Sierra Leone - Revision history

Jon Preddle at 01:32, 28 January 2017

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Jon Preddle at 21:20, 30 December 2014

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Jon Preddle at 22:08, 28 December 2014

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 ====Origin of the Prints?====
-The first five serials / 26 episodes were probably supplied by [[Ghana]], who had received them from [[Nigeria]]. The other season one and two episodes were likely sent directly from [[Nigeria]]. ([[The Time Meddler]] part four aired in Nigeria the week before the series debuted in Sierra Leone.)
+The first five serials / 26 episodes may have been supplied by [[Ghana]], who had received them from [[Nigeria]]. The other season one and two episodes were likely sent directly from [[Nigeria]]. ([[The Time Meddler]] part four aired in Nigeria the week before the series debuted in Sierra Leone.)
-Alternatively (and the option that we prefer), the SLTV was one of the first recipients of the new set of Stored Field telerecordings created by the BBC in mid-1967; this would most definitely be the case with the first five serials, with the remaining season one and two serials being bicycled over from [[Mauritius]].
+Alternatively, [[Sierra Leone]] received all its season one and two prints from [[Mauritius]].
 The season three and four serials ([[Galaxy 4]] to [[The Smugglers]]) were probably bicycled over from [[Zambia]] (by sea), or from [[Barbados]] which was in the [[TIE Ltd]] network.

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 The first five serials / 26 episodes were probably supplied by [[Ghana]], who had received them from [[Nigeria]]. The other season one and two episodes were likely sent directly from [[Nigeria]]. ([[The Time Meddler]] part four aired in Nigeria the week before the series debuted in Sierra Leone.)
-Alternatively (and the option that we prefer), the SLTV was the recipient of the first set of Stored Field telerecordings provided to them directly from the BBC.
+Alternatively (and the option that we prefer), the SLTV was one of the first recipients of the new set of Stored Field telerecordings created by the BBC in mid-1967; this would most definitely be the case with the first five serials, with the remaining season one and two serials being bicycled over from [[Mauritius]].
 The season three and four serials ([[Galaxy 4]] to [[The Smugglers]]) were probably bicycled over from [[Zambia]] (by sea), or from [[Barbados]] which was in the [[TIE Ltd]] network.

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 The plot description and the comment that it was the first one with white hair have led some to wonder whether this was an out of contract repeat of the William Hartnell story, [[The Savages]]. But the story description (which was told some 26 years after the event, by someone with only a passing interest in '''Doctor Who''' and relayed via a third person, who was the one who established that it ''may'' have been [[The Savages]] based in his friend's description, so some distortion of memory is to be expected) could equally apply to [[The Time Warrior]] and [[The Monster of Peladon]], two of the Jon Pertwee stories purchased in late 1979.
-Breaking the description down, the "one with white hair" is Pertwee rather than Hartnell (to many, Pertwee and Baker were the only Doctors, so Pertwee would be considered by those to be "the first"); the "cavemen" are Irongron's men or the Peladon miners; the "futuristic city" is Linx's laboratory in the castle or the refinery control room in the citadel; and "put in a machine and tortured" could be scenes of the Doctor being zapped by the control head-set (as seen in episode two), or those of various people being zapped by the "ghost of Aggedor", being blasted by the sonic cannon, or Sarah being assaulted by the mind-scrambling automated defence system outside the refinery, all of which are seen in episode two of the Peladon serial.
+Breaking the description down, the "one with white hair" is Pertwee rather than Hartnell (to many, Pertwee and Baker were the only Doctors, so Pertwee would be considered by those to be "the first"); the "cavemen" are Irongron's men or the Peladon miners; the "futuristic city" is Linx's laboratory in the castle or the refinery control room in the citadel; and "put in a machine and tortured" could be scenes of the Doctor being zapped by Linx's control head-set (as seen in episode two), or of Sarah being assaulted by the mind-scrambling automated defence system outside the refinery in episode two of the Peladon serial, or of the Doctor being rendered unconscious by the defence system at the beginning of part six.
 In fact, the description of people being "captured and put in a machine and tortured" doesn't quite match with anything that occurs in [[The Savages]] (at least as can be determined from the scripts and telesnaps), except for the few moments in which the Elders' victims are placed whilst in a motionless state on a table beneath a bright light, but the machine does not afflict upon them intense pain, distress or anything else that is remotely akin to torture.
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 (It's not clear whether or not SLBS purchased any Tom Baker stories. If they did, and they aired them in the early to mid-1980s, this plot description (bar the incorrect hair colour for the Doctor) could apply to [[The Face of Evil]] or at a pinch [[The Sun Makers]]…)
-(And there is always the possibility that it wasn't '''Doctor Who''' at all, but something else, such as '''Space 1999''' and '''The Twilight Zone''', two series that the SLTV aired as late in 1978, as is noted in the 1999 book, ''Television in Sierra Leone''.)
+(And there is always the possibility that it wasn't '''Doctor Who''' at all, but something else, such as '''Space 1999''' or '''The Twilight Zone''', two series that the SLTV aired as late in 1978, as is noted in the 1999 book, ''Television in Sierra Leone''.)
 So this 26 year old third hand description cannot be taken as hard fact that [[The Savages]] was definitely repeated in the 1980s…

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	Alternatively (and the option that we prefer), the SLTV was the recipient of the first set of Stored Field telerecordings provided to them directly from the BBC.		Alternatively (and the option that we prefer), the SLTV was the recipient of the first set of Stored Field telerecordings provided to them directly from the BBC.

