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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 04: 24-30 Jan 2015 - USA

Data last updated 02 January 2017

Saturday 24 January

Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
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?


Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
 
5:00pm EST
Inferno: Episode 3

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
 
5:30pm EST
Inferno: Episode 4

Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
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?


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EST
Inferno: Episode 3

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
 
6:00pm EST
Inferno: Episode 5

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EST
Inferno: Episode 4

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
 
6:30pm EST
Inferno: Episode 6

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EST
Inferno: Episode 5

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EST
Inferno: Episode 6

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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)


Show broadcasts for KPTS
 
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.


Show broadcasts for OETA DT2
 
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.


Show broadcasts for KNCT
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Wisconsin Public Television
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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)


Show broadcasts for UNC-TV
 
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...


Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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)


Show broadcasts for WILL
 
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.


Show broadcasts for UNC-TV
 
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.


Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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)


Show broadcasts for WTTW Prime Chicago
 
11:00pm CST
The Name of the Doctor
(Repeated: Sun 4:00am CST)

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
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...

Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
11:00pm CST
Love & Monsters
An ordinary man named Elton becomes obsessed with the Doctor and Rose and their mysterious blue box.

Show broadcasts for KCPT (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CST
Turn Left

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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)


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
11:45pm CST
The New World of Dr Who (Factual)

Sunday 25 January

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
12:00am CST
The Rings of Akhaten

Show broadcasts for Mississippi Public Broadcasting
 
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

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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)


Show broadcasts for Idaho Public Television
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
~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

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
2:00am CST
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Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
3:00am CST
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
4:00am CST
The Crimson Horror

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
8:00pm EST
Father's Day

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


Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
9:00pm EST
The Empty Child

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


Show broadcasts for WPT - The Wisconsin Channel
 
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

Tuesday 27 January

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Two

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Two

Show broadcasts for KLRU Q
 
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...

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CST
The Name of the Doctor

Wednesday 28 January

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EST
The Sontaran Stratagem

Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Four

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Four

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EST
The Doctor's Daughter

The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
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...


Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Five

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Five

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Six

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Six

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
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.

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EST
Forest of the Dead

Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
Horror of Fang Rock: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:00pm EST
Horror of Fang Rock: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
Horror of Fang Rock: Part Two

Show broadcasts for Retro TV (RTVN)
Premiere
 
8:30pm EST
Horror of Fang Rock: Part Two

Show broadcasts for OETA
 
10:30pm CST
The Bells of Saint John

The Doctor battles the Spoonheads after discovering something sinister is lurking in the Wi-Fi.


Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
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?