Hartnell Junkings

This Table summarises the possible sequences of bicycling of these 12 William Hartnell stories from country to country between 1966 and 1973. (This table is for seasons three and four only, as there are only seven countries to deal with. Seasons one and two were supplied to 30+ countries between 1964 and 1973, and any such attempt to tabulate the possible movements would be impossible.)

We have tried to keep it as simple as possible, and without resorting to the complicated exchange of countries supplying different stories to different recipients; generally, the same grouping of stories would have been supplied by the same provider.

• BOLD text in the Received from and Final Fate columns denotes our favoured preference if more than one option is offered

Story	Country	Received from	Final Fate
Galaxy 4, The Myth Makers, The Massacre, The Ark, The Celestial Toymaker, The Gunfighters, The Savages, The War Machines, The Smugglers	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to BBC in 1975 (T, U, X, CC, DD) and, junked (W, Y, Z, AA, BB), or Z to Singapore in 1972 T part three, Y part four and BB part two later recovered
	Barbados	Print 2 or 3 from BBC London [1]	=to Sierra Leone, or =Z to Singapore in 1972, or returned to BBC, or junked
	Zambia	Print 2 or 3 from BBC London [1]	=to Sierra Leone, or =Z to Singapore in 1972, or returned to BBC, or junked
	New Zealand	Print 4 (from BBC Sydney) (all stories bar The Gunfighters)	=to Singapore in 1972
	Sierra Leone	Print 5 from BBC London, or =Print (2 or 3) from Barbados or Zambia	returned to BBC, or junked / destroyed
	Singapore	Prints of all bar Z from New Zealand in 1972 Prints of Z from BBC (London or Sydney), or = from Australia, Barbados, Zambia or Sierra Leone	The War Machines to Nigeria in 1973 other episodes returned to BBC, or junked
Mission to the Unknown, The Daleks Master Plan	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to the BBC, or junked
The War Machines	Nigeria	Print from Singapore in 1973	returned to BBC in 1984
The Tenth Planet	Australia	Print 1 from BBC Sydney	returned to the BBC, or junked
	New Zealand	Print 2 from BBC Sydney	=to Singapore in 1972
	Singapore	Print 2 from New Zealand in 1972	returned to BBC, or junked

GENERAL SUMMARY

Keeping the bicycling routes as simple as possible, if we assume that country X always supplied country Y with its prints, then:

• Australia – always had its own prints, and returned all but a few to the BBC in 1975
• Zambia and Sierra Leone likely shared prints; of note, Nigeria acquired The War Machines from Singapore in 1973, which suggests perhaps Zambia and Sierra Leone no longer still had their prints by then
• The New Zealand censors classified these episodes between May and July 1968, which was before or during the broadcasts in Barbados and Zambia, so New Zealand's prints cannot have been sourced from either of those countries
• It's a matter of recorded fact that New Zealand sent its prints to Singapore in 1972; since New Zealand did not have The Gunfighters, Singapore's prints of that must have been supplied from elsewhere – from Australia?

• See also Troughton Junkings

NOTES:

[1] - There is a window of only three to four months between the airdates in Barbados and Zambia, but Zambia could well have received its prints before Barbados, but scheduled the serials to screen much later; therefore we have not factored in that Barbados sent its prints to Zambia, although it could have done!