1952

1952 in

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the DWU • vital statistics

Events

Summer

• Barbara Wright took her O-level exams at Hampstead High School for girls. (PROSE: The Plotters)

• 7 - Aliens manipulated the timelines to prevent the first idea of a stardrive being thought of by briefly linking this year with 2197. (AUDIO: The Nowhere Place)

• The Third Doctor opened a watch-fixing shop in London called Fixing Time. (PROSE: Amorality Tale)

Unknown dates

• Polly Wright, age ten, attended a fair where she visited a gypsy fortune teller, who warned her of a tall, dark stranger. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
• The severed arm of a Raxacoricofallapatorian was found in Mongolia. (WC: The Last Dalek)
• The Eleventh Doctor attended a party in Hollywood, California, performed a duet with Frank Sinatra and met Marilyn Monroe, to whom he "accidentally" became engaged to be married. They were wed that night, though the Doctor later disputed the legitimacy of the chapel in which the wedding took place. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
• Diane Holmes flew from England to Australia in four days. (TV: Out of Time)
• Shaun Brett was born. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead)

Behind the scenes

• 8 - Actor Carolyn Pickles was born.
• 29 - Actor Albert Welling was born.

• 11 - Script editor Douglas Adams was born.
• 16 - Actor Graham Cole was born.

• 4 April - Actor Cherie Lunghi was born.
• 7 - Actor Clarke Peters was born.

• 9 - Actor Patrick Ryecart was born.
• 11 - Actor Frances Fisher was born.
• 29 - Actor Oliver Smith was born.

• 2 - Actor Roderick Smith was born.

• 25 - Actor Nina Thomas was born.

• 7 - Actor Alexei Sayle was born.

• 17 - Actor Tomek Bork was born.

• 2 - Director Michael Kerrigan was born.

• 13 - Actor Art Malik was born.
• 19 - Actor Philip Bloomfield was born.

• 1 - Actor Jonathan Battersby was born.
• 13 - Actor Christopher Reynolds was born.

Month unknown

• Actor Imogen Bickford-Smith was born.