This Week in Doctor Who
Week 05: 31 Jan - 6 Feb 2015 - USA
Saturday 31 January
| 5:00pm 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... |
| 5:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 7 |
| 5:30pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode One |
| 5:45pm 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. |
| 6:00pm EST Inferno: Episode 7 |
| 6:00pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode Two |
| 6:30pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode One |
| 6:30pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode Three |
| 7:00pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode Two |
| 7:30pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode Three |
| 9:00pm CST Planet of Evil: Part Two | A bestial sentry guards the spaceship on the alien planet. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Sorenson: Frederick Jaeger. Vishinsky: Ewen Solon. Salamar: Prentis Hancock. De Haan: Graham Weston. Morelli: Michael Wisher. Billed as Part Three. |
| 9:00pm CST The Bells of Saint John | The Doctor battles the Spoonheads after discovering something sinister is lurking in the Wi-Fi. |
| 9:00pm CST Tooth and Claw |
| 10:15pm 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. |
| 9:30pm CST The Rebel Flesh (Repeated: Sun 3:15am CST) | The Doctor arrives at a factory on earth where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. |
| 11:00pm EST Boom Town (Repeated: Mon 3:00am EST) | When the Tardiscrew takes a holiday, The Doctor encounters an enemy he thought long since dead. It soon transpires that plans to build a nuclear power station in Cardiff city are disguising an alien plot to rip the world apart. And when the Doctor dines with monsters, he discovers traps within traps. |
| 11:00pm EST Asylum of the Daleks |
| 10:30pm CST The Age of Steel | Conclusion. London falls to the Cybermen while Jackie is usurped by Lumic. Elsewhere, the Doctor, Rose and Mickey plot a strike against the Cyberfactory. Shaun Dingwall. Roger Lloyd Pack. |
| 11:45pm EST Unsung Heroes and Violent Death (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 3:45am EST) | The cast and crew discuss how death plays a strong part in Doctor Who. As long time viewers know, the show does not hide from the consequences of death. Indeed, the Doctor is himself war-damaged, since all the other Time Lords have been destroyed. |
| 11:00pm 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 Fear Her | Danger nestles in ordinary British household as a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 11:00pm CST The Stolen Earth |
| 11:00pm CST Asylum of the Daleks | Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor (Matt Smith) is forced on an impossible mission – to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter… the Asylum. |
| 11:43pm CST The Fright Stuff (Factual) |
Sunday 1 February
| 12:00am CST Nightmare in Silver |
| 12:00am CST The Angels Take Manhattan | The Doctor bids farewell to Amy and Rory; statues in New York come to life. |
Saturday 31 January
| 11:15pm MST The Almost People | As the solar storm rages and the factory crumbles, a doppelganger driven mad by the memories of being "decommissioned" is seeking revenge. The Doctor must convince the terrified factory workers to embrace their own humanity and work together with the doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making. |
| 11:00pm PST The Keeper of Traken: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
Sunday 1 February
Saturday 31 January
Sunday 1 February
| 2:00am 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... |
| 3:00am 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? |
| 4:00am 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? |
| 1:00pm EST Rose | Episode unconfirmed, inferred from other broadcasts. |
| 2:00pm EST The End Of The World | The Doctor takes Rose forward in time to witness the destruction of the Earth in a solar explosion - but it seems a murderer is stalking the alien delegates who have gathered to watch the event. Sci-fi adventure, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, with Zoë Wanamaker |
| 3:00pm EST Aliens of London | Part one of two. The Doctor takes Rose back to London - but their trip coincides with another, more dramatic alien arrival as a spaceship plunges into the Thames. In the ensuing panic, the authorities quarantine the capital from the rest of the world - and even Rose's own home is no refuge from the sinister Slitheen. Time-travelling adventures, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper |
| 4:00pm EST World War Three | Part two of two. The Doctor, Rose and Harriet find themselves trapped inside 10 Downing Street, unable to thwart the Slitheen. The aliens deceive the United Nations into thinking they are about to suffer an attack from space unless they retaliate soon. As their evil objective is finally revealed, the fate of the world rests in Mickey's hands. Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper star |
| 8:00pm EST The Doctor Dances (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EST / Mon 5:00pm EST) | Part two of two. As the Child's plague spreads and London is overrun by an army of zombies, the Doctor and Rose join forces with intergalactic conman Captain Jack in a bid to save the world. Time-travelling adventures, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, with a guest appearance by Richard Wilson (One Foot in the Grave) |
| 9:00pm EST Boom Town (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EST / Mon 6:00pm EST) | The Doctor and his companions visit Cardiff, where he encounters an old enemy he thought long dead. It turns out that a scheme to build a new power station conceals an alien plot that threatens to destroy the entire world. Starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper |
| 10:00pm CST The Rebel Flesh | The Doctor arrives at a factory on earth where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. |
Monday 2 February
| 10:00am EST Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 11:00am EST Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 8:00pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST Horror of Fang Rock: Part Four |
| 11:00pm CST Aliens of London | The Doctor takes Rose home - a year later than planned. But all attention is on another alien spaceship which crash-lands in the Thames. London is closed off and the whole world is on Red Alert. While the Doctor investigates the alien survivor, Rose discovers that her home is no longer a safe haven. Who are the Slitheen? |
Tuesday 3 February
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EST 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Two |
| 10:00pm CST Asylum of the Daleks (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CST) | 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 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? |
Wednesday 4 February
| 10:00am 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? |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Four |
| 11:00pm CST Dalek | eneath 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. |
Thursday 5 February
| 10:00am EST The Waters of Mars | 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. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 12:00pm EST Boom Town | When the Tardiscrew takes a holiday, The Doctor encounters an enemy he thought long since dead. It soon transpires that plans to build a nuclear power station in Cardiff city are disguising an alien plot to rip the world apart. And when the Doctor dines with monsters, he discovers traps within traps. |
| 12:45pm EST Unsung Heroes and Violent Death (Factual) | The cast and crew discuss how death plays a strong part in Doctor Who. As long time viewers know, the show does not hide from the consequences of death. Indeed, the Doctor is himself war-damaged, since all the other Time Lords have been destroyed. |
| 8:00pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Two |
| 10:00pm CST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction – unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo… of dinosaurs! By his side a ragtag gang of adventurers; a big game hunter, an Egyptian Queen and a surprised member of the Pond family. But little does the Doctor know there is someone else onboard who will stop at nothing to keep hold of his precious, prehistoric cargo. |
| 11:00pm CST The Long Game | Adam Mitchell catches a glimpse of the wonders of travelling in the Tardis. In the future, Satellite 5 broadcasts to the entire Earth Empire. But anyone promoted to Floor 500 is never seen again, and the Doctor suspects humankind is being manipulated. Nothing escapes the eye of the sinister Editor, but just who is he working for? And does Adam have what it takes to become the Time Lord's companion? |
Friday 6 February
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Four |
| 10:30pm CST The Rings of Akhaten |
| 11:00pm CST 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. |