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==Channel Profile==
 
[[File:YTV LOGOS.JPG|250px|YTV On-Screen Idents from 1989 and early 1990s]]
 
 
 
'''[[wikipedia:YTV (TV channel)|YTV]]''' is a [[Canada|Canadian]] cable television channel, aimed at a younger audience; its on-screen slogans were '''"The Youth Channel"''' / '''"Canada's Youth Channel"'''/ '''"The Spirit of Youth"'''. It was launched on '''1 September 1988'''.
 
 
 
'''YTV''' successfully outbid '''[[Canada TVO|TVO]]''' for the broadcast rights for '''Doctor Who''' in late 1989, and a year after its launch, the channel commenced regular weekly screenings of new [[Sylvester McCoy stories]], as well as "repeats" of all the earlier Doctors. Being a commercial station, '''YTV''' interrupted its programming with advertising.
 
 
 
For the first time since 1965, '''Doctor Who''' was available nation-wide, rather than to just viewers in just one Province.
 
 
 
By this time, at least 67% of the population in Canada had cable TV, so the potential audience was sizeable.
 
 
 
'''YTV''' screened '''Doctor Who''' over a five-year period, from '''September 1989''' to '''August 1994'''.
 
 
 
We have very limited broadcast details about the '''YTV''' screenings. If you can help in any way, please drop us a line: {{email}}
 
 
 
 
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
 
 
===[[Sylvester McCoy stories|SYLVESTER McCOY]]===
 
 
 
Eight stories, 28 episodes:
 
 
 
[[File:YTV ROTD.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Screen grab YTV trailer for "The New Dr Who"; Remembrance of the Daleks; September 1989]]
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|7H||[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]||4
 
|-
 
|7L||[[The Happiness Patrol]]||3
 
|-
 
|7K||[[Silver Nemesis]]||3
 
|-
 
|7J||[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]||4
 
|-
 
|7N||[[Battlefield]]||4
 
|-
 
|7Q||[[Ghost Light]]||3
 
|-
 
|7M||[[The Curse of Fenric]]||4
 
|-
 
|7P||[[Survival]]||3
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
The first batch of episodes purchased by '''YTV''' was GROUP B and C of the [[Sylvester McCoy stories]].
 
 
 
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=="REPEATS"==
 
 
 
Starting from the first week of '''September 1989''' through until '''August 1994''', '''YTV''' aired all the existing complete stories of the earlier Doctors, five nights a week, initially at 5.30pm, then at various times (such as 4.00pm, then 7.00pm, then 2.30am!) during the five-year run. These stories were cycled through at least three times each.
 
 
 
 
 
===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
 
 
 
17 stories, 76 episodes:
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|A||[[An Unearthly Child]]||4
 
|-
 
|B||[[The Daleks]]||7
 
|-
 
|C||[[Inside the Spaceship]]||2
 
|-
 
|E||[[The Keys of Marinus]]||6
 
|-
 
|F||[[The Aztecs]]||4
 
|-
 
|G||[[The Sensorites]]||6
 
|-
 
|J||[[Planet of Giants]]||3
 
|-
 
|K||[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]||6
 
|-
 
|L||[[The Rescue]]||2
 
|-
 
|M||[[The Romans]]||4
 
|-
 
|N||[[The Web Planet]]||6
 
|-
 
|Q||[[The Space Museum]]||4
 
|-
 
|R||[[The Chase]]||6
 
|-
 
|S||[[The Time Meddler]]||4
 
|-
 
|X||[[The Ark]]||4
 
|-
 
|Z||[[The Gunfighters]]||4
 
|-
 
|BB||[[The War Machines]]||4
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
'''YTV''' therefore bought the standard package of the 17 re-issued [[William Hartnell stories]].
 
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The first four stories had previously aired by:
 
* [[Canada CBC|CBC]]
 
 
 
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===[[Patrick Troughton stories|PATRICK TROUGHTON]]===
 
 
 
Five stories, 30 episodes:
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|TT||[[The Dominators]]||5
 
|-
 
|UU||[[The Mind Robber]]||5
 
|-
 
|WW||[[The Krotons]]||4
 
|-
 
|XX||[[The Seeds of Death]]||6
 
|-
 
|ZZ||[[The War Games]]||10
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
'''YTV''' therefore bought the standard package of the five re-issued [[Patrick Troughton stories]].
 
 
 
'''YTV''' was the first Canadian broadcaster to screen Troughton episodes.
 
