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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 39: 1-7 Oct 2016 - USA

Data last updated 12 February 2017

Saturday 1 October

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EDT
The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Nine

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EDT
The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Ten

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Eleven

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Twelve

Show broadcasts for KRWG
 
7:00pm MDT
The Ark In Space: Part Two
(Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT)

Dr. Who (Tom Baker) discovers a sinister interference with earthlings in suspended animation. Harry: Ian Marter. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Vira: Wendy Williams. Noah: Kenton Moore. Rogin: Richardson Morgan.


Show broadcasts for WFWA
 
9:30pm EDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Sun Makers

On Pluto, the Doctor discovers humans controlled by a ruthless business operation. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Cordo: Roy Macready. Nurse: Carole Hopkin. Veet: Adrienne Burgess.


Show broadcasts for WXXI
 
10:00pm EDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Brain Of Morbius

Show broadcasts for KPTS
 
9:00pm CDT
The Sun Makers: Part Four

Show broadcasts for West Virginia Public Broadcasting
 
10:57pm EDT
Pertwee Movies: Spearhead From Space

Show broadcasts for WILL
 
10:00pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Brain Of Morbius

The planet Karn is home both to a mystic Sisterhood, whose sacred flame produces an elixir of life, and to Mehendri Solon, a fanatical scientist who is using the remnants of spaceship crash victims to put together a new body for the still-living brain of the executed Time Lord criminal Morbius.


Show broadcasts for WSRE
 
10:00pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Invasion of Time - Part 1 of 2

After a meeting in space with a group of unseen aliens the Doctor returns to Gallifrey and claims the presidency of the Time Lords. Leela meanwhile tries to work out why he is behaving out of character. At his induction, the Doctor is 'crowned' with a device giving him access to the Matrix. He then arranges for the transduction barriers around Gallifrey to be put out of action by K9. When this is done, his alien 'friends' materialise. They are telepathic invaders called Vardans.


Show broadcasts for WYCC
 
10:00pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Pirate Planet

The Doctor, Romana and K9 land on the planet Zanak in their search for the second segment to the Key to Time. Tom Baker. Romana: Mary Tamm. Captain: Bruce Purchase.


Online listings indicated this broadcast was The Stones of Blood, the WYCC magazine listed it as The Pirate Planet.


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
10:30pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Brain Of Morbius

Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain of the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fancies the Doctor's head as the final piece.


Show broadcasts for WMVS/MPTV (Milwaukee) HD 10.1/36.2
 
11:00pm CDT
Pertwee Movies: The Daemons - Part 1 of 2

The Master raises a demon from the depths of hell and forms his own cult in hopes of utilizing the cloven-hooved creature's demonic power. If the Doctor wants to stop him, he may need a little bit of magic on his side. Compiles episodes 21 through 23 from "Doctor Who" series 8.


Show broadcasts for KERA
 
11:30pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Face Of Evil

The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a savage tribe called the Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon. The Doctor discovers that Xoanon is in fact a spaceship computer that he tried to repair at some point in his past and inadvertently drove mad by giving it a multiple personality.


Show broadcasts for WSRE
 
11:34pm CDT
Tom Baker Movies: The Invasion of Time - Part 2 of 2

After a meeting in space with a group of unseen aliens the Doctor returns to Gallifrey and claims the presidency of the Time Lords. Leela meanwhile tries to work out why he is behaving out of character. At his induction, the Doctor is 'crowned' with a device giving him access to the Matrix. He then arranges for the transduction barriers around Gallifrey to be put out of action by K9. When this is done, his alien 'friends' materialise. They are telepathic invaders called Vardans.

Sunday 2 October

Show broadcasts for WMVS/MPTV (Milwaukee) HD 10.1/36.2
 
12:04am CDT
Pertwee Movies: The Daemons - Part 2 of 2

The Master kidnaps Jo and wants to sacrifice her in order to gain the demon's powers. Will the Doctor be able to stop him in time to save Jo and the earth? Compiles episodes 24 and 25 from "Doctor Who" series 8.

Saturday 1 October

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
11:00pm PDT
The Daleks: The Dead Planet
(Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT)

Show broadcasts for Alaska Public Television/KAKM
 
10:00pm AKDT
Tom Baker Movies: Nightmare of Eden
(Repeated: Sun 3:00am AKDT)

The Doctor and Romana uncover a drug-smuggling operation and set out to find the source of Zip, the most dangerous drug in the universe. Lalla Ward. Rigg: David Daker. Della: Jennifer Lonsdale. Tryst: Lewis Fiander.


Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
11:30pm PDT
The Daleks: The Survivors
(Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT)

Monday 3 October

Show broadcasts for WETA-UK
 
12:00am EDT
Pertwee Movies: Colony In Space - Part 3 of 3
(Repeated: Tue 3:30am EDT)

Conclusion. Colonists on an Earth outpost in the 25th century are being targeted by a ruthless mining company.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Closing Time

The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
The Wedding of River Song

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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
Carnival Of Monsters: Episode Four

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Green Death: Episode One

Tuesday 4 October

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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...


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Green Death: Episode Two

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Green Death: Episode Three

Wednesday 5 October

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Green Death: Episode Four

Show broadcasts for Miscellaneous PBS Channels
 
7:00pm EDT
Blue Ridge PBS: Science Goes to the Movies: Dr. Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual)

The overlap between quantum reality and science fiction is discussed.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Green Death: Episode Five

Thursday 6 October

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
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...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am 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....


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Green Death: Episode Six

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The Time Warrior: Part One

Show broadcasts for KLRU
 
9:55pm CDT
The Time of the Doctor

"The Time of the Doctor" features the final appearance of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and the first regular appearance of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. Janna Coleman is featured as the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald. This episode includes several enemies of the Doctor from the Cybermen, Silence, Daleks and Weeping Angels. Oh my!

Friday 7 October