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'''76 Totter's Lane''' (also known as '''Totter's Yard''' or '''Foreman's Yard''') in [[Shoreditch]] was a [[junkyard]]. It was also the location of [[I.M. Foreman]]'s scrapyard, where, disguised as a [[police box]], [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] resided in [[1963]].
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===[[1960]]s===
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[[Susan Foreman]], the [[First Doctor|First Doctor]]'s granddaughter, attended the nearby [[Coal Hill School]] during this time, and gave the school the junkyard's address as her home address. This raised suspicion in her teacher, [[Barbara Wright]], who followed Susan home one evening to find the junkyard where a house should be. Later, Wright and another teacher, [[Ian Chesterton]], entered the scrapyard and discovered the TARDIS sitting in it, leading to their life-changing first encounter with the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'')
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'''76 Totter's Lane''', also known as '''Totter's Yard''' ([[TV]]: {{cs|Logopolis (TV story)}}) and '''Foreman's Yard''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) was a [[junkyard]] in [[Totter's Lane]], in [[Shoreditch]], [[London]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) post code [[EC1 5EG]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Vampires of Venice (TV story)}}) owned by [[I.M. Foreman]]. [[The Doctor's TARDIS]], disguised as a [[police box]], resided there for approximately five months in [[1963]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|An Unearthly Child (TV story)|namedep=An Unearthly Child (1)}})


Earlier that day, [[Sarah Jane Smith]] (then twelve years old) briefly explored the junkyard and saw the TARDIS before returning to her aunt [[Lavinia Smith|Lavinia]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Playtime]]'')
It was close to [[Piccadilly Circus]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek Attack (video game)}})
[[file:Foreman2.jpg|thumb|left|A crowd gathers at Foreman's Yard in 1963 after a soldier's death. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')]]
Later in 1963, but much later from [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]]'s perspective, a battle between a [[Renegade Dalek]] and Group Captain [[Ian Gilmore]]'s [[Intrusion Countermeasures Group]] took place there. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')


:''This event more or less inaugurated the beginning of the [[Shoreditch Incident]]. Though never stated, it can be assumed that the Dalek went there because the Renegade Daleks knew the TARDIS had earlier landed in that location.''
== History ==
[[file:Foreman3.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Sixth Doctor]], with [[Peri]], returns to Foreman's Yard in 1985. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
=== 1960s ===
The junkyard was one of the forms assumed by the complex space-time event [[I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show|I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show]], which travelled the universe and assumed new appearances on each planet, "shedding" these forms as it moved on. The show spent a few months on Earth in early 1963 before it moved on, the junkyard and its passing creating a "dent" in space-time that attracted the [[First Doctor]] to the junkyard, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Interference - Book Two (novel)}}) who were safely deposited there by [[Father of Time|Time]], who knew they would find "a new life" there. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Test of Time (comic story)}})


The [[First Doctor]] watched a film on the fall of Rome and complained it was historically inaccurate. When asked to leave, he was seen heading back towards the junkyard. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Defending the Earth!|whoisdoctorwho.co.uk]]'')
In [[1963]], the [[First Doctor]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] briefly arrived at the junkyard, before quickly leaving and arriving in [[1955]] [[London]]. When leaving 1955, Susan suggested that they might find themselves back in 1963, a notion which the Doctor called "ridiculous" due to the low probability of that occurring. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Losing the Audience (short story)}}) Little did the Doctor know that the pair would eventually end up living in that same junkyard and in the same year. ([[TV]]: {{cs|An Unearthly Child (TV story)|namedep=An Unearthly Child (1)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Hunters of Earth (audio story)}}, ''et al''.)


===[[1980]]s===
Indeed, in that year, Susan, ended up attending the nearby [[Coal Hill School]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|An Unearthly Child (TV story)|namedep=An Unearthly Child (1)}})
In [[1985]], the TARDIS returned to the junkyard in response to a distress signal sent by [[Lytton]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')


===[[1990]]s===
The [[First Doctor]] and his granddaughter returned to the junkyard after [[Smith (Have You Seen This Man?)|Mrs Smith]], an [[usherette]], kicked the Doctor out of the [[Ritz Theatre]] due to the disruption he caused during the showing of [[The Fall of Rome (film)|a film]] about [[fall of Rome|the fall]] of [[Rome]] about its inaccuracies. In early [[2005]], Mrs Smith wrote about her encounter on [[Doctor Who?]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})
In [[1997]], the TARDIS landed in the junkyard once more after the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth Doctor]] fell victim to a trap by the Master. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')


