Switzerland
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SWITZERLAND is in central Europe.
DOCTOR WHO IN SWITZERLAND
Doctor Who was available in Switzerland on satellite stations such as BBC Prime
Doctor Who did not screen on any local Swiss television stations, but viewers could see the programme by tuning into transmissions from neighbouring countries such as Italy, France, and Germany.
In the late 1980s and 1990s, British satellite channels such as Super Channel and BBC Prime, both of which aired Doctor Who (see Cable and Satellite), were available.
DALEK MOVIES
PETER CUSHING Movies
The first Peter Cushing Dalek movie, "Dr Who and the Daleks" screened at the Nord Sud cinema in Geneva in August 1968.
Items of Interest
The circus special, "Billy Smart's Circus", featuring Jon Pertwee in the Whomobile, was shown on the French-language Télévision Suisse Romande (TVR) station on Monday, 7 January 1974.
Switzerland in Doctor Who
- International Space Command HQ was in Geneva (The Tenth Planet).
- Chameleon Tours flew to and from Zurich (The Faceless Ones).
- UNIT HQ was based in Geneva (first mentioned in The Invasion).
- The Keller Machine was first tested in Switzerland (The Mind of Evil).
- BOSS announced there were 1,584 "slave units" in Zurich (The Green Death).
- The absent Brigadier was in Geneva in The Android Invasion and The Seeds of Doom.
- The Doctor mentions Swiss folk-hero William Tell (The Face of Evil).
