Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Story Code: WWW / Season 11	UK Airdate: 12 Jan to 16 Feb 1974	Doctor: Jon Pertwee
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	Previous Story / Next Story

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• Although The Time Warrior was the last full story to be telerecorded onto 16mm black and white film, at least the first and second episodes of WWW were also transferred to film.
• However, by August 1974, only six months after the serial had aired in the UK, it had been marked by the BBC as having no further commercial use - i.e. they did not want to sell it overseas.
  • CONSPIRACY THEORY: Where does one even begin?

GO INTO SOME DETAIL ABOUT HOW THIS WAS "MISSING" UNTIL 1985

CONSPIRACY THEORIES AS TO HOWS AND WHYS

BULLET POINT OF EVENTS

• A film recording for part one was subsequently recovered in early 1983.

Issue

• The story was finally released for foreign sale in early 1985, when it was included in a package of all 24 Jon Pertwee stories.
• However, the black and white part one was not included; the story was offered as a five-parter only. The opening titles captions were also adjusted, so PART TWO was now "PART ONE", PART THREE became "PART TWO", and so on. Part Two was also edited slightly to remove all references to scenes from part one (such as the attack by the pterodactyl).
• The serial was sold to:

United States	from Mar 85	NTSC
Australia	Nov 84	PAL
New Zealand	Sep 86	PAL
Canada	1990s?	NTSC

• All six parts - the black and white first instalment included - were released in later years. New Zealand aired all six episodes in a Jan 2001 repeat season.

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