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==[[wikipedia:WTTW|WTTW]]==
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{{airdates-left|Chicago (WTTW)}}
 
 
 
'''Channel 11 (PBS)'''
 
 
 
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|[[File:WTTW NNN Premiere.JPG|thumb|150px|Dr Who Premiere, The Mutants, Part 1, 29 September 1975]]||[[File:WTTW NNN 2.JPG|thumb|150px|The Mutants, Part 4]]||[[File:WTTW KKK 4.JPG|thumb|150px|Day of the Daleks, Part 4]]||[[File:WTTW CCC 5.JPG|thumb|150px|The Ambassadors of Death, Part 5]]||[[File:WTTW EEE 4.JPG|thumb|150px|Terror of the Autons, Part 4]]
 
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|[[File:WTTW HHH 1.JPG|thumb|150px|Colony in Space, Part 1]]||[[File:WTTW HHH 6.JPG|thumb|150px|Colony in Space, Part 6]]||[[File:WTTW OOO 1.JPG|thumb|150px|The Time Monster, Part 1 (although the synopsis seems to be describing Colony in Space, Day of the Daleks, or The Mutants...)]]||[[File:WTTW NNN 4.JPG|thumb|150px|The Time Monster, Part 4 (although synopsis is for The Mutants!)]]||[[File:WTTW BBB 2.JPG|thumb|150px|Doctor Who and the Silurians, Part 2 (compilation version)]]
 
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[[File:WTTW 19850630.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The classic Sunday night lineup]]
 
[[File:TJsComics-small.jpg|200px|thumb|right|1985 flier to prompt WTTW to buy more Pertwee episodes]]
 
[[File:RT 20050521.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John Barrowman mentions watching '''Doctor Who''' on WTTW]]
 
*'''29 September 1975''': '''Doctor Who''' make its series debut in Chicago, screening weekdays at 6.30pm. The first serial to air is [[The Mutants]]. Serials continue to air out of order.
 
*From '''January 1976''', random stories are repeated even though there are first-run stories still yet to screen. ([[The Curse of Peladon]] does not screen.)
 
*'''7-10 March 1977''': A repeat of [[Terror of the Autons]] is the only story to air in 1977. This story was recorded by at least two fans, which were later used by the [[wikipedia:Doctor Who Restoration Team|Restoration Team]] to recolourise the story.
 
 
 
*'''11 February 1980''': The [[Tom Baker stories]] make their Chicago debut; the first story is in fact the last, [[The Invasion of Time]]! Episodes air weekdays at 5.30pm. Stories are cycled through twice.
 
 
 
* '''4 January 1981:''' WTTW begins airing [[Compilation broadcasts|compilations]] with [[The Sun Makers]]. Tom Baker's final three seasons air from '''23 August'''.
 
 
 
*'''1982''': From '''2 October''', omnibus editions screen weekly on Saturdays to compete with [[WOR]]'s broadcasts, so there are two different cycles of Baker airing at the same time.
 
 
 
*'''24 April 1983''': The [[Peter Davison stories]] debut.
 
 
 
*'''12 June 1983''': A package of just the extant full colour [[Jon Pertwee stories]] commences, including several stories only just recently recovered from [[Canada]].
 
 
 
* '''23 November 1983:''' [[The Five Doctors]] airs, two days before it aired in the UK.  Chicago had not yet seen season 20 before the airing.
 
 
 
*'''24 November 1984''': Season 20 and 21 begin.
 
 
 
*'''1984-1986''': Repeats of Baker, Pertwee and Davison episodes.
 
 
 
*'''16 March 1986''': The [[Colin Baker stories]] screen. WTTW removed the scene of Shockeye eating a rat from its broadcasts of [[The Two Doctors]].
 
 
 
*'''11 May 1986''': The 17 repackaged [[William Hartnell stories]] air.
 
 
 
*'''19 October 1986''': The first airings of the [[Patrick Troughton stories]] begins with [[The Mind Robber]] because [[The Dominators]] was considered "too confusing."
 
 
 
*'''8 December 1986''': The the newly acquired [[Jon Pertwee]] package airs nightly, interrupted by pledge breaks. [[The Curse of Peladon]] is aired on WTTW for the first time during this run.
 
