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 The principal languages of Lebanon are [[Arabic]] and French. Television broadcasts are also provided in English.
-BBC Radio's [[wikipedia:BBC Arabic|Arabic Service]] had a production centre in Cairo, Egypt, but following the 1956 Suez war, the department re-located to Beirut, [[Lebanon]] until the 1975 civil war.
+BBC Radio's [[wikipedia:BBC Arabic|Arabic Service]] had a production centre in Cairo, [[Egypt]], but following the 1956 Suez war, the department re-located to Beirut, [[Lebanon]] until the 1975 civil war.
 Due to the popularity of BBC radio programmes in Arabic countries it wasn't surprising that BBC would later offer its television programmes to the same market.

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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
-In a BBC memo dated '''7 July 1965''', Lebanon was one of several countries to which the series had been offered, but not yet been accepted. The stories on offer were [[The Daleks]] and [[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]. However, the offer was not accepted and no sale eventuated.
+In a BBC memo dated '''7 July 1965''', Lebanon was one of several countries to which the series had been offered. The stories on offer were [[The Daleks]] and [[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]. However, the offer was not accepted and no sale eventuated.
 '''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''"(3)"''' stories by 28 February 1977. '''The Handbook''' identifies these as being the William Hartnell serials {{A}}, {{E}} and {{L}}.

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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
 '''The Seventies''' records a sale of '''"(3)"''' stories by 28 February 1977. '''The Handbook''' identifies these as being the William Hartnell serials {{A}}, {{E}} and {{L}}.
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 In '''DWM''', Lebanon is identified in '''seven''' story Archives: {{A}}, {{E}}, {{L}}, {{AAA}}, {{BBB}}, {{CCC}} and {{EEE}}.
-Although there are three [[William Hartnell stories]] recorded in the 1977 sales document, there is no firm evidence that the series did screen prior to 1977. From the listings that have been found, the only stories that screened in Lebanon were three [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
+Although there are two Hartnell stories in the 1965 memo, and three recorded in the 1977 sales document, there is no firm evidence that the series did screen prior to 1977. From the listings that have been found, the only stories that screened in Lebanon were three [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
 It's possible the word "Lebanon" in the 1977 memo was a miss-reading of "[[Libya]]", which is not named in the 1977 memo. After all, both countries have a major city called Tripoli, and the television station of the former, "Liban/Libanaise", is very similar to that of the latter, "Libyan"... Or, the error lies in the very simple fact that the Hartnell episodes had been dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon.

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 [[Qatar]] had purchased [[Spearhead from Space]] around the same time, while [[Saudi Arabia]] had purchased a much larger set of [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
-Saudi aired each episode of [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] three days before Lebanon did, but Lebanon aired [[The Ambassadors of Death]] seven months before Saudi. We think it's extremely likely that Saudi was the source of the film prints, with Lebanon acquiring the [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] episodes immediately after each had aired in Saudi, but 'borrowing' [[Spearhead from Space]] and [[The Ambassadors of Death]] from Saudi, sending them back afterwards. (Although there are no clear listings for [[Spearhead from Space]] on Saudi TV, BBC paperwork does show that the serial was purchased by them before Lebanon, and as such prints would have been supplied even if the serial subsequently did not go to air.)
+Saudi aired each episode of [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] three days before Lebanon did, but Lebanon aired [[The Ambassadors of Death]] ''seven months before'' Saudi. We think it's extremely likely that Saudi was the source of all the film prints, with Lebanon acquiring the [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]], [[Inferno]] and [[Terror of the Autons]] immediately after they had aired in Saudi, but 'borrowing' [[Spearhead from Space]] and [[The Ambassadors of Death]] ahead of Saudi, and sending them back afterwards. (Although there are no clear listings for [[Spearhead from Space]] on Saudi TV, BBC paperwork does show that the serial was purchased by them before Lebanon, and as such prints would have been supplied even if the serial subsequently did not go to air.)
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 {{Arabic}}
-The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, however the following seven weeks it was [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]. It's possible that the first serial scheduled to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], but the films hadn't arrived in time (from [[Saudi Arabia]]?) so they pre-empted the debut of the series, and delayed it a week.
+The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, but has no story title. The following seven weeks are billed as being [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]. It's possible that the first serial scheduled to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], but the films hadn't arrived in time (from [[Saudi Arabia]]?) so they pre-empted the debut of the series, and delayed it a week and aired [[The Silurians]] instead. Alternatively, the first episode of [[The Silurians]] did air on 22 April, but one of the subsequent six episodes was pre-empted.
