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		<title>Jon Preddle at 01:39, 20 April 2026</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l20&quot; &gt;Line 20:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Following the publication in Australia of Target books' '''&amp;quot;The Making of Doctor Who&amp;quot;''' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories (such as [[Mission to the Unknown]], [[The Daleks' Master Plan]], [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]], [[The Daemons]] and [[The Green Death]]) had never been aired on the ABC, and planned to stage a &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; protest outside the ABC's headquarters in downtown Sydney to force the ABC to show the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Following the publication in Australia of Target books' '''&amp;quot;The Making of Doctor Who&amp;quot;''' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories (such as [[Mission to the Unknown]], [[The Daleks' Master Plan]], [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]], [[The Daemons]] and [[The Green Death]]) had never been aired on the ABC, and planned to stage a &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; protest outside the ABC's headquarters in downtown Sydney to force the ABC to show the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By this time the ABC had been receiving a number of complaints from viewers about the &amp;quot;endless&amp;quot; repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had already had a further three, {{4F}}, &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[&lt;/del&gt;{4H}} and {{4J}}, classified by the censors.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By this time the ABC had been receiving a number of complaints from viewers about the &amp;quot;endless&amp;quot; repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had already had a further three, {{4F}}, &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;{&lt;/ins&gt;{4H}} and {{4J}}, classified by the censors.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;On learning of the ABC's decision to drop the series, the fans changed the purpose of their &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; from getting the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories shown to &amp;quot;Save Doctor Who&amp;quot; - and convince the ABC to reverse its decision to drop the series.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;On learning of the ABC's decision to drop the series, the fans changed the purpose of their &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; from getting the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories shown to &amp;quot;Save Doctor Who&amp;quot; - and convince the ABC to reverse its decision to drop the series.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Jon Preddle at 01:08, 17 April 2026</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;After a long eight month break with no holiday repeats, the series returned in 1976 with the final Jon Pertwee story, {{ZZZ}}, and the first three Tom Baker serials, which screened in production order, screening on different days of the week in each region, usually at 6.00pm. (Because of this late scheduling of his stories, Australia became the ''third'' country – after [[Netherlands]] and [[Hong Kong]] - to show the fourth Doctor.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;After a long eight&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;-&lt;/ins&gt;month break with no holiday repeats, the series returned in 1976 with the final Jon Pertwee story, {{ZZZ}}, and the first three Tom Baker serials, which screened in production order, screening on different days of the week in each region, usually at 6.00pm. (Because of this late scheduling of his stories, Australia became the ''third'' country – after [[Netherlands]] and [[Hong Kong]] - to show the fourth Doctor.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l20&quot; &gt;Line 20:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Following the publication in Australia of Target books' '''&amp;quot;The Making of Doctor Who&amp;quot;''' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories (such as [[Mission to the Unknown]], [[The Daleks' Master Plan]], [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]], [[The Daemons]] and [[The Green Death]]) had never been aired on the ABC, and planned to stage a &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; protest outside the ABC's headquarters in downtown Sydney to force the ABC to show the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Following the publication in Australia of Target books' '''&amp;quot;The Making of Doctor Who&amp;quot;''' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories (such as [[Mission to the Unknown]], [[The Daleks' Master Plan]], [[Inferno]], [[The Mind of Evil]], [[The Daemons]] and [[The Green Death]]) had never been aired on the ABC, and planned to stage a &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; protest outside the ABC's headquarters in downtown Sydney to force the ABC to show the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By this time the ABC had been receiving a number of complaints from viewers about the &amp;quot;endless&amp;quot; repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had already had a further &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;two&lt;/del&gt;, {{4F}} and {{&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;4H&lt;/del&gt;}}, classified by the censors.