Spearhead from Space - Revision history

Jon Preddle at 19:09, 14 December 2022

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−	*The copy of part 2 that was supplied to the US was an alternative edit: in one of the film inserts of dolls on a conveyor belt there is a brief cut-a-way shot of doll's shoes ~~that~~ doesn't appear in any other known edit.	+	*The copy of part 2 that was supplied to the US was an alternative edit: in one of the film inserts of dolls on a conveyor belt there is a brief cut-a-way shot of doll's shoes. This extra footage doesn't appear in any other known TV edit, but does appear in the 1988 VHS release.

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−	*The copy of part 2 that was supplied to the US was an alternative edit: one of the ~~cut-a-way shots~~ of dolls on a conveyor belt ~~has~~ a brief cut-a-way shot of doll's shoes that doesn't appear in any other known edit.	+	*The copy of part 2 that was supplied to the US was an alternative edit: in one of the film inserts of dolls on a conveyor belt there is a brief cut-a-way shot of doll's shoes that doesn't appear in any other known edit.

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	*The copy of part 2 that was supplied to the US was an alternative edit: one of the cut-a-way shots of dolls on a conveyor belt has a brief cut-a-way shot of doll's shoes that doesn't appear in any other known edit.		*The copy of part 2 that was supplied to the US was an alternative edit: one of the cut-a-way shots of dolls on a conveyor belt has a brief cut-a-way shot of doll's shoes that doesn't appear in any other known edit.
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	{{TV Guide blurbs		{{TV Guide blurbs

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		+	*The copy of part 2 that was supplied to the US was an alternative edit: one of the cut-a-way shots of dolls on a conveyor belt has a brief cut-a-way shot of doll's shoes that doesn't appear in any other known edit.

	{{TV Guide blurbs		{{TV Guide blurbs

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 ||[[United States]]||Dec 84||NTSC
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-|[[Canada]]||1990s?||NTSC
+|[[Canada]]||Jan 90||NTSC
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 |[[Ireland]]||Oct 99||PAL

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 This story aired in the following '''known''' countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to [[Selling Doctor Who]] for expanded airdates.)
+[[File:Spearhead.JPG|right|thumb|375px|Chicago Tribune, 7 December 1986]]
 {| {{small-table}}
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 * The story may have been dubbed into [[Arabic]].
 *It had two separate screenings in the [[United Arab Emirates]], so we have listed it twice.
-* [[Australia]] aired the serial for the first time in colour in a May 1978 repeat.
+* [[Australia]] aired the serial in colour for the first time in a May 1978 repeat. The serial was supplied by the BBC on colour film.
 * [[Bangladesh]] was the last to screen it in black and white; however they may have got a set of colour copies from [[Australia]] following the colour repeat on the ABC in May 1979.
 * The [[New Zealand]] prints of this story (supplied to them from Australia in late 1974) were junked in 1984.

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 *Note: the story was made on 16mm colour film. All the countries known to have aired it in colour broadcast in the PAL format, so the serial was either supplied on colour film, or had been converted into PAL and transferred onto tape.
 * The story may have been dubbed into [[Arabic]].
 *It had two separate screenings in the [[United Arab Emirates]], so we have listed it twice.
 * [[Bangladesh]] was the last to screen it in black and white; however they may have got a set of colour copies from [[Australia]] following the colour repeat on the ABC in May 1979.
 * The [[New Zealand]] prints of this story (supplied to them from Australia in late 1974) were junked in 1984.
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 ==Reissue==
 * It was released as part of a package of all 24 [[Jon Pertwee stories]], and sold to [[New Zealand]], where it aired for the first time in colour in Apr 1985, and:

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 |[[Gibraltar]]||Nov 72||b/w
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-|[[United Arab Emirates]]|| 74||colour
+|[[United Arab Emirates]] (Dubai)|| 74||colour
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 |[[New Zealand]]||Mar 75||b/w
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 |[[Qatar]]||77, 78 or 79?||b/w or colour
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 *Note: the story was made on 16mm colour film. All the countries known to have aired it in colour broadcast in the PAL format, so the serial was either supplied on colour film, or had been converted into PAL and transferred onto tape.
 * The story may have been dubbed into [[Arabic]].
 * [[Bangladesh]] was the last to screen it in black and white; however they may have got a set of colour prints from [[Australia]] following the colour repeat on the ABC in May 1979.
 * The [[New Zealand]] prints of this story (supplied to them from Australia in late 1974) were junked in 1984.