London pub trivia
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By Time Out editors
Posted: Tue Dec 12 2006
Ten London ‘Doctor Who’ locations
1 ‘An Unearthly Child’ (1963)
The Doctor (William Hartnell) and his granddaughter Susan (who attends Coal Hill School in Shoreditch) are stranded in 1963 London in a junkyard at 76 Totter’s Lane. The first ‘Doctor Who’ episode, this was transmitted the day after Kennedy’s assassination
2 ‘Dalek: Invasion of Earth’ (1964)
A great episode for London setting sightings. In one glorious scene, the Daleks glide across Westminster Bridge. Battersea Power Station and the London Transport Museum also feature. At the end of the episode, the chimes of Big Ben herald a new beginning for mankind.
3 ‘The Invasion’ (1968)
The Cybermen clunk down the St Paul’s steps as Patrick Troughton’s Doctor looks on (see above). Feature continuesAdvertisement
4 ‘Invasion of the Dinosaurs’ (1974)
Jon Pertwee travels around 1970s London in a Whomobile, trying to work out why the city has been overrun by dinosaurs. Pertwee finally finds the dinosaur base (run by wayward environmentalists) under Trafalgar Square tube station (it became Charing Cross in 1979) and defended by a pterodactyl.
5 ‘Terror of the Zygons’ (1975)
Nessy rears out of the Thames just by the Houses of Parliament as Tom Baker tries to fight the Zygons.
6 ‘The Visitation’ (1982)
Peter Davison battles the Tereleptils in seventeenth-century Pudding Lane, where one of their weapons detonates, causing the Great Fire.
7 ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ (1977)
It’s Victorian London and Tom Baker is dressed as Sherlock Holmes as he defeats giant rats in the sewers under the Palace Theatre.
8 ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ (1988)
Sylvester McCoy returns to Coal Hill School, where the Daleks are based. McCoy is trying to find The Hand of Omega, a Timelord relic that William Hartnell left behind in 1963.
9 ‘Rose’ (2005)
The London Eye is the source of transmission of the Nestene Consciousness in the first episode of Russell T Davies’ ‘Doctor Who’, with Christopher Eccleston in the main role.
10 ‘Rise of the Cybermen’ (2006)
David Tennant, as the rubbish romantic-comedy tenth doctor, discovers that Cybermen are being made in Battersea Power Station.
11 ‘Kitten Kong’ (1972)
There’s a giant cat on top of the Post Office Tower! (Oh no, that was ‘The Goodies’.)- Add your comment to this feature
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