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==Television Stations / Channels==
 
==Television Stations / Channels==
  
Station: '''Qatar Television Service''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster. This is the only broadcaster, but it operates three channels: '''9, 11''' (exclusively [[Arabic]]. (An English-only service, '''Channel 37''' was launched in the mid-1980s.)
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Station: '''Qatar Television Service''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster. This is the only broadcaster, but it operates three channels: '''9, 11''', which is exclusively [[Arabic]]. (An English-only service, '''Channel 37''' was not launched until the mid-1980s.)
  
 
'''Doctor Who''' therefore screened in [[Arabic]].  
 
'''Doctor Who''' therefore screened in [[Arabic]].  
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==DOCTOR WHO ('''ادكتورهو''') IN QATAR==
 
==DOCTOR WHO ('''ادكتورهو''') IN QATAR==
  
Qatar was we think the '''eighth''' country in the Middle East region to buy '''Doctor Who'''. (It was one of the last countries in the Persian Gulf area to launch a local television service.)
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Qatar was we think the '''eighth''' country in the Middle East region to buy '''Doctor Who'''. It was one of the last countries in the Persian Gulf area to launch a local television service.
  
  
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'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(3)"''' stories by 10 February 1987.
 
'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale of '''"(3)"''' stories by 10 February 1987.
  
In '''DWM''', Qatar is identified in only '''two''' story Archives: {{AAA}} and {{PPP}}, with a sale date given as '''1977'''. Presumably the third unknown story is also a Jon Pertwee serial. (Assuming the stories were sold "in order", and only those that existed on PAL video tape were available, then chances are the third story was [[Day of the Daleks]].  
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In '''DWM''', Qatar is identified in only '''two''' story Archives: {{AAA}} and {{PPP}}, with a sale date given as '''1977'''.  
  
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According to other BBC documents, the third story was [[Day of the Daleks]].
  
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
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The programme would have been supplied as PAL colour video tapes.  
 
The programme would have been supplied as PAL colour video tapes.  
  
Since the English-only channel did not launch until the mid-1980s, '''Doctor Who''' almost certainly aired in Qatar in [[Arabic]].  
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Since the English-only channel did not launch until the mid-1980s, '''Doctor Who''' almost certainly aired in [[Arabic]].  
 
 
  
 
====Origin of the tapes?====
 
====Origin of the tapes?====
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
  
We have been unable to find any airdates for Qatar. The sales dates for the series are recorded as 1977, so presumably the episodes aired in that year.  
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We have been unable to find any airdates for Qatar. The sales dates for the series are recorded as 1977, so the twelve episodes would have aired over a three month period during that year.  
 
 
  
 
==TV listings==
 
==TV listings==
  
Despite having accessed and checked several Qatar and Persian Gulf region newspapers from 1977 onwards, many of which contained TV listings for all stations from the wider Gulf region, there was no sign of '''Doctor Who''' in any of the listings for '''Qatar Television Service'''.  
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Despite having accessed and checked several Qatar and other Persian Gulf region newspapers from 1976 onwards there was no sign of '''Doctor Who''' in any of the listings for '''Qatar Television Service'''.  
  
Qatar did screen children's programming on weekday afternoons, and during the weekends, so it's possible that '''Doctor Who''' screened during a "Children's Hour" schedule, and therefore didn't have its own billing in the newspapers.
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As can be seen in this TV listing from late 1977, there were generic listings for '''"Children's Series"''' at 4.45pm, something called '''"The Daily Dish'''" that ran from 4.05 top 6.45pm, and '''"Foreign Series"''' at 6.30pm, all of which could have been '''Doctor Who'''.  
  
  

Revision as of 05:23, 5 February 2011

QATAR is a peninsular Middle Eastern country on the Persian Gulf.

Profile

Country Number (?) 1977 SECOND WAVE
Region Middle East
Television commenced 15 August 1970
Colour System 1 July 1974 PAL
Population 1977 175,000
TV Sets 1977 34,000
Language/s Arabic


Television Stations / Channels

Station: Qatar Television Service, a government-owned commercial broadcaster. This is the only broadcaster, but it operates three channels: 9, 11, which is exclusively Arabic. (An English-only service, Channel 37 was not launched until the mid-1980s.)

Doctor Who therefore screened in Arabic.

Although QTS didn't commence its own colour transmissions until 1974, those with colour sets could receive transmissions from nearby Bahrain, which had been transmitting in colour since 1973.

Television receivers in United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia could also receive transmissions from Qatar.


DOCTOR WHO (ادكتورهو) IN QATAR

Qatar was we think the eighth country in the Middle East region to buy Doctor Who. It was one of the last countries in the Persian Gulf area to launch a local television service.


BBC Records

The Eighties - THE LOST CHAPTERS records a sale of "(3)" stories by 10 February 1987.

In DWM, Qatar is identified in only two story Archives: AAA and PPP, with a sale date given as 1977.

According to other BBC documents, the third story was Day of the Daleks.

Stories bought and broadcast

JON PERTWEE

Three stories, 12 episodes:

AAA Spearhead from Space 4
KKK Day of the Daleks 4
PPP Carnival of Monsters 4

The programme would have been supplied as PAL colour video tapes.

Since the English-only channel did not launch until the mid-1980s, Doctor Who almost certainly aired in Arabic.

Origin of the tapes?

Qatar, like the other Persian Gulf states – United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (and Kuwait?) - all screened the same episodes of Doctor Who (Pertwees and Bakers) around the same time, so it is expected that there was lots of tape exchanges taking place between countries.


Transmission

JON PERTWEE

We have been unable to find any airdates for Qatar. The sales dates for the series are recorded as 1977, so the twelve episodes would have aired over a three month period during that year.

TV listings

Despite having accessed and checked several Qatar and other Persian Gulf region newspapers from 1976 onwards there was no sign of Doctor Who in any of the listings for Qatar Television Service.

As can be seen in this TV listing from late 1977, there were generic listings for "Children's Series" at 4.45pm, something called "The Daily Dish" that ran from 4.05 top 6.45pm, and "Foreign Series" at 6.30pm, all of which could have been Doctor Who.


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