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[[File:0009bkkb.jpg|thumb|right|Dr. Who, [[Barbara (Dalek movies)|Barbara]], [[Susan (Dalek movies)|Susan]] and [[Ian (Dalek movies)|Ian Chesterton]] inside TARDIS (''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'')]]
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|used by = [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Dr. Who]], [[Susan (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Susan]]
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|first = Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)
|appearances = [[TARDIS (Dr. Who and the Daleks)/Appearances|'''''see list''''']]
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'''TARDIS''', ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') or '''the Tardis''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of the Film (short story)|The Story of the Film]]'') was a [[space-time vessel]] invented by the [[human]] scientist [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Dr. Who]]. It was [[Transdimensional engineering|larger inside than without]]. The machine was described by Dr. Who as capable of breaking down everything into their respective electrical charges which were transferred in time and space, and when it arrived at the destination they were reassembled in their proper order and their proper place.


'''TARDIS''' was a [[space-time vessel]] invented by the [[human]] scientist [[Dr. Who (Dalek movies)|Dr. Who]]. It was [[transcendental engineering|larger inside than without]] and filled with electronics and masses of wiring. This changed in the next film to a neater arrangement, similar to the neo-futurism of the TARDIS of the first six Doctors.
The ''[[Dalek Survival Guide]]'' indicated that TARDIS was constructed in a [[Dr. Who's reality (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|version of reality "B"]] relative to the [[First Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child)|version of reality "A"]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]'')


Its exterior resembled a [[police box]]. (''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'') TARDIS was described by Dr. Who as a matter transmitter, breaking itself and everything inside it into constituent electrical charges, which were sent to the destination.
== Interior ==
TARDIS's interior was initially filled with electronic components and masses of wiring, components hanging by cables, linked to instruments. The large interior was just a single room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') This was later changed to a neater arrangement with control consoles in silver casings with a brown seat nearby. It was controlled by a large lever in front of a small bank with [[fluid link]]s that used [[mercury]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')


Travel was instantaneous in the first film as it took only a second for TARDIS to travel from [[Earth]] to [[Skaro]]. In the next film, however, the travel appeared to have altered. The journey becoming gradual. The reason for this change was never explained.
Though originally painted [[TARDIS blue]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') the interior side of the police box doors was white by the time [[Tom Campbell]] entered TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')


TARDIS appeared to travel in some kind of vortex - probably a wormhole which acted as a spatial drive with a temporal displacement field for time travelling. Dr. Who told [[Tom Campbell]] that TARDIS could travel to any age, any planet and any universe, implying the machine could travel to alternate universes safely and easily and could return to its original universe with little to no trouble.
== Exterior ==
[[File:Adiós, Tom....jpg|left|thumb|According to one account, the exterior of TARDIS was bright [[green]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 (comic story)|Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150]]'')]]
TARDIS's exterior resembled a [[police box]]. The door opened outwards and didn't require a key; although the outside of it was usually [[TARDIS blue|blue]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')


The machine was more reliable than its television counterpart - in the second film, Dr. Who had the machine get Tom Campbell back to immediately before the robbers left the jewellery store.
One account depicted it as a dull, fairly light shade of [[green]] instead. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (comic story)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') Another showed a brighter green exterior, with no light on top. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 (comic story)|Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150]]'')
[[File:0009tf2b.jpg|thumb|Dr. Who, Susan and [[Louise (Dalek movies)|Louise]]. (''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')]]


In spite of its nominal reliability, TARDIS landed in the middle of a [[Rome|Roman]] legion in the first film. It is possible that TARDIS was still recalibrating from its first, unprogrammed journey to Skaro or TARDIS was still readjusting itself from Ian and [[Barbara (Dalek movies)|Barbara]] knocking the control lever.
== Abilities ==
TARDIS was described by Dr. Who as a matter transmitter, breaking itself and everything inside it into constituent electrical charges, which were sent to the destination. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'')
 
TARDIS travelled from [[Earth]] to [[Skaro]] in a second. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') Later on, however, the travel from [[20th century|20th]] to [[22nd century]] Earth was more gradual.
 