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By this time the ABC had been receiving a number of complaints from viewers about the &amp;quot;endless&amp;quot; repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had already had a further &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;three&lt;/ins&gt;, {{4F&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;}}, [{4H&lt;/ins&gt;}} and {{&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;4J&lt;/ins&gt;}}, classified by the censors.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;On learning of the ABC's decision to drop the series, the fans changed the purpose of their &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; from getting the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories shown to &amp;quot;Save Doctor Who&amp;quot; - and convince the ABC to reverse its decision to drop the series.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;On learning of the ABC's decision to drop the series, the fans changed the purpose of their &amp;quot;Dalek Demo&amp;quot; from getting the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories shown to &amp;quot;Save Doctor Who&amp;quot; - and convince the ABC to reverse its decision to drop the series.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l109&quot; &gt;Line 109:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The run of new Tom Baker stories was followed by a limited run of Jon Pertwee serials, most of which would be broadcast '''in colour''' for the first time. {{AAA}} was sourced as a colour 16mm film print, whereas the others were on Video Tape. Only a handful still existed in their entirety as PAL colour video tapes. (It is thought that some of these colour tapes were sourced from the Middle East, possibly [[United Arab Emirates]].) (According to the BBC in London, {{QQQ}} only existed in black and white, so the serial was being offered as such; neither the BBC nor the ABC was aware that the PAL colour tapes that had been supplied to the ABC in 1973 were still held at their Film / Video Tape library!)  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The run of new Tom Baker stories was followed by a limited run of Jon Pertwee serials, most of which would be broadcast '''in colour''' for the first time. {{AAA}} was sourced as a colour 16mm film print, whereas the others were on Video Tape. Only a handful still existed in their entirety as PAL colour video tapes. (It is thought that some of these colour tapes were sourced from the Middle East, possibly [[United Arab Emirates]].) (According to the BBC in London, {{QQQ}} only existed in black and white, so the serial was being offered as such; neither the BBC nor the ABC was aware that the PAL colour tapes that had been supplied to the ABC in 1973 were still held at their Film / Video Tape library!)  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The 29 minute extended version of {{PPP}} part two with the alternative arrangement of the theme tune aired for the '''first time''' during this run. (The same extended episode had already been seen in [[New Zealand]] in 1975, and was used again for the 1979, 1983 and 1986 Australian repeats, but for the 2004 showing, this was the shorter standard BBC version.)  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The 29&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;-&lt;/ins&gt;minute extended version of {{PPP}} part two with the alternative arrangement of the theme tune aired for the '''first time''' during this run. (The same extended episode had already been seen in [[New Zealand]] in 1975, and was used again for the 1979, 1983 and 1986 Australian repeats, but for the 2004 showing, this was the shorter standard BBC version.)  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ABC sought to have {{TTT}} reclassified to enable them to air one further story in colour; tapes were acquired from the BBC, and it was reassessed and given a &amp;quot;G&amp;quot; rating (with one small cut made to part 3), which overrode the original &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; rating that had prevented it from screening in 1973.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ABC sought to have {{TTT}} reclassified to enable them to air one further story in colour; tapes were acquired from the BBC, and it was reassessed and given a &amp;quot;G&amp;quot; rating (with one small cut made to part 3), which overrode the original &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; rating that had prevented it from screening in 1973.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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===Block 9: PERTWEE / T BAKER ---- '''March 1976 to September 1976'''===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ZZZ2040676.JPG |right|thumb|250px|Planet of the Spiders part two; Melbourne, 4 June 1976]]&lt;br /&gt;
