This Week in Doctor Who
Week 36: 10-16 Sep 2016 - USA
Saturday 10 September
| 11:30am PDT KEET California: Science Goes to the Movies: Dr. Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual) | The overlap between quantum reality and science fiction is discussed. |
| 6:00pm EDT Timelash: Part One (4 part version) |
| 6:30pm EDT Timelash: Part Two (4 part version) |
| 7:00pm EDT Timelash: Part Three (4 part version) |
| 7:30pm EDT Timelash: Part Four (4 part version) |
| 7:00pm MDT Robot: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) | The Doctor tangles with scientists threatening to destroy the world. Robot: Michael Kilgarriff. Benton: John Levene. Kettlewell: Edward Burnham. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Pre-empted the previous week by Soundstage (iconic garage bands of the 1960s and '70s) |
| 9:30pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (Part 2 of 2) | The Doctor’s investigations take him first to the sewers, where there are indeed giant rats on the loose, and then to the Palace Theatre, where a stage magician, Li H’sen Chang, is procuring young girls for his master, the ancient Chinese god Weng-Chiang. Weng-Chiang is in fact Magnus Greel, a war criminal from the 51st Century. The journey back through time has disrupted his molecular structure and he now needs to feed on the life force of others - hence his use for the young girls. He has come to London to retrieve his lost time cabinet, which is in the possession of Litefoot. Infiltrating Litefoot’s home with Chang’s ventriloquist doll Mr Sin - a computerised homonculus with the brain of a pig - he retrieves the cabinet and prepares to travel back to his own time. Pre-empted on 27th August by Magic Moments: The Best of 50s Pop and on the 3rd September by Downton Abbey. |
| 9:00pm CDT The Sun Makers: Part One | Doctor Who and Leela arrive on a future Pluto that is controlled by a company that exploits its workers. Pre-empted from 3rd September by Downton Abbey. |
| 10:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: Planet of Evil | Dr. Who and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) encounter trouble when they answer a distress call from the fringe of the universe. Braun: Terence Brook. Baldwin: Tony McEwan. Sorenson: Frederick Jaeger. Vishinsky: Ewen Solon. Pre-empted from 27th August by Cornerstones of Rock: A Soundstage Special and 3rd September by Downton Abbey. |
| 9:00pm CDT Fear Her | Rose and the Doctor visit London in the near future to watch the Olympic games, and learn that the disappearances of children may be linked to a little girl's drawings. Pre-empted on 27th August by Highwaymen Live! and on 3rd September by Downton Abbey. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Planet of Evil | The TARDIS picks up a distress call and the Doctor and Sarah arrive on the planet Zeta Minor. There they discover that a Morestran geological expedition has fallen prey to an unseen killer and only the leader, Professor Sorenson, remains alive. |
| 11:00pm EDT Pertwee Movies: The Mutants - Part 1 of 3 | The Time Lords send the Doctor to a Skybase above the planet Solos in the 30th Century. The Marshal of the Skybase is determined to prevent Solos achieving independence from Earth. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Underworld | The Doctor and Leela search for a spaceship carrying colonists and the gene bank of their race. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Jackson: James Maxwell. Tala: Imogen Bickford-Smith. Idas: Norman Tipton. Orfe: Jonathan Newth. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Image Of The Fendahl | An anachronistic twelve-million-year-old human skull has been discovered by archaeologists and is now being used by Professor Fendelman in his time scanner experiments at Fetch Priory in contemporary England. The skull is actually an artifact of the Fendahl, an ancient creature that feeds on the life force of others. Pre-empted on 27th August by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band:: 50 Years and Circlin' Back and on 3rd September by Downton Abbey. |
| 10:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Pyramids Of Mars | The TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 1911 inside an old priory owned by Egyptologist Marcus Scarman. Scarman has been possessed by Sutekh, last survivor of the god-like Osirans, who is held prisoner inside a pyramid in Egypt by a signal transmitted from one on Mars. Sutekh desires his freedom and instructs Scarman to construct servicer robots - which look like Egyptian mummies - to build a missile with which to destroy the Martian pyramid. The Doctor foils this plan by blowing up the missile. |
| 11:00pm CDT The End of Time: Part One | Pre-empted on 27th August by Rhythm and Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular, and on 3rd September by On The Psychiatrists Couch with Dr Daniel Amen, Md. |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: The Claws of Axos - Part 1 of 2 | UNIT investigates a mysterious landing site only to discover a group of aliens who possess a mineral capable of duplicating matter. The Doctor hopes to analyze the mineral, but the ministry of defense wants to capitalize off of it. Compiles episodes 11 and 12 from "Doctor Who" series 8. Pre-empted on the 27th August by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years and Circlin' Back and 3rd September by The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum. |
