The Aztecs

Story Code: F / Season 1	UK Airdate: 23 May to 13 Jun 1964	Doctor: William Hartnell
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Canberra Times, July 1965

Australia	Jul 65	b/w
Singapore	Oct 65	b/w
Gibraltar	Oct 65	b/w
Malta	Nov 65	b/w
Aden	Jan 66	b/w
Nigeria	Feb 66	b/w
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe	Mar 66	b/w
Zambia	Apr 66	b/w
Trinidad & Tobago	May 66	b/w
Uganda	Jul 66	b/w
Jamaica	Sep 66	b/w
Cyprus	Sep 66	b/w
Barbados	Oct 66	b/w
Hong Kong	Nov 66	b/w
Kenya	Dec 66	b/w
Thailand	Apr 67	b/w
Tunisia	67?	b/w
Mauritius	Aug 67	b/w
Venezuela	Nov 67	b/w
Sierra Leone	Nov 67	b/w
Mexico	Jun 68	b/w
Morocco	68?	b/w
Saudi Arabia	68?	b/w
Chile	May 69	b/w
Iran	Jul 69	b/w
Jordan	69?	b/w
Libya	Feb 70?	b/w
Ethiopia	Apr 71	b/w
Costa Rica	Oct 71	b/w
Algeria	Jan 74	b/w

• This serial was the only historical that had a Music / Effects track made and was dubbed for the Spanish and Arabic language markets. (See interview with Eddie Montague.)
• Prints of three episodes were found in Cyprus in late 1984.
• The Arabic print of episode four that had aired in Morocco (the can still bears a label for the Moroccan TV station RTM) is held by a private collector. According to a slate that appears on the film leader, the Arabic negative from which this print was struck was created in November 1967, which ties in with the contracted sale date of this story to Morocco. This means the prints struck for Tunisia came from a different negative. (It's possible that the prints sent to Tunisia were mute, with the Arabic sound on a separate magnetic tape, whereas the later print struck for Morocco (and other Arabic countries?) had the Arabic dub printed on as an optical track.)
• See Hartnell Junkings

Reissue

• The serial was reissued by the BBC in late 1985, and sold to:

United States	from Sep 85	b/w
Canada	Sep 89	b/w
New Zealand	Jun 00	b/w

• The serial was dubbed into Italian and released as part of a DVD box-set in 2008.

US TV Guide descriptions

More Information
Title: The Aztecs

• Episode 1: The Doctor must retrieve the Tardis when the craft materializes inside an Aztec tomb in the year 1430 and gets trapped inside.
  
• Episode 2:
  
• Episode 3:  
  
• Episode 4:  
  
• Compilation: The Doctor must retrieve the Tardis when the craft materializes inside an Aztec tomb in the year 1430 and is inadvertently sealed inside.

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