Tom Baker stories

TOM BAKER

The Fourth Doctor (1974-1981)

Lionheart advertisement; Broadcasting, 13 September 1982

The Paris (Texas) News, Mar. 11, 1984

See the table in SELLING DOCTOR WHO for a list of the countries that screened the Fourth Doctor.

The Baker series was sold in seven "Groups" of stories.

Click on the story title to go to the list of (known) countries where that serial was screened.

GROUP A

These stories often aired in production code order.
Many countries did not screen Genesis of the Daleks.
Some countries also skipped Robot.
In terms of over-all sales, Group A sold to more countries than any other group of stories; at least 40...
These stories were dubbed or subtitled into various languages, such as Spanish (for Latin America), Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan and Galician (for Spain), Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Croatian, and Swedish.

GROUP B

These stories often aired in production code order.
These stories were dubbed or subtitled into various languages, such as Spanish (for Latin America), Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan and Galician (for Spain), Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Croatian, and Swedish.

GROUP C

These stories were dubbed into Latin American Spanish, and some into European Spanish, Catalan and Galician.

GROUP D

These stories were dubbed into Spanish.
GROUPS A to D were sold as a complete package to most countries in the 1970s and early 1980s.

GROUP E

Far fewer countries purchased GROUP E onwards, in comparison to the first four Groups.

GROUP F

Several countries stopped after Full Circle, and did not screen any further Tom Baker stories.
The original unfinished 6-parter Shada was never sold overseas, but the animated reconstruction was later broadcast by BBC America.

GROUP G

These four stories sold to only six countries, compared to Group F, which sold to up to ten.

However, with sales to nearly 200 PBS stations across the United States, in terms of total sales, these groups were all very successful!

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