1972 1972 was the year that the Alliance of Shades was disbanded . ( TV : " Dreamland " ) The Twelfth Doctor ( COMIC : " The Pestilent Heart " et al ) and , according to some accounts , the Third Doctor were both stuck on Earth in this year . ( PROSE : " Island of Death " , " Countdown to TV Action " et al ) Dated events . On 16 April , Caroline Hall was born . ( TV : " Adrift " ) On 1 May , Iris Wildthyme worked with MIAOW to stop a coven of witch es from summoning the devil in Hobbe ' s End . Afterwards , they celebrated by throwing a May Day party with many of Iris ' friends . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) On 25 May , Joseph Serf was born in Dayton , Ohio . ( TV : " The Man Who Never Was " ) On 4 July , UNIT bought the Tunguska Scroll from a private collector and placed it within the Black Archive . ( TV : " Enemy of the Bane " ) On 22 July in Los Angeles , a young woman named Lori was able to extract deadly revenge against criminal s who had killed a friend of hers . She was called Ini - Ma by a shadowy figure who indicated that he would later collect on a debt which she now owed him . ( PROSE : " Instruments of Darkness " ) On 5 October , Alice Devlin was born . ( TV : " Adrift " ) On 14 December , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe encountered the crew of Apollo 17 and a Varani on the surface of the Moon . ( PROSE : " Christmas on the Moon " ) On 23 December , the Twelfth Doctor helped Jess Collins deliver Christmas card s to various friends of the Collins family , including their neighbour Walter . Some time before 24 December , Walter suffered a mental breakdown over the anniversary of the death of his mother Carmen . He imagined he was being attacked by comic book character Obadiah Grimm . On 24 December , the Twelfth Doctor , Jess , and Devina Collins broke into his house and helped him calm down . They then called an ambulance to take Walter to the hospital . On 25 December , a neighbourhood Christmas breakfast was hosted by the Collins family in their backyard . ( COMIC : " Be Forgot " ) Unknown dates . Ocean Waters had her memories erased by the Men in Black after she discovered the vault in St Jude ' s Hospital . ( TV : " The Vault of Secrets " ) War criminal Oskar Steinmann died of spine cancer . ( PROSE : " Just War " ) According to one account , ( COMIC : " Clara Oswald and the School of Death " ) escaped from his prison on Fortress Island by hypnotising the staff and awakening a local colony of Sea Devil s . Under the Master ' s influence the Sea Devils decided to go to war with humanity , providing a distraction while the Master escaped . The Third Doctor and Jo Grant stopped the Sea Devils , but didn ' t capture the Master . ( TV : " The Sea Devils " ) The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald encountered the Corvid s in Highgate . ( COMIC : " The Highgate Horror " ) A lock - in occurred in Berlin which Iris Wildthyme and Clockwork Panda were invited to . ( PROSE : " Flasket Brinner and the Clockwork Heart " ) Sazali Sabudin published his book " " ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Other timelines . In an aborted timeline where Kotris allied with the Dalek s , ( AUDIO : " X and the Daleks " ) the Eighth Doctor and Molly O ' Sullivan visited 107 Baker Street and encountered the Ides Scientific Institute . Dr Sally Armstrong followed instructions given to her for when the Doctor arrived and activated a time machine which brought the Daleks to 1972 . The Doctor and Molly ran from the Daleks and escaped in their TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " Fugitives " ) In an aborted timeline where WOTAN was not defeated by the First Doctor , Louise Bamford , a test subject in a 2006 time travel experiment , arrived in Whitechapel on 18 October . However , the trip was a one way journey and Bamford became stuck in 1972 . In a timeline branching off of the one where WOTAN ' s attack was successful , the First Doctor , Ian Chesterton , Barbara Wright , and Susan Foreman came to 1972 with Griffiths to get back their TARDIS after it was sent back in time by the 2006 time experiments . With the help of a version of Ian from an alternate timeline , they got it out of the River Thames and continued with their travels . ( PROSE : " The Time Travellers " )