2012 Publicly , 2012 was the year that the Summer Olympics were held in London and a year that the United States held a presidential election . ( TV : " Dalek " , " Fear Her " ) Secretly , however , in an underground bunker in Utah , 2012 was the year that the Ninth Doctor first learned that he was not the only survivor of the Last Great Time War . ( TV : " Dalek " ) According to one account , the United Kingdom had a king by this time . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) January - May . On 11 May , the movie " Dark Shadows " came out . ( TV : " The Angels Take Manhattan " ) June - September . In July , the Eighth Doctor , Fitz Kreiner and Compassion visited Wiltshire , England . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) On 27 July , the 2012 Summer Olympics opened in London during a period of unseasonably cold weather in the city , caused by an Isolus pod draining all the nearby heat . The Tenth Doctor , his TARDIS and people inside the Olympic Stadium were all among those placed inside drawings made by Chloe Webber , aided by an Isolus to give the stranded Isolus a family . Digging up the pod , Rose Tyler threw it into the Olympic Flame to heat it up , resulting in the Isolus releasing those it had kidnapped . Due to an injured runner during the torch relay route , the Olympic Flame was lit at the opening ceremonies by the Doctor , who appeared on international television . The morale of the Games allowed the Isolus to fly home . Afterward , the Doctor and Rose attended a neighbourhood celebration in London . By this time , the Torchwood Institute seemed to have been relatively well - known , enough that the Battle of Canary Wharf of several years earlier was now known as the " Battle of Torchwood " . ( TV : " Fear Her " ) The Fifth Doctor attempted to take Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka to the 2012 Olympics but the TARDIS instead materialised in London in 1982 . ( AUDIO : " The King of the Dead " ) Somewhere around the same time , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond met an athlete who was on the run from a Weeping Angel who was trying to steal the Olympic Flame in order to ruin the spirit of the Olympics , and ended up in the TARDIS . The Angel took the torch with the flame , but the Doctor destroyed the Angel with his screwdriver and received a gold medal for saving the Olympics . ( TV : " Good as Gold " ) Rory was sent back in time by the Weeping Angels to New York City in 1938 . After creating a paradox that destroyed the " battery farm " Winter Quay that year , he was sent back in time again from 2012 by a survivor of that event . Amy allowed the Angel to send her to Rory , and they " lived to death " together , forever separated from the Eleventh Doctor . ( TV : " The Angels Take Manhattan " ) October - December . The United States held its presidential election . Earlier in the year , Diana Goddard suggested that the Democratic candidate would win , indicating that she found Democrats " funny " . ( TV : " Dalek " ) In Utah , in an underground facility called the Vault , the " last Dalek " , nicknamed the Metaltron by its billionaire collector , Henry van Statten , used the DNA of the time traveller , Rose Tyler , to recover itself . Not having any orders from above , it killed most of the base , but hesistated once it approached Rose . Believing the humanity Rose had given it was " sickness " , it allowed itself to be destroyed . Afterward , Adam Mitchell accepted an invitation to join the Ninth Doctor and Rose on their travels . Van Statten was stripped of his power and was ordered to have his memory erased . ( TV : " Dalek " ) At some point after this incident , the Vault was sealed and a BBC Radio documentary crew did an investigative report on the creatures known as Dalek s . ( AUDIO : " The Dalek Conquests " ) The Ninth Doctor returned Adam Mitchell to his own time zone after expelling him from the TARDIS for sending information about future technology to his home era ; Adam immediately caused a panic in his household when an advanced biochip implant from the year 200 , 000 was revealed in his forehead . ( TV : " The Long Game " ) In December , the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited New Guinea . ( PROSE : " Conscription " ) Other events . Alistair Gryffen was born in Canada . ( TV : " Taphony and the Time Loop " ) The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble arrived in Hollywood and discovered alien entity Miss Hubble , who spent months draining the lifeforce out of everyone in Hollywood . The Doctor defeated Miss Hubble and made sure that Hollywood returned to its normal timelines . ( COMIC : " Nightmare on the Boulevard " ) A Cyberman Factory Ship landed in London and quickly began a takeover , powered by a fragment of an Eternity Clock . The Eleventh Doctor and River Song worked together to shut down the Cyber Factory and destroy the Cybermen . When they later travelled to the year 2106 , the remains of the Cyber Factory could still be seen . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) A Cyberman invasion that took place in 2012 was one of the events that inspired Sonny Robinson to create the comic " Time Surgeon " . ( COMIC : " Invasion of the Mindmorphs " ) The Doctor visited 2012 on at least one occasion during or prior to his sixth incarnation . ( AUDIO : " The Raincloud Man " ) Lord Barset led an expedition to Antarctica in the " Fortitude " , where they discovered Ice Warrior s . ( AUDIO : " Frozen Time " ) Janet McKay died on the Isle of Hoy , Orkney , Scotland . ( AUDIO : " The Revenants " ) The Fourth Doctor , Sarah Jane and Harry Sullivan visited Prague . The Doctor took part in a cooking contest against Drakos . ( PROSE : " The Dragons of Prague " ) Sewa Singh was born . ( PROSE : " Growing Higher " ) Peter Hinton ' s " The Greeks had a Play about It " was published . ( PROSE : " Theatre of War " ) Flip Jackson and Jared Ramon were married in London . ( AUDIO : " Quicksilver " ) The Sixth Doctor was invited to attend but did not . ( AUDIO : " The Widow ' s Assassin " , " Quicksilver " ) During the reception , Flip was taken to Vienna in 1948 by means of a time scoop . ( AUDIO : " Quicksilver " ) Carlos Esteban left 2012 with Iris Wildthyme to go on an adventure in 4281 . ( PROSE : " Iris at the V & A " ) The popular comic book " Time Surgeon " began . ( COMIC : " Invasion of the Mindmorphs " ) Other realities . In a universe where Melanie Bush never met the Sixth Doctor , Mel died of a brain tumour brought on by mobile phone radiation . ( AUDIO : " He Jests at Scars " )