New Jersey

Doctor Who aired in these cities, on these channels:

New Jersey Network

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WNJS (23) / WNJM (50) / WNJT (52) / WNJB (58)

Channels 23 / 50 / 52 / 58 (PBS)

A network of four channels covering the state.

• 23 November 1983: The Five Doctors aired, 9.00 to 9.30pm.

• January 1984: The Tom Baker stories screened from January 1984.

• March 1985: The newly-released package of all 24 Jon Pertwee stories makes its US debut on NJN in March. This package sees Spearhead from Space, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Invasion of the Dinosaurs screening for the first time in the US.

• 1985: Channel 50 screens the series episodically on a weekly basis, with a complete 'movie' Saturday nights.

• 7 September 1985: The 17 repackaged William Hartnell stories make their US debut on NJN, on Saturday, 9.00pm, in omnibus "movie" format.

• 26 October 1985: The Colin Baker stories make their US debut on NJN, screening one full story on the last Saturday of each month. (This meant that the Bakers sometimes played between Hartnell and Troughton runs of episodes - for instance, following The Two Doctors, they aired the first half of The War Games, then both Timelash and Revelation of the Daleks before finishing The War Games.)

• 1 February 1986: The repackaged five Patrick Troughton stories make their US debut on NJN.

• 1986: The series aired on Saturdays, at 9.00pm, during the year.

• 1988: On Saturday, 19 November 1988, after playing Dragonfire, the NJN screened "The Making of Silver Nemesis", one of several specially-commissioned behind the scenes / interview specials produced by the Network.

• Other documentaries produced by NJN were "Doctor Who's Who's Who" (1985) and "Doctor Who Then & Now" (1987).
  • NJN DOCUMENTARIES

• 30 March 1990: Season 26 of the Sylvester McCoy stories makes their US debut, with the four stories played in production order.

• 23 May to 29 August 1992: A 15-week marathon of Dalek and Cybermen serials - but not The Tomb of the Cybermen, which is deemed too expensive!

• 5 September 1992: The week after the Marathon, the series moves to an earlier 5.00pm timeslot.

• 13 August 1994: After over ten years of almost uninterrupted screenings of Doctor Who, the New Jersey Network drops the series; the final story to be broadcast is The Deadly Assassin. The reasons cited for this are declining viewers, dwindling donations and increased residual payment demands made by Lionheart.

• Between 1983 and 1994, NJN enjoyed runs of every surviving full story at least twice, with the Tom Baker stories played as many as six times.

Promos and Pledges

• PROMO / PLEDGE (1987): 1987 Commercial with John Nathan-Turner and Sylvester McCoy

• PROMOS / PLEDGES (1988): NJN PROMOS and PLEDGES from NOVEMBER 1988 (many filmed with cast and crew of Silver Nemesis).

• PROMOS / PLEDGES: PATRICK TROUGHTON on NJN

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