Prague
Prague was a city in Eastern Europe, located in the Vltava Valley (PROSE: The Time Eater [+]Loading...["The Time Eater (short story)"]) along the Vltava River (COMIC: The Broken Man [+]Loading...["The Broken Man (comic story)"]
At various points in its history was part of the Holy Roman Empire, (PROSE: Leap Second [+]Loading...["Leap Second (short story)"]) Czechoslovakia, (PROSE: Leap Second [+]Loading...["Leap Second (short story)"]) the Czech Republic and the Third Czech and Slovak Republic. (PROSE: Spoilsport [+]Loading...["Spoilsport (short story)"]) it served as the capital of at least the Holy Roman Empire (PROSE: Leap Second [+]Loading...["Leap Second (short story)"]) and the Czech Republic.[source needed]
The Eleventh Doctor once called it his seventh favourite city in the Milky Way to visit. (COMIC: The Broken Man [+]Loading...["The Broken Man (comic story)"])
According to the Second Doctor, it was one of only six cities given "permanent display" status by the Galactic Preservation Council, along with Budapest, Paris, London, Toowoomba and Second Carnac. (PROSE: The Time Eater [+]Loading...["The Time Eater (short story)"])
History[[edit] | edit source]
Early history[[edit] | edit source]
The earliest settlement in the Vltava Valley was in around 50-60,000 BCE.
In 850, construction of Prague Castle had begun under the auspices of Prince Borivoj.
In the 10th century, construction of St Vitus's Rotunda had begun. According to the Second Doctor, this was a golden age in Prague's history. (PROSE: The Time Eater [+]Loading...["The Time Eater (short story)"])
In the early 15th century, the Eighth Doctor dropped Liv Chenka off in Prague to investigate the Doomsday Chronometer. (AUDIO: The Eighth Piece [+]Loading...["The Eighth Piece (audio story)"])
In the 16th century, the First Doctor and Susan Foreman visited Prague, where they inadvertently helped create the Golem of Prague. (PROSE: Life from Lifelessness [+]Loading...["Life from Lifelessness (short story)"])
In 1586, the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited Prague, where they abducted John Dee and Edward Kelley and took them to 848,988. (PROSE: Sunday Afternoon, AD 848,988 [+]Loading...["Sunday Afternoon, AD 848,988 (short story)"])
In 1610, Francis Pearson met Edward Kelley in Prague, and they visited the home of Elizabeth Bathory. (PROSE: Managra [+]Loading...["Managra (novel)"])
In 1689, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visited Prague. The Doctor initially believed that it was 4240. (PROSE: Gold and Black Ooze [+]Loading...["Gold and Black Ooze (short story)"])
20th century[[edit] | edit source]
In 1903, the Eighth Doctor drank absinthe in Prague. (PROSE: The City of the Dead [+]Loading...["The City of the Dead (novel)"])
In 1920, the word "robot", meaning "forced labour" in Czech, was coined by Karel Capek in Prague. (COMIC: The Broken Man [+]Loading...["The Broken Man (comic story)"])
In 1965, there was a major riot in Prague caused by a person with psychic powers designed by the Soviet Union to provoke extreme emotions in people. (AUDIO: Peshka [+]Loading...["Peshka (audio story)"])
In the 1970s, a conference on psychic phenomena was held in Prague. The Third Doctor and Liz Shaw tried to attend, but never made it as their plane's engine unexpectedly exploded. The Doctor claimed that he hadn't been to Prague since the University was founded. (COMIC: Change of Mind [+]Loading...["Change of Mind (comic story)"])
In November 1989, the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams visited Prague and worked alongside the Russian Embassy to foil Yuri Azarov's plot to destroy humanity using the Golem of Prague. There were present for the Velvet Revolution on 28 November of that year, which saw the fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia. (COMIC: The Broken Man [+]Loading...["The Broken Man (comic story)"])
In 1999, the Ninth Doctor visited Prague, meeting "Eddie Duggan" on a flight of stone steps in a square outside a club at 4AM and having a long conversation about early reggae records. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
21st century[[edit] | edit source]
