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 Listings for '''"Dr Who"''' return seven months later, on '''13 July 1980''' - now on Sundays at 10am. Eight weeks later, from '''6 September 1980''', it shifted back to Saturdays, still at 10am. The run concluded on '''22 November 1980'''; a block of 20 episodes.
-A US TV Guide that includes listings for '''CKVU''', gives a brief synopsis for the '''20 September 1980''' episode: "The Master's latest toy – a machine that harnesses time itself!". This summary best describes [[The Time Monster]]. If we assume it's part 1, then this 20-episode run would be made of up of two 4-parters and two 6-parters, structured as 4-6-6-4, or 6-4-6-4, with [[The Time Monster]] as the second of the two 6-parters.
+The Washington state TV Guide includes listings for Channel 21, and that gives a brief synopsis for the '''20 September 1980''' episode: "The Master's latest toy – a machine that harnesses time itself!". This summary best describes [[The Time Monster]]. If we assume it's part 1, then this 20-episode run would be made of up of two 4-parters and two 6-parters, structured as 4-6-6-4, or 6-4-6-4, with [[The Time Monster]] as the second of the two 6-parters.
-According to this [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_frm/thread/c4a67eb99d6fff90/87f3d7168324119c?lnk=gst&q=CKVU#87f3d7168324119c COMMENT on an old "rec.arts.drwho" forum], one of the serials played in this run may have been [[The Green Death]], which the poster recalls seeing on a Saturday in September 1980 at (he thinks) 8.30am. That timeslot is incorrect, since the series never aired at 8.30am in 1980 - but it did at 8am in 1982, so maybe this memory is 'out' by two years?
+According to this [https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/yQShdb00sy8/m/XcmxEbEIw6QJ COMMENT on an old "rec.arts.drwho" forum], one of the serials played in this run may have been [[The Green Death]], which the poster recalls seeing on a Saturday in (he thinks) "Autumn 1980" at 8 or 8.30am. That timeslot is incorrect, since the series never aired at 8.30am in 1980 - but it did at 8am in 1982, so maybe this memory is 'out' by two years?
 But if this anecdote is indeed true, then the 20-episode run consisted of [[The Green Death]] (either the first or second story) and [[The Time Monster]] (the third story) plus two unidentified 4-parters.
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 The series took a break for two months, resuming on Saturday, '''31 January 1981''', at 9.30am. Then, from '''8 August 1981''', the slot moved to the later time of 11.30am, where it remained until '''11 September 1982''', when it moved to the earliest time the series had aired - 8am - where it stayed until the final episode on '''1 January 1983'''.
-Newspapers for this period didn't provide story titles, but the western Washington state edition of [[TV Guide]] for the week '''4-10 September 1981''' includes listings for Channel 21 – the short synopsis for the '''5 September''' episode is that for part 1 of [[The Mutants]].
+Newspapers for this period didn't provide story titles, but the western Washington state edition of [[TV Guide]] for the week '''4-10 September 1981''' has a short synopsis for the '''5 September''' episode is that for part 1 of [[The Mutants]].
 This is week "32" of the run. If the stories acquired by CKVU were this time screened in order, the previous 31 weeks does perfectly account for [[Inferno]], [[The Claws of Axos]], [[Colony in Space]], [[Day of the Daleks]], [[The Curse of Peladon]] and [[The Sea Devils]] (with the latter two possibly shown in production order).

