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-'''[[Wikipedia:Jordan|JORDAN]]''' is a land-locked country, bordered by Egypt, [[Israel]], and [[Saudi Arabia]].
+'''[[Wikipedia:Jordan|JORDAN]]''' is a land-locked country, bordered by [[Egypt]], [[Israel]], and [[Saudi Arabia]].
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 Colour transmissions began in April 1974 using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
-Signals from Jordan TV could be received in [[Israel]].
+Signals from Jordan TV could also be received in [[Israel]].
 ==Language/s==
-The principal languages of Jordan are [[Arabic]] and French. Television was broadcast in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew.
+The principal languages of Jordan are [[Arabic]] and French. Television was broadcast in [[Arabic]], English, French and Hebrew.
 Subtitling was more prevalent than dubbing, with Arabic text superimposed manually during broadcast, but in the case of '''Doctor Who''', the William Hartnell episodes were dubbed in [[Lebanon]].

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 [[File:Jordan Arabic.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic late 1960s Jordan TV listings in Arabic from Al-Dustar – Doctor Who not included]]
 [[File:Jordan 14-4-81.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Tom Baker episode at 6.20pm, 14 April 1981; Jordan Times]]
-[[File:Jordan 26-5-81.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Tom baker episode at 6.25pm, 26 May 1981; Jordan Times]]
+[[File:Jordan 26-5-81.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Tom Baker episode at 6.25pm, 26 May 1981; Jordan Times]]
 ===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===

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-'''[[Wikipedia:Jordan|JORDAN]]''' is a land-locked country, bordered by Egypt and [[Saudi Arabia]].
+'''[[Wikipedia:Jordan|JORDAN]]''' is a land-locked country, bordered by Egypt, [[Israel]], and [[Saudi Arabia]].
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 Colour transmissions began in April 1974 using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
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 The TV listings did not have story titles. Foreign stations tended to show the serials in production code order, which means [[The Sontaran Experiment]] was usually shown before [[The Ark in Space]], which may have also been the case here.
-All of the April to June 1981 issues of the Israeli English newspaper ''Jerusalem Post'' have also been accessed. But they only had "Unofficial" listings for Jordan TV's channel 6 and not for channel 3, so '''Doctor Who''' was not included in those TV schedules.
+All of the April to June 1981 issues of the [[Israel|Israeli]] English newspaper ''Jerusalem Post'' have also been accessed. But they only had "Unofficial" listings for Jordan TV's channel 6 and not for channel 3, so '''Doctor Who''' was not included in those TV schedules.

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 ==Language/s==
-The principal languages of Jordan are [[Arabic]] and French. However, television was broadcast in English, French and Hebrew.
+The principal languages of Jordan are [[Arabic]] and French. Television was broadcast in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew.
 Subtitling was more prevalent than dubbing, with Arabic text superimposed manually during broadcast, but in the case of '''Doctor Who''', the William Hartnell episodes were dubbed in [[Lebanon]].

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 '''Doctor Who''' was shown on Jordan TV's channel 3. According to Molesworth's research, the first episode aired on Tuesday, '''7 April 1981''', however there was no listing for '''Doctor Who''' on that date. The following week did have '''"Dr Who"''' listed at 6.20pm. (The 7 April paper just had "Cartoons" listed from 5.45 to 6.35pm.)
-The series is listed every Tuesday; the timeslot shifted to 6pm on '''21 April''', then 6.20pm for the next four weeks, then to 6.25pm from '''26 May'''. The '''2 June''' paper was missing, but the slot was still 6.25pm for the final listing on'''9 June 1981'''.
+The series is listed every Tuesday; the timeslot shifted to 6pm on '''21 April''', then 6.20pm for the next four weeks, then to 6.25pm from '''26 May'''. The '''2 June''' paper was missing, but the slot was still 6.25pm for the final listing on '''9 June 1981'''.
 There were only nine listings for '''"Dr Who"''', so presumably the first episode did indeed air on 7 April, possibly as a last minute replacement for the cartoons that were listed, or if it aired at 6pm, then it screened within the 50 minute "Cartoon" slot that was published.
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-The ten [[Tom Baker]] episodes were sent to [[Bahrain]] soon after transmission. And indeed, a longer run of '''twelve''' episodes aired on Bahrain TV, starting on '''8 December 1981'''… (Presumably, Bahrain didn't air [[The Sontaran Experiment]] and aired another 4-parter that was sourced from elsewhere…)
+The ten [[Tom Baker]] episodes were sent to [[Bahrain]] soon after transmission. And indeed, a longer run of Baker episodes aired on Bahrain TV, starting at some point prior to '''8 December 1981'''.