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After a long eight month break with no holiday repeats, the series returned with the final Jon Pertwee story, {{ZZZ}}, and the first three Tom Baker serials, which screened in production order, screening on different days of the week in each region, usually at 6.00pm. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is possible that that part 4 of {{4C}} may not have aired at all (or only in some regions?) having been replaced by coverage of cricket. &lt;br /&gt;
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Following the publication in Australia of Target books' '''&amp;quot;The Making of Doctor Who&amp;quot;''' in 1976, a group of Australian fans discovered that a number of stories (such as [[The Daleks' Master Plan]]) had never been shown on the ABC, and planned to stage a demonstration demanding that these stories be shown. &lt;br /&gt;
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The ABC had been receiving a number of complaints from viewers about the &amp;quot;endless&amp;quot; repeats, and decided to pull the series from the schedules early, despite having already purchased the next two serials, {{4E}} and {{4D}}, and had already had a further two, {{4F}} and {{4H}}, classified by the censors. &lt;br /&gt;
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On learning of the ABC's decision, the fans decided to change the focus of their demonstration from demanding that the &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot; stories be shown to that of getting the ABC to reverse their decision to drop the series. The group assembled outside the ABC's Sydney office on '''24 August 1976'''. As a result of this action, the ABC relented, and scheduled the remaining purchased Tom Baker serials for the following year. It was as a direct result of the successful demonstration that the first '''[http://www.dwca.org.au/?q=section/about-dwca Australian Doctor Who Fan Club]''' was formally established.&lt;br /&gt;
*'''HOBART''': Sundays, commencing with {{ZZZ}} on '''7 March 1976''', and concluding on '''20 June 1976''', with {{4C}}.&lt;br /&gt;
*'''SYDNEY''' and '''CANBERRA''': {{ZZZ}} also started on Sunday, '''7 March 1976''', ending '''11 April 1976'''. Tom Baker debuted in New South Wales on Friday, '''23 April 1976''', and the run ended on '''25 June 1976'''&lt;br /&gt;
*'''BRISBANE''': For the first two weeks, the series air four days, Monday through Thursdays, from Monday, '''19 April''' to Tuesday, '''4 May 1976''', before switching to weekly on Saturdays, from '''15 May 1976 to 19 June 1976'''. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''MELBOURNE''': The run started from Friday, '''28 May 1976''' with {{ZZZ}}, which ended on '''2 July 1976'''. After an eight week break, the Tom Baker era commenced, from Sunday, '''29 August 1976''', and this came to an end on '''31 October 1976''' (although there was no billing for it on that day; presumably a printing error rather than an indication that it was pre-empted and never rescheduled.)&lt;br /&gt;
*'''ADELAIDE''': There were no screenings of '''Doctor Who''' at all in ADELAIDE during 1976. It wasn't until Sunday, '''27 March 1977''', that ADELAIDE caught up with the rest of the country by airing this Block of new episodes, starting with {{ZZZ}}, weekly on Sundays, through to {{4C}} part four on '''10 July 1977'''. Because they were lagging behind, ADELAIDE was able to schedule the next Block of episodes to follow on without interruption.&lt;br /&gt;
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(NOTE: We do not have full dates of this Block for PERTH or DARWIN.)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Block 10: T BAKER ---- '''April 1977 to November 1977'''===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:4D120677.JPG|right|thumb|350px|&amp;quot;Dr Who new series&amp;quot;, 4.40pm (Revenge of the Cybermen, part one), 12 June 1977 (Sydney)]]&lt;br /&gt;
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The remaining two season 12 serials that had been purchased before the ABC dropped the series were scheduled from April 1977, screening on Sundays in all regions, at 4.40pm or 5.35pm. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''HOBART''': From '''3 April 1977''' to '''26 June 1977''', followed by repeats of {{UUU}} through to {{ZZZ}} on a weekly basis, to '''23 October 1977'''. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''BRISBANE''': From '''24 April 1977''' to '''5 June 1977''', followed by repeats of {{UUU}} through to {{YYY}} on a weekly basis (albeit with some episodes pre-empted), to '''30 October 1977'''. There were no listings to indicate that {{ZZZ}} was repeated in BRISBANE. However on '''7 December 1977''', a generic listing of programming '''&amp;quot;For the Juniors&amp;quot;''', which ran for five hours (from 1.30 to 6.30pm), is given as a replacement for cancelled cricket on that date.&lt;br /&gt;
