1974 1974 was the year that Liam McShane , the younger brother of Dorothy Gale " Ace " McShane , was born . ( AUDIO : " The Rapture " ) Celebrities active during this year included David Bowie and the Tomorrow Twins . The song Children of Tomorrow was popular , making into the " Top of the Pops " . ( AUDIO : " Horror of Glam Rock " ) Evelyn Smythe later recalled that the class she taught in 1974 were a particularly difficult bunch . ( AUDIO : " The Marian Conspiracy " ) According to some accounts , the Third Doctor ' s exile on Earth had ended by this year , but he still frequently visited Earth and worked with UNIT . ( COMIC : " Doomcloud " , AUDIO : " Urgent Calls " , TV : " Death of the Doctor " et al ) Sarah Jane Smith ' s UNIT pass was dated 1974 . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) Dated events . January - February . Early in the year , England was affected by an " international spat " over crude oil . A struggle ensued between the unions and the government and power cuts were common . The government imposed a state of emergency and businesses were recommended to operate on a 3 - day week . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of the Fugue " ) Due to the increased oil prices , the SS Bermuda was taken out of commission . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) One night in the winter , during a time when power cuts were regular , the Only One s came to Earth with the intention of eating humans . They had been in contact with the glam rocker Tommy Tomorrow for some time before this and planned on eating his teenage fans . The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller landed near the Nadir Motorway Service Station at the same time that Tommy , his sister Trisha , and his manager Arnold Korns were passing by the station . The Only Ones also landed on Earth near the service station and cornered the Doctor , Lucie , Tommy , Trisha , and Arnold in the service station with two waitresses named Flo and Pat Ryder . Over the course of the night , Trisha was killed when she went outside the service station and Lucie discovered that Pat was her aunt . The Doctor defeated the Only Ones by trapping them in Lucie ' s MP3 player and then left with Lucie . Shortly afterwards , the Headhunter came to the Service Station looking for Lucie . ( AUDIO : " Horror of Glam Rock " ) On a cold day in February , the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller came to England ' s southwest peninsula searching for a piece of Mandilus alloy which had been on Earth since World War II . For two weeks , Lucie worked at Elms Rest Home while the Doctor searched for the alloy . The Doctor eventually tracked one half of the alloy back to the rest home to the room of ex - spy Cecile Charmers . The Doctor , Lucie , and Cecile discovered that one of the other carers at the rest home was Matthew Ricas , the son of a traitorous soldier that had stolen the other half of the alloy . With the two halves of the alloy reunited , one in Matthew ' s pocket and the other disguised as Cecile ' s perfume , the Doctor took the alloy back to his TARDIS and disposed of it . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of the Fugue " ) March - June . In the spring , ( AUDIO : " Council of War " , PROSE : " The Enfolded Time " , " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Charles Grover and Professor Whitaker put the final stages of Operation Golden Age into motion . Using Whitaker ' s Time Scoop , dinosaur s were brought from the past to Central London . The city was evacuated and the British Army and UNIT based themselves in the city to combat the dinosaurs . ( TV : " Invasion of the Dinosaurs " ) Iris Wildthyme and Panda both came to London in this time and encountered a Stegosaurus . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrived in London and were arrested by the army after an encounter with a looter . After escaping , the Doctor and Sarah were separated . While the Doctor worked with UNIT to find the where the dinosaurs were coming from , Sarah was captured and taken to a bunker disguised as a spaceship which was home to hundreds of people who had been selected by Grover and Whitaker to be the new founders of human society . Whitaker planned to use his machine to turn back time everywhere except London and start the human race anew , but his plans were stopped when the Doctor , Lethbridge - Stewart , and John Benton found his base and tampered with his time machinery . When Whitaker tried to turn back the clock , he only brought himself and Grover to the past . After this , Mike Yates , who had been