This Week in Doctor Who
Week 38: 19-25 Sep 2015 - USA
Saturday 19 September
| 1:10am EDT The Doctor's Meditation |
| 1:20am EDT Robot Of Sherwood (Repeated: Sat 9:30am EDT) | When Robots threaten Sherwood forest, the Doctor must join forces with Robin Hood to stop the evil reign of the Sheriff of Nottingham. |
| 2:20am EDT Listen (Repeated: Sat 10:30am EDT / Mon 12:00am EDT) | When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, the Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe. |
| 2:30am EDT The Lazarus Experiment |
| 3:20am EDT Time Heist (Repeated: Sat 11:30am EDT) | The Doctor turns bank robber when he attempts to break into the most dangerous bank in the Cosmos. |
| 4:20am EDT The Day of The Doctor | The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure across space and time in this 50th Anniversary Special. |
| 6:00am EDT Doctor Who: Earth Conquest: The World Tour (Factual) | The special follows stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman on Doctor Who: The World Tour, which sees them visiting seven cities across five continents in 12 days to publicize the upcoming season. |
| 7:00am EDT Deep Breath | 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. |
| 8:30am EDT Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now... |
| 12:30pm EDT The Caretaker | The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - and worse, any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet. |
| 1:30pm EDT Kill The Moon (Repeated: Mon 1:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Clara crash land on the Moon to find a world of horror: a mining base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma. |
| 2:30pm EDT Mummy On The Orient Express | The Doctor and Clara are on the most beautiful train in history but a deadly creature is stalking the passengers. The Doctor must race against the clock to defeat the terrifying Mummy. |
| 3:30pm EDT Flatline (Repeated: Mon 2:00am EDT) | Separated from the Doctor, Clara discovers a new menace from another dimension. But how do you hide when even the walls are no protection? With people to save and the Doctor trapped, Clara comes up against an enemy that exists beyond human perception. |
| 4:00pm EDT Human Nature |
| 4:00pm 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 |
| 4:30pm EDT In The Forest Of The Night | One morning in every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to face the most surprising invasion yet. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown overnight and taken back the Earth. |
| 4:45pm EDT Alter Ego (Factual) |
| 5:00pm EDT Pertwee Movies: Colony in Space - Part 3 Of 3 (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EDT) |
| 5:30pm EDT Dark Water | In the world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Missy is about to come face to face with the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming. "Death is not an end" promises the sinister 3W but, as the Doctor and Clara discover, you might wish it was. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Masque of Mandragora: Part Three |
| 6:30pm EDT The Masque of Mandragora: Part Four |
| 6:30pm EDT Death in Heaven | 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. Can the mighty UNIT contain Missy? As the Doctor faces his greatest challenge, sacrifices must be made. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Hand Of Fear: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT The Hand Of Fear: Part Two |
| 7:45pm EDT Last Christmas (Repeated: Sat 10:45pm EDT) | The Twelfth Doctor makes his debut in BBC America's time-honored Doctor Who Christmas special. Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and guest star Nick Frost strap in for a dangerous sleigh ride through space and time in the Steven Moffat helmed special. |
| 9:00pm EDT The Magician's Apprentice (Repeated: Sun 12:00am EDT / Sun 4:00am EDT) | "Where is the Doctor?" When the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend. But where is the Doctor, and what is he hiding from? As past deeds come back to haunt him, old enemies will come face-to-face. |
| 7:00pm MDT Genesis of the Daleks: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) |
| 9:00pm CDT The Face of Evil: Part One | Dr. Who encounters two warring tribes who look upon him as "the Evil One." Leela: Louise Jameson. Calib: Leslie Schofield. Andor: Victor Lucas. Tomas: Brendan Price. Sole: Colin Thomas. |
| 9:00pm CDT Into the Dalek | Billed as Rise of the Cybermen, but based on programming during surrounding weeks this is more likely to be Into the Dalek! Billed description was: "Part 1 of two. Rose finds her father (Shaun Dingwall) alive on a parallel Earth while a sinister plot against British society unfolds." |
| 10:05pm EDT The Graham Norton Show: Series 16 Episode 1 (Related) | Graham's guests include: Denzel Washington, Gemma Arterton, Peter Capaldi, George Ezra |
