U&Eden

U&Eden is a British satellite channel, launched in March 2004 as part of the UKTV network. Now free-to-air, it was initially a pay channel until 2024.

From Monday, 5 May 2025 to Monday, 2 June 2025, the channel aired a limited run of Jon Pertwee stories on a daily basis. The schedule - starting with Spearhead from Space - was a set of four back-to-back episodes, which were shown three times each day - firstly at 9am, with a repeat of the same after 5pm, and a further showing of those four after midnight.

• Spearhead from Space
• Doctor Who and the Silurians
• The Ambassadors of Death
• Inferno
• Terror of the Autons
• The Claws of Axos
• Colony in Space
• The Daemons
• The Curse of Peladon
• The Sea Devils
• The Mutants

It is understood that the usual rights issues prevented Day of the Daleks from being shown. The Mind of Evil, which includes a brief image of a Dalek, was also skipped.

After The Mutants part 6 on 20 May 2025, the screenings cycled back to Spearhead from Space. In an unusual move, the run came to an end mid-story, with The Sea Devils parts 1-4 being the final set of four to be scheduled for 2 June 2025, but with parts 1 and 2 being given an extra showing in a 5am slot tacked on the end. And after that, the only story that aired was The Mutants over and over for days on end...

Then, from Wednesday, 1 October 2025, all six episodes of Colony in Space aired back-to-back, starting at 5pm, followed by Inferno parts 1 and 2 at 8.05pm. The same block of eight episodes was then repeated twice - 9.05pm and again at 1.20am.

This was the start of a now-weekly cycle of eight episodes every Wednesday, albeit not in strict story order - 8 October had Inferno 3-7, and Spearhead from Space 1-3; 15 October was Spearhead from Space ep 4 followed by Terror of the Autons 1-4, then The Ambassadors of Death 1-3...

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