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 In '''DWM''', Ecuador is identified in '''22''' story Archives, all [[Tom Baker stories]] from his first four seasons {{4A}} to {{4Z}}, but not {{4L}}, which is probably an oversight, as that story did air.
-According to other BBC records, the offer and sale to Ecuador was completed by '''November 1978'''. Time Life Television was the distributor who provided BBC programmes to Latin American countries. It may have been at the March 1978 NATPE exhibition that the programme was offered to Ecuador (and later to [[Mexico]], [[Chile]] and [[Venezuela]]) (for more on NATPE, see also [[United States--1978]]).
+According to other BBC records, the offer and sale to Ecuador was completed by '''November 1978'''. Time-Life Television was the distributor who provided BBC programmes to Latin American countries. It may have been at the March 1978 NATPE exhibition that the programme was offered to Ecuador (and later to [[Mexico]], [[Chile]] and [[Venezuela]]) (for more on NATPE, see also [[United States--1978]]).
 Ecuador is '''not''' named in the 1987 memo mentioned in '''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS], which is very odd indeed...
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-Ecuador therefore was offered and bought the standard package of [[Tom Baker stories]] in [[Spanish]] that were distributed by Time Life.
+Ecuador therefore was offered and bought the standard package of [[Tom Baker stories]] in [[Spanish]] that were distributed by Time-Life.
 (*) It's possible that [[Image of the Fendahl]] was not included.

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 This long delay may have been due to the time it took to have the episodes dubbed, and that other countries subsequently "jumped the queue" and aired the series before tapes could be supplied to Ecuador. (See [[Missing Misterio|THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MISTERIOS]] for more on this.)
-The series played weekly on Wednesdays from 9.00 to 10.00pm, two episodes back to back. As with the screenings in [[Mexico]] and [[Chile]] around this same time, the stories aired in a completely random order.
+The series played weekly on Wednesdays from 9.00 to 10.00pm, two episodes back to back. As with the screenings in [[Mexico]], [[Chile]] and [[Colombia]] around this same time, the stories aired in a completely random order.
 There were 44 clear billings, when there should be 49, which means five sets of two episodes are unaccounted for. All stories bar [[Terror of the Zygons]], [[The Sun Makers]] and [[Image of the Fendahl]] were billed at least once.

