London London , sometimes known as London Town and formerly known as Londinium ( TV : " The Slave Traders " , " The Wedding of River Song " ) , was the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England . It was a prominent city on Earth and was invaded by aliens many times . With the help of the Doctor , the invasions were repelled . Organisations such as UNIT , Torchwood One , MI5 , MI6 and the Department also assisted in the defence of the city . The Tenth Doctor believed it to be the " most exciting city in the world . " ( AUDIO : " Technophobia " ) The Twelfth Doctor , conversely , thought it was " a dump " . ( TV : " The Zygon Inversion " ) Miss Multravers assessed it as the most populous and advanced city on the planet . ( AUDIO : " The Haunting " ) Government . As the capital , London was the home to the British monarchy , who resided at Buckingham Palace . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) The British government was based in London and met in the Houses of Parliament . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) The city would eventually be absorbed into Central City , of which the whole of southern England was a part . ( TV : " Strangers in Space " ) In the 40th century , this was the capital of Earth . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) History . 1st century . The name London came from the Latin name " Londinium " . The city was founded by the Roman Empire during their rule over the island , which they conquered in 43 . During Boudica ' s revolt against the occupying Roman forces in 60 , she burnt the Roman capital Camolundunum before her army marched to Londinium and slaughtered almost everyone in the city including the old , the weak and the infirm . ( AUDIO : " The Wrath of the Iceni " ) Barbara Wright ' s casual mention of coming from Londinium during a visit to Rome in the year 64 led to her and Ian Chesterton being abducted and sold into slave ry , as the recently conquered Britons were not then Roman citizens . ( TV : " The Slave Traders " ) 10th century . In 966 , the Eleventh Doctor accidentally took Amy Pond and Rory Williams to Wemba ' s Lea in London , having intended to bring them to a football match at Wembley Stadium in 1966 . ( COMIC : " They Think It ' s All Over " ) 14th century . During the 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer was in London at the time of Wat Tyler ' s rebellion . ( AUDIO : " The Doctor ' s Tale " ) In 1397 , Richard Whittington became the Lord Mayor of London for the first of three times . ( PROSE : " Oh No It Isn ' t ! " ) 15th century . In 1420 , Whittington left office as Lord Mayor of London for the third and final time . ( PROSE : " Oh No It Isn ' t ! " ) In April 1483 , the Fifth Doctor , Peri Brown and Erimem met Richard III , who had recently begun his reign as King of England . The Doctor skipped ahead to 1485 , leaving Peri and Erimem to live through the next two years in England to catch up to him . They took up employment as serving wenches at a pub called " The Kingmaker " . ( AUDIO : " The Kingmaker " ) 16th century . At some point in this century , Hexagoran scouts visited London , and centuries later would recreate it on Luparis as Lupara . ( AUDIO : " Hexagora " ) In 1535 , a soldier sent back in time by a Weeping Angel from 1914 appeared in London and was burned as a witch . ( COMIC : " The Weeping Angels of Mons " ) On 4 May 1536 , the Sixth Doctor and Peri met King Henry VIII in London . ( AUDIO : " Recorded Time " ) In December 1539 , the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa also met Henry VIII in London . ( PROSE : " God Send Me Well to Keep " ) On 19 July 1553 , Rani Chandra met Lady Grey on her ninth and final day in power . Matilda attempted to assassinate Jane , but Rani averted the murder . Nevertheless , Mary I wrested power from Jane the next day , returning the country to official Catholicism . ( TV : " Lost in Time " ) The First Doctor also met Lady Jane during her reign . ( PROSE : " The Nine - Day Queen " ) In January 1555 , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe visited London . ( AUDIO : " The Marian Conspiracy " ) In 1561 , the Eleventh Doctor and River Song encountered a group of Silence in London while travelling through rogue time corridor s created by an Eternity Clock . The Silence had obtained a fragment of the Eternity Clock and were trying to use it in their experiments . After visiting several different points in London ' s timeline , the Doctor and River stole a time capsule from the Silence and used it to batter through a Dalek stronghold in 2106 . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) In 1588 , the Fourth Doctor and Leela encountered the Vituperon in London . ( AUDIO : " The Devil ' s Armada " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams briefly visited the city in the same year . ( COMIC : " The Doctor and the Nurse " ) In 1590 , the Sixth Doctor and Peri met Christopher Marlowe in London . ( AUDIO : " Point of Entry " ) In 1597 , the Fifth Doctor , Peri and Erimem saw a performance of " Richard III " in London while the Doctor met its author William Shakespeare . ( AUDIO : " The Kingmaker " ) In 1599 , the Tenth Doctor took Martha Jones to the Globe Theatre in London to meet Shakespeare . While there , the Carrionite s attempted to release their brethren but were stopped by Shakespeare himself . The Doctor also met Queen Elizabeth I for what appeared to be the first time from his perspective . Elizabeth , however , recognised the Doctor and ordered him killed . He and Martha escaped in the TARDIS . ( TV : " The Shakespeare Code " ) 17th century . In 1603 , William Lethbridge - Stewart travelled to London with James VI of Scotland in preparation for the latter ' s coronation as James I of the United Kingdom . Their arrival at London was triumphant , marked by what the Eighth Doctor called " a glorious parade , a magnificent spectacle . " ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) On 29 June 1613 , Francis Pearson set fire to the Globe Theatre in London on opening night for William Shakespeare ' s last play , " Henry VIII " . Pearson was later attacked and consumed by the Mimic , becoming the being later known as Persona . ( PROSE : " Managra " ) In 1628 , a plague ravaged London . ( PROSE : " The Roundheads " ) In 1665 , the first cases of what would become known as the Great Plague of London appeared on the city ' s outskirts . The disease became more widespread and fatal the following year , after a deadlier strain of the bacterium " Yersinia pestis " was engineered by a group of escaped Terileptil criminals . In September 1666 , the Great Fire of London started on Pudding Lane after the Fifth Doctor had an encounter with a group of escaped Terileptil criminals . The fire destroyed much of London but there were few deaths and it cleansed the city of the Bubonic plague . ( TV : " The Visitation " ) The First and Fourth Doctor s also visited the city at the time . The latter was blamed for causing the fire . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space " , " The Republican ' s Story " ; TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) In 1688 , the Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot visited London and met King James II of England shortly before he was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution . ( AUDIO : " The Glorious Revolution " ) 18th century . On 8 March 1702 , the Fifth Doctor and Turlough fought Carthok of Daodalus in London . ( AUDIO : " Phantasmagoria " ) In 1720 , the Sixth Doctor and Peri visited London . ( PROSE : " Time Wake " ) In 1733 , Gralstead House was built in Highgate , London by Professor Cedric Scrivener and Sir Edward Scrivener ' s great - great - grandfather Sir Joseph Scrivener . ( AUDIO : " The Ghosts of Gralstead " ) In September 1752 , the Eleven - Day Empire was founded . It had its capital in a version of London . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) In June 1780 , Lord James Gordon led a group of followers into the British House of Commons and held the leading politicians of the country hostage . For a week , the so - called Gordon Riots tore through London . Entire neighbourhoods were burnt down and every prison was razed . Innocent bystanders were hacked to bits and criminals ran rampant . Scarlette was present when Newgate Prison was burnt to the ground on 6 June . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) 19th century . 1800s . In 1808 , a fire swept through London ' s theatre district , burning down the Covent Garden Theatre . ( PROSE : " Double Falsehood " ) 1810s . In February 1814 , the First Doctor , Steven Taylor and Vicki Pallister visited London during the last of the great frost fair s and witnessed the River Thames in its frozen state . On that occasion , they met the novelist Jane Austen . ( AUDIO : " Frostfire " ) An incarnation of the Doctor took River Song to the same frost fair on her birthday . Stevie Wonder performed for them . Because of his blindness , he did not realise that he had travelled through time . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) The Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts were also at the frost fair and helped free an alien sea creature from the Thames . ( TV : " Thin Ice " ) On 17 October 1814 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory visited London . Amy left the Doctor and Rory in a pub so that they could bond while she went sightseeing . Instead they decided to use the TARDIS to skip ahead a few hours , while Amy encountered an agent of the Silence and became caught in the London Beer Flood . ( COMIC : " The Doctor and the Nurse " ) In 1819 , the investigative reporter Thomas Tyler worked for a London newspaper . ( AUDIO : " The Peterloo Massacre " ) 1820s . In 1828 , London Zoo was opened . ( AUDIO : " The Eye of the Jungle " ) 1840s . In 1840 , Spring - heeled Jack attacked a number of women in London while searching for Morjanus . The Eighth Doctor assisted Jack in defeating Morjanus and the Pyrodine s . Jack opted to stay in the city and take on the role of its " guardian demon " . ( COMIC : " The Curious Tale of Spring - Heeled Jack " ) By 18 December 1845 , it was common gossip that Charles Dickens had stolen the character of Mr Pickwick for his book , " The Pickwick Papers " , from his artist , Seymour . While in London on this date , Dickens found that even " tramps " had heard the tale . The Seventh Doctor , Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej also visited London on this date . ( PROSE : " The Death of Art " ) 1850s . The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was held in London in 1851 . It was based in a purpose - built venue called the Crystal Palace . The Fifth Doctor wanted to take Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka to the Exhibition as " a treat " in the wake of Adric ' s death , but instead ended up on the tarmac of Heathrow Airport in 1982 . ( TV : " Time - Flight " ) The Eighth Doctor took his companions Charley Pollard and C ' rizz to the Great Exhibition , shortly after their departure from the Divergent Universe . While there , Charley met and befriended the elderly Duke of Wellington . ( AUDIO : " Other Lives " ) The Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory also visited the Great Exhibition in 1851 and fought the Hypothetical Gentleman . ( COMIC : " Hypothetical Gentleman " ) On 12 September 1851 , the Seventh Doctor arrived in London and stopped the Klathi from destroying the city . ( COMIC : " Claws of the Klathi ! " ) On 24 December of the same year , the Cybermen of a parallel universe used children to build a towering CyberKing , which attacked the city . The Tenth Doctor , using Jackson Lake ' s Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style , defeated the CyberKing . ( TV : " The Next Doctor " ) In 1854 , the Seventh Doctor met Sir Michael Faraday in London . ( AUDIO : " The Four Doctors " ) 1860s . In October 1860 and April 1861 , the Fourth Doctor and Leela fought Mordrega in London . ( AUDIO : " The Ghosts of Gralstead " ) In December 1861 , the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited Covent Garden in London . ( PROSE : " The Lampblack Wars " ) In 1863 , the Third Doctor visited London . ( COMIC : " Backtime " ) From November 1866 to November 1867 , the Fifth Doctor lived in 107 Baker Street in London . ( AUDIO : " The Haunting of Thomas Brewster " ) While visiting the Reform Club in London in 1866 , the Eighth Doctor got into an argument with Charles Dickens about an error in " Great Expectations " . ( AUDIO : " The Man Who Wasn ' t There " ) In March 1868 , Iris Wildthyme visited London . ( AUDIO : " The Boy That Time Forgot " ) 1870s . In 1873 , the Seventh Doctor , Ace and Bernice Summerfield fought the Quack in London . ( PROSE : " Strange England " ) 1880s . In 1880 , the Fifth Doctor , Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka visited London . ( PROSE : " The Sands of Time " ) In 1885 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory visited London . ( COMIC : " Reality Cheque " ) In 1888 , the serial murderer known as Jack the Ripper operated in the East End of the city . Officially , the authorities never identified or apprehended him . ( PROSE : " Matrix " ; COMIC : " Ripper ' s Curse " ) In the same year , Iris Wildthyme and Panda visited London . ( PROSE : " The Shape of Things " ) In 1889 , the Tong of the Black Scorpion and Li H ' sen Chang carried out a series of abductions at the behest of the 51st century war criminal Magnus Greel that centred around London . Greel owned the House of the Dragon , a building in London from which he operated . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) The Tenth Doctor arrived at this time , met again with his friend H . G . Wells and ran afoul of the Torchwood Institute . ( COMIC : " The Time Machination " ) Only minutes later , his fourth incarnation and his companion Leela arrived in the city in the TARDIS . ( COMIC : " The Time Machination " ; TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) The amateur detectives Henry Gordon Jago and his associate Professor Litefoot foiled Greel ' s plans . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) Also in 1889 , some time after her Silurian sisters were killed by workers on the London Underground , Madame Vastra had killed and eaten the perpetrator of the Ripper murders . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) On 24 December 1889 , the Seventh and Ace fought the Kyrian in London . ( PROSE : " Instead of You " ) 1890s . In the 1890s , Jago and Litefoot had many adventures pursuing a career as detectives of the inexplicable and uncanny . ( AUDIO : " Jago & Litefoot " ) In the 1890s , the Twelfth Doctor , Clara Oswald and the Paternoster Gang fought Orestes Milton in London . ( PROSE : " Silhouette " ) By this time , London was the most populous city on Earth . ( AUDIO : " Jago & Litefoot & Patsy " ) In 1890 , Jago and Litefoot descended into the London sewers to kill the rest of Magnus Greel ' s remaining giant rat s with a Gatling gun and on the way there , failed to recognise the Fifth Doctor , who had regenerated since their first encounter with him . ( PROSE : " A Victorian Interlude " ) In 1892 , the Eleventh Doctor and River Song visited London . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) In December 1892 , the Eleventh Doctor , Clara and the Paternoster Gang fought the Great Intelligence in London . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) In 1893 , Bernice Summerfield met Mycroft Holmes in London . ( AUDIO : " The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel " ) In November 1896 , the Fifth Doctor , Nyssa and Tegan visited London . ( PROSE : " The Sands of Time " ) In May 1897 , the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler met Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker in London . ( COMIC : " Bat Attack ! " ) In 1899 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana encountered Jago , Litefoot and the Pugilist and fought Harvey Marsh in London . ( AUDIO : " The Justice of Jalxar " ) 20th century . 1900s . In 1900 , the First Doctor and Susan Foreman fought the Soul Pirate s in London . ( PROSE : " A Big Hand for the Doctor " ) In July 1900 , the First Doctor , Steven Taylor and Vicki Pallister fought the time fungus in 10 Downing Street in London . ( AUDIO : " Upstairs " ) In 1903 , Mnemosyne ' s master was killed by the people of London . Mnemosyne hid in the London Underground until 2009 . ( COMIC : " Ghosts of the Northern Line " ) In the same year , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn visited London . ( AUDIO : " Jubilee " ) On 25 June 1906 , Edward Grainger was born . ( PROSE : " Prologue " ) In 1909 , Bernice Summerfield was temporarily separated from the Seventh Doctor and Ace in London , where she met Muldwych . ( PROSE : " Birthright " ) In the same year , Margaret Waterfield was murdered by thugs in the service of Jared Khan . ( PROSE : " Prelude Birthright " ) 1910s . In 1910 , the Fourth Doctor visited London . ( PROSE : " In Case of Emergencies " ) The same was true of the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory . ( PROSE : " Paradox Lost " ) In December 1911 , the Third Doctor met Edward Grainger . ( PROSE : " Echoes " ) In 1912 , the First Doctor , Steven and Vicki fought the Suffering in London . ( AUDIO : " The Suffering " ) In November 1918 , the Eighth Doctor and Molly O ' Sullivan fought the Viyran s in London . ( AUDIO : " The White Room " ) 1920s . In October 1924 , the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler fought Shade Vassily . ( PROSE : " The Clockwise Man " ) In 1929 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana I visited London . ( AUDIO : " The Auntie Matter " ) 1930s . On 4 October 1930 , the airship " R101 " left London , supposedly bound for Karachi in India . Aboard were two stowaways : the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) On 24 October 1930 , the Fourth Doctor fought Kappa 12 in London . ( PROSE : " The Northern Heights " ) In 1930 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana II visited London . ( PROSE : " The English Way of Death " ) In 1933 , the Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot met the gentleman thief Lucas Seyton . ( PROSE : " Fallen Angel " ) On 25 December 1935 , the Seventh Doctor and Melanie Bush visited London . ( PROSE : " 24 Crawford Street " ) In 1935 , the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard visited London . ( AUDIO : " Enemy Aliens " ) On 25 April 1936 , the Fifth Doctor and Peri attended the FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Sheffield United in Wembley Stadium in London . ( PROSE : " The Church of Football " ) In November 1936 , Charley Pollard was briefly reunited with her parents Lord Richard and Lady Louisa Pollard in London before being recaptured by the Viyran s and returned to the Ever - and - Ever Prolixity in the far future . ( AUDIO : " The Fall of the House of Pollard " ) In 1936 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory fought Kriemhilde Steiner in London . ( COMIC : " The Eagle of the Reich " ) In 1937 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana I visited London . ( PROSE : " The Shadow of Weng - Chiang " ) On 12 October 1938 , the Eighth Doctor visited a Euston Road bookshop in London . ( PROSE : " Time Zero " ) 1940s . In 1940 and 1941 , the Blitz saw London bombed nearly every night . The Empty Child plague occurred during this time . ( TV : " The Empty Child " / " The Doctor Dances " , " The Lazarus Experiment " , " Victory of the Daleks " ) At 8 : 47 p . m . on 12 October 1940 , the New Regency Theatre , which had been owned and operated by the late Henry Gordon Jago during the 1890s , was destroyed in the Blitz , as was the hotel next to it . ( AUDIO : " Swan Song " ) On 17 October 1940 , the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams visited London during the Blitz , where they saved Ian Fleming from a bomb and became the inspiration for James Bond . ( COMIC : " The Doctor and the Nurse " ) In November 1940 , the Seventh Doctor and Ace fought the Cybermen in London . ( PROSE : " Illegal Alien " ) In 1941 , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy were summoned to the Cabinet War Rooms in London by Prime Minister Winston Churchill . The Doctor discovered Dalek s working for Churchill . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) On 8 May 1945 , the Allies ' victory over Nazi Germany in World War II was marked by VE Day . A major celebration took place in Trafalgar Square in London . ( PROSE : " Magic of the Angels " ) The Seventh Doctor , Ace and Hex were present in London for the celebrations . ( AUDIO : " Casualties of War " ) In 1948 , the Olympic Games were held in London . They were not hosted there again until 2012 . The Doctor enjoyed it so much that he went to it twice . ( TV : " Fear Her " ) 1950s . In 1950 , Stephanie and James Wilton found Mr Rees ' skeleton and music box , in which he placed his mind , at the bottom of his well in London . ( AUDIO : " The Reesinger Process " ) In 1951 , Honoré Lechasseur visited London . ( PROSE : " The Albino ' s Dancer " ) From May until at least August 1951 , the Festival of Britain was held in London . ( PROSE : " " ; TV : " The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith " ) In May , the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited the Festival after defeating the Timewyrm . ( PROSE : " " ) On the same day , the Eighth Doctor visited the Festival and saw his younger self and his former companion . However , as he was suffering from amnesia at the time , he failed to recognise them . ( PROSE : " Endgame " ) In an alternate timeline in which Germany won World War II , the Festival of Britain was a celebration of ten years of Nazi victory . The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited this version of the Festival , where they realised that history had been altered , and went to work preventing this timeline . ( PROSE : " " ) In 1951 , the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble fought Edna Wilberforce in London . ( COMIC : " The Lavender Hill Blob " ) On 7 December 1952 , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn visited London . ( AUDIO : " The Nowhere Place " ) In 1953 , Londoners with television s supplied by Mr Magpie had their faces stolen by the Wire , which used television transmissions to spread . It attempted to transmit itself to the whole country of Britain using the BBC ' s Alexandra Palace transmitter . ( TV : " The Idiot ' s Lantern " ) In 1954 , Barbara Wright was a student teacher in Cricklewood in London , living in a rented room . ( PROSE : " The Witch Hunters " ) In 1959 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory visited London . ( COMIC : " The Upper Deck " ) 1960s . In 1960 , the Third Doctor and Jo Grant marched from Aldermaston to London . ( PROSE : " Come Friendly Bombs . . . " ) In March 1963 , the TARDIS materialised in the junkyard at 76 Totter ' s Lane , owned by I . M . Foreman , in the Shoreditch area of London , disguised incongruously as a police box . While the First Doctor attempted repairs and worked out a plan for safely disposing of the Hand of Omega on Earth , his granddaughter Susan Foreman registered at the nearby Coal Hill School against his wishes . Britain , meanwhile , was in the grip of an unusual cold wave . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " ) In an alternate timeline on 31 October 1963 , the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa visited London and saw the Common Men arrive back in the United Kingdom . ( AUDIO : " " ) In November 1963 , the Shoreditch Incident saw Dalek s fighting with one another in London . The Imperial Dalek faction eventually defeated the Renegade Dalek s . The Seventh Doctor used the Hand of Omega to overload the Imperial Dalek mothership after it recoiled from Skaro ' s destruction . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) On 23 November 1963 , the Fourth Doctor and K9 Mark II returned to Totter ' s Lane to retrieve a Heshrax insect which he had been tracking the day that he left . While there , they met Debbie , Susan ' s best friend from Coal Hill School . ( PROSE : " Those Left Behind " ) In 1963 , the Seventh Doctor again visited London and met his first incarnation . ( PROSE : " Echoes of Future Past " ) The Eleventh Doctor told Amy that London was the coolest place in the universe in 1963 due to the Beatles , Sean Connery as James Bond , the Kinks , the Rolling Stones , Mary Quant , John Steed and Cathy Gale . ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " ) In January 1964 , the Eleventh Doctor visited Parliament Hill in London . ( COMIC : " The Door to a Winter Long Ago " ) In October 1964 , an aeroplane which left New York City with a crew of eleven and hundreds of passengers landed in London with no one aboard , not even the pilot . The matter was investigated by Professor Rachel Jensen of the Intrusion Countermeasures Group . ( AUDIO : " State of Emergency " ) In 1965 , the First Doctor ' s TARDIS materialised in Wimbledon Common , London so Steven Taylor could go on with his own life . He came across Dodo Chaplet , who said she had witnessed a road accident . ( TV : " The Massacre of St Bartholomew ' s Eve " ) On 26 June 1965 , Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright arrived back in London aboard the Dalek time machine , which they set to self - destruct soon after . Boarding a bus , they contemplated how they would pick up their previous , " normal " lives again , having arrived two years after joining the First Doctor on his travels . ( TV : " The Chase " ) The Doctor gave them an envelope of British notes and coins which included a twenty pence coin from 1982 . ( PROSE : " The Time Travellers " ) On 20 July 1966 , WOTAN , located at the top of the Post Office Tower , attempted a takeover of Earth with mind control and its robot s , the War Machine s . The War Machines were based in a London warehouse where hypnotised workers assembled them . The First Doctor was able to defeat WOTAN and hence , the War Machines . ( TV : " The War Machines " ) On 24 December 1966 , the Eighth Doctor had a conference with the Home Secretary Sir Clive Reeves in Whitehall , London . ( PROSE : " For the Man Who Has Everything " ) In 1967 , the Tenth Doctor , Heather McCrimmon and Wolfgang Ryter fought the Va in London . ( COMIC : " Shadow of the Vaipid " ) In 1967 , Robin Yeadon visited London for the first time . ( AUDIO : " Nightshade " ) On 21 February 1968 , the Sixth Doctor left Jago and Litefoot in the Red Tavern in London , mistakenly believing that it was the 1890s . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to the New World " ) In 1968 , the London police announced that they would be scrapping all police box es . ( PROSE : " The Nameless City " ) On 30 January 1969 , the Beatles performed an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple Records building on Abbey Road in London . Ace prevented the killing of John Lennon during this concert . Huitzilin had hoped to feed upon the psychic energy released by the violence . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones attempted to witness the concert but ended up in 1669 instead . ( COMIC : " Black Death White Life " ) On 18 May 1969 , the Eighth Doctor , Sam Jones and Fitz Kreiner visited Wembley Stadium in London . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) In 1969 , the Second Doctor and Victoria Waterfield encountered a robot in the form of the latter ' s father Edward Waterfield . ( PROSE : " Father Figure " ) Also in 1969 , the Second Doctor , John and Gillian fought the Zagbor s in London . ( COMIC : " The Zombies " ) In the same year , the Second Doctor , shortly before his regeneration , fought animated scarecrows . ( COMIC : " The Night Walkers " ) Late 20th century . Under the control of the Great Intelligence , Robot Yeti invaded London . The city was evacuated and the London Underground saw pitched battles between UNIT and the Yeti . With the Second Doctor ' s help , the attack was repelled . ( TV : " The Web of Fear " ) Following this , London was invaded by Cybermen with the assistance of Tobias Vaughn . ( TV : " The Invasion " ) After their defeat , some Cybermen still survived in the London sewers and carried out occasional cyber - conversion s until 1985 . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " , " Dalek " ) A Silurian virus began to spread throughout the city after a group unrelated to Vastra were awoken in a cave system . UNIT managed to cure the outbreak with help from the Third Doctor . ( TV : " Doctor Who and the Silurians " ) London was evacuated as a result of Operation Golden Age . ( TV : " Invasion of the Dinosaurs " ) 1970s . In 1970 , Christine Summerfield and Chris Cwej visited London . Also in 1970 , the Second Doctor , John and Gillian fought the Cybermen in London . ( COMIC : " Cyber - Mole " ) In February 1971 , the Seventh Doctor met the one - year - old Ace and her mother Audrey Dudman in East Acton in London . ( PROSE : " Ace of Hearts " ) In an alternate timeline in 1972 , the Eighth Doctor encountered the Daleks in the Ides Scientific Institute . ( AUDIO : " Fugitives " ) In 1972 , Iris Wildthyme and Panda visited London . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) In 1973 , the Third Doctor , Sarah Jane and Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart fought Remoraxian Prime and the Remoraxian s in London . ( COMIC : " POT 3 " ) In the same year , the Third Doctor and Jo Grant fought in London . ( PROSE : " The Spear of Destiny " ) In 1974 , the Tenth Doctor and Martha visited London . ( COMIC : " Agent Provocateur " ) In 1975 , the Fifth Doctor , Nyssa and Tegan visited London . ( PROSE : " The Sands of Time " ) In 1976 , Big Ben was destroyed by bombing . ( PROSE : " No Future " ) The clock tower had been rebuilt by 2005 . ( TV : " Rose " ) On 12 October 1979 , the Eighth Doctor visited the BBC Television Centre in London in a parallel universe in which his reality existed only as fiction . The actor Tom Baker - who played the Fourth Doctor - fended off Beep the Meep by infuriating him with his endless rambling . The Eighth Doctor realised the truth when he found himself with the first issue of " Doctor Who Weekly " . ( COMIC : " TV Action ! " ) 1980s . In 1982 , the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited London . ( PROSE : " Relative Dementias " ) In 1983 , Ace burnt down Gabriel Chase , a mansion in Perivale . ( TV : " Ghost Light " ) With the TARDIS caught inside a time corridor , the Fifth Doctor , Tegan and Turlough arrived in London in 1984 , where they encountered canisters of Movellan virus and duplicates of humans created by the Daleks . They travelled across the corridor to meet the Daleks and their creator Davros in the future . After witnessing a huge amount of bloodshed in the early days of the Dalek Civil War , Tegan departed from the TARDIS in this year . Commander Lytton escaped from the future alive with his two police guards . ( TV : " Resurrection of the Daleks " ) In the summer of 1984 , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy encountered the Kin in London . ( PROSE : " Nothing O ' Clock " ) In 1985 , Lytton contacted the Cybermen in the London sewer s . The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown , searching for a distress signal , were ambushed by the Cybermen , apparently aided by Lytton , and the Doctor was forced to pilot his TARDIS to Telos . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " ) In January 1986 , the Sixth Doctor and Peri visited London . ( PROSE : " Time Wake " ) In 1987 , the Seventh Doctor , Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej battled an N - Form in London . ( PROSE : " Damaged Goods " ) Also in 1987 , Ace was transported by a time storm created by Fenric from Perivale to Iceworld on Svartos in the far future . ( TV : " Dragonfire " , " The Curse of Fenric " ) Fenric later took her back in time to the day that she was transported to Iceworld in an attempt to convince her to prevent her younger self from leaving . ( AUDIO : " Gods and Monsters " ) In 1988 , the Sixth Doctor , Jason and Crystal fought the Daleks and the Cybermen in London . ( AUDIO : " The Ultimate Adventure " ) In 1989 , a number of young people in Perivale disappeared mysteriously . This was due to in league with the Cheetah People . ( TV : " Survival " ) In July 1989 , the Sixth Doctor met Melanie Bush for the first time in her personal timeline . ( PROSE : " Business Unusual " ) 1990s . At 6 : 00pm on 27 September 1990 , Elizabeth Klein met with her assistant Will Arrowsmith in the Huntsman Pub in London to talk about possibly moving him out of field work and into office work at UNIT . The Seventh Doctor then arrived , and forced Klein on a trip to Germany in May 1945 . Will , disobeying her orders to stay away , accidentally ended up stowing away in the TARDIS and joining them . ( AUDIO : " Persuasion " ) On 24 December 1990 , the Sixth Doctor met Linda Grainger in London . ( PROSE : " She Won ' t Be Home " ) In 1990 , the Seventh Doctor was reunited with his former companion Sarah Jane Smith in London . ( COMIC : " Train - Flight " ) In 1992 , the Seventh Doctor fought the Gantac s and Yaga in London . ( COMIC : " Invaders from Gantac ! " ) In the same year , he also fought the Benanki in the city . ( PROSE : " Testament " ) On 25 December 1995 , the Seventh Doctor and Mel visited London . ( PROSE : " 24 Crawford Street " ) In August 1996 , the Eighth Doctor and Fitz fought Faction Paradox and the Remote in London . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " , " Interference - Book Two " ) On 6 May 1997 , London was invaded by the Ice Warrior s . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) Before the First Doctor and Susan Foreman settled down in Shoreditch in 1963 , they took a brief trip to St Albans on 17 December 1997 to ensure that the United Kingdom would remain safe during and after the 1960s . Unbeknownst to either of them , the Fourth Doctor , Romana II and K9 Mark II were in the vicinity on the same day . ( PROSE : " The Little Things " ) In 1997 , the Eleventh Doctor and Clara visited London . ( COMIC : " Wintervention " ) In 1998 , the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones fought the Khameirian s in London . ( PROSE : " Option Lock " ) In the same year , the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane met their former companion Harry Sullivan in London and fought the Voracian s in London . ( PROSE : " System Shock " ) In 1999 , the city faced near oblivion with the return of the Mandragora Helix . By this point , the city had reclaimed the name of ' swinging London ' , having not held the name for thirty years . ( COMIC : " The Mark of Mandragora " ) On 31 December 1999 , the Sixth Doctor and Mel visited London . ( PROSE : " Millennial Rites " ) On the same day , the Fourth Doctor met Harry in London and they once again fought the Voracians . ( PROSE : " Millennium Shock " ) 21st century . 2000s . During the first seconds of 1 January 2000 , London , along with the rest of the world , was nearly destroyed by the Eye of Harmony . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) On 10 February 2000 , Henry Louis Noone was born in St . Stephen ' s Hospital in London . ( AUDIO : " A Death in the Family " ) In 2000 , the Tenth Doctor and Martha visited London . ( COMIC : " The Millennium Blag " ) The same was true of the Seventh Doctor and Ace . ( PROSE : " Monsters " ) In 2001 , sometime before 6 February , Fitz was dropped in London by Compassion to meet the Eighth Doctor at the St . Louis ' Bar and Restaurant in London . In 2001 , the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair visited London . ( COMIC : " The Fallen " ) On 8 February 2001 , Fitz met the Eighth Doctor at the St . Louis Bar and Restaurant in London . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) In 2002 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana I visited Kensington in London . ( AUDIO : " Tales from the Vault " ) Also in 2002 , the Fourth Doctor and Romana II visited London . ( PROSE : " I Was a Monster ! ! ! " ) In the same year , the Seventh Doctor and Ace fought the Fearmonger in London . ( AUDIO : " The Fearmonger " ) In an alternate timeline in 2003 , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn fought the Daleks . ( AUDIO : " Jubilee " ) In 2003 , the Sixth Doctor and Mel fought in London . ( PROSE : " The Quantum Archangel " ) At some point during the 2000s , it fell victim to terrorist attacks , and became shut down with no - one allowed to enter the city . At least 452 people in London were killed during the attacks , including the Deputy Prime Minister , Meena Cartwright . ( AUDIO : " The Longest Night " ) Also in 2005 , London cabs were replaced with motorcycles to relieve the increasing traffic congestion . ( PROSE : " " ) According to one account , London cabs existed again by late 2006 . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) In 2005 , Phil Tyson was kidnapped from Peckham and brought aboard the Vandosian ship , with the Vandos Tribunal believing him to be the reincarnation of Shogalath . The Ninth Doctor freed Phil from this trial and returned him home . ( COMIC : " Mr Nobody " ) In June 2005 , the Eighth Doctor , Fitz and Trix MacMillan visited London . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) In the same year , London police , including DI Billy Shipton , began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called Wester Drumlins . The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared , at one point taking a police box from the scene . ( TV : " Blink " ) In 2006 , a Slitheen craft crashed into Big Ben , smashing the clock face in half . It then landed in the River Thames . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) The next day , 10 Downing Street was destroyed by a human guided missile . ( TV : " World War Three " ) In 2006 , the Tenth Doctor and Rose fought the Water Creature in London . ( COMIC : " Bizarre Zero " ) In the same year , the Ninth Doctor and Rose fought the Quevvil s in London . ( PROSE : " Winner Takes All " ) On 25 June 2006 , Edward Grainger died in London on his 100th birthday . ( PROSE : " Forgotten " ) During Christmas 2006 , a Sycorax ship entered London airspace . The sonic boom shattered glass for miles around . People were taken over by blood control and stood on the top of tall structures . The ship left , but was destroyed by a Torchwood Institute energy weapon . That evening , the remains of the ship , in the form of ash , drifted down upon the city like snow . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) In 2007 , the Battle of Canary Wharf saw Dalek s and Cybermen invade London . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " / " Doomsday " ) In the same year , the Tenth Doctor and Rose fought the Waterhive in London . ( PROSE : " The Feast of the Drowned " ) Also in 2007 , the Eighth Doctor , Charley and C ' rizz visited London . ( PROSE : " Salva Mea " ) In the same year , the Seventh Doctor and Mel visited London immediately after the former ' s regeneration . ( AUDIO : " Unregenerate ! " ) In 2008 , the Judoon searched for a Plasmavore in the Royal Hope Hospital and transported it to the Moon using an HO scoop . The hospital was later returned . ( TV : " Smith and Jones " ) Professor Lazarus created a machine which made him younger and also mutated him . He went on a rampage throughout Southwark , before he was stopped by the Tenth Doctor . ( TV : " The Lazarus Experiment " ) Harold Saxon became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) He was later killed by his wife , Lucy , on board the " Valiant " . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " ) In 2008 , the Tenth Doctor participated in preventing a Graske causing mischief at a BBC Proms concert in London . ( TV : " Music of the Spheres " ) In the same year , the Fifth Doctor , Nyssa and Thomas Brewster visited London . ( AUDIO : " A Perfect World " ) In the same year , the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller visited London . ( AUDIO : " Sisters of the Flame " ) In October 2008 , Majenta Pryce met the Tenth Doctor and was forced to shut down her Hotel Historia due to a Graxnix invasion . ( COMIC : " Hotel Historia " ) During Christmas 2008 , the Titanic nearly crashed into Buckingham Palace , but the crash was averted by the Tenth Doctor . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) In 2009 , Adipose pill s were distributed all over London . Later , thousands of young Adipose were born and marched along the streets of London . A nursery ship took the Adipose away . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) The Sontaran s attempted to choke all life on Earth with the newly introduced ATMOS in order to create a hatchery that would increase their troop production for the Rutan - Sontaran War . They were thwarted by the combined efforts of the Tenth Doctor , Donna Noble , and Martha Jones . Luke Rattigan destroyed their ship . The epicentre of the Sontaran invasion was the ATMOS factory in London . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " / " The Poison Sky " ) London was one of the many places attacked during the New Dalek Empire ' s invasion after relocating Earth to the Medusa Cascade . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) During Easter 2009 , a wormhole measuring nearly 10 kilometres high appeared in a tunnel in London . It led to the planet San Helios . At this time several members of an unidentified race tried to cross over to the Earth through the wormhole . ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) In September , the 456 returned to Earth , and possessed every child on the planet to relay messages announcing their arrival in Thames House . ( TV : " " , " " , " " ) Torchwood Three journeyed to London to help deal with the 456 and expose the corrupt responses of the government . ( TV : " " , " " , " " ) The " Mona Lisa " was in the International Gallery in London , on loan from the Louvre . Due to her proximity to " The Abomination " , made from the same sentient paint as the " Mona Lisa " , Mona Lisa was brought to life . She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life , who shot at " The Abomination " . ( TV : " Mona Lisa ' s Revenge " ) A fast - growing strain of Rakweed spread its spores across London , releasing spores that put everyone in the city into a coma so the Slitheen - Blathereen family could harvest the plant for profit . Mr Smith used a high - pitched frequency across London to kill the plants before they spread beyond London . Tree and Leef Slitheen - Blathereen , their stomachs filled to the brim with Rakweed , were also destroyed by this noise after they threatened Sarah Jane Smith . ( TV : " The Gift " ) In 2009 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory visited London . ( PROSE : " Snowfall " ) During Christmas 2009 , Saxon , actually , was resurrected on Earth , and used the Immortality Gate to convert every human being into a version of himself . The Time Lord s , led by Rassilon , used the drumbeat within the Master ' s head and a Whitepoint Star to break through the time - lock and escape the Time War . They planned to erase all of creation in order to ascend to a higher form of existence . They crossed through the gate , arriving in the mansion of Joshua Naismith in London . They were defeated by the Tenth Doctor and the Master . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) 2010s . In 2010 , the Tenth Doctor fought the Krillitane s in London . ( PROSE : " Code of the Krillitanes " ) In the same year , he and his companions Heather McCrimmon and Wolfgang Ryter fought the Bacothormeon in the city . ( COMIC : " The Genius Trap " ) In December 2010 , Jo Jones met Huxley and Iris Wildthyme in London . ( AUDIO : " Find and Replace " ) In 2011 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory fought the Virtual s in London . ( COMIC : " Sound Bytes " ) Also in 2011 , the Koggnossenti launched an invasion of London . They began emitting a signal which devolved the brains of all intelligent non - Koggnossenti life . For a few hours , London was transformed into a ghost town , with 98 . 2 % of the population reduced to a primitive technology fearing state . The Tenth Doctor reversed the signal unto the Koggnossenti , forcing them to leave Earth . Those affected by the signal did not retain any memories of the invasion . ( AUDIO : " Technophobia " ) On 27 July 2012 , the 2012 Summer Olympics opened in London during a period of unseasonably cold weather in the city , caused by an Isolus pod draining all the nearby heat . The Tenth Doctor , his TARDIS and people inside the Olympic Stadium were all among those placed inside drawings made by Chloe Webber , aided by an Isolus to give the stranded Isolus a family . Digging up the pod , Rose threw it into the Olympic Flame to heat it up , resulting in the Isolus releasing those it had kidnapped . Due to an injured runner during the torch relay route , the Olympic Flame was lit at the opening ceremonies by the Doctor , who appeared on international television . The morale of the Games allowed the Isolus to fly home . Afterward , the Doctor and Rose attended a neighbourhood celebration in London . By this time , the Torchwood Institute seemed to have been relatively well - known , enough that the Battle of Canary Wharf of several years earlier was now known as the " Battle of Torchwood " . ( TV : " Fear Her " ) Somewhere around the same time , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy met an athlete who was on the run from a Weeping Angel who was trying to steal the Olympic Flame in order to ruin the spirit of the Olympics , and ended up in the TARDIS . The Angel took the torch with the flame , but the Doctor destroyed the Angel with his screwdriver and received a gold medal for saving the Olympics . ( TV : " Good as Gold " ) In 2012 , the Eleventh Doctor and River Song visited London . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) In the summer of 2012 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory encountered the Weeping Angel s in London . ( PROSE : " Magic of the Angels " ) In 2013 , the Seventh Doctor and Ace found Group Captain Ian Gilmore ' s memoirs in a bookshop in London . ( AUDIO : " " ) In 2014 , the Eleventh Doctor visited London and met his latest companion Alice Obiefune . ( COMIC : " After Life " ) In the same year , the Seventh Doctor , Ace and Bernice Summerfield visited London . ( PROSE : " Warlock " ) In the same year , the Tenth Doctor visited his former companion s Heather McCrimmon and Wolfgang Ryter during his final reward and saved their lives in the National Science Museum in London . ( COMIC : " Lucky Heather " ) On 21 October 2015 , the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller encountered the Eight Legs in London . ( AUDIO : " The Eight Truths " ) At some point around the 2010s , London was taken over by a forest which encompassed the whole of the Earth . After saving the planet from a solar flare , the forest disappeared . ( TV : " In the Forest of the Night " ) 2020s . In October 2021 , the Seventh Doctor and Ace investigated mysterious goings - on at St . Gart ' s Brookside Hospital in London and discovered a Cyberman threat . An emergency room nurse , Thomas Hector " Hex " Schofield , celebrated his twenty - third birthday on 12 October in the course of assisting the duo . He then joined them aboard the TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " The Harvest " ) On 30 January 2025 , the Fourth Doctor and Leela encountered the Daleks in London . ( AUDIO : " Energy of the Daleks " ) In May 2025 , the Seventh Doctor destroyed the Forge ' s beta facility in London . ( AUDIO : " Project : Destiny " ) In the same year , the Seventh Doctor fought the Benanki in London . ( PROSE : " Testament " ) On 24 June 2027 , Ace met Henry Noone in the White Rabbit in London . ( AUDIO : " A Death in the Family " ) 2030s . In 2034 , the Tenth Doctor and Rose visited London . ( COMIC : " F . A . Q . " ) 2040s . In 2040 , the Fourth Doctor visited London . ( PROSE : " The Baron Wastes " ) The same was true of the Seventh Doctor and Chris Cwej as well as the Eighth Doctor . ( PROSE : " Anteus " , " Thinking Warrior " ) 2050s . In 2050 , the Jixen travelled to London via Professor Gryffen ' s Space - Time Manipulator . K9 Mark I followed them and defeated them . He then changed his form into K9 Mark 2 . ( TV : " Regeneration " ) Also in 2050 , an entity creating fear caused widespread riots and panic across London . ( TV : " Fear Itself " ) In the same year , London was battered by storms caused by the mating call of an Aeolian . ( TV : " Aeolian " ) In 2053 , the Second Doctor encountered the Quark s in London . ( COMIC : " Death Race " ) 2060s . In 2064 , a Bumble caused destruction across London . The Eleventh Doctor helped to capture it . ( COMIC : " Bumble of Destruction " ) In 2068 , Galactic Salvage Insurance was formed in London . ( TV : " Nightmare of Eden " ) 2080s . In 2082 , the Seventh Doctor fought the Threshold in Notting Hill in London . ( COMIC : " Ground Zero " ) 2090s . By 2096 , London was ravaged and poverty stricken as a result of the Myloki conflict of the 2060s . ( PROSE : " The Indestructible Man " ) Late 21st century . An Ice Warrior damaged the controls of the Weather Control Unit in London ' s Weather Control Station , creating a dry environment to propagate the Ice Warriors ' Seed Pods on Earth . Due to its cold climate and northern latitude , the Ice Warriors sent their Seed Pods here to create an atmosphere lethal to humans , but which the Ice Warriors could thrive in . The Second Doctor repaired the control unit and destroyed the pods with rain . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) 22nd century . In 2106 , the Eleventh Doctor and River Song visited London . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) In 2109 , the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield fought Fred in London . ( PROSE : " Transit " ) Circa 2167 , with the Daleks now defeated , the city was re - built and re - populated . ( PROSE : " Legacy of the Daleks " ) In the 2190s , London was again attacked by the Daleks . ( AUDIO : " Lucie Miller " , " To the Death " ) In the 22nd century , the Tenth Doctor and Donna fought the Zenith in London . ( COMIC : " Pawns of the Zenith " ) 23rd century . London was flooded when sea levels rose due to global warming . ( GAME : " TARDIS " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Amy visited London . ( GAME : " Shadows of the Vashta Nerada " ) In 2254 , London was among the major cities where bases were set up by the Dalek s , intending to turn Earth into a Dalek production planet , in their attempted invasion which was foiled by the Seventh Doctor . ( GAME : " Dalek Attack " ) 24th century . In 2382 , the Sixth Doctor and Flip Jackson visited London . ( AUDIO : " Antidote to Oblivion " ) According to Captain Maitland , London ceased to exist by the 24th century . By the 28th century , the whole lower half of England was called Central City . ( TV : " Strangers in Space " ) Also by this time , West London was a forest . ( PROSE : " The Dimension Riders " ) 25th century . In 2415 , London absorbed Nutchurch . ( PROSE : " The English Way of Death " ) Later in the 2410s , Martian - born Darzil Carlisle was relocated to an orphanage in Finchley at the age of three following a freak airlock accident which killed his parents . ( AUDIO : " The Game " ) 26th century . In 2595 , Bernice Summerfield visited London . ( PROSE : " The Sword of Forever " ) 28th century . In 2789 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory visited London . ( PROSE : " Paradox Lost " ) 30th century . By the 30th century , London was known as Spaceport Five Overcity . Tobias Vaughn had the " Skel ' Ske " parked in hyperspace near the city . Whenever the portal to access the ship was opened on Earth , icaron particles escaped , causing people to go insane in the vicinity . Powerless Friendless brought it into real space and crashed it into the Undercity . ( PROSE : " Original Sin " ) 38th century . In December 3738 , the Tenth Doctor and Martha fought the Klytode in London . ( COMIC : " A Klytode Christmas " ) 40th century . In the year 4000 , London , continued to be known as Central City , it served as the apparent capital of Earth . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) 41st century . In January 4039 , the Graxnix ravaged the Earth . The Tenth Doctor met and defeated them in London . ( COMIC : " Hotel Historia " ) Districts . As a large city , London was divided into several districts . These included : < dpl > category = London districts namespace = 0 columns = 3 < / dpl > Behind the scenes . Throughout seasons one to twenty - six , filming for " Doctor Who " took place primarily in London at the BBC Television Centre . This was largely a result of the BBC being based there . Due to the order of filming it was " Ghost Light " , not " Survival " , that was the last story filmed in BBC Television Centre . Any future work done there was irregular . With the reinvention of the series in 2005 , production was handed over to BBC Wales and moved to Cardiff , the Welsh capital .