1972 (releases)


 * 1 January - Day of the Daleks Episode 1 debuted on BBC1, launching season 9.
 * 8 January - Day of the Daleks Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 January - Day of the Daleks Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 January - Day of the Daleks Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 January - The Curse of Peladon Episode 1 debuted on BBC1.
 * 5 February - The Curse of Peladon Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 February - The Curse of Peladon Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 19 February - The Curse of Peladon Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 26 February - The Sea Devils Episode 1 debuted on BBC1.
 * 4 March - The Sea Devils Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.
 * 11 March - The Sea Devils Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 March - The Sea Devils Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 25 March - The Sea Devils Episode 5 debuted on BBC1.
 * 1 April - The Sea Devils Episode 6 debuted on BBC1.
 * 8 April - The Mutants Episode 1 debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 April - The Mutants Episode 2 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 nonfiction work about the series, and predated Dicks' 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 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 April - The Mutants Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 6 May - The Mutants Episode 5 debuted on BBC1.
 * 13 May - The Mutants Episode 6 debuted on BBC1.
 * 20 May - The Time Monster Episode 1 debuted on BBC1.
 * 27 May - The Time Monster Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.
 * 3 June - The Time Monster Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 10 June - The Time Monster Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 17 June - The Time Monster Episode 5 debuted on BBC1.
 * 24 June - The Time Monster Episode 6 debuted on BBC1, concluding the 9th season.
 * After missing the 1972 edition, World Distributors published Doctor Who Annual 1973.
 * "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.
 * 30 December - The Three Doctors Episode 1 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.