Oxford Street
Oxford Street was a major thoroughfare in the West End of London. Traffic was typically heavy. (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS) The street was famous for its Christmas lights around Christmas. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds) It was also the location of a lot of Christmas shopping, where people sometimes battled over who'd get what. (PROSE: Christmas Special) It so busy a week before the holiday that one could barely move. (PROSE: History 101)
Hanway Street joined it to Tottenham Court Road. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel, Millennial Rites, The Crystal Bucephalus) A few of the street's shops were HMV, (PROSE: Favourite Star, Loving the Alien) McDonald's and Claude Gill Books. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early history[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 3000 BC, an Iytean starship which had made an emergency landing on Earth was buried by its crew in the location of what would later become a portion of Oxford Street while they flew back to their home planet in a smaller craft to mount a rescue mission. Due to their planet becoming caught in the Anar-Isari wars, they never returned to Earth. (GAME: "Supplementary Background" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Supplementary Background","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
19th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 1872, the road was still rough and undeveloped, and was surrounded by woods. It was a largely residential area at the time. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
In 1883, thieves Bert Jenkins and Jack Bannister tunneled under Oxford Street in an effort to rob the vaults of the Capital and Counties Bank. This led to them bumping into the long-buried Iytean starship instead. (GAME: "Introduction Story" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedep":"Introduction Story","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"}) In 1885, a crew of time-travellers led by the Time Lord Rollo foiled an awakened Iytean's plans of planetary takeover, and destroyed or otherwise got rid of the Iytean ship so as to avoid any further derailments to human technological development. (GAME: "Tying Up Loose Ends" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedep":"Tying Up Loose Ends","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ace contemplated requesting the Seventh Doctor take her there for some shopping, thinking it would annoy him — all of time and space, and she wants to shop on Oxford Street. (PROSE: Prime Time) When Ace did visit the street, she did so in 1959, and stared in horror at the fashion on display. (PROSE: Loving the Alien) Ace had previously ridden down Oxford Street on the bus with her nan in her childhood. (PROSE: Chemistry)
The Seventh Doctor bought a cup of tea and an iced bun on Oxford Street in 1941. (PROSE: Just War)
Erimem and Andy Hansen took a stroll down Oxford Street in 1964 while looking for a Christmas gift for Andy's brother. They decided it hadn't changed very much by 2015. (PROSE: In Search of Doctor X)
In 1968, Fitz Kreiner bought new, up-to-date clothes in Oxford Street with the Eighth Doctor's money — a pair of shoes, a shirt and some jeans. (PROSE: Revolution Man)
Oxford was one of the many streets in London and around the world that underwent attack by Autons — posing as shop window dummies — in the 1970s. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion)
The Third Doctor once materialised his TARDIS around a wardrobe in a department store on Oxford Street. This allowed Jo Grant to have it on board. (AUDIO: Pop-Up)
21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ceol once visited Oxford Street in the early 21st century. (PROSE: Now or Thereabouts)
On 24 December 2010, Jo Jones did her holiday shopping at Oxford Street. At the Selfridges on Oxford, Jo was captured by Huxley. (AUDIO: Find and Replace)
In 2019, P.R.O.B.E. Director Giles chased an agent of Beltane through Oxford Street, where he ran into his estranged sister Sandra, who was shopping, oblivious to the secret organisations conflict happening around her. (AUDIO: Broken Bonds)
22nd century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In July 2108, the Doctor bought a pair of wings in Oxford Street in the sales. (PROSE: Speed of Flight)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Location information
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 Oxford Street.
