This Week in Doctor Who
Week 04: 28 Jan - 3 Feb 2017 - USA
Saturday 28 January
| 6:00pm EST Planet of Giants: Crisis |
| 6:30pm EST The Rescue: The Powerful Enemy |
| 7:00pm EST The Rescue: Desperate Measures |
| 7:30pm EST The Romans: The Slave Traders |
| 7:00pm MST Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MST) | After the Doctor and his friends are exposed to a strange plague, Sarah becomes infected. Meanwhile, the Cybermen plan to destroy the planet of gold. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Tyrum: Kevin Stoney. |
| 9:30pm EST Tom Baker Movies: Destiny of the Daleks | The Daleks are using explosive chargesand a group of humanoid slave workers to mine planet Skaro. |
| 10:00pm EST Tom Baker Movies: The Image Of The Fendahl |
| 10:00pm CST 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 CST 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 EST 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. |
| 10:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Robot | The theft of a secret weapon leads the Doctor (Tom Baker) to a confrontation with a giant robot. Stewart: Nicholas Courtney. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Robot: Michael Kilgarriff. |
| 10:00pm CST The Invisible Enemy: Part One | A virus infects a space station---and the Doctor (Tom Baker). Louise Jameson. Safran: Brian Grellis. Silvey: Jay Neill. Meeker: Edmund Pegge. Crewman: Anthony Rowlands. Lowe: Michael Sheard. |
| 10:30pm CST Tom Baker Movies: The Ribos Operation | The White Guardian gives the Doctor a quest to find the six disguised segments of the Key to Time which, when assembled, will be used to restore the balance of the cosmos. To aid him he is given a new companion, a female Time Lord called Romana, and a tracer device. |
| 10:30pm CST The Invisible Enemy: Part Two | The nucleus of the virus settles in the Doctor's brain. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Marius: Frederick Jaeger. Lowe: Michael Sheard. Parsons: Roy Herrick. |
| 11:00pm CST Kill The Moon | The Doctor and Clara find themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide mission to the moon. Crash-landing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma. Orginally scheduled for 14th January, but replaced by Sherlock Series 4: The Lying Detective. |
| 11:00pm CST Pertwee Movies: Death to the Daleks - Part 1 of 2 | The TARDIS suffers a power drain and is forced down on the planet Exxilon. Sarah is captured by the primitive inhabitants and the Doctor comes face to face with his oldest enemies. |
| 11:30pm CST Tom Baker Movies: The Armageddon Factor - Part 1 of 2 | The final segment of the Key is traced to the planet Atrios, engaged in a long war with the neighbouring Zeos. The Marshal of Atrios intends a final strike to destroy the Zeons, but the Doctor and Romana discover that Zeos is deserted and the war is being co-ordinated by a computer called Mentalis, built by one of the Doctor's old Time Lord Academy friends, Drax. This part was scheduled as 150 minutes, which most likely covered the whole story. There was a separate entry for part two. |
| 11:47pm CST Pertwee Movies: Death to the Daleks - Part 2 of 2 | The TARDIS suffers a power drain and is forced down on the planet Exxilon. Sarah is captured by the primitive inhabitants and the Doctor comes face to face with his oldest enemies. |
| 11:00pm MST Tom Baker Movies: The Leisure Hive | The Doctor and Romana visit the Leisure Hive on the planet Argolis, the surface of which is uninhabitable following a twenty minute nuclear war between the Argolins and their enemies the Foamasi. The Argolins themselves are now sterile. Pangol, the youngest, was created by the Tachyon Recreation Generator, a machine that runs games in the Hive. |
Sunday 29 January
| 12:16am CST Tom Baker Movies: The Armageddon Factor - Part 2 of 2 | The final segment of the Key is traced to the planet Atrios, engaged in a long war with the neighbouring Zeos. The Marshal of Atrios intends a final strike to destroy the Zeons, but the Doctor and Romana discover that Zeos is deserted and the war is being co-ordinated by a computer called Mentalis, built by one of the Doctor's old Time Lord Academy friends, Drax. This is likely to be all six episodes based on the 150 minute length. |
Saturday 28 January
| 11:00pm PST The Dalek Invasion of Earth: The Waking Ally (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
| 11:30pm PST The Dalek Invasion of Earth: Flashpoint (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) |
Sunday 29 January
| 11:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST) |
| 11:00pm EST Colin Baker Movies: Trial of a Time Lord - Mindwarp (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EST) |
Monday 30 January
| 6:00am 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. |
| 7:00am EST The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 8:00am 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? |
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am EST A Good Man Goes to War | The Doctor assembles an army to face the Battle of Demons Run - and River Song has something to tell him. |
| 11:00am EST Let's Kill Hitler | The TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. |
| 7:00pm EST The Horns of Nimon: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST The Horns of Nimon: Part Three |
Tuesday 31 January
| 6:00am 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. |
| 7:00am 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? |
| 8:00am 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? |
| 9:00am EST Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 7:00pm EST The Horns of Nimon: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EST The Leisure Hive: Part One |
Wednesday 1 February
| 6:00am 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... |
| 7:00am EST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 8:00am 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. |
| 9:00am 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... |
| 10:00am 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.... |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 7:00pm EST The Leisure Hive: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST The Leisure Hive: Part Three |
Thursday 2 February
| 6:00am 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... |
| 7:00am 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. |
| 8:00am 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! |
| 9:00am 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? |
| 10:00am 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! |
| 11:00am 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 The Leisure Hive: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EST Full Circle: Part One |
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EST / Thu 11:00pm EST) |
| 10:00pm CST Mummy On The Orient Express | The Doctor and Clara are on the most beautiful train in history speeding among the stars of the future. But a deadly creature is stalking the passengers. Once you see the horrifying Mummy you only have 66 seconds to live. Orginally scheduled for 19th January, but replaced by Sherlock Series 4: The Final Problem. |
Friday 3 February
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 7:00pm EST Full Circle: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST Full Circle: Part Three |