Robot

Story Code: 4A / Season 12	UK Airdate: 28 Dec 1974 to 18 Jan 1975	Doctor: Tom Baker
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following known countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Netherlands	Jul 75	PAL
Hong Kong	Oct 75	PAL
Australia	Apr 76	PAL
United Arab Emirates	76?	PAL
New Zealand	Feb 78	PAL
United States*	Aug 78	NTSC	Howard da Silva intro ep1
Canada	Sep 78	NTSC
Gibraltar	Sep 78	PAL
Brunei	Nov 78	PAL
Nigeria	Jan 79	PAL
Mexico	May 79	NTSC
Chile	May 79	NTSC
Denmark	Jun 79	PAL
Malta	Aug 79	PAL
Puerto Rico	Oct 79?	NTSC
Swaziland	Feb 80	PAL
Italy	Feb 80	PAL
Costa Rica	Feb 80	NTSC
Ecuador	Mar 80	NTSC
Nicaragua	Aug 80	NTSC
Brazil	80?	PAL
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe	Oct 80	b/w
Jordan	Apr 81?	PAL
Venezuela	May 81?	NTSC
Honduras	81?	NTSC
Bahrain	Dec 81	PAL

• (*) The US date is based on the airdates for WTEV, which was the first US station to screen the initial package of 98 Tom Baker episodes.
• This story was dubbed into Spanish, Arabic, Italian, French.
• Although Robot was the first exposure to Doctor Who for many countries, the BBC and / or its distributors elected to retain the regeneration from Jon Pertwee into Tom Baker at the start of episode one.

Reissue

• The story was reissued in the mid-1980s, during the THIRD WAVE of sales.

Monaco	Nov 83	PAL
Saudi Arabia	mid-85	NTSC
Korea (South)	Mar 86	NTSC
Bahamas	Jun 86	NTSC
Yugoslavia	Oct 86	PAL
Greece	Dec 86	PAL
Malaysia	May 87	PAL
Spain	Feb 88	PAL
Turkey	Jun 88	PAL
France	Apr 89?	SECAM
Japan	Jun 93	NTSC
Sweden	Sep 96	PAL
Poland	03	PAL?

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