"Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS is a one-off, 50-minute television documentary, broadcast to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"". It was originally transmitted on Monday 29 November 1993, on BBC One (BBC Two in Scotland). The programme was the first BBC-produced, in-depth documentary chronicling ""Doctor Who"" since the earlier ""Whose Doctor Who"" was broadcast in April 1977, although a thirty-minute, categorized compilation of archive clips had been broadcast in 1992 on BBC2 entitled ""Resistance is Useless"". The show featured many clips from episodes of the show transmitted"
"TARDIS after its engines become damaged by the salvage crew's beam. The episode was watched by 6.5 million viewers in the United Kingdom and received mixed to positive reviews. The TARDIS is caught by the magnetic tractor beam of a space salvage ship, damaging it. Clara pleads with the Doctor to fix it, but he claims there is no ""big friendly button"" that can fix everything. Clara spots a strange egg-like device roll across the floor and tries to grab it but burns her hand. The ship jolts and the two are thrown into darkness. The Doctor awakes to find"
"for their spaceship at a point in her life they believe her to be compatible with the ship. The programme's executive producer Russell T Davies, who conceived the idea while researching for ""Casanova"", described the episode as a love story for the show's protagonist the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant). The episode was filmed in England and Wales in October 2005. It was well received by most critics, was nominated for a Nebula Award and won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. The TARDIS materialises on a seemingly derelict spaceship drifting in space in the 51st century."
"the TARDIS seen most often in the show stuck as a police box, except for a brief period in one adventure seen in 1985. ""Doctor Who"" was originally transmitted from 1963 to 1989; as police boxes were phased out in the 1970s, over time the image of the blue police box became associated as much with ""Doctor Who"" as with the police. In 1996, the BBC applied for a trademark to use the blue police box design in merchandising associated with ""Doctor Who"". In 1998, the Metropolitan Police filed an objection to the trademark claim, maintaining that they owned the"
"the TARDIS, a fictional spacecraft used in the popular science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", as well as American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson. The track then tones down in intensity to a piano riff, and eventually finishing with a Harp solo by Welsh musician Rhodri Davies. At just over 11 minutes long at extended length, it is the longest track on the album ""Every Day"". John Bush of the online music guide service AllMusic describes the track as a ""magisterial , spoken-word quasi-autobiography."" Paul Cooper of ""Pitchfork"" said the song is ""contemplative, doubting, restless. For the performance of his career, Roots"
"TARDIS exterior was also shrunk to the size of a dollhouse in the serial ""Logopolis"" (1981), with the Fourth Doctor trapped inside. The read through for ""Flatline"" took place on 19 May 2014. Filming began soon afterwards, on 28 May, and concluded on 18 June 2014. Overnight viewing figures were estimated at 4.6 million. The episode was watched by a total of 6.71 million viewers. In the US, this episode was seen by 0.75 million viewers. It also received an AI of 85, considered excellent. The episode received positive reviews, with many praising Mathieson's script, Coleman's performance and the uniquely"
"ship TARDIS in a junkyard in contemporary London. The remaining episodes are set amid a power struggle between warring Stone Age factions who have lost the secret of making fire. The show was created to fill a gap between children's and young adult programming. Canadian producer Sydney Newman was tasked with creating the show, with heavy contributions from Donald Wilson and C. E. Webber. Newman conceived the idea of the TARDIS, as well as the central character of the Doctor. Production was led by Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer, and the serial was directed by Waris Hussein. Following"
"his TARDIS, where he will soon forget having met his future self. The Master returns in the eighth series in a new female incarnation called ""Missy"" (Michelle Gomez), which is short for ""Mistress"". The Master's return is seeded in the series 7 episode ""The Bells of Saint John"" (2013), when a ""woman in the shop"" brings Clara Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman) and the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) together by giving Clara the telephone number to the Doctor's TARDIS. This plot thread is picked up on again in ""Deep Breath"" (2014); the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara realise that a woman"
