The Doctor's TARDIS
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The Doctor's TARDIS — also calledthe Ship,the Box, and simplythe TARDIS (PROSE:Time and Relative[+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"],COMIC:Food for Thought[+]Loading...["Food for Thought (comic story)"]) — wasthe Doctor's primary means of transport. It was capable of travelling throughspace andtime. The Doctor voyaged all acrossthe universe in this vessel, from theBig Bang (TV:Terminus[+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"],Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"],AUDIO:Slipback[+]Loading...["Slipback (audio story)"],PROSE:Nothing O'Clock[+]Loading...["Nothing O'Clock (short story)"]) to theend of the universe, (TV:Utopia[+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"],Listen[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)"],AUDIO:The Chaos Pool[+]Loading...["The Chaos Pool (audio story)"],COMIC:Petals[+]Loading...["Petals (comic story)"]) and from thecentre of the universe (TV:Terminus[+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"],Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) to itsoutermost edges. (TV:Planet of Evil[+]Loading...["Planet of Evil (TV story)"],Underworld[+]Loading...["Underworld (TV story)"]) The craft was also capable of travelling betweenparallel realities, in spite of the fact that it was not specifically designed for inter-dimensional travel. (TV:Inferno[+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"],Rise of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) Like all other TARDIS models, the Doctor's TARDIS was controlled via a centralcontrol console. (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"], et al.)
OtherTime Lords frequently characterised the Doctor's TARDIS as woefully out-of-date. (TV:The Claws of Axos[+]Loading...["The Claws of Axos (TV story)"],The Ribos Operation[+]Loading...["The Ribos Operation (TV story)"])Narvin called it "scrap", compared tohis ownType 400. (AUDIO:The Quantum Possibility Engine[+]Loading...["The Quantum Possibility Engine (audio story)"]) Indeed, by at least the time of theFourth Doctor, if not earlier, the TARDIS model — called a "Type 40" — had been pulled from general service onGallifrey, and replaced by more advanced models. (TV:The Deadly Assassin[+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"],The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])
The craft was prone to a number of technical faults, ranging from depleted resources (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"],The Wheel in Space[+]Loading...["The Wheel in Space (TV story)"],Vengeance on Varos[+]Loading...["Vengeance on Varos (TV story)"]) to malfunctioning controls (TV:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"]) to a simple inability to arrive at the proper time or location. (TV:The Visitation[+]Loading...["The Visitation (TV story)"],Attack of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"],The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"],Victory of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"],The Girl Who Waited[+]Loading...["The Girl Who Waited (TV story)"] and many others) However, because the TARDIS was a living being, these "faults" may instead have been at least partially attributed to the manifestation of the ship'sfree will. Indeed, the TARDIS itself once told theEleventh Doctor that while it may not have always taken him where hewanted to go, it had always taken him to where heneeded to go. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) As theTwelfth Doctor knew her, the TARDIS was always "looking for trouble"; he loved her for it. (TV:Thin Ice[+]Loading...["Thin Ice (TV story)"])
As the centuries passed and all of the Doctor's companions came and went, the Doctor's faithful TARDIS remained their constant companion. Apart from the TARDIS, the Doctor only hadmemories. (AUDIO:Relative Dimensions[+]Loading...["Relative Dimensions (audio story)"]) They shared an unbreakable bond, and the Doctor came to feel that in the end, it was just the Doctor and their TARDIS, travelling the universe together. (AUDIO:The Girl Who Never Was[+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"],TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) TheEighth Doctor thought of her as his oldest friend. (AUDIO:Wild Animals[+]Loading...["Wild Animals (audio story)"]) Such was this bond, that, inan alternate timeline, the TARDIS eventually became the Doctor's final resting place, containing his personaltime stream. (TV:The Name of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The TARDIS eventually chose a name for herself, but she never revealed it to anyone, not even the Doctor (PROSE:Toy Story[+]Loading...["Toy Story (short story)"]) who, for their part, referred to her as "Sexy". (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) The TARDIS did however once identify as "Iraj" when manifesting in human form toRomana. (PROSE:The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe[+]Loading...["The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe (short story)"])
The Doctor's TARDIS was depicted in many cultures onEarth in a variety of forms, such as being depicted as the temple of the household "gods", theTenth Doctor andDonna Noble, byLobus Caecilius's family after they were rescued from the destruction ofPompeii, (TV:The Fires of Pompeii[+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"]) being painted on a church's stained glass window after the Doctor "smote [a] demon" at a convent in the1300s, (TV:The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) and theEleventh Doctor using the power of its image to counter the influence of thePrometheans. (COMIC:Hunters of the Burning Stone[+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"]) According tothe Moment, the noise the TARDIS made when it appeared brought hope to anyone who heard it, no matter how lost they were. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
River Song was known to steal the TARDIS when the Doctor was out. (TV:The Husbands of River Song[+]Loading...["The Husbands of River Song (TV story)"])
Following theFourteenth Doctor's bi-generation and the defeat ofthe Toymaker, theFifteenth Doctor used his prize from the Toymaker's game to duplicate the TARDIS, (TV:The Giggle[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) in a situation that the ship herself described similarly to that ofthe Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation, (PROSE:I, TARDIS[+]Loading...["I, TARDIS (novel)"]) enabling one version to stay with the retiredFourteenth Doctor whilst the Fifteenth Doctor used the other to continue travelling across time and space. (TV:The Giggle[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
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Dubious origins[[edit] |[edit source]]
According to one account, the Ships on the Homeworld were born fromthe Matrix, whom they referred to as Mother. As part of a secret plan, Mother also conceived two hybrid offspring, twin sisters who were only half-Ship. When the time came for them to choose their Homeworlder pilots,one chose "the dangerous-looking one", and the other chose "the cuckoo". At this point, Mother expressed "complete resignation" with the latter Ship, realising that she had been wasting her time with her. (PROSE:Toy Story[+]Loading...["Toy Story (short story)"])
By most accounts though, the ship that would become the Doctor's TARDIS was one of305Type 40 TT capsules that had been manufactured. (TV:The Deadly Assassin[+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"]) Like her sister ships, she was installed with theRecord of Rassilon. (TV:State of Decay[+]Loading...["State of Decay (TV story)"])
Both theFirst andThird Doctors implied he had built his TARDIS himself, (TV:The Chase[+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"],COMIC:Backtime[+]Loading...["Backtime (comic story)"]) which theTwelfth Doctor mentally described, in hindsight, as an empty boast trying to impress "the apes" whom the Doctor had, in a way, looked down upon. (PROSE:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)"]) A dissenting account claimed that this boast was genuine, and that the Doctor had been a geniusmathematician whose unprecedentedequations allowed him to conceptualiseSpace andTime into a single concept, theIdea of the Living Matter, based on which he had built the one and only TARDIS. (PROSE:The Equations of Dr Who[+]Loading...["The Equations of Dr Who (short story)"])Graham O'Brien later toldThomas Edison that the TARDIS was "copyright:her". (TV:Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror[+]Loading...["Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (TV story)"])
Though many accounts instead depictedTARDISes as a class of vehicle common on the Doctor'shomeworld, (TV:The Time Meddler[+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"],The Name of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"], etc.) one of the Doctor's fellow Time Lords,the War Chief, still knew the Doctor as an expert in TARDIS engineering, who might be able, if he could be convinced to do so, to help him improve the flawedSIDRATs that the War Chief had given theWar Lords. (TV:The War Games[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) TheEleventh Doctor indeed had the ability to build a TARDIS console from scratch. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
One of theSeventh Doctor'srepressed memories "from before he was born", (PROSE:Human Nature[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"]) thus relating to the early life ofthe Other, a semi-mythical figure from earlyGallifreyan history who had helped raise the Gallifreyan civilisation into that of the Masters of Time, (PROSE:Lungbarrow[+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"]) inspiredJohn Smith to write the tale ofThe Old Man and the Police Box, wherein which the Doctor/Other had originally been an inventor from Victorian England who kept making alterations to hispolice box prototype until it had the ability to travel in time and space, at which point the old man decided to run away from Earth aboard his serendipitously-created Ship. Smith's account gave no indication of a hard break between the time traveller creating theTime Lord society and the life of theFirst Doctor, stating that the man eventually grew bored of the world he'd created and ran back to Earth aboard the same old police-box-shaped time machine. (PROSE:Human Nature[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"])
However, by most accounts, the Doctor had actually stolen the TARDIS. The Doctor himself admitted this on many occasions, (TV:The War Games[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"],Frontier in Space[+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"],Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"],Planet of the Dead[+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (TV story)"],The Big Bang[+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"],The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"],Death in Heaven[+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"],COMIC:The World Shapers[+]Loading...["The World Shapers (comic story)"],AUDIO:The Beginning[+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"],Trial of the Valeyard[+]Loading...["Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)"],The Great War[+]Loading...["The Great War (audio story)"]) a theft that the TARDIS, once she gained the ability to speak, with ahumanoid body as anchor, described as mutual; wanting to see the universe, she had herself stolen a pilot to run away with, (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) in line with the account that she had chosen him as her pilot. (PROSE:Toy Story[+]Loading...["Toy Story (short story)"])
Previous owners[[edit] |[edit source]]
If it had not been built by the Doctor, the TARDIS was previously owned by "several irresponsible owners" before the Doctor, (AUDIO:Collision Course[+]Loading...["Collision Course (audio story)"]) though accounts differed as to whether the last of them wasMarnal (PROSE:The Gallifrey Chronicles[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) orMarianna. (AUDIO:The Abandoned[+]Loading...["The Abandoned (audio story)"]) AfterUlysses andPenelope Gate wiped Marnal's mind and deposited him in1883England, they took his TARDIS with them; (PROSE:The Gallifrey Chronicles[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])the Doctor once identified it as a "family heirloom". (PROSE:The Infinity Doctors[+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"])Susan Foreman suspected that the TARDIS had at one point been toGoliatha where aGolithan Spiney Back Beetle had found its way into theTARDIS control console. (AUDIO:The Hollow Crown[+]Loading...["The Hollow Crown (audio story)"]) In one account of her first night aboard the TARDIS, Susan found evidence that led her to suspect it had once had a much larger crew who voyaged the cosmos in it. (AUDIO:The Beginning[+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"])
Some other accounts differed on the TARDIS's status prior to the Doctor's theft of it, and implied that it came from the general,government-controlled "stockpile" of TARDISes after the model had been officially decommissioned. (TV:The Deadly Assassin[+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"],PROSE:The Exiles[+]Loading...["The Exiles (short story)"],COMIC:Time & Time Again[+]Loading...["Time & Time Again (comic story)"]) TheFourth Doctor toldAdric that "it was in for repairs on Gallifrey when [he] borrowed it." When Adric countered that he thought the Doctor outright owned the vehicle, the Doctor said, "Well, on a sort of 'finders, keepers' basis, yes." (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])
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The TARDIS was eventually withdrawn from service and set to be scrapped, theFirst Doctor suspecting that it had been already been decommissioned, (AUDIO:The Beginning[+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"]) before it was "borrowed" by the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan intheir escape fromGallifrey. Upon entering, the Doctor declared the TARDIS to be the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
When the Doctor first decided to leave Gallifrey, he had the chance to take aType 53 but dismissed it as "soulless" in favour of the Type 40. (PROSE:Lungbarrow[+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"]) Although he already possessed aType 50 TARDIS the Doctor needed to leave Gallifrey in a "hurry," according to theFifth Doctor, and he stole a different TARDIS instead ofhis first TARDIS. However, he made it clear that if things had gone differently during his escape, he would have taken the Type 50. (AUDIO:Prisoners of Fate[+]Loading...["Prisoners of Fate (audio story)"])
By one account of the theft, Susan was one ofRassilon's descendants, Lady Larn, and had hidden herself aboard the TARDIS, electing to join the Doctor when he stole the craft. (PROSE:Birth of a Renegade[+]Loading...["Birth of a Renegade (short story)"]) In another, the Doctor's only company when he boarded the TARDIS was theHand of Omega which overrode the safeguards that forbade the ship from travelling into Gallifrey's past so that the Doctor, the reincarnation ofthe Other, could collect his granddaughter. (PROSE:Lungbarrow[+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"]) In another, the Doctor had simply found the TARDIS and with no one claiming possession of it, he helped himself to it. (POEM:Something Borrowed, Something Blue[+]Loading...["Something Borrowed, Something Blue (poem)"])
In another account, in which Susan found the ship at the same time as her grandfather, the Doctor had not initially intended to take the Type 40, being persuaded to do so by aGallifreyanecho ofClara Oswald. Detecting the breach into therepair shop, two Time Lord workers were surprised that anyone would steal a faulty TARDIS. (TV:The Name of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"]) In this account, theTARDIS engines were in the process of being dismantled byQuadriggerStoyn, his face being badly burnt when the Doctor took off. (AUDIO:The Beginning[+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"]) In another account, the TARDIS' former ownerMarianna had been aboard. (AUDIO:The Abandoned[+]Loading...["The Abandoned (audio story)"])
The TARDIS' departure from Gallifrey caused a "commotion", one that theEleventh General recalled witnessing. (PROSE:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])The Doctor's original TARDIS hired aCelestial Intervention Agency agent namedMaris to locate the Doctor, angry at having been left behind in favour of an inferior model. Meanwhile,the Master andthe Rani learnt of the Doctor's escape and became desperate to figure out where he had gone. (PROSE:Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir[+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)"])
The TARDIS herself said she was "amuseum piece", though this may have been figurative. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
None of these accounts precluded the possibility that the Doctor had somehow been responsible for its creation. Indeed, another account compromised between theft and creation. It claimed while the Doctor had not built the TARDIS from scratch, he had substantially modified/rebuilt it. According to this view, he achieved control of the TARDIS without using a direct mental link. This let him bypass the feature on most TARDISes which sent a tracking signal to the Time Lords. (PROSE:The Taking of Planet 5[+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"]) As a result, while the Doctor still had a significant mental link with the TARDIS early in his travels, such as when the ship assisted him with his firstregeneration, (TV:The Tenth Planet[+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) he did not impose his will on it, allowing the TARDIS to go where it wished rather than exerting direct control. The TARDIS herself later stated that her unreliability to go where the Doctor wanted was due to her always going to where he wasneeded. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
These accounts notwithstanding, the most direct commentary on the Doctor's acquisition of the TARDIS came from the Doctor and the TARDIS itself. When the Doctor was summoned to be the defence counsellor tothe Valeyard in his trial, he exclaimed toInquisitor Darkel that he confessed to stealing a TARDIS and running away from Gallifrey. (AUDIO:Trial of the Valeyard[+]Loading...["Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)"]) At a later point in the Doctor's life, whenHouse transferred the soul of the TARDIS intoIdris, the TARDIS gave its side of the story. She confirmed she had been out of commission, a "museum piece", when the First Doctor met her. She also confirmed that the Doctor hadstolen her, denying theEleventh Doctor's attempt to characterise the action as "borrowing". However, she also considered thatshe had stolenhim, and had no intention of ever giving him back. She was unlocked, and deliberately let the Doctor in, because she wanted to explore theuniverse, and sensed he would be an ideal match.
The Eleventh Doctor recalled that upon first touching theconsole, the First Doctor said "[she was] the most beautiful thing [he'd] ever known". The TARDIS was shown to be very fond of him, admitting asIdris that she had always wanted to say a proper hello to him, but was unable to, as she was "not constructed that way". (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
First flight[[edit] |[edit source]]
By one account, after leaving Gallifrey, the TARDIS landed onIwa where the Doctor and Susan first encountered thehuman race. (PROSE:Frayed[+]Loading...["Frayed (novel)"])
In another, Stoyn shut down the engines with the Doctor managing to make an emergency landing onthe moon of planetEarth, 450 million years prior to the human era. When Stoyn confronted the Doctor and Susan, the former destroyed Stoyn'shoming device to prevent theTime Lords from finding them and removed the ship'sdematerialisation circuit so that Stoyn could not maroon them. Exploring, the three met theArchaeons who removed the TARDIS'temporal stasis capacitor while the power was still on, breaching thestasis field and freezing everyone in the immediate area for 450 million years until the moon was colonised by humanity. In the interim, the TARDIS had recharged itself, Stoyn bargaining its power to the Archaeons when they came under attack from Earth. When Stoyn stepped outside to speak to theFirst Propagator, the Doctor and Susan returned to the ship, inserting the dematerialisation circuit and fleeing. The Doctor, after having seen afirst contact video about humanity had hoped to visit Earth itself only for the ship to wind up onan alien planet. Reflecting on these events, Susan noted that the TARDIS wouldn't land on Earth for quite some time afterwards. (AUDIO:The Beginning[+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"])
In their travels, the Doctor and Susan came to regard the TARDIS as their home. (AUDIO:Tick-Tock World[+]Loading...["Tick-Tock World (audio story)"])
Arrival on Earth[[edit] |[edit source]]
The TARDIS eventually landed inLondon in the1960s, coming to rest inI.M. Foreman'sjunkyard. (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) By one account, theBlessing Star had allowed the Doctor to properly pilot the ship to the destination, at the cost of burning out itsnavigation system. (PROSE:The Rag & Bone Man's Story[+]Loading...["The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)"]) By another, the TARDIS had been placed there by theFather of Time, telling the Doctor and Susan that they would find "a new life" there. (COMIC:The Test of Time[+]Loading...["The Test of Time (comic story)"]) In a third account, the Doctor had piloted the ship there himself, considering it a fine place to hide the TARDIS for a time. (COMIC:Untitled[+]Loading...["Untitled (FCBD 2022 comic story)"])
The ship'schameleon circuit disguised the ship as apolice box fitting for 1960s London. However, when the TARDIS rematerialised roughly 100,000 years earlier, the ship's disguise failed to update and match the new surroundings, with the circuit apparently being broken. (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) TheEighth Doctor once claimed the circuit had been removed and repurposed to disguise the container of theHand of Omega; (AUDIO:The Shoreditch Intervention[+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)"]) according to another account, theEleventh Doctor deliberately destroyed the circuit to make the ship retain the police box exterior, which would in turn ensure the ship's appearance became a part of humanity'srace memory. (COMIC:Hunters of the Burning Stone[+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"]) In any case, the ship's distinctive appearance was remembered across time: it was memorialised as part of the family ofLobus Caecilius' family gods, (TV:The Fires of Pompeii[+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"]) and became the subject of conspiracy theorists includingLINDA, (TV:Love & Monsters[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])Into The Unknown, (PROSE:Alabama's Blue Box[+]Loading...["Alabama's Blue Box (short story)"]) andThe Blue Box Files. (AUDIO:SOS[+]Loading...["SOS (audio story)"]) The Doctor theorised the shape of the TARDIS had evenparadoxically influenced the design of the London police boxes in the first place. (COMIC:Hunters of the Burning Stone[+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"])
Travels with the Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]
For hundreds of years, the Doctor travelled through time and space in the TARDIS, along with numerous companions whom the ship regarded as "strays". (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
While living on Earth, Susan had enrolled herself atCoal Hill School. The various gaps in her knowledge worried two of her teachers,Ian Chesterton andBarbara Wright who followed her home onNovember 23rd1963 and forced their way into the TARDIS when they heard her voice from inside it. Unwilling to allow humans to have knowledge of his ship, the Doctor dematerialised the ship with them aboard, arriving in Earth'scaveman era. There the four united against theTribe of Gum, making it back to the ship just before the tribe could deal a killing blow. (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) Though the Doctor attempted to return to London in 1963, the TARDIS instead brought the group to the planetSkaro, (PROSE:What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious"[+]Loading...["What the TARDIS thought of \"Time Lord Victorious\" (short story)"]) knowing how important encountering theDaleks would be to the Doctor's character. (TV:Into the Dalek[+]Loading...["Into the Dalek (TV story)"]) After theThal-Dalek battle, the Doctor attempted to use thefast return switch to return Ian and Barbara home only for the switch to become stuck and take the TARDIS to the beginning of astar system, the gravity fields nearly destroying it before the Doctor repaired the switch. (TV:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"])
When the Doctor crossed paths withthe Master onDestination, the Master claimed the Doctor's TARDIS as a substitute forhis own. Having taken Ian and Barbara as hostages, the Master found himself overpowered, the humans managing to use the fast return switch to guide the ship back to Destination. (AUDIO:The Destination Wars[+]Loading...["The Destination Wars (audio story)"])
OnJuly the 20th1966, the TARDIS was stolen byEdward Waterfield on the orders of theDalek Emperor. Brought to Skaro, the TARDIS was held in theDalek Emperor's chamber who threatened to destroy it unless theSecond Doctor helped the Daleks isolate theHuman factor. After discovering the factor and letting it loose in Dalek society, the Doctor andJamie McCrimmon managed to return to the TARDIS, taking onVictoria Waterfield as a new companion. (TV:The Evil of the Daleks[+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Following Victoria's departure andZoe Heriot joining, the TARDIS was caught in the eruption of avolcano onDulkis, the heat causing malfunctions in thefluid links. Unable to conventionally take off, the Doctor employed anemergency unit that sent the ship into theWhite Void. Once the repairs were complete, the Doctor tried to return to N-Space only for the ship to collapse and the three winding up in theLand of Fiction. Once they had defeated theMaster Brain, the three returned to reality, the TARDIS reassembling around them. (TV:The Mind Robber[+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"]) The TARDIS was heavily damaged during an encounter between the Doctor and a force ofAsymmetrical Daleks onZaos, but theZaons and theSky Ray Space Raiders helped him repair the time capsule, withCommanderClay contacting the Earth for new parts to use in the repair effort. (PROSE:Daleks Invade Zaos[+]Loading...["Daleks Invade Zaos (short story)"])
The TARDIS later landed in what the Doctor initially thought wasWorld War I but discovered wasa planet owned by theWar Lords who sought to use brainwashed humans as an army. Though able to halt the plan, the Doctor was forced to call on the Time Lords to return the displaced humans to their own times. The Doctor tried to fly away from the planet before the Time Lords arrived only for the ship to be remotely operated from and brought back to Gallifrey. In histrial for the violation of thenon-interference policy, the Doctor wasexiled to20th century Earth and the TARDIS was grounded. (TV:The War Games[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) The interference of theCelestial Intervention Agency led to a brief delay in this being enforced, (PROSE:A Brief History of Time Lords[+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)"]) with the Doctor working for them. On a mission one account claimed occurred during this time, (PROSE:World Game[+]Loading...["World Game (novel)"]) the TARDIS was equipped with aStattenheim remote control. (TV:The Two Doctors[+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"])
After the Doctor's full sentence was enforced, the dying Second Doctor was placed in the TARDIS, (COMIC:The Night Walkers[+]Loading...["The Night Walkers (comic story)"]) which delivered him, freshly-regenerated into theThird Doctor, to Earth for his exile. Afterwards the ship was rendered unable to leave Earth. (TV:Spearhead from Space[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"]) The Doctor made efforts to repair the ship, even removing theconsole from the control room, (TV:The Ambassadors of Death[+]Loading...["The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)"],Inferno[+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"],Terror of the Autons[+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)"]) but discovered the Time Lords had pre-programmed the TARDIS to return to Earth even if he did get her to move. (TV:The Claws of Axos[+]Loading...["The Claws of Axos (TV story)"]) The Time Lords did direct the ship away from Earth on occasion to deliver the Doctor to missions on their behalf. (TV:Colony in Space[+]Loading...["Colony in Space (TV story)"],The Curse of Peladon[+]Loading...["The Curse of Peladon (TV story)"],The Mutants[+]Loading...["The Mutants (TV story)"]) Following theFirst Omega Crisis, the Time Lords restored the Doctor's freedom, sending him a newdematerialisation circuit for the TARDIS. (TV:The Three Doctors[+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"])
At one time, the Third Doctor undertook a series of adventures in which the TARDIS had disguised herself as a red telephone box, (TV:The Future Is At Your Fingertips[+]Loading...["The Future Is At Your Fingertips (TV story)"]) but she later returned to the blue colour. (TV:Planet of the Spiders[+]Loading...["Planet of the Spiders (TV story)"], et. al)
After theFourth Doctor andSarah Jane Smith had defeatedSutekh, (TV:Pyramids of Mars[+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"]) theOsiran managed to attach himself to the Doctor's TARDIS, clinging to the ship throughout its travels and "seducing" it against the Doctor as he grew stronger from theTime Vortex's energies. (TV:Empire of Death[+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])
The TARDIS was infected byScratchman during his scheme to manipulate the Fourth Doctor into letting him into the universe, after being invaded by a scarecrow pursuingSarah Jane Smith. This caused the interior to become dark and vines to grow from the walls and around the exterior via the windows. Whilst the ship was in this state the Doctor piloted it to Scratchman's universe through a tiny rift to rescue his companions. When the Doctor returned to the ship after defeating Scratchman he found the TARDIS still recovering, with the console currently being made of wicker. (PROSE:Scratchman[+]Loading...["Scratchman (novelisation)"])
At some point the Time Lords secretly installed a device to remotely pilot the TARDIS. (AUDIO:No Place Like Home[+]Loading...["No Place Like Home (audio story)"]) On numerous occasions, they directed the TARDIS so the Doctor would perform a task on their behalf, (COMIC:The Dalek Revenge[+]Loading...["The Dalek Revenge (comic story)"],Virus[+]Loading...["Virus (comic story)"],Treasure Trail[+]Loading...["Treasure Trail (comic story)"],TV:The Brain of Morbius[+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"],AUDIO:Genetics of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Genetics of the Daleks (audio story)"]) so that the CIA could retain plausible deniability. (PROSE:A Brief History of Time Lords[+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)"])
After briefly landing in its domain, the TARDIS was exploited by theMandragora Helix to enable its energy to reach Earth in the15th century. Despite the Doctor defeating the helix energy, (TV:The Masque of Mandragora[+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"]) the Mandragora retained a connection to the TARDIS. (COMIC:Distractions[+]Loading...["Distractions (comic story)"])
During theSontaran invasion of Gallifrey, theFourth Doctor retreated into the TARDIS interior, along withLeela,Andred,Borusa,Rodan andK9 Mark I, pursued bySontarans. (TV:The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])
The Fourth Doctor attempted to use the TARDIS to stop theSkishtari elevating the village ofHexford, however they overpowered the TARDIS by using awormhole to pull the village away from Earth. (AUDIO:The Hexford Invasion[+]Loading...["The Hexford Invasion (audio story)"])
The TARDIS inadvertently materialised onCalufrax at the precise same time as the pirate planetZanak, briefly preventing both vessels landing untilRomana altered the ship's course slightly. The Doctor performed this manoeuvre again deliberately to stop Zanak materialising around Earth, buying time for theMentiads to sabotage Zanak's engines, at considerable risk to the TARDIS. (TV:The Pirate Planet[+]Loading...["The Pirate Planet (TV story)"])
The,TARDIS accidentally flew intoE-Space after encountering aCharged Vacuum Emboitement. (TV:Full Circle[+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) The Doctor was eventually able to pilot the ship back to the main universe viathe Gateway. (TV:Warriors' Gate[+]Loading...["Warriors' Gate (TV story)"])
The Doctor attempted to have theLogopolitans repair the TARDIS' Chameleon Circuit, howeverthe Tremas Master sabotaged theirBlock Transfer Computation causing the TARDIS exterior to shrink instead, leaving the Doctor trapped inside until he corrected the maths to return the TARDIS to normal. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])
The Master exploitedAdric's gift of mathematics to use block transfer to force the TARDIS on a course forEvent One. TheFifth Doctor was able to to avert disaster by jettisoning a third of the ship's interior, altering the TARDIS' course though he had sacrificed the ship'sZero Room, which he had been using to aid his recovery from his recent regeneration, in doing so. (TV:Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"])
The ship was stolen from the Fifth Doctor byThomas Brewster. (AUDIO:The Haunting of Thomas Brewster[+]Loading...["The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"]) With the aid of Adric, the Doctor was able to reclaim his ship. (AUDIO:The Boy That Time Forgot[+]Loading...["The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)"]) Much to his anger, he found Brewster had sold off many key components during his brief travels in the TARDIS. (AUDIO:Time Reef[+]Loading...["Time Reef (audio story)"])
Nyssa effected repairs to the chameleon circuit, which the Doctor decided to test by landing the TARDIS in an ocean. The TARDIS assumed the form of a whale however became convinced it actually was a whale, expelling the Doctor and Nyssa. The Doctor swam next to the whale and used his Time Lord heartbeat to make it remember its true nature and regain access to the ship to undo the repairs, returning the TARDIS to normal. (AUDIO:The Deep[+]Loading...["The Deep (audio story)"])
Whilst onFrontios beyond thefrontier in time, the TARDIS was broken apart by a meteor storm caused by theGravis. The Fifth Doctor tricked the Gravis into using its gravitational powers to put the ship back together. (TV:Frontios[+]Loading...["Frontios (TV story)"])
Due to the telepathic link with the pilot, the TARDIS was affected by the Fifth Doctor getting drunk onginger beer. This gave the ship “hiccups”, resulting in it travelling back to1483 shortly after landing in1485, separatingPeri andErimem from the Doctor who had already left the TARDIS in 1485. (AUDIO:The Kingmaker[+]Loading...["The Kingmaker (audio story)"])
TheSixth Doctor attempted to repair the chameleon circuit. Though his repairs initially appeared successful, the ship eventually reverted back to a police box. (TV:Attack of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"])
AfterFrobisher abused the dimensional stabilisers to create artificialGumblejack to hunt, the TARDIS went on strike, forcing the Doctor to yield autonomous control to her. The TARDIS took them toEugene's World, which the Doctor speculated was because of its similar properties to her making it a good place for the ship to recover though it also served to teach Frobisher a lesson on value of simulated life. (AUDIO:The Holy Terror[+]Loading...["The Holy Terror (audio story)"])
By the time of theSeventh Doctor andAce's travels, the Mandragora Helix energy aboard the TARDIS had grown strong enough to influence the TARDIS' flight, keeping it near Earth. (COMIC:Distractions[+]Loading...["Distractions (comic story)"]) The Mandragora began using the ship as a bridge between1990s Earth, where it was spreading via the drug Mandrake, and the Vortex. At the moment of the Mandragora manifesting fully on Earth however the TARDIS was able to jolt into gear, breaking the link with the Helix and foiling its plan, and materialised properly on Earth a few days later, happily surprising the Doctor as he'd feared the ship had been destroyed. (COMIC:The Mark of Mandragora[+]Loading...["The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)"])
Whilst in1854Crimea, the TARDIS was struck by a cannon ball which triggered theHostile Action Displacement System and displaced the outer shell, resulting in the TARDIS retreating to the Time Vortex to grow a new shell whilst debris of its old one was left behind and used as firewood by soldiers. Having grown a new police box shell, which was white instead of the usual blue, the TARDIS subsequently honed in on the Doctor via his double heartbeat. (AUDIO:The Angel of Scutari[+]Loading...["The Angel of Scutari (audio story)"])
Whilst in 1990sPerivale, the TARDIS was invaded by theProcess. As it broke in, the TARDIS dematerialised and collided with aTime Scaphe, forcing the TARDIS to use theBanshee Circuits to survive, becoming theSARDIT. After defeating the Process, the Doctor restored the TARDIS to normal however the ship had sustained a great deal of damage. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"]) The Doctor was forced to useprotoplasm fromTír na n-Óg to repair the ship's link to theEye of Harmony, however an impurity contaminated the organic material. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)"]) The impurity infected the ship and was able to prevent the Doctor taking action against it by exploiting his symbiotic link with the TARDIS. Eventually he linked the teritary console room with the Zero Room to isolate himself, enabling him to cleanse the TARDIS with the aid of Ace, who was able to help as she'd just spent some years away from the infected ship. (PROSE:Deceit[+]Loading...["Deceit (novel)"])
The Seventh Doctor became separated from the TARDIS after it sunk in a tar pit on analternate Earth in an unstable mini-universe. He recovered its alternate counterpart instead, using atime ram against his original TARDIS to destroy the mini-universe due to its impact on the lifespan of the main universe. (PROSE:Blood Heat[+]Loading...["Blood Heat (novel)"]) Unknown to him the TARDIS survived thanks to aFortean Flicker and they were reunited atBernice Summerfield's wedding. (PROSE:Happy Endings[+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"])
To rescueSarah Jane Smith,Peri Brown and Ace from theLobri, the Doctor piloted the TARDIS into humanity's collective unconscious, causing significant damage to the console room. (COMIC:Ground Zero[+]Loading...["Ground Zero (comic story)"])
Followingthe Master's trial, the Seventh Doctor was tasked with transporting his remains back to Gallifrey. (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) Managing to survive thanks to aDeathworm Morphant, (AUDIO:Mastermind[+]Loading...["Mastermind (audio story)"]) the Master damaged the TARDIS console, causing a critical timing malfunction, and forced it to make an emergency landing inSan Francisco. The Master subsequently attempted to exploit the TARDIS'Eye of Harmony to steal the newly-regeneratedEighth Doctor's regenerations, at the cost of Earth, which was averted byGrace Holloway putting the ship into atemporal orbit. (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) This incident left atemporal cicatrix in San Francisco where the TARDIS had landed. (PROSE:Unnatural History[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) During the incident the Master fell into the Eye, (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) so the ship tried to break him down into pure energy, however he managed to reconstitute himself in a room deep within the interior. The TARDIS subsequently jettisoned the room with him still inside, leaving it adrift in the Time Vortex. (AUDIO:The Lifeboat and the Deathboat[+]Loading...["The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)"]) An "echo" of the Master remained imprisoned in the singularity of the TARDIS' Eye of Harmony, (PROSE:The Gallifrey Chronicles[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) withRiver Song believing she heard an American screaming from within the walls whilst exploring the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS. (GAME:The Eternity Clock[+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"])
Following his resurrection into anew body, the Master found he had a symbiotic link to the TARDIS. The link enabled him to trail the Doctor for sometime without suspicion and to influence the TARDIS' flight, which he used to send the craft to times and places that would weaken the Doctor's self-belief and confidence ahead of what he believed would be their battle forthe Glory. AfterKroton won the true battle for the Glory, he cleansed the TARDIS of the Master's influence. (COMIC:The Glorious Dead[+]Loading...["The Glorious Dead (comic story)"])
After the temporal scar left in San Francisco began drawing creatures from other dimensions to the city, the Doctor materialised the TARDIS around it as a desperate measure to contain it. The Doctor andSam Jones managed to seal the scar before the TARDIS was destroyed in the effort. (PROSE:Unnatural History[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])
After the Eighth Doctor was infected withFaction Paradox'sbiodata virus, (PROSE:Interference - Book Two[+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"]) the TARDIS took it into herself and worked to resolve the paradox now surrounding his third incarnation'sregeneration. Whilst doing this, (PROSE:The Ancestor Cell[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"]) the ship was catastrophically caught in a rift between Earth andAvalon, which the Doctor believed destroyed the TARDIS. (PROSE:The Shadows of Avalon[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"]) In a desperate bid to survive, the TARDIS latched onto energy leaking from abottle universe that PresidentRomana had placed above Gallifrey, warping itself into the Edifice and escalating tensions withthe Enemy who had been drawing on the same energy. As theWar in Heaven loomed, the Time Lords sent the Doctor aboard the Edifice and he deduced its true nature, using its new weaponry to destroy Gallifrey as Faction Paradox exploited the Enemy's opening attack to overrun the planet. The Edifice collapsed in doing so, resolving the paradox at its heart and leaving it once again in the form of a police box, now the size of a matchbox. It was retrieved byCompassion who left it with the Doctor on Earth in the19th century. (PROSE:The Ancestor Cell[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"]) The ship took a century to fully recover, after which the Doctor resumed his travels in the TARDIS. (PROSE:Escape Velocity[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"])
The Eighth Doctor used the TARDIS to contain the explosion of an overloadingcold fusion reactor, scorching the interior and cracking the Eye of Harmony slightly open. The Doctor subsequently repaired the Eye. (PROSE:The Gallifrey Chronicles[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])
The TARDIS was pulled into the universe of theNeverpeople after the Time Lords used the ship to turnCharlotte Pollard into a gateway to the universe, having underestimated the gateway's pull. The TARDIS honed in on the sole fixed planet and was later retrieved by the Doctor, who used the ship to follow theTime Station corrupted byanti-time that the Neverpeople planned to detonate on Gallifrey. He reconfigured the TARDIS so he could materialise around the station, containing the explosion. (AUDIO:Neverland[+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"]) In doing so he and the TARDIS were both infected with anti-time, both developing a split personality of their usual self and aZagreus persona. The TARDIS' Zagreus personality, appearing in an avatar based onBrigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart was approached byRassilon to make the Doctor embrace his Zagreus side to destroy theDivergence, and agreed to help him after using projections to view the history of the Divergence alongside Charley. To break the Doctor, the Zagreus TARDIS expelled Charley from the interior and had the police bos exterior melted down in front of him. Charley and three projections created by the loyal TARDIS persona overpowered the Zagreus avatar, pushing him into the cauldron with the smelted exterior. This reunited the TARDIS' personalities and enabled the ship to use the Brigadier avatar to help Charley stabilise the Doctor. (AUDIO:Zagreus[+]Loading...["Zagreus (audio story)"])
Upon entering his self-imposed exile in theDivergent Universe, the Eighth Doctor became separated from the TARDIS. (AUDIO:Scherzo[+]Loading...["Scherzo (audio story)"]) He found the ship atCaerdroia and subsequently used it to explore the Divergent Universe, (AUDIO:Caerdroia[+]Loading...["Caerdroia (audio story)"]) until he found a way to pilot her back to the main universe. (AUDIO:The Next Life[+]Loading...["The Next Life (audio story)"])
Following them transporting the Doctor toOrbis after he fell off a cliff fightingMorbius, theSisterhood of Karn kept the Doctor's TARDIS until the ship was retrieved by theHeadhunter, who used it to pick upLucie Miller and reunite her with the Doctor. After the destruction of Orbis, the Doctor resumed his travels in the TARDIS. (AUDIO:Orbis[+]Loading...["Orbis (audio story)"])
OnParrak the TARDIS was attacked by theRavenous, critically draining the ship's energies. (AUDIO:Planet of Dust[+]Loading...["Planet of Dust (audio story)"]) The Ravenous subsequently transported the TARDIS with them to theCrucible of Souls as a trophy. The Doctor,Liv Chenka andHelen Sinclair recovered the TARDIS and flew it on what the Doctor believed may be its final flight. (AUDIO:Day of the Master[+]Loading...["Day of the Master (audio story)"]) They crash landed inLondon2020, however the damage prevented time crystallising around the TARDIS as usual, fracturing the timelines. (AUDIO:Crossed Lines[+]Loading...["Crossed Lines (audio story)"]) The interior collapsed, with the Doctor, Liv and Helen escaping just in time, (AUDIO:Lost Property[+]Loading...["Lost Property (audio story)"]) and the TARDIS reverted to a normal police box until a nearbyparadox caused by theRarkelians killing the Doctor, which the ship latched onto to begin restoring itself and resurrect the Doctor. (AUDIO:Divine Intervention[+]Loading...["Divine Intervention (audio story)"]) Whilst initially only able to move in time, (AUDIO:Dead Time[+]Loading...["Dead Time (audio story)"],UNIT Dating[+]Loading...["UNIT Dating (audio story)"],Baker Street Irregulars[+]Loading...["Baker Street Irregulars (audio story)"]) the TARDIS eventually regained the ability to travel in both time and space. (AUDIO:Patience[+]Loading...["Patience (audio story)"])
During theKotturuh crisis, theDalek Time Squad intercepted theEighth Doctor's TARDIS and attached it to theengines oftheir saucer, allowing them to travel back to theDark Times. (AUDIO:The Enemy of My Enemy[+]Loading...["The Enemy of My Enemy (audio story)"]') After theDefence of Gallifrey, the Doctor managed to reclaim his ship and return to his time. (AUDIO:Mutually Assured Destruction[+]Loading...["Mutually Assured Destruction (audio story)"])
Last Great Time War[[edit] |[edit source]]
Initially refusing to fight in theLast Great Time War, the Eighth Doctor used his ship to rescue innocents who were caught in the crossfire. With knowledge of Time Lords becoming more commonplace in the universe, the TARDIS came to be seen as an omen of evil. (PROSE:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])
After being caught in the destruction of theTheseus, (AUDIO:The Starship of Theseus[+]Loading...["The Starship of Theseus (audio story)"]) the TARDIS fell on aplanet devastated by temporal warfare, causing the ship's interior to retreat to protect itself from the distortion. A group of refugees led byBliss found the empty police box shell, and theiramnesiac Dalek guide insisted they bring it them to a safe zone on the planet. There the Doctor reunited with the group and his ship, but they were captured by Time Lord forces led by CardinalOllistra. (AUDIO:Echoes of War[+]Loading...["Echoes of War (audio story)"]) She had the TARDIS brought with them to thebase on theMoon of Tenacity but opted not to expediate its recovery from exposure to temporal distortions, as the Doctor had been conscripted so was unlikely to need it. (AUDIO:The Conscript[+]Loading...["The Conscript (audio story)"])
As a result the ship had barely started to recover when the Daleksinvaded, only being able to transport the Doctor, along with the refugees and Ollistra, in space. The Doctor managed to fly the ailing ship away from Tenacity and through aquantum wall ofDalek saucers, however crash-landed onJedris as a result. The ship and the Doctor were lost in the shifting landscape when the Time Lord forces coming to Ollistra's rescue accelerated time as they battled Daleks, however both were saved byQuarren Maguire who used his powers to alter reality to retrieve them and leave Bliss onboard. (AUDIO:One Life[+]Loading...["One Life (audio story)"]) By being in the TARDIS, Bliss was protected from subsequent rewriting ofDerilobia's timeline that should have erased her from history. (AUDIO:The Lords of Terror[+]Loading...["The Lords of Terror (audio story)"])
The TARDIS later arrived on Gallifrey piloted by theDoctor Ogron. Confirming that the Doctor's DNA and memory engrams existed in the hybrid, the Time Lords put the Ogron inthe Twelve's custody who brought him to the Eighth Doctor. When the Ogron convinced the Doctor to travel tothe Planet, the TARDIS was cloaked only to be recalled when it was discovered that the Doctor Ogron's existence was abootstrap paradox, being used to send the younger version to Gallifrey to complete the loop. (AUDIO:Planet of the Ogrons[+]Loading...["Planet of the Ogrons (audio story)"]) The Doctor subsequently retrieved the ship from Gallifrey. (AUDIO:State of Bliss[+]Loading...["State of Bliss (audio story)"])
Following the Daleks being wiped fromN-Space, the Doctor left his TARDIS on a Gallifreyan outpost when needing to break through thetime lock aroundGrahv, instead taking, and crashing,Tamasan's TARDIS which was capable of the task. (AUDIO:The War Valeyard[+]Loading...["The War Valeyard (audio story)"]) He later retrieved his ship after helping the Time Lords identify their forgotten enemy, (AUDIO:Dreadshade[+]Loading...["Dreadshade (audio story)"]) then escaping in it with Bliss and a copy of his grandsonAlex Campbell after the Daleks were restored to the universe. (AUDIO:Restoration of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"])
After swapping his and the Doctor's bodies,the War Master stole the TARDIS. (AUDIO:The Castle of Kurnos 5[+]Loading...["The Castle of Kurnos 5 (audio story)"]) He had several "diabolical" adventures, before setting up camp onNastrum. There the Doctor caught up with him and reclaimed his body and TARDIS. (AUDIO:The Cognition Shift[+]Loading...["The Cognition Shift (audio story)"])
During theFifth Segment of the conflict, (PROSE:The Stranger[+]Loading...["The Stranger (short story)"]) the Doctor failed to rescueCass Fermazzi, crashing on the planetKarn where theSisterhood convinced him to join the conflict. Accepting their reasoning, the Doctor regenerated into hisninth incarnation. (TV:The Night of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Though openly identifying as awarrior, the new Doctor refused to allowweapons to be installed on his TARDIS, insisting that it be left as it was. (AUDIO:Light the Flame[+]Loading...["Light the Flame (audio story)"]) Over the course of the conflict, the War Doctor modified the TARDIS to respond tohis screwdriver's signal. (AUDIO:The Thousand Worlds[+]Loading...["The Thousand Worlds (audio story)"],The Heart of the Battle[+]Loading...["The Heart of the Battle (audio story)"]) Whilst working withVeklin, the Doctor was forced to use aBattle TARDIS instead of his own, however he destroyed this ship in an effort to stop aDalek harvester. (AUDIO:Saviour[+]Loading...["Saviour (audio story)"])
In a desperate attempt to saveLacuna from a raid ofBerserker Daleks, the Doctor used the TARDIS to create atime loop of the final day before the planet was wiped out. Over hundreds of loops he tried and failed to find a way to save the people until he was persuaded to break the loop and leave byIgnis Abel. (AUDIO:Rewind[+]Loading...["Rewind (audio story)"])
Duringthe Barber-Surgeon's campaign, the TARDIS was attacked by one ofthe Barber-Surgeon's creations whilst transporting the Doctor to prehistoric Earth. Upon landing, the ship was left dead. (AUDIO:The Abyss[+]Loading...["The Abyss (audio story)"]) After the Barber-Surgeon was erased from existence the TARDIS was restored and was subsequently reunited with the Doctor bythe General. (AUDIO:The Horror[+]Loading...["The Horror (audio story)"])
After the opening ofthe Valley, a temporal rift leading to thetime before the Time War, the War Doctor took the TARDIS to investigate but was poisoned withtemporal toxaemia by theThird Power who took the TARDIS for themselves. The Third Power used the TARDIS as a wedge to keep the Valley open so they could use it for safe refugee routes. After three years, the TARDIS had been considerably weakened by constant exposure toTime Winds and the interior had reverted to the Victorian design used prior to the War, whichCora believed was an expression of the ship’s desire for the Doctor to return to who he used to be. The War Doctor returned to the TARDIS whilst being pursued byMorbius and the two fought in the weakened ship, with the Doctor inverting the gravity via themaster switch and then shattering the ceiling scanner to breach the hull and expel Morbius. The TARDIS herself switched the gravity back to prevent the Doctor being pulled out as well. The War Doctor subsequently piloted her out of the Valley and the interior returned to his normal design. (AUDIO:Morbius the Mighty[+]Loading...["Morbius the Mighty (audio story)"])
When the Doctor protested PresidentRassilon's plan to stop theEternity Circle, he was exiled once again, the TARDIS being sent to die in theunder croft with its clearance codes revoked. When the Doctor andCinder reclaimed the ship,the Castellan allowed the ship to take off, the two stoppingPartheus from deploying theTear of Isha on theTantalus Eye before they travelled to theDeath Zone. There, the Doctor collectedBorusa, since rewired into apossibility engine, and brought him to the Tantalus Spiral, the formerPresident of the High Council being able to use his powers to remove Dalek influence from the sector. Despite the victory, the Doctor was left appalled at the lengths that theHigh Council had been prepared to go and swore to end the war. (PROSE:Engines of War[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"])
On the last day of the War, the War Doctor walked from away the ship as he planned to detonatethe Moment, which the sentient superweapon suspected was because he didn't want her to see him perform such a deed. The Moment summoned theTenth and Eleventh Doctors to show the War Doctor what such a choice would turn him into. Though the War Doctor was initially convinced to double down on his initial idea,Clara Oswald convinced the Doctors to "be a doctor" and find an alternative. Inspired by their recent adventure withstasis cubes, the Doctors decided to shunt Gallifrey intoa parallel pocket universe. Summoning "all thirteen" of themselves, the Doctors flew their versions of the TARDIS into Gallifrey'slower atmosphere and saved their homeworld from theDalek Fleet. Countless more versions of the TARDIS from across its timeline were also summoned to Gallifrey, all helping to teleport the world away and save the planet from the fallout of this. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"],PROSE:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])
Some accounts indicated the salvation of Gallifrey was a rewriting of the original course of events, (PROSE: Big Bang Generation[+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)"],TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Desktop Theme","page":"91","chaptnum":"V","1":"TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"},AUDIO:War Stories[+]Loading...["War Stories (audio story)"]) in which the Doctor had indeed destroyed Gallifrey. (COMIC: Sky Jacks[+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)"] In another account of the end of the Time War, after the Eighth Doctor usedthe Moment to destroyGallifrey Original, the TARDIS was responsible for retrieving him as theTime War time lock containing theTime War timeline solidified, saving him from tumbling out ofexistence. (PROSE:Doctor Who and the Time War[+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)"])
Post Time-War[[edit] |[edit source]]
Either due to the reality of the event (PROSE:Doctor Who and the Time War[+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)"],COMIC: Sky Jacks[+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)"])), or as a result of the timelines being out of sync and thus the Doctor being unable to retain the knowledge of the Time War's true conclusion, (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The Doctor believed that he had destroyed Gallifrey (TV:Dalek[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"]) and came to consider his TARDIS to be the last of her kind. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
AfterRose Tyler caused aparadox by changing history by savingher father from a fatal car accident in view of her recent past self, the TARDIS retreated from the wound, becoming a police box. TheNinth Doctor attempted to reconnect with the interior by energising thekey with a phone battery, but was interrupted byReapers. When Rose's father corrected the timeline, the TARDIS returned to normal. (TV:Father's Day[+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"])
After landing inCardiff to usethe rift to refuel the TARDIS, theNinth Doctor capturedBlon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen and confiscated hertribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator. AsJack Harkness worked in the TARDIS, the extrapolator identified it as an alien power source and, as Blon had programmed, locked on and used it to open the rift, Blon's ultimate intention being to destroy the planet whilst she used the extrapolator to escape. However, the stress caused theheart of the TARDIS to be exposed, regressing Blon to anegg and so giving her a second chance at life. (TV:Boom Town[+]Loading...["Boom Town (TV story)"]) Jack would later indicate that the TARDIS' presence resulted in theinvisible lift used byTorchwood Cardiff. (TV:Everything Changes[+]Loading...["Everything Changes (TV story)"])
After visits toRaxacoricofallapatorius andKyoto in1336, the TARDIS was penetrated by atransmat, dispersing the Doctor, Rose and Jack across theGame Station whilst the TARDIS itself was stored inArchive Six. As the Doctor learnt, this was done by theController acting in defiance of her masters, theDaleks. With Rose held aboard theDalek Flagship (TV:Bad Wolf[+]Loading...["Bad Wolf (TV story)"]) the Doctor and Jack used the TARDIS to retrieve her, with the new power of the extrapolator protecting it from the firepower of both the Daleks and their ship.
