This Week in Doctor Who
Week 52: 28 Dec 2019 - 3 Jan 2020 - USA
Saturday 28 December
| 12:00am 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. |
| 1:00am 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. |
| 2:00am EST The Eleventh Hour | The newly regenerated Doctor and Amy Pond must save the world in less than 20 minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi. |
| 3:00am EST The Beast Below (Repeated: Wed 6:00am EST) | The Doctor and Amy travel to Britain of the future, where people live in a giant spaceship; Amy comes across the terrifying Smilers. |
| 4:00am EST Victory of the Daleks | The Doctor and Amy meet Winston Churchill during a trip back to World War II, where they also encounter the Daleks. |
| 5:00am EST The Time of Angels | 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. |
| 6:00am EST Flesh and Stone | Part 2. The Doctor and his friends are forced to escape through the forest vault after they are surrounded by the Weeping Angels. |
| 7:00am EST The Vampires of Venice | The Doctor suspects something isn't quite right with the daughters of the family that protects the streets of Venice. |
| 8:00am EST Amy's Choice (Repeated: Tue 6:50pm EST) | The Doctor returns to Amy on the night before her first child is born. |
| 9:00am EST The Hungry Earth | Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 10:00am EST Cold Blood | Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling. |
| 11:00am EST Vincent and the Doctor (Repeated: Tue 7:55pm EST) | Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh. |
| 12:00pm EST The Lodger | The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 1:00pm EST 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. |
| 2:00pm EST The Big Bang | Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS. |
| 3:00pm EST 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. Listed as The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe |
| 4:00pm EST 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. |
| 5:00pm EST The Curse of the Black Spot | 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. |
| 6:00pm EST The Doctor's Wife (Repeated: Tue 6:00am EST) | By following a Time Lord distress signal, the Doctor puts Amy, Rory and his beloved TARDIS in grave danger. |
| 6:00pm EST The Monster of Peladon: Part One |
| 6:30pm EST The Monster of Peladon: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EST The Rebel Flesh (Repeated: Tue 7:05am EST) | Part 1. A solar tsunami liberates doppelgangers from their human 'originals' in a futuristic factory. Can the Doctor prevent all out civil war? |
| 7:00pm EST The Monster of Peladon: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST The Monster of Peladon: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EST The Almost People (Repeated: Tue 8:05am EST) | Part 2. The Doctor must convince terrified factory-workers to work with their doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making. |
| 9:05pm EST A Good Man Goes to War (Repeated: Tue 9:10am EST) | The Doctor assembles an army to face the Battle of Demons Run - and River Song has something to tell him. |
| 10:10pm EST Let's Kill Hitler (Repeated: Mon 1:55am EST) | The TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. |
| 11:15pm EST Night Terrors (Repeated: Sun 7:20am EST / Mon 3:00am EST) | Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real. |
| 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 S McCoy Movies: The Happiness Patrol |
Sunday 29 December
| 12:15am EST The Girl Who Waited (Repeated: Sun 8:20am EST / Mon 4:00am EST) | Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness? |
| 12:00am CST Tom Baker Movies: Robot | A newly regenerated Doctor joins UNIT in an investigation into the theft of top secret plans and equipment from supposedly secure premises. Sarah discovers that the raids have been carried out by a robot invented by scientist Professor Kettlewell while he was working for Think Tank, a body involved in developing emerging technologies. |
Saturday 28 December
| 11:04pm MST Colin Baker Movies: The Twin Dilemma | The Doctor is involved in a kidnapping scheme. |
Sunday 29 December
| 1:20am EST The God Complex (Repeated: Mon 5:00am EST) | 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? |
Saturday 28 December
| 11:00pm PST The Horns of Nimon: Part Three (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) | The Doctor and Romana find themselves in the clutches of the evil Nimon. |
Sunday 29 December
| 2:25am EST Closing Time | The Doctor's final days are upon him - but when he drops in on an old friend, the Cybermen are waiting. |
Saturday 28 December
| 11:30pm PST The Horns of Nimon: Part Four (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) | Romana discovers the ugly truth about the Nimon's purpose. |
Sunday 29 December
| 3:30am EST The Wedding of River Song | 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. |
| 4:35am EST Twice Upon A Time (Repeated: Tue 1:30am EST) | Described as The Return of Doctor Mysterio |
| 6:00am EST A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Sun 11:15pm 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? |
| 9:20am EST 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... |
| 10:25am EST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction - unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo... of dinosaurs! |
| 11:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) (Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST) |
| 11:30am EST 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. |
| 12:35pm EST 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... |
| 1:35pm EST 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.... |
| 2:40pm EST 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... |
| 3:45pm EST 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. |
| 4:50pm EST 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! |
| 5:50pm EST 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? |
| 6:00pm EST The Curse of Fenric: Part One (Repeated: Thu 8:00pm EST) |