-[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] was the first serial to air, on Friday, '''29 April 1977''', at 6.30pm. It was simulcast on the two rival stations, CLT Canaux 7,4,2, and on Télé-Orient Canal 5. (An alternative is that the series ''did'' start on 22 April, but that one of the subsequent six episodes was pre-empted.)
+[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] was therefore the first serial, on Friday, '''29 April 1977''', at 6.30pm. It was simulcast on the two rival stations, CLT Canaux 7,4,2, and on Télé-Orient Canal 5.
 This was followed by [[The Ambassadors of Death]], commencing '''17 June 1977'''. With part five of that serial, the series moved to Thursdays (from '''14 July 1977'''), at the later time of 8.00pm.
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 The third and final serial to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], from '''11 August 1977''' to '''25 August 1977'''. (As we noted above, it's possible that Lebanon planned to screen [[Spearhead from Space]] first, but the films didn't arrive from Saudi Arabia in time, so they aired [[The Silurians]] the following week instead (hence the "extra" billing on 22 April.)
-There were two further listings for '''Doctor Who''' in the paper – on '''1 and 8 September 1977''' (there was no paper for 15 September available, so it's unknown if there was a listing for that date as well, but there were no further listings in the newspapers after that); those two episodes may well have aired, but the serial was dropped early when the restructure of Lebanese television was underway. The remaining Pertwee episodes that were purchased therefore did not screen.
+There were two further listings for '''Doctor Who''' in the paper – on '''1 and 8 September 1977''' (there was no paper for 15 September available, so it's unknown if there was a listing for that date as well, but there were no further listings in the newspapers after that); those two episodes may well have aired, but the serial (presumably [[Inferno]]) was dropped early when the restructure of Lebanese television was underway. The remaining Pertwee episodes that were purchased ([[Inferno]] and [[Terror of the Autons]]) therefore did not screen.
 There is no clear record that Lebanon ever screened '''Doctor Who''' again.
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 ====Fate of the Prints?====
-As noted above, Lebanon may have 'borrowed' the films prints of [[Spearhead from Space]] and [[The Ambassadors of Death]] from [[Saudi Arabia]], and as such they would have been returned after broadcast. The other two serials, including the ones that didn't screen, may also have been returned to [[Saudi Arabia]].
+As noted above, Lebanon may have 'borrowed' the films prints of [[Spearhead from Space]] and [[The Ambassadors of Death]] from [[Saudi Arabia]], and as such they would have been returned after broadcast. The other serials were retained, destroyed or returned to the BBC.
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 TV listings have been obtained from the French newspaper ''L'Orient le Jour'' and the Arabic papers, ''Al-Anwar'' and ''Al-Nahar''.
-Although a French paper, the ''Le Jour'' episode titles for the series were in English!
+The series was called '''"Dr Who"''' for most of the listings, but the French spelling '''"Docteur Who"''' was used three times. The billing for 21 July was for '''"Docteur No"'''!
-The series was called '''"Dr Who"''' for most of the listings, but the French spelling '''"Docteur Who"''' was used three times. The billing for 21 July was for '''"Docteur No"'''!
+Although a French paper, the ''Le Jour'' episode titles for the series were in English! The first serial was called '''"Dr Who and the Silbrians"''' (sic) and '''"Silvrians"''' (sic). [[The Ambassadors of Death]] was in the singular – '''"Ambassador"'''.
-The first serial was called '''"Dr Who and the Silbrians"''' (sic) and '''"Silvrians"''' (sic). [[The Ambassadors of Death]] was in the singular – '''"Ambassador"'''.
+Some of the episodes were numbered: '''Dr Who and the Silvrians (7e episode)''' and '''Spear Head From Space no 2'''.
 Some of the listings from Canal 5 gave the timeslot as one hour, but the same listing for the other channel was only half an hour.

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 {{Arabic}}
-The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, however the following week it was [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]. It's possible that the first serial scheduled to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], but the films hadn't arrived in time (from [[Saudi Arabia]]?) so they pre-empted the debut of the series, and delayed it a week.
+The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, however the following seven weeks it was [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]. It's possible that the first serial scheduled to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], but the films hadn't arrived in time (from [[Saudi Arabia]]?) so they pre-empted the debut of the series, and delayed it a week.