*'''SYDNEY''': From '''1 May 1977''' to '''3 July 1977''', followed by repeats of {{UUU}} through to {{ZZZ}} on a weekly basis (with the odd pre-emption during the screening of {{YYY}}), through to '''25 November 1977'''. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''ADELAIDE''': ADELAIDE's delay in screening the last Block of stories enabled them to screen the new Block straight away, from '''17 July 1977''' until '''25 September 1977''', followed by repeats of {{UUU}} and {{XXX}} only. &lt;br /&gt;
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Of note, the repeats of these last few Pertwee episodes was the last time that '''Doctor Who''' aired on a weekly basis only; from 1977 until 1987, the series would always only air on weekdays. &lt;br /&gt;
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(NOTE: We have no transmission dates of these serials for the other regions.)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Block 11: T BAKER (PERTWEE) ---- '''February 1978 to November 1978'''===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Perth4K.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Pre-empted listing for The Brain of Morbius, 7 March 1978 (Perth)]]&lt;br /&gt;
{| {{small-table}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|'''Repeats'''||'''{{4A}}----{{4B}}----{{AAA}}----{{KKK}}----{{PPP}}----{{RRR}}----{{UUU}}----{{XXX}}----{{YYY}}----{{ZZZ}}----{{4A}}----{{4B}}----{{4C}}----{{4E}}----{{4D}}----{{4F}}----{{4G}}----{{4H}}----{{4J}}----{{4L}}----{{4M}}----{{4N}}----{{4Q}}----{{4R}}----{{4S}}'''&lt;br /&gt;
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In early 1978, a change of policy within the ABC saw the decision to not purchase any more '''Doctor Who''' overturned; the station purchased the remaining season 13 serials plus season 14, and scheduled them as one block. &lt;br /&gt;
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Two serials, {{4K}} and {{4P}}, were given &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; classifications, and therefore did not screen. However, by the time the censors' decision had been disclosed to the ABC, the station had already notified some newspapers and listings publications that {{4K}} was screening (as seen in this example here from a Perth TV magazine); in most regions {{4M}} was substituted in place of {{4K}}.  &lt;br /&gt;
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The run of new Tom Baker stories was followed by a limited run of Jon Pertwee serials, most of which would be broadcast '''in colour''' for the first time. Only a handful existed in their entirety as PAL colour video tapes. (It is thought that some of these colour tapes were sourced from the Middle East, possibly [[United Arab Emirates]].) (According to the BBC in London, {{QQQ}} only existed in black and white, so the serial was being offered as such; neither the BBC nor the ABC was aware that the PAL colour tapes that had been supplied to the ABC in 1973 were still held at their Bond Store!) &lt;br /&gt;
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It would appear that the extended version of {{PPP}} part two aired during this run. (The same extended episode had been seen in [[New Zealand]] in 1975, and was used again for the 1979 Australian repeat, but for the 1983 and subsequent repeats, the standard BBC version was probably used.) &lt;br /&gt;
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The ABC sought to have {{TTT}} reclassified to enable them to air one further story in colour; it was given a &amp;quot;G&amp;quot; rating, which overrode the original &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; rating that had prevented it from screening in 1973. &lt;br /&gt;
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*'''PERTH''', '''SYDNEY''', '''CANBERRA''', '''MELBOURNE''', '''BRISBANE''', '''ADELAIDE''' and '''HOBART''': Seven regions commenced the new episodes simultaneously, starting with {{4F}}, screening four nights a week, from Tuesday, '''7 February 1978''', at 6.30pm. '''BRISBANE''' also started the series on the same day, but only three times a week, skipping the Friday episodes, putting Queensland out of sync with the rest of the country. Newspapers announced that {{4K}} would screen the week after {{4J}}, but the &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; rated serial was replaced with {{4M}}, which was brought forward in story order. With the screenings now out of sync, and the tapes of the next few serials not received or cleared by the censors, the ABC scheduled repeats of {{4A}} and {{4B}} between {{4L}} and {{4N}} in March 1978. Some newspapers advertised {{4P}} to follow {{4N}}, but the &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; rated serial was usually replaced with {{4Q}}. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''MELBOURNE''' fell out of step by one day due to no episode airing '''27 March 1978'''.&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ADEMorbius78.JPG|thumb|right|Brain of Morbius compilation, in Adelaide only, 11 October 1978]]&lt;br /&gt;
