1941

The Second World War continued in 1941.

Events

January

• 1 - Professor Bernice Summerfield arrived on Guernsey in the English Channel. (AUDIO: Just War)
• 20 - Captain Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato met the real Captain Jack Harkness at the Kiss the Boys Goodbye Dance at the Ritz in Cardiff. Tosh sent a message to Torchwood Three in 2008 containing her half of the Rift Manipulator formula to bring her and Jack back. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)
  • The Ninth Doctor traced a Chula ambulance to London, thinking it a warship. He found a boy called Jamie, who had been partially resurrected by nanogenes. Jamie pursued the Doctor, Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness after Jack set off emergency protocols, releasing an army of people made to be just like Jamie searching for his mother. Nancy told Jamie that she was his mother, not his sister, after lying to him all his life. The nanogenes repaired Jamie and returned all the infected to normal. Jack began travelling in the TARDIS after the Doctor and Rose saved his life. (TV: The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances)
• 21 - Captain Jack Harkness was killed in aerial combat while protecting Cardiff from a bombing raid. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)
  • In London, another American Royal Air Force volunteer who was also named Captain Jack Harkness failed to report for duty and was never heard from again. (TV: Everything Changes)

March

• 1-6 - Professor Bernice Summerfield, stranded on Nazi-occupied Guernsey, uncovered a secret German weapon based on technology from the future. (AUDIO: Just War)

June

• 7 - Clyde Langer and George Woods evaded a group of Nazis after taking a piece of Chronosteel from them. Shortly afterward, Clyde returned to Ealing on 23 November 2010. George was inspired by Clyde to join the British Army. (TV: Lost in Time)

August

• 18 - Bilis Manger contacted Tilda Brennan and suggested she follow the instructions in File TW3/87/BM. (PROSE: The Twilight Streets)
• 22 - Jack Harkness returned to the Hub to find the personnel of Torchwood Three incapacitated by Tilda Brennan, shot dead when the Light gave up possession of her body. The Light used the diary of Gideon Tarry to take the body of Greg Bishop. (PROSE: The Twilight Streets)

December

• Reg Arwell's plane crashed, but later landed thanks to Madge. (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
• 24 - Madge Arwell and her children Cyril and Lily met the Doctor. Cyril found a Christmassy land with naturally growing Christmas trees. Lily and the Doctor followed him. Madge later followed as well. (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)

Unknown Dates

• The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond were summoned to the Cabinet War Rooms in London by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Doctor discovered Daleks working for Churchill. Increasingly frustrated by their charade as "soldiers", he shouted his name at them. This testimony unwittingly activated the Progenitor, awakening the New Dalek Paradigm, who killed the older Daleks. The new Daleks distracted the Doctor by arming their robot Bracewell with a bomb that would destroy the Earth. The Doctor saved the Earth, but the Daleks escaped. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)

Behind the scenes

January

• 11 - Actor Malcolm Terris was born.

February

• 17 - Actress Julia McKenzie was born.
• 24 - Actor David Gooderson was born.

March

• 13 - Actor Michael Walker was born.
• 26 - Scientist Richard Dawkins was born in Nairobi, Kenya.

April

• 9 - Actress Hannah Gordon was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 13 April - Actor Christopher Tranchell was born.

May

• 2 - Actor Paul Darrow was born.
• 13 - Actor Frank Jarvis was born.
• 18 - Actress Miriam Margolyes was born.
• 29 - Actor Mike Lucas was born.

July

• 8 - Actress Polly James was born.
• 10 - Actress Jackie Lane was born in Manchester, England.
• 15 - Incidental music composer Geoffrey Burgon was born.
• 28 - Actor Patrick Tull was born in Sussex, England.

August

• 4 - Actor Martin Jarvis was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
• Actor John Atterbury was born.

September

• 02 - Actress Kay Patrick was born.
• 23 - Film editor Colin Eggleston was born.

October

• 2 - Actor Sam Dastor was born in Bombay, India.
• 16 - Actor David Ashford was born.
• 20 - Actress Anneke Wills was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• 28 - Actor John Hallam was born.

November

• 8 - Actress Nerys Hughes was born.

December

• 2 - Actor Colin McCormack was born.
• 24 - Actor John Levene was born John Anthony Woods in Salisbury, England.