 [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] was the first serial to air, on Friday, '''29 April 1977''', at 6.30pm. It was simulcast on the two rival stations, CLT Canaux 7,4,2, and on Télé-Orient Canal 5. (An alternative is that the series ''did'' start on 22 April, but that one of the subsequent six episodes was pre-empted.)

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 Due to the popularity of BBC radio programmes in Arabic countries it wasn't surprising that BBC would later offer its television programmes to the same market.
-In the 1950s, ARAMCO (see [[Saudi Arabia]]) had its foreign programmes subtitled in Beirut; and during the 1960s, Lebanon became the centre of the Arab world for subtitling and dubbing. One of the Beirut-based companies responsible for dubbing programming was called '''Al-Ittihad Al-Fanni Studios'''. The name Al-Ittihad Al-Fanni (or its spelling variant Al Ettihad al Fanni) roughly translates as The Art Union or The Union of Art, but it's Anglicised name was [http://www.discogs.com/label/586886-Uniart-Studios UNIART]. It was at these studios that the [[William Hartnell]] episodes of '''Doctor Who''' were dubbed for supply to those markets where [[Arabic]] was the principal language ([[Tunisia]] was the first country to screen these dubbed episodes). It's likely that the Jon Pertwee stories were also dubbed there.
+In the 1950s, ARAMCO (see [[Saudi Arabia]]) had its foreign programmes subtitled in Beirut; and during the 1960s, Lebanon became the centre of the Arab world for subtitling and dubbing. One of the Beirut-based companies responsible for dubbing programming was called '''Al-Ittihad Al-Fanni Studios'''. The name Al-Ittihad Al-Fanni (or its spelling variant Al Ettihad al Fanni) roughly translates as The Art Union or The Union of Art, but it's Anglicised name was [http://www.discogs.com/label/586886-Uniart-Studios UNIART]. It was at these studios that the [[William Hartnell]] episodes of '''Doctor Who''' were dubbed for supply to those markets where [[Arabic]] was the principal language ([[Tunisia]] was the first country to screen these dubbed episodes). (While there is no evidence that any of the Jon Pertwee stories were dubbed into Arabic, they may instead have been subtitled or had Arabic narration recorded for them.)
 The company name can be heard in the Arabic narration of the foreign language alternative soundtracks on the DVDs of [[Inside the Spaceship]], [[The Aztecs]] and [[Planet of Giants]]. (See the page on [[Arabic]] language.)
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 Although there are three [[William Hartnell stories]] recorded in the 1977 sales document, there is no firm evidence that the series did screen prior to 1977. From the listings that have been found, the only stories that screened in Lebanon were three [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
-It's possible the word "Lebanon" in the 1977 memo was a miss-reading of "[[Libya]]", which is not named in the 1977 memo. After all, both countries have a major city called Tripoli, and the television station of the former, "Liban/Libanaise", is very similar to that of the latter, "Libyan"... Or, the error lies in the very simple fact that the episodes were dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon.
+It's possible the word "Lebanon" in the 1977 memo was a miss-reading of "[[Libya]]", which is not named in the 1977 memo. After all, both countries have a major city called Tripoli, and the television station of the former, "Liban/Libanaise", is very similar to that of the latter, "Libyan"... Or, the error lies in the very simple fact that the Hartnell episodes had been dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon.
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 Lebanon therefore bought part of GROUP A of the [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
-Other BBC sales records indicate that [[Inferno]] and [[Terror of the Autons]] were also purchased (as noted in '''The Eighties''' and '''DWM'''), but those sales were subsequently cancelled following the restructuring of the Lebanese television services in late 1977.
+Other BBC sales records indicate that [[Inferno]] and [[Terror of the Autons]] were also purchased (as noted in '''The Eighties''' and '''DWM'''), but those sales were subsequently cancelled -- it would appear that this was because of the restructuring of the Lebanese television services in late 1977.
 The programme was most likely supplied as 16mm black and white film prints. These may have been supplied with separate [[Arabic]] soundtracks per [[wikipedia:Huw Wheldon|Huw Wheldon]]'s comments in the 1974 edition of the [[WRTH]] about his seeing "Dr Who in my own office in Arabic, and a curious experience it was". There is no documentation to indicate that any Pertwees were supplied with "Music / Effects" only tracks, so Wheldon's comments may have been in reference to dubbed Hartnell episodes, rather than recently-dubbed Pertwees.
