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This Week in Doctor Who


Week 52: 28 Dec 2019 - 3 Jan 2020 - USA

Data last updated 26 January 2020

Saturday 28 December

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:00am EST
The Hungry Earth

Part 1. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:00am EST
Cold Blood

Part 2. Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust while drilling.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:00am EST
Vincent and the Doctor
(Repeated: Tue 7:55pm EST)

Amy battles an alien in France with Vincent Van Gogh.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:00pm EST
The Lodger

The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
2:00pm EST
The Big Bang

Part 2. The fates draw close around the TARDIS.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EST
The Monster of Peladon: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EST
The Monster of Peladon: Part Two

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EST
The Monster of Peladon: Part Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EST
The Monster of Peladon: Part Four

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:15pm EST
Night Terrors

Every child is scared of monsters, but George's terrified pleas for help reach the Doctor. Because George's monsters are real.


Show broadcasts for WMVS/MPTV (Milwaukee) HD 10.1/36.2
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Iowa Public TV
 
11:00pm CST
S McCoy Movies: The Happiness Patrol

Sunday 29 December

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
12:15am EST
The Girl Who Waited

Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague. Can Rory save her before she is killed by kindness?


Show broadcasts for WSRE
 
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

Show broadcasts for Idaho Public Television
 
11:04pm MST
Colin Baker Movies: The Twin Dilemma

The Doctor is involved in a kidnapping scheme.

Sunday 29 December

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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

Show broadcasts for KBTC
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
4:35am EST
Twice Upon A Time
(Repeated: Tue 1:30am EST)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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!


Show broadcasts for EBRU
 
11:00am EST
Doctor Who
(the actual episode broadcast is unknown)
(Repeated: Sun 12:00pm EST)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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....


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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...


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:00pm EST
The Curse of Fenric: Part One
(Repeated: Thu 8:00pm EST)

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
6:30pm EST
The Curse of Fenric: Part Two
(Repeated: Thu 8:30pm EST)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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!


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:00pm EST
The Curse of Fenric: Part Three
(Repeated: Fri 8:00pm EST)

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
7:30pm EST
The Curse of Fenric: Part Four
(Repeated: Fri 8:30pm EST)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
8:00pm EST
The Crimson Horror

Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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)!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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!


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


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

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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:15am EST
The Empty Child

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


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
3:40pm 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 BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
5:50pm EST
Forest of the Dead

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


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:00pm EST
Battlefield: Part One

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:30pm EST
Battlefield: Part Two

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
10:40pm EST
The Time of the Doctor

Wednesday 1 January

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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?


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
6:35pm EST
Resolution
(Repeated: Thu 2:10am EST)

Show broadcasts for BBC America
Premiere
 
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.


Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:00pm EST
Battlefield: Part Three

Show broadcasts for Retro TV
 
8:30pm EST
Battlefield: Part Four

Thursday 2 January

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

Friday 3 January

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

Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
9:25am EST
School Reunion

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


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
11:35am EST
Rise of the Cybermen

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


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for BBC America
 
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.


Show broadcasts for RSU Public Television
 
7:00pm CST
S McCoy Movies: Silver Nemesis