Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill ( short story ) Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill was a web short story published in the 2017 Adventure Calendar , featuring the First Doctor . Summary . In 1963 , the Doctor walks through the fog of Shoreditch towards Coal Hill School , when he gets the feeling of being followed by something snarling behind him , but attempts to shake it off . Arriving at the school , the Doctor bumps into a teacher , Shivani Bajwa , outside the staff room . He asks for the whereabouts of Susan and gets briefly confused when asked what year she is in . After being told that she has already left , the Doctor gets concerned about her walking through the fog , as it has been dry for days and should not be there . After simply telling Shivani to run , a man with a bloodied face sprints into the door behind them , with more following , desperately attempting to get into the school . The Doctor gets out a small device and locks the doors to keep the mysterious fog out , and after the crowd disperses , another teacher , Professor Gibson , appears in the hallway and stares at the door behind the Doctor and Shivani . A huge , grey - haired wolf appears outside the door as dozens more emerge out of the fog , lining up to attack the school . Some time later , the Third Doctor stands in the same corridor of Coal Hill School with Sarah Jane Smith , recalling the story to her while carrying a bunch of rose s . However , he does not mention who locked the doors during the attack , although Sarah quickly figures out it was him , leaving her aghast . The Doctor simply attempts to hide his face from her . Back in 1963 , the leader of the wolves attempts to attack the door , and Shivani personally nicknames it ' Red Fang ' after noticing its teeth . As the wolves charge at the doors together , the Doctor ' s device turns the doors stronger , and the Doctor , Shivani , and Gibson take their opportunity to escape to one of the science laboratories . As the Doctor performs some research in the ten minutes they have safe , Gibson says he wants to try and escape , although the Doctor quickly shoots down his ideas . The Doctor concludes that the fog is a type of sensor carrying out reconnaissance for the wolves , and wonders if it bears any relation to the name of ' Coal Hill ' . With no mining history in the area , the name could derive from ' col ' , meaning ' dying ember ' , and the wolves could be attracted to the area because of the dying embers of a war that happened centuries before . As Shivani realises that the wolves were not from Earth , Gibson begins violently coughing and begins transforming into a wolf . This shortly happens to Shivani as well , who declares that they shall feast . In another era , an older Sarah Jane Smith is hearing more of the story , being told by the Eleventh Doctor . She tries on one of his fez zes as he confirms that he has brought a bunch of roses with him , as usual . The Doctor tells her that when faced with Shivani , he simply did what she had already done to him , which confuses Sarah . Attempting to change the conversation , he lets Sarah give his fez as a present to Clyde . Back in the laboratory , the Doctor attempts to get through to Shivani by reminding her who she is , and getting her humanity back , just as she had done to him . Upon hearing this , Shivani eventually comes round to her human self and the two escape from the transformed Gibson . As they hear wolves following behind them , they quickly hide in a nearby small room as hundreds of wolves tear past , before vanishing in a second . However , when the two open the door , they are met by Red Fang staring at them . The Doctor attempts to use the ' potion ' he had made on Red Fang , and it initially appears affected , but simply howls for another group of wolves to run towards them . The Doctor and Shivani hide in the small room again as Shivani lowers a ladder from the ceiling into a loft that leads them to the school ' s rooftop garden . Up on the roof , Shivani attempts to calm herself from the impending attack by remembering when she travelled to Britain as a child with her parents , although the Doctor tells her that each person ' s future is shaped countless people they will never meet . The Doctor remembers a friend he had ' back home ' who he promised to visit every star with . With the two feeling calm , they face the wolves hand in hand . Shivani remembers her boat journey to Britain in the 1950s . A young Shivani tells her parents that she is slightly scared , while her father tells her that whenever she is scared , she should find a star and make a wish . Back at the school , Shivani does just that while holding the Doctor ' s hand , as the wolves mysteriously disappear . The Doctor reveals his ' potion ' simply took some time to affect the fog , where it convinced the fog to tell the wolves to leave . However , it came at the side - effect of killing all the school ' s flowers . The Doctor asks Shivani what her favourites were . In the 2010s , the Twelfth Doctor visits the flourishing rooftop garden with a bunch of roses as he exchanges a story about Davros with the now - married Shivani Singh . The Doctor finally asks the older Shivani what she did after he left fifty years ago . She says she phoned the police , who sent someone to check out the junkyard , and later thanked a supply teacher that was in that day for putting the ladder in the small room they were hiding in . Upon hearing the supply teacher was Scottish , the Doctor asks if she was wearing purple , but Shivani admits it was too long ago to even remember her name . As work begins to convert the school into an academy , the Doctor spots another figure carrying roses walking in , and quickly makes his getaway . In 1963 , shortly after the incident , Shivani chats to the supply teacher about the event just as she returns to the school . Shivani tells her that she never found out the name of the stranger that helped her , and he just called himself ' the Doctor ' . The supply teacher simply stares out of the window to the stars and asks ' Doctor who ? '