This Week in Doctor Who
Week 36: 5-11 Sep 2015 - USA
Saturday 5 September
| 4:30am EDT Voyage of the Damned | Kylie Minogue joins Doctor Who to play Astrid, a waitress on a doomed spaceship that eerily resembles the Titanic. When a meteor hits, Astrid and The Doctor must protect the survivors from and prevent the whole ship from crashing to Earth. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Lazarus Experiment |
| 4:00pm EDT The Time of the Doctor |
| 4:45pm EDT Monsters Inc (Factual) |
| 5:00pm EDT Pertwee Movies: Colony in Space - Part 1 Of 3 (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EDT) |
| 6:00pm EDT The Seeds of Doom: Part One |
| 6:30pm EDT The Seeds of Doom: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EDT The Seeds of Doom: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EDT The Seeds of Doom: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EDT The Day of The Doctor (Repeated: Sat 11:00pm EDT) | The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure across space and time in this 50th Anniversary Special. |
| 7:00pm MDT The Sontaran Experiment: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) |
| 9:00pm CDT The Deadly Assassin: Part Three |
| 9:00pm CDT The Time of the Doctor | The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
| 10:30pm EDT Evolution of the Daleks (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT / Fri 2:30am EDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT The Time of the Doctor | The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies. |
| 11:00pm EDT 42 (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT The Time of the Doctor | The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies. |
| 11:45pm EDT Space Craft (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 4:45am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT Amy's Choice |
| 11:00pm CDT Cold War | The Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman) land on a Soviet submarine in 1983 during the Cold War, where the Ice Warrior Grand Marshall Skaldak breaks loose and plots revenge against humanity. |
| 11:00pm CDT Deep Breath |
| 11:05pm CDT Nightmare in Silver |
Sunday 6 September
| 12:00am CDT 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? |
| 12:00am CDT The Three Doctors: Compilation | Doctor Who turns to his previous incarnations for help when an unknown force seems to be targeting him. Scheduled in two parts, Midnight-12:45am, 12:45am-1:30am. |
Saturday 5 September
| 11:00pm MDT The Time of the Doctor | Clara makes a Christmas wish that brings the Doctor back to Earth. A mysterious message sends them through time and space as the winter of the Doctor (Matt Smith) is approaching and the future of the Time Lords is at risk. |
| 11:00pm PDT The Awakening: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
Sunday 6 September
| 1:00am CDT 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. |
Saturday 5 September
| 11:30pm PDT The Awakening: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 6 September
| 2:00am CDT 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? |
| 3:40am EDT The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe | Evacuated to a house in Dorset from war-torn London, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, are greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world. |
| 3:00am CDT 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... |
| 3:00am PDT Warriors of the Deep: Part Three |
| 3:30am PDT Warriors of the Deep: Part Four |
| 11:00am EDT Rose | Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and her life will never be the same again. Soon, she realises 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… |
| 12:00pm EDT 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 amongst the alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious, deadly spiders? |
| 11:05pm CDT Deep Breath |
Monday 7 September
| 8:00pm EDT The Time of the Doctor |
| 10:00pm EDT The Krotons: Episode Three |
| 10:30pm EDT The Krotons: Episode Four |
| 11:00pm EDT The Shakespeare Code (Repeated: Tue 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT 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. |
Tuesday 8 September
| 10:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 1 |
| 10:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 2 |
| 11:00pm EDT Gridlock (Repeated: Wed 2:30am EDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT Amy's Choice (Repeated: Wed 2:01am CDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT 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. |
Wednesday 9 September
| 10:00am EDT Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 11:00am EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 10:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 3 |
| 10:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 4 |
| 11:00pm CDT 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? |
Thursday 10 September
| 2:30am EDT Daleks in Manhattan |
| 10:00am EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 11:00am EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 12:00pm EDT 42 |
| 12:45pm EDT Space Craft (Factual) |
| 8:00pm EDT Aliens of London (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT / Fri 5:00pm EDT) | The first episode in a two-part story. The Doctor takes Rose home. But when a spaceship 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? |
| 9:00pm EDT World War Three (Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT / Fri 6:00pm EDT) | Continuing the story from Episode 4. Downing Street announces mankind’s first Interplanetary War, but the real danger is much closer to home. When 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? |
| 10:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 5 |
| 10:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 6 |
| 10:30pm CDT The Hungry Earth |
| 11:00pm CDT Smith and Jones |
Friday 11 September
| 10:00am EDT The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 11:00am EDT 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. |
| 10:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 7 |
| 10:30pm EDT The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 1 |
| 10:30pm CDT Deep Breath | Season 8 begins with Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor. In the opener, the Doctor and Clara are in Victorian London where a dinosaur is on the loose and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions take place. |