Back aboard the Game Station, the Doctor deceived Rose into entering the TARDIS before sending it away to return her home; leaving amessage for Rose, the Doctor anticipated his death and instructed Rose to leave the TARDIS to die rather than fall into enemy hands. Refusing to leave the Doctor to his fate, Rose enlisted Mickey and Jackie's assistance to open the heart of the TARDIS. This resulted in Rose absorbing the energy of the vortex, transforming her into theBad Wolf, granting her the power to resurrect the slain Jack whilst wiping out the Dalek Fleet. To save Rose's life, the Doctor absorbed the energy into himself before returning it to the TARDIS before departing, leaving Jack aboard the Game Station.
As a result, the Doctor regenerated into theTenth Doctor who, (TV:The Parting of the Ways[+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) in his delirium, caused the TARDIS to crash land as he attempted to take Rose home for Christmas. (TV:Children in Need Special[+]Loading...["Children in Need Special (TV story)"]) Later, the now unconscious Doctor was taken to the TARDIS which wasteleported to the invadingSycorax ship, theSycorax identifying it as a "clever blue box". It was here that the Doctor awoke, which he attributed to spilttea, leading him to his confrontation with theSycorax leader. (TV:The Christmas Invasion[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])
After falling through a crack in theTime Vortex, the TARDIS crash landed on aparallel Earth and lost all power due to being in an alien universe. The Tenth Doctor gave up a decade of his lifespan to recharge the last active power cell, (TV:Rise of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) which after 24 hours enabled the TARDIS to return to its proper universe. (TV:The Age of Steel[+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"])
The Tenth Doctor andMartha Jones were separated from the TARDIS atWester Drumlins in the2000s[nb 1] by fourWeeping Angels, who wanted to feed on the energies within the ship. With the Doctor's guidance via recordings and messages,Sally Sparrow andLarry Nightingale reached the ship and inserted a DVD designed by the Doctor into the console causing the ship to dematerialise around them, en route to1969 where the Doctor and Martha were trapped, in doing so trapping the four Angels in each other's gaze as they'd surrounded the TARDIS prior to its departure. (TV:Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])
Ending up at theend of the universe after it attempted to shake off thefixed point in time ofJack Harkness, the ship was stolen bythe Saxon Master. (TV:Utopia[+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) He used it to make contact with theToclafane, accompanied byLucy Saxon, and converted it into aparadox machine to enable the Toclafane to enslave their ancestors on Earth in2008. After sustaining the paradoxicalinvasion for ayear, the paradox machine was destroyed by Jack, returning time to normal. The Doctor subsequently reclaimed and repaired the TARDIS, (TV:Last of the Time Lords[+]Loading...["Last of the Time Lords (TV story)"]) though in doing so left its shields down resulting in it colliding with its own younger self piloted by theFifth Doctor and then theTitanic. (TV:Time Crash[+]Loading...["Time Crash (TV story)"])
During theSontaran invasion of Earth, theSontarans captured the TARDIS, unaware thatDonna Noble was still aboard. Donna was able to infiltrate their ship and work with the Doctor to rig the teleport to return the ship to Earth. (TV:The Poison Sky[+]Loading...["The Poison Sky (TV story)"])
Whilst the ship was parked in2009Chiswick, theCollectors found and stole the TARDIS, kidnapping Donna as well as her friendNat due to believing her to be the pilot. (AUDIO:Out of this World[+]Loading...["Out of this World (audio story)"]) The Collectors subsequently studied the ship and forced Donna to pilot it by threatening Nat. She managed to fly it toValdacki, (AUDIO:Spinvasion[+]Loading...["Spinvasion (audio story)"]) though the Doctor later theorised this flight was actually due to the Collectors triggeringHostile Action Displacement System. (AUDIO:The Chiswick Cuckoos[+]Loading...["The Chiswick Cuckoos (audio story)"]) Whilst Donna tried to pilot the TARDIS back to Chiswick, the TARDIS located a book of piloting hints the Doctor had lost in theMiddle Ages and took them there, initiatingEmergency Program Twelve. Following the Emergency Program, the TARDIS used a hologram to help Nat, taking the form of her husbandGarrison. After retrieving the book, Donna and Nat managed to fly the TARDIS towards Chiswick, (AUDIO:The Sorcerer of Albion[+]Loading...["The Sorcerer of Albion (audio story)"]) with some psychic guidance from the Doctor. Afterwards the Doctor set about repairing the damage the Collectors and Donna's escapades had done to the TARDIS. (AUDIO:The Chiswick Cuckoos[+]Loading...["The Chiswick Cuckoos (audio story)"])
TheNew Dalek Empire attempted to destroy the TARDIS with Donna aboard by throwing it into thecore of theCrucible, having taken its defences down with a chronon loop. The ship was saved when a meta-crisis between Donna and the Tenth Doctor's severed hand, infused withregeneration energy, created anew Doctor who piloted the ship to safety. After the Dalek Empire had been destroyed, the Doctor used the TARDIS to return Earth to its proper point in space, using energy from theCardiff Space-Time Rift lopped around the ship byMr Smith as a "tow rope", and had the ship fully manned for the first time by his assembled companions, theChildren of Time. (TV:Journey's End[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])
The TARDIS was blocked from materialising bythe Trickster when the Doctor attempted to intervene in his scheme to entrapSarah Jane Smith. The Doctor finally managed to land the ship in time to interrupt her wedding, but was separated from her when the Trickster trapped the wedding into separate seconds. Usingartron energy to combat the Trickster, the TARDIS managed to hone in on the Doctor but was unable to stay long enough to retrieve the rest of Sarah's gang. (TV:The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith[+]Loading...["The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"])
Spending time in asnowy mountain, the Doctor returned to the TARDIS to find it buried in snow. The Doctor strapped some nearbyreindeer to the TARDIS, turning it into an impromptusleigh as he rode the TARDIS through the sky. (TV:The Doctor and the Reindeer[+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Reindeer (TV story)"])
The TARDIS sensedMajenta Pryce's connection to theCrimson Hand and so resisted the Doctor's efforts to take her toPanacea to restore her memories of her past. When it appeared he might actually take Majenta there, the TARDIS letIntersol capture them. When she faked killing the Doctor for the Hand, Majenta sent him and the TARDIS into their own pocket dimension and later retrieved them whenthe Morass began consuming reality. (COMIC:The Crimson Hand[+]Loading...["The Crimson Hand (comic story)"])
OnMars in2059, the Tenth Doctor usedGadget to pilot the TARDIS toBowie Base One to rescue the surviving crew, changing history. (TV:The Waters of Mars[+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"]) The TARDIS subsequently observed theTime Fracture his meddling had created and made preparations for the journey the ship knew the Doctor was about to undertake to theDark Times, givingBrian, anOod who had fallen into the Time Vortex, a nudge there in belief he might be useful to the Doctor. (PROSE:What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious"[+]Loading...["What the TARDIS thought of \"Time Lord Victorious\" (short story)"]) Whilst travelling in the Dark Times on the last ship of theVictis Fleet, the Doctor connected the TARDIS to supply power due to the ship having taken damage in theBattle of Mordeela. (AUDIO:The Minds of Magnox[+]Loading...["The Minds of Magnox (audio story)"],PROSE:All Flesh is Grass[+]Loading...["All Flesh is Grass (novel)"])
The Doctor's regeneration into theEleventh Doctor caused considerable damage to the TARDIS control room, (TV:The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) leading it to fly erratically through the skies of London before crashing inLeadworth in1996, where the Doctor metAmy Pond. In an attempt to stablise the TARDIS, the Doctor made what was intended to be a fiveminute jump but ended up travelling forward twelve years. After facingPrisoner Zero and theAtraxi, the Doctor returned to the TARDIS, which had changed its exterior and console room. After a brief trip in the "new TARDIS", the Doctor caught up with Amy, finding that he had went forward two more years. Ultimately, Amy joined the Doctor in the TARDIS. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
On the planetBasingstoke the TARDIS became infected by the jungle due to theBasingstoke gene splicer. As the Doctor and Amy travelled on, this infection resulted in the ship subsequently absorbing aShasarak, a part ofAxos,Cosette andMargaret Webster. After landing on a space station during theHuman-Galatean War, the TARDIS was exposed to temporal acceleration which allowed the absorbed life forms to fully evolve into an independent being which was then expelled by the TARDIS, finally disinfecting the ship. The entity subsequently evolved intoChiyoko, who retained some abilities of the TARDIS such as travelling in time. (COMIC:Apotheosis[+]Loading...["Apotheosis (comic story)"])
With Amy trapped onboard, the TARDIS became stuck in a materialisation loop when trying to land inColchester due to the nearby malfunctioningtime machine. The TARDIS was finally able to materialise when the Doctor andCraig Owens shut down the malfunctioning ship. (TV:The Lodger[+]Loading...["The Lodger (TV story)"])
Within aSilurian city, the Doctor found acrack in time through which he caught a piece of the TARDIS shell whilst the TARDIS at present was intact, much to his shock. (TV:Cold Blood[+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"]) It later became apparent that the TARDIS would explode, as depicted inVincent van Gogh'sThe Pandorica Opens, resulting in the destruction of the universe. Believing the Doctor to be responsible,an Alliance of numerous species assembled to stop him by imprisoning him in thePandorica, only for an unknown force to take control of the TARDIS, which exploded with River Song aboard. This caused atotal event collapse (TV:The Pandorica Opens[+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"]) which threatened to destroy the universe whilst the Earth persisted as theeye of the storm; though its sun was now gone, the perpetual explosion of the TARDIS took its place. The TARDIS' emergency protocols sealed off the control room and putting it in atime loop, allowing for River to be retrieved by the Doctor who used the Pandorica to reboot the universe in what he calledBig Bang Two. (TV:The Big Bang[+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"]) The Doctor later learnt that theKovarian Chapter ofthe Silence were responsible for the explosion of the TARDIS, having travelled back in an attempt to prevent the Doctor's arrival atTrenzalore, only to create the crack in the universe which would lead to Gallifrey, forming adestiny trap. (TV:The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"])
After the Doctor left Amy and Rory on their honeymoon, the TARDIS was stolen by a rogue faction ofShansheeth who sought to use it in a crusade to avert death. They attempted to use the memories ofSarah Jane Smith andJo Jones to create a key to access the ship with amemory weave however the pair overloaded the machine, after which the Doctor reclaimed the TARDIS. (TV:Death of the Doctor[+]Loading...["Death of the Doctor (TV story)"])
After being lured to abubble universe byHouse, the TARDIS' soul was removed from the ship and placed in the body of a human,Idris. House possessed the ship, departing for the main universe and abandoning the TARDIS and theEleventh Doctor. Working together, during which they talked properly for the first time, the TARDIS and the Doctor made a make-shiftTARDIS console and pursued House, tricking him into moving them to the control room. There Idris' body failed, releasing the TARDIS matrix who was able to reclaim her body from House. Afterwards she briefly communicated with the Doctor again in Idris' form, saying a tearful "hello", before returning to normal. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
By one account that showed the Time Lords as having been destroyed at the conclusion of the Time War,the Matrix had become sentient when all of Gallifrey died and uploaded itself to the Doctor's TARDIS to survive the planet's destruction. Resurfacing in the Eleventh Doctor's lifetime, the Matrix attempted to take control of the TARDIS, its conflict with the ship's own consciousness creating a miniature world within the ship itself before the Doctor and Clara Oswald trapped theartificial intelligence in a never ending wormhole. (COMIC:Sky Jacks[+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor would later claim that said destruction had been rewritten after the Doctor broke every law of time to save Gallifrey. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation[+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)"])
To try and help Clara bond with the TARDIS, the Doctor opted to teach her how to pilot it, setting it tobasic mode. Unfortunately this coincided with theVan Baalen salvage ship extending itsmagno-grab. The Doctor attempted to break free, succeeding when a future version of himself from an alternate timeline tossed him themagno-grab remote, shutting it down. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])
The Doctor put the TARDIS up for auction in theObsidian Mainframe to flood the system and crash it so he could rescue Clara from being sold there. The plan worked however he was unable to return to the TARDIS prior to the sale concluding and the ship shut him out in response to selling her. (COMIC:Pay the Piper[+]Loading...["Pay the Piper (comic story)"]) The TARDIS was acquired byDanny Fisher, who used the ship in his activities as “Azrael”. He coated the exterior inthe Mercy, planning to launch the TARDIS atCornucopia and wipe out it’s population. The Doctor reached the TARDIS and clung on during the launch, managing to get through to her so the ship dispelled the Mercy. (COMIC:The Blood of Azrael[+]Loading...["The Blood of Azrael (comic story)"])
When theSiege of Trenzalore broke out, the Doctor tricked Clara Oswald back home, though he intended for the TARDIS to return to him. Discovering the ruse in time, Clara grabbed the TARDIS as it was taking off, delaying it by three centuries as it extendedits force field to protect her. After the Siege had devolved into an open war, the Doctor managed to send Clara home, though this time bringing the TARDIS back toTrenzalore where it sat for six centuries. The TARDIS was then used byTasha Lem to collect Clara so she could comfort the Doctor, now out of regenerations and finally dying. Clara however managed to convince the Time Lords to grant the Doctor more lives, him using the excessregeneration energy as a final weapon to defeat theNew Dalek Paradigm. With the Siege over, the Doctor and Clara returned to the TARDIS and resumed their travels, the Doctor regenerating into theTwelfth Doctor. (TV:The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"])
In his delirium, the Twelfth Doctor forgot how to pilot the TARDIS, leading to it falling into the mouth of aTyrannosaurus rex which was displaced toVictorianLondon, where it regurgitated the TARDIS. In theGlasgow of her time, Clara received a call on the TARDIS phone from the Eleventh Doctor who, just prior to his regeneration, convinced her to stay with his future self. (TV:Deep Breath[+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"])
When theBoneless invadedN-Space, they leeched energy from the TARDIS, most notably shrinking its exterior dimensions. Clara was eventually able to trick the Boneless into firing dimensional energy through a wall and into the TARDIS, allowing the Doctor to fire a pulse from the ship that sent the invaders back to their own realm. (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
Shortly afterClara Oswald's death, the Doctor was teleported into hisconfession dial. Left in Rigsy's care, the TARDIS was painted with a memorial for Clara. (TV:Face the Raven[+]Loading...["Face the Raven (TV story)"]) Emerging from the dial on Gallifrey, the Doctor made use ofExtraction chamber 7 to save Clara, stealinga new TARDIS to escape the planet. When aneural block erased the Doctor's memories of Clara, she claimed the second TARDIS as her own, reuniting the Doctor with his ship inUtah. (TV:Hell Bent[+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
When the Twelfth Doctor spent seventy years as a professor atSt Luke's University, the TARDIS was parked inhis office. (TV:The Pilot[+]Loading...["The Pilot (TV story)"])
When the Twelfth Doctor regenerated into theThirteenth Doctor, the TARDIS was left severely damaged by the regeneration energy. (TV:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) Damaged and pilotless, the TARDIS crashed onDesolation. Stuck in a looping materialisation, the TARDIS became known as "the ghost monument" in the planet's culture before it was recovered by the Thirteenth Doctor, having repaired itself from the damage. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
After crossing paths withAshad in1816, the Doctor andTeam TARDIS followed him to thefar future, leaving the TARDIS far from the battle that was to come. (TV:Ascension of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) At its conclusion, the Doctor stoleanother TARDIS to bring her back to her own. Before she could take off, theJudoon teleported in and arrested the Doctor, teleporting her to aJudoon prison. (TV:The Timeless Children[+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)"]) Twenty years later, the Doctor was broken out byJack Harkness, the two teleporting back to the TARDIS. (TV:Revolution of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Whenthe Flux ravaged the universe, the Thirteenth Doctor threw the TARDIS in its path. (TV:The Halloween Apocalypse[+]Loading...["The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)"]) Though this caused several system malfunctions in the TARDIS, (TV:War of the Sontarans[+]Loading...["War of the Sontarans (TV story)"]) it did prevent the Flux from consuming the universe. (TV:Survivors of the Flux[+]Loading...["Survivors of the Flux (TV story)"]) A week after this, the Doctor, for the first time ever, reset the TARDIS' systems, repairing the damage that the Flux had done. This caused a time loop which enabled the Doctor and her companions to escape death at the hands ofDalek Executioners. (TV:Eve of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Afterthe Spy Master took possession of the Doctor's body viaforced regeneration, he took the TARDIS for himself. The ship appeared to resist him, shocking him when he touched the console, however he threatened to throw her on the scrapyard if she didn't comply. Yaz forced him out of the TARDIS and piloted the ship herself until she restored the Doctor. When the Doctor saw that she was about toregenerate, she and Yaz shared someice cream atop the TARDIS before the Doctor deposited Yaz back on Earth. (TV:The Power of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])
Following theThirteenth Doctor's regeneration, the TARDIS changed the interior greatly, apparently on its own, before theFourteenth Doctor returned with Donna Noble. However, Donna accidentally spilled coffee on the console, sending the TARDIS flying out of control. (TV:The Star Beast[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"]) The TARDIS flew out of control to a variety of times and places, (COMIC:Untitled[+]Loading...["Untitled (DWM 598 comic story)"]) including briefly crashing inIsaac Newton's tree in1666. (TV:Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) Eventually the Doctor decided they had to abandon the damaged ship, (COMIC:Untitled[+]Loading...["Untitled (DWM 598 comic story)"]) which they did after the TARDIS materialised ona spaceship at theedge of the universe. The ship played "Wild Blue Yonder" during the landing, apparently in an attempt to warn the Doctor and Donna of the danger there. Using a regular screwdriver and thesonic screwdriver, the Doctor triggered the TARDIS's own regeneration to repair her, however this also reset the HADS which caused the TARDIS to dematerialise due to the danger of theNot-Things. When the spaceship was seconds fromself-destructing, the TARDIS returned, as the risk of the Not-Things escaping had now passed, and rescued the Doctor who mistakenly took the Not-Thing Donna with him. He quickly realised his mistake and returned the TARDIS to the spaceship in time to save the real Donna, throwing the Not-Thing out. (TV:Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])
Following the defeat ofthe Toymaker and the Fourteenth Doctor'sbi-generation, theFifteenth Doctor used the prize that he had won from beating the Toymaker in a game to duplicate the TARDIS, with the only difference being ajukebox appearing in the console room of the Fifteenth Doctor's one. (TV:The Giggle[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) During the instant after the TARDIS was doubled, the one that would stay with the Fourteenth Doctor viewed her own future as that of the TARDIS that would go on to travel with the Fifteenth Doctor, despite also saying that the incident resulted in the creation of 'a second me'. (PROSE:I, TARDIS[+]Loading...["I, TARDIS (novel)"]) While the Fifteenth Doctor used one TARDIS to continues his travels throughout time and space, the other remained in the Fourteenth Doctor's possession as he retired on Earth. The Fourteenth Doctor parked his TARDIS in the backyard of the Noble family's house and occasionally used the ship to take his adopted family on short trips. (TV:The Giggle[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) The Fifteenth Doctor's TARDIS described this state of affairs as having her 'differences hammered out' and 'leaving the old me behind to finally know real peace' in a situation that she described similarly to that ofthe Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation. (PROSE:I, TARDIS[+]Loading...["I, TARDIS (novel)"])
After landing on the frozenLake Peipus in1242, the TARDIS was latched onto by theGenetrix which had been dormant beneath the ice, draining the ship’s energy. When Ruby was pulled beneath the ice by the Genetrix, the Doctor dropped the TARDIS through the ice so she could use the air bubble to survive underwater and then dived down to the ship himself, managing to regain access to the interior and reverse the process so the TARDIS drained the Genetrix, forcing it back into hibernation. (PROSE:Ruby Red[+]Loading...["Ruby Red (novel)"])
Whilst investigatingRuby Sunday's mother via UNIT’stime window, the Doctor discovered a hostile entity seemingly attached to the TARDIS.The Vlinx scanned the ship atUNIT’s HQ, confirming an unseen entity surrounding the TARDIS. When the Doctor went to confrontSusan Triad, the entity revealed itself as a manifestation ofSutekh. (TV:The Legend of Ruby Sunday[+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) While the Doctor, Ruby andMelanie Bush escaped in aRemembered TARDIS, Sutekh kept his perch on the physical TARDIS, using it to track the trio to2046. After enthralling Melanie to him, Sutekh used the TARDIS to bring the Doctor and Ruby before him. Managing to remotely trigger the TARDIS' defences, the Doctor regained control of his ship, anchoring it to Sutekh and dragging him through the Time Vortex, turning the god's necrotic powers against death itself, undoing the damage Sutekh had done before he finally slew him. When Ruby's mother was found, the Doctor reunited them before departing on his own, as Ruby had decided to meet her biological family. (TV:Empire of Death[+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])
Post-retirement[[edit] |[edit source]]
Even after retiring from theirtime-travelling adventures and becomingthe Curator, the Doctor continued using the TARDIS for meddling inpast affairs and preservingtimelines. According toRobin Bright-Thompson, hisTARDIS control room was far subtler in design than theEighth Doctor's.
