Sweden

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SWEDEN is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe.

Profile

Country Number (68?) 1996 THIRD WAVE
Region Europe
Television commenced 1956
Colour System 1 April 1970 PAL
Population 1996 unknown
TV Sets 1996 unknown
Language/s Swedish Subtitled


Television Stations / Channels

Sweden began its television service in 1956.

There is just one state-owned television station: Sveriges Television AB (SVT). Colour transmissions began 1 April 1970 under the PAL colour broadcast system. (SVT screened the new series from 2007: NEW DOCTOR WHO ON SVT)

Sweden also has a number of satellite stations. ZTV – launched in May 1992 - screened 'classic' Doctor Who in the late 1990s.


Language/s

The principal language of Sweden is Swedish, although English is also spoken. Foreign programmes are usually subtitled.


DOCTOR WHO IN SWEDEN

Sweden was about the 68th country (the 14th in Europe) to screen Doctor Who (see Selling Doctor Who).


BBC Records

Sweden is not recorded in any known BBC Records. According to the Australian fanzine, Data Extract (issue 150), Tom Baker's first season aired there in 1997.

The website DOCTOR WHO IN SVERIGE provides detailed background to the series (old and new) in Sweden.


Stories bought and broadcast

JON PERTWEE

One story, 6 episodes:

English Title Swedish Translation
ZZZ Planet of the Spiders 6 Spindlarnas Planet Spiders Planet / Planet of Spiders


TOM BAKER

Eight stories, 34 episodes:

English Title Swedish Translation
4A Robot 4
4C The Ark in Space 4 Rymdarken Space Ark
4D Revenge of the Cybermen 4
4E Genesis of the Daleks 6 Dalekarnas Födelse Daleks' Birth / Birth of the Daleks
4F Terror of the Zygons 4
4G Pyramids of Mars 4
4H Planet of Evil 4
4J The Android Invasion 4 Androiderna Anfaller Android Attack / Attack of the Androids

Sweden therefore bought part of GROUPs A and B of the Tom Baker stories. (For reasons not known, The Sontaran Experiment was not purchased.)

The programme was supplied (presumably) on PAL colour video tapes complete with the original English soundtrack.


Transmission

Classic British series starts… 24 August 1996
Various story titles, 1996

JON PERTWEE

The run on ZTV commenced with the final adventure of the third Doctor, Planet of the Spiders, which aired Saturdays and Sundays, from 24 August 1996.

The serial was later repeated twice, from 12 January 1997 and again from 1 June 1997.


TOM BAKER

12 January 1997

A run of eight Tom Baker serials commenced on Saturday, 14 September 1996, on the same Saturday/Sunday cycle. The stories aired in production order. There was no episode on 28 December 1996.

The week after the conclusion of The Android Invasion, a repeat run of the same nine serials commenced from 12 January 1997.

A third run of the episodes commenced 1 June 1997. After the repeat of part one of Robot, the series shifted to Mondays and Tuesdays (so for that week only, it aired four days in a row).

The second repeat concluded at the end of Genesis of the Daleks, on Tuesday, 19 August 1997. (There was no episode on 18 August.) The other four serials were not repeated for a second time.


TV listings

Airdates in Sweden
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

TV listings have been sourced from the website:

Print TV listings are from Dagens Nyheter. Although the billing from 24 August 1996 says "med Tom Baker", the first serial was the Jon Pertwee story, Planet of the Spiders. Interestingly, despite the listings being in Swedish, the story titles published were the familiar English ones, rather than the Swedish equivalents.


PAUL McGANN

Swedish TV Movie video release

The 1996 TV Movie was released on videotape by CIC in 1997.


"REPEATS"

Since 3 March 2008, the Swedish station TV4 has been airing older stories, including William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker and Peter Davison. Details about these can be seen at:


Sweden in Doctor Who

Coincidentally, the only two on-screen references to Sweden in Doctor Who occur in stories with "Seeds" in the title!


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