This Week in Doctor Who
Week 37: 17-23 Sep 2016 - USA
Saturday 17 September
| 6:00pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet): Part One |
| 6:30pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet): Part Two |
| 7:00pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet): Part Three |
| 7:30pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet): Part Four |
| 7:00pm MDT Robot: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) |
| 9:30pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Invisible Enemy | The TARDIS is infiltrated by the Swarm - a space-borne intelligence that wishes to spread itself across the universe - and the Doctor is infected by its nucleus. The ship then materialises on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, where the human occupants of a refuelling station have also been taken over. |
| 9:00pm CDT Army of Ghosts | Part 1 of two. The living welcome the return of the dead, but the ghosts may not be what they seem as the Doctor seeks answers at the Torchwood Tower. Jackie Tyler: Camille Coduri. Mickey Smith: Noel Clarke. |
| 9:00pm CDT The Sun Makers: Part Two | Doctor Who and Leela arrive on a future Pluto that is controlled by a company that exploits its workers. Listed as part one of two. |
| 10:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: Pyramids Of Mars |
| 10:00pm 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 EDT Pertwee Movies: The Mutants - Part 2 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: The Sunmakers | The TARDIS arrives in the future on the planet Pluto where there are now six suns, a breathable atmosphere and a large industrial community. The Company controls the planet and exploits the workers, pays them a pittance and then taxes them on everything imaginable. The Doctor and Leela join forces with an underground band of rebels led by a man named Mandrel. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Invasion of Time | Part 1 of six. The Doctor (Tom Baker) returns to Gallifrey to become President. Louise Jameson. Vardan Leader: Stan McGowan. Andred: Chris Tranchell. Part 2. The Doctor expels Leela to the wasteland. Borusa: John Arnatt. Andred: Chris Tranchell. Lord Gomer: Dennis Edward. Kelner: Milton Johns. Vardan: Tom Kelly. Billed as two parts (94m, 46m). |
| 10:30pm 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 CDT The End of Time: Part Two |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Colony In Space - Part 1 of 3 | The Doctor and Jo arrive on a 25th Century Earth colony where a tyrannical mining company keeps the colonists under constant control. On top of that, The Master is there too in search of a doomsday weapon. Compiles episodes 15 and 16 from "Doctor Who" series 8. |
| 11:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Hand Of Fear | The TARDIS arrives on contemporary Earth, where Sarah comes into contact with what appears to be a fossilised human hand. This is in fact the last surviving fragment of a Kastrian called Eldrad, who was blown up in space as a punishment for attempting to wipe out his own people. |
| 11:44pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Colony In Space - Part 2 of 3 | While on a distant Earth colony, Jo is captured and the only way for the Doctor to save her is to descend further into the primitive and tyrannically run city. Compiles episodes 17 and 18 from "Doctor Who" series 8 |
| 11:00pm MDT Tom Baker Movies: Full Circle | The TARDIS falls through a CVE into E-Space and arrives on the planet Alzarius. There the inhabitants of a crashed Starliner and a group of young rebels called the Outlers, led by a boy named Varsh and including his brother Adric, are being terrorised by a race of Marshmen who emerge from the marshes at a time known as Mistfall.. |
| 11:00pm PDT An Unearthly Child (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 10:00pm AKDT Tom Baker Movies: City of Death (Repeated: Sun 3:00am AKDT) | On a holiday in Paris, the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana uncover a plot to steal the Mona Lisa. Julian Glover. Duggan: Tom Chadbon. Countess: Catherine Schell. Kerensky: David Graham. |
| 11:30pm PDT An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 18 September
| 6:00pm EDT The Three Doctors: Episode One |
| 6:30pm EDT The Three Doctors: Episode Two |
| 7:00pm EDT The Three Doctors: Episode Three |
| 7:30pm EDT The Three Doctors: Episode Four |
Monday 19 September
| 12:00am EDT Pertwee Movies: Colony In Space - Part 1 of 3 (Repeated: Tue 3:30am EDT) | Part 1 of 3. Colonists on an Earth outpost in the 25th century are being targeted by a ruthless mining company. |
| 9:00am EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 10:00am EDT The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Sea Devils: Episode Six |
| 11:30pm EDT The Mutants: Episode One |
Tuesday 20 September
| 9:00am EDT 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. |
| 10:00am EDT The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Two |
| 11:30pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Three |
Wednesday 21 September
| 9:00am EDT 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? |
| 10:00am EDT 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. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Four |
| 11:30pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Five |
Thursday 22 September
| 9:00am EDT 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. |
| 10:00am EDT 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. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Sontaran Stratagem (Repeated: Thu 11:00pm EDT) | 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... |
| 9:00pm EDT The Poison Sky (Repeated: Fri 12:00am EDT) | 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... |
| 10:00pm EDT The Doctor's Daughter (Repeated: Fri 1:00am EDT) | The TARDIS, as seen before, seems to display a mind of its own and whisks the Doctor, Donna, and the Time Lord's former companion Martha Jones to the planet Messaline, in the midst of a savage war between humans and the fish-like Hath. Martha is abducted by the Hath shortly after the time travellers arrive. Rescuing Martha becomes the Doctor and Donna's main priority, as well as attempting to put ... |
| 11:00pm EDT The Mutants: Episode Six |
| 11:30pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode One |
Friday 23 September
| 4:00pm EDT Silence in the Library | The Doctor and Donna land in the 51st century to visit the greatest library in the universe, encompassing an entire planet, but are baffled when they find it deserted. To the best he can determine, the library has been closed for 100 years, so the arrival of a team of archaeologists led by River Song (Alex Kingston) comes as something of a surprise. They discover the Vashta Nerada, carnivorous cre... |
| 5:00pm EDT Forest of the Dead |
| 11:00pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Two |
| 11:30pm EDT The Time Monster: Episode Three |