This Week in Doctor Who
Week 03: 17-23 Jan 2015 - USA
Saturday 17 January
  |  | 5:00pm EST Father's Day | Rose was just a baby in 1987 when her father was killed by a car. So the Time Lord takes her back to the year in question to the spot where the accident happened. Of course, Rose cannot stand idly by and just watch her dad die alone, so she pushes him out of the way of the on-coming car. But in doing so, she upsets the balance of time and changes history. Suddenly, Earth is under threat from the Reapers, terrifying pterodactyl-like demons that swoop out of the sky to rectify time anomalies. |
 |  | 5:00pm EST The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 6 |
| |  | 5:30pm EST The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 7 |
| |  | 5:45pm EST Time Trouble (Factual) | Rose goes back in time to the late '80s to meet her father, who died when she was just a baby. There she learns the consequences of meddling with time. Special effects were created using green-screen technology and the cast reveals the fun they had shooting in an '80s setting. |
 | | 6:00pm EST The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 6 |
| |  | 6:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 1 |
| | | 6:30pm EST The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 7 |
| |  | 6:30pm EST Inferno: Episode 2 |
| | | 7:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 1 |
| | | 7:30pm EST Inferno: Episode 2 |
 |  | 9:00pm CST The Christmas Invasion | Doctor Who returns to Earth on Christmas Eve, but something goes wrong during his regeneration, leaving the human race vulnerable as the Sycorax advance on Earth. Rose Tyler: Billie Piper. Jackie Tyler: Camille Coduri. Mickey Smith: Noel Clarke. |
 |  | 9:00pm CST The Angels Take Manhattan | The Doctor bids farewell to Amy and Rory; statues in New York come to life. |
 |  | 9:00pm CST Terror of the Zygons: Part Four | The Zygons begin their conquest of the world---by capturing the Doctor (Tom Baker). Broton: John Woodnutt. Harry: Ian Marter. Benton: John Levene. |
 |  | 9:30pm CST The Curse of the Black Spot (Repeated: Sun 3:15am CST) | The TARDIS is marooned on a pirate ship whose crew are being lured to their death by a Siren. |
 |  | 11:00pm EST The Empty Child (Repeated: Mon 3:00am EST) | The Doctor and Rose travel back to London in 1941, at the height of the Blitz. A mysterious cylinder is being guarded by the Army, while homeless children (living on the bombsites) are being terrorized by an unearthly child. Rose meets the dashing Captain Jack Harkness - has she found a hero even better than the Doctor? |
 |  | 10:30pm CST The Girl in the Fireplace | The palace of Versailles is under attack by evil droids in 18th-century France. Madame de Pompadour's (Sophia Myles) only hope is the Doctor, a stranger she's never met, except in mysterious dreams she's had since childhood. |
| |  | 11:45pm EST Special Effects (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 3:45am EST) | When Rose finds herself dangling from a rope during an air raid in WWII London, only one man can save her, and that man is ? Captain Jack?! These scenes were incredibly created-- and just who is Captain Jack, the Doctor's new rival for Rose's affection? |
 |  | 11:00pm CST Nightmare in Silver (Repeated: Sun 4:00am CST) |
 |  | 11:00pm CST The Wedding of River Song | As the Doctor makes his final journey to the shores of Lake Silencio in Utah, he knows only one thing can keep the universe safe - his own death. But has he reckoned without the love of a good woman? |
 |  | 11:00pm CST The Satan Pit | Rose battles the murderous Ood and the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core. |
 |  | 11:00pm CST Midnight |
| |  | 11:47pm CST Religion, Myths and Legends (Factual) |
Sunday 18 January
 |  | 12:00am CST A Town Called Mercy |
 | | 12:00am CST A Town Called Mercy | The Doctor becomes the reluctant sheriff of a Western town that is under siege by a relentless cyborg. |
Saturday 17 January
 |  | 11:15pm MST The Doctor's Wife | The Doctor follows a Time Lord distress signal to a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble Universe, unsure if there could 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. |
 |  | 11:00pm PST Warriors' Gate: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
Sunday 18 January
Saturday 17 January
Sunday 18 January
| | | 2:00am CST The Angels Take Manhattan |
| |  | 3:00am CST The Snowmen |
| |  | 4:00am CST The Bells of Saint John |
 |  | 8:00pm EST Dalek (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EST / Mon 5:00pm EST) | The Doctor investigates the last relic of an alien race held by a billionaire collector beneath the salt plains of Utah - and plunges into a battle against his oldest and deadliest enemy. Starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, with guest star former Coronation Street actor Bruno Langley (Todd Grimshaw) |
| |  | 9:00pm EST The Long Game (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EST / Mon 6:00pm EST) | The Doctor takes Rose and Adam to a space station orbiting Earth in the far future, a time when life on Earth is dominated by the Satellite 5 broadcasting system. However, it is not long before the Time Lord suspects the sinister media organisation is manipulating and controlling the human race to its own ends. Sci-fi adventure, guest starring Simon Pegg and Bruno Langley |
 | | 10:00pm CST The Curse of the Black Spot | The TARDIS is marooned on a pirate ship whose crew are being lured to their death by a Siren. |
Monday 19 January
 |  | 8:00pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part One |
| | | 8:00pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part One |
| |  | 8:30pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Two |
| | | 8:30pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Two |
| |  | 11:00pm CST The Rings of Akhaten |
Tuesday 20 January
 |  | 10:00am EST Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| |  | 11:00am EST The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| |  | 8:00pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Three |
| | | 8:00pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Three |
| |  | 8:30pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Four |
| | | 8:30pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Four |
 | | 10:00pm CST The Wedding of River Song (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CST) | As the Doctor makes his final journey to the shores of Lake Silencio in Utah, he knows only one thing can keep the universe safe - his own death. But has he reckoned without the love of a good woman? |
| |  | 11:00pm CST Cold War |
Wednesday 21 January
| |  | 10:00am EST Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| |  | 11:00am EST Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| |  | 8:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part One |
| | | 8:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part One |
| |  | 8:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Two |
| | | 8:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Two |
| |  | 9:00pm CST The Name of the Doctor (Repeated: Thu 3:30am CST / Fri 8:00am CST) |
| |  | 11:00pm CST Hide |
Thursday 22 January
| |  | 10:00am EST The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| |  | 11:00am EST Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| | | 12:00pm EST The Empty Child | The Doctor and Rose travel back to London in 1941, at the height of the Blitz. A mysterious cylinder is being guarded by the Army, while homeless children (living on the bombsites) are being terrorized by an unearthly child. Rose meets the dashing Captain Jack Harkness - has she found a hero even better than the Doctor? |
| | | 12:45pm EST Special Effects (Factual) | When Rose finds herself dangling from a rope during an air raid in WWII London, only one man can save her, and that man is ? Captain Jack?! These scenes were incredibly created-- and just who is Captain Jack, the Doctor's new rival for Rose's affection? |
| |  | 8:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Three |
| | | 8:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Three |
| |  | 8:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Four |
| | | 8:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Four |
| |  | 10:00pm CST 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... |
| |  | 11:00pm CST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |
Friday 23 January
| |  | 10:00am 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. |
| |  | 11:00am EST Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| |  | 8:00pm EST The Robots of Death: Part One |
| | | 8:00pm EST The Robots of Death: Part One |
| |  | 8:30pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Two |
| | | 8:30pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Two |
 | | 10:30pm CST The Snowmen | The Doctor and his new companion, Clara, fight to save Christmas from the villainous Doctor Simeon and his army of evil snowmen. |
| |  | 11:00pm CST The Crimson Horror |