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 * Colin Meek, the writer of webcast '''Doctor Who - Death Comes to Time''', was said to have been a New Zealander. Colin Meek was actually a pseudonym for the webcast's producer, Dan Freedman.
 * The opening scenes of the 2003 web-cast animated adventure, '''Scream of the Shalka''', are set at Mount Ruapehu.
-* And although the new series is outside the scope of '''BroaDWcast''', New Zealand is mentioned (twice) in '''Voyage of the Damned''' (2008), and in '''Wish World''' (2025).
+* And although the new series is outside the scope of '''BroaDWcast''', New Zealand is mentioned (twice) in '''Voyage of the Damned''' (2007), and in '''Wish World''' (2025).

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 * Colin Meek, the writer of webcast '''Doctor Who - Death Comes to Time''', was said to have been a New Zealander. Colin Meek was actually a pseudonym for the webcast's producer, Dan Freedman.
 * The opening scenes of the 2003 web-cast animated adventure, '''Scream of the Shalka''', are set at Mount Ruapehu.
-* And although the new series is outside the scope of '''BroaDWcast''', New Zealand is mentioned twice in '''Voyage of the Damned.'''
+* And although the new series is outside the scope of '''BroaDWcast''', New Zealand is mentioned (twice) in '''Voyage of the Damned''' (2008), and in '''Wish World''' (2025).

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 ** John Carson (Ambril: [[Snakedance]]).
-*Michael Wisher was unable to revise his role as Davros in [[Destiny of the Daleks]] in 1979 as he was touring New Zealand with a D'Oyly Carte production of one of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas at the time.
+*Michael Wisher was unable to revise his role as Davros in [[Destiny of the Daleks]] in 1979 as he was touring New Zealand with a D'Oyly Carte production of one of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas at the time - likely to be '''HMS Pinafore''' which was touring NZ in July 1979.
 *Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan) worked on a New Zealand soap-opera, '''Close to Home''', for several years in the early 1980s, a job which excluded him from making an appearance in [[The Five Doctors]].

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 * '''February 1980''': TV One and South Pacific Television merge and become Television New Zealand ([[wikipedia:Television New Zealand|TVNZ]]); the channels are re-named TV1 and TV2.
 * '''February 1980 to July 1999''': '''Doctor Who''' screens on either TV1 and TV2 at various times during this period.
-* '''From May 2000''' to '''June 2001''': [[wikipedia:Prime (New Zealand)|PRIME]] becomes the new home for classic '''Doctor Who''', and from 2005, the channel for the new series...
+* '''From May 2000''' to '''June 2001''': [[wikipedia:Prime (New Zealand)|PRIME]] becomes the new home for classic '''Doctor Who''', and from '''2005''', the channel for the new series...
 ** [http://www.primetv.co.nz/ PRIME TV WEBSITE]
 *A selection of classic series then airs on the New Zealand satellite channel '''[[Wikipedia:BBC_UKTV|BBC UKTV]]''' from '''January 2013''' to '''August 2013''', and later in '''November 2013''' until '''2015'''.
 *The next NZ station to screen classic '''Doctor Who''' is the Sky satellite station '''[[Wikipedia:The Zone (New Zealand)|The Zone]]''', which screens episodes from '''January 2017''' until '''June 2017''', when the station is closed.
 *The series then switches over to the newly-launched Sky satellite station '''[[Wikipedia:Jones!|Jones! too]]'''. This channel continues to screen random stories - three episodes back to back every Saturday morning - until '''21 September 2019'''; the final serial to air was [[The Curse of Fenric]].
+*Prime screened every new series episode through until '''December 2017''', with the final Peter Capaldi Christmas special.
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 *'''February 2002 to July 2005''': '''Doctor Who''' is absent from New Zealand television screens for three years, but returns in mid-2005 with the start of the [[NEW SERIES]]...
 *'''23 November to 28 December 2003''': [[Slipback]] is repeated.
-*From '''July 2005''' to '''September 2019''', both New and Classic '''Doctor Who''' is shown on a number of different New Zealand stations and channels: Prime, UKTV, The Box, The Zone, Sky 5, TVNZ 2, and Jones!too…
+*From '''July 2005''' through into the '''2020s''', both New and Classic '''Doctor Who''' is shown on a number of different New Zealand stations and channels: Prime, UKTV, The Box, The Zone, Sky 5, Jones!too, and TVNZ 2…

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	Over this three year period, TVNZ aired repeats of {{K}}, {{XX}}, {{UU}}, {{WW}}, {{AAA}}, {{BBB}}, {{CCC}}, {{DDD}}, {{EEE}}, {{FFF}}, {{GGG}}, {{HHH}} and {{JJJ}}, plus [[The Time Meddler]], which had recently had a repeat screening in the UK. (Ironically, part 4 of this story was a restored copy of the very same film print that had previously aired in NZ in 1969!)		Over this three year period, TVNZ aired repeats of {{K}}, {{XX}}, {{UU}}, {{WW}}, {{AAA}}, {{BBB}}, {{CCC}}, {{DDD}}, {{EEE}}, {{FFF}}, {{GGG}}, {{HHH}} and {{JJJ}}, plus [[The Time Meddler]], which had recently had a repeat screening in the UK. (Ironically, part 4 of this story was a restored copy of the very same film print that had previously aired in NZ in 1969!)

−	During November and December 1993, [[Day of the Daleks]] aired as TVNZ's celebration of the series' 30th Anniversary. The BBC documentary '''"Resistance is Useless"''' also aired in December.	+	During November and December 1993, [[Day of the Daleks]] aired as TVNZ's celebration of the series' 30th Anniversary. The BBC documentary '''"[[Resistance is Useless]]"''' also aired in December.

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 Between 1964 and 2002, '''Doctor Who''' screened on a number of different channels in New Zealand.
-Television commenced on '''1 June 1960''', under the '''[[wikipedia:NZBC|New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC)]]''', a state-owned station.
+Television commenced on '''1 June 1960''', initially under the control of the state-owned '''[[wikipedia:NZBC|New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS)]]''', which also managed all radio stations. Following changes to the Broadcasting Act in 1961, the '''NZBC''' was created to oversee all forms of broadcasting. This change took effect from 1 April 1962.
 Television was broadcast on a regional basis – with transmitters in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin – until '''29 October 1973''', when television across the country became fully networked. Two days later, colour broadcasts commenced, although it wasn't until '''June 1975''', with the introduction of the second channel, that black and white broadcasts ceased. (In the mid-1980s regular black and white programming made a welcome return to prime-time schedules.)
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 ==='''REPEATS (TVNZ) (1991-1993)'''===
-Over this three year period, TVNZ aired repeats of {{K}}, {{XX}}, {{UU}}, {{WW}}, {{AAA}}, {{BBB}}, {{CCC}}, {{DDD}}, {{EEE}}, {{FFF}}, {{GGG}}, {{HHH}} and {{JJJ}}, plus [[The Time Meddler]], which had recently had a repeat screening in the UK. (Ironically, these four episodes were restored copies from the very same films that had previously aired in NZ in 1969!).
+Over this three year period, TVNZ aired repeats of {{K}}, {{XX}}, {{UU}}, {{WW}}, {{AAA}}, {{BBB}}, {{CCC}}, {{DDD}}, {{EEE}}, {{FFF}}, {{GGG}}, {{HHH}} and {{JJJ}}, plus [[The Time Meddler]], which had recently had a repeat screening in the UK. (Ironically, part 4 of this story was a restored copy of the very same film print that had previously aired in NZ in 1969!)
 During November and December 1993, [[Day of the Daleks]] aired as TVNZ's celebration of the series' 30th Anniversary. The BBC documentary '''"Resistance is Useless"''' also aired in December.
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 It had taken '''35''' years for [[The Keys of Marinus]] to reach TV screens in New Zealand!
-The package included [[The War Machines]], from the same set of film prints that had previously screened in New Zealand in 1969!
+The version of [[The Time Meddler]] part 1 shown by Prime was missing parts of the opening TARDIS scene; this cut film print was the one that had been recovered from [[Nigeria]] in 1984/85 but had originated from New Zealand - and was therefore the '''very same one''' that had previously been aired by the NZBC back in 1968/69!
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 * '''From May 2000''' to '''June 2001''': [[wikipedia:Prime (New Zealand)|PRIME]] becomes the new home for classic '''Doctor Who''', and from 2005, the channel for the new series...
 ** [http://www.primetv.co.nz/ PRIME TV WEBSITE]
-*A selection of classic series then airs on the New Zealand satellite channel '''[[UKTV Drama|UKTV/BBC UKTV]]''' from '''January 2013''' to '''August 2013''', and later in '''November 2013''' until '''2015'''.
+*A selection of classic series then airs on the New Zealand satellite channel '''[[Wikipedia:BBC_UKTV|BBC UKTV]]''' from '''January 2013''' to '''August 2013''', and later in '''November 2013''' until '''2015'''.
 *The next NZ station to screen classic '''Doctor Who''' is the Sky satellite station '''[[Wikipedia:The Zone (New Zealand)|The Zone]]''', which screens episodes from '''January 2017''' until '''June 2017''', when the station is closed.
 *The series then switches over to the newly-launched Sky satellite station '''[[Wikipedia:Jones!|Jones! too]]'''. This channel continues to screen random stories - three episodes back to back every Saturday morning - until '''21 September 2019'''; the final serial to air was [[The Curse of Fenric]].
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 ==='''"REPEATS" (Other Stations) (2003 onwards…)===
-[[NEW SERIES|New series]] episodes aired on both '''PRIME''' and satellite station '''[[UKTV Drama|UKTV]]''' (aka '''BBC UKTV''') for the next few years. '''UKTV''' then started airing classic '''Doctor Who''' from '''6 January 2013''', starting with [[An Unearthly Child]], then a random selection of stories up to [[Survival]].
+[[NEW SERIES|New series]] episodes aired on both '''PRIME''' and satellite station '''[[Wikipedia:BBC_UKTV|BBC UKTV]]''' for the next few years. '''UKTV''' then started airing classic '''Doctor Who''' from '''6 January 2013''', starting with [[An Unearthly Child]], then a random selection of stories up to [[Survival]].
-In '''November 2013''' they aired a section of stories, one from each Doctor, to celebrate the 50th anniversary.  After that, it was back to the [[NEW SERIES|new series]], which then switched to '''[[Wikipedia:The Zone (New Zealand)|The Zone]]''' from '''July 2016'''.
+In '''November 2013''' UKTV aired a selection of stories, one from each Doctor, to celebrate the 50th anniversary.  After that, it was back to the [[NEW SERIES|new series]], which then switched to '''[[Wikipedia:The Zone (New Zealand)|The Zone]]''' from '''July 2016'''.
 From '''January 2017''' to '''June 2017''', Sky's '''The Zone''' screened a selection of classic stories (i.e. no Daleks!) starting with [[An Unearthly Child]] and ending with [[The Deadly Assassin]], when '''The Zone''' shut down.