Shoreditch Incident The Shoreditch Incident was an event in which Imperial and Renegade Dalek factions battled in Shoreditch in November 1963 . The area was evacuated to prevent civilian casualties . At that time , the Dalek s were engaged in the Imperial - Renegade Dalek Civil War . Each side tried to procure the Hand of Omega . The course of the conflicts . Preparations by both sides . A Renegade Dalek faction ( from approximately the 30th century , according to the Seventh Doctor ) and an Imperial Dalek faction arrived in Shoreditch in 1963 . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) At least one Renegade Dalek had come to London to seek the Hand of Omega , which the First Doctor had concealed in a coffin and consigned to an undertaker in or shortly before November 1963 . ( COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ; TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) The Imperials set up a concealed transmat in the basement of Coal Hill School to transport themselves there . They enslaved the headmaster , H . Parson . The Renegade Daleks employed George Ratcliffe and linked Judith Winters , a schoolgirl , to their Battle Computer so her young imagination could generate ingenious stratagems to defeat the Imperial Daleks . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) On 22 November 1963 , the Doctor returned in his seventh incarnation with Ace McShane in tow . From his perspective , several hundred years had passed since his departure , although he had visited the village ' s 1985 future in the interim . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " , " Attack of the Cybermen " ) The course of the conflict . A human military force , the Intrusion Countermeasures Group , was led by Group Captain Ian Gilmore . Dr Rachel Jensen and her assistant Allison Williams were their scientific advisors . The troops had a brief battle with a Renegade Dalek at Foreman ' s Yard . For the most part , however , the group ensured the evacuation of the area to minimise human casualties and allow the Doctor to put his plans into motion . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) An Imperial shuttlecraft landed in the yard of Coal Hill School . Aided by the Special Weapons Dalek , the Imperial Daleks won their battle on the streets of Shoreditch . The Imperial Daleks took the Hand of Omega , as the Doctor had planned all along . Davros ( as " Emperor " of the Imperials ) ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) plotted to detonate the second sun of the Daleks ' homeworld Skaro , ( PROSE : " The Stranger " ) making it go supernova , and giving the Daleks the power of unlimited time travel . In the Imperial Daleks ' time zone , he did so . This action , however , destroyed the planet and the Imperial fleet . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) The Dalek Prime later claimed that it was not Skaro , but another planet , Antalin , that was actually destroyed . ( PROSE : " War of the Daleks " ) On Earth , the Doctor talked the last Renegade Dalek , the black Supreme Dalek , into self - destructing . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) However , Judith Winters , the young girl linked to his mind , was broken mentally for the rest of her life . ( PROSE : " In the Community " ) Human reaction . From the viewpoint of many key scientific and military authorities in Great Britain , the conflict constituted undeniable evidence that aliens existed . The conflict was later named " the Shoreditch Incident " by these authorities . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) " The Shoreditch Incident " was also the title of a book on the incident written by ex - UNIT officer Hamlet Macbeth . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " , " Return of the Living Dad " ) Alternate timeline . In an alternate timeline where WOTAN succeeded in taking over the minds of large portions of the population , Dalek artefacts from the Shoreditch Incident were recovered by the British , who began to make slight advances in time travel studies and , by 2006 , hoped to use it to win World War III , which began as a result of the broken world left behind in WOTAN ' s wake . Because WOTAN had destroyed many great minds , the only people left to carry out any experiments were , as the First Doctor opined , " idiot [ s ] . " The First Doctor prevented these studies from taking place in October 1972 of this timeline by transporting the artefacts into the Sun . Nevertheless , the appearance of a Dalek manipulator arm caused alarm for both the Doctor and Susan , who , by this point in their personal timelines , had only encountered the Daleks once before . The Doctor concluded that the Daleks must have visited Earth at some point . ( PROSE : " The Time Travellers " ) This timeline was ultimately totally averted when the First Doctor , later in his personal timeline , changed history by defeating WOTAN in 1966 . ( TV : " The War Machines " )