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'''Wales''' was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[nation]] whose capital and largest city, [[Cardiff]], sat on a [[time rift]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'', et al) and was the home of [[Torchwood Three]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'', et al) [[Rex Matheson]] called the country "the British equivalent of [[New Jersey]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World]]'') [[Wrexham]] was a town in North Wales. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Forgotten Lives (audio story)|Forgotten Lives]]'')
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'''Wales''' was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[nation]] whose capital and largest city, [[Cardiff]] in [[South Wales]], sat on a [[time rift]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'', et al.) and was the home of [[Torchwood Three]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'', et al.) [[Rex Matheson]] called the country "the British equivalent of [[New Jersey]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'') [[Wrexham]] was a town in North Wales. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Forgotten Lives (audio story)|Forgotten Lives]]'')
   
Torchwood Three's [[Gwen Cooper]] (whose family came from [[Swansea]]) and [[Ianto Jones]] were both of Welsh nationality, as was Gwen's husband, [[Rhys Williams]]. Wales was also the location of [[Aberystwyth University]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Random Shoes]]'')
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Torchwood Three's [[Gwen Cooper]] (whose family came from [[Swansea]]) and [[Ianto Jones]] were both of Welsh nationality, as was Gwen's husband, [[Rhys Williams]]. Wales was also the location of [[Aberystwyth University]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]'')
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== Government ==
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The parliament of Wales was known as the [[Welsh Assembly]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Changes Everything (audio story)|Changes Everything]]'') The [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[British government|government]] in [[London]] had responsibilities for Wales, but [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] noted that they paid no notice to goings-on in the country, claiming that the [[South Wales]] [[coast]] could "fall into the [[sea]]" without them noticing. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'')
   
 
== History ==
 
== History ==
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=== 19th century ===
 
=== 19th century ===
[[Torchwood Three]] was founded in [[1885]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay]]'')
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[[Torchwood Three]] was founded in [[1885]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'')
   
 
=== 20th century ===
 
=== 20th century ===
Throughout the century (if not before), the inhabitants of [[Brynblaidd]] in the [[Brecon Beacons]] mountain range secretly indulged in [[murder]] and [[cannibalism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Countrycide]]'')
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Throughout the century (if not before), the inhabitants of [[Brynblaidd]] in the [[Brecon Beacons]] mountain range secretly indulged in [[murder]] and [[cannibalism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Countrycide (TV story)|Countrycide]]'')
   
In [[1959]], a [[Navarino]] group, together with the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]] crashed at [[Shangri-La]] holiday camp in Wales. The [[Bannermen]] attacked the camp but were defeated by the [[Chimeron princess]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'')
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In [[1959]], a [[Navarino]] group, together with the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]] crashed at [[Shangri-La]] holiday camp in Wales. The [[Bannermen]] attacked the camp but were defeated by the [[Chimeron princess]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)|Delta and the Bannermen]]'')
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A [[Euro Sea Gas]] [[refinery]] supplied all [[gas]] for the whole of Wales as well as the south of [[England]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|Fury from the Deep]]'')
   
 
In the [[1970s]], the [[Third Doctor]] worked on [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in a barn on a Welsh mountainside. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gemini Plan (comic story)|Gemini Plan]]'')
 
In the [[1970s]], the [[Third Doctor]] worked on [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in a barn on a Welsh mountainside. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gemini Plan (comic story)|Gemini Plan]]'')
   
A few years later, the Third Doctor and [[Jo Grant]], both of whom worked for [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] at the time, visited the small Welsh mining town of [[Llanfairfach]] as well as [[Wholeweal]], a small countercultural commune nearby. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'')
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A few years later, the Third Doctor and [[Jo Grant]], both of whom worked for [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] at the time, visited the small Welsh mining town of [[Llanfairfach]] as well as [[Wholeweal]], a small countercultural commune nearby. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'')
   