 
 
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===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
 
 
 
24 stories, 127/128 episodes:
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|AAA||[[Spearhead from Space]]||4
 
|-
 
|BBB||[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]||7
 
|-
 
|CCC||[[The Ambassadors of Death]]||7
 
|-
 
|DDD||[[Inferno]]||7
 
|-
 
|EEE||[[Terror of the Autons]]||4
 
|-
 
|FFF||[[The Mind of Evil]]||6
 
|-
 
|GGG||[[The Claws of Axos]]||4
 
|-
 
|HHH||[[Colony in Space]]||6
 
|-
 
|JJJ||[[The Daemons]]||5
 
|-
 
|KKK||[[Day of the Daleks]]||4
 
|-
 
|LLL||[[The Sea Devils]]||6
 
|-
 
|MMM||[[The Curse of Peladon]]||4
 
|-
 
|NNN||[[The Mutants]]||6
 
|-
 
|OOO||[[The Time Monster]]||6
 
|-
 
|PPP||[[Carnival of Monsters]]||4
 
|-
 
|QQQ||[[Frontier in Space]]||6
 
|-
 
|RRR||[[The Three Doctors]]||4
 
|-
 
|SSS||[[Planet of the Daleks]]||6
 
|-
 
|TTT||[[The Green Death]]||6
 
|-
 
|UUU||[[The Time Warrior]]||4
 
|-
 
|WWW||[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]||5/6
 
|-
 
|XXX||[[Death to the Daleks]]||4
 
|-
 
|YYY||[[The Monster of Peladon]]||6
 
|-
 
|ZZZ||[[Planet of the Spiders]]||6
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
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'''YTV''' therefore bought all of the 24 reissued [[Jon Pertwee stories]].
 
 
 
- With [[Planet of the Daleks]], the black and white third episode wasn't used, and instead a "new" colour episode three was created by editing together the last 10 minutes of part two and the first 15 minutes of part four.
 
 
 
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- Only the five colour episodes of [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]] aired.
 
 
 
 
 
Some of these episodes had previously aired on:
 
*[[Canada CKVU|CKVU]]
 
*[[Canada TVO|TVO]]
 
*[[Canada Other|ETV]]
 
 
 
 
 
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===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
 
 
 
41 stories, 172 episodes:
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|4A||[[Robot]]||4
 
|-
 
|4C||[[The Ark in Space]]||4
 
|-
 
|4B||[[The Sontaran Experiment]]||2
 
|-
 
|4E||[[Genesis of the Daleks]]||6
 
|-
 
|4D||[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]||4
 
|-
 
|4F||[[Terror of the Zygons]]||4
 
|-
 
|4H||[[Planet of Evil]]||4
 
|-
 
|4G||[[Pyramids of Mars]]||4
 
|-
 
|4J||[[The Android Invasion]]||4
 
|-
 
|4K||[[The Brain of Morbius]]||4
 
|-
 
|4L||[[The Seeds of Doom]]||6
 
|-
 
|4M||[[The Masque of Mandragora]]||4
 
|-
 
|4N||[[The Hand of Fear]]||4
 
|-
 
|4P||[[The Deadly Assassin]]||4
 
|-
 
|4Q||[[The Face of Evil]]||4
 
|-
 
|4R||[[The Robots of Death]]||4
 
|-
 
|4S||[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]||6
 
|-
 
|4V||[[Horror of Fang Rock]]||4
 
|-
 
|4T||[[The Invisible Enemy]]||4
 
|-
 
|4X||[[Image of the Fendahl]]||4
 
|-
 
|4W||[[The Sun Makers]]||4
 
|-
 
|4Y||[[Underworld]]||4
 
|-
 
|4Z||[[The Invasion of Time]]||6
 
|-
 
|5A||[[The Ribos Operation]]||4
 
|-
 
|5B||[[The Pirate Planet]]||4
 
|-
 
|5C||[[The Stones of Blood]]||4
 
|-
 
|5D||[[The Androids of Tara]]||4
 
|-
 
|5E||[[The Power of Kroll]]||4
 
|-
 
|5F||[[The Armageddon Factor]]||6
 
|-
 
|5J||[[Destiny of the Daleks]]||4
 
|-
 
|5H||[[City of Death]]||4
 
|-
 
|5G||[[The Creature from the Pit]]||4
 
|-
 
|5K||[[Nightmare of Eden]]||4
 
|-
 
|5L||[[The Horns of Nimon]]||4
 
|-
 
|5N||[[The Leisure Hive]]||4
 
|-
 
|5Q||[[Meglos]]||4
 
|-
 
|5R||[[Full Circle]]||4
 
|-
 
|5P||[[State of Decay]]||4
 
|-
 
|5S||[[Warriors' Gate]]||4
 
|-
 
|5T||[[The Keeper of Traken]]||4
 
|-
 
|5V||[[Logopolis]]||4
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
'''YTV''' therefore bought all of the [[Tom Baker stories]], and was thus the first Canadian station to air [[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]], [[Image of the Fendahl]], [[The Sun Makers]] and [[Underworld]], all of which had not been screened by '''[[Canada TVO|TVO]]'''.
 
