Editing The Doctor's TARDIS

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|image       = TARDISfromAUC.jpg
|name = The Doctor's TARDIS
|type        = [[Type 40]] [[TARDIS]]<!--Please do not insert the term "Mark 1" or "Mark 3" here. There's no question of it being a Type 40; but obviously Let's Kill Hitler and The Time Meddler directly contradict each other. Keep the controversy outta the infobox, please.-->
|origin      = [[Gallifrey]]
|first=  An Unearthly Child (TV story)
|alias = Dear, Sexy, Old Girl, the Ship, Dear Old Thing}}
'''The Doctor's TARDIS''' — sometimes called '''the Ship''' by the [[First Doctor]], and most often known simply as '''the TARDIS''' ('''T'''ime '''A'''nd '''R'''elative '''D'''imension(s) '''I'''n '''S'''pace) — was [[the Doctor]]'s primary means of transport. It was capable of travelling through [[space]] and [[time]]. The Doctor voyaged in his vessel from the [[Big Bang]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Slipback]]'') to the end of the universe in the year [[100000000000000|100 trillion]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')

Other [[Time Lord]]s frequently characterised the Doctor's TARDIS as woefully out-of-date. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'')  Indeed, by at least the time of the Doctor's [[fourth incarnation]], if not much earlier, the model — called a "[[Type 40]]" — had been pulled from general service on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') 

The craft was prone to a number of technical faults, ranging from depleted resources  ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]'') to malfunctioning controls ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'') to a simple inability to arrive at the proper time or location. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'' 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's free will. Indeed, the TARDIS herself once told the [[Eleventh Doctor]] that she may not have always taken him where he ''wanted'' to go, she did take him where he ''needed'' to be.  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')  
== Procurement ==
In his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]], the Doctor implied he had built his TARDIS himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]'') Whether there was some truth to this or not, he and others later stated that he had, in fact, stolen it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' et. al.) The TARDIS was once owned by the [[Time Lord]], [[Marnal]], and due to his exile at the time of the Doctor's procurement of the TARDIS, he claimed that the Doctor stole it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') Other accounts differ to this, and implied it came from the general, [[High Council of Time Lords|government]]-controlled "stockpile" of TARDISes after the model had been officially decommissioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] told [[Adric]] that "it was in for repairs on Gallifrey when [he] borrowed it". When the [[Alzarian]] countered that he thought the Doctor outright owned the vehicle, the Doctor said, "Well, on sort of 'finders, keepers' basis, yes." ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')

When the Doctor first decided to leave Gallifrey, he had the chance to take a Type 53, but dismissed it as "soulless" in favour of the Type 40. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') The TARDIS herself said she was "a museum piece", though this may have been figurative. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')

None of these accounts precluded the possibility that he 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]]'')

This notion of the Doctor bypassing a mental link with the TARDIS was muddled by other accounts that showed him having a significant mental link with the TARDIS. For instance, the TARDIS assisted him with his first [[regeneration]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') and triggered a physical response in him when it was near destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'') 

These accounts notwithstanding, the most direct commentary on the Doctor's acquisition of the TARDIS came from the TARDIS herself. When [[House]] transferred the soul of the TARDIS into [[Idris]], the TARDIS gave her 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 had stolen her, denying the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s attempt to characterise the action as "borrowing". She also stated that ''she'' had stolen ''him'', and had no intention of ever giving him back. She was unlocked and had deliberately let him steal her because she wanted to explore the [[universe]] and sensed he would be an ideal match. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') According to the TARDIS, the Doctor's first words to her, some seven hundred years before, were: {{quote|You are the most beautiful thing I've ever known . . .|[[First Doctor]]|The Doctor's Wife}}

== Model and type ==
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. [[The Monk]] claimed to have a Mark IV TARDIS, while the Doctor had a Mark I. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler]]'') The [[dematerialisation circuit]] of [[the Master's TARDIS]] was a Mark II, compared to the Doctor's Mark I. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') However, it was unclear whether this meant that {{Delgado}}'s TARDIS, as a whole, was a Mark II. When the ''[[Teselecta]]'' scanned the Doctor's TARDIS, its records stated the timeship was a ''[[Type 40]], Mark 3.'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

During a visit by the [[Fourth Doctor]] to [[Gallifrey]], 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 the [[Castellan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') This designation was used with greater frequency afterward. It was even used by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as an excuse to [[Winston Churchill]] for his tardy response to [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]'s summons. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') When the TARDIS had the opportunity to speak to the Eleventh Doctor in the body of [[Idris]], she called herself a "Type 40" without any qualification. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')

The Eleventh Doctor appeared to know his TARDIS' date of manufacture, as one chronicle indicated that he celebrated "her birthday". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'')

