- You may be looking for the London Borough of Richmond.
Richmond was a location in south-west London. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen) It was part of the London Borough of Richmond. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem, PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Steve Tribe, BBC Books (2008). Chapter 3, "Everything Changes"; Page 128.)
Roughly to the west of Richmond was Heathrow, to the north-west was Ealing and roughly to the east was Wimbledon. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
In the late 19th century, the First Doctor's ward, Duke David Warblington, accidentally burned down his home, Warblington Place. The Doctor and Barbara arrived by coach to find the house on fire, but were relieved to find David alive and well. (PROSE: The Duke's Folly)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] the London branch of Coldfire Construction, which was secretly operated by the Slitheen, built a technology block in a Richmond school, using it as a transducer to absorb energy from the Sun and destroy the Earth so they could sell it off. After Sarah Jane Smith foiled the Slitheen at Park Vale Comprehensive School, she called UNIT so they would clear up the Coldfire sites across the world. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
The Rattigan Academy was situated on Templeford Road, Richmond TW9 4HX. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
Behind the scenes[]
- A short scene which was deleted from the broadcast of The Day of the Doctor then released on the BBC Doctor Who website, featuring the War Doctor, the Tenth and Eleventh arriving at the Tower of London in ankle shackles, an exasperated War Doctor declares they haven't drawn breath "since Richmond".
Footnotes[]
- ↑ No on screen date is given for the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, outside of The Day of the Clown from the second series being set shortly after 9 October in an undisclosed year. While Donna Noble's present from the fourth series of Doctor Who is set around the same time as the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is explicitly described as being set a year after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? from the first series, Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008, and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
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