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Disputed story titles are overwhelmingly found in Hartnell era serials. Until The Savages — late into his career as the First Doctor — stories were broadcast not under a serial title, but rather as a series of individually-titled episodes. Thus, when there eventually arose a need to talk of these stories in the context of later serials which only had serial title, they had to be given a retroactive serial title they had never publicly had before. Two particular impetuses for this process were the publications of the first lists of serials, such as The Doctor Who Programme Guide, and the initial BBC Enterprises release of the serials to home video.

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rdfs:label	Disputed story titles
rdfs:comment	Disputed story titles are overwhelmingly found in Hartnell era serials. Until The Savages — late into his career as the First Doctor — stories were broadcast not under a serial title, but rather as a series of individually-titled episodes. Thus, when there eventually arose a need to talk of these stories in the context of later serials which only had serial title, they had to be given a retroactive serial title they had never publicly had before. Two particular impetuses for this process were the publications of the first lists of serials, such as The Doctor Who Programme Guide, and the initial BBC Enterprises release of the serials to home video.
dcterms:subject	Stories with disputed titles
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abstract	Disputed story titles are overwhelmingly found in Hartnell era serials. Until The Savages — late into his career as the First Doctor — stories were broadcast not under a serial title, but rather as a series of individually-titled episodes. Thus, when there eventually arose a need to talk of these stories in the context of later serials which only had serial title, they had to be given a retroactive serial title they had never publicly had before. Two particular impetuses for this process were the publications of the first lists of serials, such as The Doctor Who Programme Guide, and the initial BBC Enterprises release of the serials to home video. This process has caused difficulty in two ways. First, internal BBC documents have subsequently come to light which have revealed that the official BBC Enterprises title does not match what appears to have been the original name under which the story was commissioned and/or produced. Second, some titles are at variance with the earliest name under which the story was sold to overseas buyers or housed within the BBC's archives. Because all serials have always been released under the same name to home video (and, in the majority of cases, under the same title in the Target novelisation series, too), however, the average fan of Doctor Who will not easily recognise that a naming controversy even exists. Thus, this problem is largely one which exists in the minds of fans who are conversant with the early production history of Doctor Who. In addition to the Hartnell serials, there have been a few later stories which have suffered from naming controversies arising from other, unique causes.

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