This Week in Doctor Who
Week 51: 23-29 Dec 2017 - USA
Saturday 23 December
| 12:00am EST 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. |
| 1:00am EST 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. |
| 2:00am EST Night Terrors | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 3:00am EST The Girl Who Waited (Repeated: Wed 12:15am EST) | Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness? |
| 4:00am EST 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? |
| 5:00am EST Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 6:00am EST 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. |
| 7:00am EST Asylum of the Daleks (Repeated: Wed 1:15am EST) | Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission - to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... |
| 8:00am EST The Angels Take Manhattan (Repeated: Wed 2:20am EST) | The Doctor's heart-breaking farewell to Amy and Rory - a race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York's statues come to life around them.... |
| 12:00pm EST The Snowmen | Christmas Eve 1892 and a chilling menace threatens humankind - but with the Doctor in mourning, it takes old friends and an unorthodox young governess to get him fighting to save the world again. Billed as A Christmas Carol |
| 1:25pm EST The Bells of Saint John | The Doctor's search for Clara brings him to London, where Wi-Fi is everywhere. Humanity lives in a Wi-Fi soup but something dangerous is lurking in the signals, picking off minds and imprisoning them... |
| 2:30pm EST Hide | The Doctor and Clara travel to the haunted Caliburn House. Within its walls, a ghost hunting Professor and a psychic search for the Witch of the Well. Her apparition appears, but is she really a ghost? |
| 3:35pm EST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | The TARDIS has crashed, Clara is lost inside, and the Doctor has 30 minutes before his ship explodes! |
| 4:40pm EST The Crimson Horror | Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red. |
| 5:45pm EST Nightmare in Silver | Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection. |
| 6:00pm EST The Deadly Assassin: Part Four |
| 6:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part One |
| 6:50pm EST The Name of the Doctor (Repeated: Wed 4:30am EST) | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
| 7:00pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST The Face of Evil: Part Three |
| 7:55pm EST The Day of The Doctor (Repeated: Mon 11:00pm EST) |
| 9:40pm EST The Time of the Doctor |
| 10:00pm EST Tom Baker Movies: The Stones Of Blood | The Doctor, Romana and K9 are led by the tracer to the Nine Travellers in present-day England. WFWA TV Guide had 9:30pm as the scheduled time (93m), but TVSS indicated a change of programming moving it to 10:00pm. |
| 10:00pm CST 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. |
| 10:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Planet of Evil | The TARDIS picks up a distress call and the Doctor and Sarah arrive on the planet Zeta Minor. There they discover that a Morestran geological expedition has fallen prey to an unseen killer and only the leader, Professor Sorenson, remains alive. |
| 11:00pm EST Deep Breath | Clara is alone in Victorian London with a man she doesn't know, a dinosaur in the Thames, and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. The Doctor has changed. It's time you knew him. |
| 10:00pm CST The Armageddon Factor: Part Five | As the Shadow gains control of K9, the Doctor gains an ally. Was also scheduled last week, but it wasn't clear if it was actually broadcast then. |
| 10:30pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Underworld | The TARDIS arrives on a Minyan space craft, the R1C, commanded by a man named Jackson. Jackson and his crew are on a long quest to recover the Minyan race banks from a ship called the P7E which left their planet centuries ago. The Doctor helps to free the R1C after it becomes buried in a meteorite storm, but... |
| 11:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: The Android Invasion | Sarah and the Doctor find themselves at a Space Defense Station in the English countryside. The local village seems deserted, telephones don't work, calendars are stuck on the same date and white-suited figures are wandering about aimlessly. What could possibly have happened to this seemingly quiet town? |
| 11:00pm CST Peter Davison Movies: The Caves of Androzani (Repeated: Sun 10:00pm CST) | The Doctor (Peter Davison) and Peri are poisoned by a sticky substance they encounter on the planet ofu Androzani Minor. Peri: Nicola Bryant. Stotz: Maurice Roeves. |
| 11:27pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Pyramids Of Mars | The TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 1911 inside an old priory owned by Egyptologist Marcus Scarman. Scarman has been possessed by Sutekh, last survivor of the god-like Osirans, who is held prisoner inside a pyramid in Egypt by a signal transmitted from one on Mars. Sutekh desires his freedom and instructs Scarman to construct servicer robots - which look like Egyptian mummies - to build a missile with which to destroy the Martian pyramid. The Doctor foils this plan by blowing up the missile. |
Sunday 24 December
| 12:40am EST Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now... |
Saturday 23 December
Sunday 24 December
| 1:45am EST Robot Of Sherwood | When Robots threaten Sherwood forest, the Doctor must join forces with Robin Hood to stop the evil reign of the Sheriff of Nottingham. |
