Manchester

Manchester was a city in England. The Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan Jovanka visited Manchester in 1993. (MA: Goth Opera) There was a suite called the Manchester Suite aboard Platform One. (DW: The End of the World)

The Sixth Doctor visited the Mancunian borough of Salford several times. In 1965 he was there with Mel for a brief, second encounter with the wishing beast. (BFA: The Vanity Box) Later, in 2008, he twice visited the borough with Charley Pollard —on both occasions meeting D.I. Menzies. (BFA: The Condemned, The Raincloud Man)

A person from Manchester is a Mancunian, though it is unclear whether this has ever been positively asserted by a DWU source.

Behind the scenes

• Producer Phil Collinson left Doctor Who in 2008 to become Head of Drama at BBC Manchester. A good many behind the scenes figures — like John Simm, Piers Wenger and Beth Willis —have ties to the Life on Mars franchise, which is set in Manchester, and may have partially inspired the character of D.I. Menzies.