New York

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:

Rochester

WXXI

Channel 21 (PBS)

• 1977: Circa February 1977, WXXI screened the Jon Pertwee stories.

• 1978: WXXI screened the Tom Baker stories from 1978.

• 1985: Channel 21 recycles stories from Robot to The Caves of Androzani daily at least twice.

• Circa 1987: The station aired the 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories, five Patrick Troughton stories and 24 Jon Pertwee stories.

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Buffalo

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WNED

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 by Tom Lundie, which were later instrumental in the reconstruction from black and white back into colour.

• 1979: The series aired weeknights at 6.00pm.

• 1982: Starting with the Peter Davison stories, the series moved to Saturdays.

• 1987: Part-way through the run of William Hartnell stories, WNED screens The Trial of a Time Lord; it is the first station in the US to screen this story.

• 1987 WNED completes its screening of the William Hartnell stories and Patrick Troughton stories by September 1987.

• 1990: In the 1990s, Doctor Who aired in omnibus movie form, Saturdays at 4.00pm. The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories were played for the second time during this run.

• 1991: By February 1991, Doctor Who had been dropped.

Media

• 1988 promo
• Commercial with John Nathan-Turner and Janet Fielding
• Various clips including The Ambassadors of Death in color

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New York City

WOR

Channel 9 (PBS)

• AIRDATES for WOR

• 1978: 7 October 1978, 6.30pm, Tom Baker makes his debut in New York State. WOR-TV (aka WWOR) was one of the earliest stations in the United States to broadcast the Tom Baker stories.

• Stories aired in production order, so The Sontaran Experiment proceeded The Ark in Space.

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

• 1982: From August 1982 to October 1983, two episodes aired back to back, Saturdays between 10.00am and 11.00am.

• 1983: The series aired in one-hour slots, at 10.00pm on Saturdays.

• 1991: By February 1991, Doctor Who had been dropped.

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Entertainment Channel

Channel (number unknown) (Cable)

• 1982: This cable channel was one of the first to screen the Peter Davison stories from 1982.

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WNYC

Channel 31 (Ion Television Network)

• 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.

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Sci-Fi Channel

Cable (part of "USA Network")

The new SCI-FI Channel buys the rights to Doctor Who, initially just the 106 available William Hartnell stories and Patrick Troughton stories. However, by the time the station goes to air in September 1992, the senior management had changed. The 106 black and white episodes were instead swapped for 106 Tom Baker stories, resulting in the cycle of episodes cycling from Robot part one to midway through season 16, then back to Robot...

• 24 September 1992: The SCI-FI Channel launches, Thursday, 24 September, at 8.00pm (EST). Included in its regular schedules is Doctor Who, to be screened from 12.00 to 1.00pm, six days week. The hour-long timeslot is to allow for the episodes to screen uncut, but with ads and short programming filling the rest of the hour. That episode was then to be repeated at 1.00am.

• The station cites that due to contractual reasons are not able to screen the Jon Pertwee stories or Tom Baker stories, and that it will run the series from the very beginning, starting with An Unearthly Child – HOWEVER the first story to screen is Robot!

• Midway through season 16, the series looped back to Robot. This "jump" subsequently occurred two more times.

• 1993, November: As part of a three-day 30th Anniversary "Event", The Five Doctors – the only non-Tom Baker story to screen on SCI-FI – K9 and Company and "The Making of Silver Nemesis documentary are aired - SIX times!

• December 1993: SCI-FI channel drops Doctor Who.

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Garden City / Long Island

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WLIW

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. By December the weekly screenings had ended, leaving only the Sunday omnibus editions, at 7.00 to 9.00pm.

• 1987: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories, five Patrick Troughton stories and 24 Jon Pertwee stories aired.

• PLEDGE / PROMO: 1987 PLEDGE DRIVE (This promo aired after The War Games.)

• 1992: WLIW drops the series.

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Schenectady

WMHT

Channel 17 (Educational Telecommunications)

• 1987: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories and five Patrick Troughton stories aired.

• 1987: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories aired, with a repeat in 1989.

• 1992: The recently recovered The Tomb of the Cybermen screens.

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Binghamton

WSKG

Channel 46 (PBS)

• 1988: Screened the 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories in 1988.

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Syracuse

WCNY

Channel 24 (PBS)

• 1978: The Tom Baker stories screen.

• 1989: screened the 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories circa 1989.

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Plattsburgh

WCFE

Channel 57 (PBS) (Mountain Lake PB)

• 1989: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories aired circa 1989.

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Champion Hill / Norwood

WNPE / WNPI

Channel 16 (PBS)

• 1980s: screened episodes in the late 1980s.

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Unknown Channel

• 1980s: In the mid-1980s, a New York based station on channel 50 screened the series episodically on a weekly basis, with a complete 'movie' Saturday nights.

Links

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