New Jersey Network

Debut of Troughton episodes in the US, on NJN from 1 February 1986 issue of the Network Guide

New Jersey Network
Network: PBS	Channel(s): various
First airing: 1983	Last airing: 1994
== AIRDATES ==

A network of four channels covering the state: WNJS Channel 23 (Camden), WNJM Channel 50 (Montclair), WNJT Channel 52 (Trenton), WNJB Channel 58 (New Brunswick). The station was also carried on all cable systems in New Jersey and many in neighboring New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs, 8.00 to 9.30pm.

• December 1983/January 1984: The Tom Baker stories commence screening.
• 16 February 1985: The newly-released package of all 24 Jon Pertwee stories makes its US debut. This package sees Spearhead from Space, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Invasion of the Dinosaurs screening for the first time in the US.
• 1985: The NJN-produced special Doctor Who's Who's Who airs.
  • NJN DOCUMENTARIES

• 31 August 1985: K9 and Company screens, followed by the documentary, Doctors Who Old & New.

• 7 September 1985: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories make their US debut on NJN, on Saturday, 9.00pm, in omnibus "movie" format.

• 26 October 1985: The Colin Baker stories make their US debut on NJN, screening one full story on the last Saturday of each month. (This means that the Bakers play between Hartnell and Troughton runs of episodes.)

• 1 February 1986: The repackaged five Patrick Troughton stories make their US debut on NJN, weekly at 9pm on Saturdays. (The series aired on Saturdays at 9.00pm during the whole year.)

• 22 February 1986: By design or purely coincidentally, The Two Doctors plays during the Troughton run.

• 15, 22 March 1986: Timelash and Revelation of the Daleks play between the two halves of The War Games!

• 5 April 1986: After the debut of the Troughton stories, NJN aired omnibus editions of the Jon Pertwee stories in the usual Saturday 9pm slot.
• 19 April 1986: A transmission error occurred during The Ambassadors of Death: with 15 minutes or so left in the story, the screen faded to black and the end titles started. The station later showed the last 15 minutes three weeks later, after The Mind of Evil.

• 3 May 1986: Following the transmission of Terror of the Autons, NJN aired "The Doctor's Friend and Foe", a brief interview with actors Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier) and Anthony Ainley (the Master).

• 24 January 1987: The Trial of a Time Lord begins. NJN is one of the first US stations air this.

• 9 January 1988: The NJN-produced special "Doctor Who Then and Now" airs.
  • NJN DOCUMENTARIES

• January 1988: Time and the Rani screens.

"The Making of Dr Who Special", 19 November 1988

• 19 November 1988: Following a screening of Dragonfire (7.00 to 8.30pm), Channel 50 screens "The Making of Doctor Who Special" (from 9.00 to 10.00pm), another of the specially-commissioned behind the scenes / interview specials produced by the Network. This one goes behind the scenes during the making of Silver Nemesis. This was followed by The Five Doctors from 10.30 till midnight.

• 3 March 1990: Season 26 of the Sylvester McCoy stories makes its US debut, with the four stories played in production order.

• 23 May to 29 August 1992: A 15-week Marathon of Dalek and Cybermen serials - but not The Tomb of the Cybermen, which is deemed too expensive! (The Tomb of the Cybermen did eventually screen at a later date.)

• 5 September 1992: The week after the Marathon, the series moves to an earlier 5.00pm timeslot.

• 13 August 1994: After over ten years of almost uninterrupted screenings of Doctor Who, the New Jersey Network drops the series; the final story to be broadcast is The Deadly Assassin. The reasons cited for this are declining viewers, dwindling donations and increased residual payment demands made by Lionheart.

• In the final years, stories were played episodically, rather than as omnibus "movies", weekly at 11.00pm.

• Between 1983 and 1994, NJN enjoyed runs of every surviving full story at least twice, with the Tom Baker stories played as many as six times.

NJN Logo

NJN Pledge Caption

Generic billing for Channels 49 (Connecticut) & 50 (New Jersey)

Promos and Pledges

• PROMO / PLEDGE (1987) (filmed in Atlanta, Georgia):

• NJN PLEDGES: 1986/1987: TOM BAKER, MARK STRICKSON, LALLA WARD, LOUISE JAMESON, JON PERTWEE, SARAH SUTTON, CAROLE ANN FORD, ANTHONY AINLEY, MARY TAMM, BONNIE LANGFORD, KATY MANNING, PETER DAVISON, TERRY NATION, NICOLA BRYANT, SYLVESTER McCOY, JOHN NATHAN-TURNER:

• PROMOS / PLEDGES (1988): NJN PROMOS and PLEDGES from NOVEMBER 1988, many filmed with cast and crew of Silver Nemesis: