This Week in Doctor Who
Week 52: 26 Dec 2020 - 1 Jan 2021 - USA
Saturday 26 December
| 2:00am EST A Christmas Carol | In order to save Amy and Rory, who are trapped on a crashing space liner, The Doctor must save the soul of a lonely miser. |
| 3:20am EST The Snowmen | Though saddened by the loss of his companions, the Doctor helps a young governess battle a frosty menace. |
| 4:40am EST The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Thu 10:00pm EST / Fri 2:20am EST) | The Doctor makes sacrifices to save a town called Christmas. |
| 6:00am 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. |
| 7:05am EST The Beast Below | The Doctor and Amy travel to Britain of the future, where people live in a giant spaceship; Amy comes across the terrifying Smilers. |
| 8:05am EST Victory of the Daleks (Repeated: Wed 12:50pm EST) | The Doctor and Amy meet Winston Churchill during a trip back to World War II, where they also encounter the Daleks. |
| 9:05am EST The Time of Angels | 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. |
| 10:05am EST Flesh and Stone | The Doctor and his friends are forced to escape through the forest vault after they are surrounded by the Weeping Angels. |
| 11:05am 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. |
| 12:10pm EST Amy's Choice (Repeated: Thu 6:15pm EST) | Peace is shattered when the Doctor decides to pay Amy a visit on the night before her first child is born. |
| 1:15pm EST The Hungry Earth | Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust; the drilling disturbs an ancient reptilian race. |
| 2:15pm EST Cold Blood | Amy manages to free herself; the Doctor negotiates a truce pending the transfer of prisoners; Restac is ready for war. |
| 2:00pm CST The Antiques Roadshow: Entertainment Special (Related) | The series travels around the country staging a free antiques valuation day for people to attend with treasured objects and family heirlooms; the most interesting are selected for filming by a team of specialists considered the best in their field. |
| 3:20pm EST Vincent and the Doctor (Repeated: Thu 7:18pm EST) | When the Doctor and Amy travel to France to meet Vincent van Gogh, they learn that an invisible alien is menacing the artist. |
| 4:25pm EST The Lodger | An unidentified force traps the Doctor; The Doctor investigates a mysterious staircase in a building where people can go up, but never down. |
| 5:25pm EST The Pandorica Opens (Repeated: Wed 1:50pm EST) | A message on a cliff; a love that lasts a thousand years; a puzzle box that opens from the inside; the fates draw closer for the TARDIS. |
| 6:00pm EST Time and the Rani: Part One |
| 6:27pm EST The Big Bang (Repeated: Wed 2:55pm EST) | The Doctor is gone; the TARDIS has been destroyed; the universe is collapsing; a little girl who believes in stars. |
| 6:30pm EST Time and the Rani: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EST Time and the Rani: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST The Impossible Astronaut | The Doctor, Amy and Rory respond to a summons that leads them to the Oval Office in 1969; the Doctor promises to assist the president. |
| 7:30pm EST Time and the Rani: Part Four |
| 8:32pm EST Day of the Moon | The Doctor is locked in a perfect prison; the FBI hunts Amy, Rory and River; the Doctor mounts a rebellion against an alien invasion. |
| 9:37pm EST The Curse of the Black Spot | The Doctor aids the crew of a 17th-century pirate ship that is being attacked by a mysterious sea creature. |
| 10:42pm EST The Doctor's Wife | The Doctor, Amy, Rory and the TARDIS are in grave danger after following a Time Lord distress signal. |
| 11:47pm EST The Rebel Flesh | The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a future Earth; the Doctor must prevent civil war when doppelgangers are liberated from their human originals. |
| 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. |
| 11:00pm 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. |
Sunday 27 December
| 12:50am EST The Almost People | Factory employees must work with dopplegangers to overcome a monster; Rory locates Jennie and her ganger. |
| 1:55am EST A Good Man Goes to War | A member of the Doctor's team is abducted; the Doctor amasses an army for the Battle of Demons Run; River Song must tell the Doctor something. |