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 You will recall from earlier that Canadian fan Ray Seredin remembers seeing [[Inferno]] on Saturday mornings in September 1979. If our extrapolation of the above data is correct, he is 'out' by a month, and it was actually in October to November 1979 that he saw this serial.
-Listings for '''"Dr Who"''' return seven months later, on '''13 July 1980''' - now on Sundays at 10am. Eight weeks later, from '''6 September 1980''', it shifted back to Saturdays, still at 10am. We might assume that two 4-parters aired those eight Sundays. The run concluded on '''22 November 1980'''. 20 episodes had been broadcast; none had story titles.
+Listings for '''"Dr Who"''' return seven months later, on '''13 July 1980''' - now on Sundays at 10am. Eight weeks later, from '''6 September 1980''', it shifted back to Saturdays, still at 10am. The run concluded on '''22 November 1980'''; a block of 20 episodes.
-Accordingly to this [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_frm/thread/c4a67eb99d6fff90/87f3d7168324119c?lnk=gst&q=CKVU#87f3d7168324119c COMMENT on an old "rec.arts.drwho" forum], one of the serials played in this run may have been [[The Green Death]], which the poster recalls seeing on a Saturday in September 1980 at (he thinks) 8.30am. That timeslot is incorrect, since the series never aired at 8.30am in 1980 - but it did at 8am in 1982, so maybe this memory is 'out' by two years?
+A US TV Guide that includes listings for '''CKVU''', gives a brief synopsis for the '''20 September 1980''' episode: "The Master's latest toy – a machine that harnesses time itself!". This summary best describes [[The Time Monster]]. If we assume it's part 1, then this 20-episode run would be made of up of two 4-parters and two 6-parters, structured as 4-6-6-4, or 6-4-6-4, with [[The Time Monster]] as the second of the two 6-parters.
-If this anecdote is true, then the 20-episode run consisted of two 4-parters and two 6-parters, possibly in that order - with the first 6-parter being [[The Green Death]]?
+According to this [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_frm/thread/c4a67eb99d6fff90/87f3d7168324119c?lnk=gst&q=CKVU#87f3d7168324119c COMMENT on an old "rec.arts.drwho" forum], one of the serials played in this run may have been [[The Green Death]], which the poster recalls seeing on a Saturday in September 1980 at (he thinks) 8.30am. That timeslot is incorrect, since the series never aired at 8.30am in 1980 - but it did at 8am in 1982, so maybe this memory is 'out' by two years?
 The series took a break for two months, resuming on Saturday, '''31 January 1981''', at 9.30am. Then, from '''8 August 1981''', the slot moved to the later time of 11.30am, where it remained until '''11 September 1982''', when it moved to the earliest time the series had aired - 8am - where it stayed until the final episode on '''1 January 1983'''.

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	From January 1981 through to January 1983 (see below), CKVU repeated most of if not all their Pertwees again. By then, Time-Life had stopped operating as the BBC's US distributor, and had disposed of all their master tapes.		From January 1981 through to January 1983 (see below), CKVU repeated most of if not all their Pertwees again. By then, Time-Life had stopped operating as the BBC's US distributor, and had disposed of all their master tapes.

−	While there is nothing solid to indicate that it did happen this way, it is ''possible'' that for this repeat run only CKVU was supplied with what remained of Time-Life's original masters for the stories that CKVU had the rights to, which would explain why the tapes that were recovered a few years later were in such good condition.	+	<!--While there is nothing solid to indicate that it did happen this way, it is ''possible'' that for this repeat run only CKVU was supplied with what remained of Time-Life's original masters for the stories that CKVU had the rights to, which would explain why the tapes that were recovered a few years later were in such good condition. [Many of the old TL masters still exists TJL Productions; clearly these didn't get sent to Canada; only copies]-->

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 [[File:CKVUXXX1.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Death to the Daleks (possibly an error?) on 20 October 1979; Times Colonist]]
 [[File:CKVUKKK1.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Day of the Daleks, 24 November 1979; Times Colonist]]
 ===[[Jon Pertwee stories|JON PERTWEE]]===
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 The series took a break for two months, resuming on Saturday, '''31 January 1981''', at 9.30am. Then, from '''8 August 1981''', the slot moved to the later time of 11.30am, where it remained until '''11 September 1982''', when it moved to the earliest time the series had aired - 8am - where it stayed until the final episode on '''1 January 1983'''.
-Newspapers for this period didn't provide story titles, but the Washington state edition of [[TV Guide]] for the week '''4-10 September 1981''' includes listings for Channel 21 – the short synopsis for the '''5 September''' episode is that for part 1 of [[The Mutants]].
+Newspapers for this period didn't provide story titles, but the western Washington state edition of [[TV Guide]] for the week '''4-10 September 1981''' includes listings for Channel 21 – the short synopsis for the '''5 September''' episode is that for part 1 of [[The Mutants]].
-There was a handful of weeks in early 1981 where the newspapers were either missing, or the published TV listings didn't have programmes prior to 10am, so there may have been the odd week when an episode didn't air, but from start to finish, this run spanned '''101''' weeks, just shy of two full years!
+There was a handful of weeks in early 1981 where the newspapers were either missing, or the published TV listings didn't have programmes prior to 10am, so there may have been the odd week when an episode didn't air, but from start to finish, the 1981-83 run spanned '''101''' weeks, just shy of two full years!
 This repeat run would have been still playing when Dean Shewring wrote to the DWAS, and since, as he noted, there were often pre-emptions for sports, some of the billed screenings in this and the previous blocks may also have been pre-empted. But presumably most - if not all - of the 73 episodes acquired by CKVU were repeated in this run, with no more than 28 of them also being played for a second time, making up to 101 weeks.

