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 ([[CKVU]] in Vancouver, however, took up the full 47 episode / eight serial package.)
-There were 13 Pertwee serials that '''TVO''' did not acquire: [[Spearhead from Space]] was only available on film so was never offered to them. [[Frontier in Space]], [[Planet of the Daleks]] and [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]] had colour tapes missing, so could not be fully converted into NTSC. [[Colony in Space]] and [[The Sea Devils]] were turned down (although were later picked up by [[CKVU]]). [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]] and [[The Daemons]] were probably not available because of ongoing issues stemming from the Australian censorship decisions affecting other Commonwealth countries. (Although a Commonwealth state, Canada actually came under the "North America" region for sales purposes.) The other four -- [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]], [[The Ambassadors of Death]], [[Terror of the Autons]], and [[Carnival of Monsters]] -- were probably never under consideration for a third batch of episodes because '''TVO''' instead elected to purchase next the first package of Tom Baker stories.
+There were 13 Pertwee serials that '''TVO''' did not acquire: [[Spearhead from Space]] was only available on film so was never offered to them. [[Frontier in Space]], [[Planet of the Daleks]] and [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]] had colour tapes missing, so could not be fully converted into NTSC. [[Colony in Space]] and [[The Sea Devils]] were turned down (although were later picked up by [[CKVU]]). [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]] and [[The Daemons]] were probably not available because of ongoing issues stemming from the Australian censorship decisions affecting other Commonwealth countries. (Although a Commonwealth state, Canada was classed as its own region for sales purposes.)  The other four -- [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]], [[The Ambassadors of Death]], [[Terror of the Autons]], and [[Carnival of Monsters]] -- were probably never under consideration for a third batch of episodes because '''TVO''' instead elected to purchase next the first package of Tom Baker stories.
 Some of these stories also aired on these stations around the same time:

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 (The same six serials were later sold to [[CKVU]] in Vancouver.)
-The following year, '''TVO''' acquired a second package of Jon Pertwee stories, with the sale apparently being done via [[WGBH]] in [[Boston]] rather than the BBC (which may be why [[Inferno]] and [[The Green Death]] were on offer, two stories which had not been cleared for the Commonwealth following censorship issues in [[Australia]] several years earlier, but which had been cleared for sale to North America, given that the Canadian transmissions could also be picked up in the USA).
+The following year, '''TVO''' acquired a second package of Jon Pertwee stories. This new batch was also made up of a random selection across all five Pertwee seasons, being eight stories / 47 episodes. This limited selection may have been down to a number of factors, such as the seven-year screening rights on the Season 7 and 8 stories expiring in 1977 or 1978, and only some being renewed in time for the sale to Canada.
 '''TVO''' elected to take 28 of the episodes rather than the full package of 47, likely because they wanted to duplicate the same 'one screening plus one repeat' pattern they'd adopted for the 1976/77 "Fall/Winter" season. Plus, the time and cost to produce further introductions by Jim Dator would also be a contributing factor.
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 ([[CKVU]] in Vancouver, however, took up the full 47 episode / eight serial package.)
-There were 13 Pertwee serials that '''TVO''' did not acquire: [[Spearhead from Space]] was only available on film so was never offered to them. [[Frontier in Space]], [[Planet of the Daleks]] and [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]] had colour tapes missing, so could not be fully converted into NTSC. [[Colony in Space]] and [[The Sea Devils]] were turned down (although were later picked up by [[CKVU]]). [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]] and [[The Daemons]] were probably not available because of ongoing issues stemming from the Australian censorship decisions affecting other Commonwealth countries. The other four -- [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]], [[The Ambassadors of Death]], [[Terror of the Autons]], and [[Carnival of Monsters]] -- were probably never under consideration for a third batch of episodes because '''TVO''' instead elected to purchase next the first package of Tom Baker stories.
+There were 13 Pertwee serials that '''TVO''' did not acquire: [[Spearhead from Space]] was only available on film so was never offered to them. [[Frontier in Space]], [[Planet of the Daleks]] and [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]] had colour tapes missing, so could not be fully converted into NTSC. [[Colony in Space]] and [[The Sea Devils]] were turned down (although were later picked up by [[CKVU]]). [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]] and [[The Daemons]] were probably not available because of ongoing issues stemming from the Australian censorship decisions affecting other Commonwealth countries. (Although a Commonwealth state, Canada actually came under the "North America" region for sales purposes.) The other four -- [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]], [[The Ambassadors of Death]], [[Terror of the Autons]], and [[Carnival of Monsters]] -- were probably never under consideration for a third batch of episodes because '''TVO''' instead elected to purchase next the first package of Tom Baker stories.
 Some of these stories also aired on these stations around the same time:
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 ====Origins of the Tapes?====
-The four Season 8 and 9 serials would have been copied from the US distributor Time-Life Films' master tapes (via BBC Toronto or directly).
+The four Season 8 and 9 serials would have been copied from the US distributor Time-Life Films' master tapes.
 The 2-inch Scotch quad tapes for [[The Curse of Peladon]] were from a set of dupes that had certainly been supplied by Time-Life: a label on the spool of one of the recovered tapes reads '''HBO STUDIOS TIME/LIFE TELEVISION'''. That specific labelling tells us an approximate date for when the dupe was made: when Time-Life started distributing the Pertwees in 1972, it was as "TIME-LIFE FILMS"; Time-Life acquired "Home Box Office (HBO)" in 1973, and was using the alternative "TIME-LIFE TELEVISION" identity by May 1975, so these tapes - or at least the labels! - can be dated to no earlier than 1975.
-The tapes (or dub copies) for the two Season 10 and 11 serials would have been supplied from [[WGBH]] in [[Boston]], acquired by them as an extended package deal with the BBC that same year.
+The tapes for the Season 10 and 11 serials would have been supplied by the BBC, who converted them into the NTSC format.
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 Three days later, from Tuesday, '''20 September 1977''', a repeat run commenced at the earlier time of 7pm of the episodes that had played in 1976-77, being the third screening of [[The Three Doctors]] and [[Day of the Daleks]], followed by the second airing of [[The Curse of Peladon]] (coincidentally playing only a few weeks ahead if its sequel, [[The Monster of Peladon]]!). After this came four episodes without titles (so was likely to be [[The Claws of Axos]], for its second and final airing), then [[The Mutants]] (its second showing) and [[The Time Warrior]] (its third and final time).
-Meanwhile, the Saturday screenings continued with the second new story, [[The Green Death]]; this was the first time the serial had screened in the Commonwealth since its original UK broadcasts in 1974. (It had not aired in [[Australia]] in 1973 due to censor ratings, and was thus unable to be screened elsewhere by the few Commonwealth countries still buying the series at that time. It wasn't until 1978 that [[The Green Death]] aired in [[Australia]].)
+Meanwhile, the Saturday screenings continued with the second new story, [[The Green Death]]; this was the first time the serial had screened anywhere since its original UK broadcasts in 1974. (It had not aired in [[Australia]] in 1973 due to censor ratings, and was thus unable to be screened elsewhere by the few other Commonwealth countries still buying the series at that time. It wasn't until 1978 that [[The Green Death]] aired in [[Australia]].)
 The next three Saturday serials were from Pertwee's final year: [[Death to the Daleks]], [[The Monster of Peladon]] and [[Planet of the Spiders]], part 6 of which aired on '''25 March 1978''', bringing the first run Pertwee era to an end.