In hisSixth Doctor aspect, the Curator rescued Robin in his TARDIS after he was abandoned by the Eighth Doctor at the end ofhumanity forhis actions. (AUDIO:The Keys of Baker Street[+]Loading...["The Keys of Baker Street (audio story)"])
Model and type[[edit] |[edit source]]
The precise model number of the Doctor's TARDIS was a matter of some confusion, particularly when it was compared to those of other Time Lords. Thedematerialisation circuit ofthe Master's TARDIS was a Mark II, compared to the Doctor's Mark I. (TV:Terror of the Autons[+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)"]) When theTeselecta scanned the Doctor's TARDIS, its records stated the timeship was aTTType 40, Mark 3. The record also stated it had been reported stolen. (TV:Let's Kill Hitler[+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"]) TheScrolls of Gallifrey indicated that the Doctor's TARDIS was a Mark 1. (PROSE:The Legacy of Gallifrey[+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)"])
During a visit by theFourth Doctor toGallifrey, the Doctor's TARDIS was unambiguously called a "Type 40". At that time, it was made clear that all other Type 40s had long since been officially decommissioned and replaced by newer models. The fact that the Doctor's TARDIS was a Type 40 was not common knowledge, even to theCastellan. (TV:The Deadly Assassin[+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"]) This designation was used with greater frequency afterwards. It was even used by theEleventh Doctor as an excuse toWinston Churchill for his tardy response toChurchill's summons. (TV:Victory of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"]) When the TARDIS had the opportunity to speak to the Eleventh Doctor in the body ofIdris, it called itself a "Type 40" without any qualification. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])River Song defined it a "Type 40 Mark". (COMIC:Pond Life[+]Loading...["Pond Life (comic story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor appeared to know the date of her creation, as one chronicle indicated that he celebrated "herbirthday". (PROSE:Dark Horizons[+]Loading...["Dark Horizons (novel)"])
Exterior[[edit] |[edit source]]
Almost all TARDISes were designed to blend into their surroundings by means of a mechanism usually called the "chameleon circuit", but occasionally the "camouflage unit". Some later models seemed to let the pilot choose a desired exterior, overriding what would have been "natural" for the surroundings. (TV:Time-Flight[+]Loading...["Time-Flight (TV story)"],Time and the Rani[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"])
The Doctor's TARDIS would have had both abilities, were the chameleon circuit operational. Shortly after the Doctor first left Gallifrey, the TARDIS materialised onthe Moon, taking the shape of aboulder. On its second trip, it landed on anotherplanet in the shape of a giantmushroom. (AUDIO:The Beginning[+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"]) Later still, theFirst Doctor had landed onIwa, where the TARDIS had posed as a boulder once again, in thatplanet'sdesert. (PROSE:Frayed[+]Loading...["Frayed (novel)"]) While onQuinnis, the First Doctor was unhappy when the TARDIS landed in a bazaar and chose to turn into a market stall, complete with a striped awning. (AUDIO:Quinnis[+]Loading...["Quinnis (audio story)"]) TheFourth Doctor showedAdric how the TARDIS could be changed to the shape of anEgyptianpyramid, implying he could override the chameleon circuit's "automatic" functionality. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])Susan Foreman mentioned the TARDIS also had previously appeared as asedan chair and anIonic column. (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"])
In any case, the defining characteristic of the Doctor's TARDIS was that its chameleon circuit had broken after assuming the shape of apolice box in1963London. (TV:"The Cave of Skulls"[+]Part ofAn Unearthly Child,Loading...{"namedep":"The Cave of Skulls (2)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"} et al.) It had also createdConstable Bernard Whittam as part of the disguise. (AUDIO:The Last Day at Work[+]Loading...["The Last Day at Work (audio story)"]) TheEleventh Doctor sabotaged the chameleon circuit before the TARDIS left 1963 London as part of a plot to foil thePrometheans so that the blue box shape was imprinted into therace memory of humanity. (COMIC:Hunters of the Burning Stone[+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"]) Not knowing this, the First Doctor and Susan expressed surprise that it had not changed form when they arrived at a new destination. (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"])
On at least one instance, it was implied that the chameleon circuitwas working or at least, the Doctor was able to fix it, but that they were fond of the police box shape so the TARDIS remained in that form. (TV:Boom Town[+]Loading...["Boom Town (TV story)"])
By theireleventh incarnation, the Doctor was telling theircompanions that the chameleon circuitwas working, but due to a fault, invariably assumed its customary police box shape:
It's camouflaged. It's disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the firstnanosecond of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a twelve-dimensional data map of everything within a thousand-mile radius and then determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment.... and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.Eleventh Doctor[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video) [src]]
Despite being stuck as a police box, the shade of colour for the box varied from light blue, (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"] -Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) dark blue (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"] -The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"],The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) bright blue (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"] -Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) and blue with a green tint. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"] - present) The windows also varied, being black, (TV:An Unearthly Child[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"] -Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) dirty yellow, (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"] -The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) bright white (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"] -Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) or pale yellow. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"] - present)
Friends and enemies could identify the TARDIS by its unvarying shape. TheDaleks even used miniature copies of the TARDIS for target practice. (TV:Death to the Daleks[+]Loading...["Death to the Daleks (TV story)"]) TheCybermen recognised it, (TV:Earthshock[+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"]) as did theBlack Guardian's operative known asthe Shadow. (TV:The Armageddon Factor[+]Loading...["The Armageddon Factor (TV story)"])Sarah Jane also recognised it, which led to her reunion with theTenth Doctor. (TV:School Reunion[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])Donna Noble was also on the look-out for the TARDIS. (TV:Partners in Crime[+]Loading...["Partners in Crime (TV story)"]) CaptainJack Harkness was on the look-out for "a version of" the police box throughout the20th and early21st centuries to avoid meeting the Doctor before their initial meeting. (TV:Utopia[+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) Members ofLINDA also knew of the outer shape of the Doctor's TARDIS, as did theAbzorbaloff. (TV:Love & Monsters[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) The TARDIS was seen so much throughout history that, as Sarah Jane explained, you couldGoogle "Doctor, blue box" and get results. (TV:Death of the Doctor[+]Loading...["Death of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The blogInto The Unknown ran an article chronicling sightings of the mysterious blue box throughout history, though were unaware of its true nature. (PROSE:Alabama's Blue Box[+]Loading...["Alabama's Blue Box (short story)"])
On one occasion, an actual police box — namely, the last of its kind, which was situated on theBarnet Bypass — scared a group ofinvading aliens away from Earth when they mistook it for the Doctor's ship. (PROSE:Useless Things[+]Loading...["Useless Things (short story)"])Rosemary Kizlet's team faced "an embarrassment" when they thought the police box inEarl's Court was the Doctor's space-time vehicle. (TV:The Bells of Saint John[+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"])Madge Arwell confused a normal police box for the TARDIS while helping theEleventh Doctor find the TARDIS. (TV:The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe[+]Loading...["The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)"]) After accidentally aidingthe Trickster by preventing her parents' deaths, Sarah Jane sought out the TARDIS to get the Doctor's help; however, as she time travelled to the 1950s, Sarah Jane mistook a regular police box for the TARDIS since they were "everywhere" at the time. (TV:The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith[+]Loading...["The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"])
Because the police box shape was relatively easily recognised, the Doctor made several attempts to change the exterior of the TARDIS. None were particularly successful. In the end, they forewent changing how the TARDIS' outer shell looked by theirninth incarnation, deciding that they actually liked it. WhenMickey Smith questioned the wisdom of leaving the TARDIS parked in the middle of Cardiff, thinking the appearance of a police box would draw unwanted attention, the Doctor reasoned that it was not a concern - people would see a blue box in the middle of the city and walk past it, taking no further notice (TV:Boom Town[+]Loading...["Boom Town (TV story)"]) due to the TARDIS'sperception filter. (TV:The Sound of Drums[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"],Everything Changes[+]Loading...["Everything Changes (TV story)"])
- These attempts are chronicled atchameleon circuit.
The exterior of the TARDIS changed shape when it enteredsiege mode. In this form, it took the shape of a cube etched withGallifreyan writing with no way of getting in or out, (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"]) making it look similar to thePandorica. (TV:The Pandorica Opens[+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"]) If the TARDIS had insufficient power, this mode could not be turned off, leaving life support to fail. (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
By theTwelfth Doctor's time, the TARDIS exterior wasbigger than it was when used by theFirst Doctor, especially the windows. The Twelfth Doctor commented to his predecessor, "it's all those years of bigger on the inside; you try sucking your tummy in that long." (TV:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
The integrity of the TARDIS' exterior had brought into question by the Doctor's companions occasionally, in reference to its wooden aesthetic; (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"],The Bells of Saint John[+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"],The Pilot[+]Loading...["The Pilot (TV story)"]) nevertheless, it had proven to be dense enough to emerge unscathed from the full impact of a car and survive numerous buildings and explosives landing on top of it, (AUDIO:Blood of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Blood of the Daleks (audio story)"],The Innocent[+]Loading...["The Innocent (audio story)"]) and even "the assembled hordes ofGenghis Khan". (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"]) However, a temporal loop could render the TARDIS defenceless, as the Tenth Doctor put it, in situations like that,"that wooden door is just wood." (TV:Journey's End[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])
Door[[edit] |[edit source]]
Generally, the TARDIS had two doors along one of the craft's four sides. They could open inward and outward. (TV:Time-Flight[+]Loading...["Time-Flight (TV story)"],The Ice Warriors[+]Loading...["The Ice Warriors (TV story)"],The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"],GAME:The Doctor and the Dalek[+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)"]) According to one account, there was onlyone door, which opened outward from the left. (COMIC:TV Terrors[+]Loading...["TV Terrors (TVC 709 comic story)"]) By the time of theEleventh Doctor, the doors could be opened by the snap of the fingers. To theTenth Doctor's surprise, this worked for him, too. (TV:Forest of the Dead,The Eleventh Hour,Day of the Moon[+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"]) The Eleventh Doctor's companionClara Oswald also made use of this ability. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
The right-hand door usually had alock, (TV:The Sensorites[+]Loading...["The Sensorites (TV story)"],Spearhead from Space[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"] et al.) although the lock was sometimes on the left-hand door, even though normal entry was still through the right. (TV: mostserials prior toThe War Machines[+]Loading...["The War Machines (TV story)"])
On the left-hand door was a panel in which was a replica of atelephone used in realpolice boxes to summon thepolice. (TV:The Empty Child[+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"],The Bells of Saint John[+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"],The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) While the Second Doctor inhabited the TARDIS the emergency phone was sometimes on the right-hand panel, but by the time of his adventure onDulkis, it had returned to the left-hand door. (TV:The Dominators[+]Loading...["The Dominators (TV story)"]) The TARDIS once communicated withTimothy Dean using its phone. (PROSE:Human Nature[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"]) Although during the Doctor's ninth incarnation, this phone was (usually) non-functional, (TV:The Empty Child[+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"]) by their eleventh incarnation, the phone could be used to send and receive calls, and this continued into their twelfth. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"],The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"],Time Heist[+]Loading...["Time Heist (TV story)"]) A sign on this small door offered instructions on use of the phone. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])
TheSecond Doctor once entered through thetop of the TARDIS, by lifting a panel on which the roof lamp rested. (COMIC:Peril at 60 Fathoms[+]Loading...["Peril at 60 Fathoms (comic story)"])Peri Brown also exited the TARDIS from the door on the roof. (COMIC:Enlightenment[+]Loading...["Enlightenment (comic story)"]) The Doctor also tried to enter through the back panels, the occasional cat flaps and once through the central beacon. It was indicated that these would usually work, but did not in this case. (PROSE:Heart of TARDIS[+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)"])
Duringthe Flux event, affectingTime, the exterior doors of the TARDIS were prone to disappearing, and new doors kept spawning in the TARDIS interior, each time theThirteenth Doctor and hercompanions entered from the outside. These doors could show up at odd angles, including on thecontrol roomfloor. (TV:The Halloween Apocalypse[+]Loading...["The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)"],War of the Sontarans[+]Loading...["War of the Sontarans (TV story)"], et al.)
On most occasions, the left-hand door was set to a fixed position. Likewise, the windows on the door were most often seen in a closed position, though theFirst Doctor sometimes opened them. (TV:The Dalek Invasion of Earth[+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"])
The left-hand door was sometimes used for egress and the right-hand one stayed in a fixed position. (TV:The Aztecs[+]Loading...["The Aztecs (TV story)"])
Sometimes both doors could be pushed (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"],Father's Day[+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"]) or pulled open, (TV:The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"],The Beast Below[+]Loading...["The Beast Below (TV story)"],The Christmas Invasion[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) but according to the TARDIS herself, the doors shouldnotopen inwards and this was the Doctor opening them wrong - she claimed that they "open out the way". (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
The windows on the doors and around the exterior could be opened, at least during the First Doctor's tenure. (TV:The Dalek Invasion of Earth[+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"],The Rescue[+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"],The Web Planet[+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"])
During the Doctor's first incarnation, a fadedSt John Ambulance logo could be seen on the door, even though it was sometimes barely visible under a layer of paint. Beginning during their second incarnation, it was not present. (TV:The Dominators[+]Loading...["The Dominators (TV story)"] onwards) When the TARDIS regenerated itself at the start of theireleventh incarnation, a new St John sticker appeared on the door. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) The sticker was completely removed after the TARDIS "did [herself] up" after theTwelfth Doctor's regeneration. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
The exact wording on the sign on the telephone door varied slightly over time — once it, and the writing otherwise on the front of the TARDIS, was changed to readBAD WOLF. (TV:Turn Left[+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) When the TARDIS "regenerated" consequent to theTenth Doctor's regeneration, this sign became backlit. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"] -Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) After theTwelfth Doctor's regeneration, the sign turned into a blackplaque with white letters. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
By the time he was going to have thechameleon circuit repaired by theLogopolitans, theFourth Doctor had installed a handle on the telephone panel on the left-hand door. This remained a subtle, if functional, part of the design. (TV:The Empty Child[+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"])
At some point prior to arriving to his unexpected death inSan Francisco, theSeventh Doctor affixed a small handle to the right-hand door. (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) This handle persisted after the "regeneration" of the TARDIS consequent to the arrival of theEleventh Doctor. (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"] onwards)
The Eleventh Doctor somehow fixed the TARDIS doors to accommodate his robotic T-Rex companionKevin, although it was never explained how. (COMIC:When Worlds Collide[+]Loading...["When Worlds Collide (comic story)"]) Later, the Twelfth Doctor travelled for a time withJata, a member of a race that resembled Terran horses, and who likewise was able to enter and exit through the TARDIS doors. (COMIC:From the Horse's Mouth[+]Loading...["From the Horse's Mouth (comic story)"])
If the TARDIS entered siege mode, the door disappeared entirely. (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
Lock and key[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS key
Operation[[edit] |[edit source]]
Entry to the Doctor's TARDIS was usually effected by insertinga key into a lock, just as would be expected with a real police box. However, the lock did not respond to police-issued keys. (TV:Black Orchid[+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"],Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])
Susan Foreman suggested that the key forced the user to insert it precisely or the lock would self-destruct. (TV:"The Survivors"[+]Part ofThe Daleks,Loading...{"namedep":"The Survivors (2)","1":"The Daleks (TV story)"}) Later, the lock had ametabolism detector, preventingBrigadier Lethbridge-Stewart from using the key. (TV:Spearhead from Space[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"]) The Doctor had designed this function himself. (AUDIO:The Founding Fathers[+]Loading...["The Founding Fathers (audio story)"])
It could be opened with the standard Gallifreyan key for its outdated model. (TV:The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])
Rare individuals managed to break open without a key. Among those, the companionAdric through lock-picking (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"]) and thegastropodMestor through itspsychic power. (TV:The Twin Dilemma[+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"])
According toClara Oswald, the Doctor kept seven separate TARDIS keys hidden throughout the TARDIS. (TV:Dark Water[+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"])
Design and features[[edit] |[edit source]]
The external design of the key changed over time. It usually appeared to be an ordinary Yale lock key. (TV:Spearhead from Space[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"],Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], and others) However, it occasionally appeared to have a more ornate,Gallifreyan motif. (TV:Planet of the Spiders[+]Loading...["Planet of the Spiders (TV story)"],Ghost Light[+]Loading...["Ghost Light (TV story)"],Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])
The key could be modified by the Doctor to track and locate the TARDIS, allowing them to find the TARDIS if it was within a hundred years of their position. (COMIC:The Forgotten[+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"]) The key was known to express a link to the TARDIS by glowing or becoming hot to the touch. (TV:Father's Day[+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"],The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
At one point, theTenth Doctor installed a system that let him lock the TARDIS remotely using a fob (as a joke, the TARDIS roof light flashed and an alarm chirp was heard, similar to that used on vehicles on Earth). He could open the door remotely. (TV:The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) He also discovered, with the help ofRiver Song after their adventure inthe Library, that the door would open when hesnapped his fingers, (TV:Forest of the Dead[+]Loading...["Forest of the Dead (TV story)"],Day of the Moon[+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"]) although this function was not used consistently until his eleventh incarnation. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"],Day of the Moon[+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"],The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])Clara Oswald also displayed this ability twice, (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"],The Caretaker[+]Loading...["The Caretaker (TV story)"]) the second time to shut the doors after theTwelfth Doctor did the same to open them. (TV:The Caretaker[+]Loading...["The Caretaker (TV story)"]) When the Eleventh Doctor taught Clara this ability, he expected that it would take her time to master; he was surprised that she even managed to do this withgloves on. (PROSE:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])
The Doctor has also shown the ability to summon the TARDIS with the key in their eleventh and twelfth incarnations: the Eleventh Doctor used the key to materialise the TARDIS around himself and Clara Oswald to save them from theWeeping Angels, (TV:The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) while the Twelfth Doctor used the key to summon the TARDIS to save him from a free-fall, skydiving through the doors once it appeared nearby. (TV:Death in Heaven[+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"]) In one case, theThirteenth Doctor no longer had a key due to losing everything in her pockets after falling out of the TARDIS in midair. In this case, the TARDIS opened the door for her on its own after she told it she had no key. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
If modified properly, the TARDIS keys exhibited the perception filter properties of the TARDIS. (TV:The Sound of Drums[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])
Interior configuration and appearance[[edit] |[edit source]]
Overview[[edit] |[edit source]]
The TARDIS interior went through occasional metamorphoses, sometimes by choice, sometimes for other reasons, such as the Doctor's ownregeneration. (PROSE:Invasion of the Cat-People[+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)"],TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) The halls also changed, sometimes appearing as sterile halls with roundels, (TV:The Masque of Mandragora[+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"]) a series of doors with rooms that are bigger on the inside, (COMIC:Changes[+]Loading...["Changes (comic story)"]) pathways similar to caves, with lights in the walls, (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"],Cindy, Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook[+]Loading...["Cindy, Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook (comic story)"]) octagonal hallways with roundels serving as lights, (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) or futuristic hallways with octagonal doorways. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"],The Name of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"])
Some of these changes were physical in nature (involving secondary control rooms, etc.), but it was also possible to re-arrange the interior design of the TARDIS with ease, using thearchitectural configuration system. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"],Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"],AUDIO:Relative Dimensions[+]Loading...["Relative Dimensions (audio story)"]) TheFifth Doctor called this changing "the desktop theme". (TV:Time Crash[+]Loading...["Time Crash (TV story)"]) When the "desktop theme" was changed, the control room would flash with light and the newly selected version would take its place. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The Doctor was known to favour and dislike desktop themes due to their incarnation's preferences. (TV:The Three Doctors[+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"],Time Crash[+]Loading...["Time Crash (TV story)"],The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"],Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"],The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"]) The TARDIS archived disused (and yet-to-be-used) control room configurations. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) The TARDIS could also create and modify rooms on its own accord; for example, to prevent part of thearchitectural reconfiguration system from being stolen by shifting rooms and corridors to create a labyrinth, and to preserve passengers from threats by creating copies of the control room to house them in. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"]) The Doctor wasn't sure if the constant shifting of rooms was supposed to happen, but accepted it nonetheless. (PROSE:Scratchman[+]Loading...["Scratchman (novelisation)"])
The TARDIS could also modify the interior to be accomodating to its passengers; when wheelchair userHebe Harrison came aboard she found numerous ramps in the interior which theSixth Doctor believed were new as the ship had adapted for her. (AUDIO:The Tides of the Moon[+]Loading...["The Tides of the Moon (audio story)"]) At one point aftet Sarah Jane had to climb down a spiral staircase to reach Workshop 2, the TARDIS replaced the stairs with an escalator for her return journey. (PROSE:Scratchman[+]Loading...["Scratchman (novelisation)"])
There were at least seven decks inside the TARDIS. Not knowing what some of the buttons did on the console, theTwelfth Doctor accidentally caused the waste tanks onDeck 7 to release their contents when piloting the TARDIS. Once River Song pointed this out, the Doctor winced "better avoid Deck 7 then." (TV:The Husbands of River Song[+]Loading...["The Husbands of River Song (TV story)"])
Roundels[[edit] |[edit source]]
Hey, look! The round things! [...] What are the round things?Eleventh Doctor[The Day of the Doctor (TV story) [src]]
Affectionately known to the Doctor as "the round things", (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"], et. al) the TARDIS interior walls generally consisted ofroundels — circular or hexagonal indentations that lined the TARDIS console room's interior walls and sometimes the walls deeper in the ship's interior. Some roundels concealed TARDIS circuitry, devices, or lights. (TV:The Wheel in Space[+]Loading...["The Wheel in Space (TV story)"],Death to the Daleks[+]Loading...["Death to the Daleks (TV story)"],Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"],Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"],Arc of Infinity[+]Loading...["Arc of Infinity (TV story)"],Terminus[+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"],Enlightenment[+]Loading...["Enlightenment (TV story)"],Vengeance on Varos[+]Loading...["Vengeance on Varos (TV story)"],COMIC:Kane's Story[+]Loading...["Kane's Story (comic story)"]) At least one large roundel functioned as ascanner. (TV:The Claws of Axos[+]Loading...["The Claws of Axos (TV story)"],The Beast Below[+]Loading...["The Beast Below (TV story)"])
TheFirst Doctor kept somebrandy in a roundel, (TV:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) which was later found byRiver Song (TV:The Husbands of River Song[+]Loading...["The Husbands of River Song (TV story)"]) and used one last time by theTwelfth Doctor. (TV:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) One roundel could display thetime safe when this feature was activated, but otherwise this roundel was apparently normal. (PROSE:Imperial Moon[+]Loading...["Imperial Moon (novel)"]) On the whole, though, the Doctor had little clue as to their purpose, though later incarnations admitted to loving and missing them from the desktops of their respective TARDISes. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"],Deep Breath[+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"]) On one occasion, theSecond Doctor removed a roundel, which allowed him to remove one of the outer windows to see outside the TARDIS. (PROSE:The Nameless City[+]Loading...["The Nameless City (short story)"])
By theirtenth incarnation, the Doctor had forgotten the purpose of the roundels, yet nonetheless enjoyed their design. TheEleventh Doctor, too, had no idea what purpose the roundels actually served. During aMulti-Doctor event, the two incarnations happily gushed about the roundels while in the TARDIS as it existed during theWar Doctor's life. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"], et. al) TheTwelfth Doctor would later state he was not happy with his redecoration of the TARDIS because it did not have enough "round things", as he stated he had somehow misplaced most of them. (TV:Deep Breath[+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"]) Later, he would indeed add more roundels to the TARDIS control room. (TV:Under the Lake[+]Loading...["Under the Lake (TV story)"])
TheFourteenth Doctor's TARDIS had a number of roundels as well, something that the Fourteenth Doctor liked. (TV:The Star Beast[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"],Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) TheFifteenth Doctor kept the roundels, but changed the colour to orange before setting out on his adventures. (TV:The Giggle[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
Mass[[edit] |[edit source]]
