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| − | In 2001, BBC Kids acquired the rights to classic '''Doctor Who''', but initially just the [[Tom Baker stories]]. It added the [[Peter Davison stories]] from 2004. The [[Jon Pertwee stories]] (just the full colour or re-colourised ones), and the [[Colin Baker stories|Colin Baker]] and [[Sylvester McCoy stories]] were later acquired in 2005. | + | In 2001, BBC Kids acquired the rights to classic '''Doctor Who''', but initially just the [[Tom Baker stories]]. It added the [[Peter Davison stories]] from 2004. The [[Jon Pertwee stories]] (just the full colour or re-colourised ones), and the [[Colin Baker stories|Colin Baker]] and [[Sylvester McCoy stories]] were later acquired in 2005. |
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| + | There was an issue with rights to the Dalek stories, with the outcome that only the two Tom Baker Dalek stories could be shown. | ||
In 2007, it became the only Canadian station to air '''The Sarah Jane Adventures'''. It later acquired repeat rights for the [[NEW SERIES|New Series]], and the Australian-made spin-off, '''"K9"'''. | In 2007, it became the only Canadian station to air '''The Sarah Jane Adventures'''. It later acquired repeat rights for the [[NEW SERIES|New Series]], and the Australian-made spin-off, '''"K9"'''. | ||
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The classic series commenced on Monday, '''5 November 2001''' with [[Robot]]. To begin with, each episode was screened four times a day; they were edited slightly to allow for commercials. The Baker stories were cycled through many times, but not always in story order. | The classic series commenced on Monday, '''5 November 2001''' with [[Robot]]. To begin with, each episode was screened four times a day; they were edited slightly to allow for commercials. The Baker stories were cycled through many times, but not always in story order. | ||
| − | After three years of Tom Baker on constant rotation, the fifth Doctor arrived on Tuesday, '''17 February 2004'''. These stories also went into rotation (not always in order). | + | After three years of Tom Baker on constant rotation, the fifth Doctor arrived on Tuesday, '''17 February 2004'''. These stories also went into rotation (not always in order). None of the stories with Daleks - including [[The Five Doctors]] - was shown. |
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| + | A selection of Jon Pertwee stories was added to the schedule from Saturday, '''16 April 2005''', initially airing on weekends. Only the full colour (or colourised) serials were shown; these screened in production order - i.e. [[The Sea Devils]] before [[The Cures of Peladon]], and [[Carnival of Monsters]] before [[The Three Doctors]]. None of the Dalek stories were aired. | ||
| − | + | The Colin Baker stories debuted on '''9 October 2005''' through to '''12 November''' (with season 22 in its 25 minute edits), and the Sylvester McCoy era commenced on '''13 November 2005''', ending '''18 December 2005''', before going to recycle-mode. None of the Dalek stories were shown. | |
| − | + | All the stories went through several repeats over the next five years, 2006 to 2010. | |
| − | + | [[K9 and Company]] aired on '''22 October 2006''', deliberately scheduled to tie in with the screening of "School Reunion" on the CBC. While the [[NEW SERIES|New Series]] was screening, BBC Kids often scheduled themed "tie-ins" - such as a week of Cybermen stories as a lead-in to the new series 2-parter "Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel". | |
| − | The final classic series episode screened in late '''May 2010''', mid-way through another | + | The final classic series episode screened in late '''May 2010''', mid-way through another rerun of the Peter Davison era. |
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Revision as of 01:49, 8 April 2019
OTHER CANADIAN STATIONS
The following Canadian TV channels also carried Doctor Who, but the number of broadcasts on each was only limited.
CPN (SASKATCHEWAN) (1978-79)
Channel Profile
The CO-OPERATIVE PROGRAMMING NETWORK (CPN) was a closed circuit pay television service established in late 1977, and operated by a federation of cooperatives in Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, in the Province of Saskatchewan. The service was not licenced by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission federal broadcast authority.
CPN operated on four UHF channels, Channel 15 (HBO), 16 (Variety Fare), 17 (Just for Kids), while the fourth UHF channel (18) carried a continuous broadcast news readout set to a music background.
The CPN operation did not have a network connection to simultaneously transmit programming to the three cable systems. To ensure that the three CPN systems were the same and ran simultaneously, CPN made videocassette tape duplicates from master copies at a facility in Regina for distribution to the other CPN cable systems in Saskatoon and Moose Jaw. These tapes would have been wiped and reused on a regular basis.
CPN commenced broadcasts in March 1978. But after less than a year of operation, the station began to experience severe technical and structural difficulties, and by January 1979 it had gone into receivership. Its final broadcasts were in June 1979.
Stories bought and broadcast
JON PERTWEE
BBC sales paperwork records that the following three Jon Pertwee stories were sold to "Canada – ETV / Saskatchewan" (the ETV notation would appear to suggest that the BBC considered the sale to be to an educational station):
Three stories, 14 episodes:
| GGG | The Claws of Axos | 4 |
| KKK | Day of the Daleks | 4 |
| NNN | The Mutants | 6 |
CPN therefore bought one story from GROUP B and two from Group C. They would have been supplied as NTSC video tapes.
These three serials had also been purchased and aired by CKVU and TVO two years earlier. It's not clear why such a small package was acquired by CPN, when many more Jon Pertwee serials were available to them. Had CPN not gone out of business so soon after its launch, it's possible that it may have acquired other Pertwee serials.
