This Week in Doctor Who
Week 51: 25-31 Dec 2021 - USA
Saturday 25 December
| 5:00am EST The Beast Below (Repeated: Tue 7:03am EST) | The Doctor and Amy travel to Britain of the future, where people live in a giant spaceship; Amy comes across the terrifying Smilers. |
| 6:00am EST Last Christmas | Creatures attack The Doctor and Clara while they are trapped on an Arctic base, and they receive help from a surprising source. |
| 7:25am EST The Husbands of River Song | While hiding from Christmas festivities on a remote human colony, the Doctor is recruited to help River Song. |
| 8:45am EST A Christmas Carol (Repeated: Sun 1:30am EST) | 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. |
| 10:10am EST The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe (Repeated: Sun 6:00am EST / Wed 6:00am EST) | After being evacuated to an old house in Dorset, a woman and her children encounter the Doctor. |
| 11:35am EST The Time of the Doctor (Repeated: Sun 4:30am EST) | The Doctor makes sacrifices to save a town called Christmas. |
| 6:00pm EST Kinda: Part One | The Kinda is apparently a primitive tribe but three team members have already vanished. |
| 6:30pm EST Kinda: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EST Kinda: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST Kinda: Part Four |
| 11:00pm CST Tom Baker Movies: Terror of the Zygons | The Doctor, Sarah and Harry return to Earth in response to the Brigadier's summons. UNIT are investigating a series of attacks on North Sea oil rigs and have set up a temporary HQ in the Scottish village of Tullock. The attacks are the work of a huge cyborg, the Skarasen, controlled by a group of aliens called Zygons whose spaceship lies at the bottom of Loch Ness. |
| 11:00pm PST The Aztecs: The Day of Darkness (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PST) | The Doctor and companions face danger. |
| 11:30pm PST The Sensorites: Strangers in Space (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PST) | The TARDIS lands on a 28th-century spaceship. |
Sunday 26 December
| 2:50am EST The Day of The Doctor (Repeated: Wed 7:25am EST) | The Doctor's dangerous past comes back to haunt him and threatens reality. |
| 7:25am EST Voyage of the Damned (Repeated: Tue 12:10am EST) | The Doctor tries to save the lives of the passengers on an orbiting cruise ship called Titanic. |
| 8:58am EST The Christmas Invasion | As the newly regenerated Doctor drifts in and out of consciousness, Christmas becomes a time of terror on planet Earth with the whole of mankind falling under the shadow of the sinister alien Sycorax. |
| 6:00pm EST Full Circle: Part One |
| 6:30pm EST Full Circle: Part Two |
| 7:00pm EST Full Circle: Part Three |
| 7:30pm EST Full Circle: Part Four |
Monday 27 December
| 6:00am EST The Girl in the Fireplace | 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 | 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 | 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 | As the shadows rise, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. |
| 8:00pm EST The Ark In Space: Part One | When TARDIS explores an abandoned space station they find the last survivors of Earth. |
| 8:30pm EST The Ark In Space: Part Two | An insect life form has laid eggs that infect one of the re-animated human beings. |
| 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 | 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 | 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. |
Tuesday 28 December
| 1:42am EST 42 | As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day. |
| 2:45am EST Utopia | Capt. Jack storms back into the Doctor's life; the Tardis travels to the end of the universe. |
| 3:50am EST The Sound of Drums | Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, but has dark ambitions. |
| 4:55am EST Last of the Time Lords | With The Doctor imprisoned by The Master, Martha endeavors to save the world. |
| 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. |
| 8:03am 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. |
| 9:03am 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. |
| 10:03am 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. |
| 11:03am 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. |
| 12:06pm EST Amy's Choice | Peace is shattered when the Doctor decides to pay Amy a visit on the night before her first child is born. |
| 1:10pm EST The Hungry Earth | Scientists discover something isn't right beneath Earth's crust; the drilling disturbs an ancient reptilian race. |
| 2:11pm EST Cold Blood | Amy manages to free herself; the Doctor negotiates a truce pending the transfer of prisoners; Restac is ready for war. |
| 3:13pm EST Vincent and the Doctor | When the Doctor and Amy travel to France to meet Vincent van Gogh, they learn that an invisible alien is menacing the artist. |
| 4:16pm 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. |
| 5:16pm EST The Pandorica Opens | 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. |
| 6:18pm EST The Big Bang | The Doctor is gone; the TARDIS has been destroyed; the universe is collapsing; a little girl who believes in stars. |
| 7:20pm 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. |
| 8:00pm EST The Ark In Space: Part Three | The Doctor and friends attempt to lure the Wirrn hatchlings towards a shuttlecraft. |
| 8:22pm 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. |
| 8:30pm EST The Ark In Space: Part Four | Although fully changed into a Wirrn, the human in Noah tries desperately to break through. |
| 9:27pm 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. |