== Exterior ==
[[File:The_doctor's_TARDIS_leaves_for_the_first_time.jpg|thumb|left|The TARDIS leaves Gallifrey for the first time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'')]]
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 and the Rani]]'', ''[[Time-Flight]]'')

The Doctor's TARDIS would have had both abilities, were the chameleon circuit operational. Before he met [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], the [[First Doctor]] had landed on [[Iwa]], where the TARDIS had posed as a boulder in that [[planet]]'s [[desert]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Frayed]]'') On [[Quinnis]], 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 (audio story)|Quinnis]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] showed [[Adric]] how the TARDIS could be changed to the shape of an [[Egypt]]ian [[pyramid]], implying he could override the chameleon circuit's "automatic" functionality. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')

In any case, the defining characteristic of the Doctor's TARDIS was that its chameleon circuit had broken after assuming the shape of a [[police box]] in [[1963]] [[London]]. It had been working until it landed in [[I.M. Foreman]]'s [[76 Totter's Lane|junkyard]]. [[Susan Foreman|The Doctor's granddaughter]] said the TARDIS had previously appeared as a [[sedan chair]] and an [[ionic column]]. The Doctor and she expressed surprise that it had not changed form when they arrived at a new destination. ([[TV]]: "[[The Cave of Skulls]]")

By his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh self]], the Doctor was telling his [[companion]]s that the chameleon circuit ''was'' working, but due to a fault, invariably assumed its customary police box shape: {{quote|It’s camouflaged. It’s disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first ''nanosecond'' 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 best blend in with the environment.... and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.|Eleventh Doctor|Meanwhile in the TARDIS}}

Despite this apparent disdain and an aborted attempt to repair the chameleon circuit ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''), by the time of his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]] the Doctor had grown fond of the police box disguise. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'')

[[File:TardisTargetDeath.jpg|thumb|Daleks became so familiar with the TARDIS' police box exterior that they used it for target practice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'')]]
Friends and enemies could identify the TARDIS by its unvarying shape. The [[Dalek]]s even used miniature copies of the TARDIS for target practice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'') The [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] recognised it ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]''), as did the [[Black Guardian]]'s operative known as [[the Shadow]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] also recognised it, which led to her reunion with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]; ''[[School Reunion]]'') [[Donna Noble]] was also on the look-out for the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'')

On one occasion, an actual police box — namely, the last of its kind, which was situated on the [[Barnet]] by-pass — scared a group of [[alien invasion|invading aliens]] away from Earth when they mistook it for the Doctor's ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Useless Things]]'')  [[Madge Arwell]] confused a normal police box for the TARDIS while helping the [[Eleventh Doctor]] find the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')

Captain [[Jack Harkness]] was on the look-out for "a version of" the police box throughout the [[20th century|20th]] and early [[21st century|21st centuries]] to avoid meeting the Doctor before their initial meeting. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Members of [[LINDA]] also knew of the outer shape of the Doctor's TARDIS, as did the [[Abzorbaloff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')

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, he forewent changing how the TARDIS' outer shell looked by his ninth incarnation, deciding that he liked it.

:''These attempts are chronicled at [[chameleon circuit]].''

=== Door ===
Generally, the TARDIS had two doors along one of the craft's four sides. They could open inward and outward. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') The right-hand door had a lock. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'', ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'' and many others) On the left-hand door was a panel in which was a replica of a [[telephone]] used in real [[police box]]es to summon the [[police]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') A sign on this small door offered instructions on use of the phone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') 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 the [[First Doctor]] sometimes opened them.  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]])
[[File:TARDISat60Fathoms.jpg|thumb|The [[Second Doctor]] enters the TARDIS via the roof. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'')]]
There were exceptions to all these statements.
* The [[Second Doctor]] once entered through the ''top'' of the TARDIS, by lifting a panel on which the roof lamp rested. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'') He 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]]'')
* The lock was sometimes on the left-hand door, even though normal entry was still through the right. ([[TV]]: most [[serial]]s prior to ''[[The War Machines]]'')
* The left-hand door was sometimes used for egress and the right-hand one stayed in a fixed position. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
* Sometimes both doors could be pushed ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', ''[[Father's Day]]'') or pulled open. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'')
* The windows on the doors and around the exterior could be opened, at least during the First Doctor's tenure. ([[TV]]: "[[World's End]]", "[[Desperate Measures]]", "[[The Centre]]")
* The emergency phone was sometimes on the right-hand panel while the Second Doctor inhabited the TARDIS, but by the time of his adventure on [[Dulkis]], it had returned to the left-hand door. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators]]'')
* During the Doctor's first incarnation, a faded [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_Ambulance St Johns Ambulance] logo could be seen on the door, even though it was sometimes barely visible under a layer of paint. During his second incarnation, it was not present. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators]]'' onwards) When the TARDIS regenerated itself at the start of his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], a new St John sticker appeared on the door. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
* 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 read [[Bad Wolf meme|BAD WOLF]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'') When the TARDIS "regenerated" consequent to the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s regeneration, this sign became backlit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' onwards)
* By the time he was going to have the [[chameleon circuit]] repaired by the [[Logopolitan]]s, the [[Fourth 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]]'')
* At some point prior to arriving to his unexpected death in [[San Francisco]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] affixed a small handle to the right-hand door. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') This handle persisted after the "regeneration" of the TARDIS consequent to the arrival of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' onwards)
* The Eleventh Doctor somehow fixed the TARDIS doors to accommodate his robotic T-Rex companion [[Kevin (When Worlds Collide)|Kevin]], although it was never explained how. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[When Worlds Collide (comic story)|When Worlds Collide]]'')

