This Week in Doctor Who
Week 42: 17-23 Oct 2015 - USA
Saturday 17 October
| 4:00pm EDT The Sound of Drums |
| 4:00pm EDT Time Heist | The Doctor attempts to break into the most dangerous bank in the Cosmos. |
| 4:45pm EDT The Saxon Mystery (Factual) |
| 5:00pm EDT Pertwee Movies: The Curse of Peladon (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EDT) | Originally scheduled as The Sea Devils episodes one and two but the transmission order was corrected before broadcast. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Robots of Death: Part Three |
| 6:30pm EDT The Robots of Death: Part Four |
| 7:00pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EDT Before The Flood (Repeated: Sun 2:30am EDT) | Part 2. On a remote Army outpost, a fearsome alien warlord, the Fisher King, sets in motion a twisted plan to ensure his own survival. The ripples will be felt around the universe. Is this chain of events inevitable? And can the Doctor do the unthinkable? |
| 7:00pm MDT Genesis of the Daleks: Part Five (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) | Billed description was for episode three. |
| 9:00pm EDT The Girl Who Died (Repeated: Sun 3:30am EDT) | Captured by Vikings, the Doctor and Clara must help protect their village from Space Warriors from the future; the Mire. Outnumbered and outgunned their fate seems inevitable. So why is the Doctor preoccupied with a single Viking girl? |
| 9:00pm CDT Robot Of Sherwood (Repeated: Sun 3:00am CDT) | When Robots threaten Sherwood forest, the Doctor must join forces with Robin Hood. |
| 9:00pm CDT The Caretaker | Online schedules billed this as The Satan Pit! |
| 9:00pm CDT The Robots of Death: Part One | The Doctor and Leela are suspected of murders in a robot-based society. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Chub: Rob Edwards. Borg: Brian Croucher. Dask: David Bailie. Uvanov: Russell Hunter. Toos: Pamela Salem. |
| 10:00pm CDT The Caretaker |
| 11:00pm EDT Last of the Time Lords (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT The Caretaker | The terrifying Skovox Blitzer prepares to destroy mankind. Meanwhile, Danny Pink and the Doctor are on a course to meet. |
| 11:30pm EDT Into the Dalek | Billed as "Into The Dark". |
| 11:45pm EDT The Valiant Quest (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 4:45am EDT) |
| 10:58pm CDT The Time of the Doctor | The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins. |
| 11:00pm CDT Listen | When ghosts of past and future come into their lives, the Doctor and Clara are taken to the very end of the universe. |
| 11:05pm CDT Listen | 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.What happens when the Doctor is alone? And what scares the grand old man of Time and Space? Listen! |
Sunday 18 October
| 12:00am CDT The Rebel Flesh | A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a factory on earth where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. A second wave hits and the 'Gangers' separate. Can the Doctor prevent an all out civil war between the humans and the 'almost people' before the factory explodes? |
| 12:00am CDT The Monster of Peladon: Compilation | The Doctor and Sarah intervene in a conflict between miners and the ruling class on the planet of Paladon. Broadcast in three parts, Midnight-12:45am, 12:45-1:30am, 1:30-2:15am |
Saturday 17 October
| 11:00pm MDT The Caretaker | When terrifying events threaten Coal Hill school, the Doctor decides to go undercover. The Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - and worse, any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet. |
| 11:00pm PDT Planet of Fire: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
Sunday 18 October
| 1:00am CDT The Almost People | A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a factory on earth where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. A second wave hits and the 'Gangers' separate. Can the Doctor prevent an all out civil war between the humans and the 'almost people' before the factory explodes? |
Saturday 17 October
Sunday 18 October
| 2:00am CDT A Good Man Goes to War | The Doctor needs an army by his side. As he calls in all his debts across the cosmos, his enemies use his closest friends to trap him. Today will mark the Battle of Demons Run. Both sides will make their sacrifices - and River Song has something to tell the Doctor... |
| 3:00am CDT Let's Kill Hitler | In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. The Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities - and in so doing, learns a harsh lesson in the cruelest warfare of all. |
| 4:30am EDT Flatline | 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. |
| 11:00am EDT New Earth |
| 12:00pm EDT Tooth and Claw |
| 11:34pm CDT Kill The Moon |
Monday 19 October
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EDT School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend |
| 8:00pm EDT Time Heist |
| 10:00pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Three |
| 10:30pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Four |
| 11:00pm CDT Night Terrors | The Doctor receives a distress call from the scariest place in the Universe. A child's bedroom. Terrified of the monsters in his cupboard, George's pleas for help break through the barriers of all time and space. But allaying his fears won't be easy, even for the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
Tuesday 20 October
| 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. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Five |
| 10:30pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Six |
| 10:00pm CDT Listen (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CDT) | When ghosts of past and future come into their lives, the Doctor and Clara are taken to the very end of the universe. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Caretaker | The terrifying Skovox Blitzer prepares to destroy mankind. Meanwhile, Danny Pink and the Doctor are on a course to meet. |
| 11:00pm CDT The Girl Who Waited | Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague - a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day. The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness? |
Wednesday 21 October
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 9:00pm CDT Robot Of Sherwood (Repeated: Thu 3:30am CDT / Thu 9:00am CDT) |
| 10:00pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode One |
| 10:30pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Two |
| 11:00pm CDT The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in what looks like an ordinary hotel. But the walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish. There is a room for every visitor that contains their deepest, darkest fears. Fears that will kill them. What lies in the Doctor's room? And when his turn comes, will he welcome death like all the rest? |
Thursday 22 October
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EDT The Satan Pit | Part 2. As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core as the Pit beckons. |
| 12:00pm EDT Last of the Time Lords |
| 12:45pm EDT The Valiant Quest (Factual) | Two enemies square up for battle. |
| 8:00pm EDT School Reunion (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT / Fri 5:00pm EDT) |
| 9:00pm EDT The Girl in the Fireplace (Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT / Fri 6:00pm EDT) |
| 10:00pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Three |
| 10:30pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Four |
| 10:00pm CDT Time Heist | The Doctor turns bank robber when he is given a task that he cannot refuse--steal from the most dangerous bank in the cosmos. |
| 11:00pm CDT Closing Time | In the last few days of his life, the Doctor pays a farewell visit his old friend Craig, and encounters a mystery. People are going missing, a silver rat scuttles in the shadows of a department store, and somewhere close by the Cybermen are waiting. |
Friday 23 October
| 2:00am EDT Genesis of the Daleks: Movie Format | 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? |
| 5:00am EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 6:00am EDT Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 7:00am EDT The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 8:00am EDT The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 9:00am EDT The Poison Sky | Part 2. As poison gas suffocates the Earth's population, the Doctor and UNIT team members work to eliminate the threat. |
| 10:00am EDT Love & Monsters | A man named Elton is plunged into a world of living nightmares when he becomes obsessed with the Doctor, Rose and their mysterious blue box. |
| 11:00am EDT Fear Her | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Five |
| 10:30pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Six |
| 11:00pm CDT Kill The Moon | The Doctor and Clara crash-land on the moon, where they discover a mining base strewn with corpses and encounter giant spiders. |
| 11:30pm CDT An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker |