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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 37: 12-18 Sep 2015 - USA

Data last updated 20 January 2019

Saturday 12 September

Show broadcasts for Disney XD
 
2:30am EDT
Smith and Jones

Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
4:00pm EDT
42

Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
4:45pm EDT
Space Craft (Factual)

Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
5:00pm EDT
Pertwee Movies: Colony in Space - Part 2 Of 3
(Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EDT)

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EDT
The Seeds of Doom: Part Five

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EDT
The Seeds of Doom: Part Six

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Masque of Mandragora: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Masque of Mandragora: Part Two

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EDT
The Time of the Doctor

The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies.


Show broadcasts for KRWG
 
7:00pm MDT
The Sontaran Experiment: Part Two
(Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:45pm EDT
A Christmas Carol
(Repeated: Mon 11:00am EDT)

Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs?


Show broadcasts for KPTS
 
9:00pm CDT
The Deadly Assassin: Part Four

The Doctor battles the Master and his plan to destroy Gallifrey. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Master: Peter Pratt. Goth: Bernard Horsfall. Engin: Erik Chitty. Spandrell: George Pravda.


Show broadcasts for Disney XD
 
10:30pm EDT
The Lazarus Experiment
(Repeated: Sun 2:30am EDT)

Show broadcasts for UNC-TV
 
11:00pm EDT
Human Nature
(Repeated: Mon 4:00am EDT)

Show broadcasts for WXXI
 
11:00pm EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for WILL
 
10:00pm CDT
Deep Breath

Show broadcasts for UNC-TV
 
11:45pm EDT
Alter Ego (Factual)
(Repeated: Mon 4:45am EDT)

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
11:00pm CDT
The Hungry Earth

Show broadcasts for WMVS/MPTV (Milwaukee) HD 10.1/36.2
 
11:00pm CDT
Hide

Something terrifying is hiding in Caliburn House, and the Doctor (Matt Smith) finds himself part of the ghost hunt.


Show broadcasts for KCPT (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
Into the Dalek
A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now... With the Doctor facing his greatest enemy, he needs Clara by his side. Confronted with a decision that could change the Daleks forever he is forced to examine his conscience. Will he find the answer to the question "am I a good man?"

Erroneously billed as Into The Dark!


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
11:05pm CDT
The Name of the Doctor

Show broadcasts for OETA DT2
 
11:30pm 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.

Sunday 13 September

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
12:00am 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.

Show broadcasts for KERA
 
12:00am CDT
Planet of the Daleks: Compilation

The Doctor battles the Daleks after he and Jo are stranded on the jungle planet of Spiridon.


Scheduled in two parts, Midnight-1:00am, 1:00-2:00am. Episode three (originally only available in black and white) appears to have been missed out.

KERA commented: "Our program director says According to what the BBC sold us, there are only two parts in the "Planet of the Daleks" storyline, each being just under one-hour in length."

Saturday 12 September

Show broadcasts for Idaho Public Television
Premiere
 
11:00pm MDT
Deep Breath

When the Doctor arrives in Victorian London he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. Who is the new Doctor and will Clara's friendship survive as they embark on a terrifying mission into the heart of an alien conspiracy? The Doctor has changed. It's time you knew him.


Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
11:00pm PDT
Frontios: Part One
(Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT)

Sunday 13 September

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
1:00am 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.

Saturday 12 September

Sunday 13 September

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
2:00am 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?

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
3:00am CDT
Smith and Jones

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
11:00am EDT
Aliens of London

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?


Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
12:00pm EDT
World War Three

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?


Show broadcasts for Louisiana Public Broadcasting
 
11:04pm CDT
Into the Dalek

Scheduled as "Into The Dark".

Monday 14 September

Tuesday 15 September

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
The Impossible Astronaut
(Repeated: Thu 2:00pm EDT)

Part 1. The Doctor, Amy and Rory receive a secret summons that leads them to the Oval Office in 1969. Enlisting the help of a former FBI agent and the irrepressible River Song, the Doctor promises to assist the President.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
Day of the Moon
(Repeated: Thu 3:00pm EDT)

Part 2. The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison. 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.


