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 The movie was available on Singapore Airlines flights in '''1996'''. An eye-witness tells us they watched the Movie on a SA flight from London to Singapore.
-*[https://web.archive.org/web/19961215054621/http://singaporeair.com/welcome/entertn2.htm Singapore Airlines - Krisworld Entertainment Movies]]
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/19961215054621/http://singaporeair.com/welcome/entertn2.htm Singapore Airlines - Krisworld Entertainment Movies]
-The movie was also apparently released on DVD. The Singapore film classification site states that the release had a "PG" rating. No date or distributor is cited; the film was first released in this format in the UK in 2001, and Australia not until 2011 (as part of the first Revisitations set).
+The movie was also apparently released on DVD. The Singapore film classification site states that the "disc" had a "PG" rating. No date or distributor is cited; the film was first released in this format in the UK in 2001, and Australia not until 2011 (as part of the first Revisitations set).
 Of note, the site gives the "Duration" as "102" which is some 15 minutes longer than the actual duration (of 87 minutes). The Value Added Material extras on the UK disk ran to well over 30 minutes. Did this Singapore release only feature ''some'' of the VAM, or is this cited duration just plain wrong?
-Like the Peter Cushing Dalek film (see above), the Region code says "N/A"; Singapore is '''Region 3''' for encoding. Does "N/A" indicate it was a Region-free disk -- and therefore might be an import from the UK? – or, like the "N/A" under "Distributor", merely denote that the information was unknown?
+Like the Peter Cushing Dalek film (see above), the Region code says "N/A"; Singapore is '''Region 3''' for encoding. Does "N/A" indicate it was a Region-free disk -- and therefore might be an import from the UK? – or, like the "N/A" under "Distributor", merely denote that the information was unknown – N/A could mean "not advised" rather than "not applicable"?
 *[https://imdaonline.imda.gov.sg/classification/Search/Film/SearchDetail.aspx?sType=Feature&sRowID=AAAgZnAAAAAACSgAAL TV Movie DVD classification]

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	The movie was available on Singapore Airlines flights in '''1996'''. An eye-witness tells us they watched the Movie on a SA flight from London to Singapore.		The movie was available on Singapore Airlines flights in '''1996'''. An eye-witness tells us they watched the Movie on a SA flight from London to Singapore.
		+	*[https://web.archive.org/web/19961215054621/http://singaporeair.com/welcome/entertn2.htm Singapore Airlines - Krisworld Entertainment Movies]]

	The movie was also apparently released on DVD. The Singapore film classification site states that the release had a "PG" rating. No date or distributor is cited; the film was first released in this format in the UK in 2001, and Australia not until 2011 (as part of the first Revisitations set).		The movie was also apparently released on DVD. The Singapore film classification site states that the release had a "PG" rating. No date or distributor is cited; the film was first released in this format in the UK in 2001, and Australia not until 2011 (as part of the first Revisitations set).

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-The movie was available on [[Singapore]] Air service flights from '''1996'''.
+The movie was available on Singapore Airlines flights in '''1996'''. An eye-witness tells us they watched the Movie on a SA flight from London to Singapore.
 The movie was also apparently released on DVD. The Singapore film classification site states that the release had a "PG" rating. No date or distributor is cited; the film was first released in this format in the UK in 2001, and Australia not until 2011 (as part of the first Revisitations set).

