This Week in Doctor Who
Week 40: 6-12 Oct 2018 - USA
Saturday 6 October
| 12:00am EDT The Snowmen (Repeated: Sat 8:00am EDT / Sun 10:05am EDT) | 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. |
| 1:20am EDT A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Sat 9:20am EDT) | 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? |
| 2:40am EDT The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe (Repeated: Sat 10:40am EDT) | Listed as The Impossible Astronaut |
| 4:00am 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. |
| 5:00am EDT The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 6:00am EDT 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. |
| 12:00pm EDT Asylum of the Daleks (Repeated: Sun 7:00am EDT) | Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission - to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... |
| 1:00pm EDT Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 2:00pm 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. |
| 3:00pm 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... |
| 4:00pm EDT The Angels Take Manhattan (Repeated: Sun 8:00am EDT) | 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.... |
| 5:00pm EDT 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... |
| 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. |
| 6:00pm EDT The Rings of Akhaten | On the rings of the planet Akhaten, the Festival of Offerings is in full swing. Clara meets the Queen of Years but something is stirring in the pyramid, and a sacrifice will be demanded. |
| 6:00pm EDT Attack of the Cybermen: Part Four (4 part version) |
| 6:30pm EDT The Mark of the Rani: Part One (4 part version) |
| 7:00pm EDT 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! |
| 7:00pm EDT The Mark of the Rani: Part Two (4 part version) |
| 7:30pm EDT The Mark of the Rani: Part Three (4 part version) |
| 8:00pm EDT 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? |
| 9:00pm EDT 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! |
| 10:00pm EDT The Crimson Horror | Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red. |
| 10:00pm CDT Nightmare of Eden: Part One | When two spaceships collide, the Doctor and Romana discover a drug-smuggling operation. |
| 11:00pm EDT Nightmare in Silver | Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection. |
| 10:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: The Awakening |
| 10:58pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Frontios |
| 11:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Keeper of Traken | The Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue. The Keeper is nearing the end of his reign and seeks the Doctor's help in preventing the evil from taking control of the bioelectronic Source that is the keystone of the Traken Union's civilisation. |
| 11:00pm CDT Peter Davison Movies: Snakedance |
Sunday 7 October
| 12:00am EDT The Name of the Doctor (Repeated: Sun 9:00am EDT) | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
Saturday 6 October
| 11:00pm MDT W Hartnell Movies: The Edge of Destruction | The Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara are confused and disorientated after an explosion shakes the TARDIS and the doors open to reveal only a white void. |
Sunday 7 October
| 12:00am CDT W Hartnell Movies: The Romans |
| 1:00am EDT Vincent and the Doctor | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 2:00am 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. |
Saturday 6 October
| 11:03pm PDT The Monster of Peladon: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:01am PDT) | A malfunction causes an unexpected hitch: Sarah and the Doctor land on Peladon 40 years later than expected. |
| 11:30pm PDT The Monster of Peladon: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) | Ortron orders the execution of the Doctor and the rebel leaders. Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee. Gebek: Rex Robinson. Ortron: Frank Gatliff. Ettis: Ralph Watson. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Eckersley: Donald Gee. |
Sunday 7 October
| 3:00am 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. |
| 4:00am EDT The Doctor's Wife | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 5:00am 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. |
| 6:00am 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. |
| 11:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EDT) |
| 11:30am EDT The Day of The Doctor |
| 1:45pm EDT The Woman Who Fell to Earth (Repeated: Sun 3:30pm EDT / Sun 6:00pm EDT / Sun 8:00pm EDT / Sun 10:00pm EDT / Mon 12:00am EDT / Mon 2:00am EDT / Mon 4:00am EDT) | "We don't get aliens in Sheffield." In a South Yorkshire city, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan, and Graham O'Brien are about to have their lives changed forever as a mysterious woman, unable to remember her own name, falls from the night sky. Orginally advertised for 2:00pm before the UK time was finalised. |
| 3:15pm EDT BBC America Specials: S11 Postshow (Factual) |
| 5:00pm EDT Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Romans: The Slave Traders |
| 7:30pm EDT The Romans: All Roads Lead to Rome |
| 8:00pm EDT The Romans: Conspiracy |
| 8:30pm EDT The Romans: Inferno |
| 11:00pm EDT Peter Davison Movies: The Visitation (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EDT) |
Monday 8 October
Tuesday 9 October
| 6:00pm EDT Dr Who and the Daleks (Aaru) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EDT The Pirate Planet: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EDT The Pirate Planet: Part Three |
Wednesday 10 October
| 7:00pm EDT - Copiague, New York The Woman Who Fell To Earth: theater presentation (Repeated: Thu 7:00pm EDT) | Come together in cinemas with other fans to watch the premiere of a new season of Doctor Who with a new Doctor! The brand new series of Doctor Who marks the arrival of Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch) as the 13th Doctor - a super - smart force of nature - alongside a new team of friends. Already highly anticipated, the new-look series heralds a brand-new era for Doctor Who with a world-class team at the helm led by showrunner Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch, Torchwood). The show will be full of action and adventure, humor and thrills, an unmissable journey across all of space and time. Includes two behind-the-scenes bonus features: Becoming a Doctor - Follow Jodie Whittaker's journey from being cast in Doctor Who to coming alive in her very first episode as the Doctor in this special bonus feature. Directing and Regenerating Doctor Who - Meet the director of the Doctor Who premiere episode, Jamie Childs, and discover the unique challenges of bringing a new Doctor to the screen in Doctor Who. Global Premiere Sunday, October 7 on BBC America. 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. The compilation version of the story shown at various affiliated theaters across the United States (local time 7:00pm). |
| 8:00pm EDT The Pirate Planet: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EDT The Stones of Blood: Part One |
Thursday 11 October
| 8:00pm EDT The Stones of Blood: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Thu 9:00pm EDT / Thu 11:00pm EDT) |
| 8:30pm EDT The Stones of Blood: Part Three |
Friday 12 October
| 12:00am EDT Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 8:00pm EDT The Stones of Blood: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EDT The Androids of Tara: Part One |