This Week in Doctor Who
Week 19: 10-16 May 2014 - USA
Data last updated 02 January 2017
Saturday 10 May
| 1:00pm EDT The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 2:00pm EDT The Poison Sky | Part 2. As poison gas suffocates the Earth's population, the Doctor and UNIT team members work to eliminate the threat. |
| 3:00pm EDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Rings of Akhaten |
| 4:00pm EDT The Unicorn and the Wasp | *** CANCELLED *** Agatha Christie's 10-day disappearance in 1926 may have been the result of amnesia, a nervous breakdown, or a giant alien wasp. BBC America online listings on 1st May indicated that this episode was no longer being shown, having been replaced by an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation instead (Cause and Effect). *** CANCELLED *** |
| 9:00pm CDT The Ark In Space: Movie format | Featured a short introduction by local fan club "The Whovians of Wichita". |
| 7:00pm PDT The Invasion of Time: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am PDT) |
| 9:00pm CDT The Doctor Dances |
| 9:00pm CDT The Name of the Doctor | The seventh season ends with the discovery of a secret the Doctor planned on taking to his grave. |
| 9:15pm CDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life on the distant planet Messaline, in the middle of an endless war. This was originally scheduled for the 3rd May, but was replaced by the broacast of Brit Floyd: Live at Red Rocksinstead. |
| 7:30pm PDT The Invasion of Time: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 1:30am PDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT The Power Of Three |
| 10:00pm CDT Nightmare in Silver | Originally scheduled for 24th May at 10pm. |
| 10:00pm CDT Night Terrors | The Doctor makes a house call for a boy who is terrified of the monsters lurking in his bedroom cupboard. |
| 10:30pm CDT The Snowmen (Repeated: Sun 6:00pm CDT) | The Doctor and his new companion, Clara, fight to save Christmas from the villainous Doctor Simeon and his army of evil snowmen. |
| 11:00pm 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 CDT The Name of the Doctor | Originally scheduled for 24th May at 10pm. |
| 10:00pm MDT The Power Of Three |
| 11:05pm CDT Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo...... of dinosaurs! By his side a ragtag gang of adventurers; a big game hunter, an Egyptian Queen and a surprised member of the Pond family. But little does the Doctor know there is someone else onboard who will stop at nothing to keep hold of his precious, prehistoric cargo. |
| 11:00pm MDT The Wedding of River Song | As the Doctor makes his final journey to the shores of Lake Silencio in Utah, he knows only one thing can keep the universe safe - his own death. But has he reckoned without the love of a good woman? |
Sunday 11 May
| 12:00am CDT The Wedding of River Song | As the Doctor makes his final journey to the shores of Lake Silencio in Utah, he knows only one thing can keep the universe safe - his own death. But has he reckoned without the love of a good woman? |
| 12:00am 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. |
| 12:47am CDT When Time Froze (Factual) |
| 1:00am 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? |
| 2:00am 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... |
| 3:00am 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. |
| 4:00am 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. |
| 10:02pm CDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life on the distant planet Messaline, in the middle of an endless war. Orginally scheduled for last weekend, but the main channel broadcast a concert instead. |
| 11:00pm 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. |
Monday 12 May
| 8:00am EDT Smith and Jones | The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger. |
| 9:00am EDT The Shakespeare Code | Witches cast a spell on the Doctor and Martha. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Rings of Akhaten |
| 11:00pm CDT The Parting of the Ways | Rose Tyler has faced danger and seen wonders alongside the Doctor, but now their friendship is put to the test as Earth plunges into an epic war. With the human race being slaughtered, the Doctor is forced into terrible action. Will the time-travellers ever be reunited? |
Tuesday 13 May
| 8:00am EDT Gridlock | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 9:00am EDT Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 9:57pm CDT The Waters of Mars (Repeated: Wed 1:57am 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 Almost People | The Doctor urges cooperation between the factory workers and the doppelgangers to overcome a crisis of their own making. |
| 11:00pm CDT New Earth | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis for new adventures in time and space. But when they visit mankind's new home, far in the future, they find gruesome secrets hidden inside a luxury hospital. And an enemy thought long since dead, the paper-thin Cassandra, is out for revenge... |
Wednesday 14 May
| 8:00am EDT Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 9:00am EDT The Lazarus Experiment | Turning back the clock has consequences. |
| 11:00pm CDT Tooth and Claw | The Doctor and Rose have to protect Queen Victoria, but can anything stop the Empire of the Wolf? |
Thursday 15 May
| 8:00am EDT 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 9:00am EDT Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 10:00pm CDT The End of Time: Part One | 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 Cold War |
| 11:00pm CDT School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a contemporary London school which is being haunted by strange, bat-like creatures at night. While at the school, the Doctor finds his old friend, Sarah Jane Smith, already working undercover. Both have old scores they must settle, and Rose discovers the true legacy of being a Time Lord's companion. |
Friday 16 May
| 8:00am EDT The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 9:00am EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 10:30pm CDT The Eleventh Hour | The 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) must save the world in 20 minutes even though the TARDIS is wrecked and his sonic screwdriver is disabled. Fortunately, he also meets Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) in the fifth-season premiere. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Girl in the Fireplace | The Doctor finds love - and evil droids - in 18th-century France. Madame de Pompadour is being haunted by a stranger called the Doctor. Can he save her from the clockwork killers? |