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'''Doctor Who''' aired in these cities, on these channels:
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==[[wikipedia:San Francisco| San Francisco]]==
 
===[[wikipedia:KRON|KRON]]===
 
 
 
{{airdates-left|San Francisco (KRON)}}
 
 
 
'''Channel 4 (NBC)'''
 
 
 
 
 
*'''22 September 1973''': '''Doctor Who''' debuts with the [[Jon Pertwee stories]], Saturdays at 6:30pm.
 
 
 
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  <td>[[File:SF 19730919.JPG|thumb|250px|Oakland Tribune, Sept. 19, 1973]]</td>
 
  <td>[[File:KRON San Fran 74.JPG|thumb|200px|TV listing for KRON, 1974]]</td>
 
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===[[wikipedia:KQED (TV)|KQED]]===
 
 
 
 
 
'''Channel 9 (PBS)'''
 
 
 
 
 
*'''1980s''': aired Wednesdays 8.00-8.30pm and Saturday night marathons (credits in tact)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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==[[wikipedia:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]]==
 
 
 
 
 
[[File:RT 19921114.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Radio Times, 14-20 November 1992, promoting the colourised repeat]]
 
===[[wikipedia:KCET|KCET]]===
 
 
 
{{airdates-left|Los Angeles (KCET)}}
 
 
 
'''Channel 28 (PBS)'''
 
 
 
 
 
*'''1 July 1975''': '''Doctor Who''' makes its Californian debut on channel 28 on 1 July 1975 (screening daily at 7.30pm), with the [[Jon Pertwee stories]]. (The ''LA Times'' billings describes the Doctor as being an "eccentric secret agent"!)
 
 
 
*[[The Mind of Evil]] screens from '''23 December 1975 to 3 February 1976'''; off-air video recordings from episode six made by Tom Lundie become the only existing colour recording of the serial, which exists in the BBC archives only as black and white film prints.
 
 
 
* '''April 1976''': [[The Daemons]] airs. Off-air video-recordings of the transmissions later enable the BBC to restore the serial to colour.
 
 
 
 
 
{| {{small-table}}
 
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|[[File:KCET Debut.JPG|thumb|150px|Dr Who Debuts! 1 July 1975]]||[[File:KCET Ambass.JPG|thumb|150px|The Ambassadors of Death, August 1975]]||[[File:KCET Inferno.JPG|thumb|150px|Inferno, Part 7, 18 November 1975]] || rowspan="3" | [[File:LA Times Jul 75.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Los Angeles loves Doctor Who! (Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1975)]]
 
[[File:LA 19750701.JPG|thumb|right|200px|An opposing viewpoint (Long Beach Press-Telegram, 1 July 1975)]]
 
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|[[File:KCET Mind 1.JPG|thumb|150px|The Mind of Evil, Part 1, 23 December 1975]]|||[[File:KCET Mind 6.JPG|thumb|150px|The Mind of Evil, Part 6, 3 February 1976]]||[[File:KCET Axos.JPG|thumb|150px|The Claws of Axos, Part 1, 17 February 1976]]
 
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|[[File:KCET Axos - pledge.JPG|thumb|150px|The Claws of Axos, Part 4, 9 March 1976]]||[[File:KCET Daemons 1.JPG|thumb|150px|The Daemons, Part 1, 23 March 1976]]||[[File:KCET Daemons.JPG|thumb|150px|The Daemons, April 1976]]
 
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*'''29 January 1977''': The series is dropped until 1983. During the hiatus, [[KBSC]] screens the Tom Baker series.
 
*'''3 December 1983''': After a six year break, KCET picks up '''Doctor Who''' again with [[The Five Doctors]], but passes on the nationwide broadcast.
 
*'''7 January 1984''': The [[Tom Baker stories]] commence their run, and air for several years on a repeat cycle.
 
*'''1984''': The reissued 14 colour [[Jon Pertwee stories]] air.
 
*'''9 March 1985''': [[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]] airs for the second and last time.  KCET pulls the episode after complaints from the Asian-American community.  It doesn't air during [[Tom Bakers]] three other runs.
 
