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Doctor Who episodes broadcast in September

Episodes of Doctor Who originally broadcast in September, ordered by day

UK Premiere
Thursday
1st September 2011
9:00PM
BBC One (55 mins)

Torchwood - Miracle Day - End of the Road

Episode 8 of 10 from Miracle Day
Captain Jack faces a showdown with a man he thought long since dead.
This episode premiered 26th August 2011 - USA (Starz)

Saturday
1st September 1979
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Destiny of the Daleks - Part One

The TARDIS lands on the old Dalek homeworld of Skaro, with the newly regenerated Romana.

Saturday
1st September 2012
7:20PM
BBC One (49 mins)

Doctor Who - Asylum of the Daleks

Amy and Rory are kidnapped by their oldest foe the Daleks and forced on a seemingly impossible mission.

Saturday
2nd September 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode 1

The Doctor meet Professor Parry and his archaeologists on the planet Telos.

Saturday
2nd September 1978
5:45PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part One

The Doctor is given the task of reassembling the six parts of the Key to Time by the the White Guardian.

Saturday
3rd September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part One

The TARDIS lands on Fang Rock island at the start of the 20th century.

Saturday
3rd September 2011
7:45PM
BBC Three (42 mins)

Doctor Who Confidential - About a Boy

On location at a Gloucestershire country house and a high-rise housing estate in Bristol.

Saturday
3rd September 2011
7:00PM
BBC One (43 mins)

Doctor Who - Night Terrors

Every night George lies awake, terrorised by every fear you can possibly imagine – fears that live in his bedroom cupboard.

Saturday
4th September 1976
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Masque of Mandragora - Part One

The Doctor and Sarah arrive in Renaissance Italy unaware that they have brought with them.

Saturday
5th September 1964
5:30PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Reign of Terror - A Bargain of Necessity (5/6)

Episode 5 of 6 from The Reign of Terror
The Doctor arranges for Barbara's escape when they reunite at the prison, while Susan stays imprisoned.

Saturday
6th September 1986
5:45PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord - Part One

Episode 1 of 4 from The Mysterious Planet
Placed on trial, the Doctor is forced to watch events from his past, beginning with an incident on Ravolox

Saturday
6th September 1975
5:45PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons - Part Two

Sarah is attacked by a Zygon disguised as Harry who is a prisoner on the Zygon spaceship.

Wednesday
6th September 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Battlefield - Part One

Knights in armour arrive to contine waging a war that began thousands of years ago

Monday
6th September 2010
8:30PM
BBC Three (59 mins)

Doctor Who at the Proms - 2010

Doctor Who returns to the Proms with a new show hosted by stars Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill.

Monday
6th September 2010
12:00AM
BBC Red Button (20 mins)

Doctor Who Confidential - Backstage at the Doctor Who Prom

Doctor Who Confidential special episode, backstage at the Doctor Who Proms in 2010.

Saturday
6th September 1980
6:20PM
BBC 1 (20 mins)

Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive - Part Two

Romana tries to get Argolis' tachyon machine working properly, but the consequences could be dramatic.

Saturday
6th September 2014
7:30PM
BBC One (46 mins)

Doctor Who - Robot Of Sherwood

In Sherwood forest, the Doctor discovers an evil plan from beyond the stars and strikes up an unlikely alliance with Robin Hood.

Monday
7th September 1987
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Time and the Rani - Part One

A newly regenerated Doctor is taken to the Rani’s base by Urak the Tetrap, while Mel meets some of the Lakertyans.

Saturday
7th September 1968
5:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Dominators - Episode 5

The Doctor hatches a plan to intercept the Dominators' atomic seed pod as it is dropped into the planet's core.

UK Premiere
Thursday
8th September 2011
9:00PM
BBC One (56 mins)

Torchwood - Miracle Day - The Gathering

Episode 9 of 10 from Miracle Day
The Torchwood team - defeated, powerless, and hunted - must strike a bargain with the devil himself.
This episode premiered 2nd September 2011 - USA (Starz)

Saturday
8th September 1979
6:10PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - Destiny of the Daleks - Part Two

Romana is captured and interrogated by the Daleks whilst the Doctor meets the Movellans.

Saturday
8th September 2012
7:35PM
BBC One (45 mins)

Doctor Who - Dinosaurs On A Spaceship

A spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction – unless the Doctor can save it, and its cargo of dinosaurs.

Saturday
9th September 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode 2

Professor Parry and his team begin to unlock the secrets of the Cybermen's tomb.

Saturday
9th September 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part Two

Trying to obtain the first segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Romana are swept up in an elaborate con.

Saturday
10th September 1966
5:50PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Smugglers - Episode 1

In 17th Century Cornwall, Joseph Longfoot passes a message to the Doctor and is then murdered.

Saturday
10th September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part Two

A thick fog surrounds Fang Rock and a ship is wrecked.

Saturday
10th September 2011
8:00PM
BBC Three (43 mins)

Doctor Who Confidential - What Dreams May Come

Can Karen Gillan get up to 100mph around one of the UK's fastest racetracks?

