This Week in Doctor Who
Week 32: 13-19 Aug 2016 - USA
Saturday 13 August
| 12:00am EDT The Christmas Invasion | Online schedule listed The Runaway Bride. |
| 1:00am EDT The Runaway Bride | 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? |
| 2:00am EDT 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. |
| 3:40am EDT The Next Doctor |
| 5:00am EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 6:00am EDT The Impossible Astronaut | Billed online as The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe |
| 7:00am EDT Day of the Moon | 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. |
| 8:00am EDT The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 9:00am EDT The Girl Who Waited | Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness? |
| 10:00am EDT 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 EDT 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.... |
| 12:00pm EDT The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
| 1:00pm EDT 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. |
| 2:00pm EDT 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? |
| 3:00pm EDT 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? |
| 4:00pm EDT A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Sun 3:10am EDT) | 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? |
| 5:20pm EDT The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe |
| 6:00pm EDT The Twin Dilemma: Part Three |
| 6:30pm EDT The Twin Dilemma: Part Four |
| 6:40pm EDT The Snowmen (Repeated: Sun 4:30am EDT) | 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT Attack of the Cybermen: Part One (4 part version) |
| 7:30pm EDT Attack of the Cybermen: Part Two (4 part version) |
| 8:00pm EDT The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Sun 1:45am EDT) | Billed online as The Snowmen |
| 7:00pm MDT Robot: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) | KRWG originally listed this episode as Robot: Part Three. Later listings inferred that this was actually The Hand Of Fear: Part One, but KRWG eventually confirmed it was Robot: Part One on its next loop. |
| 9:25pm EDT Last Christmas | 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. |
| 9:30pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Robots Of Death | Even on a sandminer working the dunes
of an alien desert, the humanoid crew live in relative luxury
while robots do most of the work. But someone or something is
perverting the robots’ complex control systems, turning them into
killers. Can the Doctor find the real culprit before this blueprint
for dictatorship is unleashed on the population at large? |
| 9:00pm CDT The Satan Pit | Rose fights the Ood, and the Doctor weighs a sacrificial decision as the planet is on the verge of falling into the black hole. Toby Zed: Will Thorp. |
| 9:00pm CDT The Invisible Enemy: Part Two | The nucleus of the virus settles in the Doctor's brain. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Marius: Frederick Jaeger. Lowe: Michael Sheard. Parsons: Roy Herrick. |
| 10:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks - Part 2 of 2 | Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Davros: Michael Wisher. Harry: Ian Marter This is not confirmed, owing to last week's broadcast citing the "conclusion". This might be Terror of the Zygons instead. |
| 10:40pm EDT The Husbands of River Song |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks (part 1 of 2) | The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done. |
| 11:00pm EDT Pertwee Movies: Colony In Space - Part 3 of 3 |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Horror of Fang Rock | The Doctor and Leela (Louise Jameson) investigate disappearances at a lighthouse. Vince: John Abbott. Reuben: Colin Douglas. Ben: Ralph Watson. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Horror of Fang Rock | The TARDIS arrives on Fang Rock, a small island off the English coast, around the start of the 20th Century. The Doctor and Leela seek shelter at a lighthouse where the island's only inhabitants - Ben, Vince and Reuben - operate the recently-installed electric lamp to warn ships off the treacherous rocks. |
| 10:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks - Part 1 of 2 | The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done. |
| 11:00pm CDT Planet of the Dead |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: The Mind Of Evil - Part 1 of 2 | The Doctor visits Stangmoor Prison for the unveiling of the Keller Machine, an invention that purges all evil impulses form the minds of criminals. When a series of mysterious assassinations occur the Doctor learn that what seems like a revolutionary from of prisoner rehabilitation is nothing more than a dangerous weapon controlled by a familiar enemy. Compiles episodes 5 through 7 from "Doctor Who" series 8. |
| 11:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Seeds Of Doom - Part 1 of 2 | Two alien seed pods are found buried in the Antarctic permafrost and the Doctor realises that they are from a Krynoid, a form of plant life that infects and transforms all animal life on planets upon which it becomes established. |
Sunday 14 August
| 12:00am EDT The Day of The Doctor | Billed online as The Snowmen |
Saturday 13 August
| 11:07pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks (part 2 of 2) | The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done. |
| 11:37pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Genesis of the Daleks - Part 2 of 2 | The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done. |
| 11:00pm MDT Tom Baker Movies: Nightmare of Eden | The TARDIS arrives on the space liner Empress which has become locked together with a private ship, the Hecate, after colliding with it on emerging from hyperspace. The Doctor and Romana meet the scientist Tryst, who has with him a Continuous Event Transmuter (CET) machine containing crystals on which are stored supposed recordings of planets that he and his team have visited.. |
Sunday 14 August
| 12:45am CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Seeds Of Doom - Part 2 of 2 | Two alien seed pods are found buried in the Antarctic permafrost and the Doctor realises that they are from a Krynoid, a form of plant life that infects and transforms all animal life on planets upon which it becomes established. |
Saturday 13 August
| 11:00pm PDT Ghost Light: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 11:30pm PDT Ghost Light: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 14 August
| 12:00pm EDT Voyage of the Damned | The Doctor finds his TARDIS colliding with an interstellar replica of the famous ocean liner Titanic orbiting present-day Earth, during a Christmas party. With the help of a waitress named Astrid (Kylie Minogue) and several passengers, the Doctor must take on the race called the Heavenly Host as the lives of the Titanic crew and those on Earth are in danger. The angels have been tasked with killin... |
| 6:00pm EDT The Curse of Peladon: Episode Three |
| 6:30pm EDT The Curse of Peladon: Episode Four |
| 7:00pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode One |
| 7:30pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode Two |
Monday 15 August
| 12:00am EDT Pertwee Movies: Terror Of The Autons (Repeated: Tue 3:30am EDT) | Earth faces an invasion of Autons armed with deadly plastic daffodils and led by Dr. Who's archenemy, the Master. |
| 9:00am EDT Daleks in Manhattan | The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 10:00am EDT Evolution of the Daleks | Listed online as Voyage of the Damned (90 min) |
| 11:00pm EDT The Krotons: Episode Four |
| 11:30pm EDT Dr Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual) | The overlap between quantum reality and science fiction is discussed. |
| 11:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 1 |
Tuesday 16 August
| 9:00am EDT The Lazarus Experiment | Turning back the clock has consequences. |
| 10:00am EDT 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 9:00pm CDT Dark Water (Repeated: Wed 3:30am CDT / Wed 9:00am CDT) | Missy is about to come face to face with the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming. |
| 11:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 2 |
| 11:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 3 |
Wednesday 17 August
| 9:00am EDT Human Nature | The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 10:00am EDT The Family of Blood | Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 11:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 4 |
| 11:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 5 |
Thursday 18 August
| 9:00am EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 10:00am EDT Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 8:00pm EDT Turn Left (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
| 9:00pm EDT The Stolen Earth (Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT) |
| 10:00pm EDT Journey's End (Repeated: Fri 1:00am EDT) |
| 11:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 6 |
| 11:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 7 |