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 The season four Troughtons were probably destroyed or returned to the BBC.
-The season five stories were probably returned to the BBC or destroyed, or three of them may have been sent to [[Nigeria]] in 1974. [[The Ice Warriors]] wasn't sent to RKTV, so if it was sent back in 1973, these prints may be the ones later found at the BBC in 1988.)
+Three of the season five stories were probably sent to [[Nigeria]] in 1974; [[The Ice Warriors]] wasn't, so if it was returned to the BBC in 1973, these prints may be the ones later found in 1988.
 The season six episodes were probably returned to the BBC or destroyed. Zambia was the last country to screen the now-missing serial [[The Space Pirates]].

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 It's possible that [[The Faceless Ones]] was sourced from [[New Zealand]] in 1970, but held over until 1973: see the page for that story for more details.
-The four season five stories were probably bicycled from [[Gibraltar]].
+The four season five stories were probably bicycled in from [[Gibraltar]].
-The three season six serials may have been previously used in [[Singapore]] or [[Gibraltar]], or given the early 1976 airdates, perhaps they were part of the set returned from [[Australia]] in mid-1975?
+The three season six serials may have been previously used in [[Singapore]] and/or [[Gibraltar]], or, given the early 1976 airdates, perhaps they were part of the set returned from [[Australia]] in mid-1975?
-It's not clear why Zambia TV skipped over the six stories from [[Fury from the Deep]] to [[The Krotons]]. One likely explanation is that when the BBC offered ZTV more stories, the sales rights on those six had recently expired and were no longer available to purchase, leaving just the final three serials of that season still available within their sales rights period (which was usually five to seven years after the initial UK screening).
+It's not clear why Zambia TV skipped over the six stories from [[Fury from the Deep]] to [[The Krotons]]. One likely explanation is that when the BBC offered ZTV more stories, the sales rights on those six had recently expired and were no longer available to purchase, leaving just the final three serials of that season still available within their sales rights period (which was usually seven years after the initial UK screening, which in their case was early 1976, which fits in with the purchase dates).
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 The season four Troughtons were probably destroyed or returned to the BBC.
-The season five episodes were probably returned to the BBC or destroyed. <!-- They may have been sent to [[Nigeria]] (from which some were recovered and returned to the BBC in 2013), if Zambia was part of a HK to Sing chain? -->
+The season five stories were probably returned to the BBC or destroyed, or three of them may have been sent to [[Nigeria]] in 1974. [[The Ice Warriors]] wasn't sent to RKTV, so if it was sent back in 1973, these prints may be the ones later found at the BBC in 1988.)
 The season six episodes were probably returned to the BBC or destroyed. Zambia was the last country to screen the now-missing serial [[The Space Pirates]].

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 For the 1968 run, only five of the 36 episodes were identified by title.
-On '''14 May 1966''', the ''News'' printed an interview with William Hartnell ('''OH THE AGONY OF BEING Dr WHO''') that had originated in the UK ''Daily Mirror'' (April 1966 – see [[Ghana]].)
+On '''14 May 1966''', the ''News'' printed an interview with William Hartnell ('''OH THE AGONY OF BEING Dr WHO''') that had originated in the UK ''Daily Mirror'', on 23 April 1966 (also see [[Ghana]].)
 The 3 July 1966 issue of the ''News'' TV and Radio Extra featured an interview with Dalek operator Robert Jewell ('''MY DAD'S A DALEK!''')

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 There is only one national television broadcaster, '''Zambia Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC)''', which became '''Zambia Broadcasting Services (ZBS)''' in 1966, and '''[[wikipedia:Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation|Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC)]]''' in 1988. It was commonly known as '''ZTV'''.
-In 1979 it was the first country to introduce the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour system in east Africa.
+In 1979 it was the first country to introduce the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour system within Africa.
 In the mid-1960s, '''ZTV''' operated from two regional stations: the northern station broadcasting from the Copperbelt / Kitwe district (on channel 4), and the southern station broadcasting from the capital, Lusaka (on channel 3). (Transmissions from Lusaka commenced from 25 December 1965.)
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 The '''7 December 1966''' edition of ''London Times'' reported that Zambia had purchased "28 programmes of ''Dr Who'', the BBC science fiction programme for …  "kiddults"." That block of episodes would be [[The Romans]] through to [[The Time Meddler]], which had already started being broadcast by the time that issue was published.
 As for the later season three serials, these were either supplied from the BBC directly, or bicycled from [[Barbados]].
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 The first eleven William Hartnell serials were likely sent to [[Uganda]], the only other east [[:Category:Africa|African]] country to screen the same set of episodes.
-However, the remaining season two and season three serials may have been sent to [[Sierra Leone]], since it was the only other African country to screen those episodes.
+The remaining season two serials likely went back to the BBC.

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 ====Origins of the Prints?====
-Zambia was the only African country to screen this set of twelve Troughtons. The season four stories were likely sourced from [[Uganda]] or [[Hong Kong]].
+Zambia was the only African country to screen this set of twelve Troughtons. The season four stories were likely sourced from [[Hong Kong]].
 It's possible that [[The Faceless Ones]] was sourced from [[New Zealand]] in 1970, but held over until 1973: see the page for that story for more details.

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 ====Fate of the Prints?====
-The seasons one and two William Hartnell serials were likely sent to [[Mauritius]], the only other east [[:Category:Africa|African]] country to screen the same set of episodes. (The only other African country to air the same episodes shortly after Zambia was [[Sierra Leone]], but it's far more likely that that set of films was supplied to them by [[Nigeria]].)
+The first eleven William Hartnell serials were likely sent to [[Uganda]], the only other east [[:Category:Africa|African]] country to screen the same set of episodes.
-However, the season three serials '''were''' most likely sent to [[Sierra Leone]], since it was the only other African country to screen those episodes.
+However, the remaining season two and season three serials may have been sent to [[Sierra Leone]], since it was the only other African country to screen those episodes.
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