McDonald's

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McDonald's
An advert for McDonald's at Piccadilly Circus. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

McDonald's was a fast food restaurant. They served Big Macs (PROSE: Face-Painter [+]Loading...["Face-Painter (short story)"]) and Happy Meals. (PROSE: Border Princes [+]Loading...["Border Princes (novel)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the 1980s, Ace worked as a waitress in a McDonald's restaurant on Tottenham Court Road. (PROSE: Head Games [+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"], Illegal Alien [+]Loading...["Illegal Alien (novel)"], Matrix [+]Loading...["Matrix (novel)"]) At one point she kicked out Tegan Jovanka and Diva for not ordering anything. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus [+]Loading...["The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)"])

In 1994, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright ordered two hamburgers, fries and a Coke from a McDonald's in Cumbria. Neither had heard of the restaurant, as it arrived after their native time of 1966. Ben thought the food tasted awful. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)"])

One McDonald's restaurant in Kent was petrol-bombed by a kids gang known as the Witchkids. Details of the incident were suppressed under the Official Secrets Act. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"])

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

In 2005, McDonald's had an advertisement at Piccadilly Circus in London. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

In 2008, a McDonald's drink was in the home of a group watching the televised first contact with the Toclafane. (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])

In 2009, Ianto Jones offered to take his niece, Mica Davies, to McDonald's since he missed her birthday. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)"])

McDonald's Happy Meals were still made in the 2020s. (AUDIO: The Word Lord [+]Loading...["The Word Lord (audio story)"])

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

Advertisements for, among other things, McDonald's. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

An advertisement for McDonald's was still seen in London as late as 2254, when the Doctor liberated the city from Dalek occupation. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ace and Hex hoped to find a McDonald's when the TARDIS landed in what was apparently London. (PROSE: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast [+]Loading...["Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (short story)"])

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

A McDonald's branch on a street. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"26:53","1":"73 Yards (TV story)"})

In one timeline, there was a McDonald's on the street where Ruby Sunday met up with Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in 2024. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])

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

The American fast food chain arrived in the United Kingdom in 1974, thirty-four years after its emergence in its home nation, and eight years after Ben and Polly's time.

In 2017, Richard Franklin starred in a commercial advertising the McDonald's Monopoly promotion,[1] and in 2019, Vitas Varnas starred in an ad for McDonald's Australia advertising the All Day Menu.[2]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ McDonalds Monopoly: History
  2. ↑ McDonald's Australia All Day Menu - Vitas Varnas, Facebook
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