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==February==
 
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*'''20 February''': Between 1976 and 1989, each new season of '''Doctor Who''' made its overseas broadcast debut in a different country - either the [[Netherlands]], [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] or the [[United States]]...
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:''Or that's what we thought'', but it turns out that bar a handful (due to extra-special circumstances) '''all''' those fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor series had their foreign premieres in '''West Germany'''!    Although the German broadcaster RTL-Plus began screening McCoy episodes in late 1989, those episodes - and a whole lot more - had already been aired in parts of West Germany by the '''[[British Forces Broadcasting Service]] (BFBS)''', which operated a closed-system  television network that was available only at British military bases dotted around the country. The McCoy stories were also shown by the BFBS on  the [[Falkland Islands]].
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::*We've added the '''[[BFBS|new BFBS profile]]''', and a page for the [[Falkland Islands]], plus made various changes and additions to the pages for the [[Netherlands]] (parts of which could receive the military signals), [[Germany]], [[Belize]], [[Gibraltar]] and [[Cyprus]] accordingly. 
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*'''19 February 2021''': This is our '''tenth''' anniversary. The site was officially launched on '''19 February 2011''' at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles. A big ''Thank you'' to all our readers and supporters - and an even bigger special '''Thank you''' to our contributors - see the very long list on the Main Page.  We couldn't have done this without you.
 
*This website turns '''TEN''' on '''19 February'''. We were going to have a party with cake, balloons and clowns, but that's been scrapped due to COVID. Instead, each day over the next ten days we'll be Tweeting a "Fun Fact" highlighting something of interest that was discovered during research. On the tenth day, we'll be uploading a new profile - that of a previously unfamiliar broadcaster who was actually the first to... Well, that would be telling!
 
*This website turns '''TEN''' on '''19 February'''. We were going to have a party with cake, balloons and clowns, but that's been scrapped due to COVID. Instead, each day over the next ten days we'll be Tweeting a "Fun Fact" highlighting something of interest that was discovered during research. On the tenth day, we'll be uploading a new profile - that of a previously unfamiliar broadcaster who was actually the first to... Well, that would be telling!
 
   
 
   

Revision as of 04:22, 21 February 2021

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2021 Updates

February

Or that's what we thought, but it turns out that bar a handful (due to extra-special circumstances) all those fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor series had their foreign premieres in West Germany! Although the German broadcaster RTL-Plus began screening McCoy episodes in late 1989, those episodes - and a whole lot more - had already been aired in parts of West Germany by the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS), which operated a closed-system television network that was available only at British military bases dotted around the country. The McCoy stories were also shown by the BFBS on the Falkland Islands.
  • 19 February 2021: This is our tenth anniversary. The site was officially launched on 19 February 2011 at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles. A big Thank you to all our readers and supporters - and an even bigger special Thank you to our contributors - see the very long list on the Main Page. We couldn't have done this without you.
  • This website turns TEN on 19 February. We were going to have a party with cake, balloons and clowns, but that's been scrapped due to COVID. Instead, each day over the next ten days we'll be Tweeting a "Fun Fact" highlighting something of interest that was discovered during research. On the tenth day, we'll be uploading a new profile - that of a previously unfamiliar broadcaster who was actually the first to... Well, that would be telling!


January


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