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 * '''11 May 1966''': '''Dr Who and the Daleks''' is released on US screens, distributed by the Continental Group.
 *'''June 1966''':  Six Dalek props sent over from the UK partake in publicity for the movie, with TV appearances on '''The Mike Douglas Show''' (aired '''6 June''') and '''Candid Camera''' (as uncontrollable remote-controlled robots), and 'in person' at malls, cinemas and baseball fields, and getting 'married' in New York.
 * '''1966-1967''': During the second half of 1966 and all of 1967, Terry Nation attempts to sell the concept of a Dalek spin-off series to American networks. The series never goes ahead, but a contractual condition during this period of negotiation is that the BBC can no longer sell Dalek stories to overseas broadcasters...
 * '''November 1966''': Dell Publishing Co Inc releases a comic adaptation of the first Dalek movie. It retails for 12c.

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 **'''[https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://cuttingsarchive.org/images/c/c2/1976-10_Famous_Monsters.pdf DALEKS INVADE ENGLAND (FMoF 1976 Reprint)]'''
 * '''11 May 1966''': '''Dr Who and the Daleks''' is released on US screens, distributed by the Continental Group.
-*'''June 1966''':  Six movie Dalek props sent over from the UK partake in publicity for the movie, with TV appearances on '''The Mike Douglas Show''' (aired '''6 June''') and '''Candid Camera''' (as uncontrollable remote-controlled robots), and 'in person' at malls, cinemas and baseball fields, and getting 'married' in New York.
+*'''June 1966''':  Six Dalek props sent over from the UK partake in publicity for the movie, with TV appearances on '''The Mike Douglas Show''' (aired '''6 June''') and '''Candid Camera''' (as uncontrollable remote-controlled robots), and 'in person' at malls, cinemas and baseball fields, and getting 'married' in New York.
 * '''1966-1967''': During the second half of 1966 and all of 1967, Terry Nation attempts to sell the concept of a Dalek spin-off series to American networks. The series never goes ahead, but a contractual condition during this period of negotiation is that the BBC can no longer sell Dalek stories to overseas broadcasters...
 * '''November 1966''': Dell Publishing Co Inc releases a comic adaptation of the first Dalek movie. It retails for 12c.

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 **'''[https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://cuttingsarchive.org/images/c/c2/1976-10_Famous_Monsters.pdf DALEKS INVADE ENGLAND (FMoF 1976 Reprint)]'''
 * '''11 May 1966''': '''Dr Who and the Daleks''' is released on US screens, distributed by the Continental Group.
 * '''1966-1967''': During the second half of 1966 and all of 1967, Terry Nation attempts to sell the concept of a Dalek spin-off series to American networks. The series never goes ahead, but a contractual condition during this period of negotiation is that the BBC can no longer sell Dalek stories to overseas broadcasters...
 * '''November 1966''': Dell Publishing Co Inc releases a comic adaptation of the first Dalek movie. It retails for 12c.

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 ** A sale to the United States did not eventuate: in the 1960s, the BBC had found selling to the United States very difficult because the National Association of Broadcasters ran a strict code of censorship and content guidelines for all US-made drama productions; these codes did not apply to imported programmes, and as such networks who relied upon advertisers and sponsors for their income were often wary of non-US programmes that contained material that could be considered controversial. (Some stations had sponsors that would often interfere and censor programmes at the scripting stage.) Also, the fact that it was an ongoing serial (other than soap operas, there were very few serials on US TV) and in black and white (by 1965/1966 the major networks were shifting to all-colour broadcasts), certainly would have also been key factors as to why the series didn't sell.
 ***[http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/The_best_series_have_their_virtues Sydney Newman discusses why US wont buy UK serials; May 1968]
-*Around this same time, Disney Studio's London office showed an interest in making an adaptation of the '''Doctor Who''' serial, [[Marco Polo]].
+*Around this same time, Disney Studio's London office contacted the BBC about publishing a comic strip adaptation of the '''Doctor Who''' serial, [[Marco Polo]]. This did not go ahead.
 * '''December 1965''': ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' issue #36 (cover dated December 1965) has a photograph showing "DR WHO as he appears in the British science-fiction TV series" - but it's not a photo of the Doctor, but one of the Menoptra from [[The Web Planet]]!
 **'''[http://cuttingsarchive.org/images/0/0f/1965-12_Famous_Monsters.jpg Dr Menoptra!]'''