Dr. Who told [[Tom Campbell]] that TARDIS could travel to any age, any [[planet]] and any [[universe]], implying the machine could travel to [[alternate universe]]s safely and easily, and could return to its original universe with little to no trouble. By using TARDIS, one could travel back to an [[event]] and change its outcome; having initially failed to thwart a [[robbery]], [[Tom Campbell]] was returned to just before it would have occurred where he was able to stop it, with the earlier Tom who joined the TARDIS not being present for this new version of the event. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')
 
== History ==
Following its completion, [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Dr. Who]], along with his [[granddaughter]]s [[Susan (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Susan]] and [[Barbara (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Barbara]] presented TARDIS to [[Ian Chesterton (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Ian Chesterton]], Barbara's [[boyfriend]]. By accident, Ian transferred TARDIS through [[time]] and [[space]] before Dr. Who could set the controls, resulting in them arriving on the [[planet]] [[Skaro]]. After helping the [[Thal]]s [[Thal-Dalek battle|defeat]] the [[Dalek]]s, Dr. Who attempted to return TARDIS home only to land in front of marching [[Roman]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') Another account had TARDIS land in front of a [[caveman]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (comic story)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'')
 
TARDIS was nearby the scene of a "[[smash and grab]]" when [[PC]] [[Tom Campbell]] entered the vessel just as Dr. Who de-magnetised the doors. Dr. Who, accompanied by Susan and his [[niece]] [[Louise (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)|Louise]] were on course to Earth in the [[year]] [[2150]] and, with Tom joining them, found that the planet had been [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth|occupied]] by the Daleks. After the Daleks were defeated, Dr. Who returned Tom to just before the smash and grab occurred, allowing him to catch the perpetrators in the act. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Invasion215001.jpg|thumb|left|Second Interior TARDIS (''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'')]]
=== Information from invalid sources ===
* The interior of TARDIS (not called "''the ''TARDIS" in the films) did not use the familiar television set-up of a central console with walls on each side, but a more random assortment of technological apparatus. The dialogue did not indicate that Dr. Who's TARDIS could change shape. This made it a mystery why it resembled a police box outside ''Possibly Dr. Who simply used an old police box as the shell for TARDIS.''
It was also known as the TARDIS.
 
* In the movie sequel, TARDIS' interior underwent a change and was no longer a random assortment of wires and electronic circuits. It had control consoles in silver casings. There was also a bench with lab equipment: test tubes, Bunsen burners etc. Before and after the overhaul of the time ship, a control lever moved TARDIS through time and space. When [[Tom Campbell]] stumbled into the machine from the recent robbery, Susan stood next to a gauge on some sort of generator and she was recording the reading on a clipboard. Whether this was TARDIS' primary power source is unknown.


* TARDIS seemed to lack a lock and [[TARDIS key|key]] mechanism, unlike the television TARDIS. Several people entered the machine - Ian Chesterton, [[Alydon]] and Tom Campbell to name a few.
When it dematerialised and rematerialised, TARDIS emitted a sound much like a revving [[motorbike]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture (short story)|Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture]]'')


