1923

Events

November

• 9 - The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in Munich just as the Beer Hall Putsch concluded. Adolf Hitler and other members of the Kampfbund had been driven away from the War Office by soldiers. To Ace's surprise, the Doctor told Hitler that he must not give up and would one day rule Germany. Hastily explaining his actions were necessary to ensure that Earth history ran its proper course, the Doctor ushered Ace back to the TARDIS, where they were fired upon with an energy weapon, a sign that a non-contemporaneous person had been manipulating the past. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Date unknown

• Botanist George Cranleigh was believed to have been killed by hostile Indians while on an expedition in the Amazon. In fact, he was mutilated and had his tongue cut out. Returning to England alive, he was kept a prisoner by his mother Lady Madge Cranleigh and his brother Charles Cranleigh in Cranleigh Hall in Oxfordshire. (TV: Black Orchid)
• A British archaeological survey of Rome by Professor Livesy-Smythe turned up a scroll by Caecilius. It detailed the true fate of Pompeii. The Torchwood Institute, which was monitoring the survey, was first alerted to the existence of the Pyroviles. (WC: Captain Jack's Monster Files)

Behind the scenes

January

• 13 - Jack Watling (Edward Travers in TV: The Abominable Snowmen and TV The Web of Fear) was born.

March

• 11 - Terence Alexander (Ravensworth in TV: The Mark of the Rani) was born.
• 13 - George Pastell (Eric Klieg in TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen) was born.
• 21 - Peter Pratt, who played the Master in TV: The Deadly Assassin, was born.

April

• 6 - Michael Rathborne, who played a taxi driver in TV: War Machines, was born.
• 22 - Hugh Lloyd (Goronwy in TV: Delta and the Bannermen) was born.
• 25 - Paul Whitsun-Jones, who played the Squire in TV: The Smugglers and the Marshal in TV: The Mutants, was born in Newport, Wales.

May

• 4 - Godfrey Quigley (Dortmun in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.) was born.

June

• 9 - Donald Morley (Jules Renan in TV: The Reign of Terror) was born.

July

• 20 - James Bree (the Security Chief in TV: The War Games, Nefred in TV: Full Circle and the Keeper of the Matrix in TV: The Ultimate Foe) was born.

October

• 10 - Nicholas Parsons (Wainwright in TV: The Curse of Fenris) was born.
• 13 - Cyril Shaps, who appeared in the Doctor Who stories The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death, Planet of the Spiders and The Androids of Tara, was born.
• 27 - Peter Bryant, Doctor Who producer and script editor, was born.

November

• 7 - Derek Francis, who played Nero in TV: The Romans, was born in Brighton.

December

• 19 - Elwyn Jones (co-writer of TV: The Highlanders) was born.