This Week in Doctor Who
Week 09: 5-11 Mar 2016 - USA
Saturday 5 March
| 4:00pm EST Mummy On The Orient Express |
| 6:00pm EST The Leisure Hive: Part One | Owing to a transmission error the first 15 minutes of the episode was instead replaced by "acorn.tv". Retro reported: "We have a new software program for creating the playlists and the team is still learning how to use it. There was an issue which was corrected about 15 minutes into the first episode of Doctor Who. This happened on most of our affiliates, the ones using the national schedule." |
| 6:30pm EST The Leisure Hive: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EST The Leisure Hive: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST The Leisure Hive: Part Four |
| 9:00pm EST Doctor's Notes: Heaven Sent / Hell Bent | Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. |
| 11:00pm EST Dark Water |
| 11:30pm EST Terror of the Autons: Compilation |
Sunday 6 March
| 12:00am EST Rose | Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and her life will never be the same again. Soon, she realizes that her mum, her boyfriend, and the whole of Planet Earth are in danger. The only hope for salvation lies inside a strange blue police box... |
Saturday 5 March
| 11:30pm CST The Caretaker | When terrifying events threaten Coal Hill School, the Doctor goes undercover. Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity. |
Sunday 6 March
| 12:44am EST Bringing Back the Doctor (Factual) | The cast and crew of Doctor Who recount the thrill of developing a new series, from casting Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor to the decision to film almost 70 percent of the show on location. The program's priority was to keep key parts of the previous series, like the TARDIS, while introducing more modern elements. |
| 12:58am EST The End Of The World | The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time to the year Five Billion. The sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth. But among the alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly spiders? |
| 1:43am EST The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Factual) | Rose and the Doctor travel billions of years into the future to witness the end of the earth along with an assortment of aliens. Behind the scenes, special effects and different alien costumes were developed and created, including the last human in existence ? no more than a bit of stretched skin! |
Saturday 5 March
Sunday 6 March
| 2:00am EST The Unquiet Dead | The Doctor takes Rose back through time to 1869. In Victorian Cardiff, the dead are walking, and creatures made of gas are on the loose. The time-travellers team up with Charles Dickens to investigate Mr. Sneed, the local undertaker, and his psychic maid Gwyneth. Can they halt the plans of the ethereal Gelth? |
Saturday 5 March
Sunday 6 March
| 2:30am 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. |
| 2:45am EST TARDIS Tales (Factual) | The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to 19th century Cardiff where they encounter Charles Dickens and the menacing Gelph. The crew comments on this period episode and the impressive special effects it entailed. |
| 3:00am EST Aliens of London | The Doctor takes Rose home - a year later than planned. But all attention is on another alien spaceship which crash-lands in the Thames. London is closed off and the whole world is on Red Alert. While the Doctor investigates the alien survivor, Rose discovers that her home is no longer a safe haven. Who are the Slitheen? |
| 3:45am EST I Get A Side-Kick Out Of You (Factual) | Rose is the ideal companion for the Doctor ? she's gutsy, brave and funny. And in turn the Doctor offers Rose more than she can get from her mundane life with his time-traveling adventures. Executive producer Russell Davies reveals why it was important to make the Rose character different from the Doctor's previous companions. |
| 4:00am 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. |
| 5:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EST Blink |
| 12:00pm EST Utopia |
| 6:00pm EST The Web Planet: Escape to Danger |
| 6:30pm EST The Web Planet: Crater of Needles |
| 7:00pm EST The Web Planet: Invasion |
| 7:30pm EST The Web Planet: The Centre |
Monday 7 March
| 12:00am EST Time Warrior: Part 1 of 2 (Repeated: Tue 4:00am EST) | Doctor Who and new companion Sarah are trapped in the Middle Ages. Time previously advertised as the more usual 11pm. |
Sunday 6 March
| 10:00pm AKST Into the Dalek (Repeated: Mon 4:00am AKST) |
Monday 7 March
| 10:00am EST A Christmas Carol | *** CANCELLED *** 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? All episodes that were due on this week have been dropped from the schedules, with Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares UK taking up the 10am slot and Star Trek The Next Generation the 11am slot! The original scheule was: Mon 10am A Christmas Carol Also, the following weekend episodes were also replaced by James Bond films Casino Royale, The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy: *** CANCELLED *** |
| 8:00pm EST Mummy On The Orient Express |
| 11:00pm EST State of Decay: Part Three |
| 11:30pm EST State of Decay: Part Four |
Tuesday 8 March
| 10:00pm CST The Caretaker (Repeated: Wed 2:00am CST) | When terrifying events threaten Coal Hill School, the Doctor goes undercover. Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity. |
| 11:00pm EST Warriors' Gate: Part One |
| 11:30pm EST Warriors' Gate: Part Two |
Wednesday 9 March
| 7:00pm CST The Deadly Assassin: Part One | Dr. Who returns to Gallifrey and finds himself accused of plotting to kill the President. President: Llewellyn Rees. Hilred: Derek Seaton. Master: Peter Pratt. |
| 7:35pm CST The Deadly Assassin: Part Two | The Doctor stands trial for his life. Tom Baker. President: Llewellyn Rees. Goth: Bernard Horsfall. Hilred: Derek Seaton. Runcible: Hugh Walters. Time Lord: John Dawson. |
| 8:10pm CST The Deadly Assassin: Part Three | To establish his innocence, Dr. Who searches for the mastermind of the plot. Goth: Bernard Horsfall. Spandrell: George Pravda. Engin: Erik Chitty. Master: Peter Pratt. |
| 8:35pm CST The Deadly Assassin: Part Four | The Doctor battles the Master and his plan to destroy Gallifrey. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Master: Peter Pratt. Goth: Bernard Horsfall. Engin: Erik Chitty. Spandrell: George Pravda. |
| 11:00pm EST Warriors' Gate: Part Three |
| 11:30pm EST Warriors' Gate: Part Four |
Thursday 10 March
| 8:00pm EST The Sound of Drums |
| 9:00pm EST Last of the Time Lords |
| 7:00pm AKST Robot Of Sherwood (Repeated: Fri 1:00am AKST) |
| 11:00pm EST The Keeper of Traken: Part One |
| 11:30pm EST The Keeper of Traken: Part Two |