working with Whitaker , resigned and the Doctor and Sarah left Earth for Florana . ( TV : " Invasion of the Dinosaurs " ) While the Doctor and Sarah were away from Earth , the Remoraxian s began their invasion of the planet by taking over the UNIT Nautical Research Facility . When Lethbridge - Stewart visited the facility , a Remoraxian went into his mouth and took control of his mind . Using the Brigadier , the Remoraxians took control of several other important military figures across the globe . With Earth ' s military under their control , the Remoraxians began changing Earth to suit their needs by flooding it with countless storms . After discovering that the Brigadier wasn ' t himself , Liz Shaw called the Doctor and Sarah to Earth to help with the situation . The Doctor made a de - remorator and cured the Brigadier . Learning that the Remoraxians had based themselves in the nautical research facility , the Doctor , Liz , Sarah , and Alistair went to the coast in Bessie and encountered the CIA agent Paul . The Doctor and Sarah went to the facility in the Whomobile while everyone else took boats . After the Doctor and Alistair failed to successfully negotiate with the Remoraxian Prime , Paul contacted the CIA and told them that a more violent method was needed to deal with the Remoraxians : a nuclear bomb . After receiving authorisation from President Richard Nixon , planes carrying a nuclear bomb were sent to eradicate Great Britain to save the world from drowning . Having only 29 minutes before the country would be destroyed , the Doctor and Alistair returned to the Remoraxian Prime and notified it of the situation . Not wanting to die , the Remoraxians promptly left and the bombers were called off . Shortly after the Remoraxians left , Adam Mitchell arrived in the nautical facility using a vortex manipulator and kidnapped Liz , Sarah , and Alistair . ( COMIC : " In With the Tide " ) The Eleventh Doctor visited the facility after the Third Doctor left and briefly talked with Paul . ( COMIC : " The Choice " ) In March , ( TV : " Robot " ) the Eight Legs came to Earth to get back the Metebelis crystal which the Doctor had given to Jo Jones as a wedding present the previous year . Jo had mailed the crystal back to Doctor after experiencing some of its effects and it was stolen from UNIT headquarters by Lupton , who was working for the Eight Legs . Sarah investigated the meditation centre that Lupton was living at and discovered a space - time portal to Eight Legs ' homeplanet Metebelis III , where she was taken over by the Queen Spider . The Doctor used his TARDIS to follow Sarah to Metebelis III and they both returned to 1974 . The Queen Spider attempted to get the crystal by controlling Sarah , but the Doctor used it to free Sarah from the spider ' s control . Realising that the Eight Legs would continue to attack as long as the crystal was on Earth , the Doctor took it to the Great One on Metebelis III and was hit by a lethal dose of radiation . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) On 3 April , ( TV : " Robot " ) the Third Doctor returned to Earth after ten years of wandering through the vortex dying of radiation . ( PROSE : " Love and War " ) At UNIT headquarters , he regenerated into the Fourth Doctor near Alistair , Sarah , and K ' anpo Rimpoche . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) The Doctor was taken to the sick bay by Harry Sullivan and he stayed unconscious for the rest of the day . That night , K1 stormed the Ministry of Defence and stole schematics for a disintegrator gun . On 4 April , the Doctor woke up and chose a new outfit to wear . K1 attacked another scientific facility and stole components for the control circuitry of a disintergrator gun . While the Doctor , Alistair , and Harry investigated the break - in , Sarah investigated the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research . The Doctor guessed that Emmett ' s Electronics would also be stolen and had UNIT try to protect it , but K1 tunnelled underneath the soldiers and stole a focusing generator . After K1 returned to the Think Tank , Sarah went into a restricted area and discovered K1 . After Sarah returned to UNIT HQ and told the Doctor about K1 , the robot followed instructions given to it by Hilda Winters and killed Joseph Chambers to steal the codes for nuclear missiles . On 5 April , Jeremiah Kettlewell tried to have K1 kill the Doctor , but Sarah and Benton saved the Doctor . Sarah then followed Kettlewell to a meeting of the Scientific Reform Society and was captured by them . The Doctor and UNIT tried to rescue Sarah , but