New York

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:

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Rochester

WXXI

Channel 21 (PBS)

• 11 October 1976: The Jon Pertwee stories began, daily at 6:30pm.

• 1978: WXXI screened the Tom Baker stories from 1978.
• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.
• 1985: Channel 21 recycles stories from Robot to The Caves of Androzani daily at least twice.

• 1989: As part of a pledge drive, WXXI-TV showed the documentary Doctor Who's Who's Who as a lead-in to the season premiere Remembrance of the Daleks.

• 1989: The station aired the 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories, five Patrick Troughton stories and 24 Jon Pertwee stories, followed by the other Doctors.

• 1989-1992: It took three years to play all the surviving installments of the entire series. This would be WXXI's last-ever complete run of the entire series...

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

• 1979: The series airs weeknights at 6.00pm.

• 1982: Peter Davison stories commence in movie format on Saturday afternoons. Repeats of older serial continue screening weekdays.

• 1983: The Monday to Thursday weekday slot moves to 11.00pm.

• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.

• 1984: The Monday to Thursday weekday slot moves back to 6.00pm, when the 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories air.

• 10 October 1986: The weekday episodic re-runs come to an end in the fall of 1986 with part six of The Invasion of Time.
• From Saturday, 11 October 1986, only "movie" format editions screen (starting with The Ribos Operation).

• 13 December 1986: During a pledge drive, WNED screens Revelation of the Daleks, the Doctor Who's Who's Who documentary and An Unearthly Child. The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories commence on Saturday afternoons.

• 7,14,21,28 March 1987: Part-way through the run of William Hartnell stories, WNED screens The Trial of a Time Lord, as four "movie-length" installments.

• 1987 WNED completes its screening of the William Hartnell stories, and commences the Patrick Troughton stories.

• 30 May and 6 June 1987: The Seeds of Death screens, split into two "movies".
• 17 June and 24 June 1987: The War Games screens, split into two "movies".

• March 1988: During the "FESTIVAL 88", on 8 March at 8.00pm and 12 March at 3.15pm, WNED aired Time and the Rani, plus an interview with Sylvester McCoy.
• Summer 1988 In the summer of 1988, the first season of Sylvester McCoy stories air.

• 1989: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories are played for the second time, on Saturdays at 4.00pm.

• 30 December 1989: The final edition of Doctor Who to screen on WNED airs - The Space Museum.

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

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New York City

Ad for WOR-TV, TV Guide, 7 October 1978

Ad for WOR-TV from Broadcasting magazine, 5 February 1979 - The Doctor and Leela are at the 8 o'clock position...

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WOR

Channel 9 (Independent)

• June 1978: WOR was selected by Time Life Television to be one of its guinea-pigs to test a new series that Time Life had on offer from the BBC... In June 1978, WOR aired an omnibus edition of The Hand of Fear...

• 7 October 1978: At 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 preceded The Ark in Space.

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

• 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, from 10.00am on Saturday mornings.

• By February 1991, Doctor Who had been dropped.

TV Guide, listing for "Robot", part 1; 7 October 1978 18 November 1978, The Ark in Space Part 1; New York Post

Review of Doctor Who, from Variety Magazine, 25 October 1978

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WNYC

Channel 31 (PBS)

• 2 September 1985: Began airing Doctor Who daily at 10:30pm.

• 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.

• When Resurrection of the Daleks aired in its omnibus "movie" version on WNYC, it was complete: most editions of this story seen elsewhere in the US had sections of music and special effects missing.

• January 1988: Apart from Time and the Rani, which aired in the first month of 1988, WNYC never screened any stories beyond Revelation of the Daleks.

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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.

• 15 August 1987 The War Games is broadcast in its entirety, 6-11pm. The pledge break between episodes 1 and 2 is here.

• 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)

• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.

• 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 screened.

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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)

• 11 June 1979: The Tom Baker stories screen begin airing daily at 6:00pm.
• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.
• 1989: Screened the 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories circa 1989.

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Plattsburgh

WCFE

Channel 57 (PBS) (Mountain Lake PBS)

• 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.
• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.

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