In [[1992]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] found a portal from a [[stone circle]] near [[Llanfer Ceiriog]] linking it to an alien world called [[Tír na n-Óg]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'')
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In [[1992]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] found a portal from a [[stone circle]] near [[Llanfer Ceiriog]] linking it to an alien world called [[Tír na n-Óg]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'')
   
 
=== 21st century ===
 
=== 21st century ===
 
Torchwood Three's hub was destroyed in [[September]] [[2009]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'')
   
 
By the time of the Miracle Day phenomenon, Welsh people greatly disliked being mistaken for or called English; when a CIA agent insulted Gwen Cooper in this way, Gwen furiously told her that she was Welsh and punched her in the face. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'')
Torchwood Three's hub was destroyed in [[September]] [[2009]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'')
 
   
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In [[2010]], a fake [[funeral]] for [[the Doctor]] was held at [[UNIT Base 5]] inside [[Mount Snowdon]]. It was actually a ruse by [[Tia Karim]] and the [[Claw Shansheeth]] of the [[15th Funeral Fleet]] to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
By the time of the Miracle Day phenomenon, Welsh people greatly disliked being mistaken for or called English; when a CIA agent insulted Gwen Cooper in this way, Gwen furiously told her that she was Welsh and punched her in the face. (TV:''Rendition'')
 
   
In [[2010]], a fake funeral for [[the Doctor]] was held at [[UNIT Base 5]] inside [[Mount Snowdon]]. It was actually a ruse by [[Tia Karim]] and the [[Claw Shansheeth]] of the [[15th Funeral Fleet]] to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'')
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In [[2020]], a tribe of [[Silurian]]s was awakened from a drilling operation in [[Cwmtaff]], sealing its residents behind a force field. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]''/''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')
   
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=== Later history ===
In [[2020]], a tribe of [[Silurian]]s was awakened from a drilling operation in [[Cwmtaff]], sealing its residents behind a forcefield. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]'')
 
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It was still a part of the UK in the [[33rd century]], when the [[British]] [[population]] bar [[Scotland]] inhabited [[Starship UK]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'')
 
== Notable people from Wales ==
 
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* [[Gwen Cooper]]
 
* [[Clifford Jones]]
 
* [[Ianto Jones]]
 
* [[Malcolm Taylor]]
 
* [[Rhys Williams]]
 
* [[Andy Davidson]]
 
* [[Daniel Llewellyn]]
 
* [[Nasreen Chaudhry]]
 
* [[Tony Mack]]
 
* [[Ambrose Northover]]
 
* [[Mo Northover]]
 
* [[Elliot Northover]]
 
   
 
== Other information ==
 
== Other information ==
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Prejudice against Welsh people was known as [[Cymrophobia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Superiority Complex (audio story)|Superiority Complex]]'')
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Wales was well known for being made up of numerous [[valley]]s. In [[2005]], [[Ianto Jones]] had earned the nickname "Valley Boy" simply for being [[Welsh]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Uprising (audio story)|Uprising]]'')
 
Wales was well known for being made up of numerous [[valley]]s. In [[2005]], [[Ianto Jones]] had earned the nickname "Valley Boy" simply for being [[Welsh]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Uprising (audio story)|Uprising]]'')
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[[Water Wales]] supplied water to Wales. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day Zero (audio story)|Day Zero]]'')
   
 
In [[2009]], Ianto Jones posed as the Welsh ambassador to [[Switzerland]] (with [[Gwen Cooper]] as his wife) to gain entrance to the [[Large Hadron Collider]]'s gala opening and investigate alien activity there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lost Souls (audio story)|Lost Souls]]'')
 
In [[2009]], Ianto Jones posed as the Welsh ambassador to [[Switzerland]] (with [[Gwen Cooper]] as his wife) to gain entrance to the [[Large Hadron Collider]]'s gala opening and investigate alien activity there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lost Souls (audio story)|Lost Souls]]'')
   
