This Week in Doctor Who
Week 39: 29 Sep - 5 Oct 2018 - USA
Saturday 29 September
| 1:00am 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. |
| 2:00am 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? |
| 3:00am 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? |
| 4:00am 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! |
| 5:00am 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. |
| 7:00am 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. |
| 8:00am EDT The Christmas Invasion (Repeated: Sat 11:00pm EDT) | Listed as The Runaway Bride. |
| 9:00am EDT New Earth | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital. |
| 10:00am EDT Tooth and Claw | 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. |
| 11:00am EDT School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Girl in the Fireplace (Repeated: Sun 12:00am EDT) | Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor. |
| 1:00pm EDT Rise of the Cybermen (Repeated: Sun 1:00am EDT) | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 2:00pm EDT The Age of Steel (Repeated: Sun 2:00am EDT) | Part 2. The Cybermen take control of London and start converting the populace; Jackie falls under Lumic's control; the Doctor, Rose and Mickey are reduced to fugitives. |
| 3:00pm EDT The Idiot's Lantern (Repeated: Sun 3:00am EDT) | It is 1953 and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is taking place, but beneath the celebrations there are rumours of monsters on the streets. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Impossible Planet (Repeated: Sun 4:00am EDT) | Part 1. Rose is trapped in the orbit of a black hole; something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awaken. |
| 5:00pm EDT The Satan Pit (Repeated: Sun 5:00am EDT) | Part 2. As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core as the Pit beckons. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Twin Dilemma: Part Four |
| 6:00pm EDT Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (Aaru) (Repeated: Mon 6:00pm EDT) | 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. |
| 6:00pm EDT Love & Monsters (Repeated: Sun 6:00am EDT) | A man named Elton is plunged into a world of living nightmares when he becomes obsessed with the Doctor, Rose and their mysterious blue box. |
| 6:30pm EDT Attack of the Cybermen: Part One (4 part version) |
| 7:00pm EDT Attack of the Cybermen: Part Two (4 part version) |
| 7:00pm EDT Fear Her (Repeated: Sun 7:00am EDT) | The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers. |
| 7:30pm EDT Attack of the Cybermen: Part Three (4 part version) |
| 8:00pm EDT Army of Ghosts (Repeated: Sun 8:00am EDT) | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 9:00pm EDT Doomsday (Repeated: Sun 9:00am EDT) | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Runaway Bride (Repeated: Sun 10:00am EDT) | 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? |
| 10:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: The King's Demons |
| 10:00pm CDT The Creature from the Pit: Part Four | The Doctor must bring the Creature's dark secret to light. |
| 11:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: Warrior's Gate | The TARDIS is hijacked in the vortex by a time sensitive Tharil named Biroc, and brought to a strange white void. Biroc wants to free the others of his race who are being transported in a slave ship, captained by Rorvik, which is also trapped in the void. The only other thing present in the void is an ancient gateway leading to a decrepit banqueting hall. |
| 11:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Warriors of the Deep |
| 11:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Arc Of Infinity |
Sunday 30 September
Saturday 29 September
| 11:00pm MDT W Hartnell Movies: The Daleks - Part 1 of 2 | The TARDIS lands the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara on Skaro where two opposing races have survived a neutronic war - the Daleks in their metal casings, and the beautiful Thals. |
| 11:00pm PDT Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Five (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) | The Doctor is hunted by the army as a fugitive; Sarah learns the truth about the spaceship. |
| 11:30pm PDT Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Six (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) | The Doctor attempts to stop Operation Golden Age. |
Sunday 30 September
| 12:34am MDT W Hartnell Movies: The Daleks - Part 2 of 2 | The TARDIS lands the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara on Skaro where two opposing races have survived a neutronic war - the Daleks in their metal casings, and the beautiful Thals. |
| 11:00am EDT Smith and Jones | The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger. |
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 12:00pm EDT The Shakespeare Code | Witches cast a spell on the Doctor and Martha. |
| 1:00pm EDT Gridlock | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 2:00pm EDT Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 3:00pm EDT Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Lazarus Experiment | Turning back the clock has consequences. |
| 5:00pm EDT 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 6:00pm EDT Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Aztecs: The Temple of Evil |
| 7:00pm EDT The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 7:30pm EDT The Aztecs: The Warriors of Death |
| 8:00pm EDT The Aztecs: The Bride of Sacrifice |
