WILL

More information about WILL can be found at the Doctor Who Cuttings Archive

The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Dec. 9, 1983

1 February 1982: Doctor Who begins with Robot.
23 April 1983: A separate run begins Saturdays at 6:00 and 6:30pm.
2 September 1983: The Peter Davison stories premiere.
23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.
9 January 1984: Time runs a story about Doctor Who, referring to 10,000 students at the University of Illinois watching the series on the campus PBS station.
4 December 1984: The complete Jon Pertwee package begins.
14 February 1985: Death to the Daleks part 1 is shown by mistake. Episodes 1 and 2 of Day of the Daleks are shown the next night. See video clip below.
1 April 1986: The William Hartnell stories begin, followed by Patrick Troughton.
13 September 1986: The Saturday evening airings move to 8am.
4 October 1986: The Saturday morning airings end.
24 March 1987: Tom Baker returns.
22 March 1988: Colin Baker returns, followed by Sylvester McCoy
20 June 1988: Another run of the complete Jon Pertwee package begins.
17 September 1988: The daily airings make way for weekly compilation broadcasts.
28 October 1989: After another run of Tom Baker stories, Doctor Who Then and Now ends the run on WILL.
31 October 1998: The Daemons airs as a Halloween special.
18 November 2001: The Tom Baker stories return, Saturday nights at 11:20 in episodic format.
2016: Tom Baker compilations air.