2012

Publicly, the year 2012 was the year the Summer Olympics were held in London and a year the United States held a presidential election. Secretly, however, in an underground bunker in Utah, 2012 was the year the Doctor first learned he was not the only survivor of the Last Great Time War.

Summer

• 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 a mishap along 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". (DW: Fear Her)
• 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. (DW: Good as Gold)

November

• 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". (DW: Dalek)

December

• 25 - Amy and Rory set a place for the Doctor at Christmas again; he did not show up. (DW: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)

Unknown dates

• 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. (DW: 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 Daleks. (BBCR: The Dalek Conquests)

As the 2012 US election is referenced as having not happened yet, this means these events occurred prior to November.

• 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. (DW: The Long Game)
• Alistair Gryffen was born. (K9TV: 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. (DWA: Nightmare on the Boulevard)
• A Cyberman Factor 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 traveled to the year 2106, the remains of the Cyber Factory could still be seen. (VG: The Eternity Clock)

Behind the scenes

NOTE: This section includes announced and surmised events in the future; dates, events, and titles are subject to change.

January

• BFA: The Curse of Davros was released.
• The Lost Stories: The Foe from the Future and The Valley of Death were released as a special double release.
• CC: The Anachronauts was released.
• The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Destination: Nerva was released. This was the first in a new series, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela.
• 1 - Fifth anniversary of the debut of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 1 - Bob Anderson, who played a fighting Guard in DW: The Enemy of the World, died.
• 3 - Jenny Tomasin died.
• 4 - Harry Fowler (Harry in DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) died.
• 9 - DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and DW: The Android Invasion were released on Region 2 DVD in the UNIT box set.
• 10 - DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and DW: The Android Invasion were released on Region 1 DVD in the UNIT box set.
• 16 - DW: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe was released on Region 2 DVD.
• 23 - DW: The Sensorites was released on Region 2 DVD.
• 30 - Frederick Treves, who played Brotadac in DW: Meglos, died.

February

• BFA: The Fourth Wall was released.
• The Lost Stories: Power Play was released.
• CC: The Selachian Gambit was released.
• The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Renaissance Man was released.
• 2 - QR: Magic of the Angels was released on Region 2 DVD.
• 2 - AG: Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes - Collection Four audio box set was released in the UK. This set contained audio tracks for several Second Doctor missing stories: The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones, Evil of the Daleks, The Abominable Snowmen and The Ice Warriors.
• 6 - SJA: The Complete Fifth Series of The Sarah Jane Adventures was released on Region 2 DVD.
• 13 - Revisitations 3 was released. It was a DVD set comprised of special editions of three stories: DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Three Doctors, and The Robots of Death. At this time, it was the final scheduled Revisitations release.
• 19 - Peter Halliday, who had appeared in twenty-three episodes of Doctor Who, died.
• 20 - Series 7 of Doctor Who began filming.
• 29 - Dennis Chinnery died.

March

• BFA: Wirrn Isle was released.
• The Lost Stories: The First Sontarans was released.
• CC: Binary was released.
• The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Wrath of the Iceni was scheduled for release.
• The fourth series of Jago and Litefoot was released, comprising Jago in Love, Beautiful Things, The Lonely Clock, and The Hourglass Killers.
• Stephen Jenn (Secker in DW: Nightmare of Eden) died.
• 5 - DW: The Face of Evil was released on Region 2 DVD.
• 5 - Philip Madoc (Solon in DW: The Brain of Morbius) died.
• 19 - DW: The Daemons was released on Region 2 DVD.

April

• BFA: The Emerald Tiger was released.
• CC: The Wanderer was released.
• BFA: Energy of the Daleks was released.
• 2 - DW: Nightmare of Eden was released on Region 2 DVD.
• 10 - Nick Webb died.
• 15 - Peter Wragg, a visual effects designer for Doctor Who, died.
• 25 - This was the 50th anniversary of the day that Donald Wilson received the programming report that ultimately led to the creation of Doctor Who.
• 27 - Zohra Sehgal became the series' first centenarian.
• 30 - George Murdock (a Preacher in TW: Dead of Night) died.

May

• BFA: The Jupiter Conjunction was released.
• CC: The Jigsaw War was released.
• The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Trail of the White Worm was released.
• The Lost Stories: The Guardians of Prophecy was released.
• 07 - DW: Dragonfire and The Happiness Patrol were released on DVD, together as the Ace Adventures box set.

June

• BFA: The Butcher of Brisbane was released.
• CC: The Rings of Ikiria was released.
• The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Oseidon Adventure was released, ending the first season of this audio series.
• The Lost Stories: Power Play was released.
• 5 - Caroline John (companion Liz Shaw) died.
• 18 - DW: Death to the Daleks was released on Region 2 DVD.

July

• BFA: Protect and Survive was released, featuring the return of former audio-only companion Hex.
• CC: The Time Museum scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: The First Sontarans was released.
• 2 - DW: The Krotons first released on Region 2 DVD.
• 27 - Scheduled launch of the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games, which had been featured 6 years earlier in DW: Fear Her.
• 30 - DW: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD, completing the DVD release of Seventh Doctor stories.

August

• BFA: Black and White scheduled for release
• CC: The Uncertainty Principle scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: The Masters of Luxor scheduled for release.
• A new series of audio dramas featuring Iris Wildthyme scheduled for release.
• 2 - AG: Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes - Collection Five scheduled for release. This is the final collection of CDs containing the remastered, narrated audio of several classic series missing episodes. This volume contains the Second Doctor stories The Enemy of the World, The Web of Fear, Fury from the Deep, The Wheel in Space, The Invasion, and The Space Pirates.
• 20 - DW: Planet of Giants scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD.

September

• BFA: Gods and Monsters scheduled for release.
• BFA: The Burning Prince scheduled for release.
• CC: Project: Nirvana scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: The Rosemariners scheduled for release.
• Anticipated premiere of the seventh series of Doctor Who, which will air through to 2013.
• 10 - DW: Vengeance on Varos scheduled for re-release on DVD as a special edition. Despite being one of the series' first DVD releases, the serial had not been included in the original series of re-releases, Revisitations, but was given a special release due to fan support.

October

• BFA: The Acheron Prince scheduled for release.
• CC: The Last Post scheduled for release.
• 01 - DW: The Ambassadors of Death (TV story) scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD, after a lengthy period of restoration.
• 22 - DW: The Claws of Axos Special Edition scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD.

November

• BFA: The Shadow Heart scheduled for release.
• CC: Return of the Rocket Men scheduled for release.

Unknown dates

• DW: The Reign of Terror scheduled for release on DVD, with the missing episodes recreated through animation.
• DW: Shada to have its extant material released on DVD in an unknown format, as part of a box set - The Legacy - that will also include the documentary More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS.