User:Jon Preddle

There are potentially dozens of paths the film prints of the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton stories could have taken as they were bicycled from country to country over the years.

This table summarises a series of possible paths, ones which (based on available information) we feel are likely bicycling "chains"

We have tried to keep each "chain" as simple as possible, 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 to the same recipient.

• The change-over between the two telerecordings methods - Suppressed Field and the later-adopted and superior Stored Field - has also been noted.
• If a country was in the distribution circuit of Television International Enterprises Ltd, it is marked as such.
• The possible final fates of the films are also noted at the end of each chain.

SEASONS ONE -- TWO

Suppressed Field Telerecordings

• The 16mm film copies of these grouped serials were made as "low-quality" Suppressed Field Telerecordings.

Countries in Bicycling Group	Group of Stories	Final Fate	Notes
Australia	A---B---C---D---E---F---G M---N---P
Australia --- New Zealand	H---J---K---L
Australia	Q---R---S	Returned to the BBC in 1975
New Zealand --- Denmark	A---B---C	Sent to Denmark in 1968	Did not screen in Denmark
Malta --- Cyprus --- Uganda --- Ghana	A---B---C	Uganda may have already received a set (from Zambia?), so sent them to Ghana
Malta --- Cyprus --- Hong Kong	D---E
Malta --- Cyprus	F---G---H	Films discovered in Cyprus, and returned to the BBC in 1984
Malta	J---K---L
Canada	A---B---C---D---E
Singapore --- Hong Kong	A---B---C F---G---H---J---K---L
Singapore --- New Zealand --- Iran	D	Sent to Iran in 1967	Did not screen in Iran
Singapore	E Q---R---S
Nigeria --- Rhodesia --- Zambia --- Uganda	A---B---C F---G----H---J---K---L
Nigeria --- Rhodesia --- Zambia --- Uganda --- Ghana	D---E
Nigeria --- Zambia	M---N---P---Q---R---S
Gibraltar	A---B---C---D---E---F---G---H--- J---K---L---M---N---P---Q---R---S		Distributed by TIE Ltd
Aden --- Kenya	A---B---C---D---E---F---G---H---J---K---L		Distributed by TIE Ltd
Trinidad & Tobago --- Jamaica --- Barbados	A---B---C---D---E---F---G---H---J---K---L		Distributed by TIE Ltd Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of some of these serials?
Jamaica --- Barbados	M		Distributed by TIE Ltd Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of this serial?
Barbados --- Jamaica	N---P---Q---R---S		Distributed by TIE Ltd Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of these five stories?
Bermuda	A---B---C---D---E		Distributed by TIE Ltd Last use of the Suppressed Field Telerecordings of these five stories?

Stored Field Telerecordings (Dubbed)

• Circa 1966/67, fresh telerecordings were made for serials A to S using the superior Stored Field Telerecording method.
• The timing for the creation of these new prints was likely due to when the first "non-English" versions of the serials were sold, as prints without a soundtrack were needed for those markets, so it made sense for the BBC to strike fresh copies in English at the same time

Countries in Bicycling Group	Group of Stories	Final Fate	Notes
Thailand	A---B---C---D---E---F---G---H---J---K---L		First of the Stored Field Telerecordings? Although Music/Effects Tracks prints would have been sent to enable dubbing into Thai, the English soundtrack was intact and the broadcast simulcast in both languages
Tunisia	A---B---C---E---F---G---J		Dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon
Morocco	A---B---C---E---F---G---J---K---L	Arabic print of F part four with Morocco TV label returned to the BBC	Dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon
Libya --- Algeria	A---B---C---E---F---G---J---K---L	Possibly returned to the BBC before 1976	Dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon
Saudi Arabia --- Jordan	A---B---C---E---F---G---J---K---L		Dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon
Venezuela --- Chile	A---B---C---E---F---G---J---K---L---N---Q		Dubbed into Spanish in Mexico
Chile	R		Dubbed into Spanish in Mexico
Mexico	A---B---C---E---F---G---J---K---L---N---Q---R	The films were still held by the Televisa SA TV station in Mexico in 1984; presumably they are still there now!	Dubbed into Spanish in Mexico
Iran	A---B---C---E---F---G---J---K---L---N---Q---R		Dubbed into Farsi D had also been sent by New Zealand in 1967 as Audition copy

Stored Field Telerecordings (English)

