Sci-Fi Channel
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- 1992: The new SCI-FI Channel buys the rights to Doctor Who, initially just the 106 available William Hartnell stories and Patrick Troughton stories, and the full package of Jon Pertwee stories. However, by the time the station goes to air in September 1992, the senior management had changed. The 106 black and white episodes were instead swapped for 106 Tom Baker stories...
- 24 September 1992: The SCI-FI Channel launches, Thursday, 24 September, at 8.00pm (EST). Included in its regular schedules is Doctor Who, to be screened from 12.00 to 1.00pm, six days a week. The hour-long timeslot is to allow for the half-hour or 45 minute episodes to screen uncut, but with ads and short programming filling the rest of the hour. That episode was then to be repeated at 1.00am.
- The station cites that due to contractual reasons they are not able to screen the Jon Pertwee stories or Tom Baker stories, and that it WILL run the series from the very beginning, starting with An Unearthly Child – HOWEVER the first story to screen is Robot!
- Midway through season 16 - after part three of The Androids of Tara - the series looped back to Robot. This "jump" subsequently occurred two more times.
- During 1993, SCI-FI screens Doctor Who on Saturdays, at 9.00 to 10.00am, and 9.00 to 10.00am weekdays. Towards the end of the year, the slot shifts to 11.00 am to noon on weekdays.
- November 1993: As part of a three-day 30th Anniversary "Event", The Five Doctors – the only non-Tom Baker story to screen on SCI-FI – K9 and Company and The Making of Doctor Who documentary are aired - SIX times!
- December 1993: By the end of the year, SCI-FI channel drops Doctor Who from its line-up...
- 15 July 2001: The Paul McGann TV Movie airs on SCI-FI.
