1942

Events

January

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

• The Third Doctor encountered several Nazi soldiers in France. (COMIC: Timebenders)

November

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

December

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

Unknown Dates

• Gerald Kneale died, becoming one of the few Torchwood Institute operatives not to be killed on active service. (COMIC: Rift War! Part Six: Circles)
• Ben Jackson was born. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
• Polly Wright was born. (PROSE: The Murder Game, AUDIO: Resistance)
• Anthony Chambers was born. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

Alternative timeline

• In an alternative 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 TV: The Dæmons, was born.

February

• 7 - Gareth Hunt (Arak in TV: 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 TV: Robot and in audio productions) was born.
• 28 - Robin Phillips, who played Altos in TV: The Keys of Marinus, was born in Haslemere, Surrey, England.

March

• 6 - David Wolliscroft (a.k.a. David Cleeve) was born.
• 24 - Stephen Yardley was born.

April

• 8 - Lovett Bickford, who directed TV: The Leisure Hive, was born.
• 22 - Denis Lill (Fendelman in TV: Image of the Fendahl and Sir George Hutchinson in TV: The Awakening) was born.
• 28 - Ilona Rodgers, who played Carol Richmond in TV: 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 TV: Four to Doomsday, and Jesten in AUDIO: The Whispering Forest, was born.
• 22 - Cavan Kendall (Achilles in TV: The Myth Makers) was born.

June

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

July

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

August

• 05 - Derek Keller (Kaufman in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) was born.
• 07 - Chloe Ashcroft (Laird in TV: Resurrection of the Daleks), was born.
• 16 - John Challis (Scorby in TV: 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 TV: Arc of Infinity) was born.
• 13 - Hamish Wilson, who played Jamie McCrimmon in part of TV: The Mind Robber was born.
• 19 - Ian Talbot (Travis in TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians and Klout in The Leisure Hive) was born.
• 23 - Chubby Oates, who played a policeman in TV: Planet of the Spiders, was born.

Unknown date

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