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 Colour transmissions began in 1971 using the [[Wikipedia:SECAM|SECAM]] colour broadcast system that was common throughout [[:Category:Europe|Europe]]. TVP changed to the PAL system in 1995.
-In Poland, foreign programmes were sometimes dubbed or subtitled, but the most common translation method was having Polish narration spoken over the original dialogue explaining what was happening (a bit like the old Howard da Silva narrations on the 1970s US broadcasts). This was known locally as "Polskim Lektorem" (''Polish Lektor'' / ''Polish Reader'').
+In Poland, foreign programmes were sometimes dubbed or subtitled, but the most common translation method was having Polish spoken over the original dialogue. This was known locally as "polski lektor" (''Polish Lektor'' / ''Polish Reader'').
 Television viewers in Poland also had access to several foreign satellite stations, such as [[Germany]]'s '''RTL-Plus''' (on which '''Doctor Who''' aired in the late 80s / early 90s), the European '''[[Wikipedia:Filmnet|Filmnet]]''' platform (a Polish 'branch' launched in 1995; this later merged with Canal+ in February 1997), and '''Sky One'''.
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 [[File:Poland 2003.JPG|400px|right|thumb|2003 Panopticon Handbook – 40 Fabulous Facts]]
-It is not known what "private station" this is, as no private TV stations are recorded in the 1990 or any subsequent [[WRTH|World Radio Television Handbook]]. (A list of current Polish TV stations – both public and private - can be seen '''[[wikipedia:Television in Poland|HERE]]''').
+It is not known what "private station" this could have been, as no private TV stations are recorded in the 1990 or any subsequent [[WRTH|World Radio Television Handbook]]. (A list of current Polish TV stations – both public and private - can be seen '''[[wikipedia:Television in Poland|HERE]]''').
-Of these, the most likely station to have carried '''Doctor Who''' in the early 1990s is the privately-owned commercial station '''[[wikipedia:Polonia 1|Polonia 1]]''', as it appears to be the only one that was in operation at the time in question, having been launched in March 1993. (And with the novelisations (see below) being published in 1993/1994, it's logical that these would have come out around the same time as the broadcasts.)
+With the novelisations (see below) being published in 1993/1994, it's a logical conclusion that these would have come out around the same time as the broadcasts.
 An unofficial site by fans of Polonia 1 has quite an extensive online "archive" of material, including lists and examples of daily schedules of the various programmes the station aired over the years (see [http://two.xthost.info/polonia1/g_opr93.htm POLONIA 1], as well as a general Polish TV listings "archive" at [http://forum.media2.pl/viewtopic.php?pid=30515 POLISH TV LISTINGS]), but despite our searching in both sites for references to '''Doctor Who''', '''Doktor Who''' or '''Doktor Kto''', none could be found. Of course, not being able to read Polish doesn't exactly help!

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 The tagline on the cassette box was '''"Czy Świat Doczeka Nowego Stulecia?"''' (''Will the World See a New Century?''), which was very similar to that on the tape available in [[Hungary]].
-Still billed as '''Doktor Who''', the movie later aired on the Polish station '''Polsat 2''' on Friday, '''26 March 1999''' from 9.05pm to 11pm. It aired again the following day, '''27 March''' at 8.05pm, with a further showing on '''16 July 2000''' at 9.00pm.
+Still billed as '''Doktor Who''', the movie later aired on the Polish station '''Polsat 2''' on Friday, '''26 March 1999''' from 9.05pm to 11pm. It aired again the following day, '''27 March''' at 8.05pm.
-The film has been shown more recently on '''[[wikipedia:FilmBox Premium HD|FilmBox Premium]]''' (another channel owned by Canal+), on '''25 December 2016''' at 7.20pm, then again '''27 December 2016''' at the same time.
+There was a further showing on '''16 July 2000''' at 9.00pm, this time on '''PolSat 1'''.
 {{Image table
-|[[File:Polsat2TVM99.jpg|right|thumb|250px|TV Movie on Polsat 2 at 9.05pm; Glos Pomorza 26 March 1999]]|[[File:PolandFilmBox.JPG|right|thumb|300px|TV Movie on FilmBox Premium, 27 December 2016]]
+|[[File:Polsat2TVM99.jpg|right|thumb|250px|TV Movie on Polsat 2 at 9.05pm; Glos Pomorza 26 March 1999]]
 }}
 {{clear}}

