Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.

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Biography

Churchill met the Doctor and Peri during two periods of his life, first in 1899, when he served as a war correspondent and later in the 1930s. (PDA: Players) The Doctor met with him again in 1944. (PDA: The Shadow in the Glass)

At some unknown stage in his life, Momus abducted Churchill from his own time to Belgium in 800 CE. (WC: The Lonely Computer).

At some point in 1940 or 1941[1] two Daleks were presented to him by Edwin Bracewell as a manmade superweapon, which Churchill named 'ironsides'. Unsure what to make of them, he called the Doctor's TARDIS's phone as a Dalek moved towards him. (DW: The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks) By the time of the Doctor's arrival a month later he was sure he could use the 'ironsides' to win the war. The Doctor tried to make Churchill undertsand the Daleks' true nature, but he would not initially listen as were a valuable asset against Nazi Germany. The Daleks showed their true intentions once the Doctor gave his 'testimony' and they created a new race of pure Daleks. These Daleks tried to destroy London by making it vulnerable to German bombers. The solution to defeating the Daleks lay with Bracewell, so he helped Amy Pond stop him from committing suicide and help them. In the following discussion, he told Bracewell "it's time to think big", giving him the idea to use modified Spitfires. Following the Daleks' escape, the Doctor removed all Bracewell's alien technology Churchill posessed. While he protested that it and the Doctor would win him the war in a day, the Doctor convinced him that he will come through without it and himself. He hugged the Doctor farewell and finally managed to take the TARDIS key he so desired, before Amy noticed and made him give it back. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)

Churchill and Bracewell discuss van Gogh's painting

Some time after those events, Bracewell found one of the final paintings by Vincent van Gogh in an attic in France. He showed Churchill the painting and, without understanding what it should mean, they recognised it as a message for the Doctor. Churchill tried to telephone the Doctor to alert him, but was diverted to River Song in the 52nd century, alerting her of its existence. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

Other Timelines

In an alternate timeline in which Germany won World War II, Churchill was executed as a war criminal. (NA: Timewyrm: Exodus)

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Behind the scenes

Footnotes

  1. Victory of the Daleks is set in 1941, with Churchill's phone call said to have been "a month ago." Though it doesn't seem like January, we don't know for certain.
  2. Doctor Who Confidential - "The War Games"
Winston Churchill