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'''Ealing''' was a [[district]] in the [[London Borough of Ealing]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'') It was immediately south of [[Perivale]] also in the borough. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'')
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'''Ealing''' was a district of West [[London]]. It was the administrative centre of the Borough of Ealing; and was immediately south of [[Perivale]], also in the borough.  


A local newspaper was the ''[[Ealing Echo]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen]]'') A local comprehensive school was [[Park Vale Comprehensive School|Park Vale]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'') Serving younger children was [[St Benedict's School]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') Ealing's [[Wikipedia:Greenford Station|Greenford Station]] was a [[London Underground]] stop. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')  The Drayton Court in West Ealing was a popular pub for residents of the adjoining Perivale. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
== Geography ==
Ealing was located in [[west London]]. To the north-west of Ealing was [[Uxbridge]], to the south-west was [[Heathrow]] and to the south-east was [[Richmond]]. [[Park Vale Comprehensive School]] was located in the district. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'')


[[Image:HighStreet-Deaths-Ealing-1969-70.jpg||thumb|left|Ealing commuters killed by [[Auton]]s in a High Street bus queue in [[1969]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')]]
== History ==
In [[1969]], [[Autons]] smashed through their shop windows and proceed along Ealing Broadway and the High Street, killing many humans. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')
[[Edith Randall]] was [[Miss Ealing]] in [[1951]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]'')


[[Image:SeventhDrAndAce-TheAvenue-WestEaling-1.jpg|thumb|right|[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Ace]] on The Avenue in West Ealing in [[1989]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')]]
In [[1964]], the [[Reesinger Institute]] was located in Ealing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reesinger Process (audio story)|The Reesinger Process]]'')
In [[1989]], while investigating the disappearance of people from Perivale and suspecting [[Kitling]]s, the [[Seventh Doctor]] purchased cat food in an adjoining portion of Ealing while [[Ace]] looked for her missing friends next-door in the Drayton Court. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') [''[[Perivale|See also]]'': the pair's travels to the village of [[Perivale]], also in the borough of Ealing.]


[[Image:Invasionofthebane.jpg|thumb|left|[[13 Bannerman Road]] ([[TV]]:''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'')]] Sometime after 1984 ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') and before 2008, ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[K-9]] moved into [[13 Bannerman Road]]. Before 2008, Sarah Jane brought a [[Xylok]] into her home; it took the name [[Mr Smith]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]'')
In [[1990]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] briefly visited [[Ealing Broadway]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')


In [[1990]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] ordered {{w|baked Alaska}} in a café on Ealing Broadway. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
A local newspaper was the ''[[Ealing Echo]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'')


In August [[2008]] [[Alan Jackson]] and his daughter [[Maria Jackson|Maria]] moved into [[36 Bannerman Road]]. Within days, [[Luke Smith|a genetically engineered boy appearing as a teenager]] was adopted by [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and moved into 13 Bannerman Road under the name Luke Smith. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'') The Jacksons relocated to [[Washington, D.C.]] a year later. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]'')
The Doctor visited Ealing and encountered Sarah Jane Smith and her companions on at least two occasions during his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''; ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and at least once during his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'') In addition to myriad aliens and terrestrial forces and more mundane guests, other visitors to Ealing included former companions [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]'') and [[Jo Grant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')


In May or June [[2009]], one of six nodes [five active at any given point] of former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Harriet Jones]]'s [[Subwave network|subwave network]] was established at 13 Bannerman Road in response to the [[Dalek]]s' removal of the Earth.
Throughout the late [[2000s]] and early [[2010s]], there was a large amount of [[alien]] activity centred on the Ealing area. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'', ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]'', ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]'', ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'', ''[[The Vault of Secrets (TV story)|The Vault of Secrets]]'') The amount of strange and alien occurrences around the area led to it being dubbed "The [[Ealing Triangle]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'')


In or about October 2009, [[Haresh Chandra|Haresh]] and [[Gita Chandra]] moved into 36 Bannerman Road with their daughter [[Rani Chandra|Rani]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
 
In the real world, Ealing is the home to [[Ealing Studios]], an important filming location for many serials of the 1963 version of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
[[Image:Dw_endoftime_2121.jpg|thumb|right|[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] admonishing [[Luke Smith]] about traffic safety on [[Bannerman Road]] just before [[Regeneration|regenerating]], while [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] looks on. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] [[The Doctor]] visited Ealing and encountered Sarah Jane Smith and her companions on at least two occasions during his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''), and at least once during his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'') In addition to myriad aliens and terrestrial forces and more mundane guests, other visitors to Ealing included former companions [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]'') and [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones (née Grant)]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')  The [[Eleventh Doctor]] briefly visited in the course of returning Sarah Jane, Jo, Rani Chandra, Clyde Langer, and [[Santiago Jones]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] from UNIT's [[Mount Snowdon]] base. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
 
Luke Smith and K9 removed to the [[University of Oxford]] at the start of the [[2010]] Michaelmas term. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'')
 