Show broadcasts for US Venues
 
7:00pm EDT - SVA Theatre, New York
Dark Water/Death in Heaven in 3D
(Repeated: Wed 7:00pm EDT)

Fathom Events and BBC Worldwide are bringing the Doctor to you early! In anticipation the upcoming ninth season of Doctor Who, we invite you to relive the spectacular two-part season eight finale, Dark Water/Death in Heaven, in breath-taking RealD 3D, when it comes to cinemas nationwide for only two nights, Tuesday, September 15 and Wednesday, September 16. In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies, and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role. Also, exclusive to theaters, a never-before-seen prequel to season nine and Wil Wheaton (The Big Bang Theory, Star Trek: Nemesis) hosts an interview with stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Get a head start on season nine and join fellow Whovians in experiencing Doctor Who: Dark Water/Death in Heaven in Real D 3D at this exclusive cinema event!


Shown in selected theaters around the United States


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:00pm EDT
The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 4

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:30pm EDT
The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 5

Show broadcasts for WGVU Michigan
 
11:00pm EDT
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. Includes bonus content and interviews presented by YouTube personality Hannah Hart.


Billed for 60 minutes


Show broadcasts for Disney XD
 
11:00pm EDT
Gridlock
(Repeated: Wed 2:30am EDT)

Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
Gridlock

Wednesday 16 September

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EDT
The Christmas Invasion

Can Rose trust a man with a new face? As the newly regenerated Doctor drifts in and out of consciousness, Christmas becomes a time of terror on planet Earth when the whole of mankind falls under the shadow of the sinister alien Sycorax.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am EDT
New Earth

The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
Tooth and Claw

The Doctor and Rose travel back to 1879, but an encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of warrior monks reveals a deadly trap.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
School Reunion

The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
The Girl in the Fireplace

Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
Rise of the Cybermen

Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm EDT
The Age of Steel

Part 2. The Cybermen take control of London and start converting the populace; Jackie falls under Lumic's control; the Doctor, Rose and Mickey are reduced to fugitives.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00pm EDT
The Idiot's Lantern

It is 1953 and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is taking place, but beneath the celebrations there are rumours of monsters on the streets.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00pm EDT
The Impossible Planet

Part 1. Rose is trapped in the orbit of a black hole; something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awaken.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00pm EDT
Army of Ghosts

The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00pm EDT
Doomsday

Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00pm EDT
Gridlock

The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00pm EDT
Human Nature

Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00pm EDT
The Family of Blood

Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EDT
Blink

The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00pm EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:00pm EDT
The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 6

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00pm EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:30pm EDT
The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 7

Show broadcasts for Disney XD
 
11:00pm EDT
Daleks in Manhattan
(Repeated: Thu 2:30am EDT)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00pm EDT
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?


Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
Daleks in Manhattan

Thursday 17 September

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:20am EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:40am EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00am EDT
The End of Time: Part 1 & 2

It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey - but his nemesis, The Master, has been reborn. A terrible shadow falls across the Universe as great danger approaches, and the Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master's plans hurtle out of control.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Hungry Earth

Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Cold Blood

Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Vincent and the Doctor

Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
The Lodger

The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down.


Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
12:00pm EDT
Human Nature

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm 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.


Show broadcasts for UNC-MX
 
12:45pm EDT
Alter Ego (Factual)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00pm EDT
The Curse of the Black Spot

The TARDIS is marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship whose crew is being attacked by a mysterious and beautiful sea creature. Becalmed and beset by cabin fever, the pirates have numerous superstitious explanations for the Siren's appearance.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00pm EDT
The Doctor's Wife

By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00pm EDT
The Rebel Flesh

Part 1. A solar tsunami liberates doppelgangers from their human 'originals' in a futuristic factory. Can the Doctor prevent all out civil war?


Show broadcasts for US Venues
Premiere
 
7:00pm EDT - SVA Theatre, New York
The Magician's Apprentice

An exclusive early-bird screening of "The Magician's Apprentice" introduced by Michelle Gomez (aka Missy aka the Master).


