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| − | '''[[Wikipedia:Brunei|Brunei]]''' is a tiny nation located on the island of Borneo in the South China Sea to the north of [[Australia]]. It was inducted as the 49th member of the British Commonwealth in 1984.
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| − | |First broadcast = 1975
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| − | |First colour broadcast = 1975
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| − | |Doctors seen = [[Jon Pertwee stories|Pertwee]], [[Tom Baker stories|T Baker]]
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| − | ==Population==
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| − | When '''Doctor Who''' screened in Brunei in 1976, the population was 145,000, and licensed TV sets numbered only 2,000 (per [[WRTH]], 1966). In 1984, the population was 195,000, and TVs were 30,000, with 28,000 in colour.
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| − | ==TV & system==
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| − | Brunei began its television service in 1975, adopting the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
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| − | There is just one television station: '''Radio Dan Talivishen Brunei''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster.
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| − | The main language of Brunei is English, plus XXXXXXXX.
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| − | =='''DOCTOR WHO IN BRUNEI'''==
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| − | Brunei was the 40th country to screen '''Doctor Who''' (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
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| − | ==[[BBC Records]]==
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| − | '''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''10''' stories by 28 February 1977.
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| − | '''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(43)"''' stories (by 10 February 1987).
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| − | In '''DWM''', Brunei is identified in '''11''' story Archives: {{RRR}}, {{PPP}}, {{QQQ}}, {{UUU}}, {{YYY}}, {{ZZZ}}, {{4A}}, {{4B}}, {{4C}}, {{4D}} and {{4H}}, with a sales date of '''1977'''.
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| − | The tally from '''The Seventies''' is made up of the above six Pertwees and the first four Bakers.
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| − | There is an overlap between the 1977 and 1987 sales, which leaves a further '''33''' stories to account for. Two of these are {{KKK}} and {{XXX}}, which means the remaining 31 are all [[Tom Baker stories]]. (Although it being a single [[Peter Davison story) can't be dismissed – see [[Seychelles]] and [[Swaziland]].)
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| − | We know from the listings the identity of five 6-parters. Three haven't been accounted for - {{4S}}, {{4Z}} and {{5F}}. The maximum number of 6-parters is therefore eight.
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| − | But using a simple mathematical formula can determine the maximum and minimum number of 4-parters and 6-parters needed to fit within 170 airdates:
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| − | *170 - (5 x 6) = 140 / 4 = 35
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| − | *170 – (6 x 6) = 134 / 4 = 33.5
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| − | *170 – (7 x 6) = 128 / 4 = 32
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| − | *170 – (8 x 6) = 122 / 4 = 30.5
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| − | Of these only the first and third give a whole number for the number of 4-parters. But none of these equates to 43 stories – the first totals 40 stories, and the third is only 39.
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| − | There '''has''' to be one 6-parter in the fifth run of 18 episodes, while the fourth run cater for either one or two 6-parters.
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| − | Therefore, we are three or four stories short of the recorded 43. There are two possibilities to explain the discrepancy:
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| − | * the unaccounted for stories were purchased but did not screen
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| − | * the unaccounted for stories did screen, but they have completely slipped under the radar during our newspaper research, but since that's nearly 20 episodes, we honestly can't see how that could be possible...
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| − | ==Stories bought and broadcast==
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| − | ===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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| − | Eight stories, 38 episodes:
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| − | |KKK||[[Day of the Daleks]]||4
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| − | |PPP||[[Carnival of Monsters]]||4
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| − | |QQQ||[[Frontier in Space]]||6
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| − | |RRR||[[The Three Doctors]]||4
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| − | |UUU||[[The Time Warrior]]||4
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| − | |XXX||[[Death to the Daleks]]||4
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| − | |YYY||[[The Monster of Peladon]]||6
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| − | |ZZZ||[[Planet of the Spiders]]||6
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| − | Brunei therefore bought what was available of the extant full colour PAL [[Jon Pertwee stories]]. ([[The Green Death]] was not available due to censorship issues in [[Australia]].)
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| − | The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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| − | ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
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| − | 17 identified stories, 70 identified episodes:
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| − | 14 or 15 unidentified stories, 62 unidentified episodes:
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| − | |4A||[[Robot]]||4
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| − | |4B||[[The Sontaran Experiment]]||2
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| − | |4C||[[The Ark in Space]]||4
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| − | |4D||[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]||4
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| − | |4E||[[Genesis of the Daleks]]||6
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| − | |4F||[[Terror of the Zygons]]||4
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| − | |4G||[[Pyramids of Mars]]||4
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| − | |4H||[[Planet of Evil]]||4
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| − | |4J||[[The Android Invasion]]||4
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| − | |4K||[[The Brain of Morbius]]||4
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| − | |4L||[[The Seeds of Doom]]||6
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| − | |4M||[[The Masque of Mandragora]]||4
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| − | |4N||[[The Hand of Fear]]||4
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| − | |4P||[[The Deadly Assassin]]||4
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| − | |4Q||[[The Face of Evil]]||4
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| − | |4R||[[The Robots of Death]]||4
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| − | Brunei bought GROUP A, B, C and at least parts of GROUPs D to F of the [[Tom Baker stories]].
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| − | The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
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| − | ====Origin of the Tapes?====
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| − | It is known that [[New Zealand]] sent the video tapes of [[Death to the Daleks]] to Brunei on '''18 February 1976''', a year ahead of its transmission in January 1977. (It's possible that [[New Zealand]] sent all its Tom Baker episodes to Brunei, as the [[New Zealand]] screenings were several months ahead of Brunei's from 1978 onwards.)
