This Week in Doctor Who
Week 16: 22-28 Apr 2017 - USA
Saturday 22 April
| 9:00am CDT Peter Davison Movies: Arc of Infinity | A molecular pattern of the Doctor is stolen, forcing the Time Lords to summon him to his home planet of Gallifrey. Nyssa: Sarah Sutton. President: Leonard Sachs. Tegan: Janet Fielding. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Mind Robber: Episode 5 |
| 6:30pm EDT The Krotons: Episode One |
| 7:00pm EDT The Krotons: Episode Two |
| 7:30pm EDT The Krotons: Episode Three |
| 7:50pm EDT The Pilot (Repeated: Sun 2:05am EDT) | Two worlds collide when the Doctor meets Bill. A chance encounter with a girl with a star in her eye leads to a chase across time and space. Bill's mind is opened to a Universe that is bigger and more exciting than she could possibly have imagined. |
| 9:00pm EDT Smile | The language of the future is emoji! The Doctor takes Bill to a spectacular city on a distant planet, but where are the colonists? A band of "cute" droids hold the deadly answer. It was reported that the end credits of the premiere were removed in favour of starting Class immediately. |
| 7:00pm MDT Pyramids of Mars: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) | A professor summons the power of an ancient god. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Marcus: Bernard Archard. Ahmed: Vik Tablian. Sutekh: Gabriel Woolf. Ernie: George Tovey. Dr. Warlock: Peter Copley. |
| 9:30pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: Logopolis | The Doctor hopes mathematicians on planet Logopolis can reconfigure the outer shell of the TARDIS. |
| 10:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Power of Kroll | Their search for the fifth segment lands the Doctor and Romana in a dangerous swamp. |
| 10:05pm EDT The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (Class) (Repeated: Sun 1:05am EDT) | Isolating himself from Charlie, April and Tanya, a devastated Ram struggles with his new reality following the tragic events at prom. Desperately trying to hold himself together on the football field, he thinks he witnesses someone getting skinned alive. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Masque of Mandragora | The TARDIS lands in Renaissance Italy, where Dr. Who becomes involved with nobility, sorcery and evil. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Count: Jon Laurimore. Rossini: Antony Carrick. |
| 10:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: The Visitation |
| 10:00pm CDT 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. |
| 11:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: Horror of Fang Rock | The TARDIS arrives on Fang Rock, a small island off the English coast, around the start of the 20th Century. The Doctor and Leela seek shelter at a lighthouse where the island's only inhabitants - Ben, Vince and Reuben - operate the recently-installed electric lamp to warn ships off the treacherous rocks. |
| 10:00pm CDT Underworld: Part Three | The Doctor must penetrate the Citadel to save the astronauts' race. |
| 10:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Destiny of the Daleks | The Daleks are using explosive charges and a group of humanoid slave workers to mine planet Skaro. |
| 10:30pm CDT Underworld: Part Four | The Doctor's escape is jeopardised when the spaceship runs out of fuel. |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Terror Of The Autons | The Earth is in danger yet again when a Nestene energy unit is stolen and then used to turn plastic made objects into deadly Autons. To make matters worse, the being controlling the Autons is none other than the Doctor's old adversary the Master. Compiles episodes 1 through 4 from "Doctor Who" series 8. |
Sunday 23 April
| 12:00am CDT Tom Baker Movies: Meglos | The Doctor is invited to visit the planet Tigella by its leader, Zastor, who has become concerned about disputes between his people's two opposing factions, the religious Deons and the scientist Savants. The TARDIS is intercepted by the megalomaniacal xerophyte Meglos, last survivor of the planet Zolfa-Thura, and trapped in a chronic hysteresis - a time loop - but the Doctor and Romana manage to free it. |
Saturday 22 April
| 11:00pm MDT Colin Baker Movies: Timelash |
| 11:04pm PDT The Time Meddler: The Watcher (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) | On the English coast in 1066, the Doctor meets another time traveller determined to change the course of history. |
| 11:30pm PDT The Time Meddler: The Meddling Monk (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 23 April
| 4:20am EDT The Day of The Doctor (Repeated: Thu 3:05am EDT) |
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 4:00pm EDT The Time Meddler: The Watcher |
| 4:30pm EDT The Time Meddler: The Meddling Monk |
| 5:00pm EDT The Time Meddler: A Battle of Wits |
| 5:30pm EDT The Time Meddler: Checkmate |
| 11:00pm EDT Peter Davison Movies: Terminus (Repeated: Mon 4:23am EDT) | The Doctor and his companions encounter space lepers headed for a cure on "Terminus." Peter Davison. Kari: Liza Goddard. Olvir: Dominic Guard. Turlough: Mark Strickson. Nyssa: Sarah Sutton. |
Monday 24 April
| 6:00am EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 7:00am EDT Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 8:00am EDT The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 9:00am EDT Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EDT Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (Mindwarp): Part Six |
| 7:30pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (Mindwarp): Part Seven |
Tuesday 25 April
| 6:00am EDT The Fires of Pompeii | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 7:00am 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. |
| 8:00am EDT The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am EDT The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (Mindwarp): Part Eight |
| 7:30pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Nine |
| 5:00pm AKDT UATV: Science Goes to the Movies: Dr. Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual) |
Wednesday 26 April
| 6:00am 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. |
| 7:00am EDT Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 8:00am EDT Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 9:00am EDT Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EDT 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Ten |
| 7:30pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Eleven |
Thursday 27 April
| 6:00am EDT The Next Doctor |
| 7:00am EDT Planet of the Dead |
| 8:00am EDT The Waters of Mars |
| 9:00am EDT 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids): Part Twelve |
| 7:30pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (The Ultimate Foe): Part Thirteen |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
Friday 28 April
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 2:00pm MDT Dr Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual) | Cornell physics professor Dr. Mukund Vengalattore joins us to talk about Dr. Who's Weeping Angels and the strange overlap of quantum reality and science fiction. Dr. Vengalattore explains to Faith and Heather that, on the quantum level time actually runs forward and backwards, and for a rare instance the scientific world becomes "very wibbly-wobbly timey-whimey". |
| 7:00pm EDT The Trial of a Time Lord (The Ultimate Foe): Part Fourteen |
| 7:30pm EDT Time and the Rani: Part One |