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-Singapore has five official languages: English, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Tamil and Malay. When '''Doctor Who''' aired on the mainly English Channel 5, it may have had subtitling for some of the other languages. However when it screened on Channel 8, which was predominantly Chinese, it would more than likely have had sub-titling to support the English soundtrack.
+Singapore has five official languages: English, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, (Traditional Chinese is used for writing), Tamil and Malay. When '''Doctor Who''' aired on the mainly English Channel 5, it may have had subtitling for some of the other languages. However, when it screened on Channel 8, which was predominantly Chinese, it would more than likely have had Simplified Chinese sub-titling to support the English soundtrack.
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 The first was seen in at the Globe and the Ciros theatres in '''May 1967'''.
-The second film played at the Kong Chian theatre from '''June 1972''', and later at the New Victory Theatre in '''December 1972''', with Chinese subtitles (usually using the traditional characters which could be read by both Mandarin and Cantonese viewers. (The same subtitled edition was also shown in [[Malaysia]] and possibly also [[Hong Kong]].)
+The second film played at the Kong Chian theatre from '''June 1972''', and later at the New Victory Theatre in '''December 1972''', with Chinese subtitles (usually using the Traditional characters which could be read by both Mandarin and Cantonese viewers. (The same subtitled edition was also shown in [[Malaysia]] and possibly also [[China]].)
 [[File:Cushing Daleks China.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Advertising brochure for the Peter Cushing movie printed in Singapore (thanks to Christopher Hill/Space Museum)]]
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 The large text on the poster reads '''"飛碟 大力人"''', which roughly translates as ''"UFO Heroes"''. This is either the title of the film, or a descriptive tagline.
-(The stamp at the top right of the front page bears the words '''"院 戲 水 仙"''' and the name: '''PANGGONG SIAN CHOOI SUNGAI KURAU'''. The Sian Chooi was a cinema in Kuala Kurau, in the region of Sungai, western [[Malaysia]]. The date on the stamp is '''18 DEC 1973''' (a Tuesday). This brochure was therefore printed in Singapore predominantly for cinemas Singapore, but also used in [[Malaysia]].)
+(The stamp at the top right of the front page bears the words '''"院 戲 水 仙"''' and the name: '''PANGGONG SIAN CHOOI SUNGAI KURAU'''. The Sian Chooi was a cinema in Kuala Kurau, in the region of Sungai, western [[Malaysia]]. The date on the stamp is '''18 DEC 1973''' (a Tuesday). This brochure was therefore printed in Singapore predominantly for local cinemas, but also used in [[Malaysia]].)

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 [[File:SingDIOE83.jpg|thumb|left|450px|Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD on TV, 5 March 1983]]
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-The movie was available on [[Singapore]] Air service flights from 1996.
+The movie was available on [[Singapore]] Air service flights from '''1996'''.

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 Why Singapore did not purchase Season Eleven or the Tom Baker series is more than likely on account of the fact that the early RTS colour transmissions could only support colour film rather than colour video tape, the format in which colour '''Doctor Who''' was supplied. Full colour conversion for both channels was planned for completion by the end of 1976 – so why was '''Doctor Who''' not picked up again after that year?
 '''Doctor Who''' screened in [[Malaysia]] in 1986 and 1987. These broadcasts would have been received in Singapore, so some viewers saw the handful of Tom Baker stories that aired there.
 And the radio serial [[Slipback]] could be heard on the BBC World Service radio network from '''13 January''' to '''26 February 1986'''.

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	'''Doctor Who''' screened in [[Malaysia]] in 1986 and 1987. These broadcasts would have been received in Singapore, so some viewers saw the handful of Tom Baker stories that aired there.		'''Doctor Who''' screened in [[Malaysia]] in 1986 and 1987. These broadcasts would have been received in Singapore, so some viewers saw the handful of Tom Baker stories that aired there.
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		+	And the radio serial [[Slipback]] could be heard on the BBC World Service radio network from '''13 January''' to '''26 February 1986'''.
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	===[[Sylvester McCoy stories\|SYLVESTER McCOY]]===		===[[Sylvester McCoy stories\|SYLVESTER McCOY]]===

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-Singapore has four official languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and Malay. When '''Doctor Who''' aired on the mainly English Channel 5, it may have had subtitling for some of the other languages. However when it screened on Channel 8, which was predominantly Chinese, it would more than likely have had sub-titling to support the English soundtrack.
+Singapore has five official languages: English, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Tamil and Malay. When '''Doctor Who''' aired on the mainly English Channel 5, it may have had subtitling for some of the other languages. However when it screened on Channel 8, which was predominantly Chinese, it would more than likely have had sub-titling to support the English soundtrack.
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 The first was seen in at the Globe and the Ciros theatres in '''May 1967'''.
-The second film played at the Kong Chian theatre from '''June 1972''', and later at the New Victory Theatre in '''December 1972''', with Chinese subtitles. (The same subtitled edition was also shown in [[China]] and /or [[Hong Kong]], and [[Malaysia]].)
+The second film played at the Kong Chian theatre from '''June 1972''', and later at the New Victory Theatre in '''December 1972''', with Chinese subtitles (usually using the traditional characters which could be read by both Mandarin and Cantonese viewers. (The same subtitled edition was also shown in [[Hong Kong]], and [[Malaysia]].)
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