This Week in Doctor Who
Week 42: 21-27 Oct 2017 - USA
Saturday 21 October
| 5:30am CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Part 1 of 2 | In Victorian London, Dr. Who investigates a murder. First of two parts. Louise Jameson. Weng-Chiang: Michael Spice. Li H'sen Chang: John Bennett. |
| 6:50am CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Part 2 of 2 | Conclusion. Tom Baker. Leela: Louise Jameson. Weng-Chiang: Michael Spice. Li H'sen Chang: John Bennett. Jago: {p[Christopher Benjamin}}. Litefoot: Trevor Baxter. Sin: Deep Roy. |
| 8:00am CDT Peter Davison Movies: Enlightenment | The Doctor encounters highly advanced reptiles. Monarch: Stratford Johns. Nyssa: Sarah Sutton. Persuasion: Paul Shelley. Enlightenment: Annie Lambert. Adric: Matthew Waterhouse. |
| 9:30am CDT Colin Baker Movies: Trial of a Time Lord - The Ultimate Foe |
| 6:00pm EDT The Monster of Peladon: Part Six |
| 6:30pm EDT Planet of the Spiders: Part One |
| 7:00pm EDT Planet of the Spiders: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT Planet of the Spiders: Part Three |
| 10:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Invisible Enemy | The nucleus of the virus settles in the Doctor's brain. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson. Marius: Frederick Jaeger. Lowe: Michael Sheard. Parsons: Roy Herrick. Originally in schedules as The Hand Of Fear at 9:30pm. |
| 10:00pm CDT Colin Baker Movies: Trial of a Time Lord - Mindwarp |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Face Of Evil | The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a savage tribe called the Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon. The Doctor discovers that Xoanon is in fact a spaceship computer that he tried to repair at some point in his past and inadvertently drove mad by giving it a multiple personality. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Full Circle | Dr. Who and Romana are diverted to Alzarius on a voyage home. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Romana: Lalla Ward. Varsh: Richard Willis. Login: George Baker. Adric: Matthew Waterhouse. |
| 10:00pm CDT The Power of Kroll: Part Three | The Swampies offer the Doctor, Romana and Rohm-Dutt as sacrifices to Kroll. |
| 10:29pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Face Of Evil | The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a savage tribe called the Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon. The Doctor discovers that Xoanon is in fact a spaceship computer that he tried to repair at some point in his past and inadvertently drove mad by giving it a multiple personality. |
| 11:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Sontaran Experiment | The Doctor, Sarah and Harry come across a crew of shipwrecked astronauts after being lured by their fake distress call. The Doctor soon discovers the astronauts are being experimented on by the Sontarans in preparation of a full-scale invasion of Earth. |
| 11:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Armageddon Factor - Part 2 of 2 | 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: {p[John Woodvine}}. Princess Astra: Lalla Ward. The Doctor and Romana's search for the Key to Time leads to the warring planets of Atrios and Zeos. Tom Baker, Mary Tamm. Shadow: William Squire. Marshal: John Woodvine. |
| 11:00pm MDT 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. |
Sunday 22 October
Saturday 21 October
| 11:01pm PDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 1 (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) | Part 1 of two. The energy from an atomic-research center awakens a hibernating race of intelligent reptiles. The Doctor: Jon Pertwee. Liz: Caroline John. Spencer: John Newman. |
| 11:30pm PDT Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 2 (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Sunday 22 October
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 4:00pm EDT Robot: Part One |
| 4:30pm EDT Robot: Part Two |
| 5:00pm EDT Robot: Part Three |
| 5:30pm EDT Robot: Part Four |
| 11:00pm EDT Peter Davison Movies: Snakedance (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EDT) | The Doctor works against time to save the Manussians from the power of the Mara. Peter Davison. Tegan: Janet Fielding. Lon: Martin Clunes. Tanha: Colette O'Neil. Dojjen: Preston Lockwood. |
Monday 23 October
| 9:00am 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. |
| 10:30am EDT The Return Of Doctor Mysterio | The Doctor join forces with a masked Superhero for an epic New York adventure. With brain-swapping aliens poised to attack, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious figure known only as The Ghost. |
| 11:50am EDT The Pilot | 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. |
| 1:00pm 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Two |
Tuesday 24 October
| 9:00am 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? |
| 10:00am EDT Knock Knock | Why do floorboards creak? When a sinister landlord shows Bill and her friends the perfect house-share, they have no idea what lies ahead. Knock knock, who's there? |
| 11:00am EDT Oxygen | Space, the final frontier. Final because it wants to kill us. Trapped on a space station with no oxygen, the Doctor, Bill and Nardole are horrified to discover the automated spacesuits keeping them alive are also trying to kill them! |
| 12:00pm EDT Extremis | The Veritas. The truth. Truth so true you can't live with it. Is that looking into hell or seeing the light? Everyone who has ever read the Veritas has been found dead. |
| 1:00pm EDT The Pyramid At The End Of The World (Repeated: Wed 9:00am EDT) | An 'ancient' pyramid appears overnight. Every clock in the world begins counting down to the Earth's destruction. Three opposing armies lie ready to annihilate each other. It's a terrifying race against time to save the world! |
| 7:00pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Four |
Wednesday 25 October
| 10:00am EDT The Lie Of The Land | Earth has been invaded and Bill is living alone, an isolated figure surviving in occupied Britain. The Doctor is imprisoned, and appears to be on the side of the enemy, flooding the airwaves with fake news.
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| 11:00am EDT Empress Of Mars | 'God save the Queen' has been scrawled on the surface of Mars. What are Victorians doing on the home of the Ice Warriors? And what will they find beneath the Martian soil? |
| 12:00pm EDT The Eaters of Light | A hunt for the lost Ninth Roman Legion leads the Doctor,Bill and Nardole into the middle of an ancient battle that could cast humanity into the dark forever. What is inside the cairn? And how far will they have to go defeat the terrifying Eaters of Light? |
| 1:00pm EDT World Enough And Time | A huge spaceship trapped in the gravity well of a black hole, teeming with impossible lifeforms, harbors one of the Doctor's most feared enemies, Mondasian Cybermen! |
| 7:00pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Five |
| 7:30pm EDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Six |
Thursday 26 October
| 9:00am EDT The Christmas Invasion | Can Rose trust a man with a new face? As the newly regenerated Doctor drifts in and out of consciousness, Christmas becomes a time of terror on planet Earth when the whole of mankind falls under the shadow of the sinister alien Sycorax. |
| 10:00am EDT New Earth (Repeated: Fri 10:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital. |
| 11:00am EDT Tooth and Claw (Repeated: Fri 11:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Rose travel back to 1879, but an encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of warrior monks reveals a deadly trap. |
| 12:00pm EDT School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 1:00pm EDT The Girl in the Fireplace | Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor. |
| 7:00pm EDT Horror of Fang Rock: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT Horror of Fang Rock: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
Friday 27 October
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 9:00am EDT The Runaway Bride | No sooner has the Doctor said a tear-stained farewell to Rose Tyler than he finds himself face-to-face with a woman dressed in a fluffy white wedding frock. Who is she? Who is she supposed to be marrying? And how did she get on board the TARDIS? |
| 7:00pm EDT Horror of Fang Rock: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EDT Horror of Fang Rock: Part Four |