Although The Time Warrior was the last full story to be telerecorded onto 16mm black and white film, at least the first and second episodes of WWW were also transferred to film.
- However, by August 1974, only six months after the serial had aired in the UK, it had been marked by the BBC as having no further commercial use - i.e. they did not want to sell it overseas.
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Where does one even begin?
GO INTO SOME DETAIL ABOUT HOW THIS WS "MISSING" UNTIL 1985
CONSPIRACY THEORIES AS TO HOWS AND WHYS
- A film recording for part one was recovered in the early 1980s.
- The story was finally released for foreign sale in early 1985, when it was provided as part of a package of all 24 Jon Pertwee stories.
- However, the black and white part one was not included. Part Two was edited slightly to remove references to scenes from part one (such as the attack by the pterodactyl). The opening titles captions were also adjusted, so PART TWO was now "PART ONE", PART THREE became "PART TWO", and so on.
- The serial was sold to:
| United States | from Mar 85 | NTSC |
| Australia | Nov 84 | PAL |
| New Zealand | Sep 86 | PAL |
| Canada | 1990s? | NTSC |
- All six parts - the black and white first instalment included - were released in later years. New Zealand aired all six episodes in a Jan 2001 repeat.
