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	'''Doctor Who''' – or, as it was known in Latin America, '''El Dr Misterio''' – aired on '''[[wikipedia:Televicentro (Canal 2)\|Channel 2]]'''.		'''Doctor Who''' – or, as it was known in Latin America, '''El Dr Misterio''' – aired on '''[[wikipedia:Televicentro (Canal 2)\|Channel 2]]'''.
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−	~~[[Spanish]] is the official language of Nicaragua. Most foreign television programmes were dubbed into [[Spanish]].~~

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 |'''[[WRTH|TV Sets]]'''||1980|| 100,000
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-|'''Language/s'''||[[Spanish]]||
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 ==Television Stations / Channels==
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 [[Spanish]] is the official language of Nicaragua. Most foreign television programmes were dubbed into [[Spanish]].
 =='''DOCTOR WHO (EL DOCTOR MISTERIO) IN NICARAGUA'''==
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 Nicaragua was about the '''53rd''' country to screen '''Doctor Who''', and the '''fourth''' in [[:Category:Central America| Central America]] (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]). It was just one of several Latin American countries that purchased the series towards the end of the SECOND WAVE.
 ==[[BBC Records]]==
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 Nicaragua is not identified in any of the '''DWM''' story Archives.
 ==Stories bought and broadcast==
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 The 1996 [[TV Movie]] was available via the [[HBO OLE]] cable station in '''1999'''.

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	There is no clear record that '''Dr Misterio''' screened in Nicaragua after 1982.		There is no clear record that '''Dr Misterio''' screened in Nicaragua after 1982.
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		+	===[[Paul McGann stories\|PAUL McGANN]]===
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		+	The 1996 [[TV Movie]] was available via the [[HBO OLE]] cable station in '''1999'''.
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 * The fact that the first four episodes aired in isolation, and were billed as '''"Dr Who"''' rather than '''"Dr Misterio"''', and that there was a gap of two months before the next set of episodes, does offer the possibility that perhaps Nicaragua was initially supplied with [[Robot]] (and other serials?) in '''English'''. (These would have been the NTSC American versions with the Howard da Silva narrations.) The series went to air, but was quickly pulled; the SSTV deciding to wait for copies of the [[Spanish]] language editions. The series resumed – either with the Spanish [[Robot]] or starting with the next serial. (If the former, then the 31 December 1981 episode could have been part four of [[Terror of the Zygons]], and the last full serial to air would have been [[The Android Invasion]].)
 *It's probably a big fat coincidence that Nicaragua resumed the series shortly after its neighbour, [[Costa Rica]], had started its second repeat run of the 23 Baker serials.
-*And if two different versions of [[Robot]] did air, this might even explain the figure of '''24''' stories sold to Nicaragua (23 + 1).
+*And if two different versions of [[Robot]] did air, this might even explain the figure of '''24''' stories recorded as having been sold to Nicaragua (23 + 1).
 There is no clear record that '''Dr Misterio''' screened in Nicaragua after 1982.

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 CONSPIRACY THEORY:
 * The fact that the first four episodes aired in isolation, and were billed as '''"Dr Who"''' rather than '''"Dr Misterio"''', and that there was a gap of two months before the next set of episodes, does offer the possibility that perhaps Nicaragua was initially supplied with [[Robot]] (and other serials?) in '''English'''. (These would have been the NTSC American versions with the Howard da Silva narrations.) The series went to air, but was quickly pulled; the SSTV deciding to wait for copies of the [[Spanish]] language editions. The series resumed – either with the Spanish [[Robot]] or starting with the next serial. (If the former, then the 31 December 1981 episode could have been part four of [[Terror of the Zygons]], and the last full serial to air would have been [[The Android Invasion]].)
-*It's probably a big fat coincidence that Nicaragua resumed the series shortly after its neighbour, [[Costa Rica]], was starting its second repeat run of the 23 Baker serials.
+*It's probably a big fat coincidence that Nicaragua resumed the series shortly after its neighbour, [[Costa Rica]], had started its second repeat run of the 23 Baker serials.
 *And if two different versions of [[Robot]] did air, this might even explain the figure of '''24''' stories sold to Nicaragua (23 + 1).
 There is no clear record that '''Dr Misterio''' screened in Nicaragua after 1982.
 ==TV listings==

