This Week in Doctor Who
Week 48: 3-9 Dec 2016 - USA
Saturday 3 December
| 6:00pm EST The Curse of Fenric: Part Three |
| 6:30pm EST The Curse of Fenric: Part Four |
| 7:00pm EST Survival: Part One |
| 7:30pm EST Survival: Part Two |
| 7:00pm MST Genesis of the Daleks: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MST) | Schedules listed this as episode three. Pre-empted from previous week by Great Moments From Soundbreaking. |
| 11:00pm EST The Power of the Daleks: Episode Three (animation) | Polly is taken prisoner by the rebels who intend to use the Daleks to take control of the Earth colony. The Doctor discovers that all three Daleks have now been reactivated. Originally scheduled for 8:25pm, the whole schedule for the Saturday was re-jigged with Star Trek: The Next Generation now running across the time slot. |
| 10:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: The Leisure Hive | Dr. Who and Romana visit the "Leisure Hive," a decaying resort on Argolis, where a coup d'etat is imminent. Tom Baker, Lalla Ward. Vargos: Martin Fisk. Pangol: David Haig. Mena: Adrienne Corri. Stimson: David Allister. Foamasi: Andrew Lane. |
| 10:30pm CST Tom Baker Movies: The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Part 1 of 2 | Arriving in London at the end of the 19th Century, the Doctor and Leela make friends with a police pathologist, Professor Litefoot, and learn that hairs taken from the clothing of a dead body found floating in the Thames seem to have originated from a very large rat. Pre-empted in November by pledge season, with Ed Slott's Retirement Road Map (19th) and Blue Suede Shoes - A Rockability Session with Carl Perkins and Friends (26th). |
| 11:00pm MST Tom Baker Movies: The Power of Kroll | The TARDIS arrives in the marshes of the third moon of the planet Delta Magna. While trying to get an accurate reading on the tracer, the Doctor is shot at by Thawn and Fenner, two men from a nearby methane refinery. |
| 11:00pm PST The Aztecs: The Day of Darkness (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
| 11:30pm PST The Sensorites: Strangers in Space (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) |
Sunday 4 December
| 11:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST) |
| 11:00pm EST Pertwee Movies: The Mutants - Part 3 of 3 (Repeated: Tue 2:30am EST) | Conclusion. The Doctor intervenes in the plans of a nefarious marshal who plans to wipe out the indigenous inhabitants of a colony planet. |
Monday 5 December
| 9:00am EST Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 10:00am EST The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 11:00am EST Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 7:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EST The Robots of Death: Part One |
Tuesday 6 December
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am EST Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 11:00am EST The Fires of Pompeii | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 7:00pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Three |
Wednesday 7 December
| 9:00am EST Planet of the Ood | The Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. |
| 10:00am EST The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 11:00am EST The Poison Sky | Part 2. As poison gas suffocates the Earth's population, the Doctor and UNIT team members work to eliminate the threat. |
| 7:00pm EST The Robots of Death: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One |
Thursday 8 December
| 9:00am EST The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 10:00am EST Silence in the Library | Part 1. The Doctor and Donna must uncover the truth behind the Nodes and the Data Ghost to uncover the library's secret. |
| 11:00am EST Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 7:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EST / Thu 11:00pm EST) |
Friday 9 December
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 7:00pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EST The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Five |
| 10:30pm CST KFME Lifelong Learning Channel: Science Goes to the Movies: Dr. Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual) | The overlap between quantum reality and science fiction is discussed. |