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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 32: 13-19 Aug 2016 - USA

Data last updated 14 March 2017

Saturday 13 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00am EDT
The Christmas Invasion

Online schedule listed The Runaway Bride.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00am EDT
The Runaway Bride

No sooner has the Doctor said a tear-stained farewell to Rose Tyler than he finds himself face-to-face with a woman dressed in a fluffy white wedding frock. Who is she? Who is she supposed to be marrying? And how did she get on board the TARDIS?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00am EDT
Voyage of the Damned

Kylie Minogue joins Doctor Who to play Astrid, a waitress on a doomed spaceship that eerily resembles the Titanic. When a meteor hits, Astrid and The Doctor must protect the survivors from and prevent the whole ship from crashing to Earth.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:40am EDT
The Next Doctor

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00am EDT
Vincent and the Doctor

Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EDT
The Impossible Astronaut

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am EDT
Day of the Moon

The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison. Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down by the FBI. But, with the help of President Nixon and Neil Armstrong, the Doctor is able to mount a rebellion against an alien invasion.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Doctor's Wife

By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
The Girl Who Waited

Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Asylum of the Daleks

Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission - to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
The Angels Take Manhattan

The Doctor's heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory - a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York's statues come to life around them....


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm EDT
The Name of the Doctor

The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00pm EDT
Listen

When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, the Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00pm EDT
The Girl Who Died

Part 1. Captured by Vikings, the Doctor and Clara must help protect their village from Space Warriors from the future; the Mire. Outnumbered and outgunned their fate seems inevitable. So why is the Doctor preoccupied with a single Viking girl?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00pm EDT
The Woman Who Lived

Part 2. England, 1651. The deadly Highwayman 'The Knightmare' and his sidekick stalk the dark streets of London. But when they find loot that's not of this world, they come face to face with the Doctor. Can the Doctor avoid the hangman's noose?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00pm EDT
A Christmas Carol
(Repeated: Sun 3:10am EDT)

Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:20pm EDT
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EDT
The Twin Dilemma: Part Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EDT
The Twin Dilemma: Part Four

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:40pm EDT
The Snowmen
(Repeated: Sun 4:30am EDT)

Christmas Eve 1892 and a chilling menace threatens humankind - but with the Doctor in mourning, it takes old friends and an unorthodox young governess to get him fighting to save the world again.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
Attack of the Cybermen: Part One (4 part version)

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
Attack of the Cybermen: Part Two (4 part version)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EDT
The Time of the Doctor
(Repeated: Sun 1:45am EDT)

Billed online as The Snowmen


Show broadcasts for KRWG
 
7:00pm MDT
Robot: Part One
(Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT)

KRWG originally listed this episode as Robot: Part Three. Later listings inferred that this was actually The Hand Of Fear: Part One, but KRWG eventually confirmed it was Robot: Part One on its next loop.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:25pm EDT
Last Christmas

The Twelfth Doctor makes his debut in BBC America's time-honored Doctor Who Christmas special. Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and guest star Nick Frost strap in for a dangerous sleigh ride through space and time in the Steven Moffat helmed special.


Show broadcasts for WFWA
 
9:30pm EDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Robots Of Death
Even on a sandminer working the dunes
of an alien desert, the humanoid crew live in relative luxury
while robots do most of the work. But someone or something is
perverting the robots’ complex control systems, turning them into
killers. Can the Doctor find the real culprit before this blueprint
for dictatorship is unleashed on the population at large?

Show broadcasts for KNCT
 
9:00pm CDT
The Satan Pit

Rose fights the Ood, and the Doctor weighs a sacrificial decision as the planet is on the verge of falling into the black hole. Toby Zed: Will Thorp.


Show broadcasts for KPTS
 
9:00pm CDT
The Invisible Enemy: Part Two

The nucleus of the virus settles in the Doctor's brain. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Marius: Frederick Jaeger. Lowe: Michael Sheard. Parsons: Roy Herrick.


Show broadcasts for WXXI
 
10:00pm EDT
Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks - Part 2 of 2

Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Davros: Michael Wisher. Harry: Ian Marter


This is not confirmed, owing to last week's broadcast citing the "conclusion". This might be Terror of the Zygons instead.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:40pm EDT
The Husbands of River Song

Show broadcasts for WILL
 
10:00pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks (part 1 of 2)

The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done.