Saturday 26 December
| 11:00pm PST Attack of the Cybermen: Part One (4 part version) (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) | The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit, sort of, and runs afoul of the Cybermen who have just allied with Lytton. |
| 11:30pm PST Attack of the Cybermen: Part Two (4 part version) (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) | The Doctor is captured by the Cybermen; he discovers the source of the signal and learns the full extent of the Cybermen's plans; the very future of the human race is threatened, as this is no war of conquest, but total destruction. |
Sunday 27 December
| 3:00am EST Let's Kill Hitler | When the TARDIS crash lands in 1930s Berlin, the Doctor comes face to face with a war criminal; the Doctor learns a harsh lesson. |
| 4:00am EST Night Terrors | The Doctor and his companions come to the aid of a terrified child, whose monsters appear to be real. |
| 5:00am EST The Girl Who Waited | Amy, separated from the Doctor and Rory, is trapped in a facility where alien plague victims are being quarantined. |
| 6:15am EST The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in what looks like a 1980s Earth hotel, where each room contains the visitor's darkest fears. The 15 minute gap in the Doctor Who run from 6am was taken up by Monty Python's Flying Circus: Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror. |
| 7:17am EST Closing Time | While on a farewell tour in the last days of his life, the Doctor visits an old friend, where he discovers the Cybermen siphoning energy from a department store. |
| 8:22am EST The Wedding of River Song (Repeated: Wed 4:00pm EST) | Chaos results when River Song refuses to kill the Doctor, sending them into an alternate timeline where all of time runs simultaneously. |
| 9:25am EST Asylum of the Daleks | The Doctor and his friends must escape from a planetary prison and the dangerous convicts within, but Rory becomes separated from the Doctor and Amy. |
| 10:30am EST Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | An unmanned spaceship hurtles toward certain destruction, and only the Doctor can save it, along with its impossible cargo of dinosaurs. |
| 11:35am 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. |
| 12:40pm EST The Power Of Three | The Doctor and the Ponds puzzle over an unlikely invasion of Earth, as millions of sinister black cubes arrive overnight, almost like presents falling from the sky. |
| 1:40pm EST The Angels Take Manhattan | New York City statues come to life, forcing a race against time; the Doctor must part ways with Amy and Rory. |
| 2:45pm EST The Bells of Saint John | The Doctor searches for Clara in London, where something dangerous lurks in the Wi-Fi signals. |
| 3:49pm EST The Rings of Akhaten | A sacrifice will be demanded during the Festival of Offerings on the planet Akhaten. |
| 4:50pm EST Cold War | The Doctor and Clara land on a submarine in 1983 as it spirals into the depths of the ocean with a loose alien creature on board. |
| 5:50pm EST Hide | A ghost-hunting professor and a psychic search for the Witch of the Well at a haunted house. |
| 6:00pm EST Terminus: Part One | Still following the Black Guardian's orders, Turlough sabotages the TARDIS. |
| 6:30pm EST Terminus: Part Two |
| 6:55pm EST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | The Doctor has 30 minutes to find Clara, who is lost within the crashed TARDIS. |
| 7:00pm EST Terminus: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST Terminus: Part Four |
| 8:00pm EST The Crimson Horror | Bodies with waxy, glowing, red skin are found in Victorian Yorkshire. |
| 9:05pm EST Nightmare in Silver | An amusement park, Hedgewick's World of Wonders, becomes the location of a deadly silver resurrection. |
| 10:10pm EST The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor's greatest secret is discovered. |
| 11:15pm EST Deep Breath (Repeated: Thu 2:15am EST) | While in Victorian-era London investigating oddities such as spontaneous combustions and a dinosaur in the Thames, Clara struggles to know the man the Doctor has become. |
Monday 28 December
