Illinois

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:

Chicago

flier to prompt WTTW to buy more Pertwee episodes

Channel 11 (PBS)

29 September 1975: Doctor Who make its debut in Chicago on Monday, 29 September 1975, screening week days at 6.30pm. The first serial to air is The Mutants. Serials continue to air out of order
From January 1976, random stories are repeated even though there are first-run stories still yet to screen. (The Curse of Peladon does not screen.)
From 2 February 1976, compilation episodes air at the later time of 10.00pm.
2-3 February 1976: The only known surviving colour copy of The Ambassadors of Death was recorded off WTTW 2-3 February and was used by the Restoration Team to colourise the story for a VHS release.
7-10 March 1977: A repeat of Terror of the Autons is the only story to air in 1977. The only known surviving colour copy of this serial was recorded by Larry Charet, which was later used by the Restoration Team to colourise the story.

11 February 1980: The Tom Baker stories make their Chicago debut; the first story is in fact the last, The Invasion of Time! Episodes air weekdays at 5.30pm. Stories are cycled through twice.

1981: WTTW began airing homemade compilations with The Sun Makers on 4 January. Tom Baker's final three seasons air from 23 August 1981.

1982: From 2 October, omnibus editions screen twice weekly on Saturdays and Sundays, so there are two different cycles of Baker airing at the same time.

1983: From June a package of just the extant full colour Jon Pertwee stories commences, including several stories only just recently recovered from Canada.

23 November 1983: The US premiere of The Five Doctors was on WTTW 23 November, two days before it aired in the UK. Chicago had not yet seen season 20 before the airing.

16 March 1986: The Colin Baker stories screen. WTTW removed the scene of Shockeye eating a rat from its broadcasts of The Two Doctors.

11 May 1986: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories air, followed by the five Patrick Troughton stories (starting with The Mind Robber), then from 8 December the 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories play; The Curse of Peladon is aired on WTTW for the first time during this run.

22 November 1987: The airing of Horror of Fang Rock (its eighth screening) was interrupted by a video pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

31 December 1987: A Dalek Night marathon, with Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks, and Day of the Daleks.

12 March 1988: A Master Marathon, with Terror of the Autons, Logopolis, Castrovalva and The Mark of the Rani airing between pledge breaks. Fan clubs man the phones.

27 November 1988: A repeat run of Baker, Davison and Colin Baker stories leads into the first airing of The Trial of a Time Lord followed by the debut of the Sylvester McCoy stories.

1988-1991: More repeats, but Season 20 is dropped after Terminus in favour of full colour Pertwee stories. The first 23 Tom Baker stories air for their tenth time. The repeat run ends on 1 September 1991 with The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. Doctor Who had been screening virtually non-stop from February 1980 through to September 1991...

July 1996: A "Doctor Who Madness" series of selected repeats leads into the debut screening of season 26 on 25 August. However, WTTW does not screen Battlefield.

8 September 1996: Survival is the final episode of Doctor Who to air on WTTW...

PROMOS / PLEDGES: Various promos and airings at The Museum of Classic Chicago Television

The Marty Robinson Fan Club of America (Roselle)
- File:Marty Robinson Fan Club.pdf Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1987)

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Channel 47 (PBS)

1988: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories screen from early, with a repeat in the early 1990s.

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Channel 12 (PBS) (University of Illinois)

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1984: Time Magazine (9 January 1984) runs a story about Doctor Who, referring to 10,000 students at the University of Illinois watching the series on the campus PBS station : TIME MAGAZINE