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 ==Television Stations / Channels==
-Ecuador began its television service in 1959. Colour was introduced to the country in 1974. In the late 1970s, it had seven television broadcasting services.
+Ecuador began its television service in 1959. NTSC colour was introduced to the country in 1974. In the late 1970s, it had seven television broadcasting services.
-Canal 10 (Channel 10) was owned by the '''Cadena Ecuatoriana de Television''', headquartered in Guayaquil; it was on that station that '''"Dr Misterio"''' aired from 1980…
+Canal 10 (Channel 10) was owned by the '''Cadena Ecuatoriana de Television''', headquartered in Guayaquil; it was on that station that '''"Dr Misterio"''' aired in 1980 and 1981.
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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
-In '''DWM''', Ecuador is identified in '''22''' story Archives, all [[Tom Baker stories]] from his first four seasons {{4A}} to {{4Z}}, but not {{4L}}, which is probably an oversight. The year of sale is given as '''1978'''.
+In '''DWM''', Ecuador is identified in '''22''' story Archives, all [[Tom Baker stories]] from his first four seasons {{4A}} to {{4Z}}, but not {{4L}}, which is probably an oversight, as that story did air.
-According to other BBC records, the sale to Ecuador was actually completed by '''November 1978'''. Time Life Television was the distributor who provided programming to Latin American countries. It may have been at the March 1978 NATPE exhibition that the programme was offered to Ecuador (and [[Mexico]], [[Chile]] and [[Venezuela]]) (for more on NATPE, see also [[United States--1978]]).
+According to other BBC records, the offer and sale to Ecuador was completed by '''November 1978'''. Time Life Television was the distributor who provided BBC programmes to Latin American countries. It may have been at the March 1978 NATPE exhibition that the programme was offered to Ecuador (and later to [[Mexico]], [[Chile]] and [[Venezuela]]) (for more on NATPE, see also [[United States--1978]]).
 Ecuador is '''not''' named in the 1987 memo mentioned in '''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS], which is very odd indeed...
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 |4T||[[The Invisible Enemy]]||4
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-|4X||[[Image of the Fendahl]]||4
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 |4W||[[The Sun Makers]]||4
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 Ecuador therefore was offered and bought the standard package of [[Tom Baker stories]] in [[Spanish]] that were distributed by Time Life.
 * For the Spanish story titles, go to: [[Spanish|SPANISH]]
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 ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
-[[File:MrMisterio.JPG|thumb|right|250px|"Mister Misterio" begins, 19 March 1980]]
+[[File:MrMisterio.JPG|thumb|right|250px|"Mister Misterio" begins, 19 March 1980 (El Comercio)]]
 [[File:DrMisterio10.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic listing for "Dr Misterio", El Comercio, 1980]]
-Despite a sale taking place by the end of '''1978''', it wasn't until Wednesday, '''19 March 1980''' that '''Doctor Misterio''' was broadcast on Canal 10 in Ecuador.
+Despite a sale taking place by '''November 1978''', it wasn't until Wednesday, '''19 March 1980''' that '''Doctor Misterio''' was broadcast on Canal 10 in Ecuador.
 This long delay may have been due to the time it took to have the episodes dubbed, and that other countries subsequently "jumped the queue" and aired the series before tapes could be supplied to Ecuador. (See [[Missing Misterio|THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MISTERIOS]] for more on this.)
-The series played weekly on Wednesdays from 9.00 to 10.00pm, two episodes back to back.
+The series played weekly on Wednesdays from 9.00 to 10.00pm, two episodes back to back. As with the screenings in [[Mexico]] and [[Chile]] around this same time, the stories aired in a completely random order.
-The '''25 July 1980''' episode was pre-empted by football, from 9.00 till 11.00pm that night.
+There are two episodes without published titles – 26 November and 10 December; these would be either [[The Sun Makers]] or [[Image of the Fendahl]].
-Newspapers after '''13 August 1980''' were not available, so we only have listings covering the first 42 episodes. (If the serials aired in the correct story order, those last two were (potentially) the first two parts of [[The Seeds of Doom]].)
+No episodes were listed on 24 and 31 December, with the TV schedule filled with Christmas programming. It's possible the series did air without being scheduled. If '''"Dr Misterio"''' did air on those two dates in December, then we may have accounted for all the episodes.
-The other 56 episodes presumably aired during the rest of 1980, and into 1981. Not allowing for any breaks in the run, the odd interruption due to seasonal (i.e. Christmas) or sports priorities, the final two episodes would potentially have aired on '''25 February 1981'''.
+An alternative is that [[Image of the Fendahl]] did not air – it seems likely that the serial was skipped in [[Mexico]] as well, perhaps on account of its storyline questioning the origins and evolution of humans..?
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 ===[[Paul McGann stories|PAUL McGANN]]===
-The 1996 [[TV Movie]] was available via the [[HBO OLE]] cable station in '''1999'''.
+The 1996 [[TV Movie]] was likely available via the [[HBO OLE]] cable station in '''1999'''.
 ==TV listings==
 {{airdates-left|}}
-The Ecuador newspaper ''El Comercio'' was available for 1978, 1979, the first half of 1980, and most of 1982 only. Papers for the last four months of 1980, all of 1981 and the first three months of 1982 were not available.
+Listings are from the Ecuador newspapers ''El Comercio'' and ''El Telegrafo'', of which only the latter published story titles.
-The listings appeared in a grid, with each 'box' representing an hour. The 9.00 to 10.00 hour was printed as:
+The series title was printed (in error) as '''"Mister Misterio"''' for the first three billings of ''El Comercio'' and the first in ''Telegrafo'', before setting with '''"Doctor" or "Dr Misterio"''' as the standard.
-*9.00 PM Dr Misterio
+Although both papers had the same listings most of the time, they did differ on the odd occasion – such as on 26 March and 1 June 1980, for which ''Telegrafo'' doesn't list the series at all, or when there was football - such as on 25 June and 3 December 1980.
-At first glance this looks like "Dr Misterio" filled the first half of the hour, and "Micro informativo" the other half. But some of the other 'boxes' in the TV schedule also had "Micro informativo" listed in them. In two of the papers, "Dr Misterio" was the only billing in the box.
+We have generally sided with ''Telegrafo'' in our Airdates table as that had story titles, however even those went askew a couple of times, such as there being four listings for [[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]], three for [[Planet of Evil]], only one for [[Underworld]] and none at all for [[Terror of the Zygons]], [[The Sun Makers]] or [[Image of the Fendahl]].
-In one of the other newspapers we looked at for 1979, the ""Micro informativo" listing was for only five minutes. Therefore we feel certain that "Dr Misterio" occupied most of the hour, with the remaining five to ten minutes filled with a short "Little Information" or news update. Accordingly, our analysis and Airdates table is based on there being two episodes back to back. (This thought may change once we've located and accessed papers for the rest of 1980 and 1981, especially if the listings extend beyond the broadcast equivalent of 98 episodes.)
+Some of the published story titles differed from the "usual" ones (see our [[Spanish]] page), such as '''"Robots Mortales"''' (instead of '''"El Robot de la Muerte"'''), although the Ecuador listings tend to copy the ones published in [[Chile]].
-The available collection of ''El Comercio'' ended with the '''13 August 1980''' issue, so only 21 listings have been located. The collection didn't recommence until '''1 April 1982''', and there were no listings for '''"Doctor Misterio"''' in or after that month. As noted above, the series may have concluded in February 1981, which would certainly fit with there being no further listings in April 1982.
+All issues of ''El Comercio'' to the end of 1982 were checked, and there were no further listings for '''"Dr Misterio"''' beyond 25 March 1981.

