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*BBC documentation records a sale of [[Jon Pertwee stories]] to '''"KGTV"''' by '''March 1974''', but despite our searching local TV listings from 1972 to 1974, we could find no evidence that '''Doctor Who''' had screened on any San Diego station. But it's possible this record is a misspelling of '''"KGTF"''', the station in [[Guam]] which '''did''' screen the series from 1972 to 1974.
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*BBC documentation records a sale of [[Jon Pertwee stories]] to '''"KGTV"''' by '''March 1974''', but despite our searching local TV listings from 1972 to 1974, we could find no evidence that '''Doctor Who''' had screened on that, or any other San Diego station. But it's possible this record is a misspelling of '''"KGTF"''', the station in [[Guam]] which '''did''' screen the series from 1972 to 1974, and which is '''not''' recorded in that same BBC documentation.  
  
 
*If the series did not air in San Diego in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, that makes it the largest US TV market to never show '''Doctor Who'''.
 
*If the series did not air in San Diego in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, that makes it the largest US TV market to never show '''Doctor Who'''.

Revision as of 21:22, 3 March 2012

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:


San Francisco

KRON

Airdates in San Francisco (KRON)
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Channel 4 (NBC)


Oakland Tribune, Sept. 19, 1973
TV listing for KRON, 1974

KQED

Channel 9 (PBS)


  • 1980s: aired Wednesdays 8.00-8.30pm and Saturday night marathons (credits in tact)



Los Angeles

Radio Times, 14-20 November 1992, promoting the colourised repeat
first airing, July 1, 1975
Note the quotation from the Philadelphia Inquirer describing the first-ever airing in the US

KCET

Airdates in Los Angeles (KCET)
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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.


Dr Who Debuts! 1 July 1975
The Ambassadors of Death, August 1975
Inferno, Part 7, 18 November 1975
Los Angeles loves Doctor Who! (Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1975)
An opposing viewpoint (Long Beach Press-Telegram, 1 July 1975)
The Mind of Evil, Part 1, 23 December 1975
The Mind of Evil, Part 6, 3 February 1976
The Claws of Axos, Part 1, 17 February 1976
The Claws of Axos, Part 4, 9 March 1976
The Daemons, Part 1, 23 March 1976
The Daemons, April 1976
  • 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 Baker's 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.
  • 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.




KBSC

Airdates in Los Angeles (KBSC)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

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.


Listing for the first airing on KBSC, 2 Oct 1978 (Los Angeles Times)
Listing for the first airing on KBSC, 2 Oct 1978 (Los Angeles Times)
Promo card for KBSC using artwork by Tom Crabtree



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 HERE.


Los Angeles Metro

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Fresno

Channel unknown

  • In the 16 August 1978 issue of Variety magazine (see United States--1978), "FRESNO" is listed as being one of 17 cities to have been sold the Tom Baker stories. We do not yet have any further details about these screenings; if you can assist with the station name and dates, please contact us.


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San Jose

KTEH ad promoting Doctor Who and a special interview with John Nathan-Turner
Happy Birthday to WHO!' TV Guide, November 1983

KTEH

Airdates in San Jose (KTEH)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.)
  • 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 HERE

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Redding

KIXE

Channel 9 (PBS)




Sacramento

KVIE

Channel 6 (PBS)



  • 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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Sonoma County

KRCB

Channel 23 (PBS)

  • June 1996: Airing compilations Saturday nights at 10pm.



San Diego?

KGTV?

Channel 10 (NBC)


  • BBC documentation records a sale of Jon Pertwee stories to "KGTV" by March 1974, but despite our searching local TV listings from 1972 to 1974, we could find no evidence that Doctor Who had screened on that, or any other San Diego station. But it's possible this record is a misspelling of "KGTF", the station in Guam which did screen the series from 1972 to 1974, and which is not recorded in that same BBC documentation.
  • If the series did not air in San Diego in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, that makes it the largest US TV market to never show Doctor Who.



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