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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 51: 21-27 Dec 2019 - USA

Data last updated 29 December 2019

Saturday 21 December

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EST
Death to the Daleks: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EST
Death to the Daleks: Part Two

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EST
Death to the Daleks: Part Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EST
Death to the Daleks: Part Four

Show broadcasts for WMVS/MPTV (Milwaukee) HD 10.1/36.2
 
11:00pm CST
Tom Baker Movies: Terror of the Zygons

The Doctor follows a mysterious creature attacking Scottish oil rigs to Loch Ness where not only does he discover that the legendary monster does exist, but that is also a weapon of the Zygons in their plan to overpower the planet.


Pre-empted on 30 Nov by Around The Corner with John McGivern: Around Madison,  7 Dec by Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2, 14 Dec by Country Music: Live at the Ryman.


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
11:00pm CST
S McCoy Movies: Delta and the Bannermen

Sunday 22 December

Show broadcasts for WSRE
 
12:00am CST
Tom Baker Movies: Logopolis

The Doctor takes Adric and a young air hostess named Tegan Jovanka, who has come aboard the TARDIS by accident, to the planet Logopolis, home of a race of mathematicians whose help he hopes to enlist in reconfiguring the outer shell of the TARDIS. The mysterious, wraith-like Watcher brings Nyssa from Traken to join them and warns of impending danger - something that is borne out as the Master arrives and kills a number of the Logopolitans.


Pre-empted by Nature: Hotel Armadillo on 1 Dec, Dennis Deyoung and the Music of Styx on 8 Dec.

Saturday 21 December

Show broadcasts for Idaho Public Television
 
11:00pm MST
Colin Baker Movies: Trial of a Time Lord - The Ultimate Foe

The Sixth Doctor boldly claims the Valeyard's evidence has been falsified, and the Matrix has been tampered with.


Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
11:09pm PST
The Horns of Nimon: Part One
(Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST)

With the Tardis immobilized, the Doctor gets pulled into a whirlpool in space.


Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
11:34pm PST
The Horns of Nimon: Part Two
(Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST)

Romana is trapped aboard the Skonnon ship while the Doctor is abandoned in the whirlpool.

Sunday 22 December

Monday 23 December

Tuesday 24 December

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EST
New Earth
(Repeated: Wed 2:00am EST)

The Doctor and Rose board the Tardis and visit mankind's new home but they find gruesome secrets in a luxury hospital.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:05am EST
Tooth and Claw
(Repeated: Wed 3:00am EST)

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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:10am EST
The Girl in the Fireplace
(Repeated: Wed 5:00am EST)

Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack by sinister clockwork killers and her only hope of salvation lies with the Doctor.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:15am EST
Rise of the Cybermen

Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:20am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:25am EST
The Idiot's Lantern

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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:30pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:35pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:40pm EST
Love & Monsters

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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00pm EST
Fear Her
*** CANCELLED ***

The Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics in 2012; a mother hides her daughter's unearthly powers.


Originally scheduled, but BBC America changed the original hour slots to 65 minutes, and this episode was the one that no longer fitted into the new schedule!


*** CANCELLED ***


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:45pm EST
Army of Ghosts

The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:45pm EST
Doomsday

Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:50pm EST
The Christmas Invasion
(Repeated: Wed 1:00pm EST)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:55pm EST
The Runaway Bride
(Repeated: Wed 2:00pm 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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm 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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:00pm EST
The Happiness Patrol: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:30pm EST
The Happiness Patrol: Part Two

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:40pm EST
The Next Doctor

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00pm EST
The End of Time: Part 1 & 2

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.

Wednesday 25 December

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00am EST
School Reunion

The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am EST
The Doctor Falls

The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen, to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:30am EST
Last Christmas
(Repeated: Wed 11:25pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:50am EST
The Husbands of River Song
(Repeated: Thu 12:50am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:10am EST
The Return Of Doctor Mysterio
(Repeated: Thu 2:10am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:35am EST
Twice Upon A Time
(Repeated: Thu 3:35am EST)

Episode was listed as "The Lost Episode".


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00pm EST
A Christmas Carol

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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:20pm EST
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe

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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:00pm EST
The Happiness Patrol: Part Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:30pm EST
Silver Nemesis: Part One

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:40pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00pm EST
The Time of the Doctor

Thursday 26 December

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00am EST
Rose

Listed as The Lost Episode


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00am EST
The Unquiet Dead

Author Charles Dickens joins the Doctor and Rose in 1869 Victorian Cardiff to battle the ethereal Gelth.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EST
The Empty Child

Part 1. An unearthly child haunts the bomb sites of London.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:00pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:00pm EST
Smith and Jones

The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:00pm EST
Daleks in Manhattan

Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:00pm EST
Evolution of the Daleks

Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00pm EST
Human Nature

Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:00pm EST
The Family of Blood

Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege.


Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
8:00pm EST
Doctor Who
(the actual episode broadcast is unknown)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EST
Blink

When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:00pm EST
Silver Nemesis: Part Two

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:30pm EST
Silver Nemesis: Part Three

Show broadcasts for BBC America
Premiere
 
9:00pm EST
The Macra Terror: colour animation

The TARDIS arrives at a Human colony that appears to be run along the lines of a holiday camp. Everyone seems very happy, but their happiness is not real; something is controlling them.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:05pm EST
Shada: The Lost Episode

Friday 27 December

Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
12:00am EST
Doctor Who
(the actual episode broadcast is unknown)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:05am EST
The Sound of Drums

Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:11am EST
Last of the Time Lords

Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:20am EST
Partners in Crime

Donna is determined to find the Doctor, even if it means braving Miss Foster and her hordes of Adipose.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:25am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:30am EST
The Sontaran Stratagem

Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:35am 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:40am EST
The Doctor's Daughter

The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:45pm EST
The Unicorn and the Wasp

Agatha Christie's 10-day disappearance in 1926 may have been the result of amnesia, a nervous breakdown, or a giant alien wasp.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
1:45pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:50pm EST
Forest of the Dead

Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:55pm EST
Midnight

The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:55pm EST
Turn Left

Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:00pm 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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
7:05pm 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.


Show broadcasts for RSU Public Television
 
7:00pm CST
S McCoy Movies: The Happiness Patrol

Originally scheduled as Battlefield


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:00pm EST
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part One

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:10pm EST
Planet of the Dead

The Doctor finds himself and those around him in serious danger after a strange bus ride.


Listed as The End of Time


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:30pm EST
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part Two

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:35pm EST
The Waters of Mars

The Doctor helps combat a crisis from beneath Mars' surface.


Listed as The End of Time