Talk:Doctor Who in Australia
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[edit] 2003 repeat run
"In 2003 the ABC began repeating almost every episode. These were screened chronologically every week night, and included almost every surviving episode from 1963 to 1989 - except those featuring Daleks."
I could have sworn that there were Dalek episodes included in that run. Am I imagining things? - Gobeirne 03:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
All surviving William Hartnell Dalek stories were shown (The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Chase) and Tom Baker's The Genesis of the Daleks was shown. (The Daleks' Master Plan and the two Patrick Troughton Dalek stories no longer survive.) The three Jon Pertwee Dalek stories were skipped (Day of the Daleks, The Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks) as were Tom Baker's other story (Destiny of the Daleks) and those of the 1980s.
Two other stories which are complete were not shown: Troughton's final story The War Games, presumably because the Doctor conjures the image of a Dalek in his defence at his trial, and Pertwee's Frontier in Space, presumably because Daleks appear at the very end as a prelude to The Planet of the Daleks, which follows. The Five Doctors was shown (in the four-episode edit) with the sequence showing the first Doctor and Susan's encounter with the Dalek omitted.
Paul McGann's untitled tv movie was not shown.
We should change the statement for another reason: it was not almost all surviving episodes that were shown but rather almost all surviving stories. (Surviving episodes in incomplete stories were not shown.) Klippa 06:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