=== Lock and key ===
==== Operation ====
[[File:HendersonKey.jpg|thumb|left|Dr. [[Henderson (Spearhead from Space)|Henderson]] holding the "Yale lock" [[TARDIS key]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'')]] Entry to the Doctor's TARDIS was usually effected by inserting [[TARDIS key|a 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 (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'', ''[[Blink]]'')

[[Susan Foreman|Susan]] suggested that the key forced the user to insert it precisely or the lock would self-destruct. ([[TV]]: "[[The Survivors (episode)|The Survivors]]") Later, the key was [[isomorphic controls|isomorphic]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'') Use of the key by several people other than the Doctor or those to whom he had given it suggests this isomorphic property had ceased to work. This could also imply the Doctor consent was needed for keys to work properly. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London]], [[42 (TV story)|42]], [[The Poison Sky]]'')

It could be opened with the standard Gallifreyan key for its outdated model. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')

==== Design and features ====
The external design of the key changed over time. It usually appeared to be an ordinary Yale lock key. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', et al) However, it occasionally appeared to have a more ornate, [[Gallifreyan]] motif. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[Ghost Light]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')

The key could be modified to track and locate the TARDIS, allowing the Doctor to find the TARDIS if it was within a hundred years of his position. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'') The key was known to express a link to the TARDIS by glowing or becoming hot to the touch. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')

At one point, the [[Tenth 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 (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also discovered, with the help of [[River Song]] after their adventure in [[the Library]], that the door would open when he snapped his fingers, ([[TV]]:'' [[Forest of the Dead]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon]]'') although this function was not used consistently until the Eleventh Doctor's tenure. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]], [[Day of the Moon]], [[The Doctor's Wife]])

== Interior configuration and appearance ==
[[File:Tardis_rooms.JPG|thumb|The TARDIS had many, many rooms. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'')]]
The TARDIS interior went through occasional metamorphoses, sometimes by choice, sometimes for other reasons, such as the Doctor's own [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Cat-People]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')

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 the [[Architectural Configuration]] system. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] called this changing "the desktop theme". ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'') The TARDIS archived disused (and yet-to-be-used) control room configurations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')

=== Roundels ===
The TARDIS interior walls generally consisted of [[roundel]]s — 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]]'', ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'', ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', ''[[Vengeance on Varos]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Kane's Story (comic story)|Kane's Story]]'') At least one was a [[TARDIS scanner|scanner]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]], [[The Beast Below]]'')

=== Mass ===
The Doctor's TARDIS was said by [[Romana II]] to weigh fifty thousand tonnes in [[Alzarius]]'s gravity. Presumably this was a measure of internal weight since the TARDIS was easily carried by the [[Marshman|Marshmen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]''), just as it had been previously by [[Mongol]]s and [[Greece|Greeks]] using [[horse]]s and carts. ([[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'', ''[[TV]]: [[The Myth Makers]]'') A quarter of this mass was jettisoned for the TARDIS to escape [[Event One]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') One time, when the TARDIS mapped its exterior dimensions onto its interior ones - making it the same size inside as outside - it was larger than [[Gallifrey]], but given that it had been infected by the [[Faction Paradox]] biodata virus at this time, this may have had an impact on its interior configuration. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'')

=== Control room ===
{{Main|TARDIS console room}}
The [[TARDIS console room|control or console room]] of the Doctor's TARDIS was the space in which the operation of the craft was usually effected. It was dominated by a large, hexagonal console, typically in or near the middle of the room. The room held a [[TARDIS scanner|scanner]] 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 the [[real world interface]] at the heart of the [[outer plasmic shell]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Many other accounts demonstrated that the doors were just doors, though the TARDIS was cocooned in a breathable [[atmosphere]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS]]'')

