This Week in Doctor Who
Week 51: 21-27 Dec 2019 - USA
Saturday 21 December
| 6:00pm EST Death to the Daleks: Part One |
| 6:30pm EST Death to the Daleks: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EST Death to the Daleks: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST Death to the Daleks: Part Four |
| 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. |
| 11:00pm CST S McCoy Movies: Delta and the Bannermen |
Sunday 22 December
| 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
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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
| 11:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST) |
| 7:00pm EST Battlefield: Part One |
| 7:30pm EST Battlefield: Part Two |
| 8:00pm EST Battlefield: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Battlefield: Part Four |
Monday 23 December
Tuesday 24 December
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9:15am EST Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 *** |
| 3:45pm EST Army of Ghosts | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 4:45pm EST Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 5:50pm EST The Christmas Invasion (Repeated: Wed 1:00pm EST) |
| 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? |
| 8:00pm EST Voyage of the Damned (Repeated: Wed 3:00pm EST / Fri 4:17am EST) | 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Happiness Patrol: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST The Happiness Patrol: Part Two |
| 9:40pm EST The Next Doctor (Repeated: Wed 4:40pm EST / Fri 6:00am EST) |
| 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
| 4:00am EST School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 11:35am EST Twice Upon A Time (Repeated: Thu 3:35am EST) | Episode was listed as "The Lost Episode". |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Happiness Patrol: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Silver Nemesis: Part One |
| 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. |
| 10:00pm EST The Time of the Doctor |
Thursday 26 December
| 5:00am EST Rose | Listed as The Lost Episode |
| 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. |
| 7:00am EST The Unquiet Dead | Author Charles Dickens joins the Doctor and Rose in 1869 Victorian Cardiff to battle the ethereal Gelth. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 10:00am EST The Empty Child | Part 1. An unearthly child haunts the bomb sites of London. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 3:00pm EST Smith and Jones | The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger. |
| 4:00pm EST Daleks in Manhattan | Part 1. The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 5:00pm EST Evolution of the Daleks | Part 2. The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 6:00pm EST Human Nature | Part 1. The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 7:00pm EST The Family of Blood | Part 2. Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 8:00pm EST Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 8:00pm EST Silver Nemesis: Part Two |
| 8:30pm EST Silver Nemesis: Part Three |
| 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. |
| 11:05pm EST Shada: The Lost Episode |
Friday 27 December
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 2:05am EST The Sound of Drums | Part 1. Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 3:11am EST Last of the Time Lords | Part 2. With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9:30am EST The Sontaran Stratagem | Part 1. Sontaran warriors set their sights on the Earth and its inhabitants. |
| 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. |
| 11:40am EST The Doctor's Daughter | The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 2:50pm EST Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 3:55pm EST Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 4:55pm EST Turn Left | Donna gets help from a mysterious blond woman. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 7:00pm CST S McCoy Movies: The Happiness Patrol | Originally scheduled as Battlefield |
| 8:00pm EST The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part One |
| 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 |
| 8:30pm EST The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part Two |
| 9:35pm EST The Waters of Mars |