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 Accordingly to this [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_frm/thread/c4a67eb99d6fff90/87f3d7168324119c?lnk=gst&q=CKVU#87f3d7168324119c COMMENT on an old "rec.arts.drwho" forum], one of the serials played in this run may have been [[The Green Death]], which the poster recalls seeing on a Saturday in September 1980 at (he thinks) 8.30am. That timeslot is incorrect, since the series never aired at 8.30am in 1980 - but it did at 8am in 1982, so maybe this memory is 'out' by two years?
-If this anecdote is true, then the 20 episode run consisted of two 4-parters and two 6-parters, possibly in that order - with the first 6-parter being [[The Green Death]]?
+If this anecdote is true, then the 20-episode run consisted of two 4-parters and two 6-parters, possibly in that order - with the first 6-parter being [[The Green Death]]?
 The series took a break for two months, resuming on Saturday, '''31 January 1981''', at 9.30am. Then, from '''8 August 1981''', the slot moved to the later time of 11.30am, where it remained until '''11 September 1982''', when it moved to the earliest time the series had aired - 8am - where it stayed until the final episode on '''1 January 1983'''.
 There was a handful of weeks in early 1981 where the newspapers were either missing, or the published TV listings didn't have programmes prior to 10am, so there may have been the odd week when an episode didn't air, but from start to finish, this run spanned '''101''' weeks, just shy of two full years!

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 The sale would have been completed by the BBC's office in Toronto. CKVU was able to purchase the same episodes that [[TVOntario]] had; they would have therefore received dubs from the same tapes supplied to TVO.
-The three additional serials that CKVU acquired would have been supplied (via BBC Toronto?) from Time-Life.
+The three additional serials that CKVU acquired would have been supplied (via BBC Toronto?) from Time-Life. (The tapes of [[Inferno]] may have been the same ones that had been shown on [[Qube]] in [[Ohio]]; that serial last played there in January 1979…)
 From January 1981 through to January 1983 (see below), CKVU repeated most of if not all their Pertwees again. By then, Time-Life had stopped operating as the BBC's US distributor, and had disposed of all their master tapes.
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 The first of these, "Dr Who and the [[Inferno]]" [sic], was given four times until '''17 March''', with [[The Green Death]] (Part 1) on '''24 March''', (Part 2) for '''31 March''' and (Part 3) on '''7 April''', now at 10.30am. To fit all seven episodes of [[Inferno]] into this run ahead of [[The Green Death]], the series must have commenced on '''3 February''', but none of the papers we checked had listings on that date, so presumably it must have been a late change to the schedule.
 The last clear listing for the series was that on '''14 April 1979''', but since that would have been part 4 of [[The Green Death]], there should have been at least two more listings after that, but the newspapers had the variety '''Saturday Show''' listed instead. (This supports Dean Shewring's comments that episodes were played out of sequence and with major gaps.)

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	It screened again, on Sunday '''5 December 1976''', from 3.30 to 5pm.		It screened again, on Sunday '''5 December 1976''', from 3.30 to 5pm.
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		+	(This wasn't the first time since 1965 that the Daleks had been seen on TV in Canada. The BBC's long-running series [[Wikipedia:Vision On\|Vision On]] (1964 to 1976) was a regular feature on some of the US PBS stations in the 1970s - and may also have been shown on CBC around that same time (we haven't been able to find the TV listings in any Canadian newspapers to be sure). The Daleks appeared on one episode from '''late 1973''' performing "the Dance of the Daleks"; this particular episode may have been shown on CBC.)

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