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| − | ==Transmission==
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| − | ===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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| − | The first screenings in Brunei were from Sunday, '''8 August 1976''', staring with [[Day of the Daleks]]. The timeslot start was usually around 6.32pm, give or take the odd minute.
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| − | Brunei appears to have been the first country to screen [[Frontier in Space]] in colour. (The master tapes had been held by [[BBC Sydney]]; it wasn't until the mid-1980s that these master tapes were returned to BBC in London.)
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| − | Although [[New Zealand]] had screened {{KKK}}, {{PPP}}, {{RRR}}, {{UUU}} and {{XXX}} ahead of Brunei, Brunei screened {{YYY}} and {{ZZZ}} a month ahead of [[New Zealand]]!
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| − | The run ended on '''1 May 1977'''; a run of 39 weeks, with no episode on 13 March 1977.
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| − | ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
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| − | The Baker era commenced on '''Doctor Who''''s 15th anniversary, Thursday, '''23 November 1978''', at 6.30pm. Stories aired in production code order. 36 weeks later, on '''26 July 1979''' the first run ended with part four of [[The Android Invasion]].
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| − | Viewers had to wait four months to see the series again, on Thursday, '''15 November 1979''', picking up from where the run left off, with [[The Brain of Morbius]]. The series moved to Wednesdays from 23 January 1980, at 6.05pm, with [[The Masque of Mandragora]]. This 22 week run ended on '''9 April 1980''', with [[The Deadly Assassin]], a story that had been unable to screen in [[Australia]] due to censorship, but which had already screened in [[New Zealand]] in 1979.
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| − | After a three month break, the series was back from '''16 July 1980''', on Wednesdays still. [[The Face of Evil]] aired at 5.10pm or 5.05pm, then the timeslot shifted ahead to 6.30pm (or thereabouts) for the rest of the run: 36 episodes later on '''25 March 1981''' (with no episode on 13 August) the run came to an end.
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| − | The listings stopped printing story titles from 3 September 1980, so it is unknown what the last 28 episodes consisted of. 28 episodes equates to seven 4-parters, or two 6-parters ({{4S}} and {{4Z}}?) and four 4-parters. The 11 March 1981 listing gives a timeslot of 5.30pm to 7.00pm – is this a misprint, or an indication that more than one episode aired? There were no papers available for the seven weeks between 19 November and the end of December, so it's not known if there were any breaks, or even doubled-up episodes, especially over the Christmas / New Years' period. (If there '''had''' been several double-ups, that would help account for some of the 'missing' required to make up the total of 43.)
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| − | The series returned on Friday, '''4 July 1981''', for 18 weeks, at 6.05pm or 5.10pm. Again, what aired is unknown – but there would have been at least three 4-parters and one 6-parter.
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| − | Nine months later, on Friday, '''2 July 1982''', at 5.05 began a further run of eight unidentified episodes – presumably two 4-parters. (The timeslot varied from 5.00pm to 5.30pm.)
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| − | After ten month gap, the final run of twelve episodes commenced on Sunday, '''19 June 1983'''. The first listing was illustrated with a photo of Bill Fraser as General Grugger from [[Meglos]]: the accompanying caption merely stated it was a '''"a new series"'''. (There is no absolute certainty that [[Meglos]] screened first; it could have been the second or third story of that block.) The series came to an end on '''4 September 1983'''.
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| − | '''170''' identifiable episodes screened in Brunei. 38 Pertwees and the rest were Bakers.
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| − | As we've noted in the BBC Records section above, the unidentified stories could only be made up of one 6-parter and 14 4-parters, or three 6-parters and 11 4-parters.
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| − | 1 – The seven 4-parters would have to be made up of any combination of 4-part serials from seasons 15 and 16. For the alternative, the two 6-parters can really only be {{4S}} and {{4Z}}, with four of the five season 15 4-parters screening in between.
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| − | 2 – The 6-parter would have to be {{5F}}, in which case all the 4-parters would have to be from season 16. If the seven 4-parters from the 4th run were made up of five from season 15 and two from season 16, then the three 4-parters in the 5th run would be the balance from season 16.
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| − | 3 – If the 6-parter in the 5th run was indeed {{5F}}, these two are likely to be season 17 stories – perhaps {{5K}} and {{5L}}, if anything because on balance, those two were widely sold together without the other season 17 stories.
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| − | 4 – These two are likely to be season 18 stories – probably {{5N}} and {{5R}}, as the last four stories from that season were not widely sold. And depending on whether [[Meglos]] was indeed the first to screen determines whether or not {{5N}} is included in this run.
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| − | There is no clear record that Brunei screened '''Doctor Who''' again after 1983.
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| − | ==TV listings==
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| − | TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''Borneo Bulletin''. Most of the Pertwee listings contained detailed synopses of the episodes. Some of the titles were incorrect: "'''Frontier'''" or "'''Frontiers of''' Space" used for that serial. Serial {{XXX}} was named '''"Death OF the Daleks"'''; "The '''Mask''' of Mandragora" was used for all four parts, and a missing letter "S" gave us "The Deadly '''Assasin'''".
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| − | As note above, there were seven issues 'missing' from mid-November to the end of the year, so it's impossible to know if the series took a break over this time.
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| − | ==Links==
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| − | *[[Main Page]]
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| − | *[[Broadcasts around the World]]
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| − | *[[Articles & Analysis]]
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| − | *[[BBC Records]]
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| − | *[[Doctors]]
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| − | **[[Jon Pertwee stories]]
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| − | **[[Tom Baker stories]]
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