The junkyard was actually a [[Gallifreyan]] space-time event known as [[I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show|I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two]]'')
Susan gave the school the junkyard's address as her home address. This raised suspicion in her teacher, [[Barbara Wright]], who followed Susan home one evening to find the junkyard where a house should have been. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time and Relative (novel)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|An Unearthly Child (TV story)|namedep=An Unearthly Child (1)}})


===[[2000]]s===
On [[22 November]] 1963, [[Sarah Jane Smith]] briefly explored the junkyard and saw the TARDIS before returning to her [[Aunt Lavinia]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Playtime (short story)}})
The [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth Doctor]] visited Totters Lane soon after his [[regeneration]], where he encountered Steven Hudson. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Defending the Earth!|whoisdoctorwho.co.uk]]'')
[[File:Foreman2.jpg|thumb|left|A crowd gathers at Foreman's Yard in 1963 after a soldier's death. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})]]
Later, Barbara and another teacher, [[Ian Chesterton]], followed Susan home again and entered the junkyard and discovered the TARDIS sitting in it. Hearing Susan's voice inside the TARDIS, Ian and Barbara went inside. Knowing that his ship couldn't be found out, the First Doctor kidnapped Ian and Barbara in the TARDIS, taking Susan away from the [[20th century]] against her wishes. ([[TV]]: {{cs|An Unearthly Child (TV story)|namedep=An Unearthly Child (1)}})


==References==
The next day, the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[K9 Mark II]] returned to Totter's Lane to retrieve a [[Heshrax]] insect which he had been tracking the day that he left. While there, they met [[Debbie (Those Left Behind)|Debbie]], Susan's best friend from Coal Hill School. Debbie, who turned fifteen that day, was concerned about Susan's sudden disappearance as she knew that Susan would never miss her birthday. She had met the First Doctor on one occasion, but the Fourth Doctor did not recall seeing her before. He also did not remember Susan ever mentioning Debbie, but admitted that he was not always the best listener.
[[file:DocLibraryID.png|200px|thumb|right|The Doctor's address appears on his library card. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')]]
*In 1580 [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] shows a group of "[[Saturnynian|vampires]]" his library card in place of his psychic paper. The library card lists 76 Totter's Lane as his residency. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')


==Behind the scenes==
The Doctor offered Debbie the chance to travel with him, telling her that he could show her the crystal temples of [[Canopus]] or the signing of the [[Magna Carta]] in [[June]] [[1215]] but she declined the opportunity. He told Debbie that Susan decided to stay on [[22nd century]] [[Earth]] but then amended this by adding that he chose for her, expressing the hope that this decision was for the best.
*In [[The Pilot Episode|the pilot episode]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and in ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'', a studio set represented 76 Totter's Lane (both inside and out). In ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', actual exterior London locations represented the yard. In the latter story, due to a mistake, the letters on the outside gate say ''I.M. Forman'' rather than the original ''I.M. Foreman'' spelling seen in ''An Unearthly Child''.
 
*The name "Totter's Yard" was first used in part 1 of [[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''.
For her birthday, he gave Debbie a framed black and white photograph of Ian and Barbara standing by a [[police box]], waving at the camera and hugging each other. The frame contained a plaque that read simply "[[1965]]". Debbie was thankful that she met the Doctor as, while she knew that she would never see Susan again, she could at least live her life safe in the knowledge that she was safe in the future rather than spend it wondering what happened to Susan and fearing the worst. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Those Left Behind (short story)}})
*In the [[Doctor Who Confidential]] episode [[Bigger on the Inside]], Neil Gaiman reads from his script for the episode [[DW]]: [[The Doctor's Wife]], in which his stage directions describe the junkyard in the [[Bubble Universe]] as “The Totters Lane at the end of the universe.”
 
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Several days later, a battle between a [[Renegade Dalek]] and Group Captain [[Ian Gilmore]]'s [[Intrusion Counter-Measures Group]] took place there. It was witnessed by the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) Shortly before this, a time disruption had briefly changed history so that the name on the gates said "I M Forman". The Seventh Doctor and Ace later returned here, eighteen minutes before their past selves had arrived, to confirm that the spelling had changed. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Algebra of Ice (novel)}})
 
In [[December]], [[Joseph Galloway]], a [[rag and bone man]], was hired by [[Hawkins (The Rag & Bone Man's Story)|Hawkins]], who had rented the junkyard to the Doctor, to clear out the place. While cleaning out the junkyard, Galloway found the [[Blessing Star]] in the place where Susan had hid it, and it began bringing him luck. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)}})
 
In [[1966]], the First Doctor returned to Totter's Lane when the TARDIS once again materialised there. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Perpetual Bond (audio story)}})
 
=== 1980s ===
[[File:Foreman3.jpg|thumb|The [[Sixth Doctor]], with [[Peri Brown|Peri]], returns to Foreman's Yard in [[1985]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)}})]]
In [[1985]], the TARDIS returned to the junkyard in response to a distress signal sent by [[Lytton]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)}})
 
=== 1990s ===
In [[1997]], the TARDIS landed in the junkyard once more after the [[Eighth Doctor]] fell victim to a trap by {{Roberts}} that erased his memory; subconsciously aided by [[Rassilon]], the Doctor was attempting to visit his first incarnation to regain his lost memory, but he entered the wrong temporal coordinates. [[Sam Jones]] entered the junkyard to get away from [[Baz Bailey]] and his gang, who were swiftly driven off by the Doctor, although he was then taken into custody by police under suspicion of being Baz's supplier. When the Doctor and Sam returned to the junkyard — Sam looking for the Doctor while the Doctor was trying to escape Baz — the Doctor briefly left Sam at Baz's mercy when he returned to the TARDIS, but after regaining his memories he was sent back to the junkyard by Rassilon at almost the exact moment after he left it, where he defeated Baz and left him for the police, Sam diving into the TARDIS before he could leave and swiftly becoming his new companion. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)}})
 
=== 21st century ===
[[File:Totter's Lane Sign 2.jpg|thumb|left|A sign advertising the seemingly still-in-existence 76 Totter's Lane. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}})]]
By [[2003]], at least one part of Totter's Lane became a construction complex and by [[2005]] the [[Ritz Theatre]] had been [[demolition|demolished]] and [[flat]]s were built in its place. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}}) While 76 Totter's Lane appeared to survive to at least [[2013]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) by [[2021]], it had become a [[car park]], with [[office]] blocks comprising most of the street ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Harvest (audio story)}}) although there were a few luxury apartments. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Bessie Come Home (audio story)}})
 
In [[October]] [[2021]], the Seventh Doctor kept his TARDIS at parking bay number seventy-six of a carpark on Totter's Lane while investigating the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] at [[St Gart's Bankside Hospital]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Harvest (audio story)}})
 
=== 23rd century ===
[[File:The Red Lion DA.jpg|thumb|The [[Seventh Doctor]] outside of [[The Red Lion]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek Attack (video game)}})]]
By [[2254]], a pub called [[The Red Lion (Dalek Attack)|The Red Lion]] had been built at 76 Totter's Lane. The [[Seventh Doctor]] walked past the pub when he defeated the [[Dalek]]s in London. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek Attack (video game)}})
 
=== Alternate timeline ===
After he was attacked by one of [[the Valeyard]]'s [[golem]]s, the [[Seventh Doctor]] attempted to travel back to the junkyard to leave [[Ace]] with his past self for safety while he went to face his foe, remembering the yard as the last place where he tried to settle down, but this plan failed as he arrived in the [[alternate timeline]] created by the Valeyard's use of the [[Dark Matrix]], the junkyard containing no trace of the First Doctor's TARDIS and the Doctor's old keys not opening it, forcing him and Ace to flee when they were attacked by [[Jacksprite]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Matrix (novel)}})
 
[[File:Prologue The First Doctor.jpg|thumb|The [[First Doctor]] is attacked by [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] in 76 Totter's Lane. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)}})|left]]
In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon]] to take over history, they attacked the [[First Doctor]] on the day that he was supposed to leave [[Earth]] with [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)}})
 
== References ==
Before going to [[Logopolis]] in [[1981]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Adric]] discussed the chameleon circuit being "stuck in Totter's Yard". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Logopolis (TV story)}})
 
In [[1580]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] showed a group of "[[Saturnyn|vampires]]" his library card in place of his psychic paper. The library card listed 76 Totter's Lane as his residence. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Vampires of Venice (TV story)}})
 
When the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] concluded telling the [[bedtime story]] ''[[The Way Back Home]]'' on [[Planet Bedtime Stories]], he began to tell a story about "[[The Doctor|someone]] who [[The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey|went to space]] and [[The Doctor (title)|started to help people]]", which involved [[the Doctor's TARDIS|a big blue box]] that landed in a junkyard, but cut himself off when he realised he didn't have enough time to tell it, but promised to save it for another bedtime story. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story (TV story)|timestamp=00:04:08}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Worlds in Time 76 Totter's Lane.jpg|thumb|The TARDIS parked at Totter's Lane. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Worlds in Time (video game)|Worlds in Time]]'')]]
=== Use in the show ===
* In [[The Pilot Episode|the pilot episode]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and in ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', a studio set represented 76 Totter's Lane (both inside and out). In ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', actual exterior London locations represented the yard. In the latter story, due to a mistake, the letters on the outside gate say "I.M. ''Forman''" rather than the original "I.M. For''e''man" of ''An Unearthly Child''. A narrative explanation for this was given in the novel ''[[The Algebra of Ice (novel)|The Algebra of Ice]]'', where a time disruption had briefly altered history, changing the name.
* In ''Remembrance'', the wooden sign is also illustrated as being blue with white text. In the original production, the sign was brown, but this has since been widely forgotten by the franchise, with even ''[[An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)|An Adventure in Space and Time]]'' depicting the sign as blue.
 
=== ''Worlds in Time'' ===
Totter's Lane appeared in the [[video game]] ''[[Worlds in Time (video game)|Worlds in Time]]'' as the place where the TARDIS landed in London.
 
=== Other junkyards ===
[[File:Road Kleptoon Parasites.jpg|thumb|[[John Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|Gillian]] visit an [[Yard (The Klepton Parasites)|unrelated yard]] in ''[[The Klepton Parasites (comic story)|The Klepton Parasites]]''.]]
In the first issue of the [[TV Comic]] run of ''Doctor Who'' comics, ''[[The Klepton Parasites (comic story)|The Klepton Parasites]]'', [[John Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|Gillian]] meet the Doctor while he has his TARDIS parked at a [[Yard (The Klepton Parasites)|yard]] clearly modelled off of 76 Totter's Lane.
 
In the ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' episode ''[[Bigger on the Inside (CON episode)|Bigger on the Inside]]'', Neil Gaiman reads from his script for the episode ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', in which his stage directions describe the junkyard in the [[bubble universe]] as "the Totters Lane at the end of the universe."
 
=== Other matters ===
* The name "Totter's Yard" was first used in part one of ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''.
 
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76 Totter's Lane
Appearances

76 Totter's Lane, also known as Totter's Yard (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"]) and Foreman's Yard, (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"]) was a junkyard in Totter's Lane, in Shoreditch, London, (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) post code EC1 5EG (TV: The Vampires of Venice [+]Loading...["The Vampires of Venice (TV story)"]) owned by I.M. Foreman. The Doctor's TARDIS, disguised as a police box, resided there for approximately five months in 1963. (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"})

It was close to Piccadilly Circus. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

1960s[[edit] | [edit source]]

The junkyard was one of the forms assumed by the complex space-time event I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show, which travelled the universe and assumed new appearances on each planet, "shedding" these forms as it moved on. The show spent a few months on Earth in early 1963 before it moved on, the junkyard and its passing creating a "dent" in space-time that attracted the First Doctor to the junkyard, (PROSE: Interference - Book Two [+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"]) who were safely deposited there by Time, who knew they would find "a new life" there. (COMIC: The Test of Time [+]Loading...["The Test of Time (comic story)"])

In 1963, the First Doctor and Susan briefly arrived at the junkyard, before quickly leaving and arriving in 1955 London. When leaving 1955, Susan suggested that they might find themselves back in 1963, a notion which the Doctor called "ridiculous" due to the low probability of that occurring. (PROSE: Losing the Audience [+]Loading...["Losing the Audience (short story)"]) Little did the Doctor know that the pair would eventually end up living in that same junkyard and in the same year. (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"}, AUDIO: Hunters of Earth [+]Loading...["Hunters of Earth (audio story)"], et al.)

