This Week in Doctor Who
Week 51: 22-28 Dec 2018 - USA
Saturday 22 December
| 6:00pm EST The Happiness Patrol: Part Two |
| 6:30pm EST The Happiness Patrol: Part Three |
| 7:00pm EST Silver Nemesis: Part One |
| 7:30pm EST Silver Nemesis: Part Two |
| 10:00pm CST The Leisure Hive: Part Two | The Doctor's scarf somehow incriminates him. |
| 11:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Planet Of Evil | The Doctor picks up a distress call from the edge of the known universe, where he comes across a geological team that has run afoul of some strange goings on. |
| 11:00pm CST Peter Davison Movies: Planet Of Fire |
| 11:00pm MST W Hartnell Movies: The Ark | The TARDIS takes the Doctor, Steven and their new travelling companion, Dodo, to a giant spacecraft in the far future carrying all that remains of Earth and the human population. |
Sunday 23 December
| 12:00am CST Tom Baker Movies: The Ark in Space | The TARDIS arrives on an apparently deserted and deactivated space station Nerva, otherwise known as the Ark, orbiting Earth in the far future. There the Doctor, Sarah and Harry discover the last survivors of the human race held in suspended animation, Earth having been evacuated thousands of years earlier when solar flares threatened to destroy all life. |
Saturday 22 December
| 11:00pm PST Revenge of the Cybermen: Part One (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) | A plague infects the crew. |
| 11:30pm PST Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Two (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) | A cybermat infects Sarah. |
Sunday 23 December
| 11:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST) |
| 7:00pm EST The Curse of Peladon: Episode One |
| 7:30pm EST The Curse of Peladon: Episode Two |
| 8:00pm EST The Curse of Peladon: Episode Three |
| 8:30pm EST The Curse of Peladon: Episode Four |
| 11:00pm EST Peter Davison Movies: Frontios (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EST) |
Monday 24 December
| 4:00am EST Smith and Jones (Repeated: Thu 11:10pm EST) | The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger. |
| 5:00am EST The Shakespeare Code (Repeated: Fri 12:15am EST) | Witches cast a spell on the Doctor and Martha. |
| 6:00am EST Gridlock (Repeated: Fri 1:20am EST) | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 7:00am EST Daleks in Manhattan (Repeated: Fri 2:25am EST) | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 8:00am EST Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 9:00am EST The Lazarus Experiment | Turning back the clock has consequences. |
| 10:00am EST Human Nature (Repeated: Fri 6:00am EST) | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 11:00am EST The Family of Blood (Repeated: Fri 7:00am EST) | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 12:00pm EST The Christmas Invasion (Repeated: Tue 7:00am EST) |
| 1:00pm EST The Runaway Bride (Repeated: Tue 8:00am EST) | 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? |
| 2:00pm EST 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. |
| 3:40pm EST The Next Doctor (Repeated: Tue 1:40am EST / Tue 10:40am EST) |
| 5:00pm EST The End of Time: Parts 1 & 2 (Repeated: Tue 3:00am EST) | 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 EST A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Tue 6:00am EST / Tue 12:00pm EST) | 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? |
| 8:00pm EST Planet of Fire: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST Planet of Fire: Part Three |
| 9:20pm EST The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe (Repeated: Tue 1:20pm EST) | Evacuated to a house in Dorset from war-torn London, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, are greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world. |
| 10:40pm EST The Snowmen (Repeated: Tue 2:40pm EST) | 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. |
Tuesday 25 December
| 4:00pm EST The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Tue 11:00pm EST) |
| 5:25pm EST Last Christmas (Repeated: Wed 12:25am 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. |
| 6:50pm EST The Husbands of River Song (Repeated: Wed 1:50am EST) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Planet of Fire: Part Four |
| 8:10pm EST The Return Of Doctor Mysterio (Repeated: Wed 3:10am 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. |
| 8:30pm EST The Caves of Androzani: Part One |
| 9:35pm EST Twice Upon A Time (Repeated: Wed 4:35am EST) |
Wednesday 26 December
| 6:00am EST Listen (Repeated: Thu 3:00am EST) | 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. |
| 7:05am EST The Girl Who Died | 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? |
| 8:10am EST The Woman Who Lived | 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? |
| 9:15am 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)! |
| 10:20am 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. |
| 11:35am 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. |
| 1:00pm 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. |
| 2:00pm 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. |
| 3:00pm 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? |
| 4:00pm 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? |
| 5:00pm 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! |
| 6:00pm 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. |
| 7:00pm 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! |
| 8:00pm 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Caves of Androzani: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST The Caves of Androzani: Part Three |
| 9:00pm 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? |
| 10:00pm 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? |
| 11:00pm 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! |
Thursday 27 December
| 12:00am EST The Doctor Falls | The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen, to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction. |
| 1:30am 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. |
| 4:00am EST Rose |
| 5:00am EST 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. |
| 6:00am EST Aliens of London | Part 1. The Doctor takes Rose home, but the world goes on alert when an alien spacecraft crashes in the Thames. |
| 7:00am EST 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. |
| 8:00am EST The Empty Child | Part 1. An unearthly child haunts the bomb sites of London. |
| 9:00am EST 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. |
| 10:00am EST 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. |
| 11:00am EST 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. |
| 12:00pm EST 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. |
| 1:00pm EST New Earth | The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital. |
| 2:00pm EST 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. |
| 3:00pm EST School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 4:00pm 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. |
| 5:00pm EST Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 6:00pm EST The Age of Steel | 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. |
| 7:00pm 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 8:00pm 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Caves of Androzani: Part Four |
| 8:30pm EST The Twin Dilemma: Part One |
| 9:00pm EST Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 10:05pm EST Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
Friday 28 December
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 5:00am EST 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 8:05am EST Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 9:10am EST Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 10:15am EST The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 11:20am EST Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 12:25pm EST Partners in Crime | Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose. |
| 1:30pm EST The Fires of Pompeii | The Doctor and Donna visit Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 2:35pm EST Planet of the Ood | The Doctor takes Donna to her first alien world, but the Ood-Sphere reveals some terrible truths about the human race. |
| 3:40pm EST The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 4:45pm EST The Poison Sky | Part 2. As poison gas suffocates the Earth's population, the Doctor and UNIT team members work to eliminate the threat. |
| 5:50pm EST The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 6:55pm EST Silence in the Library | Part 1. The Doctor and Donna must uncover the truth behind the Nodes and the Data Ghost to uncover the library's secret. |
| 8:00pm EST Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.
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| 8:00pm EST The Twin Dilemma: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST The Twin Dilemma: Part Three |
| 9:05pm EST Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 10:10pm EST Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 11:15pm 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. |