The Time Lord nicked it as an old man, living a boring life on Gallifrey, then set out on the most incredible adventure of all time. And the rest is history! These crime-busting kiosks were a common sight in a time when there were no mobile phones or two-way radios. The built-in telephone in the door allowed both ordinary people and police to get in touch with the nearest station, and the inside provided a refuge for officers. It had a magnificent, hexagonal control console, originally designed to be flown by six pilots.
At the centre of this is the dazzling time rotor, which moves up and down when the ship is in flight. Everything was bright and gleaming, and the controls were a mix of knobs, levers and dials. He tried everything to fix it — even dragging the central console out into his laboratory to tinker with. TV : Cold Blood. It had a drawing room , as well, which the Eleventh Doctor claimed to be his "private study".
Inside it were mementos of his many incarnations' travels. There was a sun room with a sun lounger. There was a green door near the drawing room, which the Eleventh Doctor told Amy not to go through. 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. Several LEGO buildings were scattered around the room. The Fourth Doctor had an entire room filled with scarves to choose from, according to River's diary.
GAME : The Eternity Clock There was apparently enough multicoloured scarves to fill up two rooms with boxes of them once the Doctor regenerated and lost interest in them. The box-room was a storage space. 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, and Storeroom was where thousands of sacks were kept.
Some could still be found in the wardrobes. It had a workroom filled with tools of various shapes and sizes and a back wall with several coils of wire, though not in an organised state.
It was here that the freshly regenerated Fifth Doctor chose his outfit. TV : Castrovalva The Doctor and Nyssa found a wine cellar here whilst looking for the ancillary power cell. There were multiple starboard passenger compartments, one of which the Tenth Doctor used as a dry ski slope. There were water slides and boating lakes , as well as a rainforest , located somewhere in the TARDIS, while a set of karaoke buses were, to the Thirteenth Doctor's knowledge, just before the wardrobe in a lower substrata of the interior.
TV : The Brain of Morbius. 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.
TV : Twice Upon a Time. TV : The Big Bang. The Fourth Doctor installed a randomiser in the navigational sub-systems to prevent the Black Guardian from finding him. It was eventually removed, and ended up being left behind on Argolis. TV : Planet of Fire. According to one account, each of the six panels controlled discrete functions. The mechanical panel contained the engine release lever, door release lever, gyroscopic stabiliser, locking down mechanism described as a physical handbrake and the TARDIS display dials.
This device was called a zigzag plotter. TV : Let's Kill Hitler Later, the Twelfth Doctor wouldn't try lying to Journey Blue , who was aiming a gun at him; however, he instead convinced her to politely ask for a lift. PROSE : Iceberg In emergencies it would lock onto the nearest planet with a breathable atmosphere and bearable climate. TV : Voyage of the Damned This ability either didn't always exist or didn't always function, as when it fell out of Ambassador Zixlyr 's spaceship, the TARDIS remained indefinitely adrift in orbit around Peladon until it was boarded again.
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 : Blink However, the Doctor explained that the occupants would have to hold on to the console to avoid being left behind. TV : Kill the Moon 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.
This was used by Lucie Miller. TV : Voyage of the Damned After more extensive damage, a complete rebuilding could take place, changing the interior and exterior appearances. TV : The Eleventh Hour.
In the event of a crash-landing, such as when the TARDIS crashed into a parallel world , oxygen gas masks were deployed as a safety measure. TV : Rise of the Cybermen. This particular program locked the control room in a time loop to protect any occupant. Beyond the chameleon 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.
TV : The Witch's Familiar. 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. Prior to the Last Great Time War and following from the time of the Doctor's eleventh incarnation , the TARDIS had a generator that created force 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 to anti-matter , TV : The Three Doctors and could protect individuals within it from the vacuum of space. TV : The Runaway Bride The Doctor would make use of the extrapolator through his tenth incarnation 's life, but later regained the use of a force field generator in his eleventh incarnation.
It was activated by pulling a lever on the underside of the console. However, it took a while for the ship to fully reconstitute itself from this defence procedure. 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 of Vashta Nerada that had devoured Roxita after they were accidentally brought into the TARDIS inside his gun, the Eighth Doctor dematerialised the craft around them, leaving them to be purged in the Time Vortex. After they caused a paradox by killing the Eighth Doctor , the TARDIS fought back against two Rakilians by trapping them in two time periods at the same time; a fate Helen Sinclair thought was horrible.
PROSE And Eternity in an Hour. When the TARDIS 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 Falls. TV : The Impossible Astronaut. The missile damaged the ship's visual stabiliser , causing it to become invisible when it materialised again on Earth.
The Doctor fixed the offending circuit after he and his companions spent two minutes to remember where they had landed. TV : The Invasion. TV : Day of the Moon. TV : The Enemy of the World. 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 a temporal paradox.
TV : The Doctor's Daughter. The Doctor made modifications and additions from time to time. TV : Blink. The Tenth Doctor did this once to prevent the Master from taking it. TV : The End of Time. It had stabilisers activated by blue buttons. These were used by River Song. The Eleventh Doctor said that they made the journey boring, calling them "blue boring-ers". TV : The Time of Angels. TV : The Impossible Astronaut 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. 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.
The Eleventh Doctor also said once that the console had buttons for ketchup and mustard. TV : Vincent and the Doctor. TV : The Lodger. TV : The Pandorica Opens. TV : Let's Kill Hitler. The TARDIS could alter the environment within its rooms and even fast-forward time within itself or at least create the illusion of time passing.
TV : The Almost People. It could assume the form of a known individual. TV : Let's Kill Hitler The interface could also be projected outside the ship and is known to have interacted with at least one companion.
TV : Hide. This was used to get rid of gases in the control room. It could be activated by voice command or from the console. Some sort of drainage system existed which quickly removed water from the console room to prevent flooding. However, the Third 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. The Master took advantage of this in one of this schemes. For the Doctor and her friends it is home, it is a safe port of call from monsters and cracks in time and the combined hordes of Genghis Khan. In many ways it is the most mysterious part of Doctor Who lore. After all, every other mystery in the universe is one the Doctor quickly sets about trying to solve- even those about herself. Ad — content continues below.
This has been a long-term problem for the Doctor. When the TARDIS teleported backwards through time, however, the Doctor and his granddaughter were confused to see it was still the same shape.
It has stayed that way ever since, despite some attempts to repair it, and we largely get the sense from the Doctor these days that she prefers the TARDIS that way. One theory has been presented in the 50 th anniversary comic story in Doctor Who Magazine. A police telephone box… stands out a bit? Home Explore the BBC. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving.
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