Pluto TV
PLUTO TV is a US-based 24/7 online service; founded in 2013, it is currently owned by Viacom.
The free - but ad-supported - service is currently only available in the United States.
Doctor Who on Pluto TV
In April 2019 it was announced that Pluto TV had acquired the rights to Doctor Who, with the service showing a selection of over 200 episodes from the "Classic" series (the first seven Doctors only) - all for free on special "pop-up" channels (channels 77, 360, 370). (The episodes would air with 'closed-captioning' / subtitles.)
In the initial press announcements, these were some of the stories that would be made available:
- The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- Terror of the Autons
- Planet of the Spiders
- The Ark in Space
- The Deadly Assassin
- The Robots of Death
- Earthshock
- The Caves of Androzani
On 12 June 2019, Doctor Who Channel 77 became available for the first time.
Since its launch, serials have been added to Pluto's daily schedules on a random basis, with stories playing in no particular order - for example, one showing of The Curse of Fenric was immediately followed by The Ark in Space.
The Season 22 stories were shown in the original 45 minute edits, with commercials to fill out the hour.
The ones we know of so far are:
- The Tomb of the Cybermen
- Doctor Who and the Silurians (remastered colourised version)
- Terror of the Autons
- The Three Doctors
- The Monster of Peladon
- Robot
- The Ark in Space
- The Sontaran Experiment
- Revenge of the Cybermen
- Planet of Evil
- Pyramids of Mars
- The Brain of Morbius
- The Masque of Mandragora
- The Deadly Assassin
- The Robots of Death
- The Talons of Weng-Chiang
- Image of the Fendahl
- The Sun Makers
- The Invasion of Time
- The Ribos Operation
- The Pirate Planet
- The Power of Kroll
- Destiny of the Daleks
- City of Death
- The Horns of Nimon
- Full Circle
- Logopolis
- Earthshock
- The Caves of Androzani
- The Mark of the Rani
- The Two Doctors
- Time and the Rani
- The Curse of Fenric
with more to air over the coming months.
At the end of August 2019, The Sun Makers was added to the menu, giving us the Doctor on Pluto on Pluto!
On 4 July 2019, Pluto's Channel 370 screened a special Classic Doctor Who Marathon featuring just fourth Doctor stories ("Celebrate the 4th .. with the Fourth Doctor! All day...")
