This Week in Doctor Who
Week 33: 16-22 Aug 2014 - USA
Data last updated 02 January 2017
Saturday 16 August
| 8:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 6:00pm EDT The Daleks: The Dead Planet |
| 6:30pm EDT The Daleks: The Survivors |
| 7:00pm EDT The Daleks: The Escape |
| 7:30pm EDT The Daleks: The Ambush |
| 8:00pm EDT The Christmas Invasion | 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... |
| 9:00pm EDT Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion (Factual) (Repeated: Sun 12:00am EDT / Fri 11:00pm EDT) | Peter Davison is on a new journey to discover everything he can about the Doctor's Companion. What exactly is a companion's role, how do you actually become a companion, what do they have in common and how have the companions changed over the years? |
| 9:30pm EDT The Runaway Bride | 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 EDT The Real History of Science Fiction: Time (Factual) (Repeated: Sun 1:00am EDT) | What if we could travel not just through space, but through time itself? This is a journey from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine through ideas like The Grandfather Paradox and The Butterfly Effect to the time traveler that is the ever popular Doctor Who. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Fires of Pompeii (Repeated: Wed 8:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 11:35pm CDT Tooth and Claw | The Doctor and Rose have to protect Queen Victoria, but can anything stop the Empire of the Wolf? |
| 11:18pm MDT The Name of the Doctor | Clara is summoned to an impossible conference call, alerting her that the deadly Whisper Men are closing in on Vastra, Jenny and Strax. Someone is kidnapping the Doctor's friends, leading him toward the one place in time and space that he should never go and threatening to unravel his past, present and future. |
Sunday 17 August
| 12:20am CDT Fear Factor (Factual) |
Saturday 16 August
| 11:00pm PDT The Armageddon Factor: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 11:30pm PDT The Armageddon Factor: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 17 August
| 3:00am EDT Christmas Invasion | In this special, Rose (Billie Piper) drops in on her mother and boyfriend in the TARDIS - accompanied by a complete stranger, the new Doctor Who (David Tennant). Disoriented and weak from the regeneration process, the new Doctor slips in and out of consciousness as Rose desperately tries to revive him. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Harriet Jones has just been informed that a British space probe, on its way to Mars for a Christmas Day landing, has gone missing. It has been kidnapped by a monstrous race known as the Sycorax, who are set on taking over the world. Only the Doctor can stop their terrifying advance. |
| 4:00am EDT The Runaway Bride |
| 8:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 11:00pm CDT The Power Of Three | Millions of sinister black cubes fall from the sky, and the Doctor worries about an invasion of Earth. |
Monday 18 August
| 8:00am EDT The First Doctor (Factual) | The First Doctor introduced viewers to an incredible show that is still popular 50 years later. Take a look at the TARDIS, meet his companions and finally confront his most famous foes, the Daleks. |
| 8:30am EDT The Second Doctor (Factual) | The Second Doctor brought new energy to the series. Take a look at the fearless Scottish highlander companion Jamie McCrimmon and one of the Doctor's most iconic foes, the emotionless Cyberman! |
| 9:00am EDT The Third Doctor (Factual) | Along with the introduction of color, the Third Doctor brought action, stunts and car chases to Doctor Who. Check out the Doctor's helicopters and hovercrafts, look at how the Doctor joined the British Army and get acquainted with The Master! |
| 9:30am EDT The Fourth Doctor (Factual) | Celebrate the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, who quickly made the part his own. With his eccentric style of dress, speech and his trademark long scarf, the Fourth Doctor became a recognizable figure. |
| 10:00am EDT The Fifth Doctor (Factual) | Look back at the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, with a discussion of the return of two popular foes, the emotionless Cybermen and the ever-deceitful Master. |
| 10:30am EDT The Sixth Doctor (Factual) | Celebrate the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, examine his adventures and discuss his famous foes, including the universe's most slippery business man, Sil. |
| 11:00am EDT The Seventh Doctor (Factual) | The Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, brought a new darkness to Doctor Who. Examine the Seventh Doctor's darker side, explore his surreal adventures, and meet his most scientific foe, The Rani. |
| 11:30am EDT The Eighth Doctor (Factual) | Celebrate the uniqueness of the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann, who appeared in the Doctor Who TV movie in 1996 to fight a new incarnation of his oldest nemesis, the Master. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Ninth Doctor (Factual) | The Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, was the first Doctor to appear in the 21st century. Look back on Eccleston portraying a no nonsense, hard hitting and straight talking Doctor. |
| 12:30pm EDT The Tenth Doctor (Factual) (Repeated: Wed 1:30am EDT) | Celebrate the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, who played the part from 2005 to 2010 and has become one of the most popular Doctors of all time. |