Saturday
10th September 2011
7:15PM
BBC One (46 mins)

Doctor Who - The Girl Who Waited

Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague – a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day.

Saturday
11th September 1965
5:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Galaxy 4 - Four Hundred Dawns (1/4)

Episode 1 of 4 from Galaxy 4
The Doctor meet the Drahvins, a predominantly female race in constant strife with the Rills.

Friday
11th September 2015
7:00PM

Doctor Who - Series 9 Prologue

Series 9 Prologue Synopsis

Saturday
11th September 1976
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Masque of Mandragora - Part Two

The Mandragora energy combines forces with the secret Brotherhood of Demnos.

Saturday
12th September 1964
5:30PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Reign of Terror - Prisoners of Conciergerie (6/6)

Episode 6 of 6 from The Reign of Terror
The Doctor guides Lemaitre to the royalist house where he discloses his true identity.

Saturday
13th September 1986
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord - Part Two

Episode 2 of 4 from The Mysterious Planet
The Doctor has an appointment with the Immortal, while Peri finds herself caught up with Glitz and the Tribe.

Saturday
13th September 1975
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons - Part Three

The Doctor and Sarah find their way into the Zygon spaceship at the bottom of Loch Ness.

Wednesday
13th September 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Battlefield - Part Two

The Doctor and Ace explore King Arthur's spaceship deep under Lake Vortigern,

Saturday
13th September 1980
5:55PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive - Part Three

The Doctor, aged by the unstable tachyon machine, finally uncovers the truth about the tachyon generator.

Saturday
13th September 2014
7:30PM
BBC One (48 mins)

Doctor Who - Listen

When ghosts crowd into their lives, the Doctor and Clara get into an adventure that takes them to the end of the universe.

Monday
14th September 1987
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Time and the Rani - Part Two

The Rani’s impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference.

Saturday
14th September 1968
5:20PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - The Mind Robber - Episode 1

To escape their destruction, the Doctor removes the TARDIS from normal space and time.

UK Premiere
Thursday
15th September 2011
9:00PM
BBC One (56 mins)

Torchwood - Miracle Day - The Blood Line

Episode 10 of 10 from Miracle Day
The Three Families are unstoppable, unless a terrible sacrifice is made.
This episode premiered 9th September 2011 - USA (Starz)

Saturday
15th September 1979
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Destiny of the Daleks - Part Three

Davros has awoken from his centuries long slumber and is taken prisoner by the Doctor.

Saturday
15th September 2012
7:35PM
BBC One (44 mins)

Doctor Who - A Town Called Mercy

The Doctor finds himself the reluctant Sheriff of a Western town under siege by a relentless cyborg.

Saturday
16th September 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode 3

The Cybermen have risen from their hibernation and are intent on converting the humans.

Saturday
16th September 1978
6:30PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part Three

Prisoners of the maniacal Graff Vynda K, the Doctor and Romana must break out and pursue the first segment.

Saturday
17th September 1966
5:55PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Smugglers - Episode 2

The Doctor is held captive aboard the pirate ship whilst Captain Pike strikes a deal with the Smugglers.

Saturday
17th September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part Three

The Doctor seals the survivors inside the lighthouse but discovers that the creature might be with them.

Saturday
17th September 2011
8:00PM
BBC Three (43 mins)

Doctor Who Confidential - Heartbreak Hotel

Toby Whithouse tells why he set his latest Doctor adventure in a hotel with a difference.

Saturday
17th September 2011
7:10PM
BBC One (48 mins)

Doctor Who - The God Complex

The TARDIS lands in what looks like an ordinary hotel. But the walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish.

Saturday
18th September 1965
5:50PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - Galaxy 4 - Trap of Steel (2/4)

Episode 2 of 4 from Galaxy 4
Intent on capturing the spacecraft of the hideous Rills, Maaga holds Steven prisoner.

Saturday
18th September 1976
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Masque of Mandragora - Part Three

Hieronymous plots to eliminate the threat posed by the Doctor and uses an unwitting Sarah as his weapon.

Saturday
19th September 2015
7:40PM
BBC One (46 mins)

Doctor Who - The Magician’s Apprentice

Where is the Doctor? When the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend.

Saturday
20th September 1986
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord - Part Three

Episode 3 of 4 from The Mysterious Planet
The Doctor fears for the planet's safety and needs to find the Secrets of the Sleepers and discover more.

Saturday
20th September 1975
5:20PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons - Part Four

The Zygon warlord, Broton, intends to use the Skarasen to attack the World Energy Conference in London.

Wednesday
20th September 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Battlefield - Part Three

Morgaine threatens to unleash the Destroyer upon the planet unless the Doctor gives her what she wants.

Saturday
20th September 1980
6:15PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive - Part Four

Pangol begins his plan for a rebirth of Argolis — a rebirth that will start by resuming their ancient war.

Saturday
20th September 2014
7:30PM
BBC One (45 mins)

Doctor Who - Time Heist

The Doctor turns bank robber when he is given a task he cannot refuse – to steal from the most dangerous bank in the cosmos.