Show broadcasts for West Virginia Public Broadcasting
 
11:00pm EDT
Pertwee Movies: Colony In Space - Part 3 of 3

Show broadcasts for WYCC
 
10:00pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: Horror of Fang Rock

The Doctor and Leela (Louise Jameson) investigate disappearances at a lighthouse. Vince: John Abbott. Reuben: Colin Douglas. Ben: Ralph Watson.


Show broadcasts for WSRE
 
10:00pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: Horror of Fang Rock

The TARDIS arrives on Fang Rock, a small island off the English coast, around the start of the 20th Century. The Doctor and Leela seek shelter at a lighthouse where the island's only inhabitants - Ben, Vince and Reuben - operate the recently-installed electric lamp to warn ships off the treacherous rocks.


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
10:30pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks - Part 1 of 2

The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done.


Show broadcasts for KCPT (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
Planet of the Dead

Show broadcasts for WMVS/MPTV (Milwaukee) HD 10.1/36.2
 
11:00pm CDT
Pertwee Movies: The Mind Of Evil - Part 1 of 2

The Doctor visits Stangmoor Prison for the unveiling of the Keller Machine, an invention that purges all evil impulses form the minds of criminals. When a series of mysterious assassinations occur the Doctor learn that what seems like a revolutionary from of prisoner rehabilitation is nothing more than a dangerous weapon controlled by a familiar enemy. Compiles episodes 5 through 7 from "Doctor Who" series 8.


Show broadcasts for KERA
 
11:00pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Seeds Of Doom - Part 1 of 2

Two alien seed pods are found buried in the Antarctic permafrost and the Doctor realises that they are from a Krynoid, a form of plant life that infects and transforms all animal life on planets upon which it becomes established.

Sunday 14 August

Saturday 13 August

Show broadcasts for WILL
 
11:07pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks (part 2 of 2)

The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done.


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
11:37pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks - Part 2 of 2

The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done.


Show broadcasts for Idaho Public Television
 
11:00pm MDT
Tom Baker Movies: Nightmare of Eden

The TARDIS arrives on the space liner Empress which has become locked together with a private ship, the Hecate, after colliding with it on emerging from hyperspace. The Doctor and Romana meet the scientist Tryst, who has with him a Continuous Event Transmuter (CET) machine containing crystals on which are stored supposed recordings of planets that he and his team have visited..

Sunday 14 August

Show broadcasts for KERA
 
12:45am CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Seeds Of Doom - Part 2 of 2

Two alien seed pods are found buried in the Antarctic permafrost and the Doctor realises that they are from a Krynoid, a form of plant life that infects and transforms all animal life on planets upon which it becomes established.

Saturday 13 August

Sunday 14 August

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
12:00pm EDT
Voyage of the Damned

The Doctor finds his TARDIS colliding with an interstellar replica of the famous ocean liner Titanic orbiting present-day Earth, during a Christmas party. With the help of a waitress named Astrid (Kylie Minogue) and several passengers, the Doctor must take on the race called the Heavenly Host as the lives of the Titanic crew and those on Earth are in danger. The angels have been tasked with killin...


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EDT
The Curse of Peladon: Episode Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EDT
The Curse of Peladon: Episode Four

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Sea Devils: Episode One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Sea Devils: Episode Two

Monday 15 August

Show broadcasts for WETA-UK
 
12:00am EDT
Pertwee Movies: Terror Of The Autons
(Repeated: Tue 3:30am EDT)

Earth faces an invasion of Autons armed with deadly plastic daffodils and led by Dr. Who's archenemy, the Master.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Daleks in Manhattan

The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Evolution of the Daleks

Listed online as Voyage of the Damned (90 min)


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
11:00pm EDT
The Krotons: Episode Four

Show broadcasts for WFWA
 
11:30pm EDT
Dr Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual)

The overlap between quantum reality and science fiction is discussed.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
11:30pm EDT
Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 1

Tuesday 16 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
The Lazarus Experiment

Turning back the clock has consequences.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
42

As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day.


Show broadcasts for WTTW Prime Chicago
 
9:00pm CDT
Dark Water

Missy is about to come face to face with the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
11:00pm EDT
Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 2

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
11:30pm EDT
Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 3

Wednesday 17 August

Thursday 18 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Blink

When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Utopia

Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe.


Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
8:00pm EDT
Turn Left
(Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT)

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
9:00pm EDT
The Stolen Earth
(Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT)

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
10:00pm EDT
Journey's End
(Repeated: Fri 1:00am EDT)

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
11:00pm EDT
Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 6

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
11:30pm EDT
Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 7

Friday 19 August