both she and Harry were used as hostages . From a bunker , the society threatened the planet ' s major powers with nuclear war , but Kettlewell could not actually follow through with this plan and he died letting UNIT into the bunker . Nuclear war was averted and those involved were arrested , but K1 became distressed over the death of its creator . Alistair tried to destroy the robot with the assembled disintergrator gun , but all he did was provide it with energy to grow to a large size . However , this was quickly reversed by the Doctor , who poured a metal virus on K1 which dissolved it . Shortly afterwards , the Doctor , Sarah , and Harry left in the TARDIS . ( TV : " Robot " ) July - December . On 8 July , Princess Hentopet ' s Art was opened in London by Hentopet and Sheeq to try to attract the attention of an alien who could end their centuries old curse . In actuality , they were being manipulated by Bubastion , who wanted an alien that the Pantheon could use as a sacrificial lamb to save the universe . Sometime before 5 September , the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones visited London and encountered an outdoor exhibition of sand statues from Princess Hentopet ' s Art . They ran into Sheeq , who gave them free tickets to the art gallery . At the gallery , they learned that all the statues were actually real people who had been turned into sand by Hentopet and Sheeq . After he turned Martha , Hentopet , and Sheeq into statues , Bubastion talked with the Doctor to affirm he would be gullible enough to be manipulated . After the Doctor " negotiated " with Bubastion , Bubastion turned all the statues back into people and promptly disappeared . ( COMIC : " Agent Provocateur " ) On 25 November , the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald visited the Caliburn House , and helped Professor Alec Palmer and Emma Grayling locate the ghost that haunted the building , who was actually a human time travel ler named Hila Tacorien . Using Emma ' s psychic power s , the Doctor crossed a wormhole to get to the pocket universe in which Hila was trapped , bringing her back to N - Space . He later retrieved the Crooked Man from the pocket universe as well , reuniting him with his mate . The day was also notable as the start of the relationship between Alec and Emma , who would later give birth to Hila , their great - great - great - great - great - granddaughter . ( TV : " Hide " ) In December , the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown saved a monk named Hu Cheung from a Triad gang in Kowloon , Hong Kong . ( PROSE : " Exclave " ) On 24 and 25 December , Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin . Faction Paradox imprisoned Tonton Macoute in a time loop in the eye of Tracy . This did not last forever , as Macoute escaped after eating the corpses of an Enemy and two timeships during a visit from Cousin Andraiz . ( PROSE : " Tonton Macoute " ) Undated events . Reginald Tyler died , still working obsessively on revisions to his " The True History of Planets " . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) A Viyran virus which gave good luck with phone calls affected England . The virus made Lauren Hudson accidentally call the Sixth Doctor , who recognised that Lauren was being killed by an alien parasite . Lauren went to the hospital and her life was saved . A couple weeks later , Lauren called the Doctor again and was able to thank him . Later , Lauren accidentally phoned a radio show that was having a contest and won a free holiday for two to Marbella using knowledge from her previous talk with the Doctor . While this happened , the Doctor tracked the virus to its source . He was briefly stopped when he was arrested for trespassing and taken to the Greenstreet Police Station , but Lauren used her prize money to hire the Doctor a solicitor . After this , the Doctor was able to triangulate the virus to its source and eliminate it . ( AUDIO : " Urgent Calls " ) After sailing down the Amazon " for months " , Jo Grant and Cliff Jones arrived in a " village in Crystaluna " and she called UNIT to say hello to the Doctor , but was told that he had " left UNIT and never came back . " ( TV : " Death of the Doctor " ) Sherman Pegg was born . ( AUDIO : " The Way Forwards " ) Melanie Gough was killed by Mary . ( TV : " Greeks Bearing Gifts " ) Behind the scenes . According to on - screen production notes for the DVD release of " The Time Warrior " , a line was struck from the script during Jingo Linx ' s interrogation of Sarah Jane Smith in which she would have explicitly stated her year of origin as 1974 .