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Doctor Who USA Tour

The Doctor Who USA Tour Bus leaves Elstree Studios, UK, to begin its voyage to the US...
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.
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, Colorado (Denver), Texas are visited.
    • November 1987: The Tour stops in Oklahoma.
      • 5-6 December 1987: The Tour reaches Jackson, Mississippi.



1988:

  • 1988: The Tour once again heads north.
    • Early 1988: The Tour takes Sylvester McCoy to Urbana, Illinois.
    • Eventually, the Tour heads towards the east coast again, 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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