When the [[Miracle Day]] phenomenon required the presence of Torchwood in several missions in the [[United States]], on several occasions Americans who met Gwen mistakenly believed that she was English, much to her annoyance. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'', ''[[End of the Road]]'')
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When the [[Miracle Day]] phenomenon required the presence of Torchwood in several missions in the [[United States]], on several occasions Americans who met Gwen mistakenly believed that she was English, much to her annoyance. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'', ''[[End of the Road (TV story)|End of the Road]]'')
   
 
[[Paul Keele|Commander Paul Keele]], [[Eleanor Harcourt|Dr. Eleanor Harcourt]] and [[Ivor Fassbinder|Professor Ivor Fassbinder]] of [[Dark Space 8]] were once sent back in time to medieval Wales. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)|Bang-Bang-a-Boom!]]'')
 
[[Paul Keele|Commander Paul Keele]], [[Eleanor Harcourt|Dr. Eleanor Harcourt]] and [[Ivor Fassbinder|Professor Ivor Fassbinder]] of [[Dark Space 8]] were once sent back in time to medieval Wales. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)|Bang-Bang-a-Boom!]]'')
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Wales had an [[Welsh Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit|Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Mother's Son (audio story)|A Mother's Son]]'')
   
 
== Behind the scenes ==
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* [[Location filming]] for ''[[The Abominable Snowmen]]'' and ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' were filmed in desolate-looking areas of North Wales. Outside shooting for ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'' was done in {{w|Portmeirion}}, also in North Wales.
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* [[Location filming]] for ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'' and ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' were filmed in desolate-looking areas of North Wales. Outside shooting for ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'' was done in {{w|Portmeirion}}, also in North Wales.
* Since its revival in 2005, production of ''Doctor Who'' has been based in Wales, specifically the Cardiff region, with all but a handful of episodes filmed exclusively in the region. Several episodes such as ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'' and ''[[Boom Town]]'' have been explicitly set in Cardiff.
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* Since its revival in 2005, production of ''Doctor Who'' has been based in Wales, specifically the Cardiff region, with all but a handful of episodes filmed exclusively in the region. Several episodes such as ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'' and ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'' have been explicitly set in Cardiff.
* The first three series of the spinoff ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' and the entirety of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' was completely produced in Wales as well, with the former actually taking place in and around Cardiff and the latter having [[Death of the Doctor|an episode]] set inside [[Mount Snowdon]].
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* The first three series of the spinoff ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' and the entirety of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' was completely produced in Wales as well, with the former actually taking place in and around Cardiff and the latter having [[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|an episode]] set inside [[Mount Snowdon]].
* Production of the franchise is currently headquartered out of Roath Lock studios in the Porth Teigr area of Cardiff Bay. It moved there in 2012. Previously, it was also located in Cardiff, in Upper Boat Studios.
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* Production of the franchise is currently headquartered out of Roath Lock studios in the Porth Teigr area of Cardiff Bay. It moved there in 2012. Previously, it was also located in Cardiff, in [[Upper Boat Studios]].
   
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Revision as of 02:31, 5 April 2020

Wales

Wales was a British nation whose capital and largest city, Cardiff in South Wales, sat on a time rift (TV: The Unquiet Dead, et al.) and was the home of Torchwood Three. (TV: Everything Changes, et al.) Rex Matheson called the country "the British equivalent of New Jersey". (TV: The New World) Wrexham was a town in North Wales. (AUDIO: Forgotten Lives)

Torchwood Three's Gwen Cooper (whose family came from Swansea) and Ianto Jones were both of Welsh nationality, as was Gwen's husband, Rhys Williams. Wales was also the location of Aberystwyth University. (TV: Random Shoes)

Government

The parliament of Wales was known as the Welsh Assembly. (AUDIO: Changes Everything) The UK government in London had responsibilities for Wales, but Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen noted that they paid no notice to goings-on in the country, claiming that the South Wales coast could "fall into the sea" without them noticing. (TV: Boom Town)

