This Week in Doctor Who
Week 12: 25-31 Mar 2017 - USA
Saturday 25 March
| 9:00am CDT Doctor Who Classics: Peter Davison: Black Orchid |
| 6:00pm EDT The Gunfighters: Don't Shoot the Pianist |
| 6:30pm EDT The Gunfighters: Johnny Ringo |
| 7:00pm EDT The Gunfighters: The O.K. Corral |
| 7:30pm EDT The War Machines: Episode 1 |
| 7:00pm MDT Planet of Evil: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) | Dr. Who and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) encounter trouble when they answer a distress call from the fringe of the universe. Braun: Terence Brook. Baldwin: Tony McEwan. Sorenson: Frederick Jaeger. Vishinsky: Ewen Solon. Schedules indicate this episode is being broadcast though the previously known episode was Pyramids of Mars: Part One - that may not have been broadcast. |
| 9:30pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: Meglos | The TARDIS is intercepted by the megalomaniacal xerophyte Meglos and trapped in a time loop. Pre-empted in March by Rocktopia Live In Budapest: A Classical Revolution and Travis Tritt: A Man and His Guitar (4th March), 70s Soul Superstars (My Music) (11th March), and PBS39’s March 2017 Pledge Special (18th March). |
| 10:15pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Ribos Operation | With his new assistant Romana (Mary Tamm), the Doctor begins the search for the Key to Time. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Voice of K9: John Leeson. Vynda-K: Paul Seed. Guardian: Cyril Luckham. Garron: Iain Cuthbertson. Unstoffe: Nigel Plaskitt. Binro: Timothy Bateson. Pre-empted during March by Rock Rewind 1967-1969 (4th Mar), Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park (11th Mar), and Carol King & James Taylor: Troubadour Reunion (18th Mar) |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Android Invasion | Returning to Earth, the Doctor and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) are met with hostility and suspicion. Crayford: Milton Johns. Morgan: Peter Welch. Styggron: Martin Friend. Kraal: Stuart Fell. Schedules and EPGs indicated that this would be Planet of Evil (but that was shown last weekend!). |
| 11:00pm EDT 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 for the last few weeks by Soundbreaking: Behind the Greatest Hits (4th March), Cornerstones of Rock: A Soundstage Special (11th March), and Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop (18th March). |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Androids Of Tara | The tracer brings the TARDIS to the planet Tara. Romana finds the fourth segment disguised as part of a statue but is then taken prisoner by Count Grendel of Gracht. Grendel is plotting to seize the Taran throne from the rightful heir, Prince Reynart, and has mistaken Romana for an android duplicate of the Prince's betrothed, Princess Strella, to whom she bears a remarkable resemblance. The Doctor is meanwhile captured by Prince Reynart's men Zadek and Farrah and taken to his hunting lodge, where he is forced to repair an android double of the Prince to act as a decoy for potential assassins. Pre-empted on 11th March by Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit and 18th March by TBA. |
| 10:30pm CDT 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 Zeons. |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Spearhead From Space | Exiled to Earth and forbidden from travelling by his fellow Time Lords, the newly regenerated Doctor arrives in Oxley Woods accompanied by a shower of mysterious meteorites. Investigating these unusual occurrences is the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) led by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Most puzzling of all is the attempted kidnapping of a strange hospital patient, a man with two hearts who insists that he knows the Brigadier. Compiles episodes 1-4 from "Doctor Who" series 7 Series pre-empted on 4th March by Travis Tritt: A Man and His Guitar, 11th March by Rock Rewind 1967-1969 (My Music) and Bluegrass Undergound: Widespread Panic, and 18th March by Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30. The episode was initially listed at the beginning of March as Into the Dalek, but was updated later in the month. |
| 11:16pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Armageddon Factor - Part 2 of 2 | The Doctor and Romana discover the war is being co-ordinated by a computer called Mentalis. |
| 11:00pm MDT Colin Baker Movies: The Twin Dilemma | Pre-empted on 18th March by Miss Fisher. |
| 11:00pm PDT The Space Museum: The Search (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 11:30pm PDT The Space Museum: The Final Phase (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 26 March
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 10:59pm EDT Peter Davison Movies: Time-Flight (Repeated: Tue 2:59am EDT) | The Doctor investigates the disappearance of the advanced aircraft Speedbird Concorde. Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton. Hayter: Nigel Stock. Tegan: Janet Fielding. Stapley: Richard Easton. Sheard: Brian McDermott. |
Monday 27 March
| 5:00am EDT Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 6:00am EDT 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. |
| 7:00am EDT Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 8:00am EDT The Fires of Pompeii | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 9:00am EDT 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 EDT The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 11:00am EDT 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 EDT Frontios: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EDT Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (4 part version) |
Tuesday 28 March
| 6:00am EDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 7:00am EDT The Unicorn and the Wasp | Agatha Christie's 10-day disappearance in 1926 may have been the result of amnesia, a nervous breakdown, or a giant alien wasp. |
| 8:00am EDT 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. |
| 9:00am EDT Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 10:00am EDT Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 11:00am EDT Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 7:00pm EDT Resurrection of the Daleks: Part Two (4 part version) |
| 7:30pm EDT Resurrection of the Daleks: Part Three (4 part version) |
Wednesday 29 March
| 6:00am EDT 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. |
| 7:00am EDT Journey's End |
| 8:00am EDT The Next Doctor |
| 9:00am EDT Planet of the Dead |
| 10:00am EDT The Waters of Mars (Repeated: Thu 4:15am EDT) | Mars, 2059. Bowie Base one. Last recorded message: don't drink the water. don't even touch it. not one drop... Confused? All will be revealed in The Waters of Mars, starring Lindsay Duncan as the Doctor's cleverest and most strong-minded companion yet. |
| 11:00am EDT The Eleventh Hour | The newly regenerated Doctor and Amy Pond must save the world in less than 20 minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi. |
| 7:00pm EDT Resurrection of the Daleks: Part Four (4 part version) |
| 7:30pm EDT Planet of Fire: Part One |
Thursday 30 March
| 6:00am EDT 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. |
| 7:00am EDT 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. |
| 8:00am EDT 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. |
| 9:00am EDT 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. |
| 10:00am EDT The Vampires of Venice | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 11:00am EDT Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 7:00pm EDT Planet of Fire: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT Planet of Fire: Part Three |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
Friday 31 March
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 7:00pm EDT Planet of Fire: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EDT The Caves of Androzani: Part One |