This Week in Doctor Who
Week 28: 11-17 Jul 2015 - USA
Saturday 11 July
| 4:00pm EDT The Runaway Bride |
| 4:00pm EDT Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | The TARDIS crashes, and Clara becomes trapped inside. The Doctor rushes to save her before his damaged ship self-destructs in 30 minutes. |
| 5:00pm EDT Pertwee Movies: Inferno - Part 1 Of 3 (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EDT) |
| 6:00pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part One |
| 6:30pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Four |
| 9:00pm EDT Fear Her |
| 7:00pm MDT Robot: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) | The Doctor investigates the theft of a secret weapon. Stewart: Nicholas Courtney. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Harry: Ian Marter. Jellicoe: Alec Linstead. Benton: John Levene. |
| 9:00pm CDT The Seeds of Doom: Part Three | An eccentric millionaire steals a pod for his botany collection. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Chester: Ian Fairbairn. Scorby: John Challis. Hargreaves: Seymour Green. |
| 9:00pm CDT Asylum of the Daleks | Series 7 begins with the Doctor being kidnapped and confined to a planetary prison that is actually an asylum. |
| 9:32pm CDT The Bells of Saint John (Repeated: Sun 4:02am CDT) | The Doctor's search for Clara Oswald brings him to modern day London, where wifi is everywhere. Humanity lives in a wifi soup. |
| 11:00pm EDT Smith and Jones (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT Blink | A mystery spanning decades has the Doctor providing assistance from 1969 to a present-day photographer (Carey Mulligan) via cryptic warnings about weeping angels. |
| 10:34pm CDT The Eleventh Hour | Matt Smith and Karen Gillan star as the Doctor and his companion as Doctor Who returns for a new series. After his explosive regeneration, the Eleventh Doctor awakes to discover his TARDIS is about to crash! After falling from the sky, he pulls himself out of the wreckage to come face-to-face with young Amy Pond. Still wearing the remains of the Tenth Doctor's suit, ripped and raggedy from the damage after the TARDIS control room exploded, the Doctor promises to take Amy to the stars. But before they can begin their journey, they become embroiled in an alien plot that could destroy the Earth! |
| 11:45pm EDT Meet Martha Jones (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 4:45am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT A Town Called Mercy | The Doctor (Matt Smith) gets a Stetson (and a gun!) and finds himself a reluctant marshal. |
| 11:00pm CDT Day of the Moon | The Doctor is locked up in Area 51. Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down by the FBI. But, with the help of President Nixon and Neil Armstrong, the Doctor is able to mount a rebellion against an alien invasion dating back to the very beginnings of human civilisation. |
| 11:05pm CDT The Power Of Three | The Doctor and the Ponds puzzle an unlikely invasion of Earth, as millions of sinister black cubes arrive overnight, almost like presents falling from the sky. But what are they, what’s inside them and most importantly, who sent them? With the international community at a loss, it’s left to the Doctor to unearth who is behind the mystery. |
Sunday 12 July
| 12:00am CDT Dinosaurs on a Spaceship |
| 12:00am CDT Curse of Peladon: Compilation | A case of mistaken identity involves Doctor Who in intergalactic intrigue. |
Saturday 11 July
Sunday 12 July
Saturday 11 July
Sunday 12 July
| 2:00am CDT The Power Of Three |
| 3:00am CDT The Angels Take Manhattan |
| 1:00pm EDT Partners in Crime | David Tennant returns for a new series of time-travelling adventures - and with Martha Jones having vacated the Tardis at the end of the last series, he's in need of a new partner. Enter Catherine Tate, reprising her role as runaway bride Donna from the 2006 Christmas special, who comes in search of her Doctor when a new alien threat appears in the form of villainous Miss Foster (Sarah Lancashire) |
| 2:00pm EDT The Fires of Pompeii | Donna and the Doctor face their greatest challenge yet as they learn whether established history can be changed. Finding themselves in 79AD, the time travellers discover beasts of stone running riot in the streets of Pompeii. With guest stars Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It), Phil Davis (Whitechapel) and future companion Karen Gillan |
