This Week in Doctor Who
Week 52: 27 Dec 2014 - 2 Jan 2015 - USA
Data last updated 02 January 2017
Saturday 27 December
| 12:00am EST Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 1:00am EST 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. |
| 2:00am EST Journey's End (Repeated: Sun 6:00pm EST) | 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. |
| 3:00am EST 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? |
| 4:00am EST 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. |
| 5:00am EST The Waters of Mars (Repeated: Thu 5:00am EST) | 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. |
| 6:00am EST 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. |
| 7:00am EST 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. |
| 8:00am EST 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. |
| 9:00am EST 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. |
| 10:00am EST 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. |
| 11:00am EST The Vampires of Venice | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 12:00pm EST Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 1:00pm EST The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 2:00pm EST Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 3:00pm EST Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 4:00pm EST The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 5:00pm EST 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. |
| 5:00pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 1 |
| 5:30pm EST World War Three | Downing Street announces Earth's first Interplanetary War, but the real danger is much closer to home. While the Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones race against time to unmask the villainous Slitheen, Rose's mum and boyfriend hold the key to salvation. Can the missiles be stopped? |
| 5:30pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 2 |
| 6:00pm EST The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 6:00pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 1 |
| 6:00pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 3 |
| 6:15pm EST Why on Earth? (Factual) | The Doctor has a complex, love/hate relationship with human beings. He marvels at their good points, but will not tolerate their brutality toward aliens. Cast and crew discuss the difficult decisions the Doctor often makes to save humanity as well has how tricky it is to maneuver in full alien costume! |
| 6:30pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 2 |
| 6:30pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 4 |
| 7:00pm EST 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. |
| 7:00pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 3 |
| 7:30pm EST Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 4 |
| 8:00pm EST 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. |
| 9:00pm EST The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 9:00pm CST Boom Town |
| 9:00pm CST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship carrying dinosaurs hurtles out of control, but the Doctor tries to save it and its prehistoric cargo. |
| 9:00pm CST Terror of the Zygons: Part One | The Doctor investigates Loch Ness. Munro: Hugh Martin. Duke of Forgill: John Woodnutt. Huckle: Tony Sibbald. |
| 9:30pm CST A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Sun 3:30am CST) | A space liner carrying Amy and Rory on their honeymoon is caught in a strange electrified cloud. |
| 10:00pm CST The Sontaran Stratagem |
| 11:00pm EST 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? |
| 11:00pm EST Dalek (Repeated: Mon 3:00am EST) | Beneath the Salt Plains of Utah, the billionaire collector Henry Van Statten holds the last relic of an alien race. When the Doctor and Rose investigate, they discover that the Doctor's oldest and most deadly enemy is about to break free. It's a fight to the death, with Rose caught in the middle. |
| 10:45pm CST Voyage of the Damned | Season 4 debuts with a collision involving the TARDIS and a spacecraft replica of the Titanic. Kylie Minogue plays a waitress who helps the Doctor stand against a race of android angels. |
| 11:45pm EST The Daleks (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 3:45am EST) | For the first time in almost two decades, the Daleks are back, and they are worse than ever. Discover what changes were made to the Daleks to render them even more impressive and evil. Billed as "Dalek". |
| 11:00pm CST The Age of Steel | Cybermen take control of London. The Doctor and Rose are reduced to fugitives in a world of terror. |
| 11:00pm CST The Poison Sky |
Sunday 28 December
| 12:00am EST 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. |
Saturday 27 December
| 11:44pm CST From Zero to Hero (Factual) |
Sunday 28 December
| 12:00am CST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (Repeated: Sun 4:00am CST) |
| 12:00am CST 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? |
| 12:00am CST 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. |
Saturday 27 December
| 11:25pm MST The Impossible Astronaut | The Doctor returns for new adventure, along with newlyweds Amy and Rory. They 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. |
| 11:00pm PST Full Circle: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
Sunday 28 December
| 1:00am CST 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. |
| 2:00am EST 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? |
Saturday 27 December
| 11:30pm PST Full Circle: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) |
Sunday 28 December
| 2:00am CST 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? |
| 3:00am EST Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 3:00am CST 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? |
| 4:00am EST 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. |
| 4:00am CST 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... |
| 5:00am EST 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. |
| 6:00am EST Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now... |
| 7:00am EST Robot Of Sherwood | When Robots threaten Sherwood forest, the Doctor must join forces with Robin Hood to stop the evil reign of the Sheriff of Nottingham. |
| 8:00am EST Listen (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EST) | When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, the Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe. |
