Los Angeles Los Angeles , often initialised as LA , was a major city in California . A significant portion of LA was the neighbourhood of Hollywood . It was the fourth largest city on Earth . ( PROSE : " The King of Terror " ) It was located on the east coast of the United States . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) The city was home to a branch of Torchwood ( AUDIO : " The Dollhouse " ) and a branch of Faction Paradox . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " Remake / Remodel " ) UNIT had a large base in downtown Los Angeles . ( PROSE : " The King of Terror " ) The L . A . Herald was the city ' s local newspaper . ( COMIC : " Nightmare on the Boulevard " ) History . Prehistory . Circa 33 , 000 years BC , Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams visited the site where Los Angeles would one day be built . The TARDIS became stuck in a tar pit , while they encounter a mammoth and a sabre - toothed tiger . ( COMIC : " The Doctor and the Nurse " ) 20th century . In 1936 , the renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme and Jo Jones visited Hollywood in Los Angeles , where they met the Eighth Doctor . ( AUDIO : " The Elixir of Doom " ) In 1947 , the Seventh Doctor visited Los Angeles and encountered Mykloz . ( PROSE : " Playback " ) In 1973 , the Third Doctor and Jo Grant visited the city and rescued Vita Monet from one of her ex - husbands . ( AUDIO : " The Elixir of Doom " ) In 1976 , two priests who were members of the Order of Saint Peter pursued a vampire from Poland to Los Angeles and destroyed it . One of them stayed behind to found a chapter of the order there , and later became the father of Becky Lee Kowalczyck . ( AUDIO : " Minuet in Hell " ) Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Olympic Games , which were boycotted by the Soviet Union . ( AUDIO : " The Reaping " ) In 1999 , Los Angeles was home to a shady conglomerate known as InterCom , which aroused the suspicion of UNIT , after it was linked to illegal sales of plutonium . Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart was joined in his investigations in the city by the Fifth Doctor , Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough in 1999 . ( PROSE : " The King of Terror " ) On a Christmas Eve in the late 20th century , the Second Doctor took Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot to downtown LA in an effort to make them understand no society , even the most egalitarian - minded ones , could escape the difficulties of poverty . The trio worked at the Midnight Mission and stopped a desperate homeless man named Charlie from robbing the charity . ( PROSE : " Goodwill Toward Men " ) 21st century . The Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield once found themselves imprisoned in the city by Face - Painter , who somehow stripped them of their faces , and his minion , Rachel . ( PROSE : " Face - Painter " ) In 2008 , Los Angeles was one of ten major cities across the world , all of which had underground railways , where Coldfire Construction built a reactor within a period of 18 months as part of a plot by the Slitheen to drain the Sun ' s energy , operated by at least one Slitheen disguised using a skin suit made from a local . At somepoint in 2008 , after Sarah Jane Smith foiled the Slitheen with the help of her friends at Park Vale Comprehensive School at Ealing in London , she contacted UNIT so they would clear up the Coldfire sites . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " ) In 2011 , after Miracle Day , a renewed Torchwood team moved to Venice Beach to investigate closely what PhiCorp was up to in LA . Rex Matheson had family in this city . ( TV : " Escape to LA " ) Later , Oswald Danes presented the Miracle Rally , greatly raising his public image . ( TV : " The Categories of Life " ) 26th century . In 2540 , demonstrators in Los Angeles burned an effigy of the President of Earth Dora . ( TV : " Frontier in Space " ) Far future . Toward the end of Earth ' s life , Cassandra O ' Brien . Δ17 had a home on the Los Angeles Crevasse . ( TV : " The End of the World " )