* This was the first TARDIS to have white [[police box]] doors inside the console room. The main ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series would adopt this detail with the revived [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] in [[2005]].
=== Other matters ===
[[File:Tardis green.jpg|thumb|The green TARDIS travels through time.]]
* The interior of TARDIS (not called "''the ''TARDIS" in the films) did not use the familiar television set-up of a central console with walls on each side, but a more random assortment of technological apparatus.
* TARDIS seemed to lack a lock and [[TARDIS key|key]] mechanism, unlike the television TARDIS. Several people entered the machine — Ian Chesterton, [[Alydon]] and Tom Campbell to name a few.
** However, in [[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|the second film]], Dr Who mentions that Tom must have opened the door just as he de-magnetised it.
* This was the first TARDIS to have white [[police box]] doors inside the [[TARDIS console room|console room]]. The main ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series would adopt this detail with the revived [[Series 1 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 1]] in 2005. It had also been displayed by [[Doctor Why's TARDIS]] in the parodical [[1975 (releases)|1975]] TV story ''[[Hallo My Dalek (TV story)|Hallo My Dalek]]''.
* In the comic adaptation of the film ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (comic story)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', the police box-shaped TARDIS is oddly coloured [[green]] as opposed to [[TARDIS blue]].
* It was never explained in either ''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' or ''Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.'' as to why TARDIS looked like a police box.


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TARDIS, (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks) or the Tardis, (PROSE: The Story of the Film) was a space-time vessel invented by the human scientist Dr. Who. It was larger inside than without. The machine was described by Dr. Who as capable of breaking down everything into their respective electrical charges which were transferred in time and space, and when it arrived at the destination they were reassembled in their proper order and their proper place.

The Dalek Survival Guide indicated that TARDIS was constructed in a version of reality "B" relative to the First Doctor's version of reality "A". (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide)

Interior[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS's interior was initially filled with electronic components and masses of wiring, components hanging by cables, linked to instruments. The large interior was just a single room. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks) This was later changed to a neater arrangement with control consoles in silver casings with a brown seat nearby. It was controlled by a large lever in front of a small bank with fluid links that used mercury. (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

Though originally painted TARDIS blue, (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks) the interior side of the police box doors was white by the time Tom Campbell entered TARDIS. (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

Exterior[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to one account, the exterior of TARDIS was bright green. (COMIC: Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150)

TARDIS's exterior resembled a police box. The door opened outwards and didn't require a key; although the outside of it was usually blue. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

One account depicted it as a dull, fairly light shade of green instead. (COMIC: Dr. Who and the Daleks) Another showed a brighter green exterior, with no light on top. (COMIC: Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150)

Abilities[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS was described by Dr. Who as a matter transmitter, breaking itself and everything inside it into constituent electrical charges, which were sent to the destination. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks)

TARDIS travelled from Earth to Skaro in a second. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks) Later on, however, the travel from 20th to 22nd century Earth was more gradual.

Dr. Who told Tom Campbell that TARDIS could travel to any age, any planet and any universe, implying the machine could travel to alternate universes safely and easily, and could return to its original universe with little to no trouble. By using TARDIS, one could travel back to an event and change its outcome; having initially failed to thwart a robbery, Tom Campbell was returned to just before it would have occurred where he was able to stop it, with the earlier Tom who joined the TARDIS not being present for this new version of the event. (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following its completion, Dr. Who, along with his granddaughters Susan and Barbara presented TARDIS to Ian Chesterton, Barbara's boyfriend. By accident, Ian transferred TARDIS through time and space before Dr. Who could set the controls, resulting in them arriving on the planet Skaro. After helping the Thals defeat the Daleks, Dr. Who attempted to return TARDIS home only to land in front of marching Romans. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks) Another account had TARDIS land in front of a caveman. (COMIC: Dr. Who and the Daleks)

TARDIS was nearby the scene of a "smash and grab" when PC Tom Campbell entered the vessel just as Dr. Who de-magnetised the doors. Dr. Who, accompanied by Susan and his niece Louise were on course to Earth in the year 2150 and, with Tom joining them, found that the planet had been occupied by the Daleks. After the Daleks were defeated, Dr. Who returned Tom to just before the smash and grab occurred, allowing him to catch the perpetrators in the act. (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Information from invalid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]

It was also known as the TARDIS.

When it dematerialised and rematerialised, TARDIS emitted a sound much like a revving motorbike. (COMIC: Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture)

Other matters[[edit] | [edit source]]

The green TARDIS travels through time.
  • The interior of TARDIS (not called "the TARDIS" in the films) did