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Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:


Chicago

flier to prompt WTTW to buy more Pertwee episodes

WTTW

Channel 11 (PBS)

  • 29 September 1975: Doctor Who make its debut in Chicago, screening weekdays at 6.30pm. The first serial to air is The Mutants. Serials continue to air out of order .
  • From January 1976, random stories are repeated even though there are first-run stories still yet to screen. (The Curse of Peladon does not screen.)
  • 7-10 March 1977: A repeat of Terror of the Autons is the only story to air in 1977. The only known surviving colour copy of this serial was recorded by at least two fans, which were later used by the Restoration Team to colourise the story.
  • 11 February 1980: The Tom Baker stories make their Chicago debut; the first story is in fact the last, The Invasion of Time! Episodes air weekdays at 5.30pm. Stories are cycled through twice.
  • 1982: From 2 October, omnibus editions screen weekly on Saturdays to compete with WOR's broadcasts, so there are two different cycles of Baker airing at the same time.
  • 12 June 1983: A package of just the extant full colour Jon Pertwee stories commences, including several stories only just recently recovered from Canada.
  • 23 November 1983: The US premiere of The Five Doctors airs, two days before it aired in the UK. Chicago had not yet seen season 20 before the airing.
  • 24 November 1984: Season 20 and 21 begin.
  • 1984-86: Repeats of Baker, Pertwee and Davison episodes.
  • 8 December 1986: The the newly acquired Jon Pertwee package airs nightly, interrupted by pledge breaks. The Curse of Peladon is aired on WTTW for the first time during this run.
  • 1988-1991: More repeats, but Season 20 is dropped after Terminus in favour of full colour Pertwee stories. The first 23 Tom Baker stories air for their tenth time. The repeat run ends on 1 September 1991 with The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. Doctor Who had been screening virtually non-stop from February 1980 through to September 1991...
  • Doctor Who is absent from WTTW for the next five years...
  • July 1996: A series of selected repeats leads into the debut screening of season 26 on 25 August. However, WTTW does not screen Battlefield.
  • 8 September 1996: Survival is the final episode of Doctor Who to air on WTTW...

Media


Fanzines and fan clubs

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Peoria

WTVP

Channel 47 (PBS)


  • 1988: The 24 repackaged Jon Pertwee stories screen from early, with a repeat in the early 1990s.

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Urbana

WILL

Channel 12 (PBS) (University of Illinois)

Airdates in Champaign (WILL)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)
  • 1984: Time Magazine (9 January 1984) runs a story about Doctor Who, referring to 10,000 students at the University of Illinois watching the series on the campus PBS station : TIME MAGAZINE
  • By February 1991, Doctor Who had been dropped.

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Carbondale

WSIU

Channel 8 (PBS) (Southern Illinois University)

  • Details of screenings unknown.

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Charleston

WEIU

Channel 51 (PBS) (Eastern Illinois University)

  • Began after WILL stopped its run.

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