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 ====Origin of the Prints?====
-[[Saudi Arabia]] had purchased a much larger set of [[Jon Pertwee stories]] at the same time. Saudi aired each episode of [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] three days before Lebanon did, but Lebanon aired [[The Ambassadors of Death]] seven months before Saudi. We think it's extremely likely that Saudi was the source of the film prints, with Lebanon acquiring the [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] episodes immediately after each had aired in Saudi, but Lebanon 'borrowed' all of [[Spearhead from Space]] and [[The Ambassadors of Death]] from Saudi and aired them first, sending them back afterwards. (Although there are no clear listings for [[Spearhead from Space]] on Saudi TV, BBC paperwork does show that the serial was sold there, and as such prints would have been supplied even if the serial did not for some reason go to air.)
+[[Qatar]] had purchased [[Spearhead from Space]] around the same time, while [[Saudi Arabia]] had purchased a much larger set of [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
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 {{Arabic}}
-The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, however it appears that the series was delayed a week, otherwise there would be eight episodes for the first seven-part serial. (Was Lebanon awaiting the film prints of that serial to come from [[Saudi Arabia]]?)
+The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, however the following week it was [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]. It's possible that the first serial scheduled to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], but the films hadn't arrived in time (from [[Saudi Arabia]]?) so they pre-empted the debut of the series, and delayed it a week.
-The series therefore (presumably) started a week later on Friday, '''29 April 1977''', at 6.30pm. It was simulcast on the two rival stations, CLT Canaux 7,4,2, and on Télé-Orient Canal 5. (An alternative is that the series did start on 22 April, but that one of the subsequent six episodes was pre-empted.)
+[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]] was the first serial to air, on Friday, '''29 April 1977''', at 6.30pm. It was simulcast on the two rival stations, CLT Canaux 7,4,2, and on Télé-Orient Canal 5. (An alternative is that the series ''did'' start on 22 April, but that one of the subsequent six episodes was pre-empted.)
-The first serial to air was [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]. This was followed by [[The Ambassadors of Death]]. With part five of that serial, the series moved to Thursdays (from '''14 July 1977'''), at the later time of 8.00pm.
+This was followed by [[The Ambassadors of Death]], commencing '''17 June 1977'''. With part five of that serial, the series moved to Thursdays (from '''14 July 1977'''), at the later time of 8.00pm.
-The third and final serial to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], from '''11 August 1977'''. That serial concluded on '''25 August'''.
+The third and final serial to air was [[Spearhead from Space]], from '''11 August 1977''' to '''25 August 1977'''. (As we noted above, it's possible that Lebanon planned to screen [[Spearhead from Space]] first, but the films didn't arrive from Saudi Arabia in time, so they aired [[The Silurians]] the following week instead (hence the "extra" billing on 22 April.)
-There were only two further listings for '''Doctor Who''' in the paper – on '''1 and 8 September 1977''' - but it appears that these episodes did not screen, as by this time the restructure of Lebanese television was underway. '''Doctor Who''' was dropped from the schedules, and the two other Pertwee serials that were purchased did not screen.
+There were two further listings for '''Doctor Who''' in the paper – on '''1 and 8 September 1977''' (there was no paper for 15 September available, so it's unknown if there was a listing for that date as well, but there were no further listings in the newspapers after that); those two episodes may well have aired, but the serial was dropped early when the restructure of Lebanese television was underway. The remaining Pertwee episodes that were purchased therefore did not screen.
 There is no clear record that Lebanon ever screened '''Doctor Who''' again.
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 ====Fate of the Prints?====
-As noted above, Lebanon may have 'borrowed' the films prints from [[Saudi Arabia]], and as such they would have been returned after broadcast.
+As noted above, Lebanon may have 'borrowed' the films prints of [[Spearhead from Space]] and [[The Ambassadors of Death]] from [[Saudi Arabia]], and as such they would have been returned after broadcast. The other two serials, including the ones that didn't screen, may also have been returned to [[Saudi Arabia]].

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 Due to the popularity of BBC radio programmes in Arabic countries it wasn't surprising that BBC would later offer its television programmes to the same market.
