This Week in Doctor Who
Week 51: 19-25 Dec 2015 - USA
Saturday 19 December
| 4:00pm EST The Runaway Bride |
| 4:00pm EST Dark Water | The Doctor is faced with an impossible decision, as plans are drawn in the mysterious world of the Nethersphere. |
| 5:00pm EST Pertwee Movies: Time Monster - Part 3 Of 3 (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EST) |
| 6:00pm EST The Ribos Operation: Part Three |
| 6:30pm EST The Ribos Operation: Part Four |
| 7:00pm EST The Pirate Planet: Part One |
| 7:30pm EST The Pirate Planet: Part Two |
| 7:00pm MST Terror of the Zygons: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MST) |
| 9:00pm CST Flatline (Repeated: Sun 3:00am CST) | Clara goes against an enemy that exists beyond human perception. Pre-empted in previous weeks by Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries |
| 9:00pm CST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Three | The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part 3. Leela is captured by the phantom of the Palace Theatre. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Li H'sen Chang: John Bennett. Weng-Chiang: Michael Spice. Litefoot: Trevor Baxter. Episode was pre-empted over the previous weeks due to pledge season, including Starlight Ballroom (12th). |
| 9:00pm CST Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and the Doctor is the only one who can help. PBS billed this as Rise of the Cybermen. |
| 9:59pm CST The Time of the Doctor |
| 11:00pm EST The Doctor's Daughter (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EST) |
| 11:00pm EST Kill The Moon | Pre-empted at the beginning of December by Pete Townshend's Classic Quadrophenia (5th) and Joe Bonamassa: Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks (12th). |
| 11:00pm EST The Time of the Doctor | The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord's greatest enemies. Includes bonus content and interviews presented by YouTube personality Hannah Hart. |
| 11:45pm EST Sins of the Fathers (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 4:45am EST) |
| 11:00pm CST 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 before the day is won. |
| 11:00pm 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 Rick Steves’ Europe – Austin Special (5th Dec), and a Viewer's Choice event (12th Dec). |
| 11:00pm CST Dark Water | Pre-empted in previous weeks by The Pain Prescription with Dr Michael Yass (28th), Australian Beegees (5th) and Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics - The 60s (12th). |
| 11:00pm CST The Caretaker | The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity. What could be worse? Any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet. Pre-empted in previous weeks by Music VoyagerPueblo, Co (28th), John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) (5th), and Brit Floyd: Space & Time Live In Amsterdam (12th). |
| 11:00pm MST Robot Of Sherwood | In the sun dappled forest, the Doctor discovers an evil plan from beyond the stars and strikes up an unlikely alliance with Robin Hood. With Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake. |
| 11:00pm PST The Mark of the Rani: Part One (4 part version) (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
| 11:30pm PST The Mark of the Rani: Part Two (4 part version) (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) |
Sunday 20 December
| 11:00am 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? |
| 12:00pm 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… |
| 10:00pm AKST Listen (Repeated: Mon 4:00am AKST) |
Monday 21 December
| 10:00am EST New Earth (Repeated: Wed 3:00am EST) | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital. |
| 11:00am EST Tooth and Claw (Repeated: Wed 4:00am EST) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Dark Water |
| 10:00pm EST The Seeds of Doom: Part Five |
| 10:30pm EST The Seeds of Doom: Part Six |
Tuesday 22 December
| 6:00am EST 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. |
| 7:00am EST Fear Her | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 8:00am EST Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 9:00am EST Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 10:00am EST Smith and Jones |
| 11:00am EST The Shakespeare Code |
| 12:00pm EST Gridlock | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 1:00pm EST Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 2:00pm EST Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 3:00pm EST The Lazarus Experiment | Turning back the clock has consequences. |
| 4:00pm EST 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 5:00pm EST Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 6:00pm EST The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 7:00pm EST Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 8:00pm EST Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 9:00pm EST The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 10:00pm EST The Masque of Mandragora: Part One |
| 10:00pm EST Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 10:30pm EST The Masque of Mandragora: Part Two |
| 11:00pm EST Death in Heaven |
| 11:00pm EST Midnight (Repeated: Wed 3:00pm EST) | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 10:35pm CST Dark Water (Repeated: Wed 3:05am CST) | 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. |
Wednesday 23 December
| 12:00am EST Turn Left (Repeated: Wed 4:00pm EST) | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 1:00am EST The Stolen Earth (Repeated: Wed 5:00pm EST) | Part 1. Earth's greatest heroes assemble to fight the New Dalek Empire, but a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows. |
| 2:00am EST Journey's End (Repeated: Wed 6:00pm EST) | 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. |
| 5:00am EST School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 6:00am EST Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 7:00am EST The Fires of Pompeii | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 8:00am EST Planet of the Ood | The Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. |
| 9:00am EST The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants |
| 10:00am EST The Poison Sky | Part 2. As poison gas suffocates the Earth's population, the Doctor and UNIT team members work to eliminate the threat. |
| 11:00am EST The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 12:00pm EST The Unicorn and the Wasp | Agatha Christie's 10-day disappearance in 1926 may have been the result of amnesia, a nervous breakdown, or a giant alien wasp. |
