Sweden
SWEDEN is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe.
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Profile
| Country Number (68?) | 1996 | THIRD WAVE |
| Region | Europe | |
| Television commenced | 1956 | |
| Colour System | 1 April 1970 | PAL |
| Population | 1996 | unknown |
| TV Sets | 1996 | unknown |
| Language/s | Swedish | Subtitled |
Television Stations / Channels
Sweden began its television service in 1956.
There is just one state-owned television station: Sveriges Television AB (SVT). Colour transmissions began 1 April 1970 under the PAL colour broadcast system. (SVT screened the new series from 2007: NEW DOCTOR WHO ON SVT)
From 24 March 1987, Sweden could watch a run of Doctor Who on the UK satellite station Super Channel, and on BBC Prime in the mid-1990s.
Sweden also has a number of its own satellite stations - ZTV, launched in May 1992, screened 'classic' Doctor Who in the late 1990s.
The Swedish-based satellite / cable station, TV4 Science Fiction, later aired all the available classic episodes from early 2008.
Language/s
The principal language of Sweden is Swedish, although English is also spoken. Foreign programmes are usually subtitled.
DOCTOR WHO IN SWEDEN
Sweden was about the 68th country (the 14th in Europe) to screen Doctor Who (see Selling Doctor Who).
BBC Records
Sweden is not recorded in any known BBC Records. According to the Australian fanzine, Data Extract (issue 150), Tom Baker's first season aired there in 1997.
The website DOCTOR WHO IN SVERIGE provides detailed background to the series (old and new) in Sweden.
Stories bought and broadcast
JON PERTWEE
One story, 6 episodes:
| English Title | Swedish | Translation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZZZ | Planet of the Spiders | 6 | Spindlarnas Planet | Spiders Planet / Planet of Spiders |
TOM BAKER
Eight stories, 34 episodes:
| English Title | Swedish | Translation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4A | Robot | 4 | ||
| 4C | The Ark in Space | 4 | Rymdarken | Space Ark |
| 4D | Revenge of the Cybermen | 4 | ||
| 4E | Genesis of the Daleks | 6 | Dalekarnas Födelse | Daleks' Birth / Birth of the Daleks |
| 4F | Terror of the Zygons | 4 | ||
| 4G | Pyramids of Mars | 4 | ||
| 4H | Planet of Evil | 4 | ||
| 4J | The Android Invasion | 4 | Androiderna Anfaller | Android Attack / Attack of the Androids |
Sweden therefore bought part of GROUPs A and B of the Tom Baker stories. (The Sontaran Experiment was not purchased, possibly because the BBC had not made a "music / effects only" soundtrack for it back in 1986.)
The programme was supplied (presumably) on PAL colour video tapes complete with the original English soundtrack.
Transmission
JON PERTWEE
The run on ZTV commenced with the final adventure of the third Doctor, Planet of the Spiders, which aired Saturdays and Sundays, from 24 August 1996.
The serial was later repeated twice, from 12 January 1997 and again from 1 June 1997.
TOM BAKER
A run of eight Tom Baker serials commenced on Saturday, 14 September 1996, on the same Saturday/Sunday cycle. The stories aired in production order. There was no episode on 28 December 1996.
The week after the conclusion of The Android Invasion, a repeat run of the same nine serials commenced from 12 January 1997.
A third run of the episodes commenced 1 June 1997. After the repeat of part one of Robot, the series shifted to Mondays and Tuesdays (so for that week only, it aired four days in a row).
The second repeat concluded at the end of Genesis of the Daleks, on Tuesday, 19 August 1997. (There was no episode on 18 August.) The other four serials were not repeated for a second time.
"TV4 SF Repeats"
From 3 March 2008, the Swedish station TV4 Science Fiction commenced airing all the available classic series episodes, but skipping some of the Dalek ones.
Merchandise
Videos
The 1996 TV Movie was released on videotape by MCA/Universal/CIC Video in 1997.
TV listings
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TV listings have been sourced from the website:
Print TV listings are from Dagens Nyheter. Although the billing from 24 August 1996 says "med Tom Baker", the first serial was the Jon Pertwee story, Planet of the Spiders. Interestingly, despite the listings being in Swedish, the story titles published were the familiar English ones, rather than the Swedish equivalents.
Sweden in Doctor Who
Coincidentally, the only two on-screen references to Sweden in Doctor Who occur in stories with the word "Seeds" in the title!
- There is a T-Mat terminal in Stockholm (The Seeds of Death)
- Harrison Chase says he has dedicated his "Floriana Requiem" to Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist (The Seeds of Doom).
