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*'''8 September 1979''': The [[Tom Baker stories]] begin airing Saturdays at 6.00'''am'''.  
 
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*The Saturday screenings were eventually dropped altogether. By that time the Bakers had been recycled at least three times, the Pertwees and Davisons twice, before the series was eventually dropped, circa 1990.
 
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Revision as of 23:25, 3 May 2012

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:

Orlando

WFTV

Airdates in Orlando (WFTV)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

Channel 9 (ABC)


  • 15 September 1972: The 13 story / 72 episode package of Jon Pertwee stories begins airing.
    • Our Airdates table is incomplete. Assuming all 13 stories (72 episodes) aired, and in the correct order, The Curse of Peladon through to The Time Monster may have had their first US screenings on WFTV.
  • 14 July 1974: A three story run begins, Sundays at 8am.
  • 13 July 1975: The series returns again, Sundays at 10am.


Name the episode competition
A
B
C
D

Answers (white on white): [ A: The Curse of Peladon 2; B: The Curse of Peladon 4; C: Colony in Space 6; D: The Sea Devils 1 ]

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WMFE

Channel 24 (PBS)


  • 1994: After eight years, WMFE drops the series in the autumn of 1994.

Fandom




Jacksonville

The generic description for the first five airings.

WJXT

Airdates in Jacksonville (WJXT)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

Channel 4 (CBS)


  • 16 July 1973: The 13 story / 72 episode package of Jon Pertwee stories begins, although TV Guide doesn't catch on until the second week.
  • 14 September 1973: Last airing, or maybe 7 September ... or 31 August.
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Miami

TV Guide, Sept. 8, 1973

WPLG

Channel 10 (ABC)

  • 8 September 1973: An episode may have aired at 1pm. No other episodes can be found near this time, despite WPLG being listed in BBC Records as having bought the Jon Pertwee stories.





WPBT

Airdates in Miami (WPBT)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

Channel 2 (PBS)


  • 7 May 1979: The Tom Baker stories begin airing weekdays, at 6.00pm. 4B and 4C are aired out of order.
  • 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.
  • December 1987: The Doctor Who Tour appears at WPBT with John Nathan-Turner, Nicola Bryant, Eric Luskin (NJN) and Brian Sloman from BBC Enterprises, in attendance. There is an all day live broadcast during wraparounds of a movie format screening of The Trial of a Time Lord. Taped segments from the live broadcast air before the regular Saturday broadcast of the series.
  • 1990?: Unable to afford the steep prices demanded by Lionheart, one of the Miami PBS stations held a pledge drive to beg for money – only to drop the series the following week!



Conventions



West Palm Beach

WPTV

The Palm Beach Post Times, Aug. 27, 1978
Variety, 16 August 1978 Variety1978.JPG WPTV was one of the first stations to purchase the Tom Baker stories


Airdates in West Palm Beach (WPTV)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

Channel 5 (NBC)


  • 1 September 1978: Omnibus The Hand of Fear is shown on Friday night at 9:00 pm as a "test" to see how the show might be received by American audiences.



WXEL

Airdates in West Palm Beach (WXEL)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

Channel 42 (PBS)


  • 1990s: By the mid-1990s, WXEL screened several episodes never before screened in the US, such as part three of Planet of the Daleks.



Pensacola / Fort Walton Beach

WSRE

Channel 23 (PBS)





Tallahassee

WCTV

Channel 6 (CBS)

Channel 44 (WSWG, Valdota, Ga.)






WFSU

Channel 11 (PBS)


  • 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs. (WFSU is reported to have been the first US station to purchase the anniversary story.)



Tampa

WEDU

Airdates in Tampa (WEDU)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)
Lakeland Ledger, 1 March 1985

Channel 3 (PBS)

  • 21 November 1981: Premiered, Saturdays at 8pm. Stories would air out of sequence (usually the order in which the station received the tapes).
  • After the first run of "out of order" Tom Bakers, the series was recycled but in the correct order, and was followed by Peter Davison stories.
  • 7 November 1983: From this point on, the series screened episodically on weekdays at 11pm, with an "omnibus" of the same story on Saturdays.
  • 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.
  • March 1985: The reissued package of 24 Jon Pertwee stories aired, followed by more Davisons, then the reissued William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton stories, then back to Baker.
  • Around this time, the Saturday omnibuses fell out of sync with the weekday episodes.
  • The Saturday screenings were eventually dropped altogether. By that time the Bakers had been recycled at least three times, the Pertwees and Davisons twice, before the series was eventually dropped, circa 1990.

WUSF

Channel 16 (PBS)




Fort Myers

WSFP

Channel 30 (PBS)




Gainesville

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WUFT

Channel 5 (PBS)


  • Details of what screened and when are currently unknown. May have stopped airing Doctor Who around 1992.
  • Originally aired Monday-Thursdays at 6:00pm. Changed to compilations Saturdays at 6:00pm.

Pompano Beach

WLRK

Channel 78 (Pompano Beach Public TV; Independent)

  • NOTE: BBC sales records include station WLRK; the only station we could find that had used that call sign was this one in Florida.