Wisconsin Educational Television Network

WPT Program Guide, Nov. 1984

Wisconsin Public Television
Network: PBS	Channel(s): see below
First airing: 1983	Last airing:
== AIRDATES ==

Channel 21 (WHA, Madison) Channel 28 (WHWC, Menomonie) Channel 38 (WPNE, Green Bay)

Channel 20 (WHRM, Wausau) Channel 36 (WLEF, Park Falls) Channel 31 (WHLA, La Crosse)

• 18 March 1983: Doctor Who begins on WPT with two episodes and Once Upon a Time Lord.
• 25 March 1983: The series begins its regular timeslot, Friday nights at 10:30.
• 4 September 1983: The series moves to Sunday afternoons at 5:00.
• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors airs.
• 9-10 March 1985: A 26-hour Marathon of ten Jon Pertwee stories, including four "new" ones that had not been previously released for the US market, aired on WHA-TV on 9 and 10 March 1985. The four "new" stories were: Spearhead from Space, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, Invasion of the Dinosaurs (in five parts only), which had recently been released by the BBC as part of a complete re-package of all 24 Pertwee adventures. The Illinois/Wisconsin area TV Guide previewed the Marathon with a half-page 'ad'. This 'ad' was subsequently used in a flyer at TJ's Comics near Chicago urging local fans to contact the programming department at channel 11. (It wasn't until 1986/87 that WTTW aired these four new stories.)
• May 1987: The series moves from its regular 4pm Sunday afternoon slot to Saturdays at 10am.
• 10 October 1987: All 14 episodes of The Trial of a Time Lord air back to back, from 10am to 6pm, with pledge breaks in between the episodes.
• 3 September 1989: The series moves to Sundays at 11pm with yet another recycling of the Tom Baker stories starting with Robot. (Incidentally, the series was preceded by Blakes's 7 at 10pm.) It stays in this 11pm slot for the next three years.
• 19 August 1990: The package of 24 reissued Jon Pertwee stories commence.
• 17 March 1991: After the Pertwees, a run of Peter Davison stories commence, followed by Colin Baker from 28 July 1991, and Sylvester McCoy from 13 October 1991.
• 2 February 1992: A repeat of the Peter Davison stories begins.
• 5 July 1992: Colin Baker repeats start.
• 27 September 1992: Sylvester McCoy repeats.
• 20 December 1992: Survival, airs on WPTV. This appears to have been the final ever screening of Doctor Who on WPTV...

Madison Capital Times

Chicago flier noting Pertwee marathon in Madison

Wisconsin State Journal, Mar. 14, 1985

Wisconsin State Journal, May 30, 1986

• 2016: The Tom Baker stories air.

Media

CLIP: Whovent 86 commercial, PBS Pledges for WHA 1986 and 1987 (C Baker, Troughton, Davison, Strickson, JNT, McCoy)

WPT ident, Jan. 14?, 1991