This Week in Doctor Who
Week 37: 12-18 Sep 2015 - USA
Saturday 12 September
| 2:30am EDT Smith and Jones (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EDT / Mon 2:30am EDT) |
| 4:00pm EDT 42 |
| 4:45pm EDT Space Craft (Factual) |
| 5:00pm EDT Pertwee Movies: Colony in Space - Part 2 Of 3 (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EDT) |
| 6:00pm EDT The Seeds of Doom: Part Five |
| 6:30pm EDT The Seeds of Doom: Part Six |
| 7:00pm EDT The Masque of Mandragora: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT The Masque of Mandragora: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EDT The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Sat 11:00pm EDT / Fri 6:40pm EDT) | The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies. |
| 7:00pm MDT The Sontaran Experiment: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 10:30pm EDT The Lazarus Experiment (Repeated: Sun 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT Human Nature (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EDT) |
| 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. |
| 10:00pm CDT Deep Breath |
| 11:45pm EDT Alter Ego (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 4:45am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT The Hungry Earth |
| 11:00pm CDT Hide | Something terrifying is hiding in Caliburn House, and the Doctor (Matt Smith) finds himself part of the ghost hunt. |
| 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! |
| 11:05pm CDT The Name of the Doctor |
| 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
| 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. |
| 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
| 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. |
| 11:00pm PDT Frontios: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
Sunday 13 September
| 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
| 11:30pm PDT Frontios: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 13 September
| 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? |
| 3:00am CDT Smith and Jones |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 11:04pm CDT Into the Dalek | Scheduled as "Into The Dark". |
Monday 14 September
| 10:00am EDT The Big Bang (Repeated: Thu 1:00pm EDT) | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 2 |
| 10:30pm EDT The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 3 |
| 11:00pm EDT The Shakespeare Code (Repeated: Tue 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT The Shakespeare Code |
Tuesday 15 September
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 10:00pm EDT The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 4 |
| 10:30pm EDT The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 5 |
| 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 |
| 11:00pm EDT Gridlock (Repeated: Wed 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT Gridlock |
Wednesday 16 September
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9:00am EDT School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend |
| 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. |
| 11:00am EDT Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 3:00pm EDT Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 4:00pm EDT Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 5:00pm EDT Gridlock | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 6:00pm EDT Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 8:00pm EDT Blink | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 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. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 6 |
| 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. |
| 10:30pm EDT The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 7 |
| 11:00pm EDT Daleks in Manhattan (Repeated: Thu 2:30am EDT) |
| 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? |
| 11:00pm CDT Daleks in Manhattan |
Thursday 17 September
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 8:00am EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 9:00am EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 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. |
| 12:00pm EDT Human Nature |
| 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. |
| 12:45pm EDT Alter Ego (Factual) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 8:00pm EDT Dalek (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT / Fri 5:00pm EDT) | 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. |
| 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. |
| 9:00pm EDT The Long Game (Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT / Fri 6:00pm EDT) | 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... |
| 10:00pm EDT Inferno: Episode 1 |
| 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? |
| 10:30pm EDT Inferno: Episode 2 |
| 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! |
| 11:00pm EDT Evolution of the Daleks (Repeated: Fri 2:30am EDT) |
| 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? |
| 11:00pm CDT Evolution of the Daleks |
Friday 18 September
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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.... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| 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? |
| 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! |
| 2:00pm EDT The Crimson Horror | Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red. |
| 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. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
| 5:00pm EDT The Day of The Doctor | The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure across space and time in this 50th Anniversary Special. |
| 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. |
| 10:00pm EDT Inferno: Episode 3 |
| 10:00pm EDT The Doctor's Meditation |
| 10:10pm EDT Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now... |
| 10:30pm EDT Inferno: Episode 4 |
| 10:30pm CDT Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and the Doctor is the only one who can help. |