Shortly before a Weapons Crisis Committee about Cobalt Blue was assembled in Geneva in 2000, the latest in a long series of incidents involving the chemical occurred in Prague. It reportedly centred around the explosion a device which contained "nothing but Cobalt Blue, putty, and string", illustrating the unpredictability of a material, which sometimes appeared inert without a reagent, but at other times exploded seemingly by itself. (AUDIO: Old Soldiers [+]Loading...["Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)"])
In 2012, the Fourth Doctor visited Prague, where he took part in a cooking contest against Drakos. (PROSE: The Dragons of Prague [+]Loading...["The Dragons of Prague (short story)"])
In 2050, the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited Prague, where they met Doctor Elizabeth Holub and investigated strange occurrences in the city. (PROSE: Fable Fusion [+]Loading...["Fable Fusion (short story)"])
In 2064, the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard visited Prague, where they found the city was enclosed within a dome to protect it from war. They convinced Colonel Rijzki that there was no war and that it was safe to remove the dome. (PROSE: War in a Time of Peace [+]Loading...["War in a Time of Peace (short story)"])
In 2099, the Fifth Doctor and Peri visited Prague, where they prevented an alien from causing the collapse of civilisation by adding a leap second to an atomic clock. (PROSE: Leap Second [+]Loading...["Leap Second (short story)"])
Later history[[edit] | edit source]
In the early 22nd century, the Fourth Doctor, Romana I and K9 Mark II visited Prague and reactivated the Golem, using it to drive off the Wronsdehj. (PROSE: Life from Lifelessness [+]Loading...["Life from Lifelessness (short story)"])
In 2181, the Fifth Doctor visited Prague, where he rescued Dusan from execution and reunited him with his fiancée Kája. (PROSE: Suspension and Disbelief [+]Loading...["Suspension and Disbelief (short story)"])
In 2221, the Third Doctor and Jo Grant were brought to Prague, which was now part of the Third Czech and Slovak Republic, by Benek Chaloupka, who wanted them to investigate the haunting of his museum. (PROSE: Spoilsport [+]Loading...["Spoilsport (short story)"])
In the 24th century, Prague was removed from space-time by a group of Crei and brought aboard their spacecraft so they could search for the Tipping Device. The Third Doctor was captured and forced to help them look for it, but he tricked his captors and returned Prague to Earth. (PROSE: Midnight in the Café of the Black Madonna [+]Loading...["Midnight in the Café of the Black Madonna (short story)"])
In 2348, the First Doctor, Vicki and Steven Taylor visited Prague, where they prevented Jane Childress from devolving the faculty and students of the local university. (PROSE: The Long Step Backward [+]Loading...["The Long Step Backward (short story)"])
In 2406, the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9 Mark I visited Prague, which had been taken over by intelligent dogs, and assisted the human population in overthrowing their masters. (PROSE: The Dogs of War [+]Loading...["The Dogs of War (ST short story)"])
In the 27th century, the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan visited Prague, where they solved the murder of Professor Hrabal. (PROSE: Nanomorphosis [+]Loading...["Nanomorphosis (short story)"])
In 2908, the First Doctor and Steven visited Prague, which was infected by a Blue Plague. He discovered a cure for the plague and its origins. (PROSE: Room for Improvement [+]Loading...["Room for Improvement (short story)"])
In the 30th century, the Fourth Doctor and Romana II visited Prague and discovered that Professor Kaj Jepperson of Charles University was experimenting with Zygma energy. (PROSE: The End of Now [+]Loading...["The End of Now (short story)"])
Undated events[[edit] | edit source]
At some point before the 1980s, Prague was the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. (PROSE: Leap Second [+]Loading...["Leap Second (short story)"])
References[[edit] | edit source]
Clara Oswald had a travel guide to Prague in her collection. (TV: Dark Water [+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"])