Saturday 23 December
| 11:00pm PST Inferno: Episode 5 (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) |
| 11:30pm PST Inferno: Episode 6 (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) |
Sunday 24 December
| 2:50am EST Listen | When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, the Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe. |
| 3:55am EST Time Heist | The Doctor turns bank robber when he attempts to break into the most dangerous bank in the Cosmos. |
| 5:00am EST The Caretaker | The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - and worse, any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet. |
| 6:00am EST In The Forest Of The Night | One morning in every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to face the most surprising invasion yet. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown overnight and taken back the Earth. |
| 7:00am EST Dark Water | In the world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Missy is about to come face to face with the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming. "Death is not an end" promises the sinister 3W but, as the Doctor and Clara discover, you might wish it was. |
| 8:05am EST Death in Heaven | With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role. Can the mighty UNIT contain Missy? As the Doctor faces his greatest challenge, sacrifices must be made. |
| 9:20am EST The Magician's Apprentice | Part 1. "Where is the Doctor?" When the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend. But where is the Doctor, and what is he hiding from? As past deeds come back to haunt him, old enemies will come face-to-face. |
| 10:25am EST The Witch's Familiar | Part 2. Trapped and alone in a terrifying Dalek city, the Doctor is at the heart of an evil Empire; no sonic, no TARDIS, nobody to help. With his greatest temptation before him, can the Doctor resist? And will there be mercy? |
| 11:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST) |
| 11:30am EST Under the Lake | Part 1. When an Underwater Base comes under attack, the Doctor and Clara must save the frightened crew and defeat an impossible threat. But what is behind these terrifying events? And can they really be haunted by Ghosts? |
| 12:30pm EST Before The Flood | Part 2. On a remote Army outpost, a fearsome alien warlord, the Fisher King, sets in motion a twisted plan to ensure his own survival. The ripples will be felt around the universe. Is this chain of events inevitable? And can the Doctor do the unthinkable? |
| 1:30pm EST The Girl Who Died (Repeated: Mon 2:30am EST) | Part 1. Captured by Vikings, the Doctor and Clara must help protect their village from Space Warriors from the future; the Mire. Outnumbered and outgunned their fate seems inevitable. So why is the Doctor preoccupied with a single Viking girl? |
| 2:35pm EST The Woman Who Lived (Repeated: Mon 3:30am EST) | Part 2. England, 1651. The deadly Highwayman 'The Knightmare' and his sidekick stalk the dark streets of London. But when they find loot that's not of this world, they come face to face with the Doctor. Can the Doctor avoid the hangman's noose? |
| 3:40pm EST The Zygon Invasion | Part 1. The Zygons, a race of shapeshifting aliens, have been living in secret amongst us on Earth, unseen until now! When Osgood is kidnapped by a gang of Zygons, the Doctor, Clara and UNIT must scatter across the world in a bid to set her free. |
| 4:00pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part One |
| 4:30pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Two |
| 4:45pm EST The Zygon Inversion | Part 2. Shapeshifting Zygons are everywhere in the UK, and there is no way of knowing who to trust. With UNIT neutralized, only the Doctor stands in their way. But how do you stop a war? And what can the Doctor do to save his friends? |
| 5:00pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Three |
| 5:30pm EST The Invisible Enemy: Part Four |
| 5:50pm EST Sleep No More | This terrifying story is assembled from footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station. |
| 6:55pm EST Face The Raven | The Doctor and Clara, with their old friend Rigsy, find themselves in a magical alien world, hidden on a street in the heart of London. Sheltered within are some of the most fearsome creatures of the universe and Ashildr (Maisie Williams)! |
| 8:00pm EST Last Christmas (Repeated: Tue 2:40am EST) | The Twelfth Doctor makes his debut in BBC America's time-honored Doctor Who Christmas special. Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and guest star Nick Frost strap in for a dangerous sleigh ride through space and time in the Steven Moffat helmed special. |
| 9:20pm EST The Husbands of River Song | It's Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor, he finds himself recruited into River Song's squad and into a chase across the galaxy. |
| 10:40pm EST The Return Of Doctor Mysterio (Repeated: Mon 4:30am EST / Tue 12:40am EST) | 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. |
| 10:57pm EST Peter Davison Movies: The Caves of Androzani (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EST) | The Doctor (Peter Davison) and Peri are poisoned by a sticky substance they encounter on the planet ofu Androzani Minor. Peri: Nicola Bryant. Stotz: Maurice Roeves. |
Monday 25 December