The TARDIS' exterior was always lighter than the "true weight" of its interior. According to theTwelfth Doctor, "If the TARDIS were to land with its true weight, it would fracture the surface of theEarth." (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"]) The TARDIS was said byRomana II to weigh fifty thousand tonnes inAlzarius' gravity. (TV:Full Circle[+]Loading...["Full Circle (TV story)"]) "[S]eventeen thousand tons of thrust" was jettisoned for the TARDIS to escapeEvent One. (TV:Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"]) One time, when the TARDIS mapped its interior dimensions onto its exterior ones — making it the same size outside as inside — it was larger thanGallifrey. (PROSE:The Ancestor Cell[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"]) It was once described by theEleventh Doctor as being infinite, as new areas could be created and therefore add more weight. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor once adjusted the TARDIS' relative gravity so thatClara could pick it up. This decrease of weight allowed the TARDIS to be light enough that the Doctor was able to, literally, move it by hand. (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
Control room[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS control room
Thecontrol or console room of the Doctor's TARDIS was the space in which the operation of the craft was usually affected. It was dominated by a large, hexagonal console, typically in or near the middle of the room. The room held ascanner for viewing the outside and offered immediate access to the exterior through a set of doors. According to one source, the trip from the console room to the outside required the passenger to step through thereal world interface at the heart of theouter plasmic shell. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"]) Many other accounts demonstrated that the doors were just doors, though the TARDIS was cocooned in a breathableatmosphere. (TV:The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"],The Stolen Earth[+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"],The Beast Below[+]Loading...["The Beast Below (TV story)"],HOMEVID:Meanwhile in the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video)"]) On one occasion, when the TARDIS' exterior dimensions shrank, so did the door on the inside. (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"]) On another occasion, when theextrapolator shielding could easily be breached by the weaponry of theNew Dalek Empire, who were "experts at fighting TARDISes", theTenth Doctor described "that wooden door" at that point as being "just wood". (TV:Journey's End[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])QueenElizabeth I once pointed out that while the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS was bigger on the inside, the door wasn't, and her head was nearly taken off when the Doctor rode out of the TARDIS with Elizabeth on aZygon which took on thebody-print of ahorse. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
There were many variants of the Doctor's control room. Indeed, the Doctor's TARDIS had more than one control room, the TARDIS itself claiming it had over 30 different versions in storage; being a different kind of temporal being, it could "archive something that hasn't happened."Idris telepathically told Rory how to go to one of the old console rooms, which, in this case, was the Ninth Doctor's console room. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
Other rooms[[edit] |[edit source]]
Accommodations[[edit] |[edit source]]
Some of thecompanions shared accommodations. (TV:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"],The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) Many companions had their ownbedrooms in the TARDIS, decorated to their tastes. (TV:Meglos[+]Loading...["Meglos (TV story)"],Earthshock[+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"]) Some of the companions were given previously used rooms. (TV:Terminus[+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"])
According to one account,the Doctor provided a room for each companion, beginning withSusan Foreman, and stored them all in aholding ring once they had departed. Each of these rooms was preserved just as its occupant had left it. At some point, theEighth Doctor deleted every room but one. (AUDIO:Relative Dimensions[+]Loading...["Relative Dimensions (audio story)"])
According to another account,Susan's bedroom was later occupied by a host of other companions. (PROSE:Scribbles in Chalk[+]Loading...["Scribbles in Chalk (short story)"],House[+]Loading...["House (short story)"],TV:Terminus[+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"],PROSE:The Bodysnatchers[+]Loading...["The Bodysnatchers (novel)"])Romana's room wasjettisoned afterRomana II left, as the TARDIS would notdematerialise. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])Adric's room was reused byTurlough, (TV:Terminus[+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"]) and then remained saved, deep within the TARDIS, into the time of theTenth Doctor. (COMIC:Tesseract[+]Loading...["Tesseract (comic story)"])
All remaining bedrooms were deleted byHouse when it possessed theEleventh Doctor's TARDIS. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])Amy and Rory's original quarters had abunk bed, much to their consternation. It was here that the couple conceivedRiver Song on the night of theirwedding. Amy and Rory secured a properbed after escaping from House when the Doctor reassigned them to a new bedroom. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"],A Good Man Goes to War[+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"])Clara also hada bedroom, which she used if she needed sleep before heading back home to resume her job asnanny to the Maitland children. (COMIC:Sky Jacks[+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)"],HOMEVID:Clara and the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Clara and the TARDIS (home video)"])
The Doctor was asked once if he had a room but never answered. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) The Doctor didn'tsleep as much as humans, (COMIC:Four Doctors[+]Loading...["Four Doctors (comic story)"];TV:Good Night[+]Loading...["Good Night (home video)"],Bad Night[+]Loading...["Bad Night (home video)"],Deep Breath[+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"]) but preferred to sleep when alone. (TV:Sleep No More[+]Loading...["Sleep No More (TV story)"]) One of the few companions to ever seea bedroom used by the Doctor wasRose-the-cat, who would often sleep near his feet. (COMIC:A Rose by Any Other Name[+]Loading...["A Rose by Any Other Name (comic story)"])
Library[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS library
- See also:the Doctor and books
There wasa library in the TARDIS. (PROSE:War of the Daleks[+]Loading...["War of the Daleks (novel)"],All-Consuming Fire[+]Loading...["All-Consuming Fire (novel)"],The Dimension Riders[+]Loading...["The Dimension Riders (novel)"],AUDIO:The Witch from the Well[+]Loading...["The Witch from the Well (audio story)"]) Itsbooks includedBrave New World byAldous Huxley, (PROSE:The Wheel of Ice[+]Loading...["The Wheel of Ice (novel)"])Jane's Spaceships, (PROSE:War of the Daleks[+]Loading...["War of the Daleks (novel)"])Every Gallifreyan Child's Pop-Up Book of Nasty Creatures From Other Dimensions, (PROSE:All-Consuming Fire[+]Loading...["All-Consuming Fire (novel)"])The Time Machine byH. G. Wells, (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])Robinson Crusoe, (PROSE:Heart of TARDIS[+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)"])The Murder of Roger Ackroyd byAgatha Christie (signed first printing, with last page missing),War and Peace,The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,The I-Spy Book of British Birds, (AUDIO:Storm Warning[+]Loading...["Storm Warning (audio story)"])Can You Forgive Her?, theJames Bond novelYou Only Live Twice, (AUDIO:Zagreus[+]Loading...["Zagreus (audio story)"])A History of the Varaxil Hegemony, (AUDIO:The Witch from the Well[+]Loading...["The Witch from the Well (audio story)"]) theEncyclopedia Gallifreya,The History of the Time War, (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])Wisden,A Brief History of Time, (PROSE:Fear of the Dark[+]Loading...["Fear of the Dark (novel)"])Ludowig'sHistories of the Dalek Imperium, and the only signed copy ofThe Quarry in the universe. (PROSE:Keeping up with the Joneses[+]Loading...["Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)"]) The Doctor also possessed a copy of Christie'sDeath in the Clouds published in the year 5 billion, which they kept in theC chest, (TV:The Unicorn and the Wasp[+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"],AUDIO:The Carrionite Curse[+]Loading...["The Carrionite Curse (audio story)"]) a complete set of all 11Harry Potter novels (PROSE:The Gallifrey Chronicles[+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) and a book entitledAdvanced Quantum Mechanics that had an image of the TARDIS in its police-box camouflage on the dust jacket. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The Doctor's library also had books byCapek andCapote. (PROSE:The Blood Cell[+]Loading...["The Blood Cell (novel)"]) Unknown to the Doctor, the library also contained books documenting the Doctor's own adventures, which had been written by the TARDIS itself. (PROSE:The Library of Time[+]Loading...["The Library of Time (short story)"])
The Doctor also kept theirFive Hundred Year Diary in the library. (AUDIO:The Young Lions[+]Loading...["The Young Lions (audio story)"])
Sometimes, small items other than books were also stored in the library. For instance, theEighth Doctor kept hissecateurs there, filed under "B" forCapability Brown. (AUDIO:The Witch from the Well[+]Loading...["The Witch from the Well (audio story)"])
During his travels with the Doctor, Adric had every book onmathematics in the TARDIS library. (AUDIO:Zaltys[+]Loading...["Zaltys (audio story)"])
During the time of the Tenth Doctor, there was a specific desk that, no matter where it was moved, always got rained on by a cloud layer in the upper stacks. The Doctor placed a saucepan on the desk to catch the water and keeppsychic paper from mouldering because it producedpsychic mould that would eventually turn intopsychic mushrooms. (PROSE:Keeping up with the Joneses[+]Loading...["Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)"]) By the time the Eleventh Doctor was recovering from regeneration after-effects, the pool fell into the library after a crash-landing but was later removed when the TARDIS had finished regenerating itself. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])Clara Oswald also hid in the library when she was running fromtime zombies. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])
At one point theFourth Doctor discovered a second library, which he described as looking like as "necromancer's study". (AUDIO:A Sting in the Tale[+]Loading...["A Sting in the Tale (audio story)"]) The console room had a library at the end of theSeventh Doctor's life and the start of theEighth Doctor's. (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor showed similar taste, refurbishing his console room with bookshelves. He often took out a book relevant to a situation. (TV:Deep Breath[+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"],Robot of Sherwood[+]Loading...["Robot of Sherwood (TV story)"],Listen[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)"], et al.)
Wardrobe[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS wardrobe
The Doctor kept clothing from their previousincarnations, as well as clothing for other people, in theTARDIS wardrobe. (TV:Pyramids of Mars[+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"],The Androids of Tara[+]Loading...["The Androids of Tara (TV story)"],The Twin Dilemma[+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"],Time and the Rani[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"],The Unquiet Dead[+]Loading...["The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"],The Christmas Invasion[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"],The Idiot's Lantern[+]Loading...["The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)"],Victory of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"],AUDIO:No Place Like Home[+]Loading...["No Place Like Home (audio story)"],COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"]) Its appearance changed over time, appearing as either a small closet, (TV:The Twin Dilemma[+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"]) a storage room, (TV:Time and the Rani[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"]) or a proper walk-in closet. (TV:The Christmas Invasion[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) TheWar Doctor talked about "wardrobes", suggesting there could be more than one. (PROSE:Engines of War[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"])
Some of the clothing in the wardrobe was picked up during travels (TV:Spearhead from Space[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"],Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"],The Fires of Pompeii[+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"],The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"],Deep Breath[+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"]) or left by ex-companions. (TV:Pyramids of Mars[+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"],Army of Ghosts[+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"],Partners in Crime[+]Loading...["Partners in Crime (TV story)"],Space[+]Loading...["Space (TV story)"]) It contained clothing from various times and environments, to suit where and when the TARDIS' occupant(s) found themselves. (TV:The Talons of Weng-Chiang[+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"],The Mark of the Rani[+]Loading...["The Mark of the Rani (TV story)"],Ghost Light[+]Loading...["Ghost Light (TV story)"],The Curse of Fenric[+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"],The Unquiet Dead[+]Loading...["The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"],Human Nature[+]Loading...["Human Nature (TV story)"],Planet of the Ood[+]Loading...["Planet of the Ood (TV story)"],The Unicorn and the Wasp[+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"],The Power of Three[+]Loading...["The Power of Three (TV story)"],The Great Detective[+]Loading...["The Great Detective (TV story)"], etc.) The Tenth Doctor explained toGabby Gonzalez that the TARDIS shopped on her own by landing in stores after hours, collecting clothes to make copies of, and returning the originals to avoid theft. (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"]) These proved useful on numerous occasions for the Doctor's companions, many of whom left on their travels without bringing many clothes of their own. (TV:The Twin Dilemma[+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"],The Greatest Show in the Galaxy[+]Loading...["The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)"],Victory of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Doctor has often availed himself of its selection when attempting to define a style for himself, post-regeneration; (TV:Robot[+]Loading...["Robot (TV story)"],The Twin Dilemma[+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"],Time and the Rani[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"],The Christmas Invasion[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) and possiblyRomana as well. (TV:Destiny of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Fifth Doctor, however, discovered his wardrobe in an unidentified anteroom. (TV:Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"])
At least some of the clothes had pockets that werebigger on the inside. (TV:The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"])
By the time of the Doctor'sfifth incarnation, the TARDIS was equipped withreplicator technology, which allowed it to copy clothing. (AUDIO:The Toy[+]Loading...["The Toy (audio story)"])
Jo Grant once spent approximately two hours going through the wardrobe trying on different outfits. She considered many of them "groovy". (AUDIO:Ghost in the Machine[+]Loading...["Ghost in the Machine (audio story)"])
DuringAce's time in the TARDIS, it was apparently right next to the control room. (TV:The Greatest Show in the Galaxy[+]Loading...["The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)"]) TheWar Doctor once, having forgotten where the wardrobe was located, ended up giving incorrect directions. (PROSE:Engines of War[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) When theNinth Doctor was inCardiff on24 December1869, he gave incredibly long directions toRose Tyler to get to the wardrobe; her being able to remember them was nothing short of a miracle. (TV:The Unquiet Dead[+]Loading...["The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"]) When the Tenth Doctor was travelling with Gabby, the wardrobe was located next to the laundry room. While walking to the laundry room, Gabby asked if the boot cupboard was the wardrobe, to which the Doctor explained that the "wardrobe's next door along -- I think. Might've moved it." (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"]) By the time of theEleventh Doctor's date withRiver Song following the TARDIS' repair, it had changed location. The directions that he gave River were considerably shorter. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"];HOMEVID:First Night[+]Loading...["First Night (home video)"]) TheTwelfth Doctor, having landed in1814 at the height of the lastFrost Fair, gave directions similar to the ones his ninth incarnation gave to Rose, this time to his companionBill Potts. (TV:Thin Ice[+]Loading...["Thin Ice (TV story)"])
TheTenth Doctor once noted that there was a very limited range of women's clothing in the wardrobe. (AUDIO:Time Reaver[+]Loading...["Time Reaver (audio story)"]) This was further backed up by theThirteenth Doctor, who noted that she had not had to buy women's clothes in "a while". (TV:The Woman Who Fell to Earth[+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"])
In the Eleventh Doctor's second console room, he gained easy access to the wardrobe through a chest on the sub level. (TV:The Bells of Saint John[+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"]) The Doctor once changed out of his soaked outfit and into a fresh set of clothes incredibly fast, and when asked by Clara how he changed so quickly, he replied "wibbly-wobbly wardrobe". (PROSE:Shroud of Sorrow[+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"]) By the time of the Twelfth Doctor, however, entry to the wardrobe required travelling further into the ship. (TV:Thin Ice[+]Loading...["Thin Ice (TV story)"])
According to the Thirteenth Doctor, there was a wardrobe hall in a lower substrata of the TARDIS, just off the control room. (TV:Spyfall[+]Loading...["Spyfall (TV story)"])
Cloister bell/room[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:Cloister Room
TheCloister Room was related to theCloister Bell, which sounded when disaster was imminent. The room appeared to be ancient with benches on the sides of the room and plants growing on the crumbling pillars. TheFourth Doctor visited this room withAdric shortly before hisregeneration. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])
TheFifth Doctor used to hide fromTegan Jovanka in the Cloister Room. (AUDIO:No Place Like Home[+]Loading...["No Place Like Home (audio story)"])
Constance Clarke compared the Cloister Room to "an ugly industrial cathedral". (AUDIO:Absolute Power[+]Loading...["Absolute Power (audio story)"])
Ace attempted to relax in the Cloister Room, but gave up when the bell would not stop ringing. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)"])
When the TARDIS interior went through a metamorphosis, the Cloister room became a grand and gothic room, similar to a place of worship, with an interface with theEye of Harmony. (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])
The Tenth Doctor later implied that the room had reverted back to a garden state. He explained toGabby that the dirt molecules in their clothes would be deposited as fertiliser for "the cloisters" by the Laundro De-mat. (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"])
Holding ring[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS holding ring
Theholding ring was a storage area of the TARDIS which let the Doctor preserve certain rooms. WhenLucie,Susan Foreman andAlex investigated it, the ring contained the rooms of many of the Doctor's formercompanions, preserved as they had been the last time the companions were in the TARDIS. The rooms were saved in chronological order, suggesting that Susan was indeed the Doctor's first companion. Susan later teasedher grandfather, calling his habit of saving rooms overly sentimental. He suggested that the ring was one of the few ways his time-travelling life allowed him to put down roots. After Susan, Alex and Lucie departed the TARDIS for new adventures onEarth, the Doctor reconsidered the wisdom of keeping so many rooms in stasis. Insisting to himself he needed to look towards the future, he deleted all the rooms on the holding ring — "except that one", implied to be Susan's. (AUDIO:Relative Dimensions[+]Loading...["Relative Dimensions (audio story)"]) The Doctor's penchant for such archiving recalls the TARDIS's policy of archiving past and future console rooms, though whether out of nostalgia or, as it states, "for neatness" is unclear. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
Swimming pool[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS swimming pool
The TARDIS had aswimming pool. It was used byLeela andBorusa to hide from theSontarans. Both theFourth Doctor and Leela referred to this room as a "bathroom", and the Doctor described whatK9 called "[being] totally immersed in H2O" in this room as a "fine time to take a bath". (TV:The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])Peri froze the water with liquid nitrogen to turn it into an ice skating rink. (AUDIO:The Roof of the World[+]Loading...["The Roof of the World (audio story)"]) It was later jettisoned due to leakage, whichMel found bothersome. (TV:Paradise Towers[+]Loading...["Paradise Towers (TV story)"])
It was replaced sometime later. (GAME:Destiny of the Doctors[+]Loading...["Destiny of the Doctors (video game)"]) After the TARDIS' crash following the Doctor's twelfth regeneration, the pool's water — or perhaps the pool itself — fell into the library. After the TARDIS had fixed itself, the swimming pool was restored but the Doctor did not know where it was; he stated that the Wardrobe contained "clothes, and, possibly, a swimming pool". (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) He eventually found it, and offered to go and swim a few laps to give Amy and Rory some privacy. (TV:Amy's Choice[+]Loading...["Amy's Choice (TV story)"]) Later, to save River Song after she had leapt off a New York skyscraper, the Doctor had Amy and Rory open all the doors leading to the pool to cushion River's landing in the sideways TARDIS. (TV:Day of the Moon[+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"]) The Doctor said he got rid of it to "give the TARDIS a bit of welly" when going outside the universe. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) However, after the TARDIS changed once again, (TV:The Snowmen[+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"]) the swimming pool was "rebuilt"' andClara Oswald walked by and saw it when she was trapped in the TARDIS after a salvage team damaged the ship. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])
Zero Room[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:Zero Room
TheZero Room was unaffected by the outside world and smelled of roses for some reason unknown even to the Doctor. It was a refuge for Time Lords undergoingregenerations in danger of failing. It was accidentally jettisoned along with other rooms in the TARDIS to escape fromEvent One. (TV:Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"]) A new one was eventually built. (AUDIO:Renaissance of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Renaissance of the Daleks (audio story)"]) TheSixth Doctor placedCharley Pollard in it in order to cure her from the virus she was infected with during their visit to theAmethyst Viral Containment Station. (AUDIO:Patient Zero[+]Loading...["Patient Zero (audio story)"]) The Seventh Doctor was able to purge the TARDIS of a demonic infection by subtly linking the tertiary console to the Zero Room, cutting the console off from the rest of the ship so that the Doctor could take action against the infection without it being aware of his actions. (PROSE:Deceit[+]Loading...["Deceit (novel)"]) The War Doctor allowedKarlax to finish regenerating from exposure to the vacuum of space in it. (PROSE:Engines of War[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) When the TARDIS was hijacked by theCelestial Toymaker, who wished to use the TARDIS as his new playroom, the Twelfth Doctor trapped him in the Zero Room and ejected it from the TARDIS, making it the Celestial Toymaker's new playroom. (COMIC:Relative Dimensions[+]Loading...["Relative Dimensions (comic story)"])
Kitchen[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS kitchen
Afood machine area was originally near (but not in) the console room. (TV:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"] and others) The food machine was apparently reinstalled at some point, since it was among the components Thomas Brewster sold to the crew of the Gamma while in possession of the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS. (AUDIO:Time Reef[+]Loading...["Time Reef (audio story)"]) Later, the TARDIS had afull kitchen (AUDIO:Relative Dimensions[+]Loading...["Relative Dimensions (audio story)"],COMIC:Sticks & Stones[+]Loading...["Sticks & Stones (comic story)"]) which included arefrigerator. (COMIC:The Whispering Gallery[+]Loading...["The Whispering Gallery (comic story)"]) The Eleventh Doctor pointed out the location of the kitchen toCaptain Avery after letting him into the TARDIS. (TV:The Curse of the Black Spot[+]Loading...["The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)"]) Evidently this amenity was not a top priority for visitors as the Doctor noted thatClara's early inquiry about whether the TARDIS had a kitchen was "(a) first". (TV:The Snowmen[+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"]) According toRomana, theFourth Doctor rarely used the kitchen. (PROSE:Shada[+]Loading...["Shada (novelisation)"]) On one occasion, theSixth Doctor andConstance Clarke went searching for the kitchen so the Doctor could cook a meal for Constance, but he later admitted to her that he'd never been able to find it and it was why he chose to get take out instead. (AUDIO:Shield of the Jötunn[+]Loading...["Shield of the Jötunn (audio story)"])
TARDIS Laboratory[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS laboratory
Early in her travels with the Doctor,Barbara Wright found the TARDIS laboratory, where she was assaulted bybooks, boxes and various bits of equipment from the benches. (PROSE:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (novelisation)"])
TheThird Doctor once recalled a time when he created agas in the TARDIS lab which pacified a herd of rampagingvolcano creatures. (COMIC:The Arkwood Experiments[+]Loading...["The Arkwood Experiments (comic story)"])
WhenAce was new on board the TARDIS, she explored its interiors and found the lab. She thought it was similar toFrankenstein's lab, but with better lights. Ace didn't tell theSeventh Doctor she found it, because she knew he'd lock it up to keep her from makingNitro-9. She couldn't always find the place afterwards. (PROSE:Echo[+]Loading...["Echo (short story)"])
Laundry room[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS laundry room
Mel said that the Doctor used theTARDIS laundromat to wash his clothes. (AUDIO:The One Doctor[+]Loading...["The One Doctor (audio story)"])Ba's ship once became trapped in the TARDIS laundry room for four weeks. (PROSE:A Life in the Day[+]Loading...["A Life in the Day (short story)"]) When the Eighth Doctor's coat was damaged byTractites the TARDIS laundry machine repaired it. (PROSE:Seeing I[+]Loading...["Seeing I (novel)"]) The Tenth Doctor took Gabby to the TARDIS laundry room after their trip toQuompipping, calling it the "Landro-Demat". He explained that the washing machine worked by dematerialising and analysing the clothes and then separating out the dirt and putting everything back together which meant nothing ever came out damaged. It also had an option that enabled the user to scent their clothes with any of thousands of scents, but it did have a glitch that caused the clothes to become rumpled. After accidentally putting his sonic through the wash, it caused amud monster avatar to develop from their dirty clothes and at the end of the cycle, the Doctor's suit ended up with Gabby's flower print and her shirt ended up with pinstripes. (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"])
Flora and fauna[[edit] |[edit source]]
Botanical house[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS botanical house
The Doctor had a botanical house which contained a man-eating plant. This plant ate aSontaran. (TV:The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"]) There was also several miles of heathland where theEcidien Cerebus Bird lived. (AUDIO:The Pursuit of History[+]Loading...["The Pursuit of History (audio story)"])
Garden[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS gardens
There was a largegarden designed by the Doctor using block-transfer computation that needed to be tended — it contained bougainvillea, Draconian myrtle hedges and Vendican bladder-pods, plus a stream and set of swings. TheEighth Doctor said he once allowed an entire incarnation to pass without maintaining it.Charley called it the Doctor's 'pride and joy'. (AUDIO:Scaredy Cat[+]Loading...["Scaredy Cat (audio story)"]) During the time whenJason andDr. Who controlled the TARDIS, Jason almost drownedWolsey in the garden's pond. (PROSE:Head Games[+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"])
Park[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS park
During the time that theTenth Doctor travelled alone after the loss ofDonna Noble, the TARDIS spontaneously generateda park where he spent two weeks growingoak trees. After using theartificial sun to make the branches spell the name "Rose", the Doctor decided it was time to move on from the park. (PROSE:Keeping up with the Joneses[+]Loading...["Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)"])
Aquarium[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS aquarium
During an attack from atemporal mine, the TARDIS shared its pain with theTenth Doctor by vaporising theaquarium, which caused him to feel the deadfish in his gallbladder.Christina hoped that the Doctor would get his aquarium back. (PROSE:Keeping up with the Joneses[+]Loading...["Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)"]) Later, the Eleventh Doctor searched for the aquarium, but gave up on finding it after opening the doors to several other rooms. (PROSE:Shroud of Sorrow[+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"])
Butterfly room[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:Butterfly room
By the time of theEighth Doctor, the TARDIS had abutterfly room. (PROSE:Vampire Science[+]Loading...["Vampire Science (novel)"]) It was a huge room with a hillside and a meadow in it, it housed "about a billion butterflies". The Doctor often sat in a wicker chair at the top of the hill. After spending three years inOliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre he recuperated in the butterfly room. (PROSE:Seeing I[+]Loading...["Seeing I (novel)"])
Zoo[[edit] |[edit source]]
- Main article:TARDIS zoo
As early as theSixth Doctor, there was azoo of endangeredanimals, acoffee machine, and ajungle-like room. (COMIC:Changes[+]Loading...["Changes (comic story)"]) The zoo also existed during theSeventh Doctor's lifetime (PROSE:Echo[+]Loading...["Echo (short story)"]) and was still in operation as recently as theTenth Doctor's life. (PROSE:The Last Dodo[+]Loading...["The Last Dodo (novel)"])
Others[[edit] |[edit source]]
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TheFifth Doctor showed the TARDIS toErimem shortly after she joined the TARDIS. It contained a full-sized cricket pitch (for the Doctor to keep cucumber sandwiches in), several fields, several gardens, a rainforest area, various control relays, "the small library", a storeroom full of terracotta Chinese soldiers, and a Dimensional Induction Chamber. (AUDIO:No Place Like Home[+]Loading...["No Place Like Home (audio story)"]) TheEighth Doctor had a cupboard full of sparesonic screwdrivers in a workshop, which was situated in Corridor 3, the fourth door along. (AUDIO:The Silver Turk[+]Loading...["The Silver Turk (audio story)"]) TheNinth Doctor had a room full ofsnow globes. (AUDIO:Retail Therapy[+]Loading...["Retail Therapy (audio story)"])
