'''1942''' was a [[year]]. [[World War II]] was being fought on [[Earth]].
== Events ==
== Events ==
=== [[January]] ===
=== Dated ===
[[File:Janvier.jpg|thumb|left|The [[German]] calendar for [[January]] [[1942]]. ([[TVA]]: ''[[Timebenders]]'')]]
In [[January]], the [[Third Doctor]] encountered several [[Nazi]] soldiers in [[France]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Timebenders (comic story)}})
* The [[Third Doctor]] encountered [[Nazi]]s. ([[TVA]]: ''[[Timebenders]]'')
=== [[November]] ===
On [[15 January]], [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] arrived on the [[SS Batavia|SS ''Batavia'']]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)}})
* Reports of [[vampire]]s emerged from [[Romania]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
=== [[December]] ===
On [[28 July]], the [[American Federation of Musicians]]' recording ban first started, banning [[America]]n artists from recording music. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Atom Bomb Blues (novel)}})
* [[24 December]] - [[Oskar Steinmann]] supervised the first test of a "flying bomb" at [[Peenemunde]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'')
=== Unknown Date ===
On [[24 December]], [[Oskar Steinmann]] supervised the first test of a "flying bomb" at [[Peenemünde]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Just War (novel)}})
* [[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 [[Soviet Union|Soviets]], [[American]]s and [[British]] broke down. The centre of the debate was the [[Ironside Project|Ironsides]]. Neither [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] nor [[Harry S. Truman|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 ====
=== Undated ===
* [[World War II]]
[[File:Janvier.jpg|thumb|left|The [[German]] calendar for [[January]] 1942. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Timebenders (comic story)}})]]
Reports of [[vampire]]s emerged from [[Romania]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}})
== Behind the scenes ==
The [[United Kingdom|British]] conducted a raid into occupied France. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Survival (novelisation)}})
=== [[January]] ===
* [[25 January|25]] - [[John Owens]], who played [[Thorpe]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'', was born.
=== [[February]] ===
[[The Doctor]] visited the [[labyrinth]] under [[Buda Castle]], which was being used as a military [[hospital]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (audio story)}})
* [[7 February|7]] - [[Gareth Hunt]] ([[Arak]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') was born.
* [[14 February|14]] - [[Michael E. Briant]] was born.
* [[16 February|16]] - [[Patricia Maynard]] was born.
* [[28 February|28]] - [[Robin Phillips]], who played [[Altos]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus]]'', was born in [[Wikipedia:Haslemere|Haslemere]], [[Surrey]], [[England]].
=== [[March]] ===
== Births and deaths ==
* [[6 March|6]] - [[David Cleeve]] was born.
[[Ben Jackson]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)}}) and [[Polly Wright]] were born this year, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Murder Game (novel)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Resistance (audio story)}}) as was [[Anthony Chambers]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
* [[24 March|24]] - [[Lynda Baron]], who provided the singing narration for [[DW]]: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'' and played [[Wrack]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'' and [[Val (Closing Time)|Val]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]],'' was born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
* 24 - [[Stephen Yardley]] was born.
=== [[April]] ===
[[Gerald Kneale]] died, becoming one of the few [[Torchwood Institute]] operatives not to be killed on active service. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Rift War! (comic story)|part=Six: Circles}})
* [[8 April|8]] - [[Lovett Bickford]], who directed ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'', was born.
* [[22 April|22]] - [[Denis Lill]] was born.
* [[28 April|28]] - [[Ilona Rodgers]], who played [[Carol Richmond]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sensorites]]'', was born in [[Harrogate]], [[England]].
=== [[May]] ===
== Other ==
* [[12 May|12]] - [[Pam St. Clement]] was born.
One of the believed causes of the [[Time Fracture]] was a bomb or something more sinister detonating during [[the Blitz]] in 1942. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Tia Kofi Enters the Time Fracture! (webcast)}})
* 12 - [[Royce Mills]], who voiced [[Dalek]]s in several ''Doctor Who'' serials, was born.
* [[14 May|14]] - [[Prentis Hancock]] was born.
* [[15 May|15]] - [[Paul Shelley]], who played the [[Minister of Persuasion]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'', and [[Jesten]] in [[BFA]]: ''[[The Whispering Forest]]'', was born.
* [[22 May|22]] - [[Cavan Kendall]] was born.
=== [[June]] ===
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* [[8 June|8]] - [[Peter Grimwade]], who wrote and directed for ''Doctor Who'', was born.
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* [[18 June|18]] - [[Wikipedia:Paul McCartney|Paul McCartney]], who appeared as himself as one of [[The Beatles]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'', was born in [[Liverpool]].
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* [[23 June|23]] - [[James Marcus]] (a peasant in [[DW]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'' and [[Rask]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Underworld]]'') was born.
* [[3 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]] ===
* [[5 August|05]] - [[Derek Keller]] was born.
* [[7 August|07]] - [[Chloe Ashcroft]] ([[Laird]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]''), was born.
* [[16 August|16]] - [[John Challis]] was born.
=== [[November]] ===
* [[29 November|29]] - [[Michael Craze]], who portrayed [[companion]] [[Ben Jackson]], was born in [[Cornwall]], [[England]].
=== [[December]] ===
* [[2 December|2]] - [[John D. Collins]] was born.
* [[13 December|13]] - [[Hamish Wilson]], who played [[Jamie McCrimmon]] in part of [[DW]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]'', was born.
* [[17 December|19]] - [[Ian Talbot]] was born.
* [[23 December|23]] - [[Chubby Oates]], who played a [[police|policeman]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', was born.
