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#REDIRECT [[West Palm Beach#WXEL]]
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| name = WXEL
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| network = PBS
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| channel = 42
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| firstAir = 1984
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| state = West Palm Beach
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| city = West Palm Beach
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| wikipedia = WXEL-TV
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*'''24 January 1984''':  The [[Tom Baker stories]] begin with [[Robot]].
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*'''1986''': The station screens the 24 repackaged [[Jon Pertwee stories]] and the [[Peter Davison]] era. But they drop the series at the end of the year.
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[[File:1998-11-28 South Florida Sun Sentinel.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Sun Sentinel, Nov. 28, 1998]]
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*'''30 July 1994''': After eight years with no '''Doctor Who''', WXEL schedules a special 6-hour screening of all the "regeneration" episodes - [[An Unearthly Child]] 1, [[The War Games]] 10, [[Spearhead from Space]] 1, [[Planet of the Spiders]] 6, [[Robot]] 1, [[Logopolis]] 4, [[Castrovalva]] 1, [[The Caves of Androzani]] 4, [[The Twin Dilemma]] 1, [[Time and the Rani]] 1.
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*'''July to September 1994''': WXEL screens four stories: [[The Time Meddler]], [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]], [[Terror of the Autons]], and [[The Ark in Space]] on Saturdays, two episodes per night from 10 to 11pm.
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*From '''late 1994 to mid-1995''', WXEL airs Jon Pertwee stories, two episodes per night from 10-11pm. This was followed from 11pm to midnight, by a separate run of random stories: [[The Chase]], [[The Mind Robber]], [[Day of the Daleks]], [[The Deadly Assassin]], [[Black Orchid]], [[Arc of Infinity]], [[The King's Demons]], [[Attack of the Cybermen]], [[Vengeance on Varos]], [[Battlefield]] and [[Ghost Light]].
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*'''17 December 1994''': As part of its December Pledge drive, WXEL is '''the first''' US station to show [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]] complete with the b/w copy of part one.
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*'''18 March 1995''': WXEL aired the documentaries [[30 Years in the TARDIS]] (twice!) and [[Visions: By Fans For Fans]] (for the first time?). The same night, a run of the Tom Baker stories from seasons 12-14 commenced ([[Robot]] to [[The Deadly Assassin]]), one full story showing weekly on Saturdays.
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*[[Visions: By Fans For Fans]] is repeated three more times between 1995 and 1996.
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*'''July - August 1995''': Mid-way through the run of Tom Baker stories, WXEL takes a break from the fourth Doctor and screens [[The Seeds of Death]], [[The Curse of Fenric]], and on '''12 August 1995''', all six episodes of [[Planet of the Daleks]], including one of the first-ever showings on US TV of the b/w part 3.
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*The remaining season 14 and 15 Tom Baker serials ([[The Face of Evil]] to [[The Invasion of Time]]) are shown, and the run concludes on '''4 November 1995'''.
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*'''11 November to 16 December 1995''': A run of random serials, including [[An Unearthly Child]], and multi-Doctor stories [[The Three Doctors]] and [[The Two Doctors]] (and maybe also [[The Five Doctors]]?).
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*'''9 December 1995''': [[K9 and Company]] airs, prior to that day's regular weekly story (which may have been [[The Five Doctors]]?).
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*'''1996''': Further Tom Baker serials from seasons 16-18 are shown.
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*'''29 March 1996''': Sylvester McCoy is the special guest during the "Seven Hours with the Seventh Doctor" pledge night, during which [[Remembrance of the Daleks]], [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]] and [[Silver Nemesis]] are shown.
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*Soon after Jon Pertwee's death on '''20 May 1996''', WXEL screened a special tribute to the actor:
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{{YouTube table |4Z7VIMTP1mA|'''WXEL Tribute'''}}
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*The 24 repackaged [[Jon Pertwee stories]] were then shown again as part of the tribute through until mid-1997.
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*'''23 August 1997''': [[Castrovalva]] is shown. (It's not clear, but this may have been a one-off and the ''only'' Davison serial to be shown.)
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*'''29 November 1998''': The station celebrated the series' 35th anniversary with a special event screening of two "fully restored" Pertwee stories (see newspaper clipping above).

Latest revision as of 17:22, 8 September 2021

WXEL
West Palm Beach
Network: PBS Channel(s): 42
First airing: 1984 Last airing:

== AIRDATES ==



Sun Sentinel, Nov. 28, 1998



WXEL Tribute
  • The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories were then shown again as part of the tribute through until mid-1997.
  • 23 August 1997: Castrovalva is shown. (It's not clear, but this may have been a one-off and the only Davison serial to be shown.)
  • 29 November 1998: The station celebrated the series' 35th anniversary with a special event screening of two "fully restored" Pertwee stories (see newspaper clipping above).