By the time of the Doctor'stenth incarnation, several rooms from years (and centuries) past still existed deep within the TARDIS, including theCloister Room and abedroom that had once been used byAdric. (COMIC:Tesseract[+]Loading...["Tesseract (comic story)"]) Although she did not live full-time aboard the TARDIS, (TV:Nightmare in Silver[+]Loading...["Nightmare in Silver (TV story)"], et al.) on occasionClara slept in aspare bedroom (in which she could turn on the lights by voice control), with a wall design similar to theFifth Doctor's TARDIS and she also passed through a smaller version of the library, a tool shed, an Italian bistro and finally a hallway which appeared to be a time loop. (COMIC:Sky Jacks[+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)"]) At one point, however, the TARDIS, apparently in a mischievous mood, made it impossible for Clara to find her way back to the bedroom, even causing her to meet future versions of herself. (HOMEVID:Clara and the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Clara and the TARDIS (home video)"])
The TARDIS at one point also had extensive utility areas and corridors which, along with theswimming pool area, became battlegrounds during aSontaran invasion of the TARDIS. (TV:The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"]) The Doctor had it up through at least hisseventh incarnation. (GAME:Destiny of the Doctors[+]Loading...["Destiny of the Doctors (video game)"]) The Doctor was under the impression it had been jettisoned until he stumbled across it in histenth incarnation. (COMIC:Tesseract[+]Loading...["Tesseract (comic story)"])
Other rooms included thepower room, (TV:The Mind Robber[+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"]) theshell room, (PROSE:The Little Things[+]Loading...["The Little Things (short story)"]) thestar chamber, containing a smallgalaxy (AUDIO:Persuasion[+]Loading...["Persuasion (audio story)"]) and anarmoury. (COMIC:Ice Cap Terror[+]Loading...["Ice Cap Terror (comic story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor had a room full of mentions and pictures ofAshildr's time as animmortal. He believed Clara didn't know about it. (TV:Face the Raven[+]Loading...["Face the Raven (TV story)"])
Thearchitectural reconfiguration system was housed in a separate room. The TARDIS made the door disappear in an attempt to stopGregor Van Baalen from removing one of its components. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])
There were at least fourteen bathrooms, one of which had had a leaky tap for three centuries. Because he had misplaced his washers, the Doctor kept it from flooding the TARDIS by sealing it in atime loop that made the same drop of water leak out over and over again. (PROSE:The Well-Mannered War[+]Loading...["The Well-Mannered War (novel)"]) Another contained a claw-foot bathtub, approximately the size of an Olympic pool. (PROSE:Shada[+]Loading...["Shada (novelisation)"]) The bathrooms weren't close together, causing the Doctor to misremember the amount. WhenJack Harkness was using the shower, theNinth Doctor offered a waterfall room as a substitute toRose. (COMIC:Doctormania[+]Loading...["Doctormania (comic story)"])
There was asauna lined with wooden panels and benches. (PROSE:Shroud of Sorrow[+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"]) It also had a fully-stockedspa next to thelaundry room, which had scented candles, a bathtub and a radio; possibly the Doctor kept a spare outfit or two in this room. (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"])
There was alaboratory whichAce used to create her explosiveNitro-9. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"])
There was a large salon which theFourth Doctor referred to as a "boot cupboard", much toSarah Jane Smith's surprise. When Sarah Jane said it was a bit too big to be a boot cupboard he replied, "I've seen bigger boot cupboards." (TV:The Masque of Mandragora[+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"]) The Tenth Doctor and Gabby passed the boot cupboard on their way to the laundry room. At the time it was a literal shelf built into the coral walls and overflowed with boots. (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"])
The Doctor had anart gallery with works from throughout history. (TV:The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"]) He had rescued them from the disasters which history stated destroyed them. (AUDIO:Dust Breeding[+]Loading...["Dust Breeding (audio story)"])
There was agarage. The Tenth Doctor kept aVespa motor scooter in storage within the TARDIS. (TV:The Idiot's Lantern[+]Loading...["The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)"]) The Sixth Doctor once rented aVolkswagen and stored it in the TARDIS as well. (PROSE:Instruments of Darkness[+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"]) The Eleventh Doctor had an anti-gravity scooter which he took out of the TARDIS. (TV:The Bells of Saint John[+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"])Clara Oswald once parked a motorcycle in the console room; it was subsequently removed from the room. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The Doctor's beloved old car,Bessie, was also kept around as well. (COMIC:What He Wants...[+]Loading...["What He Wants... (comic story)"])
It had asickbay. (TV:Cold Blood[+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"];AUDIO:The Blood Furnace[+]Loading...["The Blood Furnace (audio story)"]) The Seventh Doctor treatedMelanie Bush in the sickbay after she was injured by anexplosion in the console room. (AUDIO:The Blood Furnace[+]Loading...["The Blood Furnace (audio story)"]) In the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS, this was up the stairs, to the left, then left again. It apparently had medical supplies to healMo from vivisection. (TV:Cold Blood[+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"])
It had adrawing room, as well, which the Eleventh Doctor claimed to be his "private study". Inside it were mementos of his many incarnations' travels. (GAME:TARDIS[+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) The items inside it varied. (GAME:The Gunpowder Plot[+]Loading...["The Gunpowder Plot (video game)"]) It's possible the Doctor liked tosleep here. (COMIC:Four Doctors[+]Loading...["Four Doctors (comic story)"])
There was asun room with a sun lounger. (GAME:TARDIS[+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
There was a green door near the drawing room, which the Eleventh Doctor told Amy not to go through. (GAME:TARDIS[+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
When the Eleventh Doctor was trying to get out of his universe, he said he was deleting the scullery room and squash court seven to give the TARDIS an extra boost. This indicated he had at least six other squash courts. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor remarked after a lot of pipe climbing and jumping that he was "[g]oing to reactivate theTARDIS gymnasium after this." (GAME:The Eternity Clock[+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"])
At some point the TARDIS had aLEGO room in whichClara Oswald searched for theEleventh Doctor. Several LEGO buildings were scattered around the room. (COMIC:Sky Jacks[+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)"])
TheFourth Doctor had an entire room filled with scarves to choose from, according toRiver's diary. (GAME:The Eternity Clock[+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"]) There was apparently enoughmulticoloured scarves to fill up two rooms with boxes of them once the Doctor regenerated and lost interest in them. (PROSE:Shroud of Sorrow[+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"])
Thebox-room was a storage space. (COMIC:Exodus[+]Loading...["Exodus (comic story)"])
There were several storerooms in the TARDIS:Storeroom 89 was filled with diamonds,Storeroom 90 was where the Doctor kept all of their old clothes, andStoreroom 104 was where thousands of sacks were kept. (PROSE:Keeping up with the Joneses[+]Loading...["Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)"]) Though notall of the Doctor's old clothes ended up there. Some could still be found in the wardrobes. (COMIC:Laundro-Room of Doom[+]Loading...["Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)"])
It had aworkroom filled with tools of various shapes and sizes and a back wall with several coils of wire, though not in an organised state. (PROSE:Shroud of Sorrow[+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"]) There were also at least two workshops in the TARDIS. (PROSE:Scratchman[+]Loading...["Scratchman (novelisation)"])
There was what appeared to be acricket club andpitch deep within the bowels of the TARDIS. It was here that the freshly regeneratedFifth Doctor chose his outfit. (TV:Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"]) The Doctor and Nyssa found awine cellar here whilst looking for the ancillary power cell. (AUDIO:The Haunting of Thomas Brewster[+]Loading...["The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"])
TheEighth Doctor had a croquet court in the TARDIS. (AUDIO:Caerdroia[+]Loading...["Caerdroia (audio story)"]) He also created anart studio forJosephine Day while she was travelling with him. (COMIC:Music of the Spherions[+]Loading...["Music of the Spherions (comic story)"])
There were multiple starboard passenger compartments, one of which the Tenth Doctor used as a dry ski slope. (PROSE:Keeping up with the Joneses[+]Loading...["Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)"])
There was atelevision room, (PROSE:Turnabout is Fair Play[+]Loading...["Turnabout is Fair Play (short story)"]) agames room. (AUDIO:The Man Who Wasn't There[+]Loading...["The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)"]) and atheatre. (AUDIO:Mel-evolent[+]Loading...["Mel-evolent (audio story)"])
The TARDIS had ajigsaw room which was designed to show possible outcomes if the travellers went outside. The TARDIS' one however lacked focus, so would show the user their entire life instead. The Doctor kept it locked to prevent foreknowledge, though Sarah Jane found her way in whilst being pursued by a scarecrow and saw glimpses of her own past and future as well as that of the scarecrow. (PROSE:Scratchman[+]Loading...["Scratchman (novelisation)"])
There werewater slides andboating lakes, as well as arainforest, located somewhere in the TARDIS, while a set ofkaraoke buses were, to the Thirteenth Doctor's knowledge, just before the wardrobe in a lower substrata of the interior. (TV:Spyfall[+]Loading...["Spyfall (TV story)"])
River Song claimed to have a dressing room in the TARDIS, to theTenth Doctor's surprise. (AUDIO:Precious Annihilation[+]Loading...["Precious Annihilation (audio story)"])
Systems[[edit] |[edit source]]
Specific control systems[[edit] |[edit source]]
TheFourth Doctor claimed that the TARDIS controls wereisomorphic, though this appeared to have been a ruse for the benefit ofSutekh the Destroyer. (TV:Pyramids of Mars[+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"]) The Time Lords were also able to pilot the TARDIS by remote control, (TV:Colony in Space[+]Loading...["Colony in Space (TV story)"]) usually, as the Fourth Doctor once bitterly noted, so he might take care of "some dirty work they don't want to get their lily-white hands on". (TV:The Brain of Morbius[+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"])
Variouscompanions were able to operate the TARDIS and even fly it. (TV:Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"],Four to Doomsday[+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"],The Visitation[+]Loading...["The Visitation (TV story)"],The Five Doctors[+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"],The Parting of the Ways[+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"],The Sontaran Stratagem[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"],Journey's End[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"],The Time of Angels[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"],The Lodger[+]Loading...["The Lodger (TV story)"],The Power of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"],AUDIO:You Are the Doctor and Other Stories[which?]) The Doctor was known to have givenDonna Noble,Clara Oswald andYasmin Khan training on the controls, albeit without much success in Donna's case. (TV:The Sontaran Stratagem[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"],The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"],The Girl Who Died[+]Loading...["The Girl Who Died (TV story)"],The Power of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) In the case ofRiver Song, she was trained to fly it by the TARDIS itself due to her being part-Time Lord. (TV:Let's Kill Hitler[+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"]) While companions mainly flew the TARDIS with the Doctor's assistance or direction, Clara and Yaz were able to fly the TARDIS independently while the Doctor was incapacitated, albeit imperfectly in Yaz's case who was still relying on post-it notes to help her remember the controls. (TV:Hell Bent[+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"],The Power of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) While not a companion,Tasha Lem was able to pilot the TARDIS by herself, telling a suprised Clara that "flying the TARDIS was always easy. It was flying the Doctor I never quite mastered." (TV:The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Under the Doctor's direction, theChildren of Time were able to able help theTenth Doctor tow Earth back to its original position, taking up the other five pilot positions that the TARDIS had. (TV:Journey's End[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) Similarly,Kate Stewart,Graham O'Brien,Ace,Tegan Jovanka, and Yaz were able to pilot the TARDIS together while theThirteenth Doctor piloted theSpy Master's TARDIS instead so as to move acyber-conversion planet from 1916 to 2022. (TV:The Power of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])
When he was initially on the run from Gallifrey, the Doctor claimed that his inability to control the TARDIS was the result of security systems that would prevent a thief from being able to take the ship where the thief wanted to go; the Second Doctor attempted to bypass these protocols by disabling other standard security protocols, such as those preventing the TARDIS materialising inside something else, but he ended up temporarily trapped in a pocket dimension as he had disabled too many security protocols. (PROSE:Heart of TARDIS[+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)"]) However, this claim may have been at least partly an exaggeration, as the Twelfth Doctor was able to pilot the First Doctor's TARDIS with no issue when his own ship was temporarily stolen. The First Doctor was surprised by his future self's ability to control the TARDIS so precisely, suggesting that it was a matter of experience and knowledge rather than a security system. (TV:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
TheSecond Doctor once used a portableStattenheim remote control to summon his TARDIS. (TV:The Two Doctors[+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"]) The TARDIS was also vulnerable to diversion or relocation by theGuardians,Eternals, and other immensely powerful beings such as theKeeper of Traken (TV:The Ribos Operation[+]Loading...["The Ribos Operation (TV story)"],Enlightenment[+]Loading...["Enlightenment (TV story)"],The Keeper of Traken[+]Loading...["The Keeper of Traken (TV story)"]) andthe Silence. (TV:The Big Bang[+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"])
The Doctor was also known, on occasion, to summon the TARDIS usingtheir sonic screwdriver, particularly during theirwartime (AUDIO:The Thousand Worlds[+]Loading...["The Thousand Worlds (audio story)"],The Heart of the Battle[+]Loading...["The Heart of the Battle (audio story)"],A Thing of Guile[+]Loading...["A Thing of Guile (audio story)"]) andthirteenth incarnations. (COMIC:A New Beginning[+]Loading...["A New Beginning (comic story)"],TV:The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos[+]Loading...["The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (TV story)"]) However, the TARDIS found this demeaning, and the Thirteenth Doctor noted that the TARDIS got "prickly" at being summoned too often. (COMIC:A New Beginning[+]Loading...["A New Beginning (comic story)"])
The Fourth Doctor installed arandomiser in the navigational sub-systems to prevent theBlack Guardian from finding him. It was eventually removed, and ended up being left behind onArgolis. (TV:The Armageddon Factor[+]Loading...["The Armageddon Factor (TV story)"],The Leisure Hive[+]Loading...["The Leisure Hive (TV story)"])
The TARDIS could be set for a time-delayed takeoff. (TV:Planet of Fire[+]Loading...["Planet of Fire (TV story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor's console[[edit] |[edit source]]
The systems of theEleventh Doctor'sconsole room prior to hisretirement above Victorian London (TV:The Snowmen[+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"]) were fairly well-understood. According to one account, each of the six panels controlled discrete functions.
Themechanical panel contained the engine release lever, door release lever, gyroscopic stabiliser, locking down mechanism (described as a physical handbrake) and the TARDIS display dials. Thehelm panel contained the eyepiece (an alternative to visual scanners), the time rotorhandbrake and the space/time throttle. Thenavigation panel contained a time and space forward/back control, directional pointer, atom accelerator (the spinning, spiky ball) and the spatial location input (a computer keyboard). Thediagnostic panel contained the inertial dampers, the cooling systems (gauges), a bunsen burner and a microphone/water dispenser. Thecommunications panel contained an analogue telephone, digital com, voice recorder, analogue radio waves detector/monitor/changer and a scanner/typewriter. Thefabrication panel contained the materialise/dematerialise function, harmonic generator, time altimeter, a fabrication dispenser (which was described as being able to producesonic screwdrivers and other technology — which eventually housed thelaser screwdriver) and a Heisenberg focusing device which was used to breakHeisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. This device was called azigzag plotter. (GAME:TARDIS[+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
Like the War Doctor's console, the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS console also contained afriction contrafibulatorbutton. This button may have been dangerous, as the Doctor once warnedVincent van Gogh not to press it. (TV:Vincent and the Doctor[+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
Temporal grace[[edit] |[edit source]]
On more than one occasion, the Doctor indicated that the interior of the TARDIS existed in a state of "temporal grace", meaning that weapons didn't function inside the TARDIS. (TV:The Hand of Fear[+]Loading...["The Hand of Fear (TV story)"],Time-Flight[+]Loading...["Time-Flight (TV story)"]) However, the system seemed to be malfunctioning by the time theFifth Doctor was piloting the vessel. (TV:The Visitation[+]Loading...["The Visitation (TV story)"],Earthshock[+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"],Arc of Infinity[+]Loading...["Arc of Infinity (TV story)"]) During his travels withLucie Miller, theEighth Doctor explained that the temporal grace system had not worked in years. (AUDIO:Human Resources[+]Loading...["Human Resources (audio story)"]) TheSixth Doctor was able to use aCyberman's gun inside it. (TV:Attack of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) Later,Jack Harkness discharged an energy weapon in theNinth Doctor's TARDIS and theTenth Doctor andMartha had to dodge energy bolts firedinto the TARDIS. (TV:The Parting of the Ways[+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"],Human Nature[+]Loading...["Human Nature (TV story)"]) TheEleventh Doctor indicated that by the time he had toldMels about temporal grace, it had actually been "a clever lie" to deter her from firing her gun inside the TARDIS. She then proceeded to fire a bullet into the TARDIS console releasing deadly gases into the control room. (TV:Let's Kill Hitler[+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"]) Later, theTwelfth Doctor wouldn't try lying toJourney Blue, who was aiming a gun at him; however, he instead convinced her to politely ask for a lift. (TV:Into the Dalek[+]Loading...["Into the Dalek (TV story)"]) TheThirteenth Doctor appeared to have restored the temporal grace at some point, as she stated the TARDIS had neutralised DrLeon Perkins' gun when he entered the ship. (COMIC:A New Beginning[+]Loading...["A New Beginning (comic story)"])
Emergency systems[[edit] |[edit source]]
The Doctor's TARDIS contained emergency systems such as theJade Pagoda, a 'life boat' of some description, which could in theory be piloted. (PROSE:Iceberg[+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"]) In emergencies it would lock onto the nearestplanet with a breathable atmosphere and bearable climate. (PROSE:Sanctuary[+]Loading...["Sanctuary (novel)"])
The TARDIS also had a system which, when the TARDIS was adrift in space and unmanned, would automatically lock onto the nearest centre of gravity. (TV:Voyage of the Damned[+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"]) This ability either didn't always exist or didn't always function, as when it fell out ofAmbassadorZixlyr's spaceship, the TARDIS remained indefinitely adrift in orbit aroundPeladon until it was boarded again. (AUDIO:The Bride of Peladon[+]Loading...["The Bride of Peladon (audio story)"])
There were also emergency settings established by the Doctor.Emergency Program One was a way to rescue companions (but not the Doctor themself) if the Doctor's death seemed inevitable, transporting the TARDIS (with the companion inside) back to the companion's respective time and home. (TV:Bad Wolf[+]Loading...["Bad Wolf (TV story)"],Silence in the Library[+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"]) Another could reunite the TARDIS with the Doctor if they were separated; initially, it required someone to enter the TARDIS and insert an 'authorised command disk' to activate it. (TV:Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"]) However, the Doctor explained that the occupants would have to hold on to the console to avoid being left behind. (TV:Kill the Moon[+]Loading...["Kill the Moon (TV story)"]) After this, it seemed to be fully installed and integrated into the ship's systems; the TARDIS automatically commenced the emergency program without external aid in various attempts to reach the Doctor, who had been trapped in a time-loop, by enacting a partial materialisation that allowed the Doctor entry but no-one else. (TV:The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith[+]Loading...["The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"])
The TARDIS contained a switch labelled "LTD" (standing for "Locate The Doctor"). This was used byLucie Miller. (AUDIO:The Beast of Orlok[+]Loading...["The Beast of Orlok (audio story)"])
In the event of a crash-landing, such as when the TARDIS crashed intoa parallel world, oxygen gas masks were deployed as a safety measure. (TV:Rise of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had an alarm system known as thecloister bell that activated in dire circumstances. (TV:Logopolis[+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"],Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"],Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"],The Sound of Drums[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"],Turn Left[+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"],The Waters of Mars[+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"],The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"],Hide[+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"],Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])
Another emergency program activated when the TARDIS exploded. This particular program locked the control room in atime loop to protect any occupant. (TV:The Big Bang[+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"]) It also was capable of creating a time loop in an area at least as large as ELF Storage as another form of delaying tactic, this time to keep said building's occupants and the Doctor safe from Executioner Daleks, though it had trouble maintaining this loop as it decayed on each go around. (TV:Eve of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"]) There was also a safety mechanism for when TARDIS rooms were deleted, automatically relocating any living beings in the deleted room, depositing them in the control room; (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) although the Fifth Doctor implied this automatic function would become inoperative whenever the TARDIS was on manual, stating: "Oh yes, that's the trouble with Manual Over-ride." (TV:Castrovalva[+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"])
According to theFirst Doctor, the TARDIS did not have an emergency lighting system. (PROSE:Marco Polo[+]Loading...["Marco Polo (novelisation)"])
Self-Regeneration[[edit] |[edit source]]
The TARDIS was capable of self-regeneration or "mending" if it suffered extensive damage. (TV:Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) This could be triggered by the TARDIS itself, (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"],The Woman Who Fell to Earth[+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"]) or by the Doctor'ssonic screwdriver being used on the keyhole to "click it into gear." (TV:Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) In the case of some relatively minor damage, the Doctor was able to trigger it simply with a command from the TARDIS console. (TV:Voyage of the Damned[+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"]) The TARDIS' regeneration could result in a complete rebuilding taking place, changing the interior and exterior appearances, (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"],The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"]) although not always. (TV:Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])
Depending on the level of damage, self-regeneration could take a fairly short time, including only a matter of moments, (TV:Voyage of the Damned[+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"],Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) or, in the case of more extreme damage, the better part of a day, (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]), and thousands of rotations ofthe planet that it had landed on. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
After the TARDIS suffered a hull breach from a collision with theTitanic, theTenth Doctor used the console to trigger the TARDIS to quickly self-repair. (TV:Voyage of the Damned[+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"])
After being severely damaged by theTenth Doctor's regeneration, the TARDIS crashed intoAmy Pond's shed and entered a period of regeneration. At one point, theEleventh Doctor had to rush inside because the engines began phasing and were going to burn. The Doctor had to do what was supposed to be a five minute hop into the future in order to stabilise them. However, the TARDIS instead took the Doctor twelve years into the future and locked him out as it rebuilt itself. After the end of the threat fromPrisoner Zero and theAtraxi, the Doctor returned to find that the TARDIS had finished regenerating which it signaled by heating up the Doctor's TARDIS key. The Doctor ran it in by taking the TARDIS on what was supposed to be a quick hop to the Moon and back, but they didn't return for two more years. This self-regeneration resulted in the TARDIS changing both its exterior and interior and the Doctor referred to it as a "brand new TARDIS" afterwards. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
The TARDIS was once again severely damaged by theTwelfth Doctor's regeneration and dematerialised after ejecting theThirteenth Doctor. (TV:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) However, the Doctor managed to track the TARDIS' energy trail and followed it usingaStenza teleport. (TV:The Woman Who Fell to Earth[+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"]) The TARDIS crashed onDesolation and underwent a regeneration, but only phased into existence on the planet every thousand rotations due to the engines becoming stuck in a loop, phasing in and out of time and space and becoming known as the Ghost Monument to the ancient settlers of the planet. The TARDIS was eventually found by the Thirteenth Doctor andTeam TARDIS. After the Doctor used her new sonic screwdriver to stabilise the TARDIS, it fully materialized, having finished repairing itself. Once again, the TARDIS' interior and exterior were changed by the self-regeneration. Upon seeing the changes, the Doctor remarked that the TARDIS had spruced itself up and redecorated. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
AfterDonna Noble spilled coffee on the TARDIS console, it flew out of control, eventually crashing on aspaceship at theedge of the universe. By removing the lock with a regular screwdriver and inserting his sonic screwdriver into the keyhole, theFourteenth Doctor was able to trigger the TARDIS' regeneration, but inadvertently reactivated theHADS in the process. The successful activation of the self-regeneration was signaled by the lamp on top of the TARDIS lighting up. The TARDIS once again rebuilt itself, but this time, the exterior and the interior remained the same. (TV:Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])
Defensive systems[[edit] |[edit source]]
Beyond thechameleon circuit, the TARDIS could teleport itself a short distance away from its current location if it was being attacked, rematerialising after the attacker had gone. This was called theHostile Action Displacement System (HADS) by theSecond (TV:The Krotons[+]Loading...["The Krotons (TV story)"]) andEleventh Doctor. (TV:Cold War[+]Loading...["Cold War (TV story)"]) A different HADS existed as well, a "Dispersal" action that scattered the atoms of the TARDIS to keep it from being destroyed; it could be reconstructed by signalling it with a sonic device. (TV:The Witch's Familiar[+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"])
A related system was meant to protect the TARDIS from landing in the path of oncoming vehicles, by preventing it from landing on, for example, train tracks. This feature failed when the TARDIS landed on train tracks inVichy,France. The Second Doctor,Ben,Jamie andPolly had to physically push the TARDIS out of the railway bed before the next train came down the tracks. (AUDIO:Resistance[+]Loading...["Resistance (audio story)"])
Prior to theLast Great Time War and following from the time of the Doctor'seleventh incarnation, the TARDIS had agenerator that createdforce fields that surrounded the outer plasmic shell of the craft. It protected the occupant(s) from harm (though it was far from invulnerable) and from the Time Vortex and other environments dangerous to its pilot. Force fields created this way were also capable of preventing objects within it from being converted toanti-matter, (TV:The Three Doctors[+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"]) and could protect individuals within it from the vacuum of space. (TV:The Horns of Nimon[+]Loading...["The Horns of Nimon (TV story)"],The Time of Angels[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"])
After theLast Great Time War, however, the TARDIS no longer possessed a force field generator, causing theNinth Doctor to steal and install aTribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator as a substitute instead. (TV:The Parting of the Ways[+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) The extrapolator pulled the TARDIS a short distance away from theEmpress of the Racnoss when she pulled her from the beginning ofEarth to2007. (TV:The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]) The Doctor would make use of the extrapolator through histenth incarnation's life, but later regained the use of a force field generator in his eleventh incarnation.
