1972 (releases)


 * 1 January - Day of the Daleks Episode One debuted on BBC1, launching season 9. On the same day, TV Action released the seventh and final part of comic story The Eternal Present.
 * 8 January - Day of the Daleks Episode Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 January - Day of the Daleks Episode Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 January - Day of the Daleks Episode Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 January - The Curse of Peladon Episode One debuted on BBC1.
 * 5 February - The Curse of Peladon Episode Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 February - The Curse of Peladon Episode Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 19 February - The Curse of Peladon Episode Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 26 February - The Sea Devils Episode One debuted on BBC1.
 * 4 March - The Sea Devils Episode Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 11 March - The Sea Devils Episode Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 March - The Sea Devils Episode Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 25 March - The Sea Devils Episode Five debuted on BBC1.
 * 1 April - The Sea Devils Episode Six debuted on BBC1.
 * 8 April - The Mutants Episode One debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 April - The Mutants Episode Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 20 April - The first edition of The Making of Doctor Who was first published by Piccolo Books. Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, this was the first non-fiction work about the series, and predated Dicks's and Hulke's later contributions to the Target Books line. The book was later published in a revised edition by Target in 1976.
 * 22 April - The Mutants Episode Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 April - The Mutants Episode Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 6 May - The Mutants Episode Five debuted on BBC1.
 * 13 May - The Mutants Episode Six debuted on BBC1.
 * 20 May - The Time Monster Episode One debuted on BBC1.
 * 27 May - The Time Monster Episode Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 3 June - The Time Monster Episode Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 10 June - The Time Monster Episode Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 17 June - The Time Monster Episode Five debuted on BBC1.
 * 24 June - The Time Monster Episode Six debuted on BBC1, concluding the 9th season.
 * 1 July - Dr. Who and the Daleks was first shown on BBC1.
 * September - After missing the 1972 edition, World Distributors published Doctor Who Annual 1973.
 * 1 December - The BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition opened in Kensington.
 * 30 December - The Three Doctors Episode One debuted on BBC1, launching Doctor Who's tenth season. Both the First and Second Doctors returned for this story, which celebrated the tenth anniversary of Doctor Who. William Hartnell appeared only as an image on video screens due to the actor's ill-health at the time of recording.

Unknown dates

 * "Who is the Doctor?", a rock version of the Doctor Who theme with spoken lyrics performed by Jon Pertwee, was first released on Purple Records in the UK.
 * The 1972 Countdown Annual, featuring the stories The Plant Master and And Now for My Next Trick..., was released.