James Court was a theatre lighting designer who worked and lived in San Francisco, California in 1997.
He became romantically involved with Dr Carolyn McConnell in 1997. Vampires in San Francisco kidnapped him to discourage the Eighth Doctor from investigating their activities. He was freed after all the vampires were killed. (PROSE: Vampire Science)
When the Eighth Doctor contemplated living in early 2000s San Francisco, he reflected that he could have James and Carolyn over for dinner. (PROSE: Unnatural History)