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 Television viewers in Poland also had access to several foreign satellite stations, such as [[Germany]]'s '''RTL-Plus''' (on which '''Doctor Who''' aired in the late 80s / early 90s), the European '''[[Wikipedia:Filmnet|Filmnet]]''' platform (a Polish 'branch' launched in 1995; this later merged with Canal+ in February 1997), and '''Sky One'''.
 {{YouTube table|2G-J8KBKxk4|Generic RTL broadcast in English with added Polish Lektor}}
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 ----
 '''[[Paul McGann|PAUL McGANN]]'''
-The sale of the 1996 Paul McGann [[TV Movie]] to [[wikipedia:Filmnet|Filmnet Poland]] was reported in issue 235 (October 1996) of the DWAS newsletter ''Celestial Toyroom''. This said that Filmnet had the rights to screen the movie '''fifteen''' times! The exact date of the first broadcast is unknown, but the fifteenth and final airing would have been '''prior''' to February 1997, which was when Filmnet Poland ceased operations when it merged with French distribution company Canal+.
+The sale of the 1996 Paul McGann [[TV Movie]] to "Poland" was reported in issue 235 (October 1996) of the DWAS newsletter ''Celestial Toyroom''.
 Around that same time, (circa '''1996/1997'''), the film was also released on VHS from MCA/Universal/CIC and ITI Home Video Poland, presumably for the Rental market only. Titled '''"Doktor WHO"''', the tape - which was in English with "Polish Lektor" narration - had a cover design that was unique and quite different to that seen on most of the other tapes of the Movie (but see also [[Japan]]). (Poland had by this time switched to the PAL colour standard.)
 The tagline on the cassette box was '''"Czy Świat Doczeka Nowego Stulecia?"''' (''Will the World See a New Century?''), which was very similar to that on the tape available in [[Hungary]].
 {{Image table
-|[[File:TVM VHS Poland.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Cover of the Polish VHS tape]]|[[File:Polsat2TVM99.jpg|right|thumb|250px|TV Movie on Polsat 2 at 9.05pm; Glos Pomorza 26 March 1999]]
+|[[File:Polsat2TVM99.jpg|right|thumb|250px|TV Movie on Polsat 2 at 9.05pm; Glos Pomorza 26 March 1999]]|[[File:PolandFilmBox.JPG|right|thumb|300px|TV Movie on FilmBox Premium, 27 December 2016]]
 }}
+{{clear}}
 ----
 '''[[Tom Baker|TOM BAKER]]'''
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 The '''TELE5''' screenings summary has been collated from Benjamin F Elliott's online guide '''[http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/msearch?query=tele5&pos=30&cnt=10 THIS WEEK IN DOCTOR WHO]''' and [https://twidw.doctorwhonews.net/channels.php?code=227&detail=broadcast&page=1 updated HERE] - although Benjamin does admits that the TELE5 website was in Polish (which he couldn't read) and didn't give titles, so the story information he provided in TWIDW was mostly assumed. While we have adopted the airdates from TWIDW, we have applied the story titles per the table above, which deviates in a few places from what Benjamin was trying to make sense of.
-The [[TV Movie]] listing is from ''Glos Pomorza'' which is available online.
+The [[TV Movie]] listings are from ''Glos Pomorza'' and ''Trybuna Śląska'', which are available online.
 The Tele5 'clippings' here are screen grabs taken from the scant few [https://web.archive.org/web/20020806220501/http://www.tele5.pl/ WayBack Machine entries] for the old Tele5 website. Of note, the '''20 April 2002''' billing dates the first serial as '''1987'''. (This might relate to when the dialogue-free episodes were prepared for the sale to [[France]].)