| 11:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Masque Of Mandragora | The TARDIS is temporarily captured by the Mandragora Helix, a spiral of energy with a controlling influence, at the centre of which the ship is infiltrated by a sparkling ball of energy. |
| 11:45pm CDT Pertwee Movies: The Claws of Axos - Part 2 of 2 | The Doctor and Jo are being held prison by Axos and it seems that the only way to escape and save the Earth is for the Doctor to make a deal with an old enemy. Compiles episodes 13 and 14 from "Doctor Who" series 8. |
| 11:00pm MDT Tom Baker Movies: Meglos | The Doctor is invited to visit the planet Tigella by its leader, Zastor, who has become concerned about disputes between his people's two opposing factions, the religious Deons and the scientist Savants. The TARDIS is intercepted by the megalomaniacal xerophyte Meglos, last survivor of the planet Zolfa-Thura, and trapped in a chronic hysteresis - a time loop - but the Doctor and Romana manage to free it.. |
| 11:00pm PDT Survival: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 10:00pm AKDT Tom Baker Movies: Creature From The Pit (Repeated: Sun 3:00am AKDT) | Dr. Who and Romana (Lalla Ward) land on Chloris, a planet rich in plant life but poor in metal resources. Adrasta: Myra Frances. Karela: Eileen Way. Huntsman: David Telfer. Voice of K9: David Brierly. |
| 11:30pm PDT Survival: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 11 September
| 12:00pm EDT Utopia |
| 6:00pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Three |
| 6:30pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Four |
| 7:00pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Five |
| 7:30pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Six |
Monday 12 September
| 12:00am EDT Pertwee Movies: The Claws of Axos - Part 2 of 2 (Repeated: Tue 3:30am EDT) | An alien spaceship with a crew of seemingly friendly humanoids lands on Earth. |
| 9:00am EDT 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. |
| 10:00am EDT 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. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Dæmons: Episode Five |
| 11:30pm EDT The Curse of Peladon: Episode One |
Tuesday 13 September
| 9:00am EDT 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. |
| 10:00am EDT 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. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Curse of Peladon: Episode Two |
| 11:30pm EDT The Curse of Peladon: Episode Three |
Wednesday 14 September
| 9:00am EDT The Vampires of Venice | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 10:00am EDT Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Curse of Peladon: Episode Four |
| 11:30pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode One |
Thursday 15 September
| 9:00am EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 10:00am EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 8:00pm EDT Partners in Crime (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT) | With a new weight-loss pill tested in London by Adipose Industries, the Doctor goes to investigate the sinister truth behind the product, only to find out that his former companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) is investigating as well. Together, they attempt to stop businesswoman Miss Foster (Sarah Lancashire) from killing thousands of people in London during the birth of the Adipose, short white ... |
| 9:00pm EDT The Fires of Pompeii (Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Donna land in Pompeii during the 79AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Doctor's activities in Pompeii are impeded by the rock-like Pyrovile and their allies, the Sybilline Sisterhood, who are using the volcano to convert the humans to Pyroviles. The Doctor is faced with a moral dilemma: whether to rescue himself and all of Pompeii from the situation and leave the Pyroviles to have th... |
| 10:00pm EDT Planet of the Ood (Repeated: Fri 1:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Donna arrive on the Ood-Sphere in the year 4126. They arrive at a factory where the Ood are prepared for sale to anyone willing to pay the price. When they find a group of unprocessed Ood, they become horrified at the alterations performed and resolve to free the Ood. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode Two |
| 11:30pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode Three |
Friday 16 September
| 4:00pm EDT The Sontaran Stratagem | The Doctor gets a call from previous traveling companion, now medical officer at UNIT, Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) with a request that he return to Earth immediately. She requests the Doctor's help in investigating ATMOS (Atmospheric Omission System) and why 52 people around the world all died simultaneously. The Doctor learns that the Sontarans are planning to take over the Earth. They take Mar... |
| 5:00pm EDT The Poison Sky | Continuing from the end of "The Sontaran Stratagem", the Sontarans launch the attack with their poison gas slowly encircling the Earth. The Doctor—impeded by a Sontaran-controlled clone of Martha—aids UNIT in repelling the Sontarans in the ATMOS factory while Donna infiltrates the Sontarans' warship. He decides to try and burn the poison gas that now encircles the Earth and with the help of th... |
| 11:00pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode Four |
| 11:30pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode Five |