There were many variants of the Doctor's control room. Indeed the Doctor's TARDIS had more than one control room. The TARDIS itself said it had over 30 different versions in storage; being a different kind of temporal being, it could "archive something that hasn't happened." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')

=== Other rooms ===
==== Library ====
There was a library in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks]]'', ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'') Its books included ''[[Brave New World]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wheel of Ice (novel)|The Wheel of Ice]]''), ''[[Jane's Spaceships]]'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks]]''), ''[[Every Gallifreyan Child's Pop-Up Book of Nasty Creatures From Other Dimensions]]'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]''), ''[[The Time Machine]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''), ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS]]'') ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]] (signed first printing, with last page missing), ''[[War and Peace]]'', ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' and ''[[The I-Spy Book of British Birds]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning]]'') The Doctor, at least in his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], tore out the final pages of each book "so the story will never end [for him]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')

The console room also had a library at the end of the Seventh Doctor's life and the start of the Eighth Doctor's. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') By the time the Eleventh Doctor was recovering from regeneration after-effects, the pool fell into it after a crash-landing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')

==== Wardrobe ====
[[File:TARDIS_wardrobe_room.jpg|right|thumb||The wardrobe room used by the Tenth Doctor ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')]] The Doctor kept some of the clothes from his previous [[regeneration]]s, as well as clothing for other people in the TARDIS wardrobe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'', ''[[The Androids of Tara]]'', ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'') Its appearance changed over time, appearing as either a small closet, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'') or a storage room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'')
Some of the clothing was picked up during travels ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]], [[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]], [[The Fires of Pompeii]], [[The Eleventh Hour]]'') or left by ex-companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]], [[Army of Ghosts]], [[Partners in Crime]], [[Space (TV story)|Space]]'') It contained clothing from various times and environments, to suit where and when the TARDIS' occupant(s) found themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'', ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]], ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'', ''[[Planet of the Ood (TV story)|Planet of the Ood]]'', ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'', ''[[The Great Detective (TV story)|The Great Detective]]'') This 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]], [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]], [[Victory of the Daleks]]'') And the Doctor has often availed himself of its selection when attempting to define a style for himself, post-regeneration; ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'', ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') and possibly [[Romana II|Romana]] as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'') The Fifth Doctor, however, discovered his wardrobe in an unidentified anteroom. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')

At least some of the clothes had pockets that were [[Dimensionally transcendental|bigger on the inside]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'') 

When the [[Ninth Doctor]] was in [[19th century]] [[Cardiff]], he gave incredibly long directions to [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] to get to the wardrobe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') By the time of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s date with [[River Song|River]] following the TARDIS' repair, it had changed location. The directions he gave River were considerably shorter. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[First Night (TV story)|First Night]]'')

==== Cloister bell/room ====
[[File:736px-Eyeofharmony.jpg|thumb|left|The cloister chamber. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
The cloister Room was related to the [[Cloister Bell]], which sounded when disaster was imminent.  The room appeared to be a garden with benches on the sides of the room and plants decorating the pillars. The [[Fourth Doctor]] visited this room with [[Adric]] shortly before his [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') 

The [[Fifth Doctor]] used to hide from [[Tegan Jovanka]] in the Cloister Room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home (audio story)|No Place Like Home]]'')

[[Ace]] attempted to relax in the Cloister Room, but gave up when the bell would not stop ringing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') 

When the TARDIS interior went through a metamorphosis, the Cloister room became a grand and gothic room with an interface with the [[Eye of Harmony]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')

==== Holding ring ====
The holding ring was a storage area of the TARDIS which let the Doctor preserve certain rooms. When [[Lucie Miller|Lucie]], [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and [[Alex Campbell|Alex]] investigated it, the ring contained the rooms of many of his former [[companion]]s, preserved as they had been the last time the companion were in the TARDIS. The rooms were saved in chronological order, suggesting that Susan was indeed the Doctor's first companion. Susan later teased [[Eighth Doctor|her 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 on [[Earth]], 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". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions]]'') 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 she states, "for neatness" is unclear. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')

==== Swimming pool ====
The TARDIS had a swimming pool. It was used by [[Leela]], and [[Borusa]] also hid from the [[Sontaran]]s in this area. Leela mistakenly called it "the bathroom", confusing the pool for a bathtub. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') It was later jettisoned due to leakage, which [[Mel]] found bothersome. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'') 

It was replaced some time later. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') After the TARDIS' crash following the Doctor's tenth 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]]'') He eventually found it, and offered to go and swim a few laps to give Amy and Rory some privacy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'') 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]]'') 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]]'')