| 6:30pm EST The Curse of Fenric: Part Two (Repeated: Thu 8:30pm EST) |
| 6:55pm EST 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! |
| 7:00pm EST The Curse of Fenric: Part Three (Repeated: Fri 8:00pm EST) |
| 7:30pm EST The Curse of Fenric: Part Four (Repeated: Fri 8:30pm EST) |
| 8:00pm EST The Crimson Horror | Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red. |
| 9:05pm EST Nightmare in Silver | Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection. |
| 10:10pm EST The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor has a secret he will take to his grave. And it is discovered. |
Monday 30 December
| 12:35am 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. |
| 6:00am EST Listen (Repeated: Tue 12:15pm 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 (Repeated: Tue 1:20pm EST) | 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 (Repeated: Tue 2:55am EST) | 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 (Repeated: Tue 4:00am EST) | 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 (Repeated: Tue 5:00am EST) | 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 Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part Four |
| 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! |
Tuesday 31 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. |
| 10:15am EST The Empty Child | Part 1. An unearthly child haunts the bomb sites of London. |
| 11:15am 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. |
| 2:35pm EST The Girl in the Fireplace (Repeated: Fri 10:30am 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. |
| 3:40pm EST Blink | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 4:45pm 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. |
| 5:50pm EST Forest of the Dead | Part 2 . As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 8:00pm EST Battlefield: Part One |
| 8:30pm EST Battlefield: Part Two |
| 9:00pm EST The Day of The Doctor (Repeated: Wed 4:20am 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. |
| 10:40pm EST The Time of the Doctor |
Wednesday 1 January
| 12:00am 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. |
| 3:00am 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. Listed as The Day of The Doctor |
| 7:00am EST The Woman Who Fell to Earth (Repeated: Wed 9:26pm EST) | 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. Listed as Resolution |
| 8:30am EST The Ghost Monument (Repeated: Wed 10:55pm EST) | Still reeling from their first encounter, can the Doctor and her new friends stay alive long enough in a hostile alien environment to solve the mystery of Desolation? And just who are Angstrom and Epzo? |
| 9:35am EST Rosa (Repeated: Thu 12:00am EST) | The Doctor and her friends find themselves in the Deep South of America. As they encounter a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks, they begin to wonder: is someone attempting to change history? |
| 10:40am EST Arachnids In The UK (Repeated: Thu 1:05am EST) | The Doctor, Yaz, Graham and Ryan find their way back to Yorkshire and Yaz's family only to find something is stirring amidst the eight-legged arachnid population of Sheffield. |
| 11:45am EST The Tsuranga Conundrum | Injured and stranded in the wilds of a far-flung galaxy, The Doctor, Yaz, Graham and Ryan must band together with a group of strangers to survive against one of the universe's most deadly and unusual creatures. |
| 12:50pm EST Demons Of The Punjab | India, 1947. The Doctor and her friends arrive in the Punjab, as the country is being torn apart. While Yaz attempts to discover her grandmother's hidden history, the Doctor discovers demons haunting the land. Who are they and what do they want? |
| 2:00pm EST Kerblam! | A mysterious message arrives in a package addressed to the Doctor, leading her, Graham, Yaz and Ryan to investigate the warehouse moon orbiting Kandoka, and the home of the galaxy's largest retailer, Kerblam. |
| 3:10pm EST The Witchfinders | The Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz arrive in 17th century Lancashire and become embroiled in a witch trial, run by the local landowner. As fear stalks the land, the arrival of King James I only serves to intensify the witch hunt. |
| 4:15pm EST It Takes You Away | On the edge of a Norwegian fjord, in the present day, The Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz discover a boarded-up cottage and a girl named Hanne in need of their help. What has happened here? What monster lurks in the woods around the cottage - and beyond? |
| 5:25pm EST The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos | On the planet of Ranskoor Av Kolos, lies the remains of a brutal battlefield. But as the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan answer nine separate distress calls, they discover the planet holds far more secrets. Who is the mysterious commander with no memory? |
| 6:35pm EST Resolution (Repeated: Thu 2:10am EST) |
| 8:00pm EST Spyfall: Part One (Repeated: Thu 3:35am EST) | Intelligence agents around the world are under attack from alien forces. MI6 turns to the only people who can help: The Doctor and friends. As they travel the globe for answers, attacks come from all sides. |
| 8:00pm EST Battlefield: Part Three |
| 8:30pm EST Battlefield: Part Four |
Thursday 2 January
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
Friday 3 January
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 7:15am 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. |
| 8:20am 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. |
| 9:25am EST School Reunion | The Doctor investigates a haunted London school and runs into an old friend. |
| 11:35am EST Rise of the Cybermen | Part 1. Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 12:40pm 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. |
| 1:45pm 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. |
| 2:50pm 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. |
| 3:55pm EST The Satan Pit | Part 1. Rose is trapped in the orbit of a black hole; something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awaken. |
| 7:00pm CST S McCoy Movies: Silver Nemesis |