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00pm EDT
The Almost People

Part 2. The Doctor must convince terrified factory-workers to work with their doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EDT
A Good Man Goes to War

The Doctor assembles an army to face the Battle of Demons Run - and River Song has something to tell him.


Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
8:00pm EDT
Dalek

Beneath 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00pm EDT
Let's Kill Hitler

The TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler.


Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
9:00pm EDT
The Long Game

Adam discovers that life as a Time Lord’s companion isn’t as easy as it looks. The Tardis’s latest destination is in the far future, where 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? While the Doct...


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:00pm EDT
Inferno: Episode 1

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00pm EDT
The Girl Who Waited

Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness?


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:30pm EDT
Inferno: Episode 2

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
10:00pm CDT
The Time of the Doctor

"The Time of the Doctor" features the final appearance of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and the first regular appearance of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. Janna Coleman is featured as the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald. This episode includes several enemies of the Doctor from the Cybermen, Silence, Daleks and Weeping Angels. Oh my!


Show broadcasts for Disney XD
 
11:00pm EDT
Evolution of the Daleks
(Repeated: Fri 2:30am EDT)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00pm EDT
The God Complex

The TARDIS lands in a hotel where every visitor's room contains their deepest, darkest fears. What lies in wait in the Doctor's room?


Show broadcasts for KCPT2 (Kansas City)
 
11:00pm CDT
Evolution of the Daleks

Friday 18 September

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00am EDT
Closing Time

The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00am EDT
The Wedding of River Song

By the shores of Lake Silencio, in Utah, all of time and space hang in the balance - because this is the day the Doctor dies.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00am EDT
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...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00am EDT
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00am EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EDT
The Power Of Three

The Doctor and the Ponds puzzle an unlikely invasion of Earth, as millions of sinister black cubes fall from the sky overnight...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am EDT
The Angels Take Manhattan

The Doctor's heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory - a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York's statues come to life around them....


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Snowmen

Christmas Eve 1892 and a chilling menace threatens humankind - but with the Doctor in mourning, it takes old friends and an unorthodox young governess to get him fighting to save the world again.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
The Bells of Saint John

The Doctor's search for Clara brings him to London, where Wi-Fi is everywhere. Humanity lives in a Wi-Fi soup but something dangerous is lurking in the signals, picking off minds and imprisoning them...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
The Rings of Akhaten

On the rings of the planet Akhaten, the Festival of Offerings is in full swing. Clara meets the Queen of Years but something is stirring in the pyramid, and a sacrifice will be demanded.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
Cold War

The Doctor and Clara land on a submarine in 1983 as it spirals into the ocean depths with an alien creature loose. With tempers flaring and nuclear weapons on board, the whole of humanity is at stake!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm EDT
Hide

The Doctor and Clara travel to the haunted Caliburn House. Within its walls, a ghost hunting Professor and a psychic search for the Witch of the Well. Her apparition appears, but is she really a ghost?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00pm EDT
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

The TARDIS has crashed, Clara is lost inside, and the Doctor has 30 minutes before his ship explodes!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00pm EDT
The Crimson Horror

Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00pm EDT
Nightmare in Silver

Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00pm EDT
The Name of the Doctor

The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00pm EDT
The Day of The Doctor

The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure across space and time in this 50th Anniversary Special.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EDT
Deep Breath
(Repeated: Fri 11:10pm EDT)

Clara is alone in Victorian London with a man she doesn't know, a dinosaur in the Thames, and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. The Doctor has changed. It's time you knew him.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:00pm EDT
Inferno: Episode 3

Show broadcasts for BBC America
Premiere
 
10:00pm EDT
The Doctor's Meditation

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:10pm EDT
Into the Dalek

A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now...


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
10:30pm EDT
Inferno: Episode 4

Show broadcasts for OETA
 
10:30pm CDT
Into the Dalek

A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and the Doctor is the only one who can help.