This Week in Doctor Who
Week 18: 3-9 May 2014 - USA
Data last updated 02 January 2017
Saturday 3 May
| 1:00pm EDT Voyage of the Damned | *** CANCELLED *** 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. BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Top Gear instead (Series 12.2). *** CANCELLED *** |
| 2:00pm EDT Partners in Crime | *** CANCELLED *** Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation instead (Power Play). *** CANCELLED *** |
| 3:00pm EDT The Fires of Pompeii | *** CANCELLED *** The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation instead (Ethics). *** CANCELLED *** |
| 4:00pm EDT The Bells of Saint John |
| 4:00pm EDT Planet of the Ood | *** CANCELLED *** The Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation instead (The Outcast). *** CANCELLED *** |
| 9:00pm CDT Robot: Movie format | Featured a short introduction by local fan club "The Whovians of Wichita". |
| 7:00pm PDT Underworld: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 1:00am PDT) |
| 9:00pm CDT The Empty Child |
| 9:00pm CDT Nightmare in Silver | The Doctor and Clara arrive at the dilapidated theme park Hedgewick's World and are confronted by the Cybermen. |
| 7:30pm PDT Underworld: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 1:30am PDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT A Town Called Mercy |
| 10:00pm CDT Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |
| 10:00pm CDT Let's Kill Hitler | The Doctor meets Adolf Hitler in 1930s Berlin, where he also encounters the greatest war criminal in the universe. |
| 10:30pm CDT The Angels Take Manhattan (Repeated: Sun 6:00pm CDT) | The Doctor bids farewell to Amy and Rory; statues in New York come to life. |
| 11:00pm 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 CDT The Crimson Horror | Originally scheduled for 10th May at 10pm |
| 10:00pm MDT A Town Called Mercy |
| 11:05pm CDT 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.... the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind, the Doctor and the Ponds must find an escape route. But with Amy and Rory’s relationship in meltdown, and an army of mad Daleks closing in, it is up to the Doctor to save their lives, as well as the Pond’s marriage. |
| 11:00pm MDT Closing Time | In the last few days of his life, the Doctor pays a farewell visit to his old friend Craig, and encounters a mystery. People are going missing, a silver rat scuttles in the shadows of a department store, and somewhere close by the Cyberen are waiting. |
Sunday 4 May
| 12:00am CDT Closing Time | In the last few days of his life, the Doctor pays a farewell visit his old friend Craig, and encounters a mystery. People are going missing, a silver rat scuttles in the shadows of a department store, and somewhere close by the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 12:00am 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? |
| 12:45am CDT Open All Hours (Factual) |
| 1:00am 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? |
| 2:00am 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? |
| 3:00am 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. |
| 4:00am 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? |
| 11:00pm CDT The Doctor's Wife | The Doctor endangers his companions and the TARDIS by following a Time Lord's distress call. |
Monday 5 May
| 8:00am EDT Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 9:00am EDT The Age of Steel | Part 2. The Cybermen take control of London and start converting the populace; Jackie falls under Lumic's control; the Doctor, Rose and Mickey are reduced to fugitives. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Bells of Saint John |
| 11:00pm CDT Father's Day | Rose was just a baby in 1987 when her father was killed by a car. So the Time Lord takes her back to the year in question to the spot where the accident happened. Of course, Rose cannot stand idly by and just watch her dad die alone, so she pushes him out of the way of the on-coming car. But in doing so, she upsets the balance of time and changes history. Suddenly, Earth is under threat from the Reapers, terrifying pterodactyl-like demons that swoop out of the sky to rectify time anomalies. |
Tuesday 6 May
| 8:00am EDT The Idiot's Lantern | It is 1953 and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is taking place, but beneath the celebrations there are rumours of monsters on the streets. |
| 9:00am EDT The Impossible Planet | Part 1. Rose is trapped in the orbit of a black hole; something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awaken. |
| 10:00pm CDT Planet of the Dead (Repeated: Wed 2:00am 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. |
| 10:00pm CDT The Rebel Flesh | The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to a futuristic factory on Earth where cloned humans are tasked with dangerous jobs, and a solar event affects the status quo. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Empty Child | The Doctor and Rose travel back to London in 1941, at the height of the Blitz. A mysterious cylinder is being guarded by the Army, while homeless children (living on the bombsites) are being terrorized by an unearthly child. Rose meets the dashing Captain Jack Harkness - has she found a hero even better than the Doctor? |
Wednesday 7 May
| 8:00am EDT The Satan Pit | Part 2. As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core as the Pit beckons. |
| 9:00am EDT Love & Monsters | A man named Elton is plunged into a world of living nightmares when he becomes obsessed with the Doctor, Rose and their mysterious blue box. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Doctor Dances | The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Doctor and Rose form an alliance with intergalactic con-man Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. The answer lies at the bombsite, but time is running out... |
Thursday 8 May
| 8:00am EDT Fear Her | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 9:00am EDT Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 10:00pm CDT The Waters of Mars | 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 Rings of Akhaten |
| 11:00pm CDT Boom Town | The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack have to fight for their lives on board the Game Station, but a far more dangerous threat is lurking just out of sight. The Doctor realizes that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching. |
Friday 9 May
| 8:00am EDT Doomsday | wo mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 9:00am 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? |
| 10:30pm CDT The Name of the Doctor | The seventh season ends with the discovery of a secret the Doctor planned on taking to his grave. |
| 11:00pm CDT Bad Wolf | The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack have to fight for their lives on board the Game Station, but a far more dangerous threat is lurking just out of sight. The Doctor realizes that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching. |