Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Revision history

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 **One possibility is that it was wiped in error - the BBC held an early longer edit of Part 3, and the tape containing Part 1 may have been erased in its place by mistake.
 **It has been suggested that Part 1 was wiped due to it having a similar on-screen title as the fifth episode of the William Hartnell story [[The Web Planet]], and the Patrick Troughton story, [[The Invasion]], but that notion is often dismissed since the master tapes of that 6-parter and 8-parter had already been erased in 1969 and 1971 respectively. However, there is the possibility that this is in fact true. The BBC began junking the bulk of the negatives and film prints of the Hartnell and Troughton serials in 1974 (see [[Bicycling Chains]]) and Dinosaurs 1 may well have been mistaken for [[The Web Planet]] 5: "Invasion" and/or [[The Invasion]] 1 after all. The BBC junked the negatives and positives for [[The Invasion]] part one in 1974, and a clerical error may have seen the tape for "Invasion" (WWW1) incorrectly catalogued as a tape for "Invasion" ({{N}}5), and/or for "The Invasion" ({{VV}}) and it was thus assigned to the magnetic eraser... So when the request came from the ABC for colour tapes, the PAL master for part 1 had only just been wiped in error... Ooops.
-*Season 11 was offered to [[Australia]] by mid-1974. [[The Time Warrior]] (as 16mm b/w films) was assessed by the censors on '''30 July 1974'''.
+*Season 11 was offered to [[Australia]] by mid-1974. [[The Time Warrior]] (as 16mm b/w films) was assessed by the censors on '''30 July 1974'''. Although it had accepted and classified that story in b/w, the ABC wanted to broadcast that season in colour (PAL transmissions were due to commence from March 1975). The BBC reported it was able to furnish all the serials in colour, but not '''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''' because Part 1 had by then already been erased. Serial WWW was therefore 'rejected' by the ABC on account of its format.
 *A '''"No Further Interest"''' notice for the story was issued by Enterprises in '''August 1974'''. The BBC did not make 16mm recordings of the other episodes.
 *The first PAL colour serial on offer - [[Death to the Daleks]] - was assessed in [[Australia]] on '''26 September 1974'''. There is no record of the Dinosaurs story being sent, received or assessed.
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 ==Issue==
 [[File:WWWABC84.JPG|thumb|right|350px|The edited five-parter finally goes to air -- in Australia; Canberra Times, 5 November 1984]]
-* The story was eventually released for foreign sale in 1984, when it was sold to [[Australia]] (it was assessed by the ABC censors in '''February 1985''').
+* The story was eventually released for foreign sale in 1984; it was re-edited as a five-parter because part 1 was only in black and white.
-*It was also included in a package of all 24 [[Jon Pertwee stories]] sold to the [[United States]] in 1985. However, the black and white part one was not included; the story was offered as a five-parter only or in an omnibus format:
+**The opening titles captions were adjusted, so PART TWO was now "PART ONE", PART THREE became "PART TWO", and so on. Part Two was also edited slightly to delete all references to scenes and events that occurred in part one, such as the Doctor and Sarah's discussion about the origin of the pterodactyl that had attacked them. To maintain the episode's duration, the 'deleted' sections were replaced by the dropping-in of shots extracted from elsewhere within the same episode - for instance, a cutaway of soldiers shooting at the T-rex was duplicated and dropped in to mask the above 'discussion' scene.
-**The opening titles captions were also adjusted, so PART TWO was now "PART ONE", PART THREE became "PART TWO", and so on. Part Two was also edited slightly to delete all references to scenes and events that occurred in part one, such as the Doctor and Sarah's discussion about the origin of the pterodactyl that had attacked them. To maintain the episode's duration, the 'deleted' sections were replaced by the dropping-in of shots extracted from elsewhere within the same episode - for instance, a cutaway of soldiers shooting at the T-rex was duplicated and dropped in to mask the above 'discussion' scene.
+*It was also included in a package of all 24 [[Jon Pertwee stories]] sold to the [[United States]] in 1985. The story was offered in its re-edit 5-part format or as a movie omnibus.
 * This new five-part version of the serial was sold to:
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 * All six parts – including the black and white first instalment - were re-issued in the 1990s - [[UK Gold]] aired it episodically in '''July 1993'''; UKTV [[Australia]] screened all six in 1997; and Prime in [[New Zealand]] aired all six in January 2001. Prime also aired the extended first edit of part three.
