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The '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''', often rendered as simply '''ABC''', was the primary home of first run ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in [[Australia]] for almost the entire history of the programme. Its association with the programme reached back to [[1965]], when it first screened [[William Hartnell]] episodes.

It was one of the few broadcasters outside the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] itself to screen episodes from all the Doctors' eras at the time of their original release. Along with the [[CBC]], [[BBCA]] and [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]], it was one of the few broadcasters in the world to co-produce an episode of ''Doctor Who'', since it helped fund ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''. However, unlike other broadcasters, it did not receive on-screen credit for this co-production, though it was billed on the rear sleeve of the BBC Video and DVD releases of the story.

It had a reputation for having considerably harsher censorship than most other broadcasters, which led to some minor finds of [[missing episodes]]. The ABC snipped parts of various stories which they considered unsuitable for family viewing, and retained the removed material in their archives. In some cases, such as ''[[The Smugglers (TV story)|The Smugglers]]'', the bulk of the remaining photographic evidence that remains of these stories comes from these brief ABC edits.

From 2005 to 2022 in Australia, ''Doctor Who'' primarily debuted on [[ABC1]], the primary television channel of the ABC. In 2022, distribution rights in Australia were moved to [[Disney+]].<ref>[https://about.abc.net.au/statements/abc-statement-on-doctor-who/ Disney+ ABC Statement]</ref>

{{As of}} 2021, the ABC owned a scale model of the TARDIS in its Sydney headquarters.{{fact}}

 

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