-In the 1950s, ARAMCO (see [[Saudi Arabia]]) had its foreign programmes subtitled in Beirut; and during the 1960s, Lebanon became the centre of the Arab world for subtitling and dubbing. One of the Beirut-based companies responsible for dubbing programming was called '''Al-Ittihad Al-Fani Studios'''. The name Al-Ittihad Al-Fani (or its spelling variant Al Ettihad al Fanni) roughly translates as The Art Union or The Union of Art. It was at these studios that the [[William Hartnell]] episodes of '''Doctor Who''' were dubbed for supply to those markets where [[Arabic]] was the principal language ([[Tunisia]] was the first country to screen these dubbed episodes). It's likely that the Jon Pertwee stories were also dubbed there.
+In the 1950s, ARAMCO (see [[Saudi Arabia]]) had its foreign programmes subtitled in Beirut; and during the 1960s, Lebanon became the centre of the Arab world for subtitling and dubbing. One of the Beirut-based companies responsible for dubbing programming was called '''Al-Ittihad Al-Fanni Studios'''. The name Al-Ittihad Al-Fanni (or its spelling variant Al Ettihad al Fanni) roughly translates as The Art Union or The Union of Art, but it's Anglicised name was [http://www.discogs.com/label/586886-Uniart-Studios UNIART]. It was at these studios that the [[William Hartnell]] episodes of '''Doctor Who''' were dubbed for supply to those markets where [[Arabic]] was the principal language ([[Tunisia]] was the first country to screen these dubbed episodes). It's likely that the Jon Pertwee stories were also dubbed there.
 The company name can be heard in the Arabic narration of the foreign language alternative soundtracks on the DVDs of [[Inside the Spaceship]], [[The Aztecs]] and [[Planet of Giants]]. (See the page on [[Arabic]] language.)
-A bit of background to '''Al-Ittihad Al-Fani Studios''' can be read here:
+A bit of background to '''Al-Ittihad Al-Fanni Studios''' can be read here:
 * [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/196705/t.v.in.the.m.e..htm TV IN THE MIDDLE EAST]
 *[http://www.kabobfest.com/2010/12/when-japan-and-lebanon-go-crazy-for-palestine.html DUBBING IN LEBANON]
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 {{Arabic}}
-The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, however it appears that the series was delayed a week, otherwise there would be eight episodes for the first serial. (Was Lebanon awaiting the film prints of that serial to come from [[Saudi Arabia]]?)
+The first billing appears in the paper for Friday, '''22 April 1977''' at 6.30pm, however it appears that the series was delayed a week, otherwise there would be eight episodes for the first seven-part serial. (Was Lebanon awaiting the film prints of that serial to come from [[Saudi Arabia]]?)
-The series therefore (presumably) started a week later on Friday, '''29 April 1977''', at 6.30pm. It was simulcast on the two rival stations, CLT Canaux 7,4,2, and on Télé-Orient Canal 5. (An alternative it that the series did start on 22 April, but that one of the subsequent six episodes was pre-empted.)
+The series therefore (presumably) started a week later on Friday, '''29 April 1977''', at 6.30pm. It was simulcast on the two rival stations, CLT Canaux 7,4,2, and on Télé-Orient Canal 5. (An alternative is that the series did start on 22 April, but that one of the subsequent six episodes was pre-empted.)
 The first serial to air was [[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]. This was followed by [[The Ambassadors of Death]]. With part five of that serial, the series moved to Thursdays (from '''14 July 1977'''), at the later time of 8.00pm.
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 ====Fate of the Prints?====
-The five serials may have been sent to [[Saudi Arabia]].
+The four of the five serials may have been sent to [[Saudi Arabia]].

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	Although there are three [[William Hartnell stories]] recorded in the 1977 sales document, there is no firm evidence that the series did screen prior to 1977. From the listings that have been found, the only stories that screened in Lebanon were three [[Jon Pertwee stories]].		Although there are three [[William Hartnell stories]] recorded in the 1977 sales document, there is no firm evidence that the series did screen prior to 1977. From the listings that have been found, the only stories that screened in Lebanon were three [[Jon Pertwee stories]].

−	It's possible the word "Lebanon" in the 1977 memo was a miss-reading of "[[Libya]]", which is not named in the 1977 memo. After all, the television station of the former, "Liban/Libanaise", is very similar to that of the latter, "Libyan"... Or, the error lies in the very simple fact that the episodes were dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon.	+	It's possible the word "Lebanon" in the 1977 memo was a miss-reading of "[[Libya]]", which is not named in the 1977 memo. After all, both countries have a major city called Tripoli, and the television station of the former, "Liban/Libanaise", is very similar to that of the latter, "Libyan"... Or, the error lies in the very simple fact that the episodes were dubbed into Arabic in Lebanon.