| 12:45am EST Listen (Repeated: Thu 11:05am EST) | The Doctor and Clara are inundated with ghosts from the past and the future. |
| 1:45am EST Time Heist (Repeated: Thu 12:05pm EST) | The Doctor attempts to break into the most dangerous bank in the Cosmos. |
| 2:45am EST The Caretaker | The Skovox Blitzer prepares to destroy all of humanity; the Doctor meets Danny Pink. |
| 3:47am EST The Magician's Apprentice (Repeated: Wed 6:17pm EST) | When Earth's skies are frozen by a strange alien force, Clara cannot find the Doctor, who is hiding from his past. |
| 4:53am EST The Witch's Familiar (Repeated: Wed 7:22pm EST) | The Doctor finds himself trapped and companionless in a Dalek city without his sonic screwdriver or his TARDIS. |
| 6:00am EST Under the Lake | The Doctor and Clara save the frightened crew from a threat in an underwater base, but the Doctor questions the haunting. |
| 7:00am EST Before The Flood | An alien warlord sets a twisted plan in motion in order to ensure his survival on a remote Army outpost, and the Doctor may have to do something unthinkable. |
| 8:00am EST The Girl Who Died | The Doctor and Clara are captured by Vikings, then must help protect their village from futuristic space warriors. |
| 9:05am EST The Woman Who Lived | While stalking London streets, a deadly highwayman called "The Knightmare" and his sidekick find unearthly loot, and must face The Doctor. |
| 10:10am EST The Zygon Invasion | When Osgood is kidnapped by a gang of shape-shifting aliens, the Doctor, Clara and UNIT must scatter to free her. |
| 11:15am EST The Zygon Inversion | When shapeshifting Zygons take over, both in the U.K., and in the U.S., UNIT is neutralized, and the Doctor must find a way to save his friends. |
| 12:17pm EST Sleep No More | Based on footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station, the crew's terrifying last days are revealed. |
| 1:20pm EST Face The Raven | The Doctor, Clara and friend Rigsy find themselves in a secret alien world, and battling a strange countdown. |
| 2:25pm EST Heaven Sent (Repeated: Thu 1:05pm EST) | Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives; pursued by the fearsome creature known only as the Veil, he must attempt the impossible; if he makes it through, Gallifrey is waiting. |
| 3:40pm EST Hell Bent | Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that takes him to the end of time itself. |
| 5:05pm EST The Pilot (Repeated: Wed 8:30pm EST) | When The Doctor has a chance encounter with Bill, her mind is opened to a universe that is bigger and more exciting than she could imagine. |
| 6:15pm EST Smile | The Doctor takes Bill to a city on a distant planet, apparently without colonists; "cute" droids hold the answer. |
| 7:20pm EST Thin Ice | London residents turn out for the 1814 Frost Fair, but revelers are disappearing through the frozen Thames. |
| 8:00pm EST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1 |
| 8:20pm EST Knock Knock | A sinister landlord shows Bill and her friends a "perfect" house to share. |
| 8:30pm EST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 2 |
| 9:20pm EST Oxygen | Trapped on a space station with no oxygen, the Doctor, Bill and Nardole learn that the automated spacesuits they are wearing to stay alive, are actually trying to kill them. |
| 10:20pm EST Extremis | The Pope urges the Doctor to read the Veritas, which contains the deadly truth. |
| 11:20pm EST The Pyramid At The End Of The World | When an "ancient" pyramid appears overnight, the world's clocks begin to count down toward its destruction, and opposing armies prepare to battle. |
Tuesday 29 December
| 12:25am EST The Lie Of The Land | Bill must convince the Doctor that humanity is in danger, when the world is gripped by a mass delusion. |
| 1:25am EST Empress Of Mars | The Doctor, Bill and Nardole arrive on Mars to discover that Earth has invaded, and The Doctor must choose a side. |
| 2:25am EST The Eaters of Light | The Doctor, Bill and Nardole hunt for the lost Ninth Roman Legion, and find themselves in the middle of an ancient battle. |
| 3:25am EST World Enough And Time | A spaceship that is trapped in the gravity well of a black hole harbors one of The Doctor's most-feared enemies. |
| 4:30am EST The Doctor Falls | The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen in order to protect humans from destruction. |
