1942

Events

Doctor Who universe

November

• Reports of vampires emerged out of Romania. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

December

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

Unknown Date

• Ben Jackson was born in this year. (MA: Invasion of the Cat-People)
• Summer - In an alternate timeline, the allied leaders met in a secret bunker underneath Washington, D.C.. With no common enemy to fight against, relations between the Soviets, Americans and British broke down and the centre of the debate was the Ironsides. Neither Stalin or Truman were keen to allow such powerful weapons to be the property of the British Army alone, but the Ironsides' insistance that under no circumstances would they relocate from the United Kingdom meant that Churchill had 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 was born.

February

• 7 - Gareth Hunt was born.
• 14 - Michael E. Briant was born.
• 16 - Patricia Maynard was born.
• 28 - Robin Phillips, who played Altos in DW: The Keys of Marinus, was born in Haslemere, Surrey, England.

March

• 6 - David Cleeve was born.
• 24 - Lynda Baron, who provided the singing narration for DW: The Gunfighters and played Wrack in DW: Enlightenment, was born in Manchester, England.
• 24 - Stephen Yardley was born.

April

• 22 - Denis Lill was born.
• 28 - Ilona Rodgers, who played Carol Richmond in DW: The Sensorites, was born in Harrogate, England.

May

• 12 - Pam St. Clement was born.
• 12 - Royce Mills was born.
• 14 - Prentis Hancock was born.
• 15 - Paul Shelley was born.
• 22 - Cavan Kendall was born.

June

• 8 - Peter Grimwade was born.
• 18 - Paul McCartney, who appeared as himself as part of The Beatles in DW: The Chase, was born in Liverpool.

August

• 16 - John Challis was born.

November

• 29 - Michael Craze, who portrayed companion Ben Jackson, was born in Cornwall, England.

December

• 2 - John D. Collins was born.
• 19 - Ian Talbot was born.
• 23 - Chubby Oates was born.

unknown date

• Carl Rigg is born.
• Max Harvey is born.