*'''1986-1987''': Omnibus editions air, Saturdays, usually 1.00 to 2.30pm.
 
*'''1987''': The [[Peter Davison stories]] air.
 
 
 
*'''9 October 1987''': Sylvester McCoy visits with the '''Doctor Who''' Tour (parked at Plummer Park, on Santa Monica Boulevard).
 
*'''31 October 1987''': The [[Colin Baker stories]] commence. During 1987, the series screened Saturdays, at 1.00pm.
 
 
 
*'''1988''': The 24 repackaged [[Jon Pertwee stories]] aired, with a repeat in '''1991'''.
 
 
 
*'''1989''': The first run of [[Sylvester McCoy stories]] airs.
 
*'''1990''': Compilation editions air Saturday mornings, sometimes from 10.50am.
 
*'''1992''': During 1992, the series airs in omnibus editions from 9.00am to 10.30am on Saturday mornings.
 
*'''1993''': During 1993, the series airs in 90 minute omnibus editions from 8.00am to 9.30am on Saturday mornings, although in November and December, the timeslot is reduced to only one hour.
 
 
 
*'''18 December 1993''': KCET drops '''Doctor Who'''.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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===[[wikipedia:KVEA|KBSC]]===
 
{{airdates-left|Los Angeles (KBSC)}}
 
'''Channel 52 (Independent)'''
 
 
 
*'''2 October 1978''': Aired '''Doctor Who''' from 2 October, playing the series weeknights at 6.30pm - often out of sequence - for at least THREE runs into the early 1980s, before dropping the series when the station changed into a Spanish language station. 
 
 
 
* During '''1979''', the series aired ten times a week in the early evenings.
 
 
 
<!--*[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]] was pulled after its first airing due to complaints from the Asian-American community.  (Shaun Lyon, Chicago TARDIS, Nov. 28, 2010)-->
 
 
 
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[[File:KBSC LA.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Listing for the first airing on KBSC, 2 Oct 1978 (Los Angeles Times)]]
 
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[[File:KBSC.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Listing for the first airing on KBSC, 2 Oct 1978 (Los Angeles Times)]]
 
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[[File:KBSCcard.JPG|300px|right|thumb|Promo card for KBSC using artwork by Tom Crabtree]]  </td>
 
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=== Fandom ===
 
 
 
* '''1 December 1979''': Tom Baker, Graham Williams and Terrance Dicks attend the '''first ever''' US '''Doctor Who''' convention in Los Angeles.
 
 
 
* A full account of the History of Doctor Who Fandom in Los Angeles can be read [http://www.gallifreyone.com/prehistory.php HERE].
 
 
 
 
 
=== Los Angeles Metro ===
 
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||[[File:LAMetro2.JPG|right|thumb|250px]]||[[File:LA Metro.JPG|right|thumb|250px]]
 
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* On the tiles decorating the 7th Street / Metro Center station of the Los Angeles Metro underground train system, can be found a number of very familiar creatures: a Menoptra ([[The Web Planet]]); Koquillion ([[The Rescue]]), and two Daleks.
 
 
 
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==[[wikipedia:San Diego| San Diego]]==
 
 
 
===[[wikipedia:KGTV|KGTV]]?===
 
 
 
 
 
'''Channel 10 (NBC)'''
 
 
 
 
 
*'''1974''':  BBC documentation records a sale of [[Jon Pertwee stories]] to '''"KGTV"''' by 1974, but it's possible this is a mis-spelling of '''"KGTF"''', the station in [[Guam]] which '''did''' screen the series from 1972 to 1974.  '''Doctor Who''' did not air in San Diego in the 1980s or 1990s, making it the largest US TV market to never show '''Doctor Who'''.
 
 
 
 
 
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==[[wikipedia:Redding, California|Redding]]==
 
 
 
===[[wikipedia:KIXE|KIXE]]===
 
 
 
 
 
'''Channel 9 (PBS)'''
 
 
 
 
 
*'''15 April 1981''': The [[Tom Baker stories]] begin, Wednesdays at 8pm.
 
