Troughton Junkings

This Table summarises the possible sequences of bicycling of the Patrick Troughton stories from country to country between 1967 and 1976.

We have tried to keep it as simple as possible, and without resorting to the complicated exchange of countries supplying different stories to different recipients; generally, the same grouping of stories would have been supplied by the same provider.

• BOLD text in the Received from and Final Fate columns denotes our favoured preference if more than one option is offered

Story	Country	Received from	Final Fate
The Power of the Daleks	Australia	Print 1 (from BBC Sydney)	returned to BBC in 1975
	New Zealand	Print 2 (from BBC Sydney)	= to Singapore in 1972
	Singapore	= Print 2 (from New Zealand)	returned to BBC, or junked
The Highlanders, The Underwater Menace, The Moonbase, The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones	Australia	Print 1 (from BBC Sydney)	to BBC in 1975 / or junked
	Uganda	Print 2 (from BBC London)	to one of either, or: = Singapore = Hong Kong = New Zealand = Zambia returned to BBC, or junked
	Singapore	Print 3 (from BBC Sydney), or = Print 2 from Uganda [1]	= to Zambia returned to BBC, or junked, or [1]
	Hong Kong	Print 4 or 3 (from BBC Sydney), or = Print 2 from Uganda [1]	= to Zambia returned to BBC, or junked, or [1]
	New Zealand	Print 5 or 4 or 3 (from BBC Sydney), or = Print 2 from Uganda [1]	Destroyed (FF, JJ) returned to BBC London in 1970 (KK) junked in 1974? (GG, HH)
	Zambia	Print 6 or 5 (from BBC London), or = Print 2 from Uganda, or = Print 3 or 4 from Singapore or Hong Kong	returned to BBC, or junked
The Evil of the Daleks	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to BBC in 1975
	Hong Kong	Print 2 from BBC Sydney	= to Singapore, or = to New Zealand, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Singapore	Print 3 from BBC Sydney, or = Print 2 from Hong Kong	returned to BBC, or junked
	New Zealand	Print 4 or 3 from BBC Sydney, or = Print 2 from Hong Kong	Destroyed
The Tomb of the Cybermen	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to BBC in 1975
	Singapore	Print 2 from BBC Sydney	= to Hong Kong in 1970 [2], or returned to BBC, or junked
	Hong Kong	Print 3 from BBC Sydney, or = Print 2 from Singapore [2]	prints retained, and recovered in 1991
	New Zealand	Print 4 or 3 from BBC Sydney	junked?
The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Enemy of the World, The Web of Fear	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to BBC in 1975
	Hong Kong	Print 2 from BBC Sydney [1]	= to New Zealand (OO, PP, QQ only) in 1970, or = to Gibraltar in 1973, or = to Zambia in 1973, or = to Nigeria (NN, PP, QQ only) in 1974, or back to BBC, or junked
	Singapore	Print 3 from BBC Sydney [1]	= to New Zealand (OO, PP, QQ only) in 1970, or = to Gibraltar in 1973, or = to Zambia in 1973, or = to Nigeria (NN, PP, QQ only) in 1974, or returned to BBC, or junked
	New Zealand	Print 4 from BBC Sydney, or = Print 2 from Hong Kong, or = Print 3 from Singapore (but not NN)	= to Nigeria (NN, PP, QQ only) in 1974, or returned to BBC in 1974, or junked in 1974
	Gibraltar	Print 5 or 4 from BBC London, or = Print 2 from Singapore, or = Print 3 from Hong Kong	= to Zambia (NN, OO, PP only) in 1973, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Zambia	Print 6 or 5 from BBC London (NN, OO, PP only), or = Print 3 from Hong Kong, or = Prints from Gibraltar	= to Nigeria (NN, PP, QQ only) in 1974, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Nigeria (BPTV)	NN, PP, QQ only Print 7 or 6 or 5 from BBC London, or = Print 3 from Hong Kong, or = Prints from Gibraltar, or = Prints from New Zealand	returned to BBC, or junked
Fury from the Deep, The Wheel in Space, The Dominators, The Mind Robber, The Invasion, The Krotons	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to BBC in 1975 / or junked
	Hong Kong	Print 2 from BBC Sydney [1]	= RR and SS to New Zealand, or = to Gibraltar in 1972/73, or = to Zambia in 1973, or = to Nigeria (NBC) (TT, WW only) in 1974, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Singapore	Print 3 from BBC Sydney [1]	= RR and SS to New Zealand, or = to Gibraltar in 1972/73, or = to Zambia in 1973, or = to Nigeria (NBC) (TT, WW only) in 1974, or returned to BBC, or junked
	New Zealand	Print 4 from BBC Sydney (RR, SS only), or = Print 2 from Hong Kong (RR, SS only), or = Print 3 from Singapore (RR, SS only)	to Nigeria (BPTV) (SS only) in 1974 returned to BBC in 1974, or junked in 1974
	Gibraltar	Print 5 or 4 from BBC London, or = Print 2 from Singapore, or = Print 3 from Hong Kong	= to Nigeria (NBC) (TT, WW only) in 1974, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Nigeria (BPTV)(NBC)	SS (BPTV); TT, WW (NBC) only: Print 6 or 5 or 4 from BBC London, or = SS only from New Zealand in 1974, and/or = Print 3 from Hong Kong, or = Prints from Gibraltar, or	returned to BBC, or junked
The Seeds of Death, The Space Pirates, The War Games	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to BBC in 1975
	Hong Kong	Print 2 from BBC Sydney [1]	= to Gibraltar in 1972, or = to Zambia in 1976, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Singapore	Print 3 from BBC Sydney [1]	= to Gibraltar in 1972, or = to Zambia in 1976, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Gibraltar	Print 4 from BBC London, or = Print 2 from Singapore, or = Print 3 from Hong Kong	= to Zambia in 1976, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Zambia	Print 5 or 4 from BBC London, or =Print 2 from Hong Kong, or = Print 3 from Singapore, or = Print 4 from Gibraltar = from BBC, being prints returned from the other countries	returned to BBC, or junked

GENERAL SUMMARY

Keeping the bicycling routes as simple as possible, if we assume that country X always supplied country Y with its prints, even after an interim period of three years, then:

• Australia – always had its own prints, and returned all but a few to the BBC in 1975
• Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand probably always got their own sets of prints
• Gibraltar may have got all its prints from the same source: Singapore, over a two year period
• Zambia may have got all its prints from the same source: Hong Kong, with an interim period of three years
• Nigeria may have got only the few complete stories that Hong Kong and New Zealand still had at the time (1974); in other words, Hong Kong sent the first consignment of ten stories to Zambia in 1973, then started disposing of the others. When Nigeria 'called' in 1974, New Zealand sent what they could, and Hong Kong sent what they could. Then, in 1976, when Zambia wanted more, none of the other countries still had any prints, but the BBC had XX, YY and ZZ, which were the only three returned copies (from Australia, Gibraltar, Singapore and/or Hong Kong) they still had...

NOTES:

• [1] Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand cannot have shared any prints between them if only for the fact that the censorship and/or airdates across all three countries either overlap or are far too close once one factors in the time required to transport in, prepare, screen, and transport out prints in time to meet the next country's schedule

• [2] See The Tomb of the Cybermen page for more on this