1937

1937 saw the Eighth Doctor, Anji Kapoor and Fitz Kreiner visit Spain in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Anji and the Doctor stayed in Barcelona and became involved with a group of anarchists. Fitz visited Guernica, Spain and witnessed the town's destruction at the hands of the Luftwaffe, the first real case of total war.

The Doctor identified the Absolute as the cause of disruptions in history and stopped him from causing any more problems. (PROSE: History 101)

Elsewhere, the Ninth Doctor attended George VI's coronation. (WEB: Who is Doctor Who?)

Nancy gave birth to Jamie. Being an unwed teenaged mother, she pretended that Jamie was her little brother. (TV: The Doctor Dances)

Behind the scenes

January

• 16 - David Arlen (a warrior guard in TV: The Mutants) was born.
• 28 - John Normington (Morgus in TV: The Caves of Androzani, Trevor Sigma in TV: The Happiness Patrol and Tom Flanagan in TV: Ghost Machine) was born.
• 31 - Davyd Harries (Shapp in TV: The Armageddon Factor) was born.

March

• 2 - Henry Stamper (Anton in TV: The Enemy of the World) was born.
• 16 - Ben Aris (Shears in TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs) was born.
• 16 - Peter Rutherford (Roth in TV: The Sontaran Experiment) was born.
• 17 - Michael Napier-Brown (Arturo Villar in the Doctor Who serial The War Games) was born.
• 19 - Maurice Roëves (Stotz in TV: The Caves of Androzani) was born.

April

• 3 - William Gaunt (Orcini in TV: Revelation of the Daleks) was born.
• 6 - Katie Cashfield, who portrayed a Thal in TV: The Daleks, was born in London.
• 6 - Terrence Hardiman (Hawthorne in TV: The Beast Below) was born.
• 14 - Brian Cullingford was born.
• 26 - Gareth Gwenlan (Doctor Who production assistant and assistant floor manager) was born.

May

• 1 - Una Stubbs (Flo in AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock) was born.
• 5 - Delia Derbyshire, music arranger for the original title theme and early stories of Doctor Who, was born in Coventry, West Midlands.
• 15 - Darrol Blake, who would direct TV: The Stones of Blood, was born.
• 26 - Derrick Gilbert was born.

June

• 14 - Michael Ferguson was born.
• 16 - Michael Kilgarriff was born.
• 22 - Richard Hampton was born.

July

• 21 - Brian Ellis, who played a prisoner in TV: The Sontaran Experiment and a brother in TV: The Masque of Mandragora, was born.
• 22 - Adrienne Hill, who played companion Katarina, was born.

August

• 1 - Ian Hogg (Josiah Samuel Smith in TV: Ghost Light) was born.
• 3 - Steven Berkoff (The Shakri in TV: The Power of Three) was born.
• 6 - Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell in TV: Army of Ghosts) was born.

September

• 16 - Bella Emberg was born.
• 22 - Tony Caunter, who appeared several times on Doctor Who, was born in Southampton.
• 28 - Donald Gee (Major Ian Warne in TV: The Space Pirates and Eckersley in TV: The Monster of Peladon) was born.

October

• 9 - Fiona Cumming was born.
• 29 - Hugh Futcher (Hickman in TV: The Sea Devils) was born.

November

• 21 - Ingrid Pitt (Galleia in TV: The Time Monster and Solow in TV: Warriors of the Deep) was born.

December

• 1937 - Kenneth Colley (Cristophe Zarodnix in AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius) was born.
• 10 - Keith James was born.
• 18 - Derrick Slater (a Security Guard in TV: The Seeds of Death) was born.
• 21 - Sheila Reid (Etta in TV: Vengeance on Varos) was born.