The Gunfighters

Story Code: Z / Season 3	UK Airdate: 30 Apr to 21 May 1966	Doctor: William Hartnell
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This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Australia	Jan 67	b/w
Barbados	Apr 68	b/w
Zambia	Jul 68	b/w
Sierra Leone	Mar 71	b/w
Singapore	Mar 73	b/w

• The sale to Singapore was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening Jon Pertwee stories by this time. Singapore had received its prints for all the other season 3 stories from New Zealand, but where did its copy of The Gunfighters come from? If the NZBC didn't have a copy (see below...) did the BBC provide another set?
• The fact that the BBC retained its negatives of this story (and The Ark) but not of any other season 3 stories is very odd. Did the timing of this late sale to Singapore have anything to do with this retention?
• The Gunfighters was the only serial of this batch that was not purchased by New Zealand. Although the prints were not entered into the NZBC's film register, and there is no record of the serial being assessed by the censors, it is (albeit remotely) possible that the films were received, but that the serial was rejected at an earlier stage in the process, and never got as far as being entered into the film register. (Was it rejected by the programme purchasers because it didn't meet their quality control guidelines? Was it the song?)

Reissue

• The serial was reissued by the BBC in late 1985, and sold to:

United States	from Sep 85	b/w
Canada	1990s	b/w
New Zealand	Aug 00	b/w

• For this reissue, the cliffhanger lead-in to The Savages was removed.

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