United States--1973-1977
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- 1973: The two Peter Cushing movies are made available to television broadcasters by Alan Enterprises Inc.
- May 1976: Famous Monsters of Filmland (issue #126, cover dated July 1976) features "The Funtastic Adventures of DR. WHO", an overview of the series that was currently in syndication. (The article liberally pulls its facts and interviews from the 1972 Pan Books / Piccolo edition of The Making of Doctor Who.)
- 1976-1977: Off-air home recordings are taken of Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons and The Daemons, which prove their value in later years...
- In his final year as producer, Philip Hinchcliffe has discussions with BBC management about selling the series to the States. But management decrees that the sale of the Pertwee serials was not that successful...
- Indeed, from 1972 to 1977, only 16 markets within the US had purchased the package of 72 Pertwee episodes - and only a few of them actually screened all the episodes; the majority drop the series mid-run:
- Pennsylvania (x2)
- Florida (x3)
- Arizona (x2)
- Washington DC
- California (x2)
- Alaska
- Iowa
- Nebraska
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- New York
- as well as US territory Guam
.
