This Week in Doctor Who
Week 50: 17-23 Dec 2016 - USA
Saturday 17 December
| 6:00pm EST An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker |
| 6:30pm EST The Daleks: The Dead Planet |
| 7:00pm EST The Daleks: The Survivors |
| 7:30pm EST The Daleks: The Escape |
| 7:00pm MST Genesis of the Daleks: Part Six (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MST) | The Daleks revolt against Davros (Michael Wisher). Tom Baker. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Gharman: Dennis Chinnery. Harry Sullivan: Ian Marter. Listings called this episode five. |
| 9:30pm EST Tom Baker Movies: The Arrmageddon Factor - Part 1 of 2 | The final segment of theKey is traced to the planet Atrios, engaged in a long war withthe Zeons. Pre-empted during pledge period by Rocktopia Live in Budapest: A Classical Evolution (26th Nov), Last of the Breed (3rd Dec), and The Best of PBS39's December Pledge (10th Dec). |
| 10:00pm EST Tom Baker Movies: Horror of Fang Rock | The TARDIS lands on a small island off the English coast at the start of the 20th century; and the Doctor and Leela seek refuge at the lighthouse, which is home to the island's only inhabitants. |
| ~11:00pm EST The Power of the Daleks: Episode Five (animation) |
| 11:00pm EST 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. Pre-empted by The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum on the 26th November, Doc Martin - Seven Grumpy Seasons on 3rd December, and Doc Martin: Revealed on 10th December. |
| 10:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Robot | A newly regenerated Doctor joins UNIT in an investigation into the theft of top secret plans and equipment from supposedly secure premises. Sarah discovers that the raids have been carried out by a robot invented by scientist Professor Kettlewell while he was working for Think Tank, a body involved in developing emerging technologies. Pre-empted by Downton Abbey, Season 5 on 26th November, The Last Waltz on 3rd December and Rocktopia Live In Budapest: A Classical Revolution on 10th December. |
| 10:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: City of Death | The Doctor and Romana are enjoying a holiday in Paris, 1979, when they become aware of a fracture in time. During a visit to the Louvre to see da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Doctor purloins from a stranger, Countess Scarlioni, a bracelet that is actually an alien scanner device. Pre-empted by Get Down Tonight - The Disco Explosion on 26th November, (unknown) on 3rd December, and Joe Bonamassa:: Live at the Greek Theatre on 10th December. |
| 10:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Meglos | The Doctor meets his match when he is summoned to Tigella, a planet whose energy source has become unstable. Tom Baker, Lalla Ward. Earthling: Christopher Owen. Zastor: Edward Underdown. Caris: Collette Gleeson. Brotodac: Frederick Treves. |
| 10:30pm CST 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. |
| 11:00pm CST 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. Pre-empted by The Last Waltz on 26th November, The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum on 3rd December, and Last of the Breed on 10th December. |
| 11:00pm CST Pertwee Movies: Planet of the Daleks - Part 1 of 2 | Injured by an Orgron gun, the Doctor asks the Time Lords to send the TARDIS after the Daleks. Leaving him asleep, Jo goes to explore the planet Spirodon. Pre-empted during pledge period by Santana IV on 26th November, Van Morrison: Live at the Rainbow on 3rd December, Last of the Breed/Legends of the Lake on 10th December. |
| 11:54pm CST Pertwee Movies: Planet of the Daleks - Part 2 of 2 | Injured by an Orgron gun, the Doctor asks the Time Lords to send the TARDIS after the Daleks. Leaving him asleep, Jo goes to explore the planet Spirodon. |
| 11:00pm MST Tom Baker Movies: Creature From The Pit | The Doctor and Romana receive a distress signal and arrive on Chloris, a lush and verdant world that has only small quantities of metals, all of which are controlled by its ruler, Lady Adrasta. Adrasta keeps order with the aid of her Huntsman and his wolfweeds - mobile balls of vegetation - while a band of scruffy thieves, led by Torvin, organize raids on her palace to steal whatever metal they can. |
Sunday 18 December
| 12:35am CST 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. |
Saturday 17 December
| 11:00pm PST The Sensorites: A Race Against Death (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
| 11:30pm PST The Sensorites: Kidnap (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) |
Sunday 18 December
| 11:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST) |