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-'''[[Wikipedia:Jordan|JORDAN]]''' is a land-locked country, bordered with Egypt and [[Saudi Arabia]].
+'''[[Wikipedia:Jordan|JORDAN]]''' is a land-locked country, bordered by Egypt and [[Saudi Arabia]].
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 Jordan began its television service on 28 April 1968. (The June 1967 Middle East war had delayed the official introduction of television by several months.)
-There is just one television station: '''[[wikipedia:Jordan Radio and Television|Jordan Television (JTV)]]''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster, originally operating for just three hours daily.
+There is just one television station: '''[[wikipedia:Jordan Radio and Television|Jordan Television (JTV)]]''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster, originally operating for just three hours daily. It has two channels -- channel 3 and channel 6.
-After the 1970 Jordan Civil War, the station was restructured, with Channel 3 becoming the main [[Arabic]] service, and the second Channel 6 featuring mostly foreign language programmes, including English.
+After the 1970 Jordan Civil War, the station was restructured, with both channels featuring a mix of [[Arabic]], French, Hebrew and English programmes.
 Colour transmissions began in April 1974 using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
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 ==[[BBC Records]]==
 Jordan is identified in the 1972 edition of '''The Making of Doctor Who'''.
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 Jordan is not named in '''The Seventies''' or '''The Handbook'''.
-'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale (by 10 February 1987) of '''"(4)"''' stories. These four do not include the Hartnells; most likely all are [[Tom Baker stories]].
+'''The Eighties''' [http://www.shillpages.com/howe/b-dw80s.htm - THE LOST CHAPTERS] records a sale (by 10 February 1987) of '''"(4)"''' stories. These four do not include the Hartnells; most likely all are [[Tom Baker stories]], however only three Baker stories are known to have screened on Jordan TV.
-In 1992, researcher Richard Molesworth was informed by Jordan Radio and Television Corporation that they aired [[Robot]], [[The Ark in Space]] and a 2-parter (presumably [[The Sontaran Experiment]]) from '''7 April to 9 June 1981''', a run of ten weeks. However, TV listings for those dates have been checked and there were no listings for '''Doctor Who''' (see below for more on this).
+In 1992, researcher Richard Molesworth was informed by Jordan Radio and Television Corporation that they aired [[Robot]], [[The Ark in Space]] and [[The Sontaran Experiment]] from '''7 April to 9 June 1981''', a run of ten weeks.
 Jordan is named in '''three''' of the '''DWM''' Archives,: {{L}} for Hartnell (with a sales date of '''1969'''), and {{4A}} and {{4C}} for Baker (in '''1981'''); the two Baker serials and the date have been derived from Molesworth's research rather than from official BBC sources.
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 ==Stories bought and broadcast==
 ===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
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 ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
-Three or four stories (?), unknown number of episodes:
+Three stories, ten episodes:
 {| {{small-table}}
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 |4A||[[Robot]]||4
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 |4B||[[The Sontaran Experiment]]||2
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-|??||unknown||
+|4C||[[The Ark in Space]]||4
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 |}
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 ===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
-We have not been able to determine the airdates for these episodes.
+We have not been able to determine the airdates for these episodes, but based on BBC sales records, it was circa '''May 1969'''.
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 ===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
-According to Molesworth's research, ten episodes aired from Monday, '''7 April 1981''' to '''9 June 1981'''.
+'''Doctor Who''' was shown on Jordan TV's channel 3. According to Molesworth's research, the first episode aired on Tuesday, '''7 April 1981''', however there was no listing for '''Doctor Who''' on that date. The following week did have '''"Dr Who"''' listed at 6.20pm. (The 7 April paper just had "Cartoons" listed from 5.45 to 6.35pm.)
 ====Fate of the Tapes====
-'''Ten''' [[Tom Baker]] episodes were sent to [[Bahrain]] soon after transmission. And indeed, a longer run of '''twelve''' episodes aired on Bahrain TV, starting on '''8 December 1981'''… (Presumably, Bahrain didn't air [[The Sontaran Experiment]] and aired another 4-parter that was sourced from elsewhere…)
+The ten [[Tom Baker]] episodes were sent to [[Bahrain]] soon after transmission. And indeed, a longer run of '''twelve''' episodes aired on Bahrain TV, starting on '''8 December 1981'''… (Presumably, Bahrain didn't air [[The Sontaran Experiment]] and aired another 4-parter that was sourced from elsewhere…)
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 We have not been able to access English language Jordanian papers that would have listings for the [[William Hartnell stories]]. The [[Arabic]] paper ''Al-Dustur'' did have listings in Arabic (sample of a late 1960s TV listings reproduced here), but no listings for '''Doctor Who''' could be identified for the dates accessed.
-The English newspaper ''Jordan Times'' were examined, but frustratingly, the issues for '''April to June 1981''' – the very dates given in Molesworth's research – were missing!
+The Tom Baker listings (all printed as '''"Dr Who"''') are from an online edition of ''Jordan Times''; the dates correspond with those advised to Molesworth.
-As noted above, the 1987 BBC document states that '''four''' stories were sold, and yet JTV claim to have only aired '''three'''. Did they acquire a fourth story that wasn't aired, or is the 1987 memo incorrect?
+The TV listings did not have story titles. Foreign stations tended to show the serials in production code order, which means [[The Sontaran Experiment]] was usually shown before [[The Ark in Space]], which may have also been the case here.

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−	Jordan may have ~~been~~ the last country in the [[:Category:Middle East\|Middle East]] to screen the package of nine William Hartnell stories.	+	Jordan may have sent its prints to [[Libya]], or it was the last country in one of the [[:Category:Middle East\|Middle East]] [[Bicycling Chains]] to screen the package of nine William Hartnell stories.

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	Therefore, if '''Doctor Who''' did indeed air on Jordan TV from April to June 1981, then it must have done so either before 5.40pm, or on the Arabic channel…		Therefore, if '''Doctor Who''' did indeed air on Jordan TV from April to June 1981, then it must have done so either before 5.40pm, or on the Arabic channel…

−	As noted above, the 1987 BBC document states that '''four''' stories were sold, and yet JTV claim to have only aired ''three'''. Did they acquire a fourth story that wasn't aired, or is the 1987 memo incorrect?	+	As noted above, the 1987 BBC document states that '''four''' stories were sold, and yet JTV claim to have only aired '''three'''. Did they acquire a fourth story that wasn't aired, or is the 1987 memo incorrect?