The Faceless Ones

Story Code: KK / Season 4	UK Airdate: 8 Apr to 13 May 1967	Doctor: Patrick Troughton
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following five countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Australia	Dec 67	b/w
Uganda	Jan 69	b/w
Singapore	Jun 69	b/w
Hong Kong	Jun 69	b/w
New Zealand	did not air			Zambia	Jun 73	b/w

• The films were examined by the New Zealand censors in August 1969, but given a "Y" rating. The episodes did not air. The films were sent to London on 3 July 1970.
• The NZ films may have been subsequently earmarked for Zambia; ZTV had got as far as screening The Macra Terror by July 1970, and so it's possible the films simply didn't arrive in time for them to play at the end of the run, so rather than screening the serial on its own months later, ZTV put it "on the shelf" where it sat for three years...
• The ABC in Australia returned its prints to the BBC on 4 June 1975... however:
• Although the story is recorded as having been sent to the BBC in 1975, a print of part one still bearing the censor edits was found in the possession of an Australian film collector a few years later. So, it either got, er, "found" before it was returned to London, this was a second print, or it was returned to the UK, only to somehow find its way back to Australia...
• See also the Troughton Junkings page.

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