==== Others ====
* The [[Zero Room]] - This 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 undergoing [[regeneration]]s in danger of failing. It was accidentally jettisoned along with other rooms in the TARDIS to escape from [[Event One]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') A new one was built. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance of the Daleks]]'')
* Some of the [[companion]]s shared accommodations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') Many companions had their own rooms in the TARDIS, decorated to their tastes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]]'') Some of the companions were given previously used rooms; in the case of [[Turlough]], it is most likely because Tegan didn't know where to find other rooms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') 
* Romana's room was jettisoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] was asked if he had a room, but did not answer. The other bedrooms had also been deleted by [[House]] when it possessed the TARDIS, leaving Amy and Rory's the only one. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* Amy and Rory's original (pre-House) quarters were furnished with bunk beds, much to their consternation. Nevertheless, the couple quickly conceived [[River Song]] despite the less than optimal marital accommodations. They secured a proper bed after escaping from House when the Doctor agreed to give them one when reassigning them to a new room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
* 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 a [[time loop]] that made the same drop of water leak out over and over again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Well-Mannered War]]'') Another contained an claw-foot bathtub, approximately the size of an Olympic pool. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') 
* There was a laboratory which [[Ace]] used to create her explosive [[Nitro-9]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
* The [[box-room]] was a storage space. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Exodus (comic story)|Exodus]]'')
* The TARDIS at one point also had extensive utility areas and corridors which, along with the swimming pool area, became battlegrounds during a [[Sontaran]] invasion of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') He had it up though at least his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') The Doctor was under the impression it had been jettisoned until he stumbled across it in his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tesseract]]'')
* Mel said that the Doctor used the TARDIS laundromat to wash his clothes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor]]'')
* A [[food machine]] area was originally near (but not in) the console room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction]]'' and others)
* As early as the Sixth Doctor, there was a [[TARDIS zoo|zoo]] of endangered animals, a coffee machine and a jungle-like room. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'') The zoo also existed during the Seventh Doctor's lifetime ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Echo (short story)|Echo]]'') and was still in operation as recently as the Tenth Doctor's life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo (novel)|The Last Dodo]]'')
* There was what appeared to be a [[cricket]] club and pitch deep within the bowels of the TARDIS. It was here that the freshly regenerated [[Fifth Doctor]] chose his outfit. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'')
* There was a large salon which the [[Fourth Doctor]] referred to as a "boot cupboard", much to [[Sarah 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]]'')
* The Doctor had an art gallery with works from throughout history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') He had rescued them from the disasters which history stated destroyed them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'')
* The TARDIS had a full kitchen ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Sticks and Stones (comic story)|Sticks and Stones]]'') which included a refrigerator. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Whispering Gallery (comic story)|The Whispering Gallery]]'') The Eleventh Doctor pointed out the location of the kitchen to [[Henry Avery|Captain Avery]] after letting him into the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'') Evidently this amenity was not a top priority for visitors as the Doctor noted that [[Clara Oswin Oswald|Clara]]'s early inquiry about whether the TARDIS had a kitchen was "(a) first". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') According to [[Romana]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] rarely used the kitchen. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'')
* There were several gardens and rooms with wide-open meadows. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'')
* There was a garage. The Doctor kept a [[The Doctor's Moped|Vespa motor scooter]] in storage within the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]'') The Sixth Doctor once rented a [[Volkswagen]] and stored it in the TARDIS as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness]]'')
* By his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] the Doctor had a [[croquet]] court in the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia (audio story)|Caerdroia]]'')
* By the time of the Doctor's tenth incarnation, several rooms from years (and centuries) past still existed deep within the TARDIS, including the cathedral-like room where the Doctor once fought [[the Master]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and a bedroom that had once been used by [[Adric]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tesseract]]'')
* It had a sick bay. In the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS, this was up the stairs, to the left, then left again. It apparently had medical supplies to heal [[Mo Northover|Mo]] from live vivisection. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
* It had a drawing room, which the Eleventh Doctor claimed to be his "private study". Inside it were mementos of his many incarnations' travels. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'') The items inside it varied. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot]]'')
* There was a sun room with a sun lounger. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')
* There was a green door near the drawing room, which the Eleventh Doctor told Amy not to go through. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')
* 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]]'')
* The Eleventh Doctor remarked after a lot of pipe climbing and jumping that he was "Going to reactivate the TARDIS gymnasium after this." ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')

== Systems ==
=== Specific control systems ===
The [[Fourth Doctor]] claimed that the TARDIS controls were [[isomorphic controls|isomorphic]], though this appeared to have been a ruse for the benefit of [[Sutekh|Sutekh the Destroyer]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') Indeed, various [[companion]]s were able to operate the TARDIS and even fly it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Visitation]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', ''[[Journey's End]]'', ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'') The Time Lords were also able to pilot the TARDIS by remote control, usually, as the 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]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'')