Countries in Bicycling Group	Group of Stories	Final Fate	Notes
New Zealand	Q
New Zealand --- Nigeria	S	Sent to Nigeria in 1973 Films discovered in Nigeria, and returned to the BBC in 1984
Mauritius --- Sierra Leone --- Ethiopia	A---B---C---D---E---F---G---H---J L---M---N---P---Q
Mauritius --- Ethiopia	K
Sierra Leone --- Ethiopia	R
Mauritius --- Sierra Leone	S

SEASONS THREE -- FOUR -- FIVE -- SIX

Countries in Bicycling Group	Group of Stories	Final Fate	Notes
Australia	T---T/A---U---V---W---X---Y---Z---AA---BB--- CC---DD---EE---FF---GG---HH---JJ---KK---LL--- MM---NN---OO---PP---QQ---RR---SS--- TT---UU---VV---WW---XX---YY---ZZ	Most of the films returned to the BBC in 1975 or 1976 TT was later forwarded to the BFI	T/A and V did not screen
Barbados	T---U---W---X---Y---Z---AA---BB---CC		[1]
Zambia --- Sierra Leone	T---U---W---X---Y---AA---BB---CC	Film store apparently destroyed circa 1999 during civil war
Zambia --- Sierra Leone --- Singapore	Z
New Zealand --- Singapore	T---U---W---X---Y---AA---BB---CC---DD---EE	Sent to Singapore in 1972
New Zealand --- Singapore --- Nigeria	BB	Sent to Singapore in 1972 Sent to Nigeria in 1973 Discovered in Nigeria, and returned to the BBC in 1984
New Zealand	FF---GG---HH---JJ---KK---LL MM---NN---OO---PP---QQ---RR---SS	KK returned to the BBC in 1970 Others destroyed or junked by 1974	KK, OO and RR did not screen
Uganda --- Zambia	FF---GG---HH---JJ---KK
Singapore	FF---GG---HH---JJ---KK---LL
Singapore --- Gibraltar	NN---OO---PP---QQ---RR---SS---UU---VV
Singapore --- Gibraltar --- Zambia	XX---YY---ZZ
Singapore --- Gibraltar --- Nigeria	TT---WW
Hong Kong	FF---GG---HH---JJ---KK---LL---MM RR---TT---UU---VV---WW---XX---YY---ZZ	MM discovered in Hong Kong, and returned to the BBC in 1992
Hong Kong --- Zambia	OO
Hong Kong --- Zambia --- Nigeria	NN---PP---QQ
Hong Kong --- Nigeria	SS

General Summary

WILLIAM HARTNELL STORIES

Keeping the bicycling routes as simple as possible, if we assume that country X generally always supplied country Y with its prints, then:

• Australia – always had its own prints, and returned all but a few to the BBC in 1975
• Zambia and Sierra Leone likely shared prints; of note, Nigeria acquired The War Machines from Singapore in 1973, which suggests perhaps the other African countries Zambia and Sierra Leone no longer still had their prints by then
• The New Zealand censors classified these episodes between May and July 1968, which was before or during the broadcasts in Barbados and Zambia, so New Zealand's prints cannot have been sourced from either of those countries
• It's a matter of recorded fact that New Zealand sent its prints to Singapore in 1972; since New Zealand did not have The Gunfighters, Singapore's prints of that must have been supplied from elsewhere (from Sierra Leone perhaps?)

PATRICK TROUGHTON STORIES

Keeping the bicycling routes as simple as possible, if we assume that country X generally always supplied country Y with its prints, even after an interim period of several 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, 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
• 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 all its prints from the same source – Zambia

Notes

• [1] - There is a window of only three to four months between the airdates in Barbados and Zambia, but Zambia could well have received its prints before Barbados, but scheduled the serials to screen much later; therefore we have not factored in that Barbados may have sent its prints to Zambia, although it could have done!

• For an alternative take on what happened to the prints, refer to the MISSING EPISODE NEXUS Site

Hungary

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	● Date of first broadcast: 19 February 2006
	● Station/s: Cool TV / TWIDW
	See our New Series page for further details

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	● Start Date: 26 January 2006
	● Station: ATV World | ● TWIDW
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NEW SERIES

	Hungary was one of the first to screen the new series:
	● Date of first broadcast: 19 February 2006
	● Station/s: Cool TV/RTL Klub
	See our New Series page for further details