User:WaltK/Doctor Who media in Germany

The Doctor Who series is estimated to have first arrived in Germany, in earnest, sometime around the 1970s.

Early distribution attempts
The earliest attempts to introduce Doctor Who to Germany date back to 1965. The BBC offered a selection of First Doctor stories to an unidentified German television channel, an offer that they passed on. A second attempt was made in 1968, when the series was offered to the German public-service broadcaster,, with the Second Doctor serial, The Ice Warriors being submitted for review. The proposal was rejected, the protocol citing the "naive" scenery and costumes and "obscure" scripts as the reason the "unanimous" rejection by the jury.

The fact that German television stations were already archiving their programs for repeat purposes at the time have led some to speculate that, had ZDF picked up the series, many missing episodes would likely still exist today.

Early scraps of exposure
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Television debut
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