| 8:00pm EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 8:30pm EDT The Aztecs: The Day of Darkness |
| 9:00pm EDT Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 11:00pm EDT Peter Davison Movies: Kinda (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EDT) | The TARDIS lands on a tranquil planet that scientists hope to colonise. |
| 11:00pm EDT Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
Monday 1 October
| 12:05am EDT Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TW) | Captain Jack Harkness returns but won't reveal where he's been. An old, mysterious acquaintance arrives through the rift with a plea for help to save lives in Cardiff, but his sinister ulterior motives spell danger for the Torchwood team. |
| 1:05am EDT Sleeper (TW) | When a couple are burglarized in their home the wife fights back, kills the burglars, and has no memory of the incident. The Torchwood team uncovers her powers and determines that she's not human. She's part of an alien force threatening society. |
| 2:05am EDT To the Last Man (TW) | A WWI soldier from 1918 makes his way through the Rift and pieces of that year begin to appear in a hospital. The Torchwood team must send the soldier back to his own time, but he and Toshiko have developed a strong bond. |
| 3:05am EDT Meat (TW) | Rhys discovers the truth about Torchwood and becomes part of the team as they investigate a mysterious alien meat supply. With Rhys in increasing danger Gwen is under pressure like never before. |
| 4:05am EDT Adam (TW) | An alien with the power to change memories infiltrates Torchwood. With Captain Jack caught up in memories of his lost family, and Gwen struggling to remember Rhys, can the team save themselves before it's too late? |
| 5:05am EDT Reset (TW) | Captain Jack calls in Martha Jones to investigate mysterious deaths. When the trail leads to a sinister medical testing center she must go undercover. But have Torchwood underestimated how far the center will go to find medical breakthroughs? |
| 7:00am EDT Adrift (TW) | When a local teenager disappears Gwen is drawn into an investigation that reveals a darker side of Torchwood. Hundreds of people have disappeared without trace, but why is Jack obstructing attempts to find them? The answer seems to lie in the rift. |
| 8:00am EDT Fragments (TW) | A booby-trapped building explodes and knocks the team unconscious. As their lives flash before their eyes, we learn how each of them was recruited to Torchwood. |
| 9:00am EDT Exit Wounds (TW) | Captain John returns to have his revenge on Torchwood. But who is he really working for? And how great a price must Torchwood pay to save the city? |
| 10:00am EDT Partners in Crime (Repeated: Mon 11:00pm EDT) | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 11:00am EDT The Fires of Pompeii (Repeated: Tue 12:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 12:00pm EDT Planet of the Ood (Repeated: Tue 1:00am EDT) | The Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. |
| 1:00pm EDT The Sontaran Stratagem (Repeated: Tue 2:00am EDT) | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 2:00pm EDT The Poison Sky (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EDT) | Part 2. As poison gas suffocates the Earth's population, the Doctor and UNIT team members work to eliminate the threat. |
| 3:00pm EDT The Doctor's Daughter (Repeated: Tue 4:00am EDT) | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Unicorn and the Wasp (Repeated: Tue 5:00am EDT) | Agatha Christie's 10-day disappearance in 1926 may have been the result of amnesia, a nervous breakdown, or a giant alien wasp. |
| 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. |
| 5:00pm EDT Silence in the Library (Repeated: Tue 6:00am EDT) | Part 1. The Doctor and Donna must uncover the truth behind the Nodes and the Data Ghost to uncover the library's secret. |
| 6:00pm EDT Forest of the Dead (Repeated: Tue 7:00am EDT) | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 7:00pm EDT Midnight (Repeated: Tue 8:00am EDT) | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 8:00pm EDT Underworld: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EDT Turn Left (Repeated: Tue 9:00am EDT) | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 8:30pm EDT The Invasion of Time: Part One |
| 9:00pm EDT The Stolen Earth (Repeated: Tue 10:00am EDT) | Part 1. Earth's greatest heroes assemble to fight the New Dalek Empire, but a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows. |
| 10:00pm EDT Journey's End (Repeated: Tue 11:00am EDT) | 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. |
Tuesday 2 October
| 12:00pm EDT The Christmas Invasion (Repeated: Wed 3:00am EDT / Wed 4:00am EDT) | *** UNCONFIRMED *** It is unclear if this is the actual episode being broadcast. *** UNCONFIRMED *** |
| 1:00pm EDT The Next Doctor (Repeated: Tue 8:00pm EDT) |
| 2:20pm EDT Planet of the Dead (Repeated: Tue 9:20pm EDT) |
| 3:40pm EDT The Waters of Mars (Repeated: Tue 10:40pm EDT) |
| 5:00pm EDT The End of Time: Parts 1 & 2 (Repeated: Wed 12:00am EDT) | It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey - but his nemesis, The Master, has been reborn. A terrible shadow falls across the Universe as great danger approaches, and the Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master's plans hurtle out of control. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Invasion of Time: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EDT The Invasion of Time: Part Three |
Wednesday 3 October
