Iowa Public Television

Variety, 16 August 1978

IPBN was one of the first stations to purchase the Tom Baker stories

First Iowa listing for Dr Who, channel 12, 7:00pm, 6 April 1974

Tom Baker premiere, Oct. 2, 1978

1979

• 6 April 1974: Begins airing, Saturdays at 7:00pm on the Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network. After 26 weeks, the series goes off the air for a year and a half.
• 10 June 1976: Jon Pertwee reutrns, now Thursdays at 6pm. After moving to 5pm, the series takes another long break.
• 29 July 1976: The stations are renamed Iowa Public Broadcasting Network.
• 2 November 1977: Doctor Who returns, now Wednesdays at 5pm.
• 2 January 1978: One run of Jon Pertwee is stripped at 10pm.
• 11 April 1978: Both runs end.
• 1978: IPBN was the last US market to purchase the initial package of 13 Jon Pertwee stories, which was circa July 1978. (BBC documentation records this sale as being to "KDIN".)
• 2 October 1978: The Tom Baker stories commence at 10pm.
• 2 March 1979: The series goes off the air again.
• 1982: The network is renamed Iowa Public Television.
• 5 October 1984: IPT airs Doctor Who in the unique Friday-Sunday slot.
• late 1985: Tom Baker returns with two episodes each Friday night.
• 10 June 1986: The timeslot changes to Sundays through Friday nights. Several stories are skipped.
• 10 October 1986: IPT switches to compilations, Friday nights at 11:00.
• 14 April 1987: William Hartnell premieres.
• 1 August 1987: The travelling Doctor Who USA Tour with Janet Fielding visits Iowa Public Television.
• 13 October 1989: Episodes now air out of order.
• 24 November 1989: Dalek stories air for eleven weeks.
• 12 March 1993: The Tomb of the Cybermen airs.
• September 1994: The network discontinued its cycle of re-runs, with the last story to air being Survival in September. Fans were, however, able to get a reprieve by raising funds through a pledge drive. At the time, IPTV was one of the few markets in the US still screening non-stop re-runs of the omnibus editions, from An Unearthly Child onwards.
• By 1998, IPTV was one of only five markets in the US still screening the series. During its broadcast history, IPTV would show often one episode multiple nights a week, one episode per week, omnibus versions every Friday night, then back to one episode per week, etc.
• 11 March 2006: The Five Doctors airs.
• 2009: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy airs.

IEBN promotes Doctor Who, and a special with Jon Pertwee's ex-wife

Waterloo Courier, July 30, 1982

Media

• various IPTV clips

last episode for 5 years, Mar. 2, 1979

1984 promo

ID, Nov. 1984?

Doctor Who USA Tour, Aug. 1, 1987

Iowa Public Television Catalogue

This is IPTV's online resource for Classic Doctor Who:

• DOCTOR WHO CLASSIC