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 [[File:DalekowiePoland2022.JPG|right|thumb|300px|"Dalekowie" (Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD) on Polish streaming service Entclick]]
-From '''16 April 2021''', the second film was available on the Polish streaming platform '''Entclick (Island of Entertainment)'''. Under the title '''Dalekowie''' (''Daleks''), the subtitled film (i.e. there was no Polish narration) could be viewed for the low price of '''5.90 zt'''.
+From '''21 May 2021''', the second film was available on the Polish streaming platform '''Entclick (Island of Entertainment)'''. Under the title '''Dalekowie''' (''Daleks''), the subtitled film (i.e. there was no Polish narration) could be viewed for the low price of '''5.90 zt'''.
 *[https://entclick.com/vod,72/dalekowie,202822 Dalekowie on Entclik]

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-[[File:DalekowiePoland2022.JPG|right|thumb|300px|"Dalekowie" (Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD) on Polish streaming service Entclick in 2022]]
+[[File:DalekowiePoland2022.JPG|right|thumb|300px|"Dalekowie" (Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD) on Polish streaming service Entclick]]
-The second film has recently been made available on the Polish streaming platform '''Entclick (Island of Entertainment)'''. Under the title '''Dalekowie''' (''Daleks''), the subtitled film can be viewed for '''5.90 zt'''.
+From '''16 April 2021''', the second film was available on the Polish streaming platform '''Entclick (Island of Entertainment)'''. Under the title '''Dalekowie''' (''Daleks''), the subtitled film (i.e. there was no Polish narration) could be viewed for the low price of '''5.90 zt'''.
 *[https://entclick.com/vod,72/dalekowie,202822 Dalekowie on Entclik]

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	In Polish, the series was called '''Doktor Kto''' and '''Doktor Who'''.		In Polish, the series was called '''Doktor Kto''' and '''Doktor Who'''.
		+
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		+	==[[Peter Cushing\|PETER CUSHING]] Movies==
		+	[[File:DWATD Poland 1.JPG\|thumb\|right\|350px\|"Dr Who Wśród Daleków", 6 October 1979]]
		+	Both of the [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies have been shown on TV in Poland:
		+
		+	*'''"Dr Who Wśród Daleków"''' (''Dr Who Among the Daleks'') [other sources call it '''"Doktor Who i Dalekowie"'''; we have used the title that appears in the newspapers]
		+	*'''"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię"''' (''Daleks Invasion of Earth'')
		+
		+	The first film aired on Saturday, '''6 October 1979''', at 4.30pm, on station '''PR I / Studio-2''', and the second film on Wednesday, '''26 December 1979''', at 3.20pm, on '''PR II'''. The sequel was screened again on an unknown date, at 2.55pm, per the second listing below.
		+	{{Image table
		+	\|[[File:DIEPoland1979.JPG\|thumb\|right\|350px\|"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię", 26 December 1979]]\|[[File:DalekInvasion79.JPG\|thumb\|right\|350px\|"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię" was also shown at 2:55pm, date unknown…]]
		+	}}
		+	{{clear}}
		+
		+	[[File:DalekowiePoland2022.JPG\|right\|thumb\|300px\|"Dalekowie" (Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD) on Polish streaming service Entclick in 2022]]
		+
		+	The second film has recently been made available on the Polish streaming platform '''Entclick (Island of Entertainment)'''. Under the title '''Dalekowie''' (''Daleks''), the subtitled film can be viewed for '''5.90 zt'''.
		+
		+	*[https://entclick.com/vod,72/dalekowie,202822 Dalekowie on Entclik]
		+	{{clear}}


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	The inclusion of Poland in this publication would probably be in relation to the then-recent screenings of [[Tom Baker stories]] on the Polish satellite station '''TELE5''', from early 2002 to mid-2003, which oddly enough is ''not'' mentioned in the Wikipedia entry... (Unless the Wiki entry reference to "early 1990s" is actually wrong, and they instead mean "early 2000s" in reference to the TELE5 broadcasts...?)		The inclusion of Poland in this publication would probably be in relation to the then-recent screenings of [[Tom Baker stories]] on the Polish satellite station '''TELE5''', from early 2002 to mid-2003, which oddly enough is ''not'' mentioned in the Wikipedia entry... (Unless the Wiki entry reference to "early 1990s" is actually wrong, and they instead mean "early 2000s" in reference to the TELE5 broadcasts...?)