*'''SYDNEY''' and '''HOBART''': The run of now-colour Jon Pertwee repeats commenced from Friday, '''5 May 1978''' in these two regions, with '''BRISBANE''' starting the run from Monday, '''29 May 1978'''. {{TTT}} debuted from '''30 May 1978'''. The re-run of Pertwees was followed by a complete run of the Tom Bakers, from {{4A}} again through to {{4S}}, with {{4M}} screening in its correct position, but with {{4G}} and {{4H}} screening this time in production order. The run concluded on '''11 October 1978''' in SYDNEY; '''12 October 1978''' in HOBART; '''8 November''' in ADELAIDE; and prematurely with {{4R}} part four on '''28 November 1978''' in BRISBANE. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''ADELAIDE''': On Wednesday, '''11 October 1978''', at 8.30pm, the 60 minute edited compilation of {{4K}} screened for the first time but only in ADELAIDE. (It would not screen in other regions until January 1980…)&lt;br /&gt;
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(NOTE: We do not have many clear transmission dates for PERTH and HOBART from this point on; with the occasional pre-emption aside, those regional screenings would have mostly mirrored those of the regions that are noted.)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Block 12: T BAKER ---- '''February 1979 to October 1979'''===&lt;br /&gt;
{| {{small-table}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|'''First Run'''||'''{{4V}}----{{4T}}----{{4X}}----{{4W}}----{{4Y}}----{{4Z}}----{{5A}}----{{5B}}----{{5C}}----{{5D}}----{{5E}}----{{5F}}'''&lt;br /&gt;
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|'''Repeats'''||'''{{AAA}}----{{KKK}}----{{PPP}}----{{RRR}}----{{TTT}}----{{UUU}}----{{XXX}}----{{YYY}}----{{ZZZ}}----{{4A}}----{{4B}}----{{4C}}----{{4E}}----{{4D}}----{{4F}}----{{4G}}----{{4H}}----{{4J}}----{{4L}}----{{4M}}'''&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:4V190279.JPG|right|thumb|450px|Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1979]] &lt;br /&gt;
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From 1979 onwards, the ABC was virtually fully unified across the country, with the same episodes screening across all regions, albeit allowing for the two hour difference between coasts. The odd regional variance would generally occur around coverage of local sports events. However, from this point on, this overview will no longer cover these regional variances. &lt;br /&gt;
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*From '''2 to 15 February 1979''', Tom Baker visited Australia on a publicity tour. It was during this visit that a series of promotional videos using the slogan '''&amp;quot;Keep Australia Beautiful&amp;quot;''' were recorded, as well as television interviews.&lt;br /&gt;
**'''CLIPS: KEEP AUSTRALIA BEAUTIFUL''':&lt;br /&gt;
{{YouTube|id=dRJJDZWLzng|float=left}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{YouTube|id=c7-lGr9FGvI|float=left}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{YouTube|id=yXDRlxeb26s|float=left}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{YouTube|id=w3ofYbtKOHs|float=left}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{clear}}&lt;br /&gt;
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*From Monday, '''19 February 1979''' to Wednesday, '''23 May 1979''', seasons 15 and 16 aired back to back, four nights per week (not Fridays). There was an interruption during February or March 1979 in some regions, with a full week gap between episodes one and two of {{4Z}}. &lt;br /&gt;
*From Thursday, '''24 May 1979''', there was another repeat run of the colour Jon Pertwee stories, followed by Tom Bakers from {{4A}} to {{4M}} only, concluding in each region by the end of '''October 1979'''. &lt;br /&gt;
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*'''MELBOURNE''' fell out of sync a few times, due to sports coverage. Most of the regions ended simultaneously on '''24 October 1979''', whereas Victoria ended the run on '''30 October'''. &lt;br /&gt;
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===Block 13: T BAKER ---- '''January 1980 to October 1980'''===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Adel4K78.JPG|thumb|right||250px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (TV Week)]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:4KOmnibus2.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Sydney Morning Herald)]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:4KOmnibus.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Brain of Morbius Omnibus edition, 24 January 1980 (Melbourne Age)]] &lt;br /&gt;
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{| {{small-table}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|'''Repeats'''||'''{{4K}}----{{4A}}----{{4B}}----{{4C}}----{{4D}}----{{4E}}----{{4F}}----{{4H}}----{{4V}}----{{4T}}----{{4X}}----{{4W}}----{{4Y}}----{{4Z}}----{{5A}}----{{5B}}----{{5C}}----{{5D}}----{{5E}}----{{5F}}----{{5J}}----{{5H}}----{{5G}}----{{5K}}----{{5L}}----{{4G}}----{{4J}}----{{4L}}----{{4M}}'''&lt;br /&gt;
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The ABC explored the possibility of acquiring from the [[United States]] NTSC colour tapes of other Jon Pertwee stories, however months after their initial enquiry they were informed that the tapes had already been wiped! &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:PrimeAds.JPG |thumb|right|250px|Screen grabs of Pr1me Computer ads]] &lt;br /&gt;
