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Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:

San Francisco

KRON

Airdates in San Francisco (KRON)
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Channel 4 (NBC)


Oakland Tribune, Sept. 19, 1973
TV listing for KRON, 1974

KQED

Channel 9 (PBS)


  • 1980s: aired Wednesdays 8.00-8.30pm and Saturday night marathons (credits in tact)



Los Angeles

Radio Times, 14-20 November 1992, promoting the colourised repeat
first airing, July 1, 1975
Note the quotation from the Philadelphia Inquirer describing the first-ever airing in the US

KCET

Airdates in Los Angeles (KCET)
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Channel 28 (PBS)


Dr Who Debuts! 1 July 1975
The Ambassadors of Death, August 1975
Inferno, Part 7, 18 November 1975
Los Angeles loves Doctor Who! (Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1975)
An opposing viewpoint (Long Beach Press-Telegram, 1 July 1975)
The Mind of Evil, Part 1, 23 December 1975
The Mind of Evil, Part 6, 3 February 1976
The Claws of Axos, Part 1, 17 February 1976
The Claws of Axos, Part 4, 9 March 1976
The Daemons, Part 1, 23 March 1976
The Daemons, April 1976
  • 1 July 1975: Doctor Who begins screening Tuesdays at 7.30pm with the Jon Pertwee stories.
  • 6 June 1976: The series moves to Sunday nights.
  • 9 October 1976: Now Saturday evenings.
  • 29 January 1977: Saturday night airings end.
  • 10 September 1977: A surprise run of Saturday afternoon airings begins.
  • 15 October 1977: An airing watched by no one as it aired opposite game 4 of the Dodgers/Yankees World Series.
  • 19 November 1977: The Daemons airs as a compilation with one intermission. A recording of this broadcast is used to colorize telerecordings for eventual VHS and DVD releases. The Mind of Evil also around this time. Does this run feature the first American compilation broadcasts?
  • 31 December 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 Baker's three other runs.
  • 1986-1987: Omnibus editions air, Saturdays, usually 1.00 to 2.30pm.
  • 13 June 1987: The Peter Davison stories begin airing.
  • 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.
  • January 1988: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories aired, with a repeat in 1991.
  • 17 March 1990: 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.



Media

  • CLIP: TOM BAKER KCET Pledge



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KBSC

Variety, 16 August 1978 Variety1978.JPG KBSC was one of the first stations to purchase the Tom Baker stories
Listing for the first airing on KBSC, 2 Oct 1978, 5.00pm (Los Angeles Times)
Airdates in Los Angeles (KBSC)
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Channel 52 (Independent)

  • 2 October 1978: Aired Doctor Who weeknights at 5pm and 6:30pm, often out of sequence.
  • 29 December 1978: The 5:00 airing is dropped. The Friday airings are dropped for seven weeks.
  • 26 April 1980: After a week off, the series moves to Saturday afternoons at 12:30.
  • 6 September 1980: With KBSC drifting towards Spanish language programming and On TV, Doctor Who is taken off the schedules.
Listing for the first airing on KBSC, 2 Oct 1978, 5.00pm and again at 6.30pm (Los Angeles Times)
Promo card for KBSC using artwork by Tom Crabtree
Santa Ana Register, Oct. 9, 1978



Fandom

LA Herald Examiner report on Who 1 convention, 9 March 1980
  • 1 December 1979: Tom Baker, Graham Williams and Terrance Dicks attend the first ever US Doctor Who convention in Los Angeles.
  • 1-2 March 1980: Ian Marter and Elisabeth Sladen guest at the Who 1 convention in Los Angeles.
  • A full account of the History of Doctor Who Fandom in Los Angeles can be read HERE.



Los Angeles Metro

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Fresno

KMTF

Variety, 16 August 1978 Variety1978.JPG KMTF was one of the first stations to purchase the Tom Baker stories
KMTF Channel 18 listing for 21 January 1989


Channel 18 (PBS)

  • 1989: By this time, omnibus editions were airing on Saturdays.
    • 21 January 1989: An unidentified omnibus edition aired from 8:00 to 9:30pm.



San Jose

KTEH ad promoting Doctor Who and a special interview with John Nathan-Turner
Happy Birthday to WHO!' TV Guide, November 1983

KTEH

Airdates in 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.



  • 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.
  • 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.)
  • A more detailed account of KTEH's broadcast history of Doctor Who can be found HERE

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Redding

KIXE

Channel 9 (PBS)




Sacramento

KVIE

Channel 6 (PBS)








  • 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).



Sonoma County

KRCB

Channel 23 (PBS)

  • June 1996: Airing compilations Saturday nights at 10pm, including the repackaged 24 Jon Pertwee stories.



San Diego?

KGTV?

Channel 10 (NBC)


  • BBC documentation records a sale of Jon Pertwee stories to "KGTV" by March 1974, but despite our searching local TV listings from 1972 to 1974, we could find no evidence that Doctor Who had screened on that, or any other San Diego station. But it's possible this record is a misspelling of "KGTF", the station in Guam which did screen the series from 1972 to 1974, and which is not recorded in that same BBC documentation.
  • If the series did not air in San Diego in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, that makes it the largest US TV market to never show Doctor Who.