 
 
*'''1988''': The 24 repackaged [[Jon Pertwee stories]] aired circa 1988.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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==[[wikipedia:Sacramento|Sacramento]]==
 
 
 
===[[wikipedia:KVIE|KVIE]]===
 
 
 
 
 
'''Channel 6 (PBS)'''
 
 
 
 
 
* PROMOS / PLEDGES: [http://gallifreybase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24361&highlight=Justified+Ancient+American+Fans+Thread Sacramento Pledge Drives (ph 916-929-5843)]
 
 
 
 
 
*'''1987''': The [[Tom Baker stories]] air; [[The Deadly Assassin]] screens on '''14 March 1987'''.
 
 
 
*'''1989''': The 24 repackaged [[Jon Pertwee stories]] aired.
 
 
 
*'''1990s''': KVIE produces its own on-air introductions for the Hartnell and Troughton episodes, featuring station staff and volunteers, usually in costume. Often the intros explained what had happened to the regular characters in the stories that could not be screened (i.e they were missing or incomplete).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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==[[wikipedia:San Jose|San Jose]]==
 
 
 
[[File:Whos_on_54.jpg|thumb|200px|KTEH ad promoting Doctor Who and a special interview with John Nathan-Turner]]
 
[[File:Birthday Who.jpg|thumb|200px|Happy Birthday to WHO!' TV Guide, November 1983]]
 
===[[wikipedia:KTEH|KTEH]]===
 
 
 
{{airdates-left|San Jose (KTEH)}}
 
 
 
'''Channel 54 (PBS)  (also available in Santa Cruz)'''
 
 
 
 
 
*'''13 April 1981''': '''Doctor Who''' commences its run on KTEH, five days a week; KTEH is the '''third''' station in the Bay Area to screen the series.
 
 
 
*'''1982''': Omnibus versions commenced on Saturday nights while episodes continue to run daily.
 
 
 
*By mid '''1983''': The [[Peter Davison stories]] begin screening Saturday nights to lead in to the networked screening of [[The Five Doctors]] on '''23 November 1983'''.
 
 
 
*At 8.10pm (on 23 November 1983?) channel 54 screened a 40 minute [[An Interview with Tom Baker]].
 
 
 
*'''23 November 1983''': [[The Five Doctors]] airs, at 8.50pm.
 
 
 
*'''1984''': The 14 available full colour [[Jon Pertwee stories]] air. The series airs weeknights at 7.30pm, with an omnibus "movie" edition on Saturdays at 11.15pm.
 
 
 
* By '''November 1984''' the 11.15pm Saturday screenings had reached the [[Peter Davison stories]] - [[Arc of Infinity]] aired '''10 November 1984'''.
 
 
 
* KTEH generally airs two 'movie' compilations per week.
 
 
 
*'''1985''': The repackaged colour / black and white [[Jon Pertwee stories]] air around this time, and repeated in '''1991''' and '''1992'''.
 
 
 
*'''16 September 1985''': The [[Tom Baker stories]] are recycled again, weekdays at 7.30pm. Omnibus editions also screen Saturday evening ([[Nightmare of Eden]] screened '''14 September 1985'''.)
 
 
 
*'''1986''': The [[Colin Baker stories]] and repackaged 17 [[William Hartnell stories]] air.
 
 
 
*'''February 1987''': The repackaged five [[Patrick Troughton stories]] screen. [[The War Games]] screens the very week that Troughton dies in Columbus, [[Georgia]].
 
 
 
*'''November 1988''': The [[Sylvester McCoy stories]] go to air.
 
 
 
*'''1992''': The recently recovered [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]] screens.
 
 
 
*'''January 2003''': KTEH's almost uninterrupted run of '''Doctor Who''' came to an end in January of this year.
 
 
 
* A more detailed account of KTEH's broadcast history of '''Doctor Who''' can be found [http://blogs.kteh.org/doctorwho/history-of-doctor-who-on-kteh/ HERE]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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==[[wikipedia:Sonoma County|Sonoma County]]==
 
===[[wikipedia:KRCB|KRCB]]===
 
 
 
'''Channel 23 (PBS)'''
 
 
 
*'''June 1996''': Airing compilations Saturday nights at 10pm.
 
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