This Week in Doctor Who
Week 20: 17-23 May 2014 - USA
Data last updated 02 January 2017
Saturday 17 May
| 1:00pm EDT Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 2:00pm EDT The Stolen Earth | Part 1. Earth's greatest heroes assemble to fight the New Dalek Empire, but a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows. |
| 3:00pm EDT Journey's End | Part 2. As Davros and the Daleks threaten the entire universe, the Doctor's companions join forces. However, the prophecy declares that one of them will die. |
| 4:00pm EDT Cold War |
| 9:00pm CDT The Sontaran Experiment: Movie format | Featured a short introduction by local fan club "The Whovians of Wichita". |
| 7:00pm PDT The Invasion of Time: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 1:00am PDT) |
| 9:00pm CDT Boom Town |
| 9:00pm 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. |
| 9:15pm CDT The Unicorn and the Wasp | The Doctor and Donna arrive in 1926 on the day before Agatha Christie went missing for 10 days. |
| 7:30pm PDT The Invasion of Time: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 1:30am PDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT The Angels Take Manhattan |
| 10:00pm 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... |
| 10:00pm CDT The Girl Who Waited | The Doctor and Rory must rescue Amy, who has been quarantined in an alien hospital. |
| 10:30pm CDT The Bells of Saint John (Repeated: Sun 6:00pm CDT) | The Doctor battles the Spoonheads after discovering something sinister is lurking in the Wi-Fi. |
| 11:00pm 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 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 MDT The Angels Take Manhattan |
| 11:05pm CDT A Town Called Mercy | The Doctor gets a Stetson (and a gun!), and finds himself the reluctant Sheriff of a Western town under siege by a relentless cyborg, who goes by the name of, the Gunslinger. But who is he and what does he want? The answer seems to lie with the mysterious, Kahler-Jex, an alien doctor (yes another one!) whose initial appearance is hiding a dark secret. |
Sunday 18 May
| 12:00am CDT The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe | It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness - all she has to do is make a wish. Three years later, a devastated Madge escapes war-torn London with her two children for a dilapidated house in Dorset. She is crippled with grief at the news her husband has been lost over the channel, but determined to give Lily and Cyril the best Christmas ever. The Arwells are surprised to be greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world. Here, Madge will learn how to be braver than she ever thought possible. And that wishes can come true... |
| 12:00am 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? |
Saturday 17 May
| 11:00pm MDT Asylum of the Daleks | Season 7 begins with The Doctor, Amy and Rory individually kidnapped by the Daleks, who send them on an assignment the Daleks themselves are afraid to do. The Doctor and his companions find themselves on a prison planet for insane Daleks, who quickly close in on them. The Doctor realizes he must find an escape route to save their lives and possibly the Ponds' marriage. |
Sunday 18 May
| 1:00am 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... |
| 2:00am CDT Tooth and Claw | The Doctor and Rose have to protect Queen Victoria, but can anything stop the Empire of the Wolf? |
| 3:00am 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. |
| 4:00am 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? |
| 10:02pm CDT The Unicorn and the Wasp | The Doctor and Donna arrive in 1926 on the day before Agatha Christie went missing for 10 days. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Almost People | The Doctor urges cooperation between the factory workers and the doppelgangers to overcome a crisis of their own making. |
Monday 19 May
| 8:00am EDT Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 9:00am EDT The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 8:00pm EDT Cold War |
| 11:00pm CDT Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1 of 2. The Tardis is trapped on a parallel Earth and Rose discovers that her father is still alive. But sinister forces are at work, and British society is being prepared for the Ultimate Upgrade. Meanwhile, an old enemy of the Doctor's is about to be reborn... |
Tuesday 20 May
| 8:00am EDT Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 9:00am 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. |
| 9:59pm CDT The End of Time: Part One (Repeated: Wed 1:59am 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 A Good Man Goes to War | The Doctor and Rory must rescue Amy, who has been quarantined in an alien hospital. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Age of Steel | The story continues... Cybermen take control of London and start converting the populace. While Jackie falls under Lumic's control, the Doctor, Rose and Mickey are reduced to fugitives in a world of terror. A last, desperate attack on the Cyberfactory is their only chance - but will they all survive? |
Wednesday 21 May
| 8:00am EDT Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 9:00am EDT The Fires of Pompeii | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Idiot's Lantern | It is 1953, the Coronation year of HM Queen Elizabeth II, and the people of Great Britain huddle round their television and radio sets to witness the great event. But behind the celebrations there are rumors of monsters on the streets, and the tormented Mr. Magpie is hiding a strange and alien secret. |
Thursday 22 May
| 8:00am EDT Planet of the Ood | The Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. |
| 9:00am EDT The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 10:00pm CDT The End of Time: Part Two | 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 Hide |
| 11:00pm CDT The Impossible Planet | Part 1 of 2. Rose finds herself further away from home than ever before, in the orbit of a Black Hole. Trapped with an Earth expedition and the mysterious Ood, the time-travelers face an even greater danger as something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to wake. |
Friday 23 May
| 8:00am 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. |
| 9:00am EDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 10:30pm CDT The Beast Below | Amy and the Doctor visit the distant future, where they find an abandoned Earth and the British people living on a starship in space, searching for a new planet to call home. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Satan Pit | As the story continues, Rose battles the murderous Ood and the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core, as the Pit beckons. With the planet threatening to fall into the Black Hole, the Doctor must make the ultimate sacrifice - but can he save the entire universe from the Beast? |