The Three Doctors
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| Story Code: RRR / Season 10 | UK Airdate: 30 Dec 1972 to 20 Jan 1973 | Doctor: Jon Pertwee |
| 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.)
| Australia | Nov 73 | b/w | WH,PT |
| Singapore | Mar 74 | b/w | WH,PT |
| Hong Kong | Jul 74 | b/w | WH,PT |
| United Arab Emirates | 74 or 75 | PAL | |
| New Zealand | Oct 75 | PAL | WH,PT |
| Canada | Sep 76 | NTSC | WH |
| Brunei | Nov 76 | PAL | |
| United States | May 77 | NTSC | JP |
| Gibraltar | Jun 77 | b/w | WH,PT |
| Swaziland | May 78 | PAL | |
| Malta | May 79 | PAL | WH |
| Sierra Leone | 79 or 82? | PAL | WH |
| Sri Lanka | May 81 | PAL |
- It's interesting to note the number of countries that screened this story who never got the Hartnell and/or Troughton stories, given that the narrative of The Three Doctors relies heavily on the lore and mythology of the series, and on viewers being familiar with who the "other Doctors" were. (Which of the other Doctors viewers would have seen is noted.)
- The story was dubbed into Arabic.
- United Arab Emirates appears to have been the first to air this story in PAL colour. (They returned some of their tapes of this story in 1991.)
- The serial aired in Boston only; the rest of the United States did not get the serial until the 1983 re-issue. This appears to have been a special one-off deal struck between WGBX and the BBC that was in addition to the standard Time Life deal that was available elsewhere. (The BBC took the opportunity to also sell the serial to Canadian stations TVO and CKVU at the same time, presumably to cover the costs of having NTSC conversions made.)
Reissue
- The story aired in colour for the first time in Australia in a May 78 repeat.
- The serial was issued in mid-1983, as part of a package of 14 full colour Jon Pertwee stories sold to the United States.
- Several US stations considered this episode to be a special, not billing it as Doctor Who (see clipping above).
US TV Guide descriptions
More Information
Title: The Three Doctors
- Episode 1: A bolt of space lightning streaks toward Earth from outer space.
- Episode 2: Dr. Who and Jo pass through the black hole into a dimension of antimatter.
- Episode 3: The Doctor's "other self" joins him in the world of antimatter.
- Episode 4: All three Doctors risk cosmic annihilation to defeat Omega.
