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Due to its non-commercial, arts-based nature, PBS has long had an affinity with [[BBC]] programming, and since the 1970s it has been the main broadcast home for ''Doctor Who'' in America. Broadcasts of ''Doctor Who'' in the 1980s and 1990s were notable for using an "omnibus" format. Instead of airing each individual episode on a weekly or daily basis, each serial was edited together into a movie format. This meant that individual broadcasts could be as short as 45 minutes (for broadcasts of 2-episode stories), to several hours in the case of ''[[The War Games]]''. (''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'', however, was edited into its 4 component stories rather than all 14 episodes being broadcast in one marathon). Initially, only the [[Tom Baker]], [[Peter Davison]] and [[Colin Baker]] stories were widely broadcast on PBS, but this was later expanded to include the new [[Sylvester McCoy]] series and extant series from the [[William Hartnell]], [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Jon Pertwee]] eras. | Due to its non-commercial, arts-based nature, PBS has long had an affinity with [[BBC]] programming, and since the 1970s it has been the main broadcast home for ''Doctor Who'' in America. Broadcasts of ''Doctor Who'' in the 1980s and 1990s were notable for using an "omnibus" format. Instead of airing each individual episode on a weekly or daily basis, each serial was edited together into a movie format. This meant that individual broadcasts could be as short as 45 minutes (for broadcasts of 2-episode stories), to several hours in the case of ''[[The War Games]]''. (''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'', however, was edited into its 4 component stories rather than all 14 episodes being broadcast in one marathon). Initially, only the [[Tom Baker]], [[Peter Davison]] and [[Colin Baker]] stories were widely broadcast on PBS, but this was later expanded to include the new [[Sylvester McCoy]] series and extant series from the [[William Hartnell]], [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Jon Pertwee]] eras. | ||
The omnibus format varied in quality with regards to episode transitions. Sometimes cliffhangers were edited together smoothly, while other times the "electronic scream" episode-ending sound effect and sometimes a few moments of the episode opening credits were accidentally left in (this occurred frequently with Davison-era episodes). Some Pertwee omnibus episodes would switch from color to black and white and back again in the case of serials where only B&W prints of some episodes survived; ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'' was the only incomplete serial to be broadcast by PBS, with its then-missing first episode omitted. | |||
PBS affiliates also produced their own documentaries based upon the series, utilizing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew at American Doctor Who conventions. | PBS affiliates also produced their own documentaries based upon the series, utilizing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew at American Doctor Who conventions. | ||
