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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 12: 25-31 Mar 2017 - USA

Data last updated 01 April 2017

Saturday 25 March

Show broadcasts for WYCC
 
9:00am CDT
Doctor Who Classics: Peter Davison: Black Orchid

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EDT
The Gunfighters: Don't Shoot the Pianist

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EDT
The Gunfighters: Johnny Ringo

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
The Gunfighters: The O.K. Corral

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
The War Machines: Episode 1

Show broadcasts for KRWG
 
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.


Show broadcasts for WFWA
 
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).


Show broadcasts for WXXI
 
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)


Show broadcasts for WYCC
 
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!).


Show broadcasts for West Virginia Public Broadcasting
 
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).


Show broadcasts for WILL
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
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.


Show broadcasts for WMVS/MPTV (Milwaukee) HD 10.1/36.2
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Idaho Public Television
 
11:00pm MDT
Colin Baker Movies: The Twin Dilemma

Pre-empted on 18th March by Miss Fisher.


Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
11:00pm PDT
The Space Museum: The Search
(Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT)

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
11:30pm PDT
The Space Museum: The Final Phase
(Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT)

Sunday 26 March

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
11:00am EDT
Doctor Who
(the actual episode broadcast is unknown)
(Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT)

Show broadcasts for WETA-UK
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00am EDT
Last of the Time Lords

Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
The Sontaran Stratagem

Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
Frontios: Part Four

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (4 part version)

Tuesday 28 March

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EDT
The Doctor's Daughter

The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Forest of the Dead

Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EDT
Midnight

The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
Turn Left

Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
Resurrection of the Daleks: Part Two (4 part version)

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
Resurrection of the Daleks: Part Three (4 part version)

Wednesday 29 March

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am EDT
Journey's End

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am EDT
The Next Doctor

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EDT
Planet of the Dead

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
Resurrection of the Daleks: Part Four (4 part version)

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
Planet of Fire: Part One

Thursday 30 March

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EDT
Amy's Choice

The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EDT
Planet of Fire: Part Two

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EDT
Planet of Fire: Part Three

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
8:00pm EDT
Doctor Who
(the actual episode broadcast is unknown)

Friday 31 March