As usual, the Doctor was playing and flickering with the switches on the console, Susan was busy reading a novel she borrowed from the London library but couldn't take it back because of Ian and Barbara finding out the TARDIS existed. Ian was having a cup of tea while Barbara was taking a nap on one of the beds. The Doctor finished with the last switch and the TARDIS started to land.
"So where we are now, Doctor?" Ian asked, with his usual curiosity. The Doctor turns on his scanner so he can check.
"We have landed in…" The Doctor's face turned into a surprised look, so has Ian's. Right on the scanner is the old London clock tower known as Big Ben.
"It can't be," Ian says in a shocked tone, "Are we… are we…"
"Yes we are my boy," Says the cheeky Doctor, "Were in London!"
Susan turns around as she is just as surprised. "What," she says with a large smile, "We can't be!"
"Yes we are my child, yes we are!" The Doctor reassures her, Ian runs over to the bedrooms to wake up Barbara. One minute later, Ian returns with Barbara as she rubs her eyes.
"Are you guys sure this is 'home'?" Barbara asked. "You all know how old Big Ben was in 1963; we could be in London but in a different time."
"I guess we should go out and investigate." Ian says, hopeful that this is at least the 1960s.
The four of them step out of the TARDIS; they hear a large crowd cheering. Crowds everywhere are waving the Royal Union Flag. Their hope for it to be 1963 dies as they hear a familiar voice, giving a speech. An old man stands on a balcony of a government building, making a V with his fingers.
"My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It's a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny. After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. We were all alone for a whole year."
"That's Winston Churchill giving his Victory in Europe Day speech," Susan says, "This is London in 1945."
"I guess were not home, Chesserman." The Doctor said.
"But at least were close," Ian says with a growing smile. "At least we were close."
Susan runs off to join the celebrations; she picks up a Union flag and starts to wavy it above her. The Doctor follows her with a look on his face that says he'll be exhausted within minutes.
"Should we go to the bar," Ian says, cuffing his arm with Barbara's.
Barbara looks towards the celebrating crowd, where the Doctor and Susan disappear into. "I'm in that crowd right now with my Father. I would be age 16 and the end of the war had totally changed my world. When I learned Germany surrendered I was in tears, a long awful war was finally over."
"That is where you were," Ian says with a grin, "I was in Germany, stationed at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen. I considered Belsen's liberation to a medical disaster, even for the British army."
"You served in the war?!" Barbara asked with a shock, Ian started to laugh a little.
"I joined the army at age 19 in 1943," Ian and Barbara walked towards a nearby bar as he reminisced about his time in the British army.