| 10:30pm EDT 42 (Repeated: Sun 2:30am EDT) |
| 10:00pm CDT Into the Dalek | Billed as "Into The Dark" ... |
| 11:00pm EDT The Family of Blood (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT Into the Dalek |
| 11:45pm EDT Bad Blood (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 4:45am EDT) |
| 10:55pm 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 CDT Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | The TARDIS has crashed, Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman) is lost, and the Doctor (Matt Smith) has 30 minutes before it explodes! |
| 11:00pm CDT Robot Of Sherwood | In a sun dappled Sherwood forest, the Doctor discovers an evil plan from beyond the stars, and strikes up an unlikely alliance with Robin Hood. With all of Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake. Can impossible heroes actually exist? |
| 11:05pm CDT The Time of the Doctor | This year’s Christmas Special will be Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith‘ s final story and will feature the introduction of Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi.Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them—the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe. |
Sunday 20 September
| 12:00am CDT The Green Death: Compilation | A mysterious death at an abandoned mine is investigated. Scheduled in three parts: Midnight-12:50am, 12:50am-1:40am, 1:40am-2:30am. |
| 12:00am CDT The Shakespeare Code |
| 1:00am 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. |
Saturday 19 September
| 11:00pm MDT Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship and only the Doctor can help but he needs Clara by his side. Confronted with a decision that could change the Daleks forever, he must examine his conscience. |
| 11:00pm PDT Frontios: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
Sunday 20 September
| 1:00am CDT Gridlock |
| 2:00am 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. |
Saturday 19 September
| 11:30pm PDT Frontios: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 20 September
| 2:00am CDT Daleks in Manhattan |
| 3:00am 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. |
| 3:00am CDT Evolution of the Daleks |
| 5:00am EDT Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 6:00am EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 7:00am EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 8:00am 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. |
| 9:00am EDT Genesis of the Daleks: Movie Format (Repeated: Fri 2:00am EDT) | The Time Lords foresee a time in which the Daleks will dominate all other life forms in the universe. So disturbing is this possibility, that they break their own Laws in an attempt to prevent it. And who better to send on this quest than the Doctor? The channel listings indicate that this is a new broadcast, which it is strictly speaking being it's never been shown on BBC America as a whole "movie"! The first two episodes were originally shown back in 1998. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Seeds of Doom: Movie Format | When an alien seed pod is discovered buried in glacial ice, a wealthy botanist arranges to have it stolen. Soon it starts to germinate and turns out to be very dangerous. The channel listings indicate that this is a new broadcast, which it is strictly speaking being it's never been shown on BBC America as a whole "movie"! The first two episodes were originally shown back in 1999 |
| 12:00pm 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... |
| 3:00pm EDT The Girl in the Fireplace (Repeated: Mon 3:00am EDT / Fri 5:00am EDT) | Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor. |
| 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 Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 7:00pm EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 8:00pm EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 9:00pm 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... |
| 10:00pm 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.... |
| 10:30pm EDT New Earth (Repeated: Mon 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
| 11:06pm CDT Robot Of Sherwood |
Monday 21 September
| 4:40am EDT The Time of the Doctor | The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies. |
| 8:00am 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. |
| 9:00am EDT The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 10:00am EDT Terror of the Zygons: Movie Format | The Brigadier summons the Doctor back to Earth using a time/space telegraph device the Doctor left with him for grave emergencies. There has been a spate of disappearances, sinkings and attacks on oil rigs in the North Sea under mysterious circumstances. The channel listings indicate that this is a new broadcast, which it is strictly speaking being it's never been shown on BBC America as a whole "movie"! The first two episodes were originally shown back in 1999 |