| 9:00am EST Time Heist (Repeated: Mon 1:00am EST) | The Doctor turns bank robber when he attempts to break into the most dangerous bank in the Cosmos. |
| 10:00am EST The Caretaker (Repeated: Mon 2:00am EST) | The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - and worse, any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet. |
| 11:00am EST Kill The Moon (Repeated: Mon 3:00am EST) | The Doctor and Clara crash land on the Moon to find a world of horror: a mining base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma. |
| 12:00pm EST Mummy On The Orient Express (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EST) | The Doctor and Clara are on the most beautiful train in history but a deadly creature is stalking the passengers. The Doctor must race against the clock to defeat the terrifying Mummy. |
| 1:00pm EST Flatline (Repeated: Mon 5:00am EST) | Separated from the Doctor, Clara discovers a new menace from another dimension. But how do you hide when even the walls are no protection? With people to save and the Doctor trapped, Clara comes up against an enemy that exists beyond human perception. |
| 2:00pm EST In The Forest Of The Night | One morning in every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to face the most surprising invasion yet. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown overnight and taken back the Earth. |
| 3:00pm EST 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. |
| 4:00pm EST 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. |
| 5:00pm EST Doomsday (Repeated: Wed 12:00pm EST) | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 7:00pm EST 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. |
| 8:00pm EST 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The End of Time: Part One (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EST / Mon 4:00pm EST) |
| 9:00pm EST 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? |
| 9:00pm EST The End of Time: Part Two (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EST / Mon 5:00pm EST) |
| 10:00pm EST 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.... |
| 11:00pm EST The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
Monday 29 December
| 8:00pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part Two |
| 11:00pm CST 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. |
| 11:00pm CST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |
Tuesday 30 December
| 8:00pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST Terror of the Zygons: Part Four |
| 10:00pm CST The Girl Who Waited (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CST) | 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? |
| 11:00pm CST 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. |
| 11:00pm CST The Crimson Horror |
Wednesday 31 December
| 8:00am EST 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. |
| 9:00am EST 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. |
| 10:00am EST Fear Her | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 11:00am EST Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 1:00pm EST 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. |
| 2:30pm EST 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. |
| 4:15pm EST Dark Water | In the world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Missy is about to come face to face with the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming. "Death is not an end" promises the sinister 3W but, as the Doctor and Clara discover, you might wish it was. |
| 5:15pm EST Death in Heaven | With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role. Can the mighty UNIT contain Missy? As the Doctor faces his greatest challenge, sacrifices must be made. |
| 6:30pm EST Last Christmas | The Twelfth Doctor makes his debut in BBC America's time-honored Doctor Who Christmas special. Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and guest star Nick Frost strap in for a dangerous sleigh ride through space and time in the Steven Moffat helmed special. |
| 8:00pm EST Planet of Evil: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST The End of Time: Part 1+2 (Repeated: Thu 2:00am EST) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Planet of Evil: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST Planet of Evil: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST Planet of Evil: Part Two |
| 11:00pm EST The Time of the Doctor | The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies. |
| 11:00pm CST Nightmare in Silver |
Thursday 1 January
| 12:20am EST The Day of The Doctor | The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure across space and time in this 50th Anniversary Special. |
| 8:00pm EST Planet of Evil: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST Planet of Evil: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Planet of Evil: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST Planet of Evil: Part Four |
| 10:00pm CST The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in what looks like an ordinary hotel. But the walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish. There is a room for every visitor that contains their deepest, darkest fears. Fears that will kill them. What lies in the Doctor's room? And when his turn comes, will he welcome death like all the rest? |
| 11:00pm CST The Name of the Doctor |
| 11:00pm CST 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? |
Friday 2 January
| 8:00pm EST The Android Invasion: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST The Android Invasion: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST The Android Invasion: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST The Android Invasion: Part Two |
| 10:30pm CST A Town Called Mercy | The Doctor becomes the reluctant sheriff of a Western town that is under siege by a relentless cyborg. |
| 11:00pm CST The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in what looks like an ordinary hotel. But the walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish. There is a room for every visitor that contains their deepest, darkest fears. Fears that will kill them. What lies in the Doctor's room? And when his turn comes, will he welcome death like all the rest? |