This Week in Doctor Who
Week 38: 22-28 Sep 2018 - USA
Saturday 22 September
| 6:00pm EDT The Caves of Androzani: Part Four |
| 6:30pm EDT The Twin Dilemma: Part One |
| 7:00pm EDT The Twin Dilemma: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT The Twin Dilemma: Part Three |
| 10:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Terminus |
| 10:00pm CDT The Creature from the Pit: Part Three | Romana and Adrasta both search for the Doctor. |
| 11:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: State of Decay | The Doctor, Romana, K9 and Adric - an Outler from Alzarius who has stowed away aboard the TARDIS - arrive on a planet where the native villagers live in fear of 'the Wasting' and of three Lords named Zargo, Camilla and Aukon who rule from an imposing Tower. The Lords are soon revealed to be vampire servants of the last of the Great Vampires, a race referred to in Time Lord mythology. |
| 11:32pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Enlightenment |
Sunday 23 September
Saturday 22 September
| 11:00pm MDT W Hartnell Movies: The Chase (Part 1 of 2) | Using a Time/Space Visualiser taken from the Moroks' space museum, the Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Vicki discover the Daleks have built a space/time vehicle and are in pursuit. |
| 11:00pm PDT Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) | The Doctor bags his dinosaur, but loses Sarah to kidnappers. |
| 11:30pm PDT Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) | New clues bring the Doctor closer to solving the mystery of the dinosaurs. |
Sunday 23 September
| 12:32am MDT W Hartnell Movies: The Chase (Part 2 of 2) | Using a Time/Space Visualiser taken from the Moroks' space museum, the Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Vicki discover the Daleks have built a space/time vehicle and are in pursuit. |
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 7:00pm EDT An Unearthly Child |
| 7:30pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls |
| 8:00pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear |
| 8:30pm EDT An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker |
| 11:00pm EDT Peter Davison Movies: Four To Doomsday (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EDT) | The Doctor encounters Monarch, the leader of a race of advanced reptiles. |
Monday 24 September
| 4:00pm EDT Dr Who and the Daleks (Aaru) (Repeated: Fri 6:00pm EDT) | The doctor's (Peter Cushing) TARDIS time machine takes him, his granddaughters and a friend (Roy Castle) to war-ravaged planet Skaro. Shown at 10 am ET/PT | 9 am CT | 11 am MT. |
| 6:00pm EDT Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (Aaru) | Dr. Who (Peter Cushing), his granddaughter, his niece and a London bobby (Bernard Cribbins) find that Daleks have invaded 22nd-century Earth and are turning humans into slaves. Shown at 12 pm ET/PT | 11 am CT | 1 pm MT. |
| 8:00pm EDT Image of the Fendahl: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EDT Image of the Fendahl: Part Three |
Tuesday 25 September
| 6:00am EDT Everything Changes (TW) | When Gwen Cooper witnesses the resurrection of a murder victim, it begins her journey into a dangerous underworld of savage monsters and alien hunters. Her chance encounter with Captain Jack Harkness and the Torchwood team will change her life forever. |
| 7:00am EDT Day One (TW) | An alien addicted to sex is let loose on Cardiff's nightlife, leaving a trail of gruesome deaths in its wake. Captain Jack and Torchwood must track down the creature's new host and in doing so, confront a violent new form of love in the 21st Century. |
| 8:00am EDT Ghost Machine (TW) | When Gwen retrieves an alien object from a fleeing thug, she's haunted by a vision of a lonely young boy. As the team track down the object's elusive owner, Owen experiences an even more terrifying vision and a long buried crime resurfaces. |
| 9:00am EDT Cyberwoman (TW) | In the basement of Torchwood, Ianto Jones hides a terrible secret. As a doctor attempts to rescue the soul of a half-Cybernised woman, a quiet day in Torchwood quickly becomes a nightmare. Has Ianto unleashed a force that will destroy his colleagues? |
| 10:00am EDT Small Worlds (TW) | Supernatural forces stalk the suburbs: but are they friendly or malevolent? And what do they want with the seemingly normal Pierce family? As nightmares of his past haunt Jack, can his old friend help him prevent the tragedy brewing in the suburbs? |
