1942

Events

January

The German calendar for January 1942. (TVA: Timebenders)

• The Third Doctor encountered Nazis. (TVA: Timebenders)

November

• Reports of vampires emerged from Romania. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

December

• 24 December - Oskar Steinmann supervised the first test of a "flying bomb" at Peenemunde. (NA: Just War)

Unknown Date

• Ben Jackson was born in this year. (MA: Invasion of the Cat-People)
• Polly Wright was born in this year. (PDA: The Murder Game)
• Summer - In an alternate timeline, the allied leaders met in a secret bunker underneath Washington, D.C.. With no common enemy to fight, relations between the Soviets, Americans and British broke down. The centre of the debate was the Ironsides. Neither Stalin nor Truman were keen to allow such powerful weapons to be the property of the British Army alone, but the Ironsides' insistence that under no circumstances would they relocate from the United Kingdom left Churchill with no choice but to agree to their destruction. (DWAN: Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)

See also

• World War II

Behind the scenes

January

• 25 - John Owens, who played Thorpe in DW: The Dæmons, was born.

February

• 7 - Gareth Hunt (Arak in DW: Planet of the Spiders) was born.
• 14 - Michael E. Briant, who would direct several Doctor Who serials, was born.
• 16 - Patricia Maynard (Hilda Winters in DW: Robot and in audio productions) was born.
• 28 - Robin Phillips, who played Altos in DW: The Keys of Marinus, was born in Haslemere, Surrey, England.

March

• 6 - David Cleeve was born.
• 24 - Lynda Baron, who provided the singing narration for DW: The Gunfighters and played Wrack in DW: Enlightenment and Val in DW: Closing Time, was born in Manchester, England.
• 24 - Stephen Yardley was born.

April

• 8 - Lovett Bickford, who directed DW: The Leisure Hive, was born.
• 22 - Denis Lill was born.
• 28 - Ilona Rodgers, who played Carol Richmond in DW: The Sensorites, was born in Harrogate, England.

May

• 12 - Pam St. Clement was born.
• 12 - Royce Mills, who voiced Daleks in several Doctor Who serials, was born.
• 14 - Prentis Hancock, who would play several roles in Doctor Who, was born. was born.
• 15 - Paul Shelley, who played the Minister of Persuasion in DW: Four to Doomsday, and Jesten in BFA: The Whispering Forest, was born.
• 22 - Cavan Kendall (Achilles in DW: The Myth Makers) was born.

June

• 8 - Peter Grimwade, who wrote and directed for Doctor Who, was born.
• 11 - David Quilter (Greeves in DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp) was born.
• 18 - Paul McCartney, who appeared as himself as one of The Beatles in DW: The Chase, was born in Liverpool.
• 23 - James Marcus (a peasant in DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Rask in DW: Underworld) was born.

July

• 3 - Richard Kerley, who played a Cyberman in DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen and a Robot Yeti in DW: The Abominable Snowmen, was born.

August

• 05 - Derek Keller was born.
• 07 - Chloe Ashcroft (Laird in DW: Resurrection of the Daleks), was born.
• 16 - John Challis (Scorby in DW: The Seeds of Doom) was born.

November

• 29 - Michael Craze, who portrayed companion Ben Jackson, was born in Cornwall, England.

December

• 2 - John D. Collins (Talor in DW: Arc of Infinity) was born.
• 13 - Hamish Wilson, who played Jamie McCrimmon in part of DW: The Mind Robber, was born.
• 19 - Ian Talbot was born.
• 23 - Chubby Oates, who played a policeman in DW: Planet of the Spiders, was born.

Unknown date

• Carl Rigg was born.
• Max Harvey was born.