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 [[File:DrMisterio10.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic listing for "Dr Misterio", El Comercio, 1980]]
-Despite a sale taking place by the end of 1978, it wasn't until Wednesday, '''19 March 1980''' that '''Doctor Misterio''' was broadcast on Canal 10 in Ecuador.
+Despite a sale taking place by the end of '''1978''', it wasn't until Wednesday, '''19 March 1980''' that '''Doctor Misterio''' was broadcast on Canal 10 in Ecuador.
 This long delay may have been due to the time it took to have the episodes dubbed, and that other countries subsequently "jumped the queue" and aired the series before tapes could be supplied to Ecuador. (See [[Missing Misterio|THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MISTERIOS]] for more on this.)

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 ==Television Stations / Channels==
-Ecuador began its television service in 1959. In the late 1970s, it had seven television broadcasting services.
+Ecuador began its television service in 1959. Colour was introduced to the country in 1974. In the late 1970s, it had seven television broadcasting services.
 Canal 10 (Channel 10) was owned by the '''Cadena Ecuatoriana de Television''', headquartered in Guayaquil; it was on that station that '''"Dr Misterio"''' aired from 1980…

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 |'''Colour System'''||1974||[[:Wikipedia:NTSC|NTSC]]
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-'''[[Wikipedia:Ecuador|ECUADOR]]''' lies on the Pacific coast of the [[:Category:South America|South American]] continent.
+'''[[Wikipedia:Ecuador|ECUADOR]]''' lies on the Pacific coast of the [[:Category:South America|South American]] continent. It shares borders with [[Colombia]] and [[Peru]].
 {{TOC right}}
 ==Profile==
 {| {{small-table}}
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-|'''Country Number (N/K)'''||1978?||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
+|'''Country Number (52?)'''||1980||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE]]
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 ==Television Stations / Channels==
-In the late 1970s, it had seven television broadcasting services. It is not known on which of those seven stations '''Doctor Who''' aired.
+Ecuador began its television service in 1959. In the late 1970s, it had seven television broadcasting services.
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-=='''DOCTOR WHO (EL DOCTOR MISTERIO) IN ECUADOR'''==
+=='''DOCTOR WHO IN ECUADOR (EL DOCTOR MISTERIO)'''==
 [[File:Dr Misterio logo.JPG|200px|right|Doctor Misterio logo]]
-In Spanish speaking countries, the series was known as '''Doctor Misterio'''.
+In Spanish speaking countries, the series was known as '''Doctor Misterio'''. Ecuador was (approximately) the '''52nd''' country to screen the series.
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 In '''DWM''', Ecuador is identified in '''22''' story Archives, all [[Tom Baker stories]] from his first four seasons {{4A}} to {{4Z}}, but not {{4L}}, which is probably an oversight. The year of sale is given as '''1978'''.
-Ecuador is '''not''' named in the 1987 memo mentioned in '''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS], which is very odd...
+According to other BBC records, the sale to Ecuador was actually completed by '''November 1978'''. Time Life Television was the distributor who provided programming to Latin American countries. It may have been at the March 1978 NATPE exhibition that the programme was offered to Ecuador (and [[Mexico]], [[Chile]] and [[Venezuela]]) (for more on NATPE, see also [[United States--1978]]).
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-Ecuador therefore bought the standard package of [[Tom Baker stories]] in [[Spanish]] that were distributed by Time Life.
+Ecuador therefore was offered and bought the standard package of [[Tom Baker stories]] in [[Spanish]] that were distributed by Time Life.
 * For the Spanish story titles, go to: [[Spanish|SPANISH]]
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 ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
-No details, other than the year of sale being '''1978'''.
+The other 56 episodes presumably aired during the rest of 1980, and into 1981. Not allowing for any breaks in the run, the odd interruption due to seasonal (i.e. Christmas) or sports priorities, the final two episodes would potentially have aired on '''25 February 1981'''.
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 ===[[Paul McGann stories|PAUL McGANN]]===
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-==TV listings==
+The listings appeared in a grid, with each 'box' representing an hour. The 9.00 to 10.00 hour was printed as:
-Newspapers for 1978 and 1980 have been checked, but with no sign of '''Dr Misterio''' in the TV listings. Therefore, the series must have screened after 1980...
+In one of the other newspapers we looked at for 1979, the ""Micro informativo" listing was for only five minutes. Therefore we feel certain that "Dr Misterio" occupied most of the hour, with the remaining five to ten minutes filled with a short "Little Information" or news update. Accordingly, our analysis and Airdates table is based on there being two episodes back to back. (This thought may change once we've located and accessed papers for the rest of 1980 and 1981, especially if the listings extend beyond the broadcast equivalent of 98 episodes.)
-* See [[Missing Misterio|THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MISTERIOS]]
+The available collection of ''El Comercio'' ended with the '''13 August 1980''' issue, so only 21 listings have been located. The collection didn't recommence until '''1 April 1982''', and there were no listings for '''"Doctor Misterio"''' in or after that month. As noted above, the series may have concluded in February 1981, which would certainly fit with there being no further listings in April 1982.

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		+	===[[Paul McGann stories\|PAUL McGANN]]===
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		+	The 1996 [[TV Movie]] was available via the [[HBO OLE]] cable station in '''1999'''.
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	==TV listings==		==TV listings==

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	==Ecuador in Doctor Who==		==Ecuador in Doctor Who==