| 11:00am EDT Countrycide (TW) | Concerned that the space-time rift is spreading, Torchwood investigates a series of gruesome deaths in a village. What sort of creature could cause such shocking injuries? Stranded without communications, and isolated, the team confronts the enemy. |
| 12:00pm EDT Greeks Bearing Gifts (TW) | Toshiko is given an alien pendant which enables her to hear other people's thoughts. As the rest of the Torchwood team puzzle over a skeleton, the pendant forces Toshiko to question her commitment: is her new-found ability a blessing or a curse? |
| 1:00pm EDT Rose | Rose Tyler meets the Doctor, who helps her understand that Earth is in danger. |
| 2:00pm EDT The End Of The World | The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage to a time when the sun is about to swallow Earth and a murderer is at work. |
| 3:00pm EDT The Unquiet Dead | Author Charles Dickens joins the Doctor and Rose in 1869 Victorian Cardiff to battle the ethereal Gelth. |
| 4:00pm EDT Aliens of London | Part 1. The Doctor takes Rose home, but the world goes on alert when an alien spacecraft crashes in the Thames. |
| 5:00pm EDT World War Three | Part 2. The world edges toward mankind's first interplanetary war, as the Doctor and Rose try to escape from Downing Street. |
| 6:00pm EDT Dalek | A billionaire collector possesses the remains of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest enemy, the Daleks. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Long Game | In the future, Adam discovers that traveling with a Time Lord is far from easy. |
| 8:00pm EDT Image of the Fendahl: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EDT Father's Day | Rose travels back in time to meet her long-dead father, but the Tyler family finds itself fighting the monstrous Reapers. |
| 8:30pm EDT The Sun Makers: Part One |
| 9:00pm EDT The Empty Child | Part 1. An unearthly child haunts the bomb sites of London. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Doctor Dances | Part 2. The child's plague spreads through wartime London, and a zombie army is on the march; the Doctor and Rose form an alliance with an intergalactic con-man. |
| 11:00pm EDT Boom Town | The Doctor encounters an enemy from his past when the crew decides to take a holiday; an alien plot is behind the construction of a nuclear power plant in Cardiff. |
Wednesday 26 September
| 12:00am EDT Bad Wolf | Part 1. The Doctor, Rose and Capt. Jack have to fight for their lives, but the Doctor soon realizes that Armageddon is fast approaching. |
| 1:00am EDT The Parting of the Ways | Part 2. Rose and the Doctor's friendship is put to the test, as Earth plunges into an epic war with the human race being slaughtered. |
| 2:00am EDT They Keep Killing Suzie (TW) | Torchwood is linked to a series of brutal murders around the city. As Jack and the team investigate further, it becomes clear somebody wants their attention. What is Pilgrim? And how is it connected to a figure from Torchwood's past? |
| 3:00am EDT Random Shoes (TW) | When Eugene wakes to find himself (a) dead and (b) invisible to the rest of the world, he knows something has gone wrong. Eugene knows there is one person he can rely on to discover the truth behind his death: Gwen Cooper. |
| 4:00am EDT Out of Time (TW) | When a plane from 1953 makes a landing in present-day Cardiff, its three passengers are shocked to learn they can never go back to their own time. Torchwood helps them to settle into contemporary society, but this task has painful consequences. |
| 5:00am EDT Combat (TW) | Savage aliens are being kidnapped from Cardiff and Torchwood wants to know why. Owen is sent undercover to find out who is behind it and soon befriends the charismatic Mark Lynch. Beneath normal city life, Owen discovers a shocking subculture. |
| 6:00am EDT Captain Jack Harkness (TW) | While investigating reports of ghostly music, Jack and Toshiko find themselves stranded in a packed dance hall in 1941. As Gwen, Owen and Ianto work to rescue their colleagues, Jack and Toshiko meet a young American leader by the named Captain Jack. |
| 7:00am EDT End of Days (TW) | The rift has been opened, and time is splintering all over the world. As events spiral out of control, the Torchwood team members are faced with fragments of their pasts and terrifying visions of their futures. Can Captain Jack save the world? |
