The Thames after being drained of its water by the Tenth Doctor (TV: The Runaway Bride)
The River Thames, also known as the Thames, was a river that ran through the heart of London.
It was the site (or close to the site) of many alien incursions.
The River Fleet ran into the Thames. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
Sonning Palace was situated on the bank of the Thames. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)
Incidents
In February 1814, the river froze over after the Hyban Masoon landed in the area. The Tenth Doctor took Mai Kondo ice skating at this time. (WC: The Frozen) The First Doctor had already visited the 1814 frost fair with his companions Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor. (AUDIO: Frostfire) The Doctor later went again in the company of River Song. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) This became known as the "last of the great frost fairs." (AUDIO: Frostfire)
In 1833, the Fifth Doctor programmed the TARDIS and it materialised in the Thames.[source needed]
In 1851, Thomas Brewster's mother committed suicide by throwing herself into the Thames.[source needed]
In 1865, the TARDIS was recovered from the Thames and kept in the Creek's shop until the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa recovered it again in November 1867. (AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster)
In the 1890s, the Sixth Doctor sank his TARDIS to the bottom of the mud in the Thames. He later retrieved it using a Stattenheim remote control. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers)
In 1894, a group of Zygons had a spacecraft under the Thames. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers)
During the World Energy Conference in the 1970s, the Skarasen swam up the Thames following a Zygon tracking device. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)
The Fourth Doctor attempted to flush the Tremas Master out of the TARDIS by landing in the Thames and opening the doors. However, he landed on a boat. (TV: Logopolis)
A Dalek time corridor led to a warehouse not far from the Thames in 1984. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
A casino known as the Dusk was located on the banks of the Thames. In 1999, the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe encountered the Forge's victims there. (AUDIO: Project: Twilight)
In 2006, as part of a hoax to gain control of Earth's nuclear weapons, (TV: World War Three) members of the Slitheen family flew a spaceship through Big Ben and landed it in the Thames. (TV: Aliens of London)
The Waterhive lived in the Thames, having arrived there when the wreckage of a cruiser containing them was towed up the river. (PROSE: The Feast of the Drowned)
On 24 December 2007, the Thames was drained by the Tenth Doctor in order to stop the Racnoss. The Thames Flood Barrier was built by the Torchwood Institute as a cover for a project to synthesise huon particles from water. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
During the Dalek invasion of Earth in 2009, the Daleks destroyed the Valiant while it was over the Thames. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
In 2030, the river was artificially frozen over for the Dancing On Ice special. (WC: The Frozen)
In 2050, the Thames was polluted by chenium when Drake tried to replicate Mede technology. After the Medes were released, they cleaned up the pollution before departing. (TV: Alien Avatar)
In 2167, the TARDIS materialised on the bank of the Thames. Soon afterward, the First Doctor and Ian Chesterton were taken prisoner by a Dalek which rose from the Thames itself. Later, Susan Foreman left her TARDIS key on the riverbank after the Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS and left her behind. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
Alternate timelines
In a parallel timeline, the Tenth Doctor died under the Thames by drowning in the resulting flood which defeated the Racnoss. His body was retrieved by UNIT soliders. The TARDIS was recovered by UNIT and later used to send Donna back in time to restore the timeline. (TV: Turn Left)