TOM BAKER
Unknown number of stories / 26 episodes
The CPN run lasted for 40 episodes (see Airdates below). The other 26 episodes were likely all to be Tom Baker stories. These presumably came from the same general package of stories that aired on TVO (and on PBS stations throughout the United States) around the same time. But given the short run of aired episodes, if CPN had purchased the full standard 23-story / 98 episode package of Bakers, they certainly did not screen them all.
Transmission
The CPN broadcasts of Doctor Who commenced on Sunday, 5 November 1978 at 5.00pm. This was the first time viewers in Saskatchewan saw Doctor Who since the CBC telecasts in 1965.
From 7 January 1979, the timeslot moved to 5.30pm. Broadcasts also extended to three extra days a week, with episodes now on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The US comedy Nanny and the Professor occupied the Tuesday and Thursday slot – see the CPN "Just for Kids" schedule "grid" at right.
The 40th and final episode of Doctor Who aired on Wednesday, 28 February 1979, a month after CPN had gone into receivership.
The three named Pertwees account for only 14 episodes, leaving 26 unidentified. Assuming the run of Tom Baker serials commenced with Robot, the run would have included all of season 12 (20 episodes), then at least one 4-parter from season 13, before coming to an end mid-way through another 4-parter!
No doubt further episodes would have gone to air had the broadcaster continued to operate.
Although this was the final airing of Doctor Who on CPN, viewers in Saskatchewan near the US border or those with cable TV subscriptions with Prairie Public Television would next see the Doctor on PBS affiliate KWSE in Williston, North Dakota (launched in 1983), which was regularly screening Doctor Who during the 1980s.
TV listings
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← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated) |
Listings have been taken from newspapers that cover all three cities in which CPN operated: the Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, the Leader-Post from Regina, and the Moose Jaw Times-Herald. The Star-Phoenix Friday paper also contained a pull-out TV guide for the upcoming week, giving us two reference sources.
In all cases the series was called "Dr Who". None of the publications gave episode titles.
In the Regina Leader Post issue dated 8 September 1978, CPN promoted its upcoming TV schedule, stating: COMING SOON on Channel 17 "DR. WHO" (see clipping above).
For the later week day screenings, the listing said "Dr Who (Mon, Wed, Fri)".
CPN Idents
There are some generic station idents for CPN here:
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CITV (1996)
Channel Profile
CITV was an independent television station in Edmonton, Alberta, transmitting on Channel 13.
Stories bought and broadcast
PAUL McGANN
One movie, 84 minutes:
| TVM | TV Movie | 1 |
Transmission
TV listings
The 1996 TV Movie (which had been filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia earlier that year) had its WORLDWIDE DEBUT on CITV in Edmonton, Alberta, on Sunday, 12 May 1996, at 10.00pm, Canadian Mountain Time. This was two days ahead of the US screening on the Fox network, and 14 days ahead of its UK broadcast. This is the first and so far only time that Doctor Who has premiered in Canada.
(The movie played two days later on CHCH (Channel 11), Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday, 14 May 1996, at 9.00pm, Canadian Eastern Time.)
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Next Canadian broadcaster
BBC KIDS (2001-2010)
Channel Profile
BBC KIDS is a Canadian digital cable network, launched in November 2001, specialising in programmes aimed at pre-schoolers to teenagers.
It was the final Canadian station to regularly show classic Doctor Who.
The station ceased operations at the end of December 2018.
Stories bought and broadcast
In 2001, BBC Kids acquired the rights to classic Doctor Who, but initially just the Tom Baker stories. It added the Peter Davison stories from 2004. The Jon Pertwee stories (just the full colour or re-colourised ones), and the Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy stories were later acquired in 2005.
There was an issue with rights to the Dalek stories, with the outcome that only the two Tom Baker Dalek stories could be shown.
In 2007, it became the only Canadian station to air The Sarah Jane Adventures. It later acquired repeat rights for the New Series, and the Australian-made spin-off, "K9".
Transmission
The classic series commenced on Monday, 5 November 2001 with Robot. To begin with, each episode was screened four times a day; they were edited slightly to allow for commercials. The Baker stories were cycled through many times, but not always in story order.
After three years of Tom Baker on constant rotation, the fifth Doctor arrived on Tuesday, 17 February 2004. These stories also went into rotation (not always in order). None of the stories with Daleks - including The Five Doctors - was shown.
A selection of Jon Pertwee stories was added to the schedule from Saturday, 16 April 2005, initially airing on weekends. Only the full colour (or colourised) serials were shown; these screened in production order - i.e. The Sea Devils before The Cures of Peladon, and Carnival of Monsters before The Three Doctors. None of the Dalek stories were aired.
The Colin Baker stories debuted on 9 October 2005 through to 12 November (with season 22 in its 25 minute edits), and the Sylvester McCoy era commenced on 13 November 2005, ending 18 December 2005, before going to recycle-mode. None of the Dalek stories were shown.
All the stories went through several repeats over the next five years, 2006 to 2010.
K9 and Company aired on 22 October 2006, deliberately scheduled to tie in with the screening of "School Reunion" on the CBC. While the New Series was screening, BBC Kids often scheduled themed "tie-ins" - such as a week of Cybermen stories as a lead-in to the new series 2-parter "Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel".
The final classic series episode screened in late May 2010, mid-way through another rerun of the Peter Davison era.
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TV listings
The links take you to This Week in Doctor Who, which has most of the TV schedules for Doctor Who on BBC Kids:
- TWIDW: Nov 2001; the series starts
- TWIDW: Feb 2004; Peter Davison
- TWIDW: May 2004; the last available set of full airdates
- TWIDW: April 2005; Pertwee commences
- TWIDW: Oct 2005; C Baker and McCoy begin
- TWIDW: May 2010; the series is dropped
