MIAOW MIAOW was an Earth - based organisation which dealt with unusual and unnatural incidents . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " , " The Dreadful Flap " , et al ) Iris Wildthyme had numerous encounters with MIAOW . ( PROSE : " The Dreadful Flap " , " From Wildthyme with Love " , AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " et al ) The Third Doctor was aware of MIAOW . ( AUDIO : " Find and Replace " ) Accounts differ as to what the acronym " MIAOW " stood for ; it may have been " Ministry of Incursions and Ontological Wonders " , ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) " Ministry for Incursions and Ontological Wonders " , ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " , " A Gamble with Wildthyme " ) " Ministry for Alien Incursions and Other Wonders " , ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) " Ministry of Incursions and Other Alien Wonders " , ( PROSE : " The Dreadful Flap " ) " Ministry for Incursions and Other Wonders " , ( PROSE : " Enter Wildthyme " ) or " Ministry of Alien and Other Ontological Wonders " . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) The American branch of MIAOW was the Military Observation of Otherworldly Occurrences . ( PROSE : " Elementary , My Dear Sheila " ) MIAOW was interested in preserving the Web of Time . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) They monitored events across the universe using a powerful computer ( PROSE : " Enter Wildthyme " ) and kept files on the activities of Señor 105 . ( PROSE : " Elementary , My Dear Sheila " ) They also possessed helicopters which could travel through space and time . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) Members of MIAOW regularly faked their deaths . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) History . 19th century . In the early Victorian era , MIAOW was founded by Harriet Dodd . In 1873 , MIAOW betrayed Dodd and sealed her in Wonderland . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) 20th century . In the 1960s , the Jane Fonda Iris occasionally visited Earth and worked for MIAOW . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) Iris helped MIAOW during " that business with the robot Guru and the holiday camp in Wales " when she met the Beatles and the time the cast of " Crossroads " was transported to the Moon by samurai jellyfish . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) A branch of MIAOW was set up in Darlington in 1962 to deal with the alien flotsam and jetsam from a time rift called the Dreadful Flap . Iris ' former companion Jenny Winterleaf became the head of the Darlington branch of MIAOW . ( PROSE : " The Dreadful Flap " ) On 1 May 1972 , MIAOW helped Iris Wildthyme stop a group of witch es from summoning the Devil at Hobbe ' s End . Afterwards , they held a party celebrating Iris ' fifteenth anniversary in print . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) From 1972 to 1973 , Iris Wildthyme and Panda worked for the South Kensington branch of MIAOW while they were stuck on Earth . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) On one occasion , Noël Coward and Marlene Dietrich helped MIAOW and Iris defeat an army of vegetable s that were trying to overthrow humanity . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Shadow " ) Huxley once tried to convince Jo Jones that in the early 70s she had had adventures with Iris and MIAOW instead of with the Third Doctor and UNIT . ( AUDIO : " Find and Replace " ) In 1973 , the Ministry awoke Harriet Dodd and sent an army of " women warriors " to kill all the peculiar being that lived in Wonderland . Iris initially tried to stop them from attacking Wonderland , but she ended up destroying the whole place in order to get a component which could get her bus working and let her escape Earth . With her bus working , Iris was able to leave Earth and end her period of heavy association with MIAOW . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) In 1976 , Iris obtained Vince Cosmos ' map of Martian souls for MIAOW in return for all of her work for MIAOW being removed from the organisation ' s database . Iris gave the map to Mida Slike and was given a memory crystal containing all the information that had been removed . ( PROSE : " Hang onto Yourself " ) In 1978 , when Geoff Love recorded an orchestral version of the Doctor Who theme , a high up at MIAOW suspected that he was putting subliminal messages into the reworking and sent Iris to investigate . Love was indeed up to something nefarious , and Iris put a stop to it . ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) In the 1980s , MIAOW got Iris to help stop Magda the Mermaid from triggering the meltdown of a nuclear power plant . MIAOW rehabilitated Magda and hired assigned her to their Darlington division . ( PROSE : " Enter Wildthyme " ) 21st century . In 2011 , Iris helped the Darlington branch recover alien artefacts that had fallen from the sky after a spaceship exploded above Earth . ( PROSE : " Enter Wildthyme " ) In 2015 , Iris made a deal with a group of aliens to hold a party on Iapetus and have MIAOW pay for it . She helped the aliens send a threatening message to MIAOW and then helped MIAOW " negotiate " with the aliens . MIAOW gave the aliens party decorations , a buffet table , a dozen crates of beer , and a karaoke machine . Iris took the supplies to Iapetus and partied with the aliens . ( PROSE : " Our Tune " ) Undated events . The emperor of dogworld hired Mida Slike and Alid Jag to prevent Princess Margaret from altering " The True History of Planets " . Jag and Slike both attended a 2074 conference on 20th century science fiction . Unaware that the other was a fellow MIAOW agent , they both attempted assassinate each other . Jag pretended to be crushed to death by the Doctor ' s TARDIS and Slike pretended to be killed by poodles . Slike and Jag both investigated Brenda Soobie in 1960 Las Vegas , where they encountered Fitz Kreiner and Flossie . Fitz and Flossie trapped Jag in the elevator of the Hotel Miramar . Slike captured Fitz , Flossie , Brenda , and Noël Coward and took them to dogworld in a helicopter . By the time Slike arrived on dogworld with her captives , the Eighth Doctor , Char , Anji Kapoor , and Fritter had already negated Margaret ' s changes to history . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) Panda went on a mission for MIAOW involving weather balloon s and a missing professor at a wildflower sanctuary and got sucked into the anti - matter universe . There , he encountered two other versions of himself from different points in time and met an insane queen that looked like a cross between Shirley Bassey and Darth Vader . After helping MIAOW stop Samantha , Iris Wildthyme asked Jenny Winterleaf to take in PAND - R as a MIAOW operative . MIAOW found reptile people at the Earth ' s core and Iris Wildthyme spent some time trying to convince MIAOW not to commit genocide . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Behind the scenes . Prior to " Bafflement and Devotion " , Iris was said to work for " the Ministry " in " Femme Fatale " and the charity story " Entertaining Mr . O " . While one could say that these references have been retroactively changed to refer to MIAOW , the Ministry of " Femme Fatale " ( and " Verdigris " ) is clearly intended to be the Ministry seen in .