 * The black and white first episode was shown for the first time (as best as we can determine) in the [[United States]] on station [[WXEL]], on '''17 December 1994'''. It was later shown by other stations, sometimes on its own as a "special", such as on [[KSPS]] in [[Spokane]], which aired a single "never-before-seen-on TV 'lost'" Jon Pertwee episode on '''18 March 1995'''.
-** We suspect the reason why part one was not available until the 1990s was, when the BBC released the serial in 1984 only stories that existed entirely in black and white or in colour were offered since many US broadcasters wanted to air omnibus versions, and colour serials with some parts in black and white were not as attractive to US stations. There were only two serials affected by this - [[Planet of the Daleks]] and [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]. Each was edited to "remove" their sole black and white episode. And since repeat fees had to be paid to the actors with speaking roles, with part one out of the equation, the BBC did not have to pay repeat fees to the half dozen or so actors who appeared only in part one. But after 1991, when the seven years rights period (1984-1991) had expired, the black and white first episode could finally be marketed under fresh repeats contracts, which now included the actors in Part One.
+** We suspect the reason why part one was not available until the 1990s was, when the BBC released the serial in 1984 only stories that existed entirely in black and white or in colour were offered since many US broadcasters wanted to air omnibus versions, and colour serials with some parts in black and white were not as attractive to US stations. There were only two serials affected by this - [[Planet of the Daleks]] and the Dinosaurs. Each was edited to "remove" their sole black and white episode. And since repeat fees had to be paid to the actors with speaking roles, with part one out of the equation, the BBC did not have to pay repeat fees to the half dozen or so actors who appeared only in part one. But after 1991, when the seven years rights period (1984-1991) had expired, the black and white first episode could finally be marketed under fresh repeats contracts, which now included the actors in Part One.

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 *A non-sale to [[Australia]] meant that the only other Commonwealth country still buying the series in black and white at that point -- [[Gibraltar]] -- could not afford to purchase it. (Sales to the [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Hong Kong]] and [[New Zealand]] were also not possible, as they were all broadcasting in colour at that time.)
 *Once it was clear that there would be no overseas sales of Serial WWW, the black and white prints of Part 1 were junked. One of the two copies was salvaged by a film collector; it was subsequently returned to the BBC in '''1983'''.
-*By late '''1976''', when the documentary '''[[Whose Doctor Who]]''' was in pre-production, BBC Enterprises no longer held sales copies of the serial on film or on tape. (The other five original broadcast tapes plus the longer earlier edit of part three were, however, always held by the BBC's Engineering Department.)
+<!--*By late '''1976''', when the documentary '''[[Whose Doctor Who]]''' was in pre-production, BBC Enterprises no longer held sales copies of the serial on film or on tape. (The other five original broadcast tapes plus the longer earlier edit of part three were, however, always held by the BBC's Engineering Department.)-->
 * A clip of the Brigadier from part six was used in part four of [[Logopolis]], which aired in early '''1981'''.

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 {{episodes|WWW|11|3|12 Jan to 16 Feb 1974|The Time Warrior|Death to the Daleks|}}
+*According to the BBC's index cards, black and white film recordings of part 1 were created on two different days -- '''28 June 1974''' and '''10 July 1974'''.
-*Black and white film recordings of various episodes were created on three different days -- '''27 June 1974''', '''28 June 1974''' and '''10 July 1974'''.
+*The original broadcast PAL tape of part 1 was wiped once these film-recordings had been made. It's not clear why.
-*The serial was offered by BBC Sydney to the ABC in [[Australia]] along with the rest of the season, and at least the first episode was requested by the ABC for audition and assessment purposes.
+**One possibility is that it was wiped in error - the BBC held an early longer edit of Part 3, and the tape containing Part 1 may have been erased in its place by mistake.
-*That film print was received in Australia circa early '''August 1974''', which was between the dates for when the serials either side were assessed:
+**It has been suggested that Part 1 was wiped due to it having a similar on-screen title as the fifth episode of the William Hartnell story [[The Web Planet]], and the Patrick Troughton story, [[The Invasion]], but that notion is often dismissed since the master tapes of that 6-parter and 8-parter had already been erased in 1969 and 1971 respectively. However, there is the possibility that this is in fact true. The BBC began junking the bulk of the negatives and film prints of the Hartnell and Troughton serials in 1974 (see [[Bicycling Chains]]) and Dinosaurs 1 may well have been mistaken for [[The Web Planet]] 5: "Invasion" and/or [[The Invasion]] 1 after all. The BBC junked the negatives and positives for [[The Invasion]] part one in 1974, and a clerical error may have seen the tape for "Invasion" (WWW1) incorrectly catalogued as a tape for "Invasion" ({{N}}5), and/or for "The Invasion" ({{VV}}) and it was thus assigned to the magnetic eraser... So when the request came from the ABC for colour tapes, the PAL master for part 1 had only just been wiped in error... Ooops.
