Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130205231219

The prefix TV is unnecessary in constructions like:
 * Episode three of The Faceless Ones was first broadcast.

You only need prefixes for clarity. In this instance, no other form of Doctor Who is "broadcast episodically for the first time", so therefore we must be talking about a television episode.

It would actually be far more helpful if you could add the network than the prefix. Thus:


 * Episode three of The Mutants was broadcast on BBC1.

This would then allow us to specify (later, as it becomes important) the premieres of various episodes on other national broadcasters. For instance, there's significance to the broadcast premiere of "The Bride of Sacrifice" both on BBC1 and BBCA.

Note that the premiere networks are:
 * BBC tv until and including "The Velvet Web"
 * BBC1 from "The Screaming Jungle" until and including the last part of Survival, as well as A Girl's Best Friend.
 * Complicated picture at Doctor Who (TV story) — read article for more on that.
 * BBC One, Rose forward.
 * BBC Three, series 1 Torchwood
 * BBC Two, series 2 Torchwood
 * BBC One, series 3 Torchwood
 * Starz, series 4 Torchwood
 * BBC One, Invasion of the Bane
 * CBBC, the rest of SJA
 * Nobody really knows what was the network of origin for K9
 * BBC7, the first series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures. (Yes, there are other BF plays which have been broadcast, but no other ones have actually originated on radio.)