This Week in Doctor Who
Week 39: 30 Sep - 6 Oct 2017 - USA
Saturday 30 September
| 6:00am CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Deadly Assassin | Dr. Who returns to Gallifrey and finds himself accused of plotting to kill the President (Llewellyn Rees). Hildred: Derek Seaton. Master: Peter Pratt. Goth: Bernard Horsfall. |
| 7:30am CDT Peter Davison Movies: Frontios | The TARDIS crash-lands on "Frontios," a remote planet whose colonists are burdened by meteorite showers and the disappearance of their leader. Peter Davison, Janet Fielding. Brazen: Peter Gilmore. |
| 9:01am CDT Colin Baker Movies: Trial of a Time Lord | The Doctor faces death when the Time Lords place him on trial for interfering in galactic affairs. Peri: Nicola Bryant. Melanie: Bonnie Langford. The Valeyard: Michael Jayston. Katryca: Joan Sims. |
| 6:00pm EDT Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Four |
| 6:30pm EDT Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Five |
| 7:00pm EDT Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Six |
| 7:30pm EDT Death to the Daleks: Part One |
| 9:34pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Robots Of Death | The Doctor and Leela (Louise Jameson) are suspected of a series of murders in a robot-based society. Chub: Rob Edwards. Borg: Brian Croucher. SV7: Miles Fothergill. |
| 10:00pm CDT 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 CDT Colin Baker Movies: The Two Doctors - Part 1 of 2 |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Leisure Hive | Dr. Who and Romana visit the "Leisure Hive," a decaying resort on Argolis, where a coup d'etat is imminent. Tom Baker, Lalla Ward. Vargos: Martin Fisk. Pangol: David Haig. Mena: Adrienne Corri. Stimson: David Allister. Foamasi: Andrew Lane. |
| 10:00pm CDT The Androids of Tara: Part Four | With swashbuckling bravado, the Doctor dashes Grendel's plans. |
| 10:30pm CDT 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. |
| 10:55pm CDT Colin Baker Movies: The Two Doctors - Part 2 of 2 |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Planet of the Spiders - Part 1 of 3 | The Doctor receives a mysterious package from his old companion, Jo Grant. Sarah joins Mike Yates to investigate sinister events at a Buddhist meditation centre. |
| 11:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Black Orchid | The Doctor travels to 1925 Cranleigh Hall, where scarred hands are the only clue to a series of murders. Lady Cranleigh: Barbara Murray. Lord Cranleigh: Michael Cochrane. |
| 11:46pm CDT Pertwee Movies: Planet of the Spiders - Part 2 of 3 | The Doctor receives a mysterious package from his old companion, Jo Grant. Sarah joins Mike Yates to investigate sinister events at a Buddhist meditation centre. |
| 11:00pm MDT Tom Baker Movies: Nightmare of Eden | The TARDIS arrives on the space liner Empress which has become locked together with a private ship, the Hecate, after colliding with it on emerging from hyperspace. The Doctor and Romana meet the scientist Tryst, who has with him a Continuous Event Transmuter (CET) machine containing crystals on which are stored supposed recordings of planets that he and his team have visited. |
Sunday 1 October
| 12:00am CDT Peter Davison Movies: The King's Demons |
| 12:31am CDT Pertwee Movies: Planet of the Spiders - Part 3 of 3 | The Doctor receives a mysterious package from his old companion, Jo Grant. Sarah joins Mike Yates to investigate sinister events at a Buddhist meditation centre. |
Saturday 30 September
| 11:00pm PDT The War Games: Episode Nine (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 11:30pm PDT The War Games: Episode Ten (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 1 October
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 4:00pm EDT The Gunfighters: A Holiday for the Doctor |
| 4:30pm EDT The Gunfighters: Don't Shoot the Pianist |
| 5:00pm EDT The Gunfighters: Johnny Ringo |
| 5:30pm EDT The Gunfighters: The O.K. Corral |
| 11:00pm EDT Peter Davison Movies: Black Orchid (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EDT) | The Doctor travels to 1925 Cranleigh Hall, where scarred hands are the only clue to a series of murders. Lady Cranleigh: Barbara Murray. Lord Cranleigh: Michael Cochrane. |
Monday 2 October
| 9:00am EDT The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 10:00am EDT Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 11:00am EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 1:00pm 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 The Ark In Space: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Two |
Tuesday 3 October
| 9:00am EDT The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 10:00am 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? |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 12:00pm EDT 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. |
| 1:00pm 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Four |
| 9:30pm EDT Dr Who: Quantum Physicist (Factual) | The overlap between quantum reality and science fiction is discussed. |
Wednesday 4 October
| 9:00am EDT The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 10:00am 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? |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 12:00pm 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. |
| 1:00pm 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Sontaran Experiment: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT The Sontaran Experiment: Part Two |
Thursday 5 October
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:00am 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? |
| 11:00am EDT 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? |
| 12:00pm EDT Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 1:00pm EDT 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT Revenge of the Cybermen: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
Friday 6 October
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 9:00am EDT The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe |
| 10:00am EDT 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... |
| 11:00am EDT Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 7:00pm EDT Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EDT Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Four |