| 11:00pm EST Colin Baker Movies: Attack of the Cybermen (Repeated: Tue 2:30am EST) | The TARDIS is hijacked by Cybermen and taken to Telos, where the Doctor (Colin Baker) learns of the aliens' plan to invade Earth. Peri: Nicola Bryant. Lytton: Maurice Colbourne. Griffiths: Brian Glover. Russell: Terry Malloy. Cropped 16:9 format. Originally listed as The Time Monster part 2 (eps 3+4): "The Master plans to transport himself to Atlantis to capture the Crystal of Kronos." |
Monday 19 December
| 9:00am EST Amy's Choice (Repeated: Thu 5:00am EST) | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 10:00am EST The Hungry Earth (Repeated: Thu 7:00am EST) | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 11:00am EST Cold Blood (Repeated: Thu 8:00am EST) | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| ~5:00pm EST - BBCA App / On-Demand Doctor Who Specials: Episode 4 - City of Death | The Doctor and Romana visit Paris for a holiday. When the Mona Lisa is stolen, the Doctor comes upon evidence of sinister time experiments being carried out by a wealthy Count, Scarlioni. Only available via the BBCA or On-Demand between 19th December 2016 and 2nd January 2017. |
| 7:00pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Three |
Tuesday 20 December
| 6:00am EST New Earth | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital. |
| 7:00am EST Tooth and Claw | The Doctor and Rose travel back to 1879, but an encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of warrior monks reveals a deadly trap. |
| 8:00am EST School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 9:00am EST The Girl in the Fireplace (Repeated: Tue 7:00pm EST) | Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor. |
| 10:00am EST Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 11:00am EST The Age of Steel | Part 2. The Cybermen take control of London and start converting the populace; Jackie falls under Lumic's control; the Doctor, Rose and Mickey are reduced to fugitives. |
| 12:00pm EST The Idiot's Lantern | It is 1953 and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is taking place, but beneath the celebrations there are rumours of monsters on the streets. |
| 1:00pm EST The Impossible Planet | Part 1. Rose is trapped in the orbit of a black hole; something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awaken. |
| 2:00pm EST The Satan Pit | Part 2. As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core as the Pit beckons. |
| 3:00pm EST Love & Monsters | A man named Elton is plunged into a world of living nightmares when he becomes obsessed with the Doctor, Rose and their mysterious blue box. |
| 4:00pm EST Fear Her | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 5:00pm EST Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 6:00pm EST Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 7:00pm EST Image of the Fendahl: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EST The Sun Makers: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST The Christmas Invasion |
| 9:00pm EST 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? |
| 10:00pm EST Voyage of the Damned (Repeated: Wed 4:30am EST) | 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. |
| 11:30pm EST Smith and Jones | The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger. |
Wednesday 21 December
| 12:30am EST The Shakespeare Code | Witches cast a spell on the Doctor and Martha. |
| 1:30am EST Gridlock | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 2:30am EST Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 3:30am EST Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 6:00am EST The Lazarus Experiment | Turning back the clock has consequences. |
| 7:00am EST 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 8:00am EST Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 9:00am EST The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 10:00am EST Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 11:00am EST Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 12:00pm EST Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 1:00pm EST Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 2:00pm EST The Stolen Earth | Part 1. Earth's greatest heroes assemble to fight the New Dalek Empire, but a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows. |
| 3:00pm EST Journey's End | Part 2. As Davros and the Daleks threaten the entire universe, the Doctor's companions join forces. However, the prophecy declares that one of them will die. |
| 4:00pm EST The Next Doctor |
| 5:20pm EST Planet of the Dead |
| 6:40pm EST The Waters of Mars |
| 7:00pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST The End of Time: Parts 1 & 2 | Part 1 & 2. It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey - but his nemesis, The Master, has been reborn. A terrible shadow falls across the Universe as great danger approaches, and the Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master's plans hurtle out of control. |
| 11:00pm EST The Eleventh Hour (Repeated: Thu 6:00am EST) | The newly regenerated Doctor and Amy Pond must save the world in less than 20 minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi. |
