1932

In 1932, Odd Bob the Clown (alias the Pied Piper) started an eight-year period of abducting children while travelling across America. (TV: The Day of the Clown)

In Cardiff, The Ritz dance club opened. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)

In the same year, the Doctor met Donald Bradman and took five wickets for New South Wales, (TV: Four to Doomsday) and Amelia Earhart disappeared. (TV: Out of Time)

The Fourth Doctor visited Norfolk in this year to find the acclaimed dancer, Ernestina Stott and realised that she and Mrs Wibbsey had been possessed by Hornets. (Hornets' Nest 2:  The Dead Shoes)


 * 17 January - Actor John Cater was born in London.


 * 13 February - David Neal was born.


 * 5 March - Actor Gertan Klauber was born.
 * 5 - Designer Stuart Walker was born.
 * 9 March - Manager Peter Hill was born.
 * 14 March - Composer Carey Blyton was born.
 * 21 March - Actor Tom Watson was born.
 * 24 March - Actor Barry Wilsher was born.
 * 27 March - Actor Patrick Newell was born.


 * 6 April - Leon Eagles was born.


 * 13 May - Actor Terry Scully was born.
 * 20 May - Actress Vera Fusek was born.
 * 21 May - Actor Jay Neill was born.


 * 8 June - Actor Maurice Good was born.
 * 11 June - Actor Ed Bishop was born.
 * 16 June - Actor Stephen Hubay was born.


 * 26 July - Actor Neil McCarthy was born.
 * 28 July - Stunt arranger Roy Scammell was born.


 * 9 August - Actor Denys Hawthorne was born.
 * 11 August - Director John Gorrie was born.
 * 20 August - Actor Anthony Ainley, who played through the last eight years of the original Doctor Who television series, was born.
 * 24 August - Actor William Morgan Sheppard was born.
 * 31 August - Actor Roy Castle was born.


 * 4 September - Actor Edward de Souza was born.
 * 4 - Actor Dinsdale Landen was born.
 * 16 September - Actor Bill Meilen was born.


 * 02 - Actor Gabriel Woolf was born.


 * William Hartnell made his motion picture debut in.
 * 12 November - Actor Carmen Munroe was born.
 * 18 November - Actor Trevor Baxter was born.


 * 1 December - Script editor Dennis Spooner was born.
 * 6 December - Declan Mulholland was born.
 * 9 December - Actress Wendy Gifford was born.