| 8:00am EDT Deep Breath (Repeated: Wed 10:40pm EDT) | 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. |
| 9:45am EDT Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now... |
| 10:50am EDT 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. |
| 11:55am EDT Listen (Repeated: Thu 12:25am EDT) | 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. |
| 1:00pm EDT Time Heist | The Doctor turns bank robber when he attempts to break into the most dangerous bank in the Cosmos. |
| 2:00pm EDT 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. |
| 3:00pm EDT Kill The Moon (Repeated: Thu 1:30am EDT) | The Doctor and Clara crash land on the Moon to find a world of horror: a mining base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma. |
| 4:00pm EDT Mummy On The Orient Express (Repeated: Thu 6:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Clara are on the most beautiful train in history but a deadly creature is stalking the passengers. The Doctor must race against the clock to defeat the terrifying Mummy. |
| 5:00pm EDT Flatline | Separated from the Doctor, Clara discovers a new menace from another dimension. But how do you hide when even the walls are no protection? With people to save and the Doctor trapped, Clara comes up against an enemy that exists beyond human perception. |
| 6:00pm EDT In The Forest Of The Night (Repeated: Thu 7:05am EDT) | 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. |
| 7:00pm EDT Dark Water (Repeated: Thu 2:30am EDT) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Sun Makers: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EDT Death in Heaven (Repeated: Thu 3:30am EDT) | 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. |
| 8:30pm EDT The Sun Makers: Part Three |
| 9:15pm EDT Last Christmas (Repeated: Thu 4:30am EDT) | 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. |
Thursday 27 September
| 8:10am EDT 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. |
| 9:15am EDT The Witch's Familiar | Listed as Face The Raven. |
| 10:20am EDT 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? |
| 11:20am EDT 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? |
| 12:20pm EDT The Girl Who Died (Repeated: Fri 12:15am EDT) | 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? |
| 1:25pm EDT The Woman Who Lived (Repeated: Fri 1:15am EDT) | 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? |
| 2:30pm EDT 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. |
| 3:35pm EDT 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? |
| 4:40pm EDT Sleep No More (Repeated: Fri 6:00am EDT) | This terrifying story is assembled from footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station. |
| 5:45pm EDT Face The Raven (Repeated: Fri 2:20am EDT) | 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)! |
| 6:50pm EDT Heaven Sent (Repeated: Fri 7:05am EDT) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Sun Makers: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
| 8:00pm EDT Hell Bent (Repeated: Fri 8:10am EDT) | 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. |
| 8:30pm EDT Underworld: Part One |
| 9:30pm EDT The Husbands of River Song (Repeated: Fri 3:20am EDT) | 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. |
| 10:50pm EDT The Return Of Doctor Mysterio (Repeated: Fri 4:35am EDT / Fri 10:25pm EDT) | 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. |
Friday 28 September
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 9:35am EDT The Pilot (Repeated: Fri 11:50pm 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. |
| 10:45am 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. |
| 11:50am 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? |
| 12:50pm 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? |
| 1:50pm 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! |
| 2:50pm 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. |
| 3:55pm EDT 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! |
| 5:00pm 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. |
| 6:00pm 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? |
| 7:00pm 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? |
| 8:00pm EDT Underworld: Part Two |
| 8:00pm 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! |
| 8:30pm EDT Underworld: Part Three |
| 9:00pm EDT The Doctor Falls | The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen, to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction. |