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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 18: 3-9 May 2014 - USA

Data last updated 02 January 2017

Saturday 3 May

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Top Gear instead (Series 12.2).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 ***


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation instead (Power Play).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 ***


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation instead (Ethics).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 ***


Show broadcasts for WGVU Michigan
 
4:00pm EDT
The Bells of Saint John

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation instead (The Outcast).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 ***


Show broadcasts for KPTS
 
9:00pm CDT
Robot: Movie format
Featured a short introduction by local fan club "The Whovians of Wichita".

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
7:00pm PDT
Underworld: Part Three
(Repeated: Sun 1:00am PDT)

Show broadcasts for KNCT
 
9:00pm CDT
The Empty Child

Show broadcasts for OETA DT2
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
7:30pm PDT
Underworld: Part Four
(Repeated: Sun 1:30am PDT)

Show broadcasts for West Virginia Public Broadcasting
 
11:00pm EDT
A Town Called Mercy

Show broadcasts for KCPT (Kansas City)
 
10:00pm CDT
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Show broadcasts for Mississippi Public Broadcasting
 
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.

Show broadcasts for WILL
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
The Crimson Horror
Originally scheduled for 10th May at 10pm

Show broadcasts for KUED
 
10:00pm MDT
A Town Called Mercy

Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
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.

Show broadcasts for Idaho Public Television
 
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

Show broadcasts for Louisiana Public Broadcasting
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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?

Show broadcasts for Louisiana Public Broadcasting
 
12:45am CDT
Open All Hours (Factual)

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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?

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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?

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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?

Show broadcasts for WSIU (Carbondale, Illinois)
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
Rise of the Cybermen
Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.

Show broadcasts for WGVU Life Michigan
 
8:00pm EDT
The Bells of Saint John

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KLRU Q
 
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.

Show broadcasts for WSIU (Carbondale, Illinois)
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
Fear Her
The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Army of Ghosts
The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth.

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
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.

Show broadcasts for WGVU Michigan
 
11:00pm EDT
The Rings of Akhaten

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
Doomsday
wo mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?

Show broadcasts for OETA
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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.