1972

Unknown dates

 * Oskar Steinmann dies. (NA: Just War)
 * Noel Coward dies, an event he knew the date of due to his status as a time traveller. (EDA: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)

January

 * 01 - Day of the Daleks Episode 1 First Broadcast


 * 08 - Day of the Daleks Episode 2 First Broadcast


 * 15 - Day of the Daleks Episode 3 First Broadcast


 * 22 - Day of the Daleks Episode 4 First Broadcast


 * 29 - The Curse of Peladon Episode 1 First Broadcast

February

 * 05 - The Curse of Peladon Episode 2 First Broadcast


 * 12 - The Curse of Peladon Episode 3 First Broadcast


 * 19 - The Curse of Peladon Episode 4 First Broadcast


 * 26 - The Sea Devils Episode 1 First Broadcast

March

 * 04 - The Sea Devils Episode 2 First Broadcast


 * 11 - The Sea Devils Episode 3 First Broadcast


 * 18 - The Sea Devils Episode 4 First Broadcast


 * 25 - The Sea Devils Episode 5 First Broadcast

April

 * 01 - The Sea Devils Episode 6 First Broadcast


 * 08 - The Mutants Episode 1 First Broadcast


 * 15 - The Mutants Episode 2 First Broadcast


 * 22 - The Mutants Episode 3 First Broadcast


 * 29 - The Mutants Episode 4 First Broadcast

May

 * 06 - The Mutants Episode 5 First Broadcast


 * 13 - The Mutants Episode 6 First Broadcast


 * 20 - The Time Monster Episode 1 First Broadcast


 * 27 - The Time Monster Episode 2 First Broadcast

June

 * 03 - The Time Monster Episode 3 First Broadcast


 * 10 - The Time Monster Episode 4 First Broadcast


 * 17 - The Time Monster Episode 5 First Broadcast


 * 24 - The Time Monster Episode 6 First Broadcast

September

 * After missing the 1972 edition, World Distributors publishes Doctor Who Annual 1973. Beginning this year each book includes the year in the title (always the next year after publication).

October

 * 4 - Colin Gordon, who played the Commandant in The Faceless Ones, dies in Haslemere.


 * 22 - Jack Melford, who played King Menelaus in The Myth Makers, dies in Poole, England.

December

 * 30 - First broadcast of The Three Doctors Episode 1. Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor and (in a much-reduced role) William Hartnell as the First Doctor returned for this story celebrating the tenth anniversary of Doctor Who, which first aired in 1963.

Unknown dates

 * The first edition of The Making of Doctor Who first published by Piccolo Books. Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, this is the first nonfiction work about the series, and predates Dicks and Hulke's later contributions to the Target Books line. The book is later published in a revised edition by Target in 1976.


 * Shaun Dingwall, who plays Pete Tyler in Series 1 and 2 of the revived Doctor Who is born in London.