| 1:00pm EDT The Christmas Invasion | Can Rose trust a man with a new face? As the newly regenerated Doctor drifts in and out of consciousness, Christmas becomes a time of terror on planet Earth when the whole of mankind falls under the shadow of the sinister alien Sycorax. |
| 2:00pm EDT New Earth | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital. |
| 3:00pm EDT Tooth and Claw | The Doctor and Rose travel back to 1879, but an encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of warrior monks reveals a deadly trap. |
| 4:00pm EDT School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 5:00pm EDT The Girl in the Fireplace | Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor. |
| 6:00pm EDT Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 7:00pm 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 An Adventure In Space And Time (Misc) | A special one-off drama re-telling of the creation of the long-running television series "Doctor Who" in 1963. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Sensorites: The Unwilling Warriors |
| 8:30pm EDT The Sensorites: Hidden Danger |
| 10:00pm EDT Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord (Factual) (Repeated: Tue 1:00am EDT) | Peter Davison is on a quest to discover what makes the ultimate Time Lord. The Fifth Doctor meets the talented people who have helped create the show both past, present and future, and asks "Who is the Doctor? What will make the Twelfth Doctor unique?" |
| 11:00pm CDT The Impossible Astronaut | 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 in saving a terrified little girl from a mysterious Space Man. |
Tuesday 19 August
| 2:00am 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. |
| 3:00am 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. |
| 4:00am 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. |
| 5:00am EDT Fear Her | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 8:00am EDT Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 9:00am EDT Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 10:00am 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? |
| 11:00am EDT Smith and Jones | The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Shakespeare Code | Witches cast a spell on the Doctor and Martha. |
| 1:00pm EDT Gridlock | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 2:00pm EDT Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 3:00pm EDT Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Lazarus Experiment | Turning back the clock has consequences. |
| 5:00pm EDT 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 6:00pm EDT Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 8:00pm EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Sensorites: A Race Against Death |
| 8:30pm EDT The Sensorites: Kidnap |
| 9:00pm EDT Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Sound of Drums (Repeated: Wed 2:00am EDT) | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 10:00pm CDT The Angels Take Manhattan | The Doctor bids farewell to Amy and Rory. |
| 11:00pm EDT Last of the Time Lords (Repeated: Wed 3:00am EDT) | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 11:00pm CDT Day of the Moon | The Doctor is locked up in Area 51. 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 dating back to the very beginnings of human civilisation. |
Wednesday 20 August
| 12:00am EDT Voyage of the Damned (Repeated: Wed 4:00am EDT) | 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. |
| 5:00am 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 Planet of the Ood | he Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. |
| 10:00am EDT The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 1:00pm EDT The Unicorn and the Wasp | Agatha Christie's 10-day disappearance in 1926 may have been the result of amnesia, a nervous breakdown, or a giant alien wasp. |
| 2:00pm EDT Silence in the Library | Part 1. The Doctor and Donna must uncover the truth behind the Nodes and the Data Ghost to uncover the library's secret. |
| 3:00pm EDT Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 4:00pm EDT Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 5:00pm EDT Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 6:00pm 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. |
| 7:00pm 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. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Next Doctor | When the Doctor investigates a spate of mysterious deaths, he's surprised to meet another Doctor. The two must combine forces to defeat a human ally to the Cybermen. But are two Doctors enough to stop the rise of the CyberKing? |
| 8:00pm EDT The Sensorites: A Desperate Venture |
| 8:30pm EDT Planet of Giants |
| 9:20pm EDT Planet of the Dead | The mysterious Lady Christina de Souza joins the Doctor on a bus trip which takes a very unexpected detour into danger. |
| 10:40pm EDT The Waters of Mars | Mars, 2059. Bowie Base one. Last recorded message: don't drink the water. don't even touch it. not one drop... Confused? All will be revealed in The Waters of Mars, starring Lindsay Duncan as the Doctor's cleverest and most strong-minded companion yet. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Curse of the Black Spot | The TARDIS is marooned onboard a seventeenth-century pirate-ship whose crew are being lured to their death by a beautiful Siren. When the Captain's son is taken, the implacable pirate must place his life in the Doctor's hands and with him, take an extraordinary leap of faith. |