TheTwelfth Doctor activated what was called "siege mode" in order for the TARDIS to survive being run over by a train. It prevented anyone from entering and exiting the TARDIS. It also required energy to exit siege mode, which, at the time, the TARDIS did not have. It was activated by pulling a lever on the underside of the console. (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
Thedimensional displacement system protected the TARDIS against Vortisaur attacks in theTime Vortex. (AUDIO:Storm Warning[+]Loading...["Storm Warning (audio story)"])
In the midst of temporal distortion, the TARDIS interior retreated itself from the exterior as a defence. However, it took a while for the ship to fully reconstitute itself from this defence procedure. (AUDIO:Echoes of War[+]Loading...["Echoes of War (audio story)"],One Life[+]Loading...["One Life (audio story)"])
The TARDIS was capable of ejecting hostile entities within its interior by simply dematerialising and leaving them behind in the space it was just occupying. In order to remove a swarm ofVashta Nerada that had devouredRoxita after they were accidentally brought into the TARDIS inside his gun, theEighth Doctor dematerialised the craft around them, leaving them to be purged in theTime Vortex. (AUDIO:Day of the Vashta Nerada[+]Loading...["Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)"]) AfterKarlax tried to shoot theWar Doctor inside the TARDIS and instead hitCinder, who took the shot for the Doctor, the Doctor retaliated by dematerialising the TARDIS and leaving Karlax in the middle of theDalekEternity Circle, where he was swiftly exterminated by them. (PROSE:Engines of War[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) When theNot-Thing version ofDonna Noble was identified by the TARDIS scanner, the TARDIS was able to literally eject her by the entrance ramp quickly raising into the air, flinging the creature out of the TARDIS doors. (TV:Wild Blue Yonder[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])
Offensive systems[[edit] |[edit source]]
The TARDIS later gained some offensive systems of some sort; this may have been caused by its development into theEdifice. This weapon allowed the Edifice/the Doctor's TARDIS to destroy Gallifrey, although this was only accomplished by channellingall of the Edifice's energy into the weapons. (PROSE:The Ancestor Cell[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])
After they caused a paradox by killing theEighth Doctor, the TARDIS fought back against twoRarkelians by trapping them in two time periods at the same time, a fateHelen Sinclair thought was horrible. The revived Doctor was able to use the TARDIS to free the assassins by sending them back to their own time. (AUDIO:Divine Intervention[+]Loading...["Divine Intervention (audio story)"])
Even after regenerating into hiswar incarnation during theLast Great Time War, the Doctor refused to allow weapons to be installed into his TARDIS, (AUDIO:Light the Flame[+]Loading...["Light the Flame (audio story)"]) though he did use his ship in combat. At one point he whirled the TARDIS atDalek saucers with enough force to tear through them, bursting through the other side. (PROSE:Engines of War[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) At theFall of Arcadia on the last day of the Time War, the War Doctor destroyed a group ofDaleks by ramming them with the TARDIS. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
Intuition circuits[[edit] |[edit source]]
Following his encounter withthe Monk in1066, theFirst Doctor installed a device in the TARDIS that could detect disturbances in history. (PROSE:The Schoolboy's Story[+]Loading...["The Schoolboy's Story (short story)"]) Using a holographic representation of the universe connected to its neural net, the TARDIS was effectively able to make hunches, guesses on where it needed to be. Though the TARDIS was able to guess where it was needed, it was unable to inform the Doctor of what he needed to do once he got there. (PROSE:...And Eternity in an Hour[+]Loading...["...And Eternity in an Hour (short story)"])
TheFifth Doctor asked the TARDIS to scan the universe for any references toRichter's Syndrome, having it "keep its ears open." (AUDIO:The Whispering Forest[+]Loading...["The Whispering Forest (audio story)"]) Towards the end of theSeventh Doctor's life, the TARDIS was able to tap into galactic communication networks and eavesdrop on the universe, which is how he learned of thePersuasion machine. (AUDIO:Persuasion[+]Loading...["Persuasion (audio story)"])
When theTARDIS matrix briefly inhabited a humanoid body, it was able to finally inform the Doctor that its apparent unreliability was due to this drive to take the Doctor "where (he) needed to go" rather than where he wanted to go. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) When the Doctor refused to regenerate, the TARDIS took him to meet hisoriginal incarnation, to teach him he needed to accept it. (TV:The Doctor Falls[+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"])
Invisibility option[[edit] |[edit source]]
The TARDIS had the ability to becomeinvisible though only under special circumstances. It happened during the time of theSecond Doctor when aCyberman missile struck the TARDIS after it had materialised near the dark side ofthe Moon. The missile damaged the ship'svisual stabiliser, causing it to become invisible when it materialised again onEarth. The Doctor fixed the offending circuit after he and his companions spent two minutes to remember where they had landed. (TV:The Invasion[+]Loading...["The Invasion (TV story)"])
TheEleventh Doctor landed the TARDIS invisibly in theOval Office in1969. PresidentRichard Nixon was present when the TARDIS landed and he remained unaware of it until it became visible. The Doctor said he rarely used this feature because it drained an enormous amount of the TARDIS' power. (TV:The Impossible Astronaut[+]Loading...["The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)"]) He also later used invisibility to hide his TARDIS inArea 51. (TV:Day of the Moon[+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"])
TheTARDIS exterior staircase was similarly invisible from the ground below. (TV:The Snowmen[+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"])
Other systems[[edit] |[edit source]]
The TARDIS could extend anoxygen bubble, orair shell, for a distance beyond its doors, allowing them to be opened while inspace, (TV:The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"],The Beast Below[+]Loading...["The Beast Below (TV story)"],Listen[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)"]) and even allowing individuals to survive outside the TARDIS. (TV:The Horns of Nimon[+]Loading...["The Horns of Nimon (TV story)"],The Beast Below[+]Loading...["The Beast Below (TV story)"],The Time of Angels[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"],The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"],Oxygen[+]Loading...["Oxygen (TV story)"],GAME:TARDIS[+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) This could be used to create anair corridor, which theEleventh Doctor once used to rescueRiver Song from theByzantium. (TV:The Time of Angels[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"]) At one point, the bubble even allowed the Eleventh Doctor andRory Williams to camp outdoors on Earth's Moon, although the Doctor indicated that the bubble only had a finite amount of oxygen. (COMIC:The Doctor and the Nurse[+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)"]) The system also worked, to a limited degree, underwater, (PROSE:Dark Horizons[+]Loading...["Dark Horizons (novel)"],GAME:Shadows of the Vashta Nerada[+]Loading...["Shadows of the Vashta Nerada (video game)"]) especially when augmented with anaquashield. (TV:Legend of the Sea Devils[+]Loading...["Legend of the Sea Devils (TV story)"]) The TARDIS was even able to generate the bubble after being blown apart in an explosion, though the air supply was severely limited as a result. (AUDIO:Get Andy[+]Loading...["Get Andy (audio story)"]) On at least one occasion, during whichSalamander attempted to launch the TARDIS with the doors open, the TARDIS did not protect the console room from the effects of the vortex. (TV:The Enemy of the World[+]Loading...["The Enemy of the World (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had systems to protect its occupants from alien viruses they might encounter on their travels. (AUDIO:Patient Zero[+]Loading...["Patient Zero (audio story)"]) The console room also containednanites capable of providing medical treatments, including healingAce's burst ear drums and curingCharlotte Pollard after she was poisoned. (AUDIO:The Shadow of the Scourge[+]Loading...["The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)"],Seasons of Fear[+]Loading...["Seasons of Fear (audio story)"])
The TARDIS appeared to be able to lock onto the presence of other Time Lords, particularly members of the Doctor's family, even when doing so would create atemporal paradox. (TV:The Doctor's Daughter[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)"])
The Doctor made modifications and additions from time to time. At one point, the TARDIS was equipped to writecomputer files to standard EarthCD-ROMs. (TV:World War Three[+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"]) TheTenth Doctor modified the control console to acceptDVDs to allowSally Sparrow to use a specialised control disc to activate the TARDIS. (TV:Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])
The TARDIS could be put one second out of sync with time. The Tenth Doctor did this once to preventthe Saxon Master from taking it. (TV:The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
The TARDIS possessedtranslation circuits which allowed the Doctor and others to understand a wide variety of languages. (TV:The End of the World[+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"],The Christmas Invasion[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"],The Fires of Pompeii[+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"],Cold War[+]Loading...["Cold War (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had a link tothe Matrix. Following theLast Great Time War, this Matrix was the only one left. (COMIC:The Forgotten[+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"])
The TARDIS had achronon shell, (TV:The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]) as well as aninterior matrix. (TV:The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"],The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
It had stabilisers activated by blue buttons. These were used byRiver Song. The Eleventh Doctor said that they made the journey boring, calling them "blue boring-ers". (TV:The Time of Angels[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"])
It had brakes, which, according to River Song, were always on, which was why the TARDIS landed with a characteristicwheezing noise. When she landed the TARDIS without the brakes on, it landed without any sound. (TV:The Time of Angels[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"],COMIC:The One[+]Loading...["The One (comic story)"]) The Doctor displayed the ability to do this himself when landing in President Nixon's office in1969, but chose to keep the sound even after he became aware of how to stop it. (TV:The Impossible Astronaut[+]Loading...["The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)"]) The TARDIS itself, however, when given the unique opportunity to converse with the Doctor directly, made no apparent comment regarding this, choosing instead to complain about the Doctor opening its doors improperly. Indeed, it uttered the "brakes on" sound by way of identifying itself to the Doctor. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) While conversing with theWar Doctor,the Moment noted this sound saying that it and the fact that it heralded the appearance of the TARDIS and the Doctor brought hope to anyone who heard it, no matter how lost. The War Doctor agreed, saying that he liked to think it did, not getting that she was referring to him since the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor were about to materialise their TARDISes when he had no hope left. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor also said once that the console had buttons forketchup andmustard. (TV:Vincent and the Doctor[+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had a part called the "rectifier". (TV:The Lodger[+]Loading...["The Lodger (TV story)"])
The TARDIS' engines automatically shut down when there were no people in the craft. (TV:The Pandorica Opens[+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had "telepathic circuits" that could transmit messages to individuals through their thoughts. (TV:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"],Frontier in Space[+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"],Planet of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Planet of the Daleks (TV story)"],The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) The telepathic circuits could also be linked to an individual, allowing them to fly the TARDIS using their thoughts and memories. (TV:Listen[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)"],Dark Water[+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"]) They could be used to gather space-time coordinates. (TV:The Name of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The Doctor's TARDIS was also able to communicate telepathically withanother TARDIS. (PROSE:Time, Love and TARDIS[+]Loading...["Time, Love and TARDIS (short story)"])
The TARDIS could alter the environment within its rooms and use the telepathic circuits to create illusions, once, when under the control of House, doing this to Amy to make her think Rory had been trapped in a faster time stream where he aged and died within minutes. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) Whether or not the TARDIS could make this occur for real is unclear, though an incident with Clara Oswald made to clear that time travel was possible within the vessel if the TARDIS wanted it, as she teased Clara by bringing multiple versions of herself into the console room on the same night, all looking for their bedroom. (HOMEVID:Clara and the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Clara and the TARDIS (home video)"])
The TARDIS could stabilise the bodies of theGangers, by virtue of them entering the Control Room. (TV:The Almost People[+]Loading...["The Almost People (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had avoice interface which the Doctor could communicate with. It could assume the form of a known individual. (TV:Let's Kill Hitler[+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"]) The interface could also be projected outside the ship and is known to have interacted with at least one companion. (TV:Hide[+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had an extractor fan. This was used to get rid of gases in the control room. It could be activated by voice command or from the console. (TV:Let's Kill Hitler[+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"],The Angels Take Manhattan[+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"],Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])
The TARDIS contained alift leading to at least three floors. (GAME:TARDIS[+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) It also had anti-gravity shafts of some sort that also served as lifts. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
Some sort of drainage system existed which quickly removed water from the console room to prevent flooding. (PROSE:Dark Horizons[+]Loading...["Dark Horizons (novel)"])
The TARDIS was provided with aseismic scanner. (TV:Planet of Fire[+]Loading...["Planet of Fire (TV story)"])
TheEleventh Doctor claimed that the TARDIS had a GPS with the voice ofDavros. (AUDIO:Trouble in Paradise[+]Loading...["Trouble in Paradise (audio story)"])
Alambent tachyonic visualiser existed in the control room of the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS. (PROSE:Keeping up with the Joneses[+]Loading...["Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)"])
The TARDIS had an automatic oxygen supply. However, theThird Doctor kept an emergency oxygen supply in a set of three tanks which he kept in a box in the event the TARDIS exhausted its own air reserves. Unfortunately, some of the tanks were faulty and depleted rather quickly. (TV:Planet of the Daleks[+]Loading...["Planet of the Daleks (TV story)"])
According to the Twelfth Doctor, "[t]he TARDIS should be able to detect anything inthe known universe." (TV:Flatline[+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
As the TARDIS was a Type 40, it had a control room for the technology of the Dimensioneers ofGallifrey which allowed access and manipulations of other dimensions.The Reborn Master took advantage of this in one of his schemes. (AUDIO:Dominion[+]Loading...["Dominion (audio story)"])
Thetime anomaly relocation distributor shifted the TARDIS forward in time by an hour if it detected a threat. (AUDIO:Aquitaine[+]Loading...["Aquitaine (audio story)"])
The central column was able to dispense abiscuit for theThirteenth Doctor. (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
The TARDIS was equipped with severalshaving machines. (PROSE:Mire and Clay[+]Loading...["Mire and Clay (short story)"])
Personality[[edit] |[edit source]]
In the first time, theFirst Doctor showed to be not fully aware of the consciousness of his vessel, until its first attempt to communicate when it warned the crew of its impending destruction by developing faults and allowing the Doctor to find the problem. (TV:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"]) Indeed, despite being a machine, the TARDIS was sentient and developed a personality. It was called "sentimental" by theEighth Doctor (TV:Doctor Who[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) and "stupid" byK9 Mark I. (TV:The Invasion of Time[+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"]) Though intelligent, it was usually unable to communicate in words with the Doctor. (TV:The Edge of Destruction[+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"],The Runaway Bride[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"],PROSE:Timewyrm: Genesys[+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])
In many of their incarnations, the Doctor anthropomorphised it by referring to the TARDIS as "she" or "her" (common practice on Earth when referring to vessels). Some accounts suggest that theconsciousness at the heart of the TARDISwas female. (PROSE:The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe[+]Loading...["The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe (short story)"],TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) WhenSeverine made telepathic contact with the TARDIS briefly she picked up on the ship's female pronoun, which impressed theTenth Doctor who claimed most people didn't pick up on it. (AUDIO:The Last Line[+]Loading...["The Last Line (audio story)"]) The TARDIS displayed a feminine personality when her matrix was temporarily transferred into the humanoid body ofIdris byHouse. While in this form, it thoughtRory was "pretty" and stated thatit had chosen the Doctor as a travelling companion.