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 ='''TV ONTARIO ('''TVO''') (1976-1993)'''=
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 * [[wikipedia:List of historical TVOntario transmitters|TVONTARIO TRANSMITTERS]]
-The sales and distribution of BBC programming in Canada was through BBC Enterprises's offices in Toronto. From 1987, another distributor was '''[[wikipedia:Cookie Jar Group|Cinar Films]]''', who operated out of Toronto and Montreal, and who specialised in comedy and drama.
+The sales and distribution of BBC programming in Canada was through BBC Enterprise's offices in Toronto. From 1987, another distributor was '''[[wikipedia:Cookie Jar Group|Cinar Films]]''', who operated out of Toronto and Montreal, and who specialised in comedy and drama.
 Starting in 1976, '''TVO''' enjoyed a virtually unbroken 13-year run of '''Doctor Who'''…
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 The programme was supplied as NTSC colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
-The 4-part version of [[Resurrection of the Daleks]] supplied to TVO was a very different edit to the one shown in the [[United States]] since 1984; the Canadian tapes did not feature any extra scenes, and had the correct music and effects sound track on all four episodes.
+The 4-part version of [[Resurrection of the Daleks]] supplied to '''TVO''' was a very different edit to the one shown in the [[United States]] since 1984; the Canadian tapes did not feature any extra scenes, and had the correct music and effects sound track on all four episodes.
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 The weekend after the Thursday repeat of Colin Baker's final episode, Sylvester McCoy appeared as the Doctor. This run of 14 episodes started '''7 January 1989''' and ended with the [[Dragonfire]] part three repeat on '''13 April 1989'''.
-{{YouTube table |9uPlDNU4aw4|TVO Pledge Break February 1989
 Following a run of Colin Baker re-runs, [[Time and the Rani]] and [[Dragonfire]] were also repeated on Saturdays and Thursdays. This re-run cycle concluded on Thursday, '''7 September 1989'''.

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 The weekend after the Thursday repeat of Colin Baker's final episode, Sylvester McCoy appeared as the Doctor. This run of 14 episodes started '''7 January 1989''' and ended with the [[Dragonfire]] part three repeat on '''13 April 1989'''.
-{{YouTube table |hnYxB8_ndV4|TVO Pledge Break February 1989
+{{YouTube table |9uPlDNU4aw4|TVO Pledge Break February 1989
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 The weekend after the Thursday repeat of Colin Baker's final episode, Sylvester McCoy appeared as the Doctor. This run of 14 episodes started '''7 January 1989''' and ended with the [[Dragonfire]] part three repeat on '''13 April 1989'''.
+{{YouTube table |hnYxB8_ndV4|TVO Pledge Break February 1989
 Following a run of Colin Baker re-runs, [[Time and the Rani]] and [[Dragonfire]] were also repeated on Saturdays and Thursdays. This re-run cycle concluded on Thursday, '''7 September 1989'''.

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 ==TV listings==
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 '''AIRDATES KEY''':
 *Story titles in '''''BOLD ITALICISED CAPITALS''''' are first screenings.