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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 34: 23-29 Aug 2014 - USA

Data last updated 20 January 2019

Saturday 23 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00am 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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00am 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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00am EDT
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord (Factual)
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?"

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00am EDT
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...

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00am EDT
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs!

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00am EDT
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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EDT
The Power Of Three
The Doctor and the Ponds puzzle an unlikely invasion of Earth, as millions of sinister black cubes fall from the sky overnight...

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am EDT
The Angels Take Manhattan
The Doctor's heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory - a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York's statues come to life around them....

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Snowmen
Christmas Eve 1892 and a chilling menace threatens humankind - but with the Doctor in mourning, it takes old friends and an unorthodox young governess to get him fighting to save the world again.

Show broadcasts for Sinovision (Mandarin)
 
8:00am EDT
Doctor Who
(the actual episode broadcast is unknown)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
The Bells of Saint John
The Doctor's search for Clara brings him to London, where Wi-Fi is everywhere. Humanity lives in a Wi-Fi soup but something dangerous is lurking in the signals, picking off minds and imprisoning them...

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
The Rings of Akhaten
On the rings of the planet Akhaten, the Festival of Offerings is in full swing. Clara meets the Queen of Years but something is stirring in the pyramid, and a sacrifice will be demanded.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
Cold War
The Doctor and Clara land on a submarine in 1983 as it spirals into the ocean depths with an alien creature loose. With tempers flaring and nuclear weapons on board, the whole of humanity is at stake!

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm EDT
Hide
The Doctor and Clara travel to the haunted Caliburn House. Within its walls, a ghost hunting Professor and a psychic search for the Witch of the Well. Her apparition appears, but is she really a ghost?

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00pm EDT
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
The TARDIS has crashed, Clara is lost inside, and the Doctor has 30 minutes before his ship explodes!

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00pm EDT
The Crimson Horror
Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00pm EDT
Nightmare in Silver
Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00pm EDT
The Name of the Doctor
The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00pm EDT
The Day of The Doctor
(Repeated: Sun 9:00am EDT)
The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure across space and time in this 50th Anniversary Special.

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EDT
The Daleks: The Expedition

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EDT
The Daleks: The Ordeal

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:40pm EDT
The Time of the Doctor
(Repeated: Sun 10:40am EDT)
The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies.

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Daleks: The Rescue

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Edge of Destruction

Show broadcasts for BBC America
Premiere
 
8:00pm EDT
Doctor Who: Live Pre-Show (Factual)
Comedian and Doctor Who superfan Chris Hardwick hosts this preshow to celebrate the premiere of Doctor Who Season 8. Featuring Mark Gatiss and an array of studio guests with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.
Originally scheduled for 7:30pm as a half-hour show.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
Premiere
 
8:15pm EDT
Deep Breath

Clara is alone in Victorian London with a man she doesn't know, a dinosaur in the Thames, and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. The Doctor has changed. It's time you knew him.


Originally scheduled for 8:00pm, duration unknown but assumed to be two hours.


Show broadcasts for Wisconsin Public Television
 
9:00pm CDT
The End of Time: Part Two
A public television favorite, Doctor Who follows the Doctor and his companion as they side-step danger while exploring time and space.

Show broadcasts for OETA DT2
 
9:00pm 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 2 Aug 2014 were filled with music events, with Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages on the 9th, and 50s & 60s Party Songs on the 16th.

Show broadcasts for KPTS
 
9:00pm CDT
Pyramids of Mars: Part One
A professor summons the power of an ancient god. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Marcus: Bernard Archard. Ahmed: Vik Tablian. Namin: Peter Mayock. Collins: Michael Bilton. Dr. Warlock: Peter Copley.
The gap in the schedule since Planet of Evil: Part Four on 2 Aug 2014 saw a number of music-related programming instead: 50s & 60s Rock Rewind on the 9th; Jimmy Van Heusen: Swingin' With Frank & Bing on the 16th.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
Premiere
 
11:00pm EDT
Doctor Who: After Who Live (Factual)
(Repeated: Sun 6:00am EDT)

Comedian and Doctor Who superfan Chris Hardwick hosts this live aftershow to celebrate the premiere of Doctor Who Season 8. Featuring Mark Gatiss and an array of studio guests with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.


Show broadcasts for KCPT (Kansas City)
 
10:00pm 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?

Show broadcasts for Mississippi Public Broadcasting
 
10:00pm CDT
The Bells of Saint John
The Doctor battles the Spoonheads after discovering something sinister is lurking in the Wi-Fi.
There were a few weeks gap since The Angels Take Manhattan on 2 Aug 2014, which saw music programmes on the schedule instead: All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman and Ed Sullivan's Top Performers 1966-1969 on the 9th; The Bee Gees: One Night Only and Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii on the 16th.

Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
11:00pm CDT
School Reunion
The Doctor investigates a contemporary London school that is being haunted by bat-like creatures

Show broadcasts for KCPT (Kansas City)
 
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.

Sunday 24 August

Show broadcasts for US Venues
Premiere
 
12:00am EDT
Deep Breath

A celebration of the twelfth Doctor featuring the season premiere PLUS an exclusive prequel scene and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Deep Breath!