History

14th century

In 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer went into hiding in Wales under an assumed name. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)

19th century

Torchwood Three was founded in 1885. (PROSE: Slow Decay)

20th century

Throughout the century (if not before), the inhabitants of Brynblaidd in the Brecon Beacons mountain range secretly indulged in murder and cannibalism. (TV: Countrycide)

In 1959, a Navarino group, together with the Seventh Doctor and Melanie Bush crashed at Shangri-La holiday camp in Wales. The Bannermen attacked the camp but were defeated by the Chimeron princess. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen)

A Euro Sea Gas refinery supplied all gas for the whole of Wales as well as the south of England. (TV: Fury from the Deep)

In the 1970s, the Third Doctor worked on his TARDIS in a barn on a Welsh mountainside. (COMIC: Gemini Plan)

A few years later, the Third Doctor and Jo Grant, both of whom worked for UNIT at the time, visited the small Welsh mining town of Llanfairfach as well as Wholeweal, a small countercultural commune nearby. (TV: The Green Death)

In 1992, the Seventh Doctor and Ace found a portal from a stone circle near Llanfer Ceiriog linking it to an alien world called Tír na n-Óg. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark)

21st century

Torchwood Three's hub was destroyed in September 2009. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)

By the time of the Miracle Day phenomenon, Welsh people greatly disliked being mistaken for or called English; when a CIA agent insulted Gwen Cooper in this way, Gwen furiously told her that she was Welsh and punched her in the face. (TV: Rendition)

In 2010, a fake funeral for the Doctor was held at UNIT Base 5 inside Mount Snowdon. It was actually a ruse by Tia Karim and the Claw Shansheeth of the 15th Funeral Fleet to steal the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: Death of the Doctor)

In 2020, a tribe of Silurians was awakened from a drilling operation in Cwmtaff, sealing its residents behind a force field. (TV: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)

Later history

It was still a part of the UK in the 33rd century, when the British population bar Scotland inhabited Starship UK. (TV: The Beast Below)

Other information

Prejudice against Welsh people was known as Cymrophobia. (AUDIO: Superiority Complex)

Wales was well known for being made up of numerous valleys. In 2005, Ianto Jones had earned the nickname "Valley Boy" simply for being Welsh. (AUDIO: Uprising)

Water Wales supplied water to Wales. (AUDIO: Day Zero)

In 2009, Ianto Jones posed as the Welsh ambassador to Switzerland (with Gwen Cooper as his wife) to gain entrance to the Large Hadron Collider's gala opening and investigate alien activity there. (AUDIO: Lost Souls)

When the Miracle Day phenomenon required the presence of Torchwood in several missions in the United States, on several occasions Americans who met Gwen mistakenly believed that she was English, much to her annoyance. (TV: Rendition, End of the Road)

Commander Paul Keele, Dr. Eleanor Harcourt and Professor Ivor Fassbinder of Dark Space 8 were once sent back in time to medieval Wales. (AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom!)

Wales had an Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit. (AUDIO: A Mother's Son)

Behind the scenes

  • Location filming for The Abominable Snowmen and The Five Doctors were filmed in desolate-looking areas of North Wales. Outside shooting for The Masque of Mandragora was done in Portmeirion, also in North Wales.
  • Since its revival in 2005, production of Doctor Who has been based in Wales, specifically the Cardiff region, with all but a handful of episodes filmed exclusively in the region. Several episodes such as The Unquiet Dead and Boom Town have been explicitly set in Cardiff.
  • The first three series of the spinoff Torchwood and the entirety of The Sarah Jane Adventures was completely produced in Wales as well, with the former actually taking place in and around Cardiff and the latter having an episode set inside Mount Snowdon.
  • Production of the franchise is currently headquartered out of Roath Lock studios in the Porth Teigr area of Cardiff Bay. It moved there in 2012. Previously, it was also located in Cardiff, in Upper Boat Studios.