-**[[The Time Warrior]] was assessed (on b/w film) by the censors on '''30 July 1974'''
+*Season 11 was offered to [[Australia]] by mid-1974. [[The Time Warrior]] (as 16mm b/w films) was assessed by the censors on '''30 July 1974'''.
-**[[Death to the Daleks]] was assessed (on PAL video) by the censors on '''26 September 1974'''
+*Although it had accepted and classified that story in b/w, the ABC wanted to broadcast that season in colour (PAL transmissions were due to commence from March 1975). The BBC reported it was able to furnish all the serials in colour, but not '''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''' because Part 1 had by then already been erased. Serial WWW was therefore 'rejected' by the ABC on account of its format.
-*Although it had accepted and classified [[The Time Warrior]] in black and white, the ABC wanted to broadcast that season in colour (PAL transmissions were due to commence from March 1975). The BBC reported it was able to furnish all the serials in colour, but not Invasion of the Dinosaurs because episode one had by then already been erased (probably very soon after the telerecording had been made!). Serial WWW was therefore rejected by the ABC on account of its format before it had even been submitted to the censorship board.
+*A '''"No Further Interest"''' notice for the story was issued by Enterprises in '''August 1974'''. The BBC did not make 16mm recordings of the other episodes.
-*A non-sale to [[Australia]] meant that the only other Commonwealth country still buying the series in black and white -- [[Gibraltar]] -- could not afford to purchase it. (A sale to the [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Hong Kong]] and [[New Zealand]] was also not possible, as they were all broadcasting in colour at that time.)
+*The first PAL colour serial on offer - [[Death to the Daleks]] - was assessed in [[Australia]] on '''26 September 1974'''. There is no record of the Dinosaurs story being sent, received or assessed.
-*BBC London, probably in direct response to the 'rejection' by Australia, issued a '''"No Further Interest"''' notice for the story in '''August 1974''' (shortly after the ABC rejected it), overlooking the possibility of future sales outside the Commonwealth, such as to [[United Arab Emirates]], who purchased all the existant PAL colour Pertwees in 1975.
+*A non-sale to [[Australia]] meant that the only other Commonwealth country still buying the series in black and white at that point -- [[Gibraltar]] -- could not afford to purchase it. (Sales to the [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Hong Kong]] and [[New Zealand]] were also not possible, as they were all broadcasting in colour at that time.)
-**'''CONSPIRACY THEORY''': It has been suggested that Invasion of the Dinosaurs part one was wiped in error due to it having a similar on-screen title as the fifth episode of the William Hartnell story [[The Web Planet]], and the Patrick Troughton story, [[The Invasion]], but that notion is often dismissed since the master tapes of that 6-parter and 8-parter had already been erased in 1969 and 1971 respectively. However, there is the possibility that this is in fact true. The BBC began junking the bulk of the negatives and film prints of the Hartnell and Troughton serials in 1974 (see [[Bicycling Chains]]) and Dinosaurs 1 may well have been mistaken for [[The Web Planet]] 5: "Invasion" and/or [[The Invasion]] 1 after all. The BBC junked the negatives and positives for [[The Invasion]] part one in 1974, and a clerical error may have seen the tape for "Invasion" (WWW1) incorrectly catalogued as a tape for "Invasion" ({{N}}5), and/or for "The Invasion" ({{VV}}) and it was thus assigned to the magnetic eraser... So when the request came from the ABC for colour tapes, the PAL master for part 1 had only just been wiped in error... Ooops.
+*Once it was clear that there would be no overseas sales of Serial WWW, the black and white prints of Part 1 were junked. One of the two copies was salvaged by a film collector; it was subsequently returned to the BBC in '''1983'''.
-*BBC Sydney likely returned the black and white audition print to London, where it was junked -- and salvaged by a film collector. (It was subsequently returned to the BBC in 1983.)
+*By late '''1976''', when the documentary '''[[Whose Doctor Who]]''' was in pre-production, BBC Enterprises no longer held sales copies of the serial on film or on tape. (The other five original broadcast tapes plus the longer earlier edit of part three were, however, always held by the BBC's Engineering Department.)
-<!--'''''Sometime around 1974, the "No Further Interest" classification meant the tapes could be wiped, and Part One was duly erased. (It's worth noting that most of the incomplete colour Jon Pertwee stories only had some of the tapes erased; presumably that was the BBC's minimum requirement for classifying the whole serial "withdrawn".)'''''