| 5:00am EDT Tales from the TARDIS (Factual) | Actors and producers share their memories of the world's longest-running sci-fi show. The special features exclusive interviews with principal cast members from the show's 50-year history, including actors who have played the Doctor and companions. |
| 6:00am EDT Children Of Earth: Day One (TW) | The team investigates a mysterious signal being sent out to helpless children. |
| 7:00am EDT Children Of Earth: Day Two (TW) | Torchwood goes underground as the government plans Floor 13. |
| 8:00am EDT Children Of Earth: Day Three (TW) | The world focuses on Britain as the 456 announce they are here. |
| 9:00am EDT Children Of Earth: Day Four (TW) | The Ambassador shows its intent; the team discovers the truth of 1965. |
| 10:00am EDT Children Of Earth: Day Five (TW) | Gwen must stand alone as the world descends into chaos. |
| 11:00am EDT The Eleventh Hour (Repeated: Thu 12:00am EDT) | The newly regenerated Doctor and Amy Pond must save the world in less than 20 minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi. |
| 12:00pm EDT The Beast Below (Repeated: Thu 1:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Amy travel to Britain of the future, where people live in a giant spaceship; Amy comes across the terrifying Smilers. |
| 1:00pm EDT Victory of the Daleks (Repeated: Thu 2:00am EDT) | The Doctor and Amy meet Winston Churchill during a trip back to World War II, where they also encounter the Daleks. |
| 2:00pm EDT The Time of Angels (Repeated: Thu 3:00am EDT) | 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. |
| 3:00pm EDT Flesh and Stone (Repeated: Thu 4:00am EDT) | Part 2. The Doctor and his friends are forced to escape through the forest vault after they are surrounded by the Weeping Angels. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Vampires of Venice (Repeated: Thu 5:00am EDT) | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 5:00pm EDT Amy's Choice (Repeated: Thu 6:00am EDT) | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Hungry Earth (Repeated: Thu 7:00am EDT) | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 7:00pm EDT Cold Blood (Repeated: Thu 8:00am EDT) | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Invasion of Time: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EDT Vincent and the Doctor (Repeated: Thu 9:00am EDT) | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 8:30pm EDT The Invasion of Time: Part Five |
| 9:00pm EDT The Lodger (Repeated: Thu 10:00am EDT) | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Pandorica Opens (Repeated: Thu 11:00am EDT) | Part 1. A message on a cliff; a puzzle box that opens from the inside; the fates draw closer for the TARDIS. |
| 11:00pm EDT The Big Bang (Repeated: Thu 12:00pm EDT) | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
Thursday 4 October
| 1:00pm EDT The Impossible Astronaut (Repeated: Fri 5:00am EDT) | 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. |
| 2:00pm EDT Day of the Moon (Repeated: Fri 6:00am EDT) | 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. |
| 3:00pm EDT The Curse of the Black Spot (Repeated: Fri 7:00am EDT) | 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. |
| 4:00pm EDT The Doctor's Wife (Repeated: Fri 8:00am EDT) | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 5:00pm EDT The Rebel Flesh (Repeated: Fri 9:00am EDT) | Part 1. A solar tsunami liberates doppelgangers from their human 'originals' in a futuristic factory. Can the Doctor prevent all out civil war? |
| 6:00pm EDT The Almost People (Repeated: Fri 10:00am EDT) | Part 2. The Doctor must convince terrified factory-workers to work with their doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making. |
| 7:00pm EDT A Good Man Goes to War (Repeated: Fri 11:00am EDT) | The Doctor assembles an army to face the Battle of Demons Run - and River Song has something to tell him. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Invasion of Time: Part Six |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
| 8:00pm EDT Let's Kill Hitler (Repeated: Fri 12:00pm EDT) | The TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. |
| 8:30pm EDT The Ribos Operation: Part One |
| 9:00pm EDT Night Terrors (Repeated: Fri 1:00pm EDT) | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 10:00pm EDT The Girl Who Waited (Repeated: Fri 2:00pm EDT) | Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness? |
| 11:00pm EDT The God Complex (Repeated: Fri 3:00pm EDT) | 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? |
Friday 5 October
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 12:00am EDT Closing Time (Repeated: Fri 4:00pm EDT) | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
| 1:00am EDT The Wedding of River Song (Repeated: Fri 5:00pm EDT) | 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. |
| 2:00am EDT Doctor Who: The Lost Episode |
| 6:00pm 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... |
| 7:00pm EDT Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 8:00pm EDT The Ribos Operation: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EDT A Town Called Mercy | The Doctor gets a Stetson and a gun, and finds himself the reluctant Sheriff of a Western town under siege by a relentless cyborg. |
| 8:30pm EDT The Ribos Operation: Part Three |
| 9:00pm EDT The Power Of Three | The Doctor and the Ponds puzzle an unlikely invasion of Earth, as millions of sinister black cubes fall from the sky overnight... |
| 10:00pm EDT The Angels Take Manhattan | 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.... |