Monday
21st September 1987
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Time and the Rani - Part Three

The furious Rani begins to slaughter the Lakertyans, so Mel rallies the survivors to help them.

Saturday
21st September 1968
5:20PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - The Mind Robber - Episode 2

Arriving in the Land of Fiction, the Doctor searches for his companions in a forest of words.

Saturday
22nd September 1979
6:15PM
BBC 1 (26 mins)

Doctor Who - Destiny of the Daleks - Part Four

The Doctor discovers that the Daleks need Davros to break the stalemate in their war with the Movellans.

Saturday
22nd September 2012
7:30PM
BBC One (41 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power Of Three

The Doctor and the Ponds puzzle an unlikely invasion of Earth, as millions of sinister black cubes arrive overnight.

Saturday
23rd September 1967
5:50PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode 4

The Cyber Controller has been revitalised after leaving the icy tomb, threatening to overpower his human foes.

Saturday
23rd September 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part Four

The Doctor and Romana work desperately to obtain the segment of the Key to Time - and escape alive.

Monday
24th September 2007
5:00PM
BBC One (25 mins)

Sarah Jane - Revenge of the Slitheen - Part One

On their first day at their new school Maria and Luke soon realise that all is not as it seems.

Monday
24th September 2007
5:30PM
CBBC (25 mins)

Sarah Jane - Revenge of the Slitheen - Part Two

With the Slitheen’s deadly plans to destroy the Earth well under way, the gang race back to Sarah Jane’s attic.

Saturday
24th September 1966
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Smugglers - Episode 3

Escaping from the pirate ship and reunited with Ben and Polly, the Doctor goes in search of the hidden treasure.

Saturday
24th September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part Four

The Doctor devises a desperate plan to defeat the alien and repel the approaching Rutan mothership.

Saturday
24th September 2011
8:00PM
BBC Three (42 mins)

Doctor Who Confidential - Open All Hours

Greg James gives an insightful, in-depth character profile of his new role.

Saturday
24th September 2011
7:10PM
BBC One (45 mins)

Doctor Who - Closing Time

A silver rat scuttles in the shadows of a department store, and somewhere close by the Cybermen are waiting…

Saturday
25th September 1965
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Galaxy 4 - Air Lock (3/4)

Episode 3 of 4 from Galaxy 4
The Doctor and Vicki learn the truth about the Drahvins from the ammonia breathing Rills.

Saturday
25th September 1976
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Masque of Mandragora - Part Four

As the leading scholars of the era assemble in the palace for the masque, Mandragora prepares to attack.

Saturday
26th September 2015
7:45PM
BBC One (48 mins)

Doctor Who - The Witch’s Familiar

Trapped and alone in a terrifying Dalek city, the Doctor is at the heart of an evil Empire with nobody to help.

Saturday
27th September 1986
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord - Part Four

Episode 4 of 4 from The Mysterious Planet
The Doctor is foxed by Drathro's logic so it takes Glitz's blunt lies to buy them some time.

Saturday
27th September 1975
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Planet of Evil - Part One

The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Sarah to the planet Zeta Minor on the edge of the universe.

Wednesday
27th September 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Battlefield - Part Four

The Brigadier slays the Destroyer while Morgaine takes control of UNIT's nuclear warhead.

Saturday
27th September 1980
6:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Meglos - Part One

Meglos plans to steal the ancient and powerful Dodecahedron from the neighbouring world of Tigella.

Saturday
27th September 2014
8:30PM
BBC One (45 mins)

Doctor Who - The Caretaker

When terrifying events threaten Coal Hill school, the Doctor decides to go undercover.

Monday
28th September 1987
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Time and the Rani - Part Four

Mel convinces the Lakertyans fight back. The Doctor ensures the missile is deflected.

Saturday
28th September 1968
5:20PM
BBC 1 (19 mins)

Doctor Who - The Mind Robber - Episode 3

With the help of Rapunzel, Jamie escapes from a clockwork soldier into the citadel where he makes a discovery.

Monday
29th September 2008
4:35PM
BBC One (25 mins)

Sarah Jane - The Last Sontaran - Part One

Strange lights around the Tycho Radio Telescope lead Sarah Jane and the gang into a terrifying forest encounter.

Saturday
29th September 1979
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - City of Death - Part One

While on holiday in Paris, the Doctor and Romana experience a time distortion.

Saturday
29th September 2012
7:20PM
BBC One (44 mins)

Doctor Who - The Angels Take Manhattan

A race against time through the streets of Manhattan, as New York’s statues come to life around Amy and Rory.

Tuesday
30th September 2025
3:00PM
Youtube

The Whoniverse Show - Tia Kofi Hunts For Legendary Doctor Who Filming Locations

This month’s episode is bursting with iconic locations, legendary props, and fan-favourite moments!

Saturday
30th September 1967
5:25PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Abominable Snowmen - Episode One

The Doctor is accused of murder by Professor Travers who is in search of the legendary Yeti.

Saturday
30th September 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet - Part One

Instead of landing on Calufrax, they arrive on a different planet and encounter the Mentiads.