 
 
- Some of the stories, such as [[Pyramids of Mars]] and [[The Brain of Morbius]] were supplied from old Time Life Television tapes, which had the Howard da Silva voice-over introductions.
 
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Most of these episodes had previously aired on:
 
* [[Canada TVO|TVO]]
 
 
 
 
 
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===[[Peter Davison stories|PETER DAVISON]]===
 
 
 
20 stories, equivalent of 74 half-hour episodes:
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|5Z||[[Castrovalva]]||4
 
|-
 
|5W||[[Four to Doomsday]]||4
 
|-
 
|5Y||[[Kinda]]||4
 
|-
 
|5X||[[The Visitation]]||4
 
|-
 
|6A||[[Black Orchid]]||2
 
|-
 
|6B||[[Earthshock]]||4
 
|-
 
|6C||[[Time-Flight]]||4
 
|-
 
|6E||[[Arc of Infinity]]||4
 
|-
 
|6D||[[Snakedance]]||4
 
|-
 
|6F||[[Mawdryn Undead]]||4
 
|-
 
|6G||[[Terminus]]||4
 
|-
 
|6H||[[Enlightenment]]||4
 
|-
 
|6J||[[The King's Demons]]||2
 
|-
 
|6K||[[The Five Doctors]]||1/4
 
|-
 
|6L||[[Warriors of the Deep]]||4
 
|-
 
|6M||[[The Awakening]]||2
 
|-
 
|6N||[[Frontios]]||4
 
|-
 
|6P||[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]||(2/4)
 
|-
 
|6Q||[[Planet of Fire]]||4
 
|-
 
|6R||[[The Caves of Androzani]]||4
 
|-
 
|}
 
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'''YTV''' therefore bought all of the [[Peter Davison stories]], including [[The Five Doctors]] (In its four-part version) which had not previously aired on '''TVO'''.
 
 
 
- For [[Earthshock]] part four, '''YTV''' altered the closing credits by dubbing in the usual theme tune to replace the 'silent' credit roll. To make the music fit the longer credit sequence, the theme was looped (see clip above).
 
 
 
 
 
These episodes had previously aired on:
 
* [[Canada TVO|TVO]]
 
 
 
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===[[Colin Baker stories|COLIN BAKER]]===
 
 
 
Eight stories, equivalent of 44 half-hour episodes:
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|6S||[[The Twin Dilemma]]||4
 
|-
 
|6T||[[Attack of the Cybermen]]||2/4
 
|-
 
|6V||[[Vengeance on Varos]]||2/4
 
|-
 
|6W||[[The Two Doctors]]||3/6
 
|-
 
|6X||[[The Mark of the Rani]]||2/4
 
|-
 
|6Y||[[Timelash]]||2/4
 
|-
 
|6Z||[[Revelation of the Daleks]]||2/4
 
|-
 
|7A||[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]||14
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
'''YTV''' therefore bought all of the [[Colin Baker stories]].
 
 
 
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- When [[The Trial of a Time Lord]] aired, the closing credits to episode 14 were, for some reason, sped up! ('''CLIP''')
 
 
 
 
 
These episodes previously aired on:
 
* [[Canada TVO|TVO]]
 
 
 
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===[[Sylvester McCoy stories|SYLVESTER McCOY]] (Continued)===
 
 
 
Four stories, 14 episodes:
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
|-
 
|7D||[[Time and the Rani]]||4
 
|-
 
|7E||[[Paradise Towers]]||4
 
|-
 
|7F||[[Delta and the Bannermen]]||3
 
|-
 
|7G||[[Dragonfire]]||3
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
'''YTV''' therefore bought all of the [[Sylvester McCoy stories]].
 
 
 
These four stories had previously aired on:
 
* [[Canada TVO|TVO]]
 
 
 
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===[[Peter Cushing|DALEK MOVIES]]===
 
 
 
The two [[Peter Cushing]] Dalek movies were also screened, on two Sundays, at 2:00pm on '''YTV at the Movies'''.
 
 
 
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==TRANSMISSION==
 
 
 
==='''Sylvester McCoy'''===
 
 
 
'''Doctor Who''' commenced on '''YTV''' from Sunday, '''3 September 1989''', at 7.00pm, with the first story to air being [[The Happiness Patrol]]; all the stories aired out of order. YTV promoted these episodes as '''"The New Dr Who"'''.
 
 
 
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*'''CLIP: "NEW DR WHO" TRAILER 1989'''
 
 
 
*'''October 1989''': [[Silver Nemesis]] aired.
 
* '''26 November 1989''': Part three of [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]] aired.
 
