New York

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:

Rochester

WXXI

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Channel 21 (PBS)

11 October 1976: The Jon Pertwee stories began, daily at 6:30pm.

1978: WXXI screened the Tom Baker stories from 1978.
23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.
1985: Channel 21 recycles stories from Robot to The Caves of Androzani daily at least twice.

1989: As part of a pledge drive, WXXI-TV showed the documentary Doctor Who's Who's Who as a lead-in to the season premiere Remembrance of the Daleks.

1989: The station aired the 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories, five Patrick Troughton stories and 24 Jon Pertwee stories, followed by the other Doctors.

1989-1992: It took three years to play all the surviving installments of the entire series. This would be WXXI's last-ever complete run of the entire series...

Buffalo

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WNED

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Channel 17 (PBS)

25 October 1977: WNED screened Doctor Who, weeknights at 6.30pm in tandem with WXXI (from 1977 through until 1987). It was during screenings of the Jon Pertwee stories in 1977/78 that off-air recordings were made which were later instrumental in the reconstruction from black and white back into colour.

1979: The series airs weeknights at 6.00pm.

1982: Peter Davison stories commence in movie format on Saturday afternoons. Repeats of older serial continue screening weekdays.

1983: The Monday to Thursday weekday slot moves to 11.00pm.

23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.

1984: The Monday to Thursday weekday slot moves back to 6.00pm.
May 1984: The Tom Baker stories air: the run reaches Pyramids of Mars by May.
1984: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories air.

10 October 1986: The weekday episodic re-runs come to an end in the fall of 1986 with part six of The Invasion of Time.
From Saturday, 11 October 1986, only "movie" format editions screen (starting with The Ribos Operation).

13 December 1986: During a pledge drive, WNED screens Revelation of the Daleks, the Doctor Who's Who's Who documentary and An Unearthly Child. The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories commence on Saturday afternoons.

7,14,21,28 March 1987: Part-way through the run of William Hartnell stories, WNED screens The Trial of a Time Lord, as four "movie-length" installments.

1987 WNED completes its screening of the William Hartnell stories, and commences the Patrick Troughton stories.

30 May and 6 June 1987: The Seeds of Death screens, split into two "movies".
17 June and 24 June 1987: The War Games screens, split into two "movies".

March 1988: During the "FESTIVAL 88", on 8 March at 8.00pm and 12 March at 3.15pm, WNED aired Time and the Rani, plus an interview with Sylvester McCoy.
Summer 1988 In the summer of 1988, the first season of Sylvester McCoy stories air.

1989: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories are played for the second time, on Saturdays at 4.00pm.

30 December 1989: The final edition of Doctor Who to screen on WNED airs - The Space Museum.

Media

CLIP: 1988 PROMO
CLIP: 1988 WNED PLEDGE BREAK
CLIP: JOHN NATHAN-TURNER & JANET FIELDING PROMO
CLIP: Various clips including The Ambassadors of Death in color
CLIP: WNED: POWER OF KROLL announcement

New York City

Note: airdates for channels in the New York City area are incomplete due to spotty coverage in the New York Times. Your help is needed: BroaDWcast@hotmail.com

WOR

Variety, 16 August 1978

WOR was one of the first stations to purchase the Tom Baker stories

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Channel 9 (Independent)

June 1978: WOR was selected by Time Life Television to be one of its guinea-pigs to test a new series that Time Life had on offer from the BBC... In June 1978, WOR aired an omnibus edition of The Hand of Fear...
7 October 1978: At 6.30pm, Tom Baker makes his debut in New York State.
Stories aired in production order, so The Sontaran Experiment preceded The Ark in Space.

From 6 January 1979, the series shifted to the earlier time of 5.00pm, but was often pre-empted by baseball.

From August 1982, to October 1983, two episodes aired back to back with commercial breaks, Saturdays between 10:00am and 11:00am.

5 February 1983: Revenge of the Cybermen episodes 2 and 3 aired. The Howard Da Silva prints were still being used at this point.

By February 1991, Doctor Who had been dropped.

TV Guide, listing for "Robot", part 1; 7 October 1978

18 November 1978, The Ark in Space Part 1; New York Post

Review of Doctor Who, from Variety Magazine, 25 October 1978

Ad for WOR-TV from Broadcasting magazine, 5 February 1979 - The Doctor and Leela are at the 8 o'clock position...

Ad for WOR-TV, TV Guide, 7 October 1978

Feb. 5, 1983. With Howard DaSilva voiceover, WOR announcer, and Time-Life logo.

WNYC

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Channel 31 (PBS)

2 September 1985: Began airing Doctor Who daily at 10:30pm.

1986: WNYC screened the 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories, five Patrick Troughton stories and 24 Jon Pertwee stories, on Fridays, in omnibus editions, usually from 9.00 to 10.30pm.

When Resurrection of the Daleks aired in its omnibus "movie" version on WNYC, it was complete: most editions of this story seen elsewhere in the US had sections of music and special effects missing.

January 1988: Apart from Time and the Rani, which aired in the first month of 1988, WNYC never screened any stories beyond Revelation of the Daleks.

Garden City / Long Island

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WLIW

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Channel 21 (PBS) (networked with WLIU)

6 February 1984: The Tom Baker stories commence, weekdays at 7.00pm.

Genesis of the Daleks aired the week of 20 February 1984.
Image of the Fendahl aired from 4 June 1984.
The Sun Makers aired from 8 June 1984.

1986: The series screened episodically weekdays, at 6.30pm, with a late night omnibus edition on Sundays.
7 December 1986: Sunday night compilations replace the daily airings.
1987: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories, five Patrick Troughton stories and 24 Jon Pertwee stories aired.

15 August 1987 The War Games is broadcast in its entirety, 6-11pm. Pledge breaks occurred between episodes: after episode one; after episode two; after episode five (including interview with Sylvester McCoy; and after episode ten.
29 February 1992: WLIW drops the series.