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[[File:USABus.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Doctor Who USA Tour Trailer leaves Elstree Studios, UK, to begin its voyage to the US...]]
[[File:USA Tour.JPG|right|200px|Doctor Who USA Tour]]


<span style="font-size:200%;">'''1986'''</span>

'''8 May 1986''': With BBC One Controller, Michael Grade, and Peter Davison at its inauguration, the '''Doctor Who USA Tour''' trailer "bus" sets off from [[Washington DC]] to begin its two-year, multi-city tour (two cities per week). It is hoped that most of the 185 markets where '''Doctor Who''' is screened across America will be visited. Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sarah Sutton all take part at various legs of the journey during the first year. Some of the city visits coincide with [[List of Conventions in the United States|organised conventions]]. 
**Interviews with Grade and BBC representative, Brian Sloman appear in Starlog 113
* '''May to August 1986''': On its first leg within New England, the tour visits (in roughly this order) [[Pennsylvania]] (in late May), [[New Jersey]], [[New York]] and [[Maine]].
** '''13-28 September 1986''': The Tour heads south, visiting (in no particular order) [[Massachusetts]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Maryland]],  [[Washington DC]], then north west, to [[Illinois]]. (The two Bakers travelled together during September, attending various Whovent 86 [[List of Conventions in the United States|conventions]] along the way.)
**'''27-28 September 1986''': Parmatown Strip Center, Parma, Ohio (near [[Cleveland]]).
**'''4 October 1986''': Colin Baker and Patrick Troughton travel on to [[Minnesota]]
*** [http://www.michaell.org/who/conclips/whotour86.phtml USA TOUR in MINNESOTA, October 1986 1]
*** [http://www.michaell.org/who/conclips/whotour286.phtml USA TOUR in MINNESOTA, October 1986 2]
**'''5 October 1986''': The tour reaches Madison, [[Wisconsin]], again with Colin Baker and Patrick Troughton.
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*'''October to December 1986''': The Tour moves south through [[Tennessee]] with Jon Pertwee, who falls ill; he is accompanied by Paul Darrow and Michael Keating from '''Blakes 7''' for part of the journey.


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<span style="font-size:200%;">'''1987'''</span>
*By early 1987, the Tour has been renamed the '''Doctor Who Celebration & Tour 87-88''', with at least '''36''' States on its itinerary.
[[File:USATourMap.jpg|right|thumb|700px|Map showing States and cities visited by the 87-88 leg of the tour]]
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[[File:USATour8788.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Doctor Who Celebration & Tour 87-88]]
[[File:GA 19870301.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Live from Atlanta, 7 March 1987]]

*'''February 1987''': The trailer reaches [[Florida]]. 
**'''8 February 1987''': The trailer stops in Tampa, [[Florida]], with Peter Davison.
**'''21-21 February 1987''': The Tour comes to DisneyWorld in Orlando, [[Florida]], with Jon Pertwee.
**'''22-28 February 1987''': The trailer heads northwards again: Pertwee makes stops in [[Louisiana]], and Birmingham, [[Alabama]], before heading to [[Georgia]] later the same day. 
***[http://www.richardwho.com/exhibitions/USATour/19870228/index.asp USA TOUR in ALABAMA, 28 February 1987] 
**'''28 February 1987''': That evening, at Mercer University in Atlanta, [[Georgia]], Pertwee is joined by new Doctor Sylvester McCoy, and producer John Nathan-Turner. McCoy is interviewed by Eric Luskin:
***'''[https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-120/120?ui=embed#page/n11/mode/2up Interview with Sylvester McCoy in Starlog 120]'''
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**'''7 March 1987''': Footage from Pertwee's visit aired with the '''[[Live from Atlanta]]''' TV "Special". 
*'''March 1987''': The Tour heads north east. 
**'''26-27 March 1987''': Anthony Ainley and Janet Fielding call in at Baltimore, [[Maryland]]. 
**'''16-17 May 1987''': The Tour stops at the WGBH studios in Boston, [[Massachusetts]], with Sylvester McCoy (who has just completed recording [[Time and the Rani]]). On the night of 17 May, a special "Dinner With the Doctor" is held. 
*** [http://mittenthief.tumblr.com/post/8451828067/my-program-from-the-doctor-who-celebration-tour USA TOUR 15 MAY 1987 PROGRAMME]
**'''4-5 July 1987''': Heading north west, the Tour stops again at [[Chicago]]. (There are no guests during this leg of the tour.)
**'''1 August 1987''': Westbound, the Tour arrives in [[Iowa]], with Janet Fielding.
{{YouTube|float=left|id=aYRN5EFc_ZA}}<br/>'''CLIP: USA TOUR in IOWA 1 August 1987'''
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*'''August to September 1987''': The trailer heads north west, stopping in [[Washington]] state. 
**'''9 September 1987''': His work on season 24 completed, Sylvester McCoy rejoins the tour, and the trailer travels south, and arrives in Los Angeles, [[California]].  
**'''3 October 1987''': Jon Pertwee visits San Jose, [[California]]. 
*'''October 1987''': Heading east again, [[Arizona]], [[New Mexico]], [[Colorado]] (Denver), [[Texas]] are visited. 
*'''November 1987''': The Tour stops in [[Oklahoma]] and [[Arkansas]] (with Pertwee). 
**'''5-6 December 1987''': The Tour reaches Jackson, [[Mississippi]]. 


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<span style="font-size:200%;">'''1988'''</span>

*'''1988''': The Tour once again heads north. 
**'''Early 1988''': The Tour takes Sylvester McCoy to Urbana, [[Illinois]], and north to [[Maine]].
**Eventually, the bus heads towards the east coast again, where, after two years on the road, and having visited some 180+ locations, the Tour comes to an end. 
**The trailer itself is eventually returned to the UK - and left to rot in a junkyard...



==General Coverage of the Tour (External links)==
* [http://www.banningathletics.com/doctorwho/id18.html USA TOUR 1986 PHOTOS 1]
* [http://www.richardwho.com/exhibitions/USATour/1986/index.asp USA TOUR 1986 PHOTOS 2]
* [http://whona.realtvboard.com/t5499-dr-who-usa-tour-in-the-80s USA TOUR 1986 PHOTOS 3]
* [http://www.drwhoexhibitions.co.uk/usatour.htm USA TOUR OVERVIEW - and the sad fate of the Trailer...].
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