| 1:00pm EST Silence in the Library | Part 1. The Doctor and Donna must uncover the truth behind the Nodes and the Data Ghost to uncover the library's secret. |
| 2:00pm EST Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 7:00pm EST The Christmas Invasion (Repeated: Thu 11:30am EST) | BBC America listed this as The Runaway Bride. |
| 8:00pm EST The Runaway Bride (Repeated: Thu 12:30pm EST) | No sooner has the Doctor said a tear-stained farewell to Rose Tyler than he finds himself face-to-face with a woman dressed in a fluffy white wedding frock. Who is she? Who is she supposed to be marrying? And how did she get on board the TARDIS? |
| 9:00pm EST A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Thu 4:20pm EST) | 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 CST Dark Water (Repeated: Thu 3:30am CST / Thu 9:00am CST) |
| 10:00pm EST The Masque of Mandragora: Part Three |
| 10:20pm EST The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe (Repeated: Thu 5:40pm EST) | BBC America listed this as The Impossible Astronaut |
| 10:30pm EST The Masque of Mandragora: Part Four |
| 11:40pm EST The Next Doctor (Repeated: Thu 3:00pm EST) | BBC America listed this as The Waters of Mars with the description for The End of Time! |
Thursday 24 December
| 1:00am EST Deep Breath (Repeated: Thu 10:00am EST) | 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. |
| 2:30am EST Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now... |
| 3:30am EST Robot Of Sherwood | When Robots threaten Sherwood forest, the Doctor must join forces with Robin Hood to stop the evil reign of the Sheriff of Nottingham. |
| 4:30am EST 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. |
| 5:30am EST 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. |
| 6:00am EST 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. |
| 7:00am EST Kill The Moon | 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. |
| 8:00am EST 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. |
| 9:00am EST Flatline (Repeated: Fri 3:00am EST) | 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. |
| 12:00pm EST The Doctor's Daughter |
| 12:45pm EST Sins of the Fathers (Factual) |
| 1:30pm EST Voyage of the Damned | Kylie Minogue joins Doctor Who to play Astrid, a waitress on a doomed spaceship that eerily resembles the Titanic. When a meteor hits, Astrid and The Doctor must protect the survivors from and prevent the whole ship from crashing to Earth. |
| 7:00pm EST The Snowmen (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EST) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Boom Town (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EST / Fri 2:00am EST) | When the Tardis crew take 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. |
| 8:20pm EST The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Fri 12:20am EST) |
| 9:00pm EST 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 realises that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching. |
| 9:45pm EST Last Christmas (Repeated: Fri 1:45am EST / Fri 7:15am EST) | 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. |
| 10:00pm EST The Hand Of Fear: Part One |
| 10:00pm EST 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? |
| 10:30pm EST The Hand Of Fear: Part Two |
| 7:00pm AKST Time Heist (Repeated: Fri 1:00am AKST) |
Friday 25 December
| 4:00am EST 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. |
| 5:00am EST 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. |
| 6:00am EST 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. |
| 8:30am EST The Magician's Apprentice | Part 1. "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. |
| 9:30am EST The Witch's Familiar | Part 2. Trapped and alone in a terrifying Dalek city, the Doctor is at the heart of an evil Empire; no sonic, no TARDIS, nobody to help. With his greatest temptation before him, can the Doctor resist? And will there be mercy? |
| 10:30am EST Under the Lake | Part 1. When an Underwater Base comes under attack, the Doctor and Clara must save the frightened crew and defeat an impossible threat. But what is behind these terrifying events? And can they really be haunted by Ghosts? |
| 11:30am EST Before The Flood | 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? |
| 12:30pm EST The Girl Who Died | Part 1. 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? |
| 1:30pm EST The Woman Who Lived | Part 2. England, 1651. The deadly Highwayman 'The Knightmare' and his sidekick stalk the dark streets of London. But when they find loot that's not of this world, they come face to face with the Doctor. Can the Doctor avoid the hangman's noose? |
| 2:30pm EST The Zygon Invasion | Part 1. The Zygons, a race of shapeshifting aliens, have been living in secret amongst us on Earth, unseen until now! When Osgood is kidnapped by a gang of Zygons, the Doctor, Clara and UNIT must scatter across the world in a bid to set her free. |
| 3:30pm EST The Zygon Inversion | Part 2. Shapeshifting Zygons are everywhere in the UK, and there is no way of knowing who to trust. With UNIT neutralized, only the Doctor stands in their way. But how do you stop a war? And what can the Doctor do to save his friends? |
| 4:30pm EST Sleep No More | This terrifying story is assembled from footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station. |
| 5:30pm EST Face The Raven | The Doctor and Clara, with their old friend Rigsy, find themselves in a magical alien world, hidden on a street in the heart of London. Sheltered within are some of the most fearsome creatures of the universe and Ashildr (Maisie Williams)! |
| 6:00pm EST The Christmas Invasion |
| 6:30pm EST Heaven Sent | Part 1. Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone. Pursued by the fearsome creature known only as the Veil, he must attempt the impossible. |
| 7:45pm EST Hell Bent | Part 2. If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts, how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. |
| 9:00pm EST The Husbands of River Song | It's Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor, he finds himself recruited into River Song's squad and into a chase across the galaxy. |
| 10:00pm EST The Hand Of Fear: Part Three |
| 10:15pm EST The Day of The Doctor | Listed on BBC America as The Snowmen. |
| 10:30pm EST The Hand Of Fear: Part Four |
| 11:00pm CST Robot Of Sherwood |
| 11:30pm CST The Edge of Destruction: The Brink of Disaster |