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−	~~==[[Peter Cushing\|PETER CUSHING]] Movies==~~
−	~~[[File:DWATD Poland 1.JPG\|thumb\|right\|350px\|"Dr Who Wśród Daleków", 6 October 1979]]~~
−	~~Both of the [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies have been shown on TV in Poland:~~
−
−	*'''"Dr Who Wśród Daleków"''' (''Dr Who Among the Daleks'') [other sources call it '''"Doktor Who i Dalekowie"'''; we have used the title that appears in the newspapers]
−	*'''"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię"''' (''Daleks Invasion of Earth'')
−
−	The first film aired on Saturday, '''6 October 1979''', at 4.30pm, on station '''PR I / Studio-2''', and the second film on Wednesday, '''26 December 1979''', at 3.20pm, on '''PR II'''. The sequel was screened again on an unknown date, at 2.55pm, per the second listing below.
−	~~{{Image table~~
−	\|[[File:DIEPoland1979.JPG\|thumb\|right\|350px\|"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię", 26 December 1979]]\|[[File:DalekInvasion79.JPG\|thumb\|right\|350px\|"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię" was also shown at 2:55pm, date unknown…]]
−	}}
−	~~{{clear}}~~

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 ==[[Peter Cushing|PETER CUSHING]] Movies==
 [[File:DWATD Poland 1.JPG|thumb|right|350px|"Dr Who Wśród Daleków", 6 October 1979]]
 Both of the [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies have been shown on TV in Poland:
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 *'''"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię"''' (''Daleks Invasion of Earth'')
-The first aired on Saturday, '''6 October 1979''', at 4.30pm, on station '''PR I, Studio-2''', and the second film on Wednesday, '''26 December 1979''', at 2.55pm, on '''PR II'''.
+The first film aired on Saturday, '''6 October 1979''', at 4.30pm, on station '''PR I / Studio-2''', and the second film on Wednesday, '''26 December 1979''', at 3.20pm, on '''PR II'''.  The sequel was screened again on an unknown date, at 2.55pm, per the second listing below.
 {{clear}}

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 Both of the [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies have been shown on TV in Poland:
-*'''"Dr Who Wśród Daleków"''' (''Dr Who Among the Daleks'')
+*'''"Dr Who Wśród Daleków"''' (''Dr Who Among the Daleks'') [other sources call it '''"Doktor Who i Dalekowie"'''; we have used the title that appears in the newspapers]
 *'''"Najazd Daleków na Ziemię"''' (''Daleks Invasion of Earth'')