| 12:05am EST Heaven Sent | Part 1. Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone. Pursued by the fearsome creature known only as the Veil, he must attempt the impossible. |
| 1:10am EST Hell Bent | Part 2. If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts, how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. |
| 6:00am EST An Adventure In Space And Time (Misc) | A special one-off drama re-telling of the creation of the long-running television series "Doctor Who" in 1963. |
| 8:00am EST 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. |
| 9:10am EST 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. |
| 10:15am EST 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? |
| 11:15am EST 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? |
| 12:15pm EST 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! |
| 1:15pm EST 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. |
| 2:20pm EST The Pyramid At The End Of The World | 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! |
| 3:25pm EST 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. |
| 4:25pm EST 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? |
| 5:25pm EST 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? |
| 6:25pm EST 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 EST Warriors' Gate: Part One |
| 7:30pm EST Warriors' Gate: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EST The Doctor Falls | The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen, to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction. |
| 9:00pm EST Twice Upon A Time |
| 10:26pm EST Farewell To Peter Capaldi (Factual) (Repeated: Tue 2:06am EST) | Take a look back at Peter Capaldi's era as the Twelfth Doctor - from his very first script readthrough to his very last. Also, Steven Moffat reflects upon his time as a writer and then later as Executive Producer, revealing his favorite episodes. |
Tuesday 26 December
| 5:00am EST School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 6:00am EST 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. |
| 7:05am EST The Impossible Planet | Part 1. Rose is trapped in the orbit of a black hole; something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awaken. |
| 8:10am EST The Satan Pit | Part 2. As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core as the Pit beckons. |
| 9:15am EST Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 10:20am EST Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 11:25am EST 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 12:30pm EST Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 1:35pm EST The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 2:35pm EST The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 3:40pm EST Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 4:45pm EST 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. |
| 5:50pm EST 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. |
| 6:55pm EST 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 EST Warriors' Gate: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST Warriors' Gate: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EST 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. |
| 9:05pm EST The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 10:10pm EST 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. |
| 11:15pm EST 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. |
Wednesday 27 December
| 3:25am EST Cold War | The Doctor and Clara land on a submarine in 1983 as it spirals into the ocean depths with an alien creature loose. With tempers flaring and nuclear weapons on board, the whole of humanity is at stake! |
| 5:35am EST Doctor Who: Earth Conquest: The World Tour (Factual) | The special follows stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman on Doctor Who: The World Tour, which sees them visiting seven cities across five continents in 12 days to publicize the upcoming season. |
| 7:00pm EST Castrovalva: Part One |
| 7:00pm EST Twice Upon A Time: theater presentation (Repeated: Thu 7:00pm EST) | This Christmas, the Doctor comes face to face with … the Doctor! The epic finale to the Peter Capaldi era of Doctor Who, “Twice Upon A Time,” is coming to cinemas for only one night, featuring the return of Pearl Mackie and special guests Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and David Bradley (Filch in the Harry Potter movies). The cinema event will also feature two special bonus pieces, taking you behind the scenes to the filming of this very special Christmas Special and celebrating the tenures of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Steven Moffat as showrunner and lead writer. You won’t want to miss this extra special Doctor Who cinema event! Doctor Who Fans - We want you to have fun at these cinema events – but safety is paramount. Please note that attending in costume is fine, however masks, face-concealing make-up, fake weapons as well as any costumes that conceal what you are carrying, your natural body shape or face are strictly prohibited. Shown at various affiliated theaters across the United States (local time 7:00pm). |
| 7:30pm EST Castrovalva: Part Two |
Thursday 28 December
| 7:00pm EST Castrovalva: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST Castrovalva: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EST / Thu 11:00pm EST) |
Friday 29 December
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 7:00pm EST Four To Doomsday: Part One |
| 7:30pm EST Four To Doomsday: Part Two |