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Sci-Fi Channel flyer
Fox TV Movie poster ad, May 1996

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  • Late 1992: The newly-recovered Patrick Troughton story is added to the syndication package, increasing the number of available second Doctor stories from five to six:

PATRICK TROUGHTON (continued)

One story, 4 episodes:

MM The Tomb of the Cybermen 4


  • 24 September 1992: SCI-FI Channel launches. Promising to start with the William Hartnell stories, they instead show Tom Baker stories – again... For some peculiar reason, the package that Sci-Fi aired ended at The Androids of Tara part three, after which the series cycled back to Robot...
  • December 1993: By the end of the year, SCI-FI drops Doctor Who from its schedule.
  • 1994: More and more PBS stations do not renew their contracts. New Hampshire's WENH in Durham is the last station in New England to still be airing the series, eventually dropping it in June of 1994.
  • 1995-96: Production on the TV Movie commences.



SYLVESTER McCOY (continued)

PAUL McGANN

TV Movie, 84 minutes:

TVM The TV Movie 1
  • 14 May 1996: The TV Movie screens as the FOX TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE.
  • The TV Movie was to have been repeated on 31 December 1996, but it was pulled at the eleventh hour.



Beyond 1998...

  • By the turn of the millennium, sales of Doctor Who had all but dried up, and by 2001, Doctor Who faded from television screens in America...
  • 17 March 2006 to 2009: The NEW SERIES (the first four new series only) screens on Syfy.
  • In 2011, KBTC in Tacoma, Washington became the sole USA station screening "classic" episodes of Doctor Who...

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