This Week in Doctor Who
Week 04: 24-30 Jan 2015 - USA
Saturday 24 January
| 5:00pm 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? |
| 5:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 3 |
| 5:30pm EST Inferno: Episode 4 |
| 5:45pm 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? |
| 6:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 3 |
| 6:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 5 |
| 6:30pm EST Inferno: Episode 4 |
| 6:30pm EST Inferno: Episode 6 |
| 7:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 5 |
| 7:30pm EST Inferno: Episode 6 |
| ~7:00pm PST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1 | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
| 9:00pm CST Planet of Evil: Part One | Dr. Who and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) answer a distress call from the fringe of the universe. Braun: Terence Brook. Baldwin: Tony McEwan. Sorenson: Frederick Jaeger. Vishinsky: Ewen Solon. |
| 9:00pm 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. |
| 9:00pm CST New Earth | Rose and the Doctor visit New Earth in the far future, where they come across an unexpected enemy and a luxurious hospital filled with gruesome secrets. |
| 9:30pm CST The Doctor's Wife (Repeated: Sun 3:18am CST) | The Doctor follows a Time Lord distress signal to a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble Universe. |
| ~7:36pm PST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 2 | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
| 11:00pm EST The Doctor Dances (Repeated: Mon 3:00am EST) | The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Doctor and Rose form an alliance with intergalactic con-man Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. The answer lies at the bombsite, but time is running out... |
| ~8:14pm PST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 3 | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
| 10:30pm CST Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1 of two. Rose finds her father (Shaun Dingwall) alive on a parallel Earth while a sinister plot against British society unfolds. |
| 11:45pm EST Weird Science (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 3:45am EST) | This episode explores the gadgets of Doctor Who, from the incredible to the incredibly silly. Nanogenes are able to diagnose problems and repair the human body. Other future technology will enable everyone to have portholes into their brains. |
| ~8:51pm PST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
| 11:00pm CST The Name of the Doctor (Repeated: Sun 4:00am CST) |
| 11:00pm 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 Love & Monsters | An ordinary man named Elton becomes obsessed with the Doctor and Rose and their mysterious blue box. |
| 11:00pm CST Turn Left |
| ~9:28pm PST The Curse of Fenric: Part One | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
| 11:45pm CST The New World of Dr Who (Factual) |
Sunday 25 January
| 12:00am CST The Rings of Akhaten |
| 12:00am CST The Power Of Three | Millions of sinister black cubes fall from the sky, and the Doctor worries about an invasion of Earth. |
Saturday 24 January
| ~10:05pm PST The Curse of Fenric: Part Two | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
| 11:15pm MST The Rebel Flesh | A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling toward a factory on Earth where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. A second wave hits and the doppelgangers separate. The Doctor must try to prevent an all-out civil war between humans and the "almost people" before the factory explodes. |
| ~10:42pm PST The Curse of Fenric: Part Three | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
Sunday 25 January
Saturday 24 January
| ~11:20pm PST The Curse of Fenric: Part Four | KBTC Doctor Who Pledge Marathon 1/24/15: this episode is part of the semi-annual Doctor Who pledge drive, to keep the show running for another six months. Timing based on the episode slots in the pledge programming (7:00pm-Midnight) |
Sunday 25 January
| 2:00am CST Hide |
| 3:00am CST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |
| 4:00am CST The Crimson Horror |
| 8:00pm EST Father's Day (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EST / Mon 5:00pm EST) | The Doctor takes Rose back to the day of her father's death in 1987, but when she changes history by saving his life. A terrifying force is unleashed which tries to repair the damage done to the timeline by destroying the entire human race. Sci-fi adventure, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper |
| 9:00pm EST The Empty Child (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EST / Mon 6:00pm EST) | Part one of two. The Doctor and Rose land in London in 1941, at the height of the Blitz, and discover the city's homeless children are being terrorised by a ghostly youngster. To add to the mystery, the Army is guarding a peculiar cylinder - and a dashing time-travelling criminal soon threatens the Doctor's hero status in Rose's eyes. Guest starring Richard Wilson and John Barrowman |
| 10:00pm CST The Doctor's Wife | The Doctor follows a Time Lord distress signal to a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble Universe. |
Monday 26 January
| 8:00pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Four |
| 11:00pm CST Nightmare in Silver |
Tuesday 27 January
| 10:00am EST The Fires of Pompeii | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 11:00am EST Planet of the Ood | The Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. |
| 8:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Two |
| 10:00pm CST The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CST) | 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 The Name of the Doctor |
Wednesday 28 January
| 10:00am EST The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 11:00am EST The Poison Sky | Part 2. As poison gas suffocates the Earth's population, the Doctor and UNIT team members work to eliminate the threat. |
| 8:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Four |
| 11:00pm CST Rose | 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... |
Thursday 29 January
| 10:00am EST The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 11:00am EST 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. |
| 12:00pm EST The Doctor Dances | The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Doctor and Rose form an alliance with intergalactic con-man Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. The answer lies at the bombsite, but time is running out... |
| 12:45pm EST Weird Science (Factual) | This episode explores the gadgets of Doctor Who, from the incredible to the incredibly silly. Nanogenes are able to diagnose problems and repair the human body. Other future technology will enable everyone to have portholes into their brains. |
| 8:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Five |
| 8:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Five |
| 8:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Six |
| 8:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Six |
| 10:00pm CST 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… the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind, the Doctor and the Ponds must find an escape route. But with Amy and Rory‘s relationship in meltdown, and an army of mad Daleks closing in, it is up to the Doctor to save their lives, as well as the Pond’s marriage. |
| 11:00pm CST The End Of The World | The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time to the year Five Billion. The sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth. But among the alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly spiders? |
Friday 30 January
| 10:00am EST 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. |
| 11:00am EST Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 8:00pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part Two |
| 10:30pm CST The Bells of Saint John | The Doctor battles the Spoonheads after discovering something sinister is lurking in the Wi-Fi. |
| 11:00pm CST The Unquiet Dead | The Doctor takes Rose back through time to 1869. In Victorian Cardiff, the dead are walking, and creatures made of gas are on the loose. The time-travellers team up with Charles Dickens to investigate Mr. Sneed, the local undertaker, and his psychic maid Gwyneth. Can they halt the plans of the ethereal Gelth? |