This Week in Doctor Who
Week 31: 2-8 Aug 2014 - USA
Data last updated 02 January 2017
Saturday 2 August
| 8:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 9:00pm CDT The Lodger | A perplexing staircase, upon which people ascend but never descend, leads the Doctor to pose as a human in a bid to solve the mystery. |
| 9:00pm CDT Planet of Evil: Part Four | Dr. Who fights the enemy while the spaceship plunges toward oblivion. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Sorenson: Frederick Jaeger. Salamar: Prentis Hancock. Vishinsky: Ewen Solon. Reig: Melvyn Bedford. |
| 9:30pm CDT The End of Time: Part One | A public television favorite, Doctor Who follows the Doctor and his companion as they side-step danger while exploring time and space. |
| 10:00pm 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? |
| 11:00pm EDT Nightmare in Silver |
| 10:00pm CDT The Angels Take Manhattan | The Doctor bids farewell to Amy and Rory; statues in New York come to life. |
| 10:30pm CDT The End Of The World (Repeated: Sun 6:00pm CDT) | The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time to witness the death of Earth. |
| 10:00pm MDT The Name of the Doctor |
| 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... |
| 11:05pm CDT The Name of the Doctor |
| 11:10pm CDT Cold Blood |
Sunday 3 August
Saturday 2 August
| 11:18pm MDT The Crimson Horror | There is something odd about Mrs. Gillyflower's Sweetville mill town, with its perfectly clean streets and beautiful people. There is something even stranger about the bodies washing up in the river, all bright red and waxy. When the Doctor and Clara go missing, it is up to Vastra, Jenny and Strax to rescue them before they too fall victim to the Crimson Horror. |
Sunday 3 August
Saturday 2 August
| 11:00pm PDT The Power of Kroll: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 11:30pm PDT The Power of Kroll: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 3 August
| 2:00am CDT The Hungry Earth |
| 3:00am CDT Cold Blood |
| 4:00am CDT Vincent and the Doctor |
| 8:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 10:00pm CDT The End of Time: Part One | 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 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | A spaceship carrying dinosaurs hurtles out of control. |
Monday 4 August
| 8:00am EDT The Pandorica Opens | Part 1. A message on a cliff; a puzzle box that opens from the inside; the fates draw closer for the TARDIS. Originally scheduled for 5th August. |
| 9:00am EDT The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. Originally scheduled for 5th August. |
| 10:00am EDT Everything Changes (TW) | When Gwen Cooper witnesses the resurrection of a murder victim, it begins her journey into a dangerous underworld of savage monsters and alien hunters. Her chance encounter with Captain Jack Harkness and the Torchwood team will change her life forever. Originally scheduled for 5th August. |
| 8:00pm EDT An Unearthly Child |
| 8:30pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls |
| 11:00pm CDT The Lodger |
Tuesday 5 August
| 8:00am EDT A Christmas Carol | Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs? |
| 9:00am EDT The Impossible Astronaut | Part 1. The Doctor, Amy and Rory receive a secret summons that leads them to the Oval Office in 1969. Enlisting the help of a former FBI agent and the irrepressible River Song, the Doctor promises to assist the President. |
| 10:00am EDT Day One (TW) | An alien addicted to sex is let loose on Cardiff's nightlife, leaving a trail of gruesome deaths in its wake. Captain Jack and Torchwood must track down the creature's new host and in doing so, confront a violent new form of love in the 21st Century. |
| 8:00pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear |
| 8:30pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker |
| 10:00pm CDT Cold Blood (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT A Town Called Mercy | The Doctor becomes the reluctant sheriff of a Western town that is under siege by a relentless cyborg. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Pandorica Opens |
Wednesday 6 August
| 8:00am EDT Day of the Moon | Part 2. The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison. Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down by the FBI. But, with the help of President Nixon and Neil Armstrong, the Doctor is able to mount a rebellion against an alien invasion. |
| 9:00am EDT The Curse of the Black Spot | The TARDIS is marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship whose crew is being attacked by a mysterious and beautiful sea creature. Becalmed and beset by cabin fever, the pirates have numerous superstitious explanations for the Siren's appearance. |
| 10:00am EDT Ghost Machine (TW) | When Gwen retrieves an alien object from a fleeing thug, she's haunted by a vision of a lonely young boy. As the team track down the object's elusive owner, Owen experiences an even more terrifying vision and a long buried crime resurfaces. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Daleks: The Dead Planet |
| 8:30pm EDT The Daleks: The Survivors |
| 11:00pm CDT The Big Bang |
Thursday 7 August
| 8:00am EDT The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 9:00am EDT The Rebel Flesh | Part 1. A solar tsunami liberates doppelgangers from their human 'originals' in a futuristic factory. Can the Doctor prevent all out civil war? |
| 10:00am EDT Cyberwoman (TW) | In the basement of Torchwood, Ianto Jones hides a terrible secret. As a doctor attempts to rescue the soul of a half-Cybernised woman, a quiet day in Torchwood quickly becomes a nightmare. Has Ianto unleashed a force that will destory his colleagues? |
| 8:00pm EDT The Daleks: The Escape |
| 8:30pm EDT The Daleks: The Ambush |
| 10:00pm CDT Vincent and the Doctor |
| 11:00pm CDT A Christmas Carol | A space liner carrying over 4000 passengers, including Amy and Rory on their honeymoon, is caught in a strange electrified cloud cover over a human-inhabited planet that interferes with its controls. The Doctor is summoned by Amy, but is unable to use the TARDIS to save the ship, and instead lands on the planet and discovers a spire in the centre of a large city is influencing the atmosphere. Its owner, the bitter and peevish old Kazran Sardick refuses to operate the isomorphic controls to deactivate the spire and allow the ship to land safely. The Doctor observes Kazran's fear of his father who had built the spire, and creates a scheme inspired by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to bring Kazran around. |
Friday 8 August
| 8:00am EDT The Almost People | Part 2. The Doctor must convince terrified factory-workers to work with their doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making. |
| 9:00am EDT A Good Man Goes to War | The Doctor assembles an army to face the Battle of Demons Run - and River Song has something to tell him. |
| 10:00am EDT Small Worlds (TW) | Supernatural forces stalk the suburbs: but are they friendly or malevolent? And what do they want with the seemingly normal Pierce family? As nightmares of his past haunt Jack, can his old friend help him prevent the tragedy brewing in the suburbs? |
| 8:00pm EDT The Daleks: The Expedition |
| 8:30pm EDT The Daleks: The Ordeal |