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	Assuming that this is an authentic advertisement from the day and not a piece of set-dressing added by the film-makers, the solitary paper poster – which doesn't bear the name of a cinema or have dates and session times, and it must be said looks a bit ''too clean'' and unmarked for an exposed paper artefact – can't have been on the uneven wall surface for very long, which might indicate the Dalek film was a relatively recent release.		Assuming that this is an authentic advertisement from the day and not a piece of set-dressing added by the film-makers, the solitary paper poster – which doesn't bear the name of a cinema or have dates and session times, and it must be said looks a bit ''too clean'' and unmarked for an exposed paper artefact – can't have been on the uneven wall surface for very long, which might indicate the Dalek film was a relatively recent release.
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		+	The French-dubbed film possibly also had Arabic subtitles.
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	Algeria was the '''35th''' country to screen '''Doctor Who'''. It was the last to screen the [[William Hartnell stories\|William Hartnell stories]] in the 1970s (see [[Selling Doctor Who]].)		Algeria was the '''35th''' country to screen '''Doctor Who'''. It was the last to screen the [[William Hartnell stories\|William Hartnell stories]] in the 1970s (see [[Selling Doctor Who]].)

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		+	==[[Peter Cushing]] and the Daleks==
		+	[[File:Daleks poster Z.JPG\|right\|thumb\|450px\|Screen grab from the 1969 movie "Z" showing the French poster of the second Peter Cushing Dalek film]]
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		+	The second of the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies appears to have been shown in Algeria.
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		+	The 1969 political thriller '''''"[[Wikipedia:Z (1969 film)\|Z]]"''''' directed by Costa-Gavras was filmed in Algiers that year. During a sequence with the two main characters driving a car through the city streets, they pass a wall onto which has been affixed the poster for '''"Les Daleks Envahissant la Terre"''', the French title of the film.
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		+	Assuming that this is an authentic advertisement from the day and not a piece of set-dressing added by the film-makers, the solitary paper poster – which doesn't bear the name of a cinema or have dates and session times, and it must be said looks a bit ''too clean'' and unmarked for an exposed paper artefact – can't have been on the uneven wall surface for very long, which might indicate the Dalek film was a relatively recent release.
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	==[[BBC Records]]==		==[[BBC Records]]==

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	It is not known what happened to these [[Arabic]] prints. The fact that the BBC held a collection of [[Arabic]] prints in late 1976 might indicate that Algeria sent the films to England sometime after broadcasts had completed.		It is not known what happened to these [[Arabic]] prints. The fact that the BBC held a collection of [[Arabic]] prints in late 1976 might indicate that Algeria sent the films to England sometime after broadcasts had completed.

−	The film print for [[The Aztecs]] part four, bearing a label from the Moroccan TV station is owned by a private film collector.	+	The film print for [[The Aztecs]] part four, bearing a label from the Moroccan TV station, is owned by a private film collector.

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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
 '''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''"(4)"''' stories prior to February 1977. '''The Handbook''' identifies these as: {{C}}, {{E}}, {{K}} and {{L}}.
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 ====Origin of the Prints?====
-[[Libya]] was the Arabic nation that had screened '''Doctor Who''' prior to Algeria – the same '''37''' episodes were purchased by that country in late 1969. However, since Libya was suffering a political revolution at that time (from September 1969), the film prints acquired by Algeria may have originated from [[Jordan]], where the series had screened sometime around 1969.
+[[Libya]] was the last Arabic nation to screen '''Doctor Who''' prior to Algeria – the same '''37''' episodes were purchased by that country in late 1969. However, since Libya was suffering a political revolution at that time (from September 1969), and the fate of those films is unknown, the film prints acquired by Algeria may have originated from [[Jordan]], where the series had screened sometime around 1969, or more directly from neighbouring [[Morocco]].
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 It is not known what happened to these [[Arabic]] prints. The fact that the BBC held a collection of [[Arabic]] prints in late 1976 might indicate that Algeria sent the films to England sometime after broadcasts had completed.

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-|'''Country Number (35)'''||1973||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND THIRD WAVE]]
+|'''Country Number (35)'''||1973||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
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 |'''Region'''||[[:Category:Africa|Africa]]||

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 ==TV listings==
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-TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''El Moujahid'', a French language paper published in the capital, Addis Abbas.
+TV listings have been obtained from the newspaper ''El Moujahid'', a French language paper.
 In the French paper, the series was called '''Le Docteur Who''', which is the French equivalent of the [[Arabic]] title '''{{Arabic}}'''.

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	====Origin of the Prints?====		====Origin of the Prints?====

−	[[Libya]] was the Arabic nation that had screened '''Doctor Who''' prior to Algeria – the same '''37''' episodes were purchased by that country in late 1969. ~~Therefore it is highly likely~~ that Algeria~~'s prints came~~ from ~~Libya~~.	+	[[Libya]] was the Arabic nation that had screened '''Doctor Who''' prior to Algeria – the same '''37''' episodes were purchased by that country in late 1969. However, since Libya was suffering a political revolution at that time (from September 1969), the film prints acquired by Algeria may have originated from [[Jordan]], where the series had screened sometime around 1969.

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 =='''DOCTOR WHO IN ALGERIA'''==
-=='''ادكتورهو / LE DOCTEUR WHO IN ALGERIA'''==
+=='''ادكتورهو / LE DOCTEUR WHO'''==
 Algeria was the '''35th''' country to screen '''Doctor Who'''. It was the last to screen the [[William Hartnell stories|William Hartnell stories]] in the 1970s (see [[Selling Doctor Who]].)

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−	=='''DOCTOR WHO (ادكتورهو / LE DOCTEUR WHO) IN ALGERIA'''==	+	=='''DOCTOR WHO IN ALGERIA'''==
		+	=='''ادكتورهو / LE DOCTEUR WHO IN ALGERIA'''==

	Algeria was the '''35th''' country to screen '''Doctor Who'''. It was the last to screen the [[William Hartnell stories\|William Hartnell stories]] in the 1970s (see [[Selling Doctor Who]].)		Algeria was the '''35th''' country to screen '''Doctor Who'''. It was the last to screen the [[William Hartnell stories\|William Hartnell stories]] in the 1970s (see [[Selling Doctor Who]].)

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 The programme was supplied as 16mm black and white film prints with [[Arabic]] soundtracks.
-Only part one of [[An Unearthly Child]] was dubbed into [[Arabic]], and supplied to Algeria.
+Only part one of [[An Unearthly Child]] was supplied to Algeria.
 ====Origin of the Prints?====