| 6:00am EST The Girl in the Fireplace (Repeated: Thu 2:10pm 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. |
| 7:05am EST Rise of the Cybermen | Rose discovers that her father is still alive on a parallel Earth. |
| 8:10am EST The Age of Steel | 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. |
| 9:15am EST The Impossible Planet | Rose is trapped in the orbit of a black hole; something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awaken. |
| 10:20am EST The Satan Pit | As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core as the Pit beckons. |
| 11:25am EST Doomsday | Two mighty armies wage war across the Earth; terror emerges from beneath Torchwood Tower; the Doctor faces a dilemma. |
| 12:30pm EST Smith and Jones | The Doctor and Martha are transported into danger. |
| 1:35pm EST The Shakespeare Code | Witches cast a spell on the Doctor and Martha. |
| 2:40pm EST Gridlock | The Doctor takes Martha to the planet New Earth in the future where the streets are ruled by sinister pharmacists. |
| 3:45pm EST Human Nature | The Doctor finds an unusual hiding place. |
| 4:50pm EST The Family of Blood | Smith and Jones are under siege. |
| 5:50pm EST Blink (Repeated: Thu 3:14pm EST) | When people start to disappear, a young woman finds cryptic messages bleeding through from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. |
| 6:52pm EST Silence in the Library (Repeated: Thu 4:15pm EST) | The Doctor and Donna must uncover the truth behind the Nodes and the Data Ghost to uncover the library's secret. |
| 7:55pm EST Forest of the Dead (Repeated: Thu 5:15pm EST) | As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 8:00pm EST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 3 |
| 8:30pm EST The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 |
| 8:57pm EST Midnight | The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as a knocking on the wall begins. |
| 10:00pm EST The Stolen Earth (Repeated: Wed 9:10am EST) | Earth's greatest heroes assemble to fight the New Dalek Empire, but a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows. |
| 11:05pm EST Journey's End (Repeated: Wed 10:15am EST) | 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. |
Wednesday 30 December
| 12:10am EST The Next Doctor | The Doctor meets a strange man in Victorian England called The Doctor. |
| 1:30am EST Planet of the Dead | Lady Christina de Souza joins the Doctor on a dangerous bus trip. |
| 2:50am EST The Waters of Mars (Repeated: Wed 11:20am EST) | The Doctor encounters the first human colony on Mars, Bowie Base One. |
| 4:20am EST Voyage of the Damned | The Doctor tries to save the lives of the passengers on an orbiting cruise ship called Titanic. |
| 6:00am EST Army of Ghosts (Repeated: Wed 11:05pm EST) | The human race rejoices as ghosts of loved ones return home; an invasion force threatens modern day Earth. |
| 7:00am EST Daleks in Manhattan (Repeated: Thu 12:05am EST) | The TARDIS lands in 1930s New York, where people are disappearing from the streets. |
| 8:05am EST Evolution of the Daleks (Repeated: Thu 1:10am EST) | The Doctor forms a deadly alliance to save humanity. |
| 5:01pm EST Death in Heaven | When Cybermen invade London, old friends unite while the Doctor performs a new role; UNIT tries to contain Missy. |
| 8:00pm EST The Dominators: Episode 1 | Doctor must save planet Dulkis, conquered by aliens. |
| 8:30pm EST The Dominators: Episode 2 |
| 9:40pm EST Twice Upon A Time | The Doctor, refusing to face regeneration, teams up with his former self, a British army captain, and Bill Potts for an adventure. |
Thursday 31 December
| 4:00am EST Into the Dalek | The Doctor comes to the rescue of a lone rebel ship that is surrounded by a Dalek fleet. |
| 5:00am EST Robot Of Sherwood | The Doctor joins forces with Robin Hood to stop the reign of the Sheriff of Nottingham and robots who threaten Sherwood Forest. |
| 6:00am EST Kill The Moon | When the Doctor and Clara crash land on the moon, they discover a mining base full of corpses, spider-like creatures and find themselves facing a dilemma. |
| 7:00am EST Mummy On The Orient Express | A deadly creature is stalking passengers on the Orient Express, and the Doctor must race against the clock. |
