Wales

WALES is part of the United Kingdom. As such, it received BBC transmissions from London.

BBC Cymru / BBC Wales ident (1974-81)

However, from time to time the network's regional station BBC Cymru altered its TV schedules to make way for local and regional programming, and series such as Doctor Who were sometimes shown on dates or times that were different to the rest of the network:

• The Abominable Snowmen 1-6 = all episodes aired in an earlier timeslot
• The Mutants 4 = was shown in an earlier timeslot
• The Time Monster 1 = was shown in an earlier timeslot
• Day of the Daleks omnibus repeat 1973 = was shown three days later
• The Time Warrior 2 to Planet of the Spiders 6 = were all shown a day later, on Sundays
• The Ark in Space omnibus repeat 1975 = was shown in a later timeslot
• The Deadly Assassin 4 1977 repeat = was shown on a different (unknown) date
• BBC Cymru didn't repeat The Invisible Enemy in 1978
• The Sun Makers 4 1978 repeat = was shown on a different date
• BBC Cymru didn't repeat The Pirate Planet or The Androids of Tara in 1979
• BBC Cymru didn't repeat Destiny of the Daleks or City of Death in 1980
• BBC Cymru didn't repeat Full Circle and The Keeper of Traken in 1981
• Castrovalva 1 to Time-Flight 4 = were all shown on different dates and times
• BBC Cymru didn't show the "Doctor Who and the Monsters" repeats in 1982
• Terminus 1 = aired a day earlier than the rest of the network

BBC Wales Idents and logos

Peter Cushing and the Daleks

S4C is a Welsh-language station, also broadcasting programmes in English (often but not always with subtitles). Much of this undubbed/subbed English-only content consisted of the simultaneous or deferred transmission of programmes from the UK station Channel 4; C4 aired the two Peter Cushing Dalek movies in widescreen several times between 1994 and 1999; these were seen on S4C on a deferred basis two weeks later.

Wales in Doctor Who

The following stories were either filmed and/or set in Wales:

• The Abominable Snowmen (filmed)
• The Green Death (filmed and set), with characters such as Professor Cliff Jones, Hughes, Dai Evans, Dave, and Bert
• The Masque of Mandragora (filmed)
• The Pirate Planet (filmed)
• The Five Doctors (filmed)
• Delta and the Bannermen (filmed and set), with characters such as Billy, Ray, Burton, and Goronwy
• The New Series of course!

Some of the Welsh actors / crew who have worked on the series are:

• Philip Madoc (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD, The Krotons, The War Games, The Brain of Morbius, The Power of Kroll)
• Windsor Davies (The Evil of the Daleks)
• Derek Pollitt (Driver Evans in The Web of Fear / Shada)
• Talfyn Thomas (Welsh hospital porter Mullins Spearhead from Space / Welsh miner Dave in The Green Death)
• Mostyn Evans (miner Dai Evans in The Green Death / Death to the Daleks)
• Emrys James (State of Decay)
• Richard Davies (Delta and the Bannermen)

• Hugh David (director The Highlanders, Fury from the Deep)
• Elwyn Jones (co-writer The Highlanders)
• Pennant Roberts (director The Face of Evil, The Sun Makers, The Pirate Planet, Shada, Warriors of the Deep, Timelash)

Other references:

• The Inspector at the Liverpool police station asks the Doctor if he is Welsh (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Trask uses the phrase "bold as a Welsh pirate" in The Highlanders
• Euro Sea Gas supplied gas to the whole of Wales (Fury from the Deep)
• The metal from the guerilla's weapon was mined from North Wales (Day of the Daleks)
• Vivien Fay mentions the stone circle called the Gorsedd of Bryn Gwyddon in Wales. Emilia Rumford can read Old Welsh (The Stones of Blood)

Links

• BBC Repeats