"the TARDIS, the remainder of the story largely follows the events of ""The Daleks"". In the spin-off movie ""Dr. Who and the Daleks"" (1965), Barbara is either Susan's older sister or cousin, and the granddaughter of the eccentric human scientist Dr. Who, with Ian Chesterton being her boyfriend. In ""Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D."" (1966) Barbara is replaced by Louise, who serves much the same role. No mention is made as to the fate of Barbara. In issue #456 of ""The Doctor Who Magazine"", the Eleventh Doctor investigates strange psychic metal and finds Ian and Barbara inside, who believe they"
"in 1963, no one could have predicted that the programme's popularity would ensure its survival for twenty-eight record-breaking years. In that first story we learnt only that the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan had left their home planet, under something of a cloud, in a remarkable time-travelling craft called the TARDIS that looked — at least on the outside — like a police telephone box. The Doctor and the TARDIS have remained the constant elements in a television saga that has seen many changes over the decades. As the years passed we learnt more and more about the Doctor's background,"
"and featured a makeshift TARDIS control room which was the design from a winner of a contest on the children's programme ""Blue Peter"". The episode was seen by 7.97 million viewers in the UK and was met with positive reviews from critics. The episode won the 2011 Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. The Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams follow a distress call with the identification of the Time Lord the Corsair to an asteroid outside the universe. After landing in a junkyard, the TARDIS shuts down"
"TARDIS in flight before declaring ""I don't want to go"" and then regenerates, causing an explosion that destroys the control room. The Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) inspects his new body before realising he is crashing. He screams ""Geronimo!"" as the TARDIS hurtles back to Earth. At the start of ""Part One"" the Doctor explains his delay to Ood Sigma. Among his various adventures, he mentions having married ""Good Queen Bess"" and refers to her nickname, 'The Virgin Queen'. At the end of ""The Shakespeare Code"" Queen Elizabeth appears infuriated at seeing The Doctor, calling him her sworn enemy; he does"
"in his costume in his trailer with the word ""space"". The picture was immediately removed. The episode first aired in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 27 April 2013. Overnight ratings showed that 4.9 million viewers watched the episode live. When final ratings were calculated, the figure rose to 6.5 million, the seventh most-watched programme of the week on BBC One. In addition, ""Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"" received 1.19 million requests on the online BBC iPlayer for the four days it was available in the month of April, making it the tenth most-watched programme on the"
"of actor Nicholas Courtney as Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, subsequently better known as the Brigadier, and acts as a precursor to the numerous later serials involving the UNIT organisation. Currently, five of the six episodes are held in the BBC Archives. For four decades only episode 1 of the story survived in the BBC Archives, the others being presumed lost. Episodes 2, 4, 5, and 6 were recovered from Nigeria in 2013, however, leaving only episode 3 missing. Following events at the end of ""The Enemy of the World"", Jamie manages to close the TARDIS' doors, stabilising its flight. The TARDIS"
"episodes in 2017, ""The Doctor Falls"" and the Christmas special, ""Twice Upon a Time"", portrayed by David Bradley. The Doctor is a mysterious character and little is known about him except that he has a granddaughter, Susan Foreman, and that they come from another time and place. He has a ship that travels through time and space, the TARDIS, which is currently disguised as a police box (Susan notes that it used to be able to change to blend in with its surroundings), and is bigger on the inside. The Doctor describes himself and Susan as ""exiles"" without specifying why"
"late 1990s to bring the show back. The first series comprised 13 episodes, eight of which Davies wrote. Davies, Julie Gardner and Mal Young served as executive producers, Phil Collinson as producer. The show depicts the adventures of a mysterious and eccentric Time Lord known as the Doctor, who travels through time and space in his time machine, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s British police box. With his companions, he explores time and space, faces a variety of foes and saves civilizations, helping people and righting wrongs. The first series features Christopher"
