This Week in Doctor Who
Week 17: 29 Apr - 5 May 2017 - USA
Saturday 29 April
| 9:00am CDT Peter Davison Movies: Mawdryn Undead | A race of mutants, doomed to endless degeneration, forces the Doctor to help them. Peter Davison. Black Guardian: Valentine Dyall. Mawdryn: David Collings. Nyssa: Sarah Sutton. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Krotons: Episode Four |
| 6:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 1 |
| 7:00pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 2 |
| 6:10pm CDT The Invasion of Time: Part One | The Doctor (Tom Baker) returns to Gallifrey to become President. Louise Jameson. Vardan Leader: Stan McGowan. Andred: Chris Tranchell. Timing might vary as part of a pledge evening. |
| 7:30pm EDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 3 |
| 6:45pm CDT The Invasion of Time: Part Two | The Doctor expels Leela to the wasteland. Borusa: John Arnatt. Andred: Chris Tranchell. Lord Gomer: Dennis Edward. Kelner: Milton Johns. Vardan: Tom Kelly. Timing might vary as part of a pledge evening. |
| 7:55pm EDT Smile (Repeated: Sun 2:00am EDT) | 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. |
| 7:21pm CDT The Invasion of Time: Part Three | The Doctor sides with the Vardans when they invade Gallifrey. Louise Jameson. Borusa: John Arnatt. Vardan Leader: Stan McGowan. Gold Usher: Charles Morgan. Timing might vary as part of a pledge evening. |
| 7:56pm CDT The Invasion of Time: Part Four | The Doctor and Leela fight the invaders on their own. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Leela: Louise Jameson. Kelner: Milton Johns. Vardan Leader: Stan McGowan. Nesbin: Max Faulkner. Timing might vary as part of a pledge evening. |
| 7:00pm MDT Pyramids of Mars: Part Two (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. |
| 9:00pm EDT Thin Ice | London, 1814. The entire city has turned out for the biggest Frost Fair in decades! But beneath the Thames, revelers are disappearing, snatched through the ice. Will the Doctor and Bill stop the slaughter before they too are dragged into the icy waters? It was reported that the end credits of the premiere were removed in favour of starting Class immediately. |
| 9:30pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: Robot |
| 8:30pm CDT The Invasion of Time: Part Five | The Sontarans invade Gallifrey with the help of Kelner (Milton Johns). Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Stor: Derek Deadman. Borusa: John Arnatt. Andred: Chris Tranchell. Rodan: Hilary Ryan. Ablif: Ray Callaghan. Timing might vary as part of a pledge evening. |
| 10:00pm EDT Nightvisiting (Class) (Repeated: Sun 1:00am EDT) | When London is infiltrated by an eerie alien with the ability to morph into the shape of lost loved-ones, Tanya has an unexpected visitor come to her window in the dead of night. |
| 10:01pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Armageddon Factor - Part 1 of 2 | Part 1 of two. The Doctor and Romana's search for the Key to Time leads them to warring planets Atrios and Zeos. Tom Baker, Mary Tamm. Shadow: William Squire. Marshal: John Woodvine. Princess Astra: Lalla Ward. |
| 9:05pm CDT The Invasion of Time: Part Six | Dr. Who battles the Sontarans inside the TARDIS. Louise Jameson. Kelner: Milton Johns. Stor: Derek Deadman. Rodan: Hilary Ryan. Sontaran: Stuart Fell. Timing might vary as part of a pledge evening. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Hand Of Fear | A fossilized hand is discovered in a quarry explosion. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen. Zazzka: Roy Pattison. Abbott: David Purcell. Watson: Glyn Houston. Miss Jackson: Frances Pidgeon. |
| 10:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Black Orchid |
| 10:00pm CDT 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. |
| 11:00pm EDT 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. |
| 10:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Nightmare of Eden | The Doctor meets the scientist Tryst, who has with him a Continuous Event Transmuter machine. |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Mind Of Evil - Part 1 of 2 | The Doctor visits Stangmoor Prison for the unveiling of the Keller Machine, an invention that purges all evil impulses form the minds of criminals. When a series of mysterious assassinations occur the Doctor learn that what seems like a revolutionary from of prisoner rehabilitation is nothing more than a dangerous weapon controlled by a familiar enemy. Compiles episodes 5 through 7 from "Doctor Who" series 8. |
| 11:58pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Mind Of Evil - Part 2 of 2 | Following a prison riot the Doctor and Jo are taken hostage. It is there he learns the full nature of the Master's plot to hijack a missile and attack the World Peace Conference in London. It will take all of the Doctor's cunning wiles to escape the Master and his mind controlled assassins in time. Compiles episodes 8 through 10 from "Doctor Who" series 8. |
Sunday 30 April
| 12:00am CDT Peter Davison Movies: Planet Of Fire | This was listed in the schedule as Planet of Fire, which is out of sequence, but following stories matched the original running order so this seems to be a one-off showing. |
Saturday 29 April
| 11:00pm MDT Colin Baker Movies: Trial of a Time Lord - The Mysterious Planet |
| 11:00pm PDT The Time Meddler: A Battle of Wits (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 11:30pm PDT The Time Meddler: Checkmate (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) | Conclusion. William Hartnell. Monk: Peter Butterworth. Vicki: Maureen O'Brien. Steven: Peter Purves. Edith: Alethea Charlton. |
Sunday 30 April
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 4:00pm EDT The Ark: The Steel Sky |
| 4:30pm EDT The Ark: The Plague |
| 5:00pm EDT The Ark: The Return |
| 5:30pm EDT The Ark: The Bomb |
Monday 1 May
| 6:00am 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. |
| 7:00am 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. |
| 8:00am 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. |
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am 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. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT Time and the Rani: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT Time and the Rani: Part Three |
Tuesday 2 May
| 6:00am EDT Amy's Choice | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 7:00am EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 8:00am EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 9:00am EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 10:00am EDT The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 11:00am EDT 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT Time and the Rani: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EDT Paradise Towers: Part One |
Wednesday 3 May
| 6:00am EDT The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 7:00am EDT A Christmas Carol | 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? |
| 8:00am EDT 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. |
| 9:00am EDT Day of the Moon |
| 10:00am EDT 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. |
| 11:00am EDT The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 7:00pm EDT Paradise Towers: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT Paradise Towers: Part Three |
Thursday 4 May
| 6:00am EDT 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? |
| 7:00am EDT 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. |
| 8:00am EDT 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. |
| 9:00am EDT 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. |
| 10:00am EDT Night Terrors | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 11:00am EDT 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? |
| 7:00pm EDT Paradise Towers: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EDT Delta and the Bannermen: Part One |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
Friday 5 May
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 7:00pm EDT Delta and the Bannermen: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT Delta and the Bannermen: Part Three |