Canada
CANADA is in the North America continent. It is a member of the British Commonwealth.
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Population
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).
TV & system
Canada began its television service in 1946.
The first broadcasts were on Canada Broadcasting Corporation, a government-owned commercial broadcaster.
Later series aired on TV Ontario
The Vancouver public broadcasting station CKVU
Colour transmissions began in 1966 using the NTSC colour broadcast system.
Language/s
The main language of Canada is English, plus French in the eastern state Quebec.
DOCTOR WHO IN CANADA
Canada was the 3rd country to screen Doctor Who (see Selling Doctor Who).
BBC Records
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 in the 1977 list was the Pertwee storey UUU.
The Eighties - The Lost Chapters records a sale of 64 stories (by 10 February 1987).
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; 2 McCoys.
Stories bought and broadcast
WILLIAM HARTNELL
Five stories, 26 episodes:
| A | An Unearthly Child | 4 |
| B | The Daleks | 7 |
| C | Inside the Spaceship | 2 |
| D | Marco Polo | 7 |
| E | The Keys of Marinus | 6 |
Canada therefore bought GROUP A of the William Hartnell stories.
The programme was supplied as 16mm black and white film prints with English soundtracks.
JON PERTWEE
XXX stories, XX episodes:
| . |
Canada therefore bought xxxxDDDDxx and of the Jon Pertwee stories.
The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
TOM BAKER
XXX stories, XX episodes:
| . |
Canada therefore bought GROUP ONE and GROUP TWO of the Tom Baker stories.
The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
PETER DAVISON
XXX stories, XX episodes:
| . |
Canada therefore bought GROUP ONE and GROUP TWO of the Peter Davison stories.
The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
COLIN BAKER
| . |
Canada therefore bought GROUP ONE and GROUP TWO of the Colin Baker stories.
The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
SYLVESTER McCOY
XXX stories, XX episodes:
| . |
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.
Transmission
WILLIAM HARTNELL
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Canada had regional screenings, with different cities across the country airing the series at different times according to the world time zones, but on the same day.
The series started on Saturday, 23 January 1965, at 5.00pm on the CBC channel 3. 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.
JON PERTWEE
TV ONTARIO
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.
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.)
'CKVU – VANCOUVER
No details know – except they aired Inferno in 1979.
TOM BAKER
TRANSMISSION WILL RESUME SHORTLY!
The Talons of Weng-Chiang did not air due to problems with the story's apparent racism towards the Chinese.
PETER DAVISON
TRANSMISSION WILL RESUME SHORTLY!
COLIN BAKER
TRANSMISSION WILL RESUME SHORTLY!
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.
SYLVESTER McCOY
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.
PATRICK TROUGHTON
Did the available stories ever air?
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There is no record that Canada screened Doctor Who again, even after the switch to colour in XXXX.
TV listings
1960s TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper Globe and Mail from Toronto.
1970s
None.
1980s
None.
Fate of the Tapes
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:
Of note, the tape cassette of part 2 of The Curse of Peladon had a label on it that said HBO TIME-LIFE DISTRIBUTORS.
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.
Canada in Doctor Who
Wow – where do we start!
- Sydney Newman
- Actor Robert Reilly The Tenth Planet
- Ottowa The Seeds of Death
- The wheat fields of Canada The Enemy of the World
- UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose The Trial of a Time Lord
etc
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