Doctor Who, just how many derelict spaceships are under London?!

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I know I’m probably missing a bunch, I’m going off the revival but feel free to contribute from the old show.

Racnoss ship(technically at the center of the earth, in fact it created the earth)

Silurian ship(I forgot if this was a ship or just a lost civilization type deal.

I forget the alien name but it was under the Savoy.

Cyberman ship under the department store.

Clockwork cyborg ship under a restaurant.

Robots of Sherwood ship, hiding under a castle.

And one or two I can’t remember but know I am forgetting.

Can the writers please give this premise a long, long rest.

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A few corrections…

Silurians are native to Earth, so there’s no ship. (Also, I’m not sure if any of the entrances to Silurian caves were in London - the ones in The Hungry Earth certainly weren’t…the surface portion of that episode was in Wales.)

Nottingham isn’t in London. (Checking Google Maps, it’s about a 3 hour drive away, a few minutes shorter if the castle is closer to London than to Sherwood Forest.)

Also, this is mostly a nitpick, but none of the Robots of Sherwood ship, the Cyberman ship or Clockwork Android ship were technically derelict - they were damaged, but in active states of either repair or salvage. (I can’t remember about the Racnoss.)

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There may not be a lot of alien ships but they’re sure a lot of aliens. I’m surprised Englishmen can get anything done without tripping over one.

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Neither was the Zygon ship under the Savoy, iirc.

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Professor Quatermass might know.

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“It’s them aliens again, I’ll bet my pension!”

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Why do you think we lost that empire? :slight_smile:

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Although it’s in Wales–which is decidedly not in London–according to Army of Ghosts (S02E12) and The End of Time (aired 25 Dec. '09), there’s a spaceship “buried at the foot of Mt. Snowdon.”

And a nitpick…well, it’s not a nit because it’s actually important to the plot. The name of the third episode of the eighth series (reboot) is Robot of Sherwood. “Robot” in the singular, not plural. It matters because first, it’s a pun on “Robin of Sherwood”* and second, because, along with the Doctor’s grumpy insistence that Robin Hood was not a real person, that pun is meant to deceive the viewer into thinking that “the” robot of Sherwood is Robin, when it’s really the Sheriff.
*Robin of Sherwood - Wikipedia

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This is what I came in to say. It predates Doctor Who.

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Well… 1967 for the space crickets.

Predates most of the Who spaceships under London stories at least.

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Actually, 1958.

You’re thinking of the remake.

And for the record, in the Quatermass story was set in a suburb of London, at the very end of an Underground line, the similar Doctor Who story was set in a remote village, nowhere near the capital.

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Ah okay… Thanks

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Don’t forget the Yetis in the Underground and the Nestene Consciousness under the London Eye.

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And in the wonderfully paranoid Invasion of the Dinosaurs there’s a fake human spaceship under London which is actually a studio set designed to convince the “astonauts” on board that they’re going to another planet to begin mankind anew.

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correction, it was Knightsbridge. Well, I haven’t seen it in years.

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Likewise, the original Silurians (in the Pertwee story “Doctor Who and Silurians”) were found under Wenley Moor. Wenley Moor is fictitious, and I don’t remember if the episode establishes exactly where it’s supposed to be. But the story was filmed in Surrey, so that’s a possibility.

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Someone should do a story about all the aliens getting in each other’s way.

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That’s kind of every Doctor Who story. >_>

(OK, a FEW have human antagonists… And the Doctor light episodes… But other than them…)

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I don’t think we have moors in Surrey. Those are downs. (They may have had a down playing the part of a moor.) There are plenty of moors in Yorkshire, and in Devon and Cornwall.

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I have to look up where all those are. Do you have trouble placing where the states are, like Indiana for example?