| 8:00am EST Flatline | Clara discovers a menace from another dimension while she is separated from the Doctor; with the Doctor trapped, Clara must defend against an enemy that exists beyond human perception. |
| 9:00am EST In The Forest Of The Night | The human race wakes up one morning to discover a surprising invasion: a forest has grown, reclaiming the Earth. |
| 10:00am EST Dark Water | The Doctor and Missy are about to meet; an impossible choice looms; plans are drawn in the Nethersphere. |
| 8:00pm EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 8:00pm EST The Dominators: Episode 3 |
| 8:20pm EST The Day of The Doctor | The Doctors share an adventure across time and space; an ancient battle reaches a devastating conclusion. |
| 8:30pm EST The Dominators: Episode 4 |
| 11:20pm EST The End of Time: Bonus Edition | The Doctor's nemesis is reborn and seeks to recast Earth in his image; the Time Lords attempt to return and re-establish Gallifrey. |
Friday 1 January
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 3:40am EST Rose | Rose Tyler meets the Doctor, who helps her understand that Earth is in danger. |
| 4:50am EST Arachnids In The UK | 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. |
| 6:00am EST The Woman Who Fell to Earth | A mysterious woman who can't even remember her own name, falls from the sky. |
| 7:30am EST Demons Of The Punjab | The Doctor and her friends arrive in the Punjab, India, in 1947, as the country is being torn apart; while Yaz attempts to discover her grandmother's hidden history, the Doctor discovers demons haunting the land. |
| 8:36am EST Kerblam! | After receiving a mysterious package, the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan investigate the moon orbiting Kandoka. |
| 9:41am EST Spyfall: Part One | When intelligence agents around the world come under attack from alien forces, MI6 turns to the Doctor; as the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan travel the globe looking for answers, attacks come from all sides. |
| 11:08am EST Spyfall: Part Two | In another dimension, and across the centuries, a terrifying plan to destroy humanity is about to reach fruition; the Doctor and her friends must escape multiple traps to defeat a deadly alliance. |
| 12:34pm EST Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror | The year is 1903; on the edge of Niagara Falls, Nikola Tesla's generator plant is behaving strangely; something is sabotaging the maverick inventor's work. |
| 1:45pm EST Fugitive of the Judoon | The Judoon, trigger-happy space police, are targeting 21st-century Gloucester; the Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham race back to Earth to prevent them from doing too much damage to the cathedral city. |
| 2:56pm EST Can You Hear Me? (Repeated: Fri 11:13pm EST) | From ancient Syria, to present day Sheffield and out into the wilds of space, something is stalking the Doctor and her friends; as Graham, Yaz and Ryan return home to see friends and family, they find themselves haunted by very different experiences. |
| 4:06pm EST The Haunting Of Villa Diodati | In 1816, the Doctor and gang arrive at a villa near Lake Geneva in Switzerland; they plan to soak up the atmosphere as Lord Byron and the Shelleys prepare for a night telling ghost stories, but the villa proves to have ghostly presences all its own. |
| 5:16pm EST Ascension of the Cybermen | In the far future, the Doctor and her friends face a brutal battle across the farthest reaches of space to protect the last of the human race against the deadly Cybermen. |
| 6:27pm EST The Timeless Children | The Cybermen are on the march; as the last remaining humans are ruthlessly hunted down, Graham, Ryan and Yaz face a terrifying fight for survival. |
| 8:00pm EST Revolution of the Daleks | While the Doctor is locked away in an alien prison, Yaz, Ryan and Graham discover a disturbing plan involving the Daleks. |
| 8:00pm EST The Dominators: Episode 5 |
| 9:48pm EST Resolution | As the New Year begins, a terrifying evil is stirring, from across the centuries of Earth's history; as the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz return home, they must try to overcome the threat to the planet. |