The [[Second Doctor]] once used a portable [[Stattenheim remote control]] to summon his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') The TARDIS was also vulnerable to diversion or relocation by the [[Guardians of Time|Guardians]], [[Eternal]]s, and other immensely powerful beings such as the [[Keeper of Traken]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') and [[the Silence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')

The Fourth Doctor installed a [[randomiser]] in the navigational sub-systems. It was eventually removed, and ended up being left behind on [[Argolis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'') 

==== The Eleventh Doctor's console ====
The systems of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s [[console room#Sixth version|console room]] were fairly well-understood. According to one account, each of the six panels controlled discrete functions. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')

* 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.
* The ''helm panel'' contained the eyepiece (an alternative to visual scanners), the time rotor [[handbrake]] and the space/time throttle.
* The ''navigation 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).
* The ''diagnostic panel'' contained the inertial dampers, the cooling systems (gauges), a bunsen burner and a microphone/water dispenser.
* The ''communications panel'' contained an analogue telephone, digital com, voice recorder, analogue radio waves detector/monitor/changer and a scanner/typewriter.
* The ''fabrication panel'' contained the materialise/dematerialise function, harmonic generator, time altimeter, a fabrication dispenser (which was described as being able to produce [[sonic screwdriver]]s and other technology - which eventually housed the [[laser screwdriver]]) and a Heisenberg focusing device which was used to break [[Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle]]. This device was called a [[zigzag plotter]].

Note: the above refers to the console as it existed prior to (or around the time of) the Doctor's "retirement" in 1892. At some point prior to his encounter with the [[Great Intelligence]], the console room and console itself underwent significant modification. The scope of the modifications has yet to be chronicled in detail, however some of the more fanciful elements of the earlier console (i.e. the handbrake, typewriter, etc.) were no longer in evidence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')

=== Temporal grace ===
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]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'') However, the system seemed to be malfunctioning by the time the [[Fifth Doctor]] was piloting the vessel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'') During his travels with [[Lucie Miller]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] explained that the temporal grace system had not worked in years. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources]]'') Later, [[Jack Harkness]] discharged an energy weapon in the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s TARDIS and the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones|Martha]] had to dodge energy bolts fired ''into'' the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] indicated that by the time he had told [[River Song|Mels]] about temporal grace, it had actually been "a clever lie" to deter her from firing her gun inside the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

=== Emergency systems ===
The Doctor's TARDIS contained emergency systems such as the [[Jade Pagoda]], a 'life boat' of some description, which could in theory be piloted. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') In emergencies it would lock onto the nearest [[planet]] with a breathable atmosphere and bearable climate. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sanctuary]]'') 

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]]'') There were also emergency settings established by the Doctor. Emergency Programme One was a way to rescue his companions (but not the Doctor himself) 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 (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[Silence in the Library]]'') Another could reunite the TARDIS with the Doctor if they were separated; initially it required some one to enter the TARDIS and insert an 'authorised command disk' to activate it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'') 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')

The TARDIS contained a switch labelled "LTD" (standing for "Locate The Doctor"). This was used by [[Lucie Miller]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beast of Orlok]]'')

The TARDIS was capable of extensive self-repair after suffering a hull breach or having been dumped into a core of z-neutrino energy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'', ''[[Journey's End]]'') After more extensive damage, a complete rebuilding could take place, changing the interior and exterior appearances. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') 

The TARDIS had an alarm system known as the [[cloister bell]] that activated in dire circumstances. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Turn Left]]'', ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

Another emergency program activated when the TARDIS exploded. This particular program locked the control room in a [[time loop]] to protect any occupant. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') 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]]'') 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 (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')

=== Defensive systems ===
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. The [[Second Doctor]] called this the [[Hostile Action Displacement System]] (HADS). ([[TV]]: ''[[The Krotons]]'')

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 in [[Vichy France]]. The Second Doctor, [[Ben Jackson|Ben]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]] had to physically push the TARDIS out of the railway bed before the next train came down the tracks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Resistance (audio story)|Resistance]]'')

The TARDIS was at one point temporarily given a defensive shield utilising a [[Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'') Prior to this, it also had its own shielding. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') The extrapolator also pulled the TARDIS a short distance away from the [[Empress of the Racnoss]] when she pulled him from the beginning of [[Earth]] to [[2007]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')