Even though the TARDIS did not always take the Doctor where he wanted to go, it always took him where heneeded to be. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) TheSixth Doctor considered "her" to be one of his most trusted companions; (GAME:Destiny of the Doctors[+]Loading...["Destiny of the Doctors (video game)"]) a sentiment the TARDIS itself shared, believing itself to be "the Doctor's oldest and most cherished companion". (PROSE:The Library of Time[+]Loading...["The Library of Time (short story)"])Evelyn Smythe believed the TARDIS to be the most important woman in the Doctor's life. (AUDIO:Arrangements for War[+]Loading...["Arrangements for War (audio story)"])
The TARDIS showed great fondness towards the Doctor. It claimed "the sight of them always [brought] feelings of comfort and home", (PROSE:What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious"[+]Loading...["What the TARDIS thought of \"Time Lord Victorious\" (short story)"]) and during their brief telepathic contact she told Severine he was kind. (AUDIO:The Last Line[+]Loading...["The Last Line (audio story)"]) The TARDIS even opened and closed the doors to a snap of the Doctor's fingers; a feat he believed impossible until being told byRiver Song who had witnessed his future self doing it. (TV:Forest of the Dead[+]Loading...["Forest of the Dead (TV story)"])
Whilst it's overall loyalty remained the same, the TARDIS appeared to have somewhat different opinions of specific incarnations. At one point it reflected on various Doctors, claiming the Tenth Doctor was "afraid of Death", expressing how it missed theNinth Doctor, viewing theEighth Doctor as the "last of the carefree Doctors", and remembering how theSeventh Doctor "played terrible games with eternity and pullovers". (PROSE:What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious"[+]Loading...["What the TARDIS thought of \"Time Lord Victorious\" (short story)"])
When the Doctor's history was changed so theirthird incarnation regenerated ahead of schedule, the TARDIS sensed he had been infected with theFaction Paradox biodata virus, which threatened to turn him into a member of the Faction. The TARDIS took the infection into itself, holding itself together even after being nearly torn apart in a dimensional anomaly. Had it not, the Doctor would likely have become corrupted by the Faction. (PROSE:The Shadows of Avalon[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"]) When the Eighth Doctor was killed by twoRarkelians, the TARDIS latched onto the paradox created to partially restore itself (having been inactive since being attacked by theRavenous) and to fight back by reviving him and trapping the assassins in two time periods at once. (AUDIO:Divine Intervention[+]Loading...["Divine Intervention (audio story)"]) In a later aborted timeline, when both he and the ship were caught in an exploding spaceship, the TARDIS used the last of its power to to give the Eighth Doctor an air bubble and generated versions ofLiv Chenka andHelen Sinclair via thevoice interface so he would have someone to talk to until the air ran out and he died. (AUDIO:Get Andy[+]Loading...["Get Andy (audio story)"]) When theTenth Doctor was attacked byEs'Cartrss, the TARDIS tried to help him in the Matrix, taking the forms of hiscompanions and helping him regain his memories; after succeeding, it indulged the Doctor by taking the form ofSusan Foreman for a while, allowing theTenth Doctor an ersatz reunion with his granddaughter. (COMIC:The Forgotten[+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"])
Whilst placed in Idris' body, the TARDIS was able to properly interact with the Doctor for the first time, with them talking over her unreliability. Prior to Idris' body being destroyed and the TARDIS' consciousness reverting to what it was, the TARDIS shared a tearful "hello" with the Doctor and was heard to utter the words "I love you" as the shell of Idris disappeared. In response to the Doctor's "Can you hear me?" after the TARDIS lost its body, the TARDIS independently operated one of its own levers, thus proving its sentience and that it could indeed hear the Doctor. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
The TARDIS' loyalty and affection for the Doctor continued following the Idris encounter, asClara Oswald during one incident convinced the TARDIS topilot itself into apocket universe, despite the risks to the ship, in order to rescue the Doctor. It should be noted however that the TARDIS did consider leaving the Doctor to die, showing a bit of cowardice until Clara persuaded it to rescue him. The TARDIS didn't like Clara but realised that it was being selfish when Clara spoke to it and went to rescue the Doctor. Not long after, the Doctor apparently managed to convince it to do it again in order to rescue an alien from the same universe. (TV:Hide[+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"]) When theTwelfth Doctor hesitated to regenerate, the TARDIS flashed the lights, particularly on the centre column, at the Doctor when he commented on how saving the universe was a treadmill. The Doctor responded to the TARDIS' actions, stating that "yes, yes I know they'll get it all wrong without me." The TARDIS then flashed its lights at him again, only stopping when he decided to regenerate after all. (TV:Twice Upon a Time[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
The Doctor responded to the TARDIS' personality by showing it great tenderness. TheFourth Doctor referred to it as his "dear old thing" on more than one occasion. (TV:The Deadly Assassin[+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"],The Robots of Death[+]Loading...["The Robots of Death (TV story)"]) He often called the ship "Old Girl", which the TARDIS confirmed she always liked whilst in Idris' body. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])Sarah Jane andRose both recalled witnessing the Doctor stroking parts of the console. (TV:School Reunion[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])Liv andHelen found the Eighth Doctor had saved the TARDIS' phone number under the contact name "The Mrs", much to their amusement. (AUDIO:Get Andy[+]Loading...["Get Andy (audio story)"]) TheEleventh Doctor was very demonstrative towards it, calling it both "dear" and "you sexy thing" shortly after its ownregeneration. (TV:The Eleventh Hour[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) Whilst in Idris' body the TARDIS noted he often called her "Sexy", though he insisted he only did that when they were alone, and even suggested he use the name for her whilst in this form. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) Shortly after the regeneration, theThirteenth Doctor called out to the TARDIS upon finally reuniting with her ship, asking it to "come to daddy" before remembering her new body's gender, correcting herself by saying "mummy". (TV:The Ghost Monument[+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"])
The Doctor and the TARDIS did fall out on occasion. It appeared to resist the Eighth Doctor's efforts to go to the end of the universe after the deaths of Lucie andAlex Campbell, allowing the Time Lords to immobilise it. (AUDIO:The Great War[+]Loading...["The Great War (audio story)"]) It also resisted his attempt to alter history by interfering withRobin Bright-Thompson's journey to Edinburgh, with him having to do multiple attempts to get it at the right place. (AUDIO:Crossed Lines[+]Loading...["Crossed Lines (audio story)"]) The TARDIS appeared to resist theWar Doctor's plan to surrender to the Daleks in theTantalus Eye, attempting to activate the engines and tolling the Cloister Bell. (PROSE:Engines of War[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) Feeling slighted by several misadventures that had messed with its form, and tempted by theTalent Scout in the guise ofa Time Lord, the TARDIS abandoned and rejected the Eleventh Doctor and his companions for a time, until he was able to get through to it viaAlice Obiefune's connection to the psychic circuits. (COMIC:The Comfort of the Good[+]Loading...["The Comfort of the Good (comic story)"]) When the Doctor attempted to pilot it to the site of his own grave onTrenzalore, the TARDIS forcibly shut down, halting itself in orbit above the planet. (TV:The Name of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"]) When he later put it up for auction as a distraction in theObsidian Mainframe, the TARDIS barred him entry (COMIC:Pay the Piper[+]Loading...["Pay the Piper (comic story)"]) and appeared to go along withDanny Fisher's plan to wipe outCornucopia. Once the Doctor apologised it ended its cooperation with Danny, with the Doctor believing they had "talked it over". (COMIC:The Blood of Azrael[+]Loading...["The Blood of Azrael (comic story)"])
On several key occasions, the TARDIS's close bond with the Doctor proved to be decisive in interaction with other TARDISes. When theSeventh Doctor had the consciousness of a nascent TARDIS planted in his mind as part of a Time Lord experiment, not only was the new consciousness more stable than other such imprints due to his link to his own TARDIS, but another TARDIS-mind was later able to communicate with the Doctor's ship and use that insight to understand what they should do. (AUDIO:Unregenerate![+]Loading...["Unregenerate! (audio story)"]) When the Eleventh Doctor accidentally caused aType 1 TARDIS to panic and unleashanti-time across the universe out of fear at the chaos it read from the Doctor's mind, the other twelve Doctors were able to convince the Type 1 to stop by linking it to their own TARDISes, the Type 1 accessing the TARDIS's databanks and convincing it that the universe was worth preserving. (COMIC:The Lost Dimension[+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"]) Upon seeing a valley of dead TARDISes, the TARDIS mourned her "sisters", though nonetheless agreed to go along with the Doctor's plan to build a rudimentary console from their remains. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had varying opinions of the Doctor's companions. It considered most of them to be strays and usually couldn't even remember their names, callingAmy Pond "the orangey girl" andRory Williams "the pretty one". (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) TheSixth Doctor believed the TARDIS must have trustedEvelyn Smythe, after she successfully tampered with the time coordinates to stop him altering history onVilág. (AUDIO:Arrangements for War[+]Loading...["Arrangements for War (audio story)"]) WhenFrobisher abused the dimensional stabilisers to create holographic gumblejack fish to hunt, the TARDIS went "on strike", in the Sixth Doctor's words. It took them toEugene's World, seemingly to force Frobisher to learn a lesson about the value of simulated life. (AUDIO:The Holy Terror[+]Loading...["The Holy Terror (audio story)"]) The ship showed a particular liking toRiver Song, although this was mainly because the TARDIS was, in a way, River's second mother since it had given her Time Lord DNA when River was conceived inside it. (TV:Let's Kill Hitler[+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"])
The TARDIS had a tendency to be rather petty and spiteful to people it disliked. WhenPutta Pattershaun 5 entered the TARDIS, he sensed it disliked him. In order to upset it, he insulted the TARDIS, Gallifrey, Time Lords, and the Doctor. The TARDIS lifted him up into the air and flung him out the doors. (PROSE:The Drosten's Curse[+]Loading...["The Drosten's Curse (novel)"]) The ship displayed a particular disliking for "impossible" companions, notablyJack Harkness andClara Oswald, and it went to the end of the universe in an attempt to shake off Jack (TV:Utopia[+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) and refused to open for Clara. (TV:The Rings of Akhaten[+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"],Hide[+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"]) One night the TARDIS played an elaborate practical joke on Clara that involved scaring her with a holographic leopard in the bathroom and time-looping the human and preventing her from finding the bedroom — while at the same time meeting multiple versions of herself. (HOMEVID:Clara and the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Clara and the TARDIS (home video)"]) It also distrustedCharlotte Pollard during her paradoxical travels with the Sixth Doctor, witholding from her the protections from alien viruses that it usually afforded its occupants. This left Charley vulnerable toMila. (AUDIO:Patient Zero[+]Loading...["Patient Zero (audio story)"]) Whenthe Spy Master took over the Doctor's body, the TARDIS gave him an electric shock upon touching the console however he threatened the ship into obedience. (TV:The Power of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])
The Doctor believed the TARDIS was simply slow to trust like a cat, (TV:Hide[+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"]) and indeed the TARDIS did appear to warm up to Clara, to the extent that Clara was able to open the TARDIS doors with a snap of her fingers. (TV:The Day of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"],The Caretaker[+]Loading...["The Caretaker (TV story)"]) The TARDIS even extended its shielding around Clara to protect her through the Time Vortex when she hung onto the outside of the ship even though it meant it would take the TARDIS three hundred years to return to the Doctor. (TV:The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Later, the TARDIS even allowed Clara to pilot her on two occasions using a psychic link; on the first occasion this was at the Doctor's behest, but the second occasion occurred when the Doctor was incapacitated and at Clara's initiative, even though it resulted in Clara unintentionally transporting the TARDIS to Gallifrey early in the Doctor's life, despite the potential for a paradox to occur. (TV:Listen[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)"])
The TARDIS displayed a somewhat manipulative side. It claimed to have shaped the Doctors with "a lot of carefully accidental wrong turns". When the Doctor created aTime Fracture by savingAdelaide Brooke, the TARDIS planned how it could use the Fracture to take the Doctor to theDark Times so he could resolve his "unfinished business" there. It also gaveBrian, anOod who had fallen into theTime Vortex, "a nudge" in the belief he might be useful to the Doctor there. It wondered whether the Seventh Doctor would have been proud of her for this behaviour. (PROSE:What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious"[+]Loading...["What the TARDIS thought of \"Time Lord Victorious\" (short story)"])
It also exhibited a rudimentary sense of humour. Whilst her mind was uploaded to the telepathic circuits,Lucie Miller heard some of the TARDIS' thoughts, causing her to giggle. (AUDIO:Worldwide Web[+]Loading...["Worldwide Web (audio story)"]) The TARDIS later appeared to tease the Eleventh Doctor by choosing to display only images of attractive female companions toAmy Pond when ordered to exhibit past companions of the Doctor, causing him to chide it for not at least including "the tin dog". (HOMEVID:Meanwhile in the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video)"]) It did something similar when showingClara Oswald images of past companions, including choosing a full-length image of Amy showing her legs as opposed to the simple portrait photos otherwise shown; this slideshow occurred after Claradeduced laughter coming from the console when she asked if she was the first girl to stay the night in the TARDIS. (HOMEVID:Clara and the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Clara and the TARDIS (home video)"]) The TARDIS also seemed to openly mock Clara by choosing Oswald's form for its holographic interface at one point. (TV:Hide[+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"])
The TARDIS appeared to be somewhat familiar with Earth culture, once comparing the Doctor's efforts to build a working TARDIS console to "a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom", though she was puzzled by the Doctor's reference tofish fingers. (TV:The Doctor's Wife[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
While possessed by theZagreus entity born ofAnti-time, the TARDIS used an avatar appearance ofthe Brigadier to interact with theEighth Doctor,Charley Pollard andRassilon. Similarly to the Doctor during this infection, the TARDIS portrayed a twisted and evil personality, going as far as torturing the Doctor and shooting former companionLeela. It showed hatred towards the Doctor's companions, specially envying his love for Charley. However, her "good side" still tried to help the Doctor, by creating ways to stop the anti-time infection. (AUDIO:Zagreus[+]Loading...["Zagreus (audio story)"])
Destruction[[edit] |[edit source]]
Over its long history with the Doctor, the TARDIS came to several ends where it was actually destroyed, either rebuilding itself later or stopping the damage from occurring in the first place through temporal actions. These "deaths" included;
- Having its power drained by theTick-Tock World and shattering in a crash landing. (AUDIO:Tick-Tock World[+]Loading...["Tick-Tock World (audio story)"])
- Breaking apart while exposed to the forces outside the universe (TV:The Mind Robber[+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"])
- The internal dimensions collapsing due to missing components (AUDIO:Time Reef[+]Loading...["Time Reef (audio story)"])
- Burning intime spillage from avortex rupture; this assault was averted before complete destruction but still required the ship to rebuild itself (PROSE:The Crystal Bucephalus[+]Loading...["The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)"])
- Being broken apart by thegravity manipulations ofTractators, requiring theGravis to pull it back together (TV:Frontios[+]Loading...["Frontios (TV story)"])
- Shattering across the infinity of time for a second due to a temporal explosion (AUDIO:Paper Cuts[+]Loading...["Paper Cuts (audio story)"])
- Reforming into aSARDIT after colliding with theTime Scaphe and being invaded by theProcess (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"])
- Beingtime rammed by analternative TARDIS on theSilurian Earth, (PROSE:Blood Heat[+]Loading...["Blood Heat (novel)"]) only escaping due to aFortean Flicker displacing it just before destruction. (PROSE:Happy Endings[+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"])
- Being anchored in2044 whilstElizabeth Klein was attempting to use it to travel to2144, resulting in the internal dimensions of the TARDIS being torn from its external dimensions, turning it into an ordinary police box. This was undone when Klein was erased from history. (AUDIO:The Architects of History[+]Loading...["The Architects of History (audio story)"])
- Being torn apart after being caught in a dimensional rift leading between Earth andAvalon, (PROSE:The Shadows of Avalon[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"]) caused by her sisterLolita in revenge for rejecting her alliance and starting her own generation of103-form timeships through the Doctor's companionCompassion. (PROSE:Toy Story[+]Loading...["Toy Story (short story)"],The Book of the War[+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"]) The TARDIS was only able to restore itself by latching on toI.M. Foreman'sbottle universe, but theFaction Paradoxbiodata virus mutated it into theEdifice until the Doctor drained its power. (PROSE:The Ancestor Cell[+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])
- Being erased from existence by aconceptual bomb, until the Doctors managed to avert the circumstances that led to the bomb being deployed against them in the first place. (AUDIO:The Light at the End[+]Loading...["The Light at the End (audio story)"])
- Being drained by theRavenous, resulting in it crashing in London in2020 and the interior collapsing, with the ship appearing to be a normal police box for weeks. (AUDIO:Day of the Master[+]Loading...["Day of the Master (audio story)"],Lost Property[+]Loading...["Lost Property (audio story)"]) The TARDIS was eventually able to begin to restore itself by latching on to aparadox triggered byRarkelians killing the Doctor. (AUDIO:Divine Intervention[+]Loading...["Divine Intervention (audio story)"])
- Exploding after being aboard a spaceship which collided with a space station's reactor. This was undone whenHelen Sinclair used time travel to ensure the Doctor departed the spaceship prior to the collision. (AUDIO:Get Andy[+]Loading...["Get Andy (audio story)"])
- Being attacked by one ofthe Barber-Surgeon's creations, leaving the ship dead. (AUDIO:The Abyss[+]Loading...["The Abyss (audio story)"]) The Barber-Surgeon being erased from existence undid this event, restoring the TARDIS. (AUDIO:The Horror[+]Loading...["The Horror (audio story)"])
- Colliding with anAcari ship which caused thefifth dimension to split in two, triggeringdistortion which tore apart the ship. TheTef'Aree returnedEmily Winter to the TARDIS a few seconds before it was destroyed, enabling her to prevent the event. (COMIC:Tesseract[+]Loading...["Tesseract (comic story)"])
- Exploding and causing theTime Field after being taken over bythe Silence. It was restored afterBig Bang Two. (TV:The Pandorica Opens[+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"]/The Big Bang[+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"],The Time of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"])
- Having the enginesexplode upon collision with the salvage ship whilst the defences were down. However, the TARDIS froze the explosion by "wrapp[ing] her hands around the force" to give the Doctor time to resolve the issue, by using a rift created by the collision to warn his past self prior to the explosion. (TV:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS[+]Loading...["Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)"])
TheSupreme Dalek ordered the destruction of the TARDIS, but it survived using itsHostile Action Dispersal System. (TV:The Magician's Apprentice[+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"] /The Witch's Familiar[+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"])
Alternate versions[[edit] |[edit source]]
Alternate timelines[[edit] |[edit source]]
In analtered state of reality,the Doctor owned aTARDIS which was a "family heirloom". (PROSE:The Infinity Doctors[+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"])
In anunstable mini-universe created bythe Monk, (PROSE:No Future[+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"])the Doctor's TARDIS shutdown after theThird Doctor's death atWenley Moor. It was revived byAce from the main timeline and used by theSeventh Doctor as his TARDIS had been lost in a tar pit. The Doctor used it totime ram his original ship to destroy the alternate timeline and continued travelling in it, believing his TARDIS destroyed. (PROSE:Blood Heat[+]Loading...["Blood Heat (novel)"]) Initially this TARDIS'chameleon circuit was working again, however the Doctor eventually chose to deliberately break it again to keep the TARDIS in the police box shape. (PROSE:No Future[+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"]) The Doctor travelled in this TARDIS until being reunited with his original atBernice Summerfield's wedding, giving the alternate version over toMuldwych. (PROSE:Happy Endings[+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"])
In an alternate timeline where theFourth Doctor andRomana II died onVeridis, the TARDIS began dying, with roundels cracking, thefood machine breaking down and rooms disappearing. After some weeks there was nothing left. (AUDIO:A Full Life[+]Loading...["A Full Life (audio story)"])
In analternate timeline created by the Seventh Doctor and Ace's capture atColditz in1944, the Nazis captured the Doctor's TARDIS in1962, shooting the Doctor when he emerged from the ship at a checkpoint. Theregenerated Doctor manipulated Nazi scientistElizabeth Klein, who was studying the TARDIS, into using the ship to travel back to 1944, having pre-programmed it to abandon her upon taking her there. (AUDIO:Klein's Story[+]Loading...["Klein's Story (audio story)"])
In an alternate timeline created by Elizabeth Klein repeatedly changing history, the Doctor was sent to stop her by the Time Lords in a TARDIS which was capable of erasing her from history. This TARDIS had black walls and low lighting and was able to disguise itself using aperception filter. (AUDIO:The Architects of History[+]Loading...["The Architects of History (audio story)"])
ANinth Doctor, who was a possible future of theEighth Doctor, (PROSE:The Tomorrow Windows[+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"]) travelled in the TARDIS withthe Master who by that point inhabited an android body. His TARDIS' control console was round with panels set around it with mostly brass-like controls. There was a large section of technology set atop the central column that, whilst dematerialising, moved up and down. Additionally there was aZeppelin hangar, in which the Master would occasionally leave the Doctor's umbrella stand. (WC:Scream of the Shalka[+]Loading...["Scream of the Shalka (webcast)"])
Inthe alternate timeline where the Doctor died onTrenzalore, the TARDIS itself was dying as well, presumably due to the Doctor's death and had grown to a giant size due to a "size leak" and acted as his tomb on the ruined planet. Its console room was overgrown and the console replaced by a bright light that was a scar allowing access to the Doctor'stime stream. It was infiltrated by theGreat Intelligence who subsequently lured theEleventh Doctor andClara Oswald there, using them to access the control room to enter the Doctor's time stream. (TV:The Name of the Doctor[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"])
In a timeline visited bySame andDifferent, theFifth Doctor had perished trying to stop theCybermen inAgrippina Primus. A billioncybermites made for the grieving TARDIS prompting it to deactivate its chameleon circuit. Swelling to its true planetary size, the TARDIS' self-repair systems began fighting against the Cyberman infection. In another timeline, the TARDIS had been possessed by a malevolent hunger, the Doctor rallying anarmy to hunt and destroy the TARDIS, the two mutually slaying one another in the light of a dying sun. Same and Different harvested various pieces of the TARDIS from various timelines to build theirparadox TARDIS only for theThirteenth Doctor to force the machine out of existence. (PROSE:The Paradox Moon[+]Loading...["The Paradox Moon (short story)"])
Parallel universes[[edit] |[edit source]]
In oneparallel universe,the Doctor made to steal aTARDIS but was prevented from actually leaving byQuences. The Doctor lived inside the TARDIS for years, unaware of its true nature, untilSusan helped him overcome Quences' deceptions. He subsequently departed Gallifrey in the ship, (AUDIO:Auld Mortality[+]Loading...["Auld Mortality (audio story)"]) and travelled freely through time and space in it. (AUDIO:A Storm of Angels[+]Loading...["A Storm of Angels (audio story)"])
In theUnbound Universe, theUnbound Doctor also travelled in aTARDIS which became stuck in the shape of a police box. After his trial at the hands of theTime Lords, the TARDIS was fitted with an inhibitor, limiting it to moving only in space, and brought the Doctor to his exile inHong Kong. The Doctor was able to overcome the inhibitor using a nuclear explosion, (AUDIO:Sympathy for the Devil[+]Loading...["Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)"]) and resumed his travels across the universe in the ship, accompanied byAlistair Lethbridge-Stewart. (AUDIO:Masters of War[+]Loading...["Masters of War (audio story)"]) After theGreat War, the Doctor attempted to use the TARDIS to escape toBernice Summerfield's universe, but failed. He and Benny travelled together in the exhausted TARDIS, (AUDIO:The Library in the Body[+]Loading...["The Library in the Body (audio story)"],Planet X[+]Loading...["Planet X (audio story)"],The Emporium at the End[+]Loading...["The Emporium at the End (audio story)"]) eventually using the power of theGreat Old Ones to enable the ship to reach her universe. (AUDIO:The True Saviour of the Universe[+]Loading...["The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)"])
In anotherparallel universe,the Doctor became separated from theTARDIS at theDEEP. Decades later he returned to reclaim it, but was shot and killed before he could retrieve the ship. (AUDIO:Full Fathom Five[+]Loading...["Full Fathom Five (audio story)"])
In oneparallel universe,the Doctor leftthe TARDIS behind in a field after deciding to hide on Earth to escape theTime Lords, removing itsTime Vector Generator. After being caught she was imprisoned in her TARDIS after her sentence was increased due to her escape attempt. She was told that if she attempted to use the controls to escape the ship would dematerialise permanently, erasing her, however a letter from a Time Lord claimed this was not the case and she could escape. The Doctor chose to set the controls, wondering if the letter was actually true. (AUDIO:Exile[+]Loading...["Exile (audio story)"])
Inthe Warrior's universe, a version of the TARDIS was owned by an aberrant version of theSixth Doctor created among the millions of timelines caused bythe Warrior's interference in thecreation of the Daleks. The ship was destroyed trying to escape thetime bullets fired byMiss Brown to kill the aberrant Doctor. (AUDIO:Dust Devil[+]Loading...["Dust Devil (audio story)"])
Unclear[[edit] |[edit source]]
Ina parallel world,Rose Tyler believed that the TARDIS was dying due to the Doctor's death. Indeed, the TARDIS seemed to be in bad shape though it continued to try to help. (TV:Turn Left[+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])
Aliases and nicknames[[edit] |[edit source]]
| Name | When used/given | Story | Etymology |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blue Box | The Fires of Pompeii | ||
| Idris | The name of a humanoid individual who was used as a host for the soul of the TARDIS. | The Doctor's Wife | |
| Sexy | Given by theEleventh Doctor. | The Doctor's Wife | |
| The Ghost Monument | Given by those local toDesolation. | The Ghost Monument | |
| Montgomery Blue Box | Given by historians after it landed inMontgomery,Alabama, in1955. | Alabama's Blue Box,The Lonely Assassins[+]Loading...["The Lonely Assassins (video game)"] | |
| The Leadworth Locker | Given by the people ofLeadworth after it was seen around the village for a few years. | Alabama's Blue Box |
Behind the scenes[[edit] |[edit source]]
- The importance of the TARDIS to theDoctor Who franchise was recognised in late 2009 when the BBC unveiled a new version of theDoctor Who logo which entered service in 2010; the logo incorporates the initials DW formed in the familiar police box shape of the Doctor's TARDIS.
- Although the TARDIS has been a constant presence in the television series since 1963, it has almost always been essentially a mode of conveyance, with the majority of stories taking place away from the vessel. There have been a few exceptions, such asThe Edge of Destruction andTime Crash in which the entire action of a story takes place within the TARDIS.Amy's Choice also falls into this category, although given the illusory nature of the story, much of it was filmed on locations and sets other than the actual TARDIS.The Invasion of Time was the first story to give viewers an extensive tour of the bowels of the TARDIS (other than occasional glimpses of individual rooms); a more modest "tour" occurred inCastrovalva. Viewers also saw new aspects of the TARDIS inthe 1996 TV movie. In the comic strips, several stories have taken place almost entirely within the TARDIS, includingChanges andTesseract. In the television storyThe Doctor's Wife areas were used bythe antagonist to try to trap or kill the occupants; this episode marked the first time since the series had returned to television in 2005 that extensive areas beyond the control and wardrobe rooms were explored on screen. Later,Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS gave an extensive tour of the TARDIS.
- The Doctor's TARDIS appeared in the video gameFallout in a random encounter.
- The Doctor's TARDIS also appeared in the 2013 video gameCall of Duty: Ghosts as a trophy stating "awarded for the largest interior with the smallest exterior."
- The TARDIS has appeared in every televisedDoctor Who story with the exception ofMission to the Unknown,Doctor Who and the Silurians,The Mind of Evil,The Dæmons,The Sea Devils,The Sontaran Experiment,Genesis of the Daleks,Midnight,The Lie of the Land, andThe Woman Who Fell to Earth. A hallucination of the TARDIS interior appears inHeaven Sent, but not the actual TARDIS.
- The characteristic wheezing noise of the dematerialising TARDIS is made by scraping a key against a piano wire.
- The TARDIS makes a brief cameo inChelmsford 123 when it materialises in the background; the Doctor exits to have a look around before reentering the TARDIS and dematerialising.
- The TARDIS cameos inThe Legend of Dick and Dom: when Dick & Dom are travelling through the mists of time, the TARDIS is seen in the background.
- The TARDIS cameos inIron Sky: while the Moon Nazis' ships approach Earth, it is seen flying by quickly.
- In a deleted scene fromJourney's End, the Doctor gives theMeta-Crisis Tenth Doctor a chunk of TARDIS while Donna tells them a fast way of growing one.
- Neil Gaiman, writer ofThe Doctor's Wife, writing inThe Brilliant Book 2012, indicated that Idris/the TARDIS was at one point also scripted to remark that it chose to remain in the police box form, not because of a broken chameleon circuit, but because the Doctor liked it. It also was to have qualified it calling Rory "pretty" and Amy as "the orangey girl" by stating it rarely remembered the names of the Doctor's companions.
- Suranne Jones' performance as the TARDIS inThe Doctor's Wife marks one of only a handful of occasions that an actor has portrayed an actual vessel and its consciousness. Prior to this episode,Nicholas Courtney portrayed the TARDIS infected byanti-time and acting of its own free will in the form of BrigadierLethbridge-Stewart inAUDIO:Zagreus. The TARDIS' interface, which allows limited direct communication, later allowed two other actresses to portray an aspect of the TARDIS:Caitlin Blackwood inTV:Let's Kill Hitler as the interface takes the form of youngAmelia Pond; andJenna Coleman inTV:Hide as the interface takes the form ofClara Oswald.
- The scene in the TV storyTerror of the Autons where the Third Doctor mentions his TARDIS' and the Master's TARDIS' models of dematerialisation circuits turns out differently in the novelisationDoctor Who and the Terror of the Autons. In the novelisation, the Doctor specifies his TARDIS as "one of the original Mark One's [sic]", while the Master's TARDIS is "one of these flashy Mark Two jobs", and that this is the reason why the two circuits are not interchangeable.
- The TARDIS is both an ally and an enemy in theDoctor Who: Legacy mobile game. In addition, a special Doctor-like ally called "A Mad Man with a Box", which has an appearance of the TARDIS was created for one of the anniversaries of the game.
- In the online game Wizard101, a special event (known as the "Five B.O.X.E.S.") featuresDoctor Who themes: it revolves around players assisting a character known as "The Professor" (a parody of "The Doctor"), who owns the "B.O.X." (a red-coloured TARDIS, disguised as a 'Telegraph Box'), with combating a villain called "The Maestro" (a parody of "The Master"), who seeks to disrupt the present by changing the past.
- In older episodes ofDoctor Who, especially from the First Doctor's era, characters often refer to the TARDIS as just "TARDIS" without "the," as if it is a proper noun, such as "Use TARDIS" and "TARDIS is." Often, even within the same episodes, other characters say "the TARDIS."
Footnotes[[edit] |[edit source]]
External links[[edit] |[edit source]]
- The TARDIS attheFaction Paradox wiki
- The Mind Robber - The Sound of the TARDIS: A History
- TARDIS The TARDIS attheDoctor Who Legacy wiki
- Mad Man with a Box A Mad Man with a Box attheDoctor Who Legacy wiki
- TARDIS at theLEGO Dimensions Wiki
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