Indeed, in that year, Susan, ended up attending the nearby Coal Hill School. (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"})

The First Doctor and his granddaughter returned to the junkyard after Mrs Smith, an usherette, kicked the Doctor out of the Ritz Theatre due to the disruption he caused during the showing of a film about the fall of Rome about its inaccuracies. In early 2005, Mrs Smith wrote about her encounter on Doctor Who?. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Susan gave the school the junkyard's address as her home address. This raised suspicion in her teacher, Barbara Wright, who followed Susan home one evening to find the junkyard where a house should have been. (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"], TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"})

On 22 November 1963, Sarah Jane Smith briefly explored the junkyard and saw the TARDIS before returning to her Aunt Lavinia. (PROSE: Playtime [+]Loading...["Playtime (short story)"])

A crowd gathers at Foreman's Yard in 1963 after a soldier's death. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Later, Barbara and another teacher, Ian Chesterton, followed Susan home again and entered the junkyard and discovered the TARDIS sitting in it. Hearing Susan's voice inside the TARDIS, Ian and Barbara went inside. Knowing that his ship couldn't be found out, the First Doctor kidnapped Ian and Barbara in the TARDIS, taking Susan away from the 20th century against her wishes. (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"})

The next day, the Fourth Doctor and K9 Mark II returned to Totter's Lane to retrieve a Heshrax insect which he had been tracking the day that he left. While there, they met Debbie, Susan's best friend from Coal Hill School. Debbie, who turned fifteen that day, was concerned about Susan's sudden disappearance as she knew that Susan would never miss her birthday. She had met the First Doctor on one occasion, but the Fourth Doctor did not recall seeing her before. He also did not remember Susan ever mentioning Debbie, but admitted that he was not always the best listener.

The Doctor offered Debbie the chance to travel with him, telling her that he could show her the crystal temples of Canopus or the signing of the Magna Carta in June 1215 but she declined the opportunity. He told Debbie that Susan decided to stay on 22nd century Earth but then amended this by adding that he chose for her, expressing the hope that this decision was for the best.

For her birthday, he gave Debbie a framed black and white photograph of Ian and Barbara standing by a police box, waving at the camera and hugging each other. The frame contained a plaque that read simply "1965". Debbie was thankful that she met the Doctor as, while she knew that she would never see Susan again, she could at least live her life safe in the knowledge that she was safe in the future rather than spend it wondering what happened to Susan and fearing the worst. (PROSE: Those Left Behind [+]Loading...["Those Left Behind (short story)"])

Several days later, a battle between a Renegade Dalek and Group Captain Ian Gilmore's Intrusion Counter-Measures Group took place there. It was witnessed by the Seventh Doctor and Ace. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"]) Shortly before this, a time disruption had briefly changed history so that the name on the gates said "I M Forman". The Seventh Doctor and Ace later returned here, eighteen minutes before their past selves had arrived, to confirm that the spelling had changed. (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice [+]Loading...["The Algebra of Ice (novel)"])

In December, Joseph Galloway, a rag and bone man, was hired by Hawkins, who had rented the junkyard to the Doctor, to clear out the place. While cleaning out the junkyard, Galloway found the Blessing Star in the place where Susan had hid it, and it began bringing him luck. (PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story [+]Loading...["The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)"])

In 1966, the First Doctor returned to Totter's Lane when the TARDIS once again materialised there. (AUDIO: The Perpetual Bond [+]Loading...["The Perpetual Bond (audio story)"])

1980s[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Sixth Doctor, with Peri, returns to Foreman's Yard in 1985. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"])

In 1985, the TARDIS returned to the junkyard in response to a distress signal sent by Lytton. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"])

1990s[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 1997, the TARDIS landed in the junkyard once more after the Eighth Doctor fell victim to a trap by the Bruce Master that erased his memory; subconsciously aided by Rassilon, the Doctor was attempting to visit his first incarnation to regain his lost memory, but he entered the wrong temporal coordinates. Sam Jones entered the junkyard to get away from Baz Bailey and his gang, who were swiftly driven off by the Doctor, although he was then taken into custody by police under suspicion of being Baz's supplier. When the Doctor and Sam returned to the junkyard — Sam looking for the Doctor while the Doctor was trying to escape Baz — the Doctor briefly left Sam at Baz's mercy when he returned to the TARDIS, but after regaining his memories he was sent back to the junkyard by Rassilon at almost the exact moment after he left it, where he defeated Baz and left him for the police, Sam diving into the TARDIS before he could leave and swiftly becoming his new companion. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"])