=== Offensive systems ===
The TARDIS later gained some offensive systems of sort; this may have been caused by its development into the [[Edifice (TARDIS)|Edifice]]. This weapon allowed the Edifice/the Doctor's TARDIS to destroy Gallifrey, although this was only accomplished by channelling ''all'' of the Edifice's energy into the weapons. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'')

=== Intuition circuits ===
Using a holographic representation of the universe connected to the TARDIS' neural net, the TARDIS was effectively able to make hunches, guesses 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]]'') When the TARDIS matrix briefly inhabited a humanoid body, she was able to finally inform the Doctor that her apparent unreliability was due to this drive to take the Doctor "where (he) needed to go." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')

=== Invisibility ===
[[File:DW_60x1_The_Impossible_Astronaut_373.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's TARDIS becoming visible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')]]
The TARDIS had the ability to become completely invisible. The first time this happened was when a spaceship fired upon it when it materialised on the dark side of [[the Moon]]. The missile that hit the TARDIS damaged its visual stabiliser, causing it to become invisible. The [[Second Doctor]] eventually fixed the component. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')

The [[Eleventh Doctor]] landed his TARDIS invisibly in the Oval Office in 1969. President [[Richard Nixon]] was present when the TARDIS landed. The Doctor said he rarely used this feature because it drained an enormous amount of the TARDIS' power. He remained unaware of it until it became visible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'') The Eleventh Doctor also used invisibility to hide his TARDIS in [[Area 51]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')

The [[TARDIS staircase]] was similarly invisible from the ground below. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')

=== Other systems ===
* The TARDIS could extend an oxygen bubble for a distance beyond her doors, allowing them to be opened while in space ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]''), and even allow individuals to survive outside the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Time of Angels]]'') At one point, the bubble even allowed the Eleventh Doctor and [[Rory 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 (comic story)|The Doctor and the Nurse]]'') The system also worked, to a limited degree, underwater. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'') It appears this system may have been added at a later date, as it did not apparently exist during the time the [[Second Doctor]] piloted her. ([[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. At one point the TARDIS was equipped to write computer files to standard Earth CD-ROMs. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]] modified the control console to accept [[DVD]]s to allow [[Sally Sparrow]] to use a specialised control disc to activate the TARDIS ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
* The TARDIS could be put one second out of synch with time. The Tenth Doctor did this once to prevent {{Simm}} from taking it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* The TARDIS had the ability to allow both the Doctor and others to understand a wide variety of languages. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'') ''See [[translation circuit|separate article]] for a more in-depth discussion.''
* The TARDIS had a link to [[the Matrix]]. Following the [[Last Great Time War]], this Matrix was the only one left. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'')
* It had stabilisers activated by blue buttons. These were used by [[River Song]]. The Eleventh Doctor said that they made the journey boring. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')
* It had brakes, which, according to River Song, were always on, which was why the TARDIS landed with a characteristic ''wheezing'' noise. When she landed the TARDIS without the brakes on, it landed without any sound. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'') The TARDIS herself, 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 her doors improperly. Indeed, she uttered the "brakes on" sound by way of identifying herself to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* The Eleventh Doctor also said once that the console had buttons for ketchup and mustard. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'')
* The TARDIS had a part called the "rectifier". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')
* The TARDIS' engines automatically shut down when there were no people in the craft. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
[[File:TARDIS voice interface.jpg|thumb|right|The TARDIS voice interface in the form of Amelia Pond. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')]]
* The TARDIS had 'telepathic circuits' that could transmit messages to individuals through their thoughts. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* 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 Doctor's Wife]]'')
* The TARDIS could stabilise the bodies of the [[Ganger]]s, by virtue of them entering the Control Room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People]]'')
* The TARDIS had a [[voice interface]] which the Doctor could communicate with. It could assume the form of a known individual. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* The TARDIS had an extractor fan. This was used to get rid of gases in the control room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* The TARDIS contained a [[lift]] leading to at least three floors. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'') It also had anti-gravity shafts of some sort that also served as lifts. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
* Some sort of drainage system existed which quickly removed water from the console room to prevent flooding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'')

== Personality ==
TARDISes were intelligent. The Doctor's TARDIS developed a personality. It was called "sentimental" by the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and "stupid" by [[K9 Mark I]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') Though intelligent, it was usually unable to communicate in words with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'') Even when the TARDIS did not take the Doctor where he wanted to go, it took him where it felt he ''needed'' to be. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] considerd "her" to be one of his most trusted companions. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')

The TARDIS displayed a prejudicial fear of the time-locked [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') It showed a similar hostility to [[Charley Pollard]] when she began to travel with the Sixth Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned]]'') apparently due to the paradoxical nature of her very existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning]]'') This resulted in the TARDIS 'refusing' to protect Charley from viruses as it had protected his previous companions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero]]'')

When the Doctor's history was changed so his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] regenerated ahead of schedule, the TARDIS sensed he had been infected with the [[Faction 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'') Had it not, the Doctor would likely have become corrupted by the Faction.

