Baltimore

Baltimore
Type:	City
Location:	Maryland
First mentioned in:	Spearhead from Space
First appearance:	The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull
Appearances:	PROSE: The Algebra of Ice AUDIO: The Reaping AUDIO: Nevermore AUDIO: The Ultimate Poe

Baltimore was an American city, situated in the state of Maryland, proximate to both Bethesda and Washington DC. (PROSE: Blue Box ^[+]Loading...["Blue Box (novel)"])

Baltimore was the first city in the United States to install gas street lamps. (AUDIO: The Ultimate Poe ^[+]Loading...["The Ultimate Poe (audio story)"])

It was Peri Brown's home town, (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World ^[+]Loading...["Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)"]) and the location of a Cyberman invasion in September 1984 which was thwarted by the Sixth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Reaping ^[+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

It was also Edgar Allan Poe's home town. The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright once encountered Poe there, near the end of his life, (PROSE: The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull ^[+]Loading...["The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull (short story)"]) as did the Seventh Doctor and Ace (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice ^[+]Loading...["The Algebra of Ice (novel)"]) and the Eighth Doctor. (AUDIO: Nevermore ^[+]Loading...["Nevermore (audio story)"])

The Institute of Space Studies, a research organisation which UNIT consulted on extraterrestrial phenomena, was headquartered there. (TV: Spearhead from Space ^[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"])

Some of its inhabitants, aside from Peri, were her mother Janine Foster, her late father Paul Brown, Anthony, Kathy and Nathaniel Chambers, Daniel Woods, Lt Doyle, and Natalie Hamilton. (AUDIO: The Reaping ^[+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

The city was in ruins for many years after the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth. (AUDIO: Nekromanteia ^[+]Loading...["Nekromanteia (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes

Location information

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Though it's possible that a real world location doesn't exist in the same geographic space in the Doctor Who universe, such cases are few and far between. Thus, the map to the right is probably a good indicator of the DWU location of Baltimore.