*'''3 December 1989''': Part four of [[Remembrance of the Daleks]] was accidentally aired in place of part four of [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]. The correct episode was aired a week later, on '''10 December'''.
 
 
 
The first run of McCoy stories ended after 15 weeks on '''10 December 1989'''.
 
 
 
The second block of McCoy episodes (from season 26) commenced only a few months later in early '''1990''', screening on Saturdays, at 5.30pm. Again, the stories did not air in the correct order. There was a transmission fault during part three of [[Ghost Light]].
 
 
 
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==='''Repeats Transmissions'''===
 
 
 
The REPEATS commenced on Monday, '''4 September 1989''', airing five nights a week, in the early evening, initially at 5.30pm. (These stories ran concurrent with the Sylvester McCoy serials, which aired weekly on Sundays.)
 
 
 
The following is a '''VERY ROUGH''' guide to what aired and when.
 
 
 
*'''4 September 1989''': [[An Unearthly Child]] commences.
 
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*'''CLIP: YTV IDENT (WITH HARTNELL TITLES'''
 
*'''23 November 1989''': [[The Chase]] part five aired on the anniversary date.
 
*'''19 December 1989''': [[Patrick Troughton]] finally makes his television debut in Canada, when [[The Dominators]] part one airs.
 
*'''30 January 1990''': The [[Jon Pertwee]] era commences.
 
*First run screenings of season 26 [[Sylvester McCoy stories]] started around this time, early January 1990, airing Saturdays, at 5.30pm – see note above.
 
*'''July 1990''': The [[Tom Baker]] era commences.
 
*'''March 1991''': The [[Peter Davison]] era commences.
 
**[[The Five Doctors]] had its Canadian debut in the summer of '''1991''', and aired as a four-parter.
 
*'''Early 1991''': Sometime during the first half of 1991, a second stream of episodes commenced airing at 1.30am, seven nights a week. This run opened with the [[Sylvester McCoy stories]], followed by the [[Jon Pertwee stories]]. This second stream ended in September 1992.
 
*'''July 1991''': The [[Colin Baker stories]] commence. By this time, the timeslot has changed to 4.00pm.
 
*'''September 1991''': The [[Sylvester McCoy]] era commences, starting with a "first run" of his first four stories which had not previously aired on '''YTV''', followed by repeats of the eight stories that had aired back in September to December 1989.
 
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*'''7 November 1991''': The [[William Hartnell stories]] are cycled through again; weekdays, at 3:30pm.
 
**[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]] had finished by '''January 1992'''.
 
**[[The Chase]] was repeated circa '''April 1992'''.
 
*'''Early-1992''': The [[Patrick Troughton stories]] are repeated.
 
**[[The Mind Robber]] was repeated during the second or third week of '''May 1992''' (before 24 May).
 
*'''June 1992''': Another repeat of the [[Jon Pertwee stories]] commences.
 
*'''7 September 1992''': From this date, the series aired seven days a week, now at the very early time of 2.30am (i.e. the next day)! It was the last programme to air before the channel signed-off. For reasons unknown, the first five episodes of [[The Sea Devils]] were skipped, and only part six aired. (At the end of [[Day of the Daleks]] part three a voice-over announced that starting from "Monday next week", the timeslot was moving to 2.30am.)
 
* The second stream of stories had ended by this time.
 
*'''November 1992''': The [[Tom Baker stories]] are repeated for the final time.
 
**'''17 December 1992''': [[Pyramids of Mars]] part one airs, with the Howard da Silva intros.
 
*'''May 1993''': The [[Peter Davison stories]] are repeated for the second and final time.
 
*'''July 1993''': The [[Colin Baker]] era is repeated for the second and final time.
 
*'''September 1993''': The [[Sylvester McCoy]] era is repeated for the final time.
 
*'''October 1993''': The [[William Hartnell stories]] are repeated for the third and final time.
 
*'''January 1994''': The [[Patrick Troughton stories]] are repeated for the third and final time.
 
*'''February 1994''': The final repeat of the [[Jon Pertwee]] era commences.
 
*'''27 February 1994''': Part five of [[Inferno]] is the last to air in the old time slot. From Saturday, '''5 March 1994''', the series switches from screening seven days a week to only once a week, Sunday mornings at 2.30am.
 
*'''13 August 1994''': With the screening of [[The Daemons]] part two, '''Doctor Who''' is dropped from '''YTV's''' line-up. ('''YTV's''' rights expired on '''31 August 1994'''.)
 
 
 
 
 
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==Next Canadian broadcaster==
 
 
 
* '''[[Canada (CITV)|CITV]]'''
 
 
 
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==Links==
 
*[[Canada]]
 
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**[[Sylvester McCoy stories]]
 
 
 
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