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 * '''November 1966''': Dell Publishing Co Inc releases a comic adaptation of the first Dalek movie. It retails for 12c.
-*Due to poor box-office of the first, the second Cushing film, '''"Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD"''' never receives a theatrical release in the US. It makes its screen debut a few years later on television.
+*Due to poor box-office of the first, the second Cushing film, '''"Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD"''' never receives a theatrical release in the US. It makes its screen debut on television in 1969...
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 ==1969==
 *At the beginning of the year, the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies begin to appear on network and independent television stations. The second film never had a theatrical release in the USA; it is billed under the shortened title '''"Invasion Earth 2150 AD"''' in print listings -- i.e. the word "Dalek" is omitted.
-*'''April 1969''': '''Dr Who and the Daleks''' airs on [[WFLD]] Channel 32 in [[Chicago]] - the very same station that had looked at buying '''Doctor Who''' back in 1965!.
+*'''April 1969''': '''Dr Who and the Daleks''' airs on [[WFLD]] Channel 32 in [[Chicago]] - the very same station that had looked at buying '''Doctor Who''' back in 1965!

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 ==1969==
-*'''April 1969''': '''Dr Who and the Daleks''' airs on [[WFLD]] Channel 32 in [[Chicago]], the very same station that had looked at buying '''Doctor Who''' back in 1965!.
+*At the beginning of the year, the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies begin to appear on network and independent television stations. The second film never had a theatrical release; it is billed under the shortened title '''"Invasion Earth 2150 AD"''' in print listings -- i.e. the word "Dalek" is omitted.
-*The second of the two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies is released for TV distribution, and begins to appear on network and independent stations from '''July 1969'''. It was retitled '''"Invasion Earth 2150 AD"''' in the listings -- i.e. the word "Dalek" was omitted.
+*'''April 1969''': '''Dr Who and the Daleks''' airs on [[WFLD]] Channel 32 in [[Chicago]] - the very same station that had looked at buying '''Doctor Who''' back in 1965!.

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 *'''12 April 1965''': That week's issue of US TV industry journal ''Broadcasting'' magazine carries a full page ad, declaring that '''"The Daleks Take Over''', [with] Mass audiences in Britain, [[Canada]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] ... Dalek-Aid can help you round up top ratings with '''52 (or more)''' half-hour programs in the out-of-this-world adventures of DR WHO". This is one of (if not ''the'') first promotional print ads for the series we have located in a US publication. At the time the BBC was actively marketing the first '''53 episodes''', [[An Unearthly Child]] to [[The Rescue]].
 *The very same ad appeared in ''Variety'' two days later.
-*The BBC's distributor in the US at this time was '''Peter M Robeck & Company, Inc''' (incorporated in 1958). Based in New York, the distributor became '''Time-Life Films Inc''' in December 1969. (Time Life would go on to distribute through the US the [[Jon Pertwee stories|Jon Pertwee]] and [[Tom Baker stories]] in the 1970s.)
+*The BBC's distributor in the US at this time was '''Peter M Robeck & Company, Inc''' (incorporated in 1958). Based in New York, the distributor became '''Time-Life Films Inc''' in December 1969. (Time-Life would go on to distribute through the US the [[Jon Pertwee stories|Jon Pertwee]] and [[Tom Baker stories]] in the 1970s.)
 * One of the first US stations to audition and consider buying the series is [[WFLD]] Channel 32 in Chicago. Program Director Cliff Braun screened the series in 1965 (or it may have been in 1966). He was rather keen, but for reasons unknown a sale did not eventuate. (This offer would have been made with the participation of Peter M Robeck & Company Inc.)
 * '''7 July 1965''': In a BBC memo dated 7 July 1965, "U.S.A" is listed as one of several countries to which a package of stories from seasons one and two (up to [[The Crusade]]) had been offered. This was no doubt in reference to the offer made to WFLD.

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