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*On Thursday, '''24 January 1980''', at 9.30pm, the 60 minute edited compilation of {{4K}} screened for the first time in all regions, and repeated in ADELAIDE. &lt;br /&gt;
*A month later, from Monday, '''18 February 1980''', the new season started, again screening four nights a week, at 6.30pm. The fourth part of {{5L}} aired '''20 March 1980'''. &lt;br /&gt;
* Tom Baker undertook a second promotional tour of Australia from '''27 February 1980'''. &lt;br /&gt;
*The following week, a further run of repeats, starting with {{4A}}, getting only as far as {{4H}}, after which, from '''12 May 1980''', came repeats of {{4V}} through to {{5L}}, only six months after the initial screening. It was then back to season 13 again, with {{4G}} from '''15 September''', with the run ending at {{4M}} on '''14 October 1980''', in SYDNEY and BRISBANE. In MELBOURNE and HOBART the run ended two days later, on '''16 October 1980'''; at least two episodes would have been pre-empted at some stage to push those two regions out of sync. In '''PERTH''', the run concluded on '''21 October 1980'''. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''PR1ME COMPUTERS'''&lt;br /&gt;
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It was during late 1980 / early 1981 that a series of television commercials for '''Pr1me Computers''' aired on Australian television. The four ads featuring Tom Baker and Lalla Ward were filmed during the recording of season 18. These did not play on the non-commercial station, ABC. The ads also aired in [[New Zealand]] in mid-1981.&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv26/primecomputers.html PR1ME COMPUTER ADS]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Block 14: T BAKER / DAVISON ---- '''March 1982 to December 1982'''===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:NewFace26Apr82.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The &amp;quot;New Face&amp;quot; Peter Davison, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 April 1982]]  &lt;br /&gt;
{| {{small-table}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|'''Repeats'''||'''{{4N}}----{{4M}}----{{4C}}----{{4E}}----{{4D}}----{{4F}}----{{4H}}----{{4G}}----{{4J}}----{{4L}}----{{4Q}}----{{4R}}----{{4S}}----{{4V}}----{{4T}}----{{4X}}----{{4W}}----{{4Y}}----{{4Z}}'''&lt;br /&gt;
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There were no screenings at all in '''1981''', mainly due to further complaints about the number of repeats of the same early Tom Baker serials over and over (for instance, by this time {{4A}} had already aired '''five''' times). Although they had purchased the bulk of Tom Baker's final season in early 1981, the ABC decided to delay screening them, instead choosing to wait until Peter Davison's first season was available, and airing the two back to back. &lt;br /&gt;
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*Tom Baker's final season commenced on Monday, '''8 March 1982''', at 6.30pm in all regions bar '''HOBART''', were it commenced the following day, placing that region out of sync with the rest of the country by one day for the full run. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''ADELAIDE''' was a day late getting part one of {{5T}} on '''13 April 1982''', putting them out of step by one day as well. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''Peter Davison''' made his Australian debut on Monday, '''26 April 1982''', a matter of four months after his arrival on British screens. &lt;br /&gt;
*'''MELBOURNE''' then aired {{6C}} parts three and four back to back on '''8 June 1982''' in order to catch up, having pre-empted the series on '''12 April 1982'''. &lt;br /&gt;
*From '''9 June 1982''', the day after part four of {{6C}}, a run of regional repeats commenced, mainly to accommodate coverage of the football World Cup.  To begin with, only '''SYDNEY''' and '''BRISBANE''' saw two episodes back to back of {{4N}}, picking up from where the October 1980 repeat had ended. This was followed a few weeks later by {{4M}}, again with two episodes back to back. (ADELAIDE may have had all four episodes back to back.) This was followed by {{4C}}, screening two episodes back to back across two days nation-wide. The rest of season 12 and 13 aired Mondays to Thursdays, then a jump to {{4Q}}; after {{4R}} part four on Thursday, '''23 September 1982''', the TV schedules were dominated by coverage of the Commonwealth Games for the next two weeks. &lt;br /&gt;
*The repeats resumed from '''11 October 1982''' with {{4S}} through to {{4W}}, with some regions then skipping {{4Y}}, and the run ended with {{4Z}} (some regions aired with parts one and two back to back) in early December. &lt;br /&gt;
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*'''CONTINUED: [[Australia TX 1983-1985|1983-1985]]'''&lt;br /&gt;
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		<author><name>Jon Preddle</name></author>
		
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