| 10:32pm EST The Doctor's Wife | The Doctor, Amy, Rory and the TARDIS are in grave danger after following a Time Lord distress signal. |
| 11:37pm 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. |
Wednesday 29 December
| 12:40am EST The Almost People | Factory employees must work with dopplegangers to overcome a monster; Rory locates Jennie and her ganger. |
| 1:45am 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. |
| 2:50am 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. |
| 3:55am EST Night Terrors (Repeated: Wed 9:10am EST) | The Doctor and his companions come to the aid of a terrified child, whose monsters appear to be real. |
| 4:57am EST The Girl Who Waited (Repeated: Wed 10:12am EST) | Amy, separated from the Doctor and Rory, is trapped in a facility where alien plague victims are being quarantined. |
| 11:15am EST The God Complex | The TARDIS lands in what looks like a 1980s Earth hotel, where each room contains the visitor's darkest fears. |
| 12:20pm 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. |
| 1:25pm EST The Wedding of River Song | Chaos results when River Song refuses to kill the Doctor, sending them into an alternate timeline where all of time runs simultaneously. |
| 2:30pm EST The Bells of Saint John | The Doctor searches for Clara in London, where something dangerous lurks in the Wi-Fi signals. |
| 3:35pm EST The Rings of Akhaten | A sacrifice will be demanded during the Festival of Offerings on the planet Akhaten. |
| 4:40pm 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. |
| 5:40pm EST Hide | A ghost-hunting professor and a psychic search for the Witch of the Well at a haunted house. |
| 6:45pm EST Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | The Doctor has 30 minutes to find Clara, who is lost within the crashed TARDIS. |
| 7:47pm EST The Crimson Horror | Bodies with waxy, glowing, red skin are found in Victorian Yorkshire. |
| 8:00pm EST The Sontaran Experiment: Part One | Harry and Sarah walk into a trap while the Doctor solves a mystery. |
| 8:30pm EST The Sontaran Experiment: Part Two |
| 8:52pm EST Nightmare in Silver | An amusement park, Hedgewick's World of Wonders, becomes the location of a deadly silver resurrection. |
| 9:57pm EST The Name of the Doctor | The Doctor's greatest secret is discovered. |
| 11:00pm EST Deep Breath | 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. |
Thursday 30 December
| 12:44am EST Listen | The Doctor and Clara are inundated with ghosts from the past and the future. |
| 1:45am EST Time Heist | The Doctor attempts to break into the most dangerous bank in the Cosmos. |
| 2:47am EST The Caretaker | The Skovox Blitzer prepares to destroy all of humanity; the Doctor meets Danny Pink. |
| 3:49am EST The Magician's Apprentice | When Earth's skies are frozen by a strange alien force, Clara cannot find the Doctor, who is hiding from his past. |
| 4:55am EST The Witch's Familiar | 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 | 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 |
| 5:05pm EST The Pilot | 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 Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 8:00pm EST Revenge of the Cybermen: Part One | The Doctor and friends discover a plot to destroy the newest moon of Jupiter. |
| 8:20pm EST Knock Knock | A sinister landlord shows Bill and her friends a "perfect" house to share. |
| 8:30pm EST Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Two | The Cybermen want to destroy Voga because it's made of a substance that can kill them. |
| 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. |
Friday 31 December
| 12:00am EST Doctor Who (the actual episode broadcast is unknown) |
| 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 Woman Who Fell to Earth | A mysterious woman who can't even remember her own name, falls from the sky. |
| 7:30am EST The Ghost Monument | Still reeling from their first encounter, the Doctor and her new friends fight to stay alive long enough, in a hostile alien environment, to solve the mystery of Desolation; the mystery of Angstrom and Epzo. |
| 8:40am EST Rosa | The Doctor and her friends find themselves in the Deep South of America when they arrive in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955; as they encounter a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks, they begin to wonder if someone is attempting to change history. |
| 9:50am 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. |
| 11:00am 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. |
| 12:10pm 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. |
| 1:20pm EST Kerblam! | After receiving a mysterious package, the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan investigate the moon orbiting Kandoka. |
| 2:30pm 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. |
| 3:35pm 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. |
| 4:45pm 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. |
| 5:50pm 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. |
| 7:16pm 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. |
| 8:00pm EST Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Three | The Doctor returns to the Ark to recover the Tardis, but things have changed. |
| 8:30pm EST Revenge of the Cybermen: Part Four |
| 8:42pm EST Orphan 55 | The Doctor and her companions discover the luxury resort where they are staying is hiding a number of deadly secrets; they must discover why there are ferocious monsters attacking Tranquillity Spa. |
| 9:47pm 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. |
| 10:58pm 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. |