[[Sky Smith|An alien infant]] arrived unannounced at 13 Bannerman Road in the late spring of [[2011]]. Quickly meta-morphing into an adolescent, she was adopted by Sarah Jane Smith. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]'')
 
Throughout the late [[2000s]] and early [[2010s]], there was a large amount of [[alien]] activity centred on the Ealing area. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'', ''[[The Lost Boy]]'', ''[[The Day of the Clown]]'', ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'', ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'') The amount of strange and alien occurrences around the area led to it being dubbed "The Ealing Triangle". ([[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'')


== Alternate timeline ==
''[[Dalek Invasion of Ealing 1987 (comic story)|Dalek Invasion of Ealing 1987]]'', one of the parodical comic stories in ''[[The Doctor Who Fun Book]]'', dealt with just what its title implied: the real [[Dalek]]s wreaking havoc in [[1987]] Ealing, under the [[Daleks in popular culture and mythology|guise of some BBC filming]]. However, due to its parodical nature, the story is not currently considered [[Tardis:Valid sources|a valid source]] on this Wiki.
[[File:EalingRuinsWide-Clyde-Rani.jpg|left|thumb|[[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]] traversing the wasteland was once Ealing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')]] [[File:EalingRuins-Clyde-Rani.jpg|right|thumb|[[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]] climbing from the rubble of Ealing's [[Wikipedia:Greenford Station|Greenford Station]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')]]
Ealing, like the rest of the Earth, was destroyed by [[The Trickster]] after resident [[Sarah Jane Smith]] was lured into changing the timeline in north suburban [[Foxgrove]] on [[18 August]] [[1951]]. [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]] retained their memories of the "proper" timeline and remained inviolable from the [[Graske]] by holding the [[Verron puzzlebox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')


== Known residents ==
{{London Borough of Ealing}}
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]] ([[13 Bannerman Road]])
{{Greater London}}
* [[K-9 Mark IV]] (13 Bannerman Road)
* [[Xylok]] [[Mr Smith]] (13 Bannerman Road)
* [[Luke Smith]] (13 Bannerman Road)
* [[Sky Smith]] (13 Bannerman Road)
* [[Rani Chandra]] (36, later 13, Bannerman Road)
* [[Gita Chandra]] ([[36 Bannerman Road]])
* [[Haresh Chandra]] (36 Bannerman Road)
* [[Maria Jackson]] (36 Bannerman Road)
* [[Alan Jackson]] (36 Bannerman Road)
* [[Clyde Langer]] (around the corner from Bannerman Road)
* [[Carla Langer]] (around the corner from Bannerman Road)
* [[Kelsey Hooper]] (on or near Bannerman Road)
* [[The Shopkeeper]]
* [[Autons|Myriad Autons]] (High Street & Ealing Broadway)
* [[Ace|Dorothy "Ace" McShane]] (borough, not town)
* [[Kathleen Dudman]] (borough, not town)
''See also [[Perivale#Known_residents|other residents of the village of Perivale]]


== Behind the scenes ==
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* In the real world, Ealing is the home to [[Ealing Studios]], an important recording location for many serials of the 1963 version of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
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Latest revision as of 16:47, 21 October 2024

Ealing

You may be looking for the London Borough of Ealing.

Ealing was a district in the London Borough of Ealing. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen) It was immediately south of Perivale also in the borough. (TV: The Gift)

Geography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ealing was located in west London. To the north-west of Ealing was Uxbridge, to the south-west was Heathrow and to the south-east was Richmond. Park Vale Comprehensive School was located in the district. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Edith Randall was Miss Ealing in 1951. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon)

In 1964, the Reesinger Institute was located in Ealing. (AUDIO: The Reesinger Process)

In 1990, the Seventh Doctor and Ace briefly visited Ealing Broadway. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)

A local newspaper was the Ealing Echo. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)

The Doctor visited Ealing and encountered Sarah Jane Smith and her companions on at least two occasions during his tenth incarnation, (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith; The End of Time) and at least once during his eleventh. (TV: Death of the Doctor) In addition to myriad aliens and terrestrial forces and more mundane guests, other visitors to Ealing included former companions Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (TV: Enemy of the Bane) and Jo Grant. (TV: Death of the Doctor)

Throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, there was a large amount of alien activity centred on the Ealing area. (TV: Invasion of the Bane, Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, The Lost Boy, The Day of the Clown, The Nightmare Man, The Vault of Secrets) The amount of strange and alien occurrences around the area led to it being dubbed "The Ealing Triangle". (TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the real world, Ealing is the home to Ealing Studios, an important filming location for many serials of the 1963 version of Doctor Who.

Dalek Invasion of Ealing 1987, one of the parodical comic stories in The Doctor Who Fun Book, dealt with just what its title implied: the real Daleks wreaking havoc in 1987 Ealing, under the guise of some BBC filming. However, due to its parodical nature, the story is not currently considered a valid source on this Wiki.