−	The season three and four serials ([[Galaxy 4]] to [[The Smugglers]]) were probably bicycled over from [[Zambia]] (by sea).	+	The season three and four serials ([[Galaxy 4]] to [[The Smugglers]]) were probably bicycled over from [[Zambia]] (by sea), or from [[Barbados]] which was in the [[TIE Ltd]] network.

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 (It's not clear whether or not SLBS purchased any Tom Baker stories. If they did, and they aired them in the early to mid-1980s, this plot description (bar the incorrect hair colour for the Doctor) could apply to [[The Face of Evil]] or [[The Sun Makers]]…)
-So this 26 year old third hand description cannot be taken at fact that [[The Savages]] was definitely repeated in the 1980s…
+So this 26 year old third hand description cannot be taken as hard fact that [[The Savages]] was definitely repeated in the 1980s…
 Besides, the 1982/83 airdate makes it far more likely to have been a story purchased in 1979, by which time the station was transmitting in PAL colour, held over for a few years and seen on a black and white set than an illicit repeat of a story on 16mm film (a format that was probably no longer supported by the transmission equipment?) that had previously screened in 1970...

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	With so many disruptions affecting television broadcasts during the early 1980s, it's not clear when (or if!) the four Pertwee stories actually aired: did they play in one continuous run over 18 weeks, or were they staggered over a longer period of several months or years?		With so many disruptions affecting television broadcasts during the early 1980s, it's not clear when (or if!) the four Pertwee stories actually aired: did they play in one continuous run over 18 weeks, or were they staggered over a longer period of several months or years?

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		+	===='''Repeat of The Savages?'''====
	As noted above, there have been reports of a repeat screening of [[The Savages]] in the early 1980s. This comes from a third party who related the story of a friend's uncle who saw an episode during a visit to Freetown in 1982 or 1983: it was in black and white and featured "the first one with the white hair" and "cavemen living in a wilderness outside a futuristic city who were captured and put in a machine and tortured."		As noted above, there have been reports of a repeat screening of [[The Savages]] in the early 1980s. This comes from a third party who related the story of a friend's uncle who saw an episode during a visit to Freetown in 1982 or 1983: it was in black and white and featured "the first one with the white hair" and "cavemen living in a wilderness outside a futuristic city who were captured and put in a machine and tortured."

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 As noted above, there have been reports of a repeat screening of [[The Savages]] in the early 1980s. This comes from a third party who related the story of a friend's uncle who saw an episode during a visit to Freetown in 1982 or 1983: it was in black and white and featured "the first one with the white hair" and "cavemen living in a wilderness outside a futuristic city who were captured and put in a machine and tortured."
-The plot description and the comment that it was the first one with white hair have led some to wonder whether this was an out of contract repeat of the William Hartnell story, [[The Savages]]. But the story description (which was told some 26 years after the event, by someone with only a passing interest in '''Doctor Who''' and relayed via a third person, so some distortion of memory is to be expected) could equally apply to [[The Monster of Peladon]], one of the Jon Pertwee stories purchased in late 1979.
+The plot description and the comment that it was the first one with white hair have led some to wonder whether this was an out of contract repeat of the William Hartnell story, [[The Savages]]. But the story description (which was told some 26 years after the event, by someone with only a passing interest in '''Doctor Who''' and relayed via a third person, so some distortion of memory is to be expected) could equally apply to [[The Time Warrior]] and [[The Monster of Peladon]], two of the Jon Pertwee stories purchased in late 1979.
-Breaking the description down, the "one with white hair" is Pertwee rather than Hartnell (to many, Pertwee and Baker were the only Doctors, so Pertwee would be considered by those to be "the first"); the "cavemen" are the Peladon miners; the "futuristic city" is the refinery control room; and "put in a machine and tortured" could be scenes of those being zapped by the "ghost of Aggedor", being blasted by the sonic cannon, or assaulted by the mind-scrambling automated defence system outside the refinery, all of which are seen in episode two.
+Breaking the description down, the "one with white hair" is Pertwee rather than Hartnell (to many, Pertwee and Baker were the only Doctors, so Pertwee would be considered by those to be "the first"); the "cavemen" are Irongron's men or the Peladon miners; the "futuristic city" is Linx's laboratory in the castle or the refinery control room in the citadel; and "put in a machine and tortured" could be scenes of the Doctor being zapped by the control head-set (as seen in episode two), or those of various people being zapped by the "ghost of Aggedor", being blasted by the sonic cannon, or Sarah being assaulted by the mind-scrambling automated defence system outside the refinery, all of which are seen in episode two of the Peladon serial.
-Even the scenario with people being "captured and put in a machine and tortured" doesn't quite match with anything that occurs in [[The Savages]], in which the Elders' victims are placed whilst in a motionless state on a table beneath a bright light which does not afflict upon them intense pain, distress or anything else that is remotely akin to torture.
+In fact, the description of people being "captured and put in a machine and tortured" doesn't quite match with anything that occurs in [[The Savages]] (at least as can be determined from the scripts and telesnaps), except for the few moments in which the Elders' victims are placed whilst in a motionless state on a table beneath a bright light, but the machine does not afflict upon them intense pain, distress or anything else that is remotely akin to torture.
-The 1982/83 airdate makes it far more likely to have been a story purchased in 1979, by which time the station was transmitting in PAL colour, held over for a few years and seen on a black and white set than an illicit repeat of a story on 16mm film (a format that was probably no longer supported by the transmitting equipment?) that had previously screened in 1970...
+(It's not clear whether or not SLBS purchased any Tom Baker stories. If they did, and they aired them in the early to mid-1980s, this plot description (bar the incorrect hair colour for the Doctor) could apply to [[The Face of Evil]] or [[The Sun Makers]]…)