Blackpool Blackpool was a town on the coast of Lancashire , England . It looked out over the Irish Sea . ( COMIC : " Seaside Rendezvous " ) It was the home town of two of the Doctor ' s companion s : Lucie Miller ( AUDIO : " Death in Blackpool " ) and Clara Oswald . ( TV : " Robot of Sherwood " ) Geography . Blackpool ' s landmarks included Blackpool Tower and Blackpool Pleasure Beach . ( AUDIO : " The Nightmare Fair " ) Other attractions included the Golden Mile . ( PROSE : " Autonomy " ) Culture . Fish and chips were commonly served in Blackpool ( AUDIO : " The Skull of Sobek " ) . Local attractions sold toffee apple s and candy floss . ( PROSE : " The Nightmare Fair " / AUDIO : " The Nightmare Fair " ) The town had it ' s own football team . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) History . 20th century . At some point in the latter half of the 20th century , the Third Doctor magnetised Blackpool Tower to stop a swarm of metal - eating insects . ( COMIC : " The Metal - Eaters " ) 1930s . In the summer of 1936 , Tom Wake met his future wife Alice in Blackpool . ( PROSE : " The Hopes and Fears of All the Years " ) 1960s . In the late 1960s , Mary Wake and her husband , an Indian lawyer , moved to Blackpool . ( PROSE : " The Hopes and Fears of All the Years " ) 1980s . In 1981 , Ellie Ravenwood saved Dave Oswald from being hit by a car in the town after a leaf blew into his face . They later married and had a daughter , Clara Oswald , ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) who was born on 23 November 1986 . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visited Blackpool in 1985 where they encountered the Mandarin . ( PROSE : " The Nightmare Fair " / AUDIO : " The Nightmare Fair " ) In the mid - 80s , Iris Wildthyme was lured to Blackpool by the Cosmic Puppet Master , who tried to kill her with real Space Invaders brought to life from an arcade game . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) Lucie Miller was a companion of the Eighth Doctor . She was born in the town on 31 July 1988 . ( AUDIO : " Brave New Town " ) 1990s . In 1991 , the Seventh Doctor and Ace encountered an Ogri on Blackpool beach . ( COMIC : " Seaside Rendezvous " ) As a child , Clara Oswald got lost on Blackpool beach on a bank holiday and was terrified until her mother found her and helped her to conquer her fear of getting lost . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) The Eleventh Doctor unknowingly talked to a young Clara at a Blackpool park , while searching for her . ( WC : " " ) 21st century . Ellie Oswald died in the town on 5 March 2005 . The Eleventh Doctor watched from a distance as Clara and Dave mourned at her graveside . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) While at home in Blackpool , Lucie received a late night visit from an old foe . The Headhunter raised an alien gun and threatened to kill her . When Lucie protested , she was shot . ( AUDIO : " The Vengeance of Morbius " ) The Headhunter later revealed that she had used quantum - tipped time bullet s to shoot Lucie and then un - shoot her . ( AUDIO : " Orbis " ) In 2009 , calls to the emergency services from Blackpool suggested that children were frozen . ( TV : " " ) After a series of adventures with the Doctor , Lucie asked him to return her to Blackpool for Christmas 2009 . While spending her Christmas in Blackpool , she discovered that her Auntie Pat was a Zygon . Learning that the Doctor had deceived her after Pat ' s death in the Lake District , Lucie decline the Doctor ' s offer to continue her travels with him . ( AUDIO : " Death in Blackpool " ) By 2089 , climate change had caused Blackpool to be overtaken by jungle and abandoned . The animals from the circus ran loose and Blackpool Pleasure Beach could be rented out for hunting . The Twelfth Doctor and Clara arrived in 2089 by accident and were nearly killed by Triss ' s hunting party . The Doctor indicated to Clara this future was not fixed . ( PROSE : " All the Empty Towers " ) References . The Fourth Doctor recalled a previous visit to the town when Leela told him that the Trog s ate processed rock . ( TV : " Underworld " ) The Sixth Doctor attempted to return to Blackpool with Evelyn Smythe after she suggested he needed a holiday ; a suggestion which the Doctor reluctantly accepted . The TARDIS instead materialised in Brighton . ( AUDIO : " Pier Pressure " ) The Eighth Doctor once ushered Charlotte Pollard and C ' rizz back into his TARDIS with an offer to take them to Blackpool , after bursting into a room full of Dalek s . ( AUDIO : " Terror Firma " ) The Sixth Doctor once commented that a replica of the town was being built on the rim of the Crab Nebula . ( PROSE : " The Nightmare Fair " ; AUDIO : " The Nightmare Fair " ) Lucie Miller told the Eighth Doctor that she didn ' t mind the cold , dark atmosphere of Red Rocket Rising as she was used to going clubbing in Blackpool on a December night . ( AUDIO : " Blood of the Daleks " ) Later , while travelling with the Monk , Lucie threatened to break a sculpture by Michelangelo if he did not return her to Blackpool . He abandoned her on Deimos instead . ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " ) The Timey - wimey detector was made up of items including a Blackpool postcard . ( TV : " Blink " ) When questioned by Sheriff of Nottingham in 1190 , Clara Oswald implied that she gained her feistiness from the town , telling him that " you can take the girl out of Blackpool . . . " . ( TV : " Robot of Sherwood " ) Danny Pink later thought Clara had lied to him about being from Blackpool upon finding out about her other life with the Doctor , instead believing her to be a " space woman " . Clara replied that she was telling the truth about being from the town . ( TV : " The Caretaker " ) The Tenth Doctor once attempted to take Donna Noble to Blackpool but they instead arrived in the French Riviera in the 1780s . ( AUDIO : " Death and the Queen " ) Hex was fond of Blackpool . ( AUDIO : " Shadow Planet " , " World Apart " ) Behind the scenes . The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown were to visit Blackpool on screen in a script written for the 1986 season of " Doctor Who " called " The Nightmare Fair " . However , the series was placed on hiatus and a dialogue reference to Blackpool intended to close " Revelation of the Daleks " was replaced by a freeze frame . The intended story was later novelised and later adapted as a Big Finish audio play . Blackpool was once the location of a Doctor Who Exhibition which featured a range of costumes and props from the classic series . Actors Jenna Coleman and Nicola Sian were born in Blackpool .