+* A clip of the Brigadier from part six was used in part four of [[Logopolis]], which aired in early '''1981'''.
 ==Issue==
 [[File:WWWABC84.JPG|thumb|right|350px|The edited five-parter finally goes to air -- in Australia; Canberra Times, 5 November 1984]]
-* The story was eventually released for foreign sale in 1984, when it was sold to [[Australia]]. It was also included in a package of all 24 [[Jon Pertwee stories]] sold to the [[United States]] in 1985. However, the black and white part one was not included; the story was offered as a five-parter only or in an omnibus format. The opening titles captions were also adjusted, so PART TWO was now "PART ONE", PART THREE became "PART TWO", and so on. Part Two was also edited slightly to delete all references to scenes and events that occurred in part one, such as the Doctor and Sarah's discussion about the origin of the pterodactyl that had attacked them. To maintain the episode's duration, the 'deleted' sections were replaced by the dropping-in of shots extracted from elsewhere within the same episode - for instance, a cutaway of soldiers shooting at the T-rex was duplicated and dropped in to mask the above 'discussion' scene.
+* The story was eventually released for foreign sale in 1984, when it was sold to [[Australia]] (it was assessed by the ABC censors in '''February 1985''').
-* The five-part version of the serial was sold to:
+* This new five-part version of the serial was sold to:
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-|[[United States]]||from Dec 84||NTSC
+|[[United States]]||from Mar 85||NTSC
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 |[[New Zealand]]||Sep 86||PAL

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 |[[Australia]]||Nov 84||PAL
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-|[[United States]]||from Mar 85||NTSC
+|[[United States]]||from Dec 84||NTSC
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 |[[New Zealand]]||Sep 86||PAL

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 |[[New Zealand]]||Sep 86||PAL
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-|[[Canada]]||1990s?||NTSC
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 ==Reissue==
 * All six parts – including the black and white first instalment - were re-issued in the 1990s - [[UK Gold]] aired it episodically in '''July 1993'''; UKTV [[Australia]] screened all six in 1997; and Prime in [[New Zealand]] aired all six in January 2001. Prime also aired the extended first edit of part three.
-* The black and white first episode ''may'' have also been shown in the US as a one-off special: [[KSPS]] in [[Spokane]] aired a single "never-before-seen-on TV 'lost'" Jon Pertwee episode on 18 March 1995.
+* The black and white first episode was show for the first time (as best as we can determine) in the [[United States]] on station [[WXEL]], on '''17 December 1994'''. It was later shown by other stations, sometimes on its own as a "special", such as on [[KSPS]] in [[Spokane]], which aired a single "never-before-seen-on TV 'lost'" Jon Pertwee episode on '''18 March 1995'''.
 ** We suspect the reason why part one was not available until the 1990s was, when the BBC released the serial in 1984 only stories that existed entirely in black and white or in colour were offered since many US broadcasters wanted to air omnibus versions, and colour serials with some parts in black and white were not as attractive to US stations. There were only two serials affected by this - [[Planet of the Daleks]] and [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]. Each was edited to "remove" their sole black and white episode. And since repeat fees had to be paid to the actors with speaking roles, with part one out of the equation, the BBC did not have to pay repeat fees to the half dozen or so actors who appeared only in part one. But after 1991, when the seven years rights period (1984-1991) had expired, the black and white first episode could finally be marketed under fresh repeats contracts, which now included the actors in Part One.

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 * All six parts – with the black and white first instalment included - were issued in the 1990s - [[UK Gold]] aired it episodically in '''July 1993'''; UKTV [[Australia]] screened all six in 1997; and Prime in [[New Zealand]] aired all six in January 2001. Prime also aired the extended first edit of part three.
 * We suspect the reason why part one was not available until the 1990s was, when the BBC released the serial in 1984 only stories that existed entirely in black and white or in colour were offered since many US broadcasters wanted to air omnibus versions, and colour serials with some parts in black and white were not as attractive to US stations. There were only two serials affected by this - [[Planet of the Daleks]] and [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]. Each was edited to "remove" their sole black and white episode. And since repeat fees had to be paid to the actors with speaking roles, with part one out of the equation, the BBC did not have to pay repeat fees to the half dozen or so actors who appeared only in part one. But after 1991, when the seven years rights period (1984-1991) had expired, the black and white first episode could finally be marketed under fresh repeats contracts, which now included the actors in Part One.
+* The black and white first episode ''may'' have been shown in the US as a one-off special: [[KSPS]] in [[Spokane]] aired a single "never-before-seen-on TV 'lost' episode" on 18 March 1995.
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