The Blitz The Blitz referred to the bombing of the United Kingdom by the Germans during World War II . It primarily focused on London . In 1903 , after receiving a wealth of information from the future , Grigori Rasputin foresaw the Blitz . ( AUDIO : " The Wanderer " ) Ian Chesterton grew up in London during the Blitz . ( AUDIO : " The Time Museum " ) History . Effects . The First Doctor , the Ninth Doctor and Richard Lazarus all witnessed the Blitz . As a child , Lazarus would take shelter in a nearby cathedral while the Germans bombed . ( AUDIO : " The Alchemists " ; TV : " The Empty Child " / " The Doctor Dances " , " The Lazarus Experiment " ) An Auton duplicate of Rory Williams rescued the Pandorica from a fire started by the bombs . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) At 8 : 47 p . m . on 12 October 1940 , the New Regency Theatre , owned and operated by the late Henry Gordon Jago in the 1890s , was destroyed , as was the hotel next to it . ( AUDIO : " Swan Song " ) On 20 January 1941 , the Kiss the Boys Goodbye Dance at the Ritz in Cardiff was briefly interrupted by nearby bombings , forcing the attendants to take shelter . The next day , Captain Jack Harkness was killed in aerial combat while protecting Cardiff from a bombing raid . ( TV : " Captain Jack Harkness " ) Ken Temple ' s entire family was killed in the Blitz while he was serving in the Royal Navy . ( AUDIO : " The Pelage Project " ) St Anton ' s Point was badly damaged in the Blitz . The mental asylum St Anthony ' s Hospital was one of the many buildings which was destroyed . ( AUDIO : " The Concrete Cage " ) In the 1960s , certain areas of London were still being rebuilt as a result of the property damage caused by the Blitz . ( AUDIO : " The Perpetual Bond " , " Hunters of Earth " ) One such area was Bermondsey . ( AUDIO : " Threshold " ) During the Blitz , St . Joseph ' s Church in Holborn was a hit by a V2 rocket . Although it was completely ruined , it was not destroyed . It was still standing in 1965 . ( AUDIO : " The Fifth Citadel " ) After the Blitz and the V1 and V2 attacks by the Germans in 1944 , London remained very much intact up until the mid - 22nd century when the Daleks invaded Earth and occupied the city . ( PROSE : " Illegal Alien " ) Alien activity . In 1940 , the Cybermen landed during the Blitz and used it as a cover for their activities . ( PROSE : " Illegal Alien " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond received a phone call from Winston Churchill asking the Doctor to come to London in 1941 . On arrival , they found the Dalek s pretending to be mechanical soldiers known as " Ironsides " for the British . During the London Blitz , the Daleks sent an electrical wave that turned on all electronic devices , making London light up . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) The Empty Child plague began during the Blitz . When street children ran into empty houses while the owners had run into shelters , the Empty Child would knock on the doors and ring telephones . When Rose Tyler went to help the child on 20 January 1941 , she was caught on a Barrage Balloon rope and was hoisted over London . ( TV : " The Empty Child " ) Time travel . The 51st century Time Agent " Captain Jack Harkness " arrived in London in January 1941 . He took the name of a deceased American volunteer in the Royal Air Force , as part of a con . ( TV : " Captain Jack Harkness " ) As a result of time breaks caused by Elliot Payne ' s experiments , a British spitfire and a German " Messerschmidt " were transported roughly fifty years back in time and appeared in the sky over 1890s London , where they continued their fight . This was witnessed by Jago , a native of that era , and Leela . One of the planes was severely damaged and its pilot parachuted out of the plane . Jago , having never seen either a " flying machine " or a parachute , suggested to Leela that he should hire the pilot to perform his " act " at the New Regency Theatre . ( AUDIO : " Chronoclasm " ) Alternative timelines . In an alternative timeline in which Hitler did not lose the power of the Timewyrm , the Nazis ' attempt to subdue the United Kingdom through the Blitz and Germany had conquered the country and the rest of Europe by 1941 . After visiting the occupied London in May 1951 in this timeline , the Seventh Doctor and Ace prevented this from coming to pass . ( PROSE : " " ) Behind the scenes . The London Blitz appears in the online game " Doctor In A Dash " as the setting of Level 4 where , as with all levels , the Doctor ' s TARDIS ( the player ) races against a Dalek flying saucer , a Judoon rocket , and a Slitheen craft to find a Space - Time Manipulator . Barrage balloons act as obstacles to the ships . One possible " game over " for the video game " Don ' t Blink " has the player being sent back in time by a Weeping Angel to the year 1940 to die in the Blitz .