Doctor Who in Australia of the cuts now seem utterly inconsequential, and it is hard to imagine why anyone was bothered, but they stand as a testament to changing community values over the decades. In 1996, about 25 minutes worth of some very short censored black and white 16mm film clips were recovered from the National Archive vaults, snipped by the censor from a variety of 1960s episodes, these cut portions of 16mm film had not been in the hands of the ABC, and had been impounded by the Australian censors. The two Peter Cushing as Dr. Who and the Daleks films, produced by
Doctor Who in Australia widescreen, but based on the standard TV format, available for hire to home and small-scale screenings. In late 1975, such a screening of "Dr. Who and the Daleks" premiered in Sydney on 23 December 1965, with one of the Daleks (apparently the Red one) from the film in the foyer, while the next, "" organised by Antony Howe for a group of fans may be said to mark the first organised fan activity in Australia, certainly in Sydney. The first film was to appear on TV on a commercial station, Channel Seven, in black and white, but the second film