<P> The BBC series was originally sold to television stations in the United States in 1972 , with Time - Life Television syndicating selected episodes of Jon Pertwee 's time as the Doctor . The series did not do well , despite an interesting write - up some years earlier in TV Guide . Apparently , program directors of the commercial television stations that picked up the Jon Pertwee series did not know that the program was an episodic serial , and so it was constantly being shuffled about in the programming schedules . </P>
<P> The BBC series was originally sold to television stations in the United States in 1972 , with Time - Life Television syndicating selected episodes of Jon Pertwee 's time as the Doctor . The series did not do well , despite an interesting write - up some years earlier in TV Guide . Apparently , program directors of the commercial television stations that picked up the Jon Pertwee series did not know that the program was an episodic serial , and so it was constantly being shuffled about in the programming schedules . </P>
when was doctor who first aired in america
when was doctor who first aired in america
1972
1972