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'''Los Angeles''', often initialised as '''LA''', was a major [[city]] in [[California]]. A significant portion of LA was the neighbourhood of [[Hollywood]].  

The city was home to [[Torchwood Los Angeles|a branch of Torchwood]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dollhouse (audio story)|The Dollhouse]]'') and [[Faction Hollywood|a branch of Faction Paradox]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

The [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Victoria Waterfield]] once found themselves imprisoned in the city by [[Face-Painter]], who somehow stripped them of their faces, and his minion, [[Rachel (Face-Painter)|Rachel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Face-Painter (short story)|Face-Painter]]'')

On a later occasion, the Second Doctor took Jamie and [[Zoe Heriot]] to downtown LA in an effort to make them understand no society, even the most egalitarian-minded ones, could escape the difficulties of poverty. Arriving on a [[Christmas Eve]] in the late [[20th century]], the trio worked at the [[Los Angeles Midnight Mission|Midnight Mission]] and stopped a desperate [[homeless]] man named [[Charlie (Goodwill Toward Men)|Charlie]] from robbing the charity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goodwill Toward Men]]'')

In [[1936]], the [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]] visited [[Hollywood]] in Los Angeles, where they met the [[Eighth Doctor]].

In [[1973]], the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] fought a [[vampire]] in Los Angeles. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Elixir of Doom (audio story)|The Elixir of Doom]]'')

In [[1976]], two priests who were members of the [[Order of Saint Peter]] pursued a [[vampire]] from [[Poland]] to Los Angeles and destroyed it. One of them stayed behind to found a chapter of the order there, and later became the father of [[Becky Lee Kowalczyck]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell]]'')

Los Angeles hosted the [[1984]] [[Olympic Games]], which were boycotted by the [[Soviet Union]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping]]'')

In the waning months of the [[20th century]], Los Angeles was home to a shady conglomerate known as [[InterCom]], which aroused the suspicion of [[UNIT]], after it was linked to illegal sales of [[plutonium]]. [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] was joined in his investigations in the city by the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Vislor Turlough]] in [[1999]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror]]'')

Los Angeles was one of ten major cities across the world, all of which had underground railways, where [[Coldfire Construction]] built a reactor within a period of 18 months as part of a plot by the [[Slitheen]] to drain [[Sol|the Sun]]'s energy, operated by at least one Slitheen disguised using a [[skin suit]] made from a local. At somepoint in [[2008]], after [[Sarah Jane Smith]] foiled the Slitheen with the help of her friends at [[Park Vale Comprehensive School]] at [[Ealing]] in [[London]], she contacted [[UNIT]] so they would clear up the Coldfire sites. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'')

In [[2011]], after [[Miracle Day]], a renewed [[Torchwood (team)|Torchwood]] team moved to [[Venice Beach]] to investigate closely what [[PhiCorp]] was up to in LA. [[Rex Matheson]] had family in this city. ([[TV]]: ''[[Escape to LA]]'') Later, [[Oswald Danes]] presented the [[Miracle Rally]], greatly raising his public image. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Categories of Life]]'')

In [[2540]], demonstrators in Los Angeles burned an effigy of the [[President of Earth (Frontier in Space)|President of Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')