21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]

A sign advertising the seemingly still-in-existence 76 Totter's Lane. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

By 2003, at least one part of Totter's Lane became a construction complex and by 2005 the Ritz Theatre had been demolished and flats were built in its place. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"]) While 76 Totter's Lane appeared to survive to at least 2013, (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) by 2021, it had become a car park, with office blocks comprising most of the street (AUDIO: The Harvest [+]Loading...["The Harvest (audio story)"]) although there were a few luxury apartments. (AUDIO: Bessie Come Home [+]Loading...["Bessie Come Home (audio story)"])

In October 2021, the Seventh Doctor kept his TARDIS at parking bay number seventy-six of a carpark on Totter's Lane while investigating the Cybermen at St Gart's Bankside Hospital. (AUDIO: The Harvest [+]Loading...["The Harvest (audio story)"])

23rd century[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Seventh Doctor outside of The Red Lion. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

By 2254, a pub called The Red Lion had been built at 76 Totter's Lane. The Seventh Doctor walked past the pub when he defeated the Daleks in London. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

Alternate timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

After he was attacked by one of the Valeyard's golems, the Seventh Doctor attempted to travel back to the junkyard to leave Ace with his past self for safety while he went to face his foe, remembering the yard as the last place where he tried to settle down, but this plan failed as he arrived in the alternate timeline created by the Valeyard's use of the Dark Matrix, the junkyard containing no trace of the First Doctor's TARDIS and the Doctor's old keys not opening it, forcing him and Ace to flee when they were attacked by Jacksprites. (PROSE: Matrix [+]Loading...["Matrix (novel)"])

The First Doctor is attacked by Cybermen in 76 Totter's Lane. (COMIC: Prologue: The First Doctor [+]Loading...["Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)"])

In an alternate timeline where the Cybermen allied with Rassilon to take over history, they attacked the First Doctor on the day that he was supposed to leave Earth with Susan, Ian, and Barbara. (COMIC: Prologue: The First Doctor [+]Loading...["Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)"])

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Before going to Logopolis in 1981, the Fourth Doctor and Adric discussed the chameleon circuit being "stuck in Totter's Yard". (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])

In 1580, the Eleventh Doctor showed a group of "vampires" his library card in place of his psychic paper. The library card listed 76 Totter's Lane as his residence. (TV: The Vampires of Venice [+]Loading...["The Vampires of Venice (TV story)"])

When the Fourteenth Doctor concluded telling the bedtime story The Way Back Home on Planet Bedtime Stories, he began to tell a story about "someone who went to space and started to help people", which involved a big blue box that landed in a junkyard, but cut himself off when he realised he didn't have enough time to tell it, but promised to save it for another bedtime story. (TV: Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"00:04:08","1":"Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story (TV story)"})

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

The TARDIS parked at Totter's Lane. (GAME: Worlds in Time)

Use in the show[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In the pilot episode of Doctor Who and in An Unearthly Child, a studio set represented 76 Totter's Lane (both inside and out). In Attack of the Cybermen and Remembrance of the Daleks, actual exterior London locations represented the yard. In the latter story, due to a mistake, the letters on the outside gate say "I.M. Forman" rather than the original "I.M. Foreman" of An Unearthly Child. A narrative explanation for this was given in the novel The Algebra of Ice, where a time disruption had briefly altered history, changing the name.
  • In Remembrance, the wooden sign is also illustrated as being blue with white text. In the original production, the sign was brown, but this has since been widely forgotten by the franchise, with even An Adventure in Space and Time depicting the sign as blue.

Worlds in Time[[edit] | [edit source]]

Totter's Lane appeared in the video game Worlds in Time as the place where the TARDIS landed in London.

Other junkyards[[edit] | [edit source]]

John and Gillian visit an unrelated yard in The Klepton Parasites.

In the first issue of the TV Comic run of Doctor Who comics, The Klepton Parasites, John and Gillian meet the Doctor while he has his TARDIS parked at a yard clearly modelled off of 76 Totter's Lane.

In the Doctor Who Confidential episode Bigger on the Inside, Neil Gaiman reads from his script for the episode The Doctor's Wife, in which his stage directions describe the junkyard in the bubble universe as "the Totters Lane at the end of the universe."

Other matters[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The name "Totter's Yard" was first used in part one of Logopolis.
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