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[[File:USATour8788.JPG|right|200px|Doctor Who Celebration & Tour 87-88]] | [[File:USATour8788.JPG|right|200px|Doctor Who Celebration & Tour 87-88]] | ||
* '''Itinerary''': | * '''Itinerary''': | ||
| − | **'''8 May 1986''': Setting off from [[Washington DC]], with Peter Davison and BBC 1 Controller, Michael Grade | + | **'''8 May 1986''': Setting off from [[Washington DC]], with Peter Davison (and BBC 1 Controller, Michael Grade at the launch ceremony), the '''Doctor Who USA Tour''' begins its two-year, multi-city tour (two cities per week). It is hoped that all 181 markets where '''Doctor Who''' is screened across America will be visited. |
** '''May to August 1986''': In its first leg, the tour visits (in no particular order) [[New York]], [[New Jersey]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Maine]], with Peter Davison in attendance. | ** '''May to August 1986''': In its first leg, the tour visits (in no particular order) [[New York]], [[New Jersey]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Maine]], with Peter Davison in attendance. | ||
** '''13-28 September 1986''': The Tour heads south, visiting (in no particular order) [[Massachusetts]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Maryland]], [[Washington DC]], then north west, to [[Illinois]]. Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison and Patrick Troughton all take part at various legs of the journey. (The two Bakers travelled together during September, attending various Whovent 86 [[List of Conventions in the United States|conventions]] along the way.) | ** '''13-28 September 1986''': The Tour heads south, visiting (in no particular order) [[Massachusetts]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Maryland]], [[Washington DC]], then north west, to [[Illinois]]. Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison and Patrick Troughton all take part at various legs of the journey. (The two Bakers travelled together during September, attending various Whovent 86 [[List of Conventions in the United States|conventions]] along the way.) | ||
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Doctor Who USA Tour
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- Itinerary:
- 8 May 1986: Setting off from Washington DC, with Peter Davison (and BBC 1 Controller, Michael Grade at the launch ceremony), the Doctor Who USA Tour begins its two-year, multi-city tour (two cities per week). It is hoped that all 181 markets where Doctor Who is screened across America will be visited.
- May to August 1986: In its first leg, the tour visits (in no particular order) New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, with Peter Davison in attendance.
- 13-28 September 1986: The Tour heads south, visiting (in no particular order) Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, then north west, to Illinois. Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison and Patrick Troughton all take part at various legs of the journey. (The two Bakers travelled together during September, attending various Whovent 86 conventions along the way.)
- October 1986 to February 1987: The Tour moves south through Tennessee, and down through Florida. (Pertwee falls ill; he is accompanied by Paul Darrow and Michael Keating from Blakes 7 for part of the journey.)
- 8 February 1987: The bus stops in Tampa, Florida, with Peter Davison.
- 21-21 February 1987: The Tour comes to DisneyWorld in Orlando, Florida, with Jon Pertwee.
- 22-26 February 1987: The bus heads north again.
- 27 February 1987: Pertwee is joined for the day by new Doctor Sylvester McCoy, and producer John Nathan-Turner, in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 28 February 1987: Pertwee stops in Birmingham, Alabama, then on to Louisiana.
- October 1986 to February 1987: The Tour moves south through Tennessee, and down through Florida. (Pertwee falls ill; he is accompanied by Paul Darrow and Michael Keating from Blakes 7 for part of the journey.)
- By early 1987, the Tour has been renamed the Doctor Who Celebration & Tour 87-88.
- March 1987: The Tour heads north again.
- August to September 1987: The bus heads west, stopping in Washington state.
- 9 September 1987: His work on season 24 completed, Sylvester McCoy returns, and the bus arrives in Los Angeles, California.
- 3 October 1987: Jon Pertwee visits San Jose, California.
- October 1987: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas are visited.
- November 1987: The Tour stops in Oklahoma.
- 5-6 December 1987: The Tour reaches Jackson, Mississippi.
- By March 1988: The Tour heads to the east coast.
- May 1988: After two years on the road, and having visited some 180+ locations - the Tour comes to an end, back where it had started, in New York.
- The bus itself is eventually returned to the UK - and left to rot in a junkyard...
General Coverage of the Tour (External links)
- USA TOUR 1986 PHOTOS 1
- USA TOUR 1986 PHOTOS 2
- USA TOUR 1986 PHOTOS 3
- USA TOUR 1986 PHOTOS 4
- USA TOUR OVERVIEW - and the sad fate of the Bus...
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