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'''Los Angeles''', often initialised as '''LA''', was a major city in [[California]]. A significant portion of LA was the neighbourhood of [[Hollywood]], famed as a global hub for film production. However, other parts of Los Angeles were of occasional interest to [[the Doctor]] and his friends, as well as [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]]. | '''Los Angeles''', often initialised as '''LA''', was a major city in [[California]]. A significant portion of LA was the neighbourhood of [[Hollywood]], famed as a global hub for film production. However, other parts of Los Angeles were of occasional interest to [[the Doctor]] and his friends, as well as [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]]. | ||
===[[20th century]]=== | ===[[20th century]]=== | ||
The [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Victoria Waterfield]] once found themselves imprisoned in the city by a tattoo artist somehow able to strip them of their faces and his minion, a former junkie trying to get her life back on track. ([[ST]]: ''[[Face-Painter]]'') | |||
On a later occasion, the [[Second Doctor]] took Jamie and [[Zoe Heriot]] to downtown LA in an effort to make them understand no society, even the most egalitarian-minded ones, could escape the difficulties of poverty. Arriving on a [[Christmas Eve]] in the late [[20th century]], the trio worked at the [[wikipedia:Midnight Mission|Midnight Mission]] and stopped a desperate homeless man from robbing the charity. ([[ST]]: ''[[Goodwill Toward Men]]'') | |||
Los Angeles hosted the [[1984]] [[Olympic Games]], which were boycotted by the [[Russia|Soviet Union]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Reaping]]'') | |||
In the waning months of the [[20th century]], Los Angeles was home to a shady conglomerate known as [[InterCom]], which aroused the suspicion of [[UNIT]], after it was linked to illegal sales of [[plutonium]]. [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] was joined in his investigations in the city by the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Vislor Turlough]] in [[1999]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The King of Terror]]'') | |||
In the waning months of the [[20th century]], Los Angeles was home to a shady conglomerate known as [[InterCom]], which aroused the suspicion of [[UNIT]], after it was linked to illegal sales of [[plutonium]]. [[ | |||
===[[21st century]]=== | ===[[21st century]]=== | ||