Attention all Whovians, the most patient fans in the world, Fathom Events and BBC Worldwide are thrilled to celebrate new beginnings with a special limited midnight showings of Doctor Who Season Premiere: Deep Breath in select cinemas

Season 8 launches with a new Doctor, Peter Capaldi (In the Loop, World War Z), at the helm of the TARDIS as he’s joined by companion, Clara (Jenna Coleman, Captain America: The First Avenger) in what promises to be the most amazing Doctor Who adventure yet. Clara is alone in Victorian London with a man she doesn’t know, a dinosaur in the Thames, and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. The Doctor has changed. It’s time you knew him.

This electrifying event will also feature bonus content exclusive to cinemas including an exciting prequel before the feature presentation and “behind the scenes” after.


Shown in selected theaters across the United States.

Saturday 23 August

Sunday 24 August

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
12:00am 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.

Saturday 23 August

Sunday 24 August

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
1:00am 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.

Saturday 23 August

Sunday 24 August

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
2:00am 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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
3:00am 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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
4:00am 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?

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am 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.

Show broadcasts for Sinovision (Mandarin)
 
8:00am EDT
Doctor Who
(the actual episode broadcast is unknown)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm 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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00pm EDT
The Empty Child
(Repeated: Mon 4:00am EDT)
Part 1. An unearthly child haunts the bomb sites of London.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00pm EDT
Doomsday
(Repeated: Mon 5:00am EDT)
Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00pm EDT
The Doctor's Wife
By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00pm 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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00pm 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.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00pm EDT
Blink
When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EDT
Vincent and the Doctor
Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh.

Show broadcasts for WSIU (Carbondale, Illinois)
 
11:00pm CDT
The Angels Take Manhattan
(Repeated: Tue 11:00pm CDT)
The Doctor bids farewell to Amy and Rory.

Monday 25 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
Rose
Rose Tyler meets the Doctor, who helps her understand that Earth is in danger.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
The End Of The World
The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage to a time when the sun is about to swallow Earth and a murderer is at work.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Combat (TW)
Savage aliens are being kidnapped from Cardiff and Torchwood wants to know why. Owen is sent undercover to find out who is behind it and soon befriends the charismatic Mark Lynch. Beneath normal city life, Owen discovers a shocking subculture.

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EDT
The Romans: The Slave Traders

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EDT
The Romans: All Roads Lead to Rome

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
The Almost People
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?

Tuesday 26 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Unquiet Dead
Author Charles Dickens joins the Doctor and Rose in 1869 Victorian Cardiff to battle the ethereal Gelth.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Aliens of London
Part 1. The Doctor takes Rose home, but the world goes on alert when an alien spacecraft crashes in the Thames.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Captain Jack Harkness (TW)
While investigating reports of ghostly music, Jack and Toshiko find themselves stranded in a packed dance hall in 1941. As Gwen, Owen and Ianto work to rescue their colleagues, Jack and Toshiko meet a young American leader by the named Captain Jack.

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EDT
The Romans: Conspiracy

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EDT
The Romans: Inferno

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
A Good Man Goes to War
The Doctor needs an army by his side. As he calls in all his debts across the cosmos, his enemies use his closest friends to trap him. Today will mark the Battle of Demons Run. Both sides will make their sacrifices - and River Song has something to tell the Doctor...

Wednesday 27 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
World War Three
Part 2. The world edges toward mankind's first interplanetary war, as the Doctor and Rose try to escape from Downing Street.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Dalek
A billionaire collector possesses the remains of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest enemy, the Daleks.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
End of Days (TW)
The rift has been opened, and time is splintering all over the world. As events spiral out of control, the Torchwood team members are faced with fragments of their pasts û and terrifying visions of their futures. Can Captain Jack save the world?

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EDT
The Web Planet

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EDT
The Web Planet: The Zarbi

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
Let's Kill Hitler
In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. The Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities - and in so doing, learns a harsh lesson in the cruelest warfare of all.

Thursday 28 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Long Game
In the future, Adam discovers that traveling with a Time Lord is far from easy.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Father's Day
Rose travels back in time to meet her long-dead father, but the Tyler family finds itself fighting the monstrous Reapers.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TW)
Captain Jack Harkness returns but won't reveal where he's been. An old, mysterious acquaintance arrives through the rift with a plea for help to save lives in Cardiff, but his sinister ulterior motives spell danger for the Torchwood team.

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EDT
The Web Planet: Escape to Danger

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EDT
The Web Planet: Crater of Needles

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
10:00pm CDT
The Lodger

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
Night Terrors
The Doctor receives a distress call from the scariest place in the Universe. A child's bedroom. Terrified of the monsters in his cupboard, George's pleas for help break through the barriers of all time and space. But allaying his fears won't be easy, even for the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real.

Friday 29 August

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Doctor Dances
Part 2. The child's plague spreads through wartime London, and a zombie army is on the march; the Doctor and Rose form an alliance with an intergalactic con-man.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Boom Town
The Doctor encounters an enemy from his past when the crew decides to take a holiday; an alien plot is behind the construction of a nuclear power plant in Cardiff.

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Sleeper (TW)
When a couple are burglarized in their home the wife fights back, kills the burglars, and has no memory of the incident. The Torchwood team uncovers her powers and determines that she's not human. She's part of an alien force threatening society.

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EDT
The Web Planet: Invasion

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EDT
The Web Planet: The Centre

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
The Girl Who Waited
Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague - a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day. The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness?

Show broadcasts for OETA
 
11:00pm CDT
The Big Bang
Rory maintains a vigil for Amy while the Doctor is trapped in the Pandorica, and the key to restoring the universe may lie with a little girl who still believes in stars in the 5th-season finale.