Thursday 21 August
| 12:00am EDT The End of Time: Parts 1+2 (Repeated: Thu 3:00am EDT) | Part 1 & 2. It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey - but his nemesis, The Master, has been reborn. A terrible shadow falls across the Universe as great danger approaches, and the Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master's plans hurtle out of control. |
| 8:00am EDT Tales from the TARDIS (Factual) | Actors and producers share their memories of the world's longest-running sci-fi show. The special features exclusive interviews with principal cast members from the show's 50-year history, including actors who have played the Doctor and companions. |
| 9:00am EDT The Eleventh Hour | The newly regenerated Doctor and Amy Pond must save the world in less than 20 minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi. |
| 10:00am EDT The Beast Below | The Doctor and Amy travel to Britain of the future, where people live in a giant spaceship; Amy comes across the terrifying Smilers. |
| 11:00am EDT Victory of the Daleks | The Doctor and Amy meet Winston Churchill during a trip back to World War II, where they also encounter the Daleks. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Time of Angels | Part 1. The Doctor hunts the last of the Weeping Angels through the Maze of the Dead; the mysterious River Song is back in the Doctor's life, but he doesn't know if he can trust her. |
| 1:00pm EDT Flesh and Stone | Part 2. The Doctor and his friends are forced to escape through the forest vault after they are surrounded by the Weeping Angels. |
| 2:00pm EDT The Vampires of Venice | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 3:00pm EDT Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 5:00pm EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 6:00pm EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Pandorica Opens (Repeated: Fri 1:00am EDT) | Part 1. A message on a cliff; a puzzle box that opens from the inside; the fates draw closer for the TARDIS. |
| 8:00pm EDT Planet of Giants: Dangerous Journey |
| 8:30pm EDT Planet of Giants: Crisis |
| 9:00pm EDT The Big Bang (Repeated: Fri 2:00am EDT) | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 10:00pm EDT A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Fri 3:00am EDT) | 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? |
| 11:00pm CDT The Doctor's Wife | The Doctor follows a Time Lord distress signal to a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble Universe - could there really be another living Time Lord out there? But the asteroid hides a secret which could threaten the existence not only of the TARDIS crew, but of the TARDIS itself. |
Friday 22 August
| 8:00am 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. |
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EDT The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 12:00pm 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? |
| 1:00pm 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. |
| 2:00pm 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. |
| 3:00pm EDT Let's Kill Hitler | The TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. |
| 4:00pm EDT Night Terrors | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 5:00pm EDT The Girl Who Waited | Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness? |
| 6:00pm EDT The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in a hotel where every visitor's room contains their deepest, darkest fears. What lies in wait in the Doctor's room? |
| 7:00pm EDT Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Wedding of River Song | By the shores of Lake Silencio, in Utah, all of time and space hang in the balance - because this is the day the Doctor dies. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Rescue: The Powerful Enemy |
| 8:30pm EDT The Rescue: Desperate Measures |
| 9:00pm EDT Doctor Who: Earth Conquest: The World Tour (Factual) | The special follows stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman on Doctor Who: The World Tour, which sees them visiting seven cities across five continents in 12 days to publicize the upcoming season. This version did not include the New York and Rio De Janeiro parts of the tour. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe | Evacuated to a house in Dorset from war-torn London, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, are greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world. |
| 10:30pm CDT The Pandorica Opens | The Doctor receives a warning from his allies that the Pandorica, which allegedly holds the most fearsome being in the universe, is about to open. The intervening weeks between this broadcast and The Lodger on 1 Aug 2014 were filled with music concerts, with 60s Girls Grooves / Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: The Definitive Performances on the 8th, and The Big Band Years / Woody's Children: 45th Anniversary Concert Live at Symphony Space on the 15th. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Rebel Flesh | A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a factory on earth where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. A second wave hits and the 'Gangers' separate. Can the Doctor prevent an all out civil war between the humans and the 'almost people' before the factory explodes? |