California
From BroaDWcast
Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:
San Francisco
KRON
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Channel 4 (NBC)
- 22 September 1973: Doctor Who debuts with the Jon Pertwee stories, Saturdays at 6:30pm.
KQED
Channel 9 (PBS)
- 1980s: aired Wednesdays 8.00-8.30pm and Saturday night marathons (credits in tact)
Los Angeles
KCET
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Channel 28 (PBS)
- 1 July 1975: Doctor Who makes its Californian debut on channel 28 on 1 July 1975 (screening daily at 7.30pm), with the Jon Pertwee stories. (The LA Times billings describes the Doctor as being an "eccentric secret agent"!)
- The Mind of Evil screens from 23 December 1975 to 3 February 1976; off-air video recordings from episode six made by Tom Lundie become the only existing colour recording of the serial, which exists in the BBC archives only as black and white film prints.
- April 1976: The Daemons airs. Off-air video-recordings of the transmissions later enable the BBC to restore the serial to colour.
- 29 January 1977: The series is dropped until 1983. During the hiatus, KBSC screens the Tom Baker series.
- 3 December 1983: After a six year break, KCET picks up Doctor Who again with The Five Doctors, but passes on the nationwide broadcast.
- 7 January 1984: The Tom Baker stories commence their run, and air for several years on a repeat cycle.
- 1984: The reissued 14 colour Jon Pertwee stories air.
- 9 March 1985: The Talons of Weng-Chiang airs for the second and last time. KCET pulls the episode after complaints from the Asian-American community. It doesn't air during Tom Bakers three other runs.
- 1986-1987: Omnibus editions air, Saturdays, usually 1.00 to 2.30pm.
- 1987: The Peter Davison stories air.
- 9 October 1987: Sylvester McCoy visits with the Doctor Who Tour (parked at Plummer Park, on Santa Monica Boulevard).
- 31 October 1987: The Colin Baker stories commence. During 1987, the series screened Saturdays, at 1.00pm.
- 1988: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories aired, with a repeat in 1991.
- 1989: The first run of Sylvester McCoy stories airs.
- 1990: Compilation editions air Saturday mornings, sometimes from 10.50am.
- 1992: During 1992, the series airs in omnibus editions from 9.00am to 10.30am on Saturday mornings.
- 1993: During 1993, the series airs in 90 minute omnibus editions from 8.00am to 9.30am on Saturday mornings, although in November and December, the timeslot is reduced to only one hour.
- 18 December 1993: KCET drops Doctor Who.
KBSC
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Channel 52 (Independent)
- 2 October 1978: Aired Doctor Who from 2 October, playing the series weeknights at 6.30pm - often out of sequence - for at least THREE runs into the early 1980s, before dropping the series when the station changed into a Spanish language station.
- During 1979, the series aired ten times a week in the early evenings.
Fandom
- 1 December 1979: Tom Baker, Graham Williams and Terrance Dicks attend the first ever US Doctor Who convention in Los Angeles.
- A full account of the History of Doctor Who Fandom in Los Angeles can be read HERE.
Los Angeles Metro
- On the tiles decorating the 7th Street / Metro Center station of the Los Angeles Metro underground train system, can be found a number of very familiar creatures: a Menoptra (The Web Planet); Koquillion (The Rescue), and two Daleks.
San Diego
KGTV?
Channel 10 (NBC)
- 1974: BBC documentation records a sale of Jon Pertwee stories to "KGTV" by 1974, but it's possible this is a mis-spelling of "KGTF", the station in Guam which did screen the series from 1972 to 1974. Doctor Who did not air in San Diego in the 1980s or 1990s, making it the largest US TV market to never show Doctor Who.
Redding
KIXE
Channel 9 (PBS)
- 15 April 1981: The Tom Baker stories begin, Wednesdays at 8pm.
- 1988: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories aired circa 1988.
Sacramento
KVIE
Channel 6 (PBS)
- PROMOS / PLEDGES: Sacramento Pledge Drives (ph 916-929-5843)
- 1987: The Tom Baker stories air; The Deadly Assassin screens on 14 March 1987.
- 1989: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories aired.
- 1990s: KVIE produces its own on-air introductions for the Hartnell and Troughton episodes, featuring station staff and volunteers, usually in costume. Often the intros explained what had happened to the regular characters in the stories that could not be screened (i.e they were missing or incomplete).
San Jose
KTEH
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Channel 54 (PBS) (also available in Santa Cruz)
- 13 April 1981: Doctor Who commences its run on KTEH, five days a week; KTEH is the third station in the Bay Area to screen the series.
- 1982: Omnibus versions commenced on Saturday nights while episodes continue to run daily.
- By mid 1983: The Peter Davison stories begin screening Saturday nights to lead in to the networked screening of The Five Doctors on 23 November 1983.
- At 8.10pm (on 23 November 1983?) channel 54 screened a 40 minute An Interview with Tom Baker.
- 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs, at 8.50pm.
- 1984: The 14 available full colour Jon Pertwee stories air. The series airs weeknights at 7.30pm, with an omnibus "movie" edition on Saturdays at 11.15pm.
- By November 1984 the 11.15pm Saturday screenings had reached the Peter Davison stories - Arc of Infinity aired 10 November 1984.
- KTEH generally airs two 'movie' compilations per week.
- 1985: The repackaged colour / black and white Jon Pertwee stories air around this time, and repeated in 1991 and 1992.
- 16 September 1985: The Tom Baker stories are recycled again, weekdays at 7.30pm. Omnibus editions also screen Saturday evening (Nightmare of Eden screened 14 September 1985.)
- 1986: The Colin Baker stories and repackaged 17 William Hartnell stories air.
- February 1987: The repackaged five Patrick Troughton stories screen. The War Games screens the very week that Troughton dies in Columbus, Georgia.
- November 1988: The Sylvester McCoy stories go to air.
- 1992: The recently recovered The Tomb of the Cybermen screens.
- January 2003: KTEH's almost uninterrupted run of Doctor Who came to an end in January of this year.
- A more detailed account of KTEH's broadcast history of Doctor Who can be found HERE
Sonoma County
KRCB
Channel 23 (PBS)
- June 1996: Airing compilations Saturday nights at 10pm.