"the whole of reality begins to disintegrate… The Axis of Insanity The Axis of Insanity is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". The TARDIS, along with its crew of the Doctor, Peri and Erimem, lands at the Axis, a mysterious realm where the Time Lords keep broken timelines, splitting them off from the rest of the universe, so as not to affect the rest of the space-time continuum. However, experiments in one of these timelines is causing the others to fracture, and the Axis's Overseer has just been replaced"
"The Axis of Insanity The Axis of Insanity is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". The TARDIS, along with its crew of the Doctor, Peri and Erimem, lands at the Axis, a mysterious realm where the Time Lords keep broken timelines, splitting them off from the rest of the universe, so as not to affect the rest of the space-time continuum. However, experiments in one of these timelines is causing the others to fracture, and the Axis's Overseer has just been replaced by The Jester in a coup. Soon,"
"and space in his TARDIS, which is disguised as a British police box. It also stars Jenna Coleman as the Doctor's companion, Clara Oswald, for her third and final series in the role. Also playing a major recurring role in the series is Maisie Williams as Ashildr, a Viking girl made immortal by the Doctor, which leads to major events resulting of her encounters with the Doctor. The series' main story arc revolves around the mystery of a being called the Hybrid, the combination of two great warrior races. The Hybrid is alluded to with the appearance of many other"
"is shut down depart on their own to explore the universe. The 28 October 2006 ""Radio Times"", in an image of the Torchwood Three headquarters, identified a piece of large coral on Captain Jack Harkness' desk as the beginnings of a TARDIS. John Barrowman, who plays Jack, said that ""Jack's growing a TARDIS... It's probably been there for 30 years. I suppose in 500 years he'll be able to begin the carving process"". In the 2008 Christmas Special, ""The Next Doctor"", Jackson Lake (David Morrissey), while under the delusion that he is the Doctor, has a blue gas balloon which"
"TARDIS vanish, they agree to keep the story quiet, so as not to look like fools. On board the TARDIS, the crew enjoy a good laugh over their escape. As the TARDIS prepares to land, the power fails and all the interior lights dim. The crew freeze into immobility. Copies of the four episodes were believed lost in the mass deletion of episode recordings in the 1970s, with BBC Enterprises deleting their copies. The BBC Film Library retained a copy of ""The Wheel of Fortune"" that it had accidentally acquired, but a copy of ""The Lion"" had been junked from"
"TARDIS and is embedded in its door. The arrow remains in the door throughout the serial and through several dematerialisations before being removed at the story's conclusion; this is repeated in ""The Shakespeare Code"" (2007), and the arrow is removed in the following episode, ""Gridlock"". ""Utopia"" presents, for the first time on-screen, a circumstance in which a character travels on the exterior of the TARDIS during a flight, when Jack Harkness grabs hold of the TARDIS as it began to dematerialise and holds on until it reaches its destination; the episode does establish, however, that a normal person would not"
"TARDIS opens with Donna waiting inside. He snaps his fingers to close it as we see River in the Earth simulation reading her diary to her children. According to Steven Moffat, the squareness gun used by Professor River Song to help the party escape from the impending Vashta Nerada at the beginning of the episode is intended to be the same sonic blaster that was used by Jack Harkness in the episode ""The Doctor Dances"". Moffat suggests that it was left in the TARDIS after ""The Parting of the Ways"", and taken by River Song in the Doctor's future. The"
"Tegan and Nyssa find the TARDIS stuck in the warp ellipse of a starliner trapped in time. Materialising aboard, they find a transmat device, with separate endpoints to Earth in 1977 and 1983, is creating the interference. Turlough arrives from the 1983 transmat, feigning lack of comprehension of the situation. The Doctor instructs Nyssa and Tegan to stay aboard the TARDIS while he returns with Turlough to 1983 to fix that transmat point, hoping it will allow the TARDIS to escape. Instead, the TARDIS materialises in 1977 at Turlough's school. Suspecting that UNIT would know its whereabouts, the Doctor visits"
"the BBC had been selling merchandise based on the image for over three decades without complaint by the police. The Patent Office issued a ruling in favour of the BBC in 2002. TARDISes are grown, as stated by the Tenth Doctor in ""The Impossible Planet"" (2006), and new TARDISes cannot be grown to replace a missing TARDIS unless the Doctor is on his home planet, Gallifrey. They draw their power from several sources, but primarily from the Eye of Harmony, said to be the nucleus of a black hole created by the early Time Lords; a singularity. In ""The Edge"
"Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS ""Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"" is the tenth episode of the seventh series of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was first broadcast on 27 April 2013 on BBC One and was written by Stephen Thompson and directed by Mat King. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) forces a salvage crew (played by Ashley Walters, Mark Oliver, and Jahvel Hall) to rescue the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman), who is lost in the depths of the sentient spaceship and time machine the"
"is revealed that she and her grandfather, the Doctor (William Hartnell), are exiles from their own people in ""another time, another world"" and have been travelling through space and time in a machine she named the TARDIS from the acronym ""Time and Relative Dimension in Space"". As Ian and Barbara have gained this knowledge, the Doctor whisks them away on the TARDIS against their will, and he cannot accurately fly the machine. Through the run of the series, it is learned the Doctor, aided by Susan, stole the TARDIS. Susan continues to travel with the Doctor and her two teachers"
"turns out to have in fact been the TARDIS herself, rather than the Doctor (""Let's Kill Hitler"", 2011). In ""Journey's End"" (2008), the TARDIS is shown to ideally require six pilots positioned at various stations around the central console to be piloted properly. On that occasion, the six pilots were Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith, Jack Harkness, and the Doctor. However, the ending of the 2011 episode ""The Doctor's Wife"" reveals that the TARDIS is actually capable of manipulating the controls herself (which is consistent with stories in which the TARDIS is summoned or otherwise travels"
"were obviously the same sets as were used for the Doctor's TARDIS, slightly redressed. The TARDIS interior was completely redesigned again for the 1996 ""Doctor Who"" TV movie, and the new series that began broadcasting in 2005. Even then the central console was retained, and the new television series includes the geometric patterns on the walls. In 2013 the BBC produced a docudrama called ""An Adventure in Space and Time"", depicting the creation and early days of ""Doctor Who"", as part of the programme's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. Brachacki appears as a character in the drama, played by actor David Annen."
"a portmanteau of the words TARDIS and ""episode"". The first Tardisode, a prequel to ""New Earth"", was released by the BBC on 1 April 2006; it was promoted in the accompanying children's series ""Totally Doctor Who"". New Tardisodes were released a week before each episode aired, directly after a new episode had finished airing on BBC 1. They were created by the same team that produced the interactive ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Attack of the Graske"" in 2005. The Tardisodes were advertised on BBC 1. In the advert, the TARDIS is shown to be on an ice sheet. This imagery is"
"the TARDIS and reunite it with its other half in the future. This also stabilizes the Great Divide and allows Jared Khan, a Charrel agent, to attempt to use the Great Divide to give him immortality. The TARDIS time rams its other half and sends it and Khan back to Siberia 1908, where it explodes, causing the Tunguska event. In the far future, Ace and Benny are aided by Muldwych, a mysterious hermit and former ally of the Charrl. He uses the TARDIS to entrap the Charrl inside one its interior dimensions, then sweeps the Great Divide over London, clearing"
"statement that the TARDIS actively dislikes her is intercut with footage of its circular connectors spinning from the ceiling. For the eighth series, Peter Capaldi's first as the Doctor, this console was still used but was tweaked and altered slightly, including the addition of a blackboard and bookshelves and the time rotor was changed to an orange colour replacing the blue. A previously unseen version of the console room made an appearance in ""The Day of the Doctor"" (2013) and is associated with the War Doctor, portrayed by John Hurt. This console room has walls that are similar in design"
"At the conclusion of the 2015 episode ""Face the Raven"", Rigsy decorates the TARDIS with painted flowers and a chalk drawing of Clara Oswald; when the Doctor dematerialises the retrieved TARDIS at the conclusion of ""Hell Bent"" (2015), the painted flowers and picture remain for a moment before the picture blows away and the flowers flake and fall to the ground. The Time Lords are able to divert the TARDIS' flight path during ""The Ribos Operation"" (1978), or have the ability to totally override and recall any TARDIS by the order of the Council in ""Arc of Infinity"" (1983). Alien"