This Week in Doctor Who
Week 52: 26 Dec 2015 - 1 Jan 2016 - USA
Saturday 26 December
| 12:00am EST The Husbands of River Song (Repeated: Thu 7:45pm EST) | 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. |
| 1:15am EST A Christmas Carol | 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? |
| 2:15am EST The Day of The Doctor | Listed on BBC America as The Snowmen. |
| 4:00am 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. |
| 5:00am 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? |
| 6:00am 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? |
| 7:00am 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? |
| 8:00am 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? |
| 9:00am 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? |
| 10:00am EST 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. |
| 11:00am EST 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. |
| 12:00pm EST 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. |
| 1:00pm EST 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. |
| 2:00pm EST 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. |
| 3:00pm EST The Vampires of Venice | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 4:00pm EST The Doctor's Daughter |
| 4:00pm EST Death in Heaven |
| 4:00pm EST Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 4:45pm EST Sins of the Fathers (Factual) |
| 5:00pm EST Pertwee Movies: Three Doctors - Part 1 Of 2 (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EST) | An antimatter creature attacks UNIT and the Doctor is forced to send an SOS to the Time Lords. |
| 5:00pm EST The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 6:00pm EST The Pirate Planet: Part Three |
| 6:00pm EST Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 6:30pm EST The Pirate Planet: Part Four |
| 7:00pm EST The Stones of Blood: Part One |
| 7:00pm EST Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 7:30pm EST The Stones of Blood: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EST The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 7:00pm MST Terror of the Zygons: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MST) |
| 9:00pm EST 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. |
| 9:00pm CST In The Forest Of The Night (Repeated: Sun 3:00am CST) | The Doctor discovers that the final days of humanity have arrived. |
| 9:00pm CST Robot Of Sherwood |
| 9:00pm CST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Four | The Doctor battles the Tong of the Black Scorpion. Louise Jameson. Jago: Christopher Benjamin. Li H'sen Chang: John Bennett. Weng-Chiang: Michael Spice. |
| 10:00pm EST The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 10:55pm EST Deep Breath |
| 10:00pm CST Deep Breath |
| 11:00pm EST Mummy On The Orient Express |
| 11:00pm EST The Unicorn and the Wasp (Repeated: Mon 4:00am EST) |
| 11:00pm EST The Impossible Astronaut | 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. |
| 11:45pm EST Nemesis (Factual) (Repeated: Mon 4:45am EST) |
| 11:00pm CST Kill The Moon | In the near future, the Doctor and Clara find themselves on a space shuttle set on a suicide mission to the Moon. After crash-landing on the lunar surface they find the most terrible things. |
| 11:00pm CST Death in Heaven |
Sunday 27 December
| 12:00am EST Day of the Moon | 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. |
Saturday 26 December
| 11:05pm CST 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.... the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind, the Doctor and the Ponds must find an escape route. But with Amy and Rory’s relationship in meltdown, and an army of mad Daleks closing in, it is up to the Doctor to save their lives, as well as the Pond’s marriage. |
Sunday 27 December
| 1:00am EST 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. |
Saturday 26 December
| 11:00pm MST 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 end of the Universe. What happens when the Doctor is alone? And what scares the grand old man of Time and Space? |
| 11:00pm PST The Mark of the Rani: Part Three (4 part version) (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
Sunday 27 December
| 2:00am EST The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
Saturday 26 December
Sunday 27 December
| 3:00am EST 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? |
| 4:00am EST 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. |
| 5:00am EST A Good Man Goes to War (Repeated: Sun 11:00pm EST) | The Doctor assembles an army to face the Battle of Demons Run - and River Song has something to tell him. |
| 6:00am EST Let's Kill Hitler (Repeated: Mon 12:00am EST) | The TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. |
| 7:00am EST Night Terrors (Repeated: Mon 1:00am EST) | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 4:30am PST The Mark of the Rani: Part Four (4 part version) |
| 8:00am EST The Girl Who Waited (Repeated: Mon 2:00am EST) | Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness? |
| 9:00am EST The Wedding of River Song (Repeated: Mon 5:00am EST) | 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. |
| 10:00am EST 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... |
| 11:00am EST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 12:00pm EST 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. |
| 12:00pm 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? |
| 1:00pm 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... |
| 2:00pm 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.... |
| 3:00pm 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... |
| 4:00pm 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. |
| 5:00pm 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! |
| 6:00pm 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? |
| 7:00pm 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! |
| 8:00pm EST The Crimson Horror | Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red. |
| 9:00pm 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 Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
| 11:15pm CST The Time of the Doctor |
| 10:00pm AKST Time Heist (Repeated: Mon 4:00am AKST) |
Monday 28 December
| 3:00am EST 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? |
| 4:00am EST Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 7:30pm EST The Husbands of River Song: theater presentation (Repeated: Tue 7:30pm EST) | BBC Worldwide North America and Fathom Events announce the return of the longest running sci-fi television series, Doctor Who, to the big screen with a special theatrical event of the 2015 Doctor Who Christmas Special starring Peter Capaldi and featuring the return of Alex Kingston as River Song. The event will be in theaters on December 28 & 29, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. local time and feature an exclusive interview with Alex Kingston, as well as a 15-minute behind-the-scenes “making of” featurette starring Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat and more. It’s Christmas Day in the future and the TARDIS is parked on a snowy village street, covered in icicles, awaiting its next adventure. Time traveler River Song meets her husband’s new incarnation, in the form of Peter Capaldi, for the first time this Christmas. River Song made her first Doctor Who appearances in 2008 in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead and has appeared in 15 episodes to date. Shown in selected theaters across the country. |
| 8:00pm EST Death in Heaven |
| 11:00pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part One |
| 11:30pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Two |
Tuesday 29 December
Wednesday 30 December
| 9:00pm CST Death in Heaven |
| 11:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part One |
| 11:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Two |
Thursday 31 December
| 6:00am EST School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 7:00am EST 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. |
| 8:00am EST Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 9:00am EST 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. |
| 10:00am EST 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. |
| 11:00am EST 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. |
| 12:00pm EST The Unicorn and the Wasp |
| 12:00pm EST 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. |
| 12:45pm EST Nemesis (Factual) |
| 1:00pm 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. |
| 2:00pm EST Fear Her | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 3:00pm EST Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 4:00pm EST Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 5:00pm 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. |
| 6:30pm EST The Waters of Mars (Repeated: Fri 2:40am EST) | BBC America had this listed as The Next Doctor, sub-titled as The Waters of Mars and the description as The End of Time! |
| 8:00pm EST New Earth |
| 9:00pm EST Tooth and Claw |
| 9:00pm EST The End of Time: Parts 1 & 2 | BBC America had this listed as The Next Doctor, sub-titled as The Waters of Mars and the description as The End of Time! |
| 10:00pm EST School Reunion |
| 11:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Three |
| 7:00pm AKST The Caretaker (Repeated: Fri 4:00am AKST) |
| 11:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Four |
Friday 1 January
| 12:00am EST The Time of the Doctor | BBC America had this listed as The Snowmen, sub-titled as The Time of the Doctor and the description as The Snowmen! |
| 1:20am EST Planet of the Dead | BBC America had this listed as The Next Doctor, sub-titled as The Waters of Mars and the description as The End of Time! |
| 4:00am EST Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 5:00am EST Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 11:00pm EST The Robots of Death: Part One |
| 11:30pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Two |
| 10:30pm CST Listen |
| 11:35pm CST An Unearthly Child | Originally listed as The Sea Devils: Episode One. |