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 Colour transmissions began in 1971 using the [[Wikipedia:SECAM|SECAM]] colour broadcast system that was common throughout [[:Category:Europe|Europe]]. TVP changed to the PAL system in 1995.
-In Poland, foreign programmes are sometimes dubbed or subtitled, but the most common translation method was having Polish narration spoken over the original dialogue explaining what was happening (a bit like the old Howard da Silva narrations on the 1970s US broadcasts). This was known locally as Polish Lektor ('Polish Reader').
+In Poland, foreign programmes were sometimes dubbed or subtitled, but the most common translation method was having Polish narration spoken over the original dialogue explaining what was happening (a bit like the old Howard da Silva narrations on the 1970s US broadcasts). This was known locally as "Polskim Lektorem" (''Polish Lektor'' / ''Polish Reader'').
 In March 1997, '''[[Wikipedia:Polsat 2|Polsat 2]]''' was launched.
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 Poland is not mentioned in '''The Seventies''', '''The Handbook''' or '''DWM'''.
-In the Polish version of WikiPedia: ([http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who POLISH DOCTOR WHO]) it said (the section has since been deleted):
+In an earlier edit of the Polish version of WikiPedia: ([http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who POLISH DOCTOR WHO]) it said (the section has since been deleted):
 :''Na początku lat 90. XX w. jedna z prywatnych stacji telewizyjnych wyemitowała kilkanaście odcinków z Tomem Bakerem w roli czwartej inkarnacji Doktora. W 1997 r. TVP1 pokazała film telewizyny BBC Doctor Who z 1996 r.''
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 :''In the early 1990s, one of the private television stations aired a '''few''' episodes with Tom Baker as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor. In 1997, TVP1 showed the 1996 BBC [[TV Movie]] '''"Doctor Who"'''.''
-('''NOTE''': The paragraph in question has since been deleted from the Wikipedia page; this may have been done so because of doubt as to whether or not Tom Baker episodes did air on a Polish channel.)
+('''NOTE''': The entire paragraph in question has long since been deleted from the Wikipedia page; this may have been done so because of doubt as to whether or not Tom Baker episodes did air on a Polish channel.)
 [[File:Poland 2003.JPG|400px|right|thumb|2003 Panopticon Handbook – 40 Fabulous Facts]]
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 The first aired on Saturday, '''6 October 1979''', at 4.30pm, on station '''PR I, Studio-2''', and the second film on Wednesday, '''26 December 1979''', at 2.55pm, on '''PR II'''.
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 ==Stories bought and broadcast==
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 [[File:PolRTL93.JPG |thumb|right|250px|Billing for "Dr Kto" at 1.40 on RTL in Polish newspaper, Trybuna, 3 July 1993]]
-It is not known what [[Tom Baker stories]] screened in the 1990s – if any even did. (Since the BBC always seemed to offer new purchasers Baker's first season - starting with [[Robot]] – it's likely a selection of those stories were the ones seen.)
+It is not known what [[Tom Baker stories]] screened on Polish TV in the 1990s – if any even did. (Since the BBC always seemed to offer new purchasers Baker's first season - starting with [[Robot]] – it's likely a selection of those stories were the ones seen.)
-As noted above and below, it is more than likely that the broadcasts referred to in Wikipedia were another regional satellite or cable station, most likely being the Sylvester McCoy episodes airing on [[Germany]]'s '''RTL-Plus'''.
+As noted above and below, it is more than likely that the broadcasts referred to in the old Wikipedia edit were another regional satellite or cable station, most likely being the Sylvester McCoy episodes airing on [[Germany]]'s '''RTL-Plus'''.
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 ==Transmission==
 '''[[Tom Baker]] / [[Sylvester McCoy]]?'''
-A run of Tom Baker stories '''''may have''''' aired in the '''early 1990s'''; possibly '''1993/1994''', which was when the three novelisations were published (see below).
+A run of Tom Baker stories '''''may have''''' aired in the '''early 1990s'''; possibly '''1993/1994''', which was when the three novelisations were published (see above).
 *If these did in fact air via a UK or European-based satellite or cable channel – such as [[BBC Prime]], [[Super Channel]] - or were actually Sylvester McCoy episodes - seen on the German station '''RTL-Plus''' (which is supported by printed TV listings) -- then these transmissions do not count as being Polish… (and for this reason we have not included a 1990s entry for Poland in the [[Storyguide|Story Guide]] list of countries.)
-'''[[Paul McGann|PAUL McGANN]]'''
+Around that same time, (circa '''1996/1997'''), the film was also released on VHS from MCA/Universal/CIC and ITI Home Video Poland, presumably for the Rental market only. Titled '''"Doktor WHO"''', the tape - which was in English with "Polish Lektor" narration - had a cover design that was unique and quite different to that seen on most of the other tapes of the Movie (but see also [[Japan]]). (Poland had by this time switched to the PAL colour standard.)
-The 1996 Paul McGann [[TV Movie]] was screened by [[wikipedia:Filmnet|Filmnet]]. The sale of the film was reported in issue 235 (October 1996) of the DWAS newsletter ''Celestial Toyroom''. Reportedly, Filmnet had the rights to screen the movie '''fifteen''' times!
+The tagline on the cassette box was '''"Czy Świat Doczeka Nowego Stulecia?"''' (''Will the World See a New Century?''), which was very similar to that on the tape available in [[Hungary]].
-Billed as '''Doktor Who''', it later aired on the Polish station '''Polsat 2''' on Friday, '''26 March 1999''' from 9.05pm to 11pm.
+{{Image table
 '''[[Tom Baker|TOM BAKER]]'''
 [[File:PolandDW.JPG|thumb|right|450px|First TELE5 listing for "Doktor Who", 20 April 2002]]
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 We also referred to a [http://forum.media2.pl/viewtopic.php?pid=30515 Polish fan forum] (which appears to have now closed?).