British science fiction television series Doctor Who debuted on North American television in January 1965 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It appeared in syndication in the United States begi
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Arthur Darvill, Matt Smith, and Karen Gillan promoted the sixth series in the United States for BBC America.
On November 22, 1987, two television stations based in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked two hours apart from one another by unidentified perpetrators. Both hijackings briefly sent pirate broadcasts of
Doctor Who in the United States and Canada
…1987, during a broadcast of the serial Horror of Fang Rock on Chicago, Illinois PBS affiliate WTTW-TV an unknown hacker wearing a Max Headroom mask jammed WTTW's broadcast signal and replaced it with their own audio and video for 88 seconds, concluding with the masked man being hit on his bare butt with a fly swatter. This incident was investigated…
The unknown person dressed to resemble Max Headroom in the pirate broadcast