This Week in Doctor Who
Week 50: 12-18 Dec 2015 - USA
Saturday 12 December
| 4:00pm EST The Christmas Invasion | In this special, Rose (Billie Piper) drops in on her mother and boyfriend in the TARDIS - accompanied by a complete stranger, the new Doctor Who (David Tennant). Disoriented and weak from the regeneration process, the new Doctor slips in and out of consciousness as Rose desperately tries to revive him. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Harriet Jones has just been informed that a British space probe, on its way to Mars for a Christmas Day landing, has gone missing. It has been kidnapped by a monstrous race known as the Sycorax, who are set on taking over the world. Only the Doctor can stop their terrifying advance.
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| 5:00pm EST Pertwee Movies: Time Monster - Part 2 Of 3 (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EST) |
| 6:00pm EST The Invasion of Time: Part Five |
| 6:30pm EST The Invasion of Time: Part Six |
| 7:00pm EST The Ribos Operation: Part One |
| 7:30pm EST The Ribos Operation: Part Two |
| 7:00pm MST Terror of the Zygons: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MST) | Pre-empted in previous weeks by pledge programming, with Classical Rewind 2 (28th Nov) and Songbook Standards: As Time Goes By (5th Dec) |
| 9:00pm CST 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. |
| 11:05pm CST Dark Water | In the mysterious 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 organization known only as 3W – but, as the Doctor and Clara discover, you might wish it was. |
| 11:00pm MST 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 PST Vengeance on Varos: Part Three (4 part version) (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
| 11:30pm PST Vengeance on Varos: Part Four (4 part version) (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) |
Sunday 13 December
| 11:00am EST 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? |
| 12:00pm EST 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. |
| 10:00pm AKST Robot Of Sherwood (Repeated: Mon 4:00am AKST) | 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. |
Monday 14 December
| 10:00am EST 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... |
| 11:00am EST 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.... |
| 10:00pm EST The Android Invasion: Part Three |
| 10:30pm EST The Android Invasion: Part Four |
Tuesday 15 December
| 10:00am EST 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. |
| 11:00am EST 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... |
| 10:00pm EST The Brain of Morbius: Part One |
| 10:30pm EST The Brain of Morbius: Part Two |
| 11:00pm EST Dark Water | The Doctor is faced with an impossible decision, as plans are drawn in the mysterious world of the Nethersphere. Pre-empted for a couple of weeks, including Great Performances: "Andrea Bocelli: Cinema" (1st), John Denver: Country Boy (8th). |
Wednesday 16 December
| 10:00am EST 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 EST 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! |
| 9:00pm CST In The Forest Of The Night (Repeated: Thu 3:30am CST / Thu 9:00am CST) |
| 10:00pm EST The Brain of Morbius: Part Three |
| 10:30pm EST The Brain of Morbius: Part Four |
Thursday 17 December
| 10:00am EST 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? |
| 11:00am EST 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! |
| 12:00pm EST The Runaway Bride |
| 8:00pm EST Father's Day | 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 EST 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 terrorised by an unearthly child. Rose meets the dashing Captain Jack Harkness – has she found a hero even better than the Doctor? |
| 10:00pm EST The Seeds of Doom: Part One |
| 10:00pm EST The Doctor Dances | The Child’s plague is spreading throughout the 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… |
| 10:30pm EST The Seeds of Doom: Part Two |
| 10:00pm CST Dark Water | In the mysterious 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 organization known only as 3W – but, as the Doctor and Clara discover, you might wish it was. The episode was pre-empted during the first part of December with A Salute to Downton Abbey (3rd Dec) and Rick Steves Special (10 Dec). |
| 7:00pm AKST Listen (Repeated: Fri 1:00am AKST) |
Friday 18 December
| 10:00am EST The Crimson Horror | Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red. |
| 11:00am EST Nightmare in Silver | Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection. |
| 10:00pm EST The Seeds of Doom: Part Three |
| 10:30pm EST The Seeds of Doom: Part Four |
| 10:30pm CST Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and the Doctor is the only one who can help. |
| 11:30pm CST The Edge of Destruction |