This Week in Doctor Who
Week 06: 7-13 Feb 2015 - USA
Saturday 7 February
| 5:00pm 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. |
| 5:00pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode Four |
| 5:30pm EST The Mind of Evil: Episode One | Colourised episode. |
| 5:45pm 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. |
| 6:00pm EST Terror of the Autons: Episode Four |
| 6:00pm EST The Mind of Evil: Episode Two | Colour-recovered episode. |
| 6:30pm EST The Mind of Evil: Episode One | Colour broadcast |
| 6:30pm EST The Mind of Evil: Episode Three | Colour-recovered episode. |
| 7:00pm EST The Mind of Evil: Episode Two | Colour broadcast |
| 7:30pm EST The Mind of Evil: Episode Three | Colour broadcast. |
| 10:00pm EST The Web Planet: Escape to Danger |
| 9:00pm CST School Reunion |
| 9:00pm CST The Rings of Akhaten | The Doctor takes Clara to the rings of the planet Akhaten, where the Festival of Offerings is in full swing. Clara meets the Queen of Years, but she soon learns that a sacrifice will be demanded at the festival. |
| 9:00pm CST Planet of Evil: Part Three | 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. |
| 9:30pm CST The Almost People (Repeated: Sun 3:15am CST) | The Doctor must convince the terrified factory workers to embrace their own humanity and work together with their Gangers to overcome a monster of their own making. |
| 10:30pm EST The Web Planet: Crater of Needles |
| 11:00pm EST Bad Wolf (Repeated: Mon 3:00am EST) | The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack have to fight for their lives on board the Game Station, but a far more dangerous threat is lurking just out of sight. The Doctor realizes that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching. |
| 11:00pm EST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship |
| 11:00pm EST The Web Planet: Invasion |
| 11:30pm EST The Web Planet: The Centre |
| 10:30pm CST The Idiot's Lantern |
| 11:45pm EST The World of Who (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 3:45am EST) | Many years in the future, Rose and Captain Jack find themselves participating in classic BBC shows like The Weakest Link and What Not to Wear, only now the hosts are Androids and the terms are far more deadly. The crew shares how design decisions were made in this remarkable episode. |
| 11:00pm 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 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | The Doctor (Matt Smith) battles to save an unmanned spaceship and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 11:00pm CST Army of Ghosts | As the ghosts of loved ones return home, an almighty invasion force threatens to take over Earth. |
| 11:00pm CST Journey's End |
Sunday 8 February
| 12:00am 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? |
| 12:00am 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. |
Saturday 7 February
| 11:15pm MST 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 sacrifices - and River Soong has something to tell the Doctor. |
| 11:00pm PST The Keeper of Traken: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
Sunday 8 February
| 1:00am 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? |
Saturday 7 February
Sunday 8 February
| 2:00am 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. |
| 3:00am 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? |
| 4:00am 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Bad Wolf (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EST / Mon 5:00pm EST) | The Doctor, Rose and Jack fight for their lives on board Satellite 5, renamed the Game Station by the Bad Wolf Corporation, little suspecting a more sinister threat is lurking in the shadows that could spell the end for the human race. First in a two-part tale, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, with guest voice-overs by Anne Robinson, Davina McCall, Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine |
| 9:00pm EST The Parting of the Ways (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EST / Mon 6:00pm EST) | Part two of two. The Doctor's friendship with Rose is put to the ultimate test as Earth is plunged into all-out war against the Daleks, forcing him to take desperate measures to save humanity from annihilation. Starring Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman, and featuring David Tennant's first appearance as the Doctor's 10th incarnation |
| 10:00pm CST The Almost People | The Doctor must convince the terrified factory workers to embrace their own humanity and work together with their Gangers to overcome a monster of their own making. |
Monday 9 February
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Sun Makers: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST The Sun Makers: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Two |
| 11:00pm CST 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? |
Tuesday 10 February
| 10:00am EST The Vampires of Venice | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 11:00am EST Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 8:00pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Four |
| 11:00pm CST 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... |
| 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. |
| 11:55pm CST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CST) | 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. |
Wednesday 11 February
| 10:00am EST The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 11:00am EST Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 8:00pm EST Underworld: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST Underworld: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST Underworld: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST Underworld: Part Two |
| 11:00pm CST 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. |
Thursday 12 February
| 10:00am EST Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 11:00am EST The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 12:00pm EST Bad Wolf | The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack have to fight for their lives on board the Game Station, but a far more dangerous threat is lurking just out of sight. The Doctor realizes that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching. |
| 12:45pm EST The World of Who (Factual) | Many years in the future, Rose and Captain Jack find themselves participating in classic BBC shows like The Weakest Link and What Not to Wear, only now the hosts are Androids and the terms are far more deadly. The crew shares how design decisions were made in this remarkable episode. |
| 8:00pm EST Underworld: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST Underworld: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Underworld: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST Underworld: Part Four |
| 10:00pm CST A Town Called Mercy | The Doctor gets a Stetson (and a gun!), and finds himself the reluctant Sheriff of a Western town under siege by a relentless cyborg, who goes by the name of, the Gunslinger. But who is he and what does he want? The answer seems to lie with the mysterious, Kahler-Jex, an alien doctor (yes another one!) whose initial appearance is hiding a dark secret. |
| 11:00pm CST Bad Wolf | The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack have to fight for their lives on board the Game Station, but a far more dangerous threat is lurking just out of sight. The Doctor realizes that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching. |
Friday 13 February
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EST The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 8:00pm EST The Invasion of Time: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST The Invasion of Time: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST The Invasion of Time: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST The Invasion of Time: Part Two |
| 10:30pm CST Cold War | The Doctor and Clara land on a Russian nuclear submarine in 1983 as it spirals into the ocean depths with an alien creature creating havoc on board. |
| 11:00pm CST The Parting of the Ways | Rose Tyler has faced danger and seen wonders alongside the Doctor, but now their friendship is put to the test as Earth plunges into an epic war. With the human race being slaughtered, the Doctor is forced into terrible action. Will the time-travellers ever be reunited? |