| 8:00pm 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 |
| 10:00pm EDT Inferno: Episode 5 |
| 10:30pm EDT Inferno: Episode 6 |
| 11:00pm EDT Tooth and Claw (Repeated: Tue 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT The Lazarus Experiment |
Tuesday 22 September
| 8:00am 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? |
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am EDT Pyramids of Mars: Movie Format | The excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb unleashes the Evil Sutekh, last of the Osirans, imprisoned millenia before by his own people. Sutekh attempts to build a time/space bridge between his tomb prison and an English manor house. The channel listings indicate that this is a new broadcast, which it is strictly speaking being it's never been shown on BBC America as a whole "movie"! The first two episodes were originally shown back in 1999 |
| 10:00pm EDT Inferno: Episode 7 |
| 10:30pm EDT Terror of the Autons: Episode One |
| 10:00pm CDT The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Wed 2:02am CDT) | "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 School Reunion (Repeated: Wed 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:30pm EDT Into the Dalek |
| 11:00pm CDT 42 |
Wednesday 23 September
| 8:00am 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. |
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am EDT The Hand Of Fear: Movie Format | The TARDIS materialises in a quarry just as the rock face is blasted away by open cast miners. Sarah-Jane is buried and when the Doctor and the miners dig her out, she is grasping a hand made of rock incredibly tightly. The channel listings indicate that this is a new broadcast, which it is strictly speaking being it's never been shown on BBC America as a whole "movie"! The first two episodes were originally shown back in 1999 |
| 8:55pm CDT The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Thu 3:25am CDT / Thu 8:55am CDT) |
| 10:00pm EDT Terror of the Autons: Episode Two |
| 10:30pm EDT Terror of the Autons: Episode Three |
| 11:00pm EDT The Girl in the Fireplace (Repeated: Thu 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT Human Nature |
Thursday 24 September
| 8:00am EDT Night Terrors | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 9:00am 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? |
| 10:00am EDT The Brain of Morbius: Movie Format | Landing on a barren and stormy planet, the Doctor and Sarah seek refuge in home of a scientist who appears to be trying some rather sinister experiments. The channel listings indicate that this is a new broadcast, which it is strictly speaking being it's never been shown on BBC America as a whole "movie"! The first two episodes were originally shown back in 1999 |
| 12:00pm EDT The Family of Blood |
| 12:45pm EDT Bad Blood (Factual) |
| 8:00pm EDT Father's Day (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT / Fri 5:00pm EDT) | Rose was just a baby in 1987 when her father, Pete Tyler, 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 thr... |
| 9:00pm EDT The Empty Child (Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT / Fri 6:00pm EDT) | 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 terrorised by an unearthly child. Rose meets the dashing Captain Jack Harkness – has she found a hero even better than the Doctor? |
| 10:00pm EDT Terror of the Autons: Episode Four |
| 10:30pm EDT The Mind of Evil: Episode One | Colour version. |
| 10:00pm CDT Deep Breath | When the Doctor arrives in Victorian London, he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combusions. 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. |
| 11:00pm EDT Rise of the Cybermen (Repeated: Fri 2:30am EDT) |
| 11:00pm CDT The Family of Blood |
Friday 25 September
| 8:00am 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? |
| 9:00am EDT Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 10:00am EDT The Robots of Death: Movie Format | The Doctor and his new companion Leela land on a giant Sandminer, which mines airborne minerals from an arid world. It is crewed by a few humans and a large number of robots. The Doctor realises that the robots are being reprogrammed to kill! The channel listings indicate that this is a new broadcast, which it is strictly speaking being it's never been shown on BBC America as a whole "movie"! The first two episodes were originally shown back in 2000 |
| 10:00pm EDT The Mind of Evil: Episode Two | Colour version |
| 10:30pm EDT The Mind of Evil: Episode Three | Colour version |
| 11:00pm EDT The Age of Steel |
| 10:30pm CDT Robot Of Sherwood | The Doctor joins forces with Robin Hood when robots threaten Sherwood Forest. Together, they work to end the evil reign of the Sheriff of Nottingham. |