| 3:00pm EDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Tardis lands on the war-torn distant planet of Messaline, where a sample of the Doctor's DNA is used to create his clone, a fiesty young woman determined to defend her new home. While Donna and Martha get to know the newcomer, their time-travelling friend remains distant, and worries he may no longer be the last of the Time Lords. Guest starring Georgia Moffett, whose real-life father Peter Davison played the Doctor in the early 1980s |
| 4:00pm EDT The Unicorn and the Wasp | Intrigued by the disappearance of crime writer Agatha Christie, the Time Lord takes Donna to 1926. Rumours at the time suggested the author was suffering from a nervous breakdown, but what the Doctor finds is far more shocking - a giant alien wasp seeking revenge. With guest star Felicity Kendal |
| 8:00pm EDT Midnight (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EDT / Mon 5:00pm EDT) | Intrigued by the disappearance of crime writer Agatha Christie, the Time Lord takes Donna to 1926. Rumours at the time suggested the author was suffering from a nervous breakdown, but what the Doctor finds is far more shocking - a giant alien wasp seeking revenge. With guest star Felicity Kendal |
| 9:00pm EDT Turn Left (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EDT / Mon 6:00pm EDT) | An alien clairvoyant dispatches Donna to a world where she never met the Doctor. Only Rose Tyler can help restore the timeline, but as the pair join forces, they hold the fate of all creation in their hands and the temp from Chiswick must face her greatest fears. Catherine Tate, David Tennant and Billie Piper star |
| 10:00pm CDT The Rings of Akhaten | Clara wants to see something awesome, so the Doctor whisks her off to the inhabited rings of the planet Akhaten, where the Festival of Offerings is in full swing. |
| 11:30pm EDT The Age of Steel (Repeated: Mon 3:30am EDT) |
Monday 13 July
| 10:00am EDT 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 EDT 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 EDT Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | The TARDIS crashes, and Clara becomes trapped inside. The Doctor rushes to save her before his damaged ship self-destructs in 30 minutes. |
| 10:00pm EDT Survival: Part Three |
| 10:30pm EDT The Idiot's Lantern (Repeated: Tue 3:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT The Snowmen |
Tuesday 14 July
| 10:00am EDT 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 EDT 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. |
| 10:00pm EDT An Unearthly Child |
| 10:30pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls |
| 10:30pm EDT The Impossible Planet (Repeated: Wed 3:30am EDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT The Eleventh Hour (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CDT) | Matt Smith and Karen Gillan star as the Doctor and his companion as Doctor Who returns for a new series. After his explosive regeneration, the Eleventh Doctor awakes to discover his TARDIS is about to crash! After falling from the sky, he pulls himself out of the wreckage to come face-to-face with young Amy Pond. Still wearing the remains of the Tenth Doctor's suit, ripped and raggedy from the damage after the TARDIS control room exploded, the Doctor promises to take Amy to the stars. But before they can begin their journey, they become embroiled in an alien plot that could destroy the Earth! |
| 11:00pm EDT The Crimson Horror | Bodies are found in Victorian Yorkshire with skin that is waxy and glowing red. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Bells of Saint John |
Wednesday 15 July
| 10:00am EDT 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 EDT Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 10:00pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear |
| 10:30pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker |
| 10:30pm EDT The Satan Pit (Repeated: Thu 3:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT The Rings of Akhaten |
Thursday 16 July
| 10:00am EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 11:00am EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 12:00pm EDT Smith and Jones |
| 12:45pm EDT Meet Martha Jones (Factual) |
| 10:00pm EDT The Daleks: The Dead Planet |
| 10:30pm EDT The Daleks: The Survivors |
| 11:00pm EDT Love & Monsters (Repeated: Fri 3:30am EDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT The Beast Below |
| 11:00pm CDT Cold War |
Friday 17 July
| 10:00am EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 11:00am EDT The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Daleks: The Escape |
| 10:30pm EDT The Daleks: The Ambush |
| 10:30pm CDT The Power Of Three | Millions of sinister black cubes fall from the sky, and the Doctor worries about an invasion of Earth. |