This Week in Doctor Who
Week 17: 26 Apr - 2 May 2014 - USA
Data last updated 02 January 2017
Saturday 26 April
| 2:00pm EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 3:00pm EDT Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Snowmen |
| 4:00pm EDT The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 5:00pm EDT Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 9:00pm CDT The Three Doctors: Movie format | Featured a short introduction by local fan club "The Whovians of Wichita". |
| 7:00pm PDT Underworld: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am PDT) |
| 9:00pm CDT The Crimson Horror | Bodies are found in Victorian Yorkshire with skin that is waxy and glowing red. |
| 9:00pm CDT Father's Day | Rose travels back to the day in 1987 when her father died. When she interferes, the results aren't what she expected: the monstrous Reapers devour mankind. |
| 9:15pm CDT The Poison Sky | The Sontarans activate their masterplan. As interplanetary war edges closer, the Doctor has to fight to keep both Martha and Donna alive. |
| 7:30pm PDT Underworld: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 1:30am PDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in what looks like an ordinary hotel. But the walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish. There is a room for every visitor that contains their deepest, darkest fears. Fears that will kill them. What lies in the Doctor's room? And when his turn comes, will he welcome death like all the rest? |
| 10:00pm CDT Hide |
| 11:00pm EDT Dinosaurs on a Spaceship |
| 10:00pm CDT A Good Man Goes to War | The Doctor tries to raise an army and calls in favors from allies spread across the cosmos while River Song has something to tell him. |
| 10:30pm CDT The Power Of Three (Repeated: Sun 6:00pm CDT) | Millions of sinister black cubes fall from the sky, and the Doctor worries about an invasion of Earth. |
| 10:49pm CDT Heartbreak Hotel (Factual) |
| 10:00pm MDT Dinosaurs on a Spaceship |
| 11:00pm CDT The Next Doctor | These Doctor Who Specials run in sequence after season four of the new Doctor Who. David Tennant stars in these specials and is joined by a host of talent including David Morrisey, Dervla Kirwin, Catherine Tate and Timothy Dalton. These are the final five episodes with David Tennant as The Doctor. |
| 11:05pm CDT The Name of the Doctor |
| 11:00pm MDT The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in what looks like an ordinary hotel. But the walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish. There is a room for every visitor that contains their deepest, darkest fears. Fears that will kill them. There is a room waiting for the Doctor. |
Sunday 27 April
| 12:00am CDT The Crimson Horror |
| 1:00am CDT Nightmare in Silver |
| 2:00am CDT The Name of the Doctor |
| 3:00am CDT Rose | Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and her life will never be the same again. Soon, she realizes that her mum, her boyfriend, and the whole of Planet Earth are in danger. The only hope for salvation lies inside a strange blue police box... |
| 4:00am CDT The End Of The World | The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time to the year Five Billion. The sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth. But among the alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly spiders? |
| 10:00pm CDT The Poison Sky | A public television favorite, Doctor Who follows the Doctor and his companion as they side-step danger while exploring time and space. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Curse of the Black Spot | The TARDIS becomes marooned on a 17th-century pirate ship manned by a crew under attack by a beautiful sea creature. |
Monday 28 April
| 8:00am EDT The Empty Child | Part 1. An unearthly child haunts the bomb sites of London. |
| 9:00am EDT The Doctor Dances | Part 2. The child's plague spreads through wartime London, and a zombie army is on the march; the Doctor and Rose form an alliance with an intergalactic con-man. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Snowmen |
| 11:00pm CDT The Unquiet Dead | The Doctor takes Rose back through time to 1869. In Victorian Cardiff, the dead are walking, and creatures made of gas are on the loose. The time-travellers team up with Charles Dickens to investigate Mr. Sneed, the local undertaker, and his psychic maid Gwyneth. Can they halt the plans of the ethereal Gelth? |
Tuesday 29 April
| 8:00am EDT Boom Town | The Doctor encounters an enemy from his past when the crew decides to take a holiday; an alien plot is behind the construction of a nuclear power plant in Cardiff. |
| 9:00am EDT Bad Wolf | Part 1. The Doctor, Rose and Capt. Jack have to fight for their lives, but the Doctor soon realizes that Armageddon is fast approaching. |
| 9:58pm CDT The Next Doctor (Repeated: Wed 1:58am CDT) | These Doctor Who Specials run in sequence after season four of the new Doctor Who. David Tennant stars in these specials and is joined by a host of talent including David Morrisey, Dervla Kirwin, Catherine Tate and Timothy Dalton. These are the final five episodes with David Tennant as The Doctor. |
| 11:00pm CDT Aliens of London | The Doctor takes Rose home - a year later than planned. But all attention is on another alien spaceship which crash-lands in the Thames. London is closed off and the whole world is on Red Alert. While the Doctor investigates the alien survivor, Rose discovers that her home is no longer a safe haven. Who are the Slitheen? |
Wednesday 30 April
| 8:00am EDT The Parting of the Ways | Part 2. Rose and the Doctor's friendship is put to the test, as Earth plunges into an epic war with the human race being slaughtered. |
| 9:00am EDT The Christmas Invasion | Can Rose trust a man with a new face? As the newly regenerated Doctor drifts in and out of consciousness, Christmas becomes a time of terror on planet Earth when the whole of mankind falls under the shadow of the sinister alien Sycorax. |
| 11:00pm CDT World War Three | Downing Street announces Earth's first Interplanetary War, but the real danger is much closer to home. While the Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones race against time to unmask the villainous Slitheen, Rose's mum and boyfriend hold the key to salvation. Can the missiles be stopped? |
Thursday 1 May
| 8:00am EDT New Earth | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital. |
| 9:00am EDT Tooth and Claw | The Doctor and Rose travel back to 1879, but an encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of warrior monks reveals a deadly trap. |
| 10:00pm CDT Planet of the Dead | These Doctor Who Specials run in sequence after season four of the new Doctor Who. David Tennant stars in these specials and is joined by a host of talent including David Morrisey, Dervla Kirwin, Catherine Tate and Timothy Dalton. These are the final five episodes with David Tennant as The Doctor. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Bells of Saint John |
| 11:00pm CDT Dalek | Beneath the Salt Plains of Utah, the billionaire collector Henry Van Statten holds the last relic of an alien race. When the Doctor and Rose investigate, they discover that the Doctor's oldest and most deadly enemy is about to break free. It's a fight to the death, with Rose caught in the middle. |
Friday 2 May
| 8:00am EDT School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 9:00am EDT The Girl in the Fireplace | Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor. |
| 10:30pm CDT Nightmare in Silver | The Doctor and Clara arrive at the dilapidated theme park Hedgewick's World and are confronted by the Cybermen. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Long Game | Adam Mitchell catches a glimpse of the wonders of travelling in the Tardis. In the future, Satellite 5 broadcasts to the entire Earth Empire. But anyone promoted to Floor 500 is never seen again, and the Doctor suspects humankind is being manipulated. Nothing escapes the eye of the sinister Editor, but just who is he working for? And does Adam have what it takes to become the Time Lord's companion? |