Thursday 22 December
| 12:00am EST 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. |
| 1:00am EST 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. |
| 2:00am EST 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. |
| 3:00am EST 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. |
| 4:00am EST The Vampires of Venice | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 9:00am EST Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 10:00am EST The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 11:00am EST 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. |
| 12:00pm EST The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 1:00pm EST 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. Listed as The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe but with The Impossible Astronaut description. |
| 2:00pm EST 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. |
| 3:00pm EST 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. |
| 4:00pm EST The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 5:00pm EST The Rebel Flesh | Part 1. A solar tsunami liberates doppelgangers from their human 'originals' in a futuristic factory. Can the Doctor prevent all out civil war? |
| 6:00pm EST The Almost People | Part 2. The Doctor must convince terrified factory-workers to work with their doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making. |
| 7:00pm EST The Sun Makers: Part Four |
| 7:00pm EST A Good Man Goes to War (Repeated: Fri 6:00am EST) | The Doctor assembles an army to face the Battle of Demons Run - and River Song has something to tell him. |
| 7:30pm EST Underworld: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EST / Thu 11:00pm EST) |
| 8:00pm EST Let's Kill Hitler (Repeated: Fri 7:00am EST) | The TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. |
| 9:00pm EST A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Thu 11:40pm EST) | 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? |
| 10:20pm EST The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe | Had the description for TheImpossibleAstronaut |
Friday 23 December
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 1:00am EST Night Terrors | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 2:00am EST 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? |
| 3:00am EST The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in a hotel where every visitor's room contains their deepest, darkest fears. What lies in wait in the Doctor's room? |
| 4:00am EST Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 5:00am EST 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. |
| 8:00am EST 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... |
| 9:00am EST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 10:00am EST 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. |
| 11:00am EST 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... |
| 12:00pm EST 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.... |
| 1:00pm EST The Bells of Saint John | The Doctor's search for Clara brings him to London, where Wi-Fi is everywhere. Humanity lives in a Wi-Fi soup but something dangerous is lurking in the signals, picking off minds and imprisoning them... |
| 2:00pm EST The Rings of Akhaten | On the rings of the planet Akhaten, the Festival of Offerings is in full swing. Clara meets the Queen of Years but something is stirring in the pyramid, and a sacrifice will be demanded. |
| 3:00pm EST Cold War | The Doctor and Clara land on a submarine in 1983 as it spirals into the ocean depths with an alien creature loose. With tempers flaring and nuclear weapons on board, the whole of humanity is at stake! |
| 4:00pm EST Hide | The Doctor and Clara travel to the haunted Caliburn House. Within its walls, a ghost hunting Professor and a psychic search for the Witch of the Well. Her apparition appears, but is she really a ghost? |
| 5:00pm EST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | The TARDIS has crashed, Clara is lost inside, and the Doctor has 30 minutes before his ship explodes! |
| 6:00pm EST The Crimson Horror | Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red. |
| 7:00pm EST Underworld: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EST Nightmare in Silver | Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection. |
| 7:30pm EST Underworld: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EST The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
| 9:00pm EST The Snowmen | 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. |
| 10:20pm EST The Time of the Doctor |
| 11:40pm EST Deep Breath | Clara is alone in Victorian London with a man she doesn't know, a dinosaur in the Thames, and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. The Doctor has changed. It's time you knew him. |