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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: WTTW Chicago announces new acquisitions
Message-ID: <2491@pucc-h>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 09:56:14 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.2491
Posted: Mon Dec  2 09:56:14 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Dec-85 08:06:54 EST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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Keywords: C. Baker, Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee

WTTW, Channel 11, Chicago has announced a set of new acquisitions.
From memory:

		24 William Hartnells
		10 Patrick Troughtons
		17 Jon Pertwees
		9  Colin Bakers
		--
		60 total

This is not stories, not episodes, but "showings", typically a complete
4-parter or half a 6-parter.  Channel 11 has also retained the rights to:

		22 Jon Pertwees
		46 Tom Bakers
		19 Peter Davisons

for a grand total of 147 "showings".  I'll bet they didn't include "The
Five Doctors" among the Peter Davisons, even though it has already been
on Channel 11.

They claim they haven't decided yet when the new acquisitions will be shown.
Fans were apparently flooding the phone lines at pledge time trying to find
out, but all they would say was "Watch your newspapers and the Dial magazine."
I can think of two likely scenarios:

  1.  Continue with the rest of the Tom Baker and Peter Davison stories,
      then go to Colin Baker.  Even allowing for the fact that they are
      showing four extra nights next week and will probably do the same
      at pledge time in March, that would take until the first week of
      July, by my reckoning.

  2.  Finish the Tom Bakers, then skip Peter Davison this time around.
      This would skip from "Logopolis" to "The Twin Dilemma" in March
      (right at pledge time).
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Dave Seaman	  {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!ags