July 26, 1987 - Sunday Mirror - A look at long established tv shows that have small audiences, including Doctor Who.
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July 20, 1987 - Daily Hull Mail - Colin Baker comes to the aid of a fan magazine.
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July 16, 1987 - Daily Mirror - The BBC is risking the franchise by moving Doctor Who back to Monday nights against Coronation Street. #DoctorWho
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July 7, 1987 - Evening Post - A review of the upcoming Star Cops, the sci-fi police procedural produced by Chris Boucher.
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June 19, 1987 - Look at the lineup of guest stars for the new season of Doctor Who. It's like the show was turning into Batman, and it kind of was.
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June 15, 1987 - Eastern Daily Press - The Doctor should have taken care of the Dialects a long time ago.
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April 18, 1987 - Greenock Telegraph - Despite his recent passing, there are still several projects of the late Patrick Troughton to be shown.
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Principal Skinner cooks for Supernintendo Chalmers! #TheSimpsons #TVHistory
April 17, 1987 - Solihull News - A treat for sci-fi TV fans as a festival of programming was scheduled for viewing, including Doctor Who.
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April 1987 - Kate O'Mara getting plenty of press based on her roles in Doctor Who and Dynasty.
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Duke had two dressing rooms (each set up with props and outfits for a different cousin) and would run between them during filming. She later admitted she sometimes lost track of who she was.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=156zdjIsWAY
April 13, 1986…Most of the cast of the long-running sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" reunited for the NBC-TV special "Return to Mayberry."
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March 2, 1987 - Just three months after the news of Colin Baker's sacking gets out, we have news of the new Doctor in the form of Sylvester McCoy.
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January 24, 1987 - Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury reunite on Emmerdale Farm.
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January 8, 1987 - Mixed reactions to the departure of Colin Baker from Doctor Who.
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TV producers thought actress Patty Duke was so talented… they gave her two roles in one show.
And that’s how The Patty Duke Show's “identical cousins” scheme was hatched.
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December 19, 1986 - With Colin Baker's departure, the idea of the Doctor being a woman is once again floated about.
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December 12, 1986 - Various newspapers cover the departure of Colin Baker as the Doctor.
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December 5, 1986 - Bucks Free Press - Colin Baker reveals his most embarrassing moment while shooting Doctor Who.
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👉 Take a trip to the moon (and back!) by reading about Audrey Meadows here: hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/aud...
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Have you read this John? It's a very detailed and lengthy read, but it's also a great trip down memory lane.
Invitation To Terror—Horror Films on British Television in the 1970s & 80s by Sim Branaghan.
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November 19, 1986 - Liverpool Echo - A profile on Dalek operator John Scott Martin.
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An academic flyer titled "RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN TV & RADIO HISTORY: FALL 2025 – SPRING 2026" under the heading "CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES." The document is organized into a 3x3 grid of boxes, each listing an author and their work:Josie Torres Barth: "The Voice of the Woman in the Wall: Uncanny Narration as Domestic Critique in the Suspense Radio Adaptation of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1948)," Adaptation vol. 18, no. 3, 2025. (Winner of the 2025 ECR Prize).Cynthia Meyers: "Such a Feeling of Intimacy: Familial Bonds and Eastman Kodak's Sponsorship of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1956-61)," in Commercial Intimacy (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).Allison Perlman: "Betraying the Dream (Machine): NET, The FBI, and Regulating Public Television Content in the 1970s," Television & New Media (2026).Elana Levine: "The Voice of Winnie Holzman," Post-45 Contemporaries, Spring 2025.Allison Perlman: "Regulating Documentary: Television, Conservative Activism, and the Expressive Power of Policy," in The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary (Oxford UP, 2025).Allison Perlman: "Slavery before Roots: Television, the Civil Rights Movement, and History TV in the 1960s," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 43.5 (2025).Owen Gottlieb: "Heritage in Search of a Home: Archiving the Learning Designs and Artistry of Instructional Television of the 1970s and 1980s," in The Archivability of Television (University of Georgia Press, 2025).Pete Johnson: "Revisiting the Financial Interest & Syndication Rules: A Discursive and Industrial Analysis of U.S. Television Production, 1971-1990." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2026).Cale Epps: "Incentives, Commissions, and Hollywood Production Mobility," in Roadmap to the Texas Media Industries (UT Austin Center White Paper, 2025).
A flyer titled "RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN TV & RADIO HISTORY: FALL 2025 – SPRING 2026" under the heading "BOOKS." The top left features a small photo of a vintage television and radio on a wooden cabinet. Below, three vertical boxes list upcoming book releases:Jason Loviglio: Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling (Bloomsbury, January 2026).Cynthia Meyers: Sell-e-vision: How the Advertising Industry Shaped American Television (or Madison Avenue and Mid-Century American Television). Coming late 2026 from the Peabody Media History Series, University of Georgia Press.Amanda Keeler: The Rockford Files. TV Milestones Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2025.
Following the conclusion of #SCMS26 in Chicago, the TV & Radio History SIG is pleased to share recent and forthcoming publications from our members.
Featured books include recent/future work by Jason Loviglio, Cynthia Meyers, and Amanda Keeler. #MediaStudies #TVHistory #RadioHistory #SCMS2026
November 1, 1986 - Telegraph and Argus - A look at new character Mel who will be working on slimming the Doctor's waist.
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October 29, 1986 - Liverpool Echo - A look at Patrick Troughton along with Frazer Hines.
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October 25, 1986 - Birmingham Evening Mail - Colin Baker is confident that Doctor Who will continue.
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Some #tvhistory that'll surprise some of y'all. I talk about it over on #tiktok! Come join the conversation, won't you?
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Why did it take so long for me to learn that @ransomcenter.bsky.social has a TV Scripts Collection, including teleplays and production materials from classic shows like #ILoveLucy, #HappyDays, #TheMaryTylerMooreShow, and #Columbo?
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