When the [[Tenth Doctor]] was attacked by [[Es'Cartrss‎]], the TARDIS tried to help him in the Matrix, taking the forms of his [[companion]]s and helping him regain his memories. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'')

The Doctor responded to the TARDIS' personality by showing it great tenderness. The [[Fourth Doctor]] referred to it as his "dear old thing" on more than one occasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Robots of Death]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] was overtly demonstrative towards it, calling it both "dear" and "you sexy thing" shortly after its own [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') In many of his incarnations he anthropomorphized it by referring to the TARDIS as "she" or "her". Indeed, at least one account suggested that it wasn't a colloquialism: the TARDIS actually ''was'' female. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe]]'')

She also exhibited a rudimentary sense of humour, choosing to display only images of attractive female companions to [[Amy Pond]] when ordered to exhibit past companions of the Doctor, causing him to chide her for not at least including "[[K-9|the tin dog]]". ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS]]'')

[[File:Doctor's-wife.jpg|thumb|right|The TARDIS and her "thief". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')]] The TARDIS displayed a feminine personality when her matrix was temporarily transferred into the humanoid body of [[Idris]]. While in this form, she thought [[Rory Williams|Rory]] was "pretty" and stated that ''she'' had chosen the Doctor as a travelling companion. She also referred to the TARDIS remains in a junkyard as "her sisters," implying that she considered all TARDISes on some level as female. The TARDIS referred to the Doctor's previous companions as "strays" and did not know the names of Amy and Rory, dubbing them "the orangy girl" and "the pretty one". She did, however, seem 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". She was puzzled by the Doctor's reference to [[fish finger]]s. When asked her name by the Doctor, she chose to be called "Sexy" because that's what he called her in private (she later introduced herself to Rory and Amy this way); she also expressed fondness for being called "Old Girl". Just 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?" 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]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
* The importance of the TARDIS to the ''Doctor Who'' franchise was recognised in late 2009 when the BBC unveiled a new version of the [[Doctor Who logo|''Doctor 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 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 as [[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction]]'' and ''[[Time Crash]]'' in which the entire action of a story takes place within the TARDIS. [[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'' also falls into this category, although given the illusionary nature of the story, much of it was filmed on locations and sets other than the actual TARDIS. [[TV]]: ''[[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 in [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''. Viewers also saw new aspects of the TARDIS in [[Doctor Who (TV story)|the 1996 TV movie]]. In the comic strips, several stories have taken place almost entirely within the TARDIS, including ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'' and ''[[Tesseract]]''. In [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'', more of the TARDIS was actively explored (albeit very similar areas) and parts of said areas were used by [[House|the 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.
* The Doctor's TARDIS appeared in the video game ''Fallout'' in a random encounter.
* The TARDIS has appeared in every televised ''Doctor Who'' story with the exception of ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'', ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''.
* The characteristic wheezing noise of the dematerialising TARDIS is made by scraping a key against piano wire.
* The TARDIS makes a brief cameo in [[Wikipedia:Chelmsford 123|Chelmsford 123]] when it materialises in the background, the Doctor exits to have a look around before reentering the TARDIS and dematerialising.
* The TARDIS cameos in [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Dick and Dom|The 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 in {{wi|Iron Sky}}. While the Moon Nazi's ships approach Earth, it is seen flying by quickly.
* In a cut scene in ''Journey's End'', the Doctor gives the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]] a piece of the TARDIS while Donna tells them a fast way of growing one.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' writer [[Neil Gaiman]], writing in ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', indicated that Idris/the TARDIS was at one point also scripted to remark that she chose to remain in the police box form not because of a broken chameleon circuit, but because the Doctor liked it. She also was to have qualified her calling Rory "pretty" and Amy as "the orangy girl" by stating she rarely remembered the names of the Doctor's companions.
* [[Suranne Jones]]' performance as the TARDIS in [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' marks one of only a handful of occasions that an actor has portrayed an actual vessel and its consciousness; the TV series ''[[w:Andromeda (TV series)|Andromeda]]'' featured several characters who were said to be avatars of living starship consciousnesses; and much like the Idris version of the TARDIS, several also took time to express frustration over treatment and affection for their captains.

== See also ==
* [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|The Doctor's TARDIS]] from an alternate timeline.
* [[TARDIS staircase]], facilitating access to, and egress from, the TARDIS when parked on a cloud.

== External links ==
* [http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-sound-effects-materialisation.html The Mind Robber - The Sound of the TARDIS: A History]

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