1962
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1962 was a year.
Events
Dated
On the August bank holiday, Minnie Hooper was locked inside a police box while "misbehaving". (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October, (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS [+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)"], COMIC: The Piggybackers [+]Loading...["The Piggybackers (comic story)"]) which affected places and people associated with the Doctor. Fear of impending nuclear war kept Barbara Wright awake at night during the crisis. (AUDIO: 1963 [+]Loading...["1963 (audio story)"]) Coal Hill School gave special air raid warning lessons to deal with the emergency. (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"]) Section Eight used the dark arts to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS [+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)"])
On 10 October, the British Intelligence operative Edward Grainger travelled to Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin to meet an agent who was preparing to cross the Berlin Wall from East Germany. (PROSE: Checkpoint [+]Loading...["Checkpoint (short story)"])
Peri Brown's parents, Janine and Paul Brown, were married on 21 November. (AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox [+]Loading...["Peri and the Piscon Paradox (audio story)"])
23 November 1962 was James Stevens' seventeenth birthday. On that day, he learned that he had been adopted. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy [+]Loading...["Who Killed Kennedy (novel)"]) That same day, the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors piloted their TARDISes back to Bob Dovie's house at 59A Barnsfield Crescent in Totton, Hampshire (crashing it into his chimney) to stop the conceptual bomb that the Decayed Master would place the next year from going off. (AUDIO: The Light at the End [+]Loading...["The Light at the End (audio story)"])
As the Fifteenth Doctor recalled, London had a "really bad smog" in December. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Undated
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler visited the village of Lower Downham and meddled in a plan to make the entire village disappear. (PROSE: No One Died [+]Loading...["No One Died (short story)"])
Professor Rachel Jensen began researching artificial intelligence at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. (AUDIO: Threshold [+]Loading...["Threshold (audio story)"])
The scientists James Watson, Crick, and Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for their discoveries regarding DNA. (PROSE: The Taint [+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])
Barbara Wright went on holiday to Toledo, Spain. (AUDIO: The Flames of Cadiz [+]Loading...["The Flames of Cadiz (audio story)"])
David Walker stopped driving. (AUDIO: Eyes of the Master [+]Loading...["Eyes of the Master (audio story)"])
Amy Pond and Rory Williams waited in Carnaby Street until the Eleventh Doctor arrived to pick them up. (COMIC: Bus Replacement TARDIS [+]Loading...["Bus Replacement TARDIS (comic story)"])
John Jones gave the first performance at Dog & Duck. (COMIC: What He Wants... [+]Loading...["What He Wants... (comic story)"])
The 1962 World Cup was held in Chile. In the quarterfinals, England lost to Brazil. (PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story [+]Loading...["The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)"])
A Dalek soldier, a survivor of the Last Great Time War, fell through time and crashed like a meteorite "on the Ascension Islands". The Dalek lay in its burning crater for three days, screaming the entire time, before it was retrieved. Its weapon systems inactive and its outer armour heavily damaged, the Dalek was sold at private auction and passed through several hands over the next fifty years. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"])
Kronos led his agents of the Cybock Imperium to Nevada, Earth, where they formed the Kronos Family. They spent the next year establishing themselves in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas. (COMIC: Gangland [+]Loading...["Gangland (comic story)"])
Aided by a group of human children, the Fugitive Doctor defeated Monstario the Devourer. (COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (FCBD 2022 comic story)"])
Alternate timeline
In an alternate timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II as a result of the Seventh Doctor and Ace accidentally leaving laser technology in Colditz Castle in October 1944, Elizabeth Klein was conducting research at the University of Cambridge during this year, when she was recruited by Major Jonas Faber to study and unlock the secrets of alien technology stored in a bunker in Berlin. (AUDIO: Klein's Story [+]Loading...["Klein's Story (audio story)"])
Births and deaths
Dated
On 11 January, Meredith Roberts was born. (TV: Reset [+]Loading...["Reset (TV story)"])
On 4 October, Melanie Bush's younger sister Anabel was born. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Loading...["Spiral Scratch (novel)"])
Undated
Martin Tuck was born. (AUDIO: Iterations of I [+]Loading...["Iterations of I (audio story)"])
Niels Bohr died. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"])
Betty Callon died. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow [+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"])
James was killed in an accident. (PROSE: Nightshade [+]Loading...["Nightshade (novel)"])
Benjamin Wainwright, the husband of the temporally displaced Kathy Nightingale, died at the age of 65. (TV: Blink [+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])
Tom Wake's father died. (PROSE: The Hopes and Fears of All the Years [+]Loading...["The Hopes and Fears of All the Years (short story)"])
