Mission to the Unknown
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| Story Code: T/A / Season 3 | UK Airdate: 9 Oct 1965 | Doctor: William Hartnell |
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- The serial was offered to Australia in March 1966 along with Galaxy 4, The Myth Makers and The Daleks' Master Plan.
- It was viewed by the Australian censors on 13 September 1966 - and rejected due to its horror content. The ABC was not able to screen it, therefore it did not make any clearance payments to the BBC.
- Accordingly, other Commonwealth countries that were still buying the series at this time were not able to purchase the serial, as they relied on Australia to cover all the rights clearance costs.
- Interestingly, Singapore appears to have an 'extra' airdate between Galaxy 4 and The Myth Makers - so it is remotely possible that they did screen this single episode in 1972...
- The BBC was still offering the episode for sale as late as 1974. If a sale had taken place, the only candidate to make a purchase at that time would have been Nigeria...
POINTS TO CONSIDER:
- Even if the serial had been accepted and broadcast in Australia in 1966, the two other countries screening season three at the time - Barbados and Zambia - would probably have been denied broadcast rights anyway, because by the end of that year, the BBC had withdrawn the sale of all Dalek serials as part of their agreement with Terry Nation.
- By the time the moratorium had been lifted at the end of 1967, only New Zealand and Sierra Leone, which were still lagging behind with screening the series, would have been in a position to include and schedule the episode with the rest of season three...
- Both Barbados and Zambia had screened as far as The Smugglers by the end of 1968, and probably wouldn't have been interested in buying and screening this single episode 'out of sequence'.
- See also Hartnell Junkings