 
 
* '''22 November 1987''': The airing of [[Horror of Fang Rock]] (its '''eighth''' screening) was interrupted by a video pirate dressed as [[wikipedia:Max Headroom pirating incident|Max Headroom]].
 
 
 
*'''31 December 1987''': A Dalek Night marathon, with [[Resurrection of the Daleks]], [[Revelation of the Daleks]], and [[Day of the Daleks]].
 
 
 
*'''12 March 1988''': A Master Marathon, with [[Terror of the Autons]], [[Logopolis]], [[Castrovalva]] and [[The Mark of the Rani]] airing between pledge breaks.  Fan clubs man the phones.
 
 
 
*'''27 November 1988''': A repeat run of Baker, Davison and Colin Baker stories leads into the first airing of [[The Trial of a Time Lord]] followed by the debut of the [[Sylvester McCoy stories]].
 
*'''1988-1991''': More repeats, but Season 20 is dropped after [[Terminus]] in favour of full colour [[Jon Pertwee|Pertwee]] stories. The first 23 [[Tom Baker stories]] air for their '''tenth''' time. The repeat run ends on '''1 September 1991''' with [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]. '''Doctor Who''' had been screening virtually non-stop from February 1980 through to September 1991...
 
*'''8 November 1990''': Part 1 of [[The Mind of Evil]].  See [[Chicago#evil|The Black and White Conspiracy]] below.
 
*'''Doctor Who''' is absent from WTTW for the next five years...
 
 
 
*'''July 1996''': A series of selected repeats leads into the debut screening of season 26 on '''25 August'''. However, WTTW does not screen [[Battlefield]].
 
 
 
* '''8 September 1996''': [[Survival]] is the final episode of '''Doctor Who''' to air on WTTW.
 
 
 
 
 
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'''The Black and White Conspiracy Theory:'''
 
<blockquote>There were contemporary rumors that WTTW did not want to air the [[William Hartnell]] and [[Patrick Troughton]] stories because they were in black and white.  WTTW <b>did</b> show them ... once.  Only two black and white stories were ever shown a second time: [[Terror of the Autons]] and [[The Mind of Evil]].
 
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In addition to not repeating Hartnell and Troughton episodes, WTTW also did not repeat the black and white [[Jon Pertwee]] episodes ([[Doctor Who and the Silurians]], [[The Ambassadors of Death]], [[Terror of the Autons]] and [[The Mind of Evil]]) as part of their regular runs. 
 
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[[Terror of the Autons]] was shown as part of a pledge-night special on [[Saturday, March 12, 1988|12 March 1988]].  Ironically, host Marty Robinson jokingly wished that that story could be colorized, forgetting that it had been shown on WTTW in color eleven years earlier.
 
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On '''16 July 1989''', part 1 of [[The Monster of Peladon]] was mistakenly shown.  WTTW rectified their mistake by showing the entire story three weeks later.  By showing part 1 twice, WTTW had fulfilled its contract to air each story no more than twice.  So when it came time to show [[The Monster of Peladon]] again ('''8 November 1990'''), they couldn't.  So they needed a suitable replacement: a six-part [[Jon Pertwee]] story.  The only episode to fit that bill was [[The Monster of Peladon]].</blockquote></div>
 
 
 
 
 
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==[[wikipedia:WFLD|WFLD]]==
 
 
 
'''Channel 32 (Independent)'''
 
 
 
*'''13-18 April 1969''': The first [[Peter Cushing]] movie, '''"Dr Who and the Daleks"''' airs at 2.30pm on Sunday, with a repeat at 8.00pm each night that week. 
 
 
 
 
 
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  <td>[[File:Chicago Daleks Apr 1969.JPG|thumb|200px|Dr Who and the Daleks, April 1969]]</td>
 
  <td>[[File:Chicago Daleks.JPG|thumb|250px|Dr Who and the Daleks, April 1969]]</td>
 
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</table>
 
 
 
 
 
*'''14 May 1996''': Now a Fox station, WFLD airs the [[TV Movie]].
 
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