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**'''8 May 1986''': With BBC One Controller, Michael Grade at its launch, the '''Doctor Who USA Tour''' "bus" sets off from [[Washington DC]], with Peter Davison on board, to begin 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.
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**'''8 May 1986''': With BBC One Controller, Michael Grade at its inauguration, the '''Doctor Who USA Tour''' "bus" sets off from [[Washington DC]], with Peter Davison on board, to begin 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 within New England, 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 within New England, 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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The Doctor Who USA Tour Bus
Doctor Who USA Tour

1986:

    • 8 May 1986: With BBC One Controller, Michael Grade at its inauguration, the Doctor Who USA Tour "bus" sets off from Washington DC, with Peter Davison on board, to begin 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 within New England, 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.)
Wisconsin State Journal, Sept. 14, 1986
    • October to December 1986: The Tour moves south through Tennessee, and down towards Florida. (Pertwee falls ill; he is accompanied by Paul Darrow and Michael Keating from Blakes 7 for part of the journey.)


1987:

Doctor Who Celebration & Tour 87-88
  • By early 1987, the Tour has been renamed the Doctor Who Celebration & Tour 87-88.
    • February 1987: The bus reaches Florida.
      • 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 northwards again.
      • 28 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.
    • March 1987: The Tour heads east.
      • 26-27 March 1987: Anthony Ainley and Janet Fielding call in at Baltimore, Maryland.
      • 4-5 July 1987: Heading north west, the Tour stops again at Chicago. (There are no guests during this leg of the tour.)
      • 1 August 1987: Westbound, the Tour arrives in Iowa, with Janet Fielding.
    • August to September 1987: The bus heads north west, stopping in Washington state.
      • 9 September 1987: His work on season 24 completed, Sylvester McCoy returns, and the bus travels south, and arrives in Los Angeles, California.
      • 3 October 1987: Jon Pertwee visits San Jose, California.
    • October 1987: Heading east again, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas are visited.
    • November 1987: The Tour stops in Oklahoma.
      • 5-6 December 1987: The Tour reaches Jackson, Mississippi.


1988:

    • By March 1988: The Tour heads towards the east coast, where, after two years on the road, and having visited some 180+ locations, the Tour comes to an end.
    • The bus itself is eventually returned to the UK - and left to rot in a junkyard...


General Coverage of the Tour (External links)

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