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 Presumably 23 stories, 98 episodes:
-[[File:Nicarag 1.JPG|thumb|right|350px|Generic TV Listings for both channels, Nicaragua]]
+[[File:Nicarag 1.JPG|thumb|right|350px|Generic TV Listings for both channels, Nicaragua, 6 July 1981]]
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-|'''Country Number (N/K)'''||1980||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
+|'''Country Number (53?)'''||1980||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
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 |'''Region'''||[[:Category:Central America|Central America]]||
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 ====Origin / Fate of the Tapes?====
-[[Mexico]], [[Chile]], and [[Costa Rica]] had all been screening Tom Baker stories around this time.
+[[Mexico]] and [[Chile]] had both finished screening Tom Baker stories around this time. [[Costa Rica]] was in the middle of a repeat run in 1980.
 * But see [[Missing Misterio|THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MISTERIOS]]
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 ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
-[[File:Nicarag 2.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic listing for Dr Misterio (Color)]]
+[[File:Nicarag 2.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic listing for Dr Misterio (Color), 6 July 1981]]
 The series started on Wednesday, '''6 August 1980''', at 6.00, but only for four weeks!
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 There are '''237''' clear airdates accounted for between '''6 August 1980''' and '''27 April 1982'''. On the assumption that the package consisted only of the Tom Baker 23 stories / 98 episodes (and not '''24''' as noted in '''The Eighties'''), all episodes must have aired at least '''twice''' (196) with a further 40 or 41 for a '''third''' time.
 There is no clear record that '''Dr Misterio''' screened in Nicaragua after 1982.

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 Nicaragua began its television service in 1956. There were two television stations, '''Channel 2''' and '''Channel 6''', both privately-owned.
-After the July 1979 revolution, both channels became part of the state-owned television service, '''The Sandinista Television System (SSTV)'''.
+After the July 1979 revolution, both channels became part of the state-owned television service, '''Sistema Sandinista de Televisión (SSTV)'''.
 '''Doctor Who''' – or, as it was known in Latin America, '''El Dr Misterio''' – aired on '''[[wikipedia:Televicentro (Canal 2)|Channel 2]]'''.

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 In Spanish-language countries, the series was known as '''Doctor Misterio'''.
-Nicaragua was about the '''53rd''' country to screen '''Doctor Who''', and the '''fourth''' in [[:Category:Central America]] (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]). It was one of several Latin American countries that purchased the series towards the end of the SECOND WAVE.
+Nicaragua was about the '''53rd''' country to screen '''Doctor Who''', and the '''fourth''' in [[:Category:Central America| Central America]] (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]). It was just one of several Latin American countries that purchased the series towards the end of the SECOND WAVE.
 ==[[BBC Records]]==
-'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(24)"''' stories (by 10 February 1987), which could be an error, as the same number was assigned also to [[Guatemala]] and [[Honduras]].
+'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(24)"''' stories (by 10 February 1987), which could be an error, as only '''23''' [[Tom Baker stories]] are thought to have aired. If there indeed were '''24''', it is not known what the other story was.
+(The same 'incorrect' number was assigned also to [[Guatemala]] and [[Honduras]].)
 Nicaragua is not identified in any of the '''DWM''' story Archives.
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 Nicaragua therefore bought GROUPs A to D of the standard package of [[Tom Baker stories]] in [[Spanish]] that were distributed by Time-Life.
-* For the Spanish story titles, go to: [[Spanish|SPANISH]]
+* For the Spanish story titles, go to: [[Spanish#TOM BAKER|SPANISH]]
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 There are '''237''' clear airdates accounted for between '''6 August 1980''' and '''27 April 1982'''. On the assumption that the package consisted only of the Tom Baker 23 stories / 98 episodes (and not '''24''' as noted in '''The Eighties'''), all episodes must have aired at least '''twice''' (196) with a further 40 or 41 for a '''third''' time.
 ==TV listings==

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-'''[[Wikipedia:Nicaragua|Nicaragua]]''' is part of the [[:Category:Central America|Central American]] isthmus, and lies between [[Honduras]] and [[Costa Rica]].
+'''[[Wikipedia:Nicaragua|NICARAGUA]]''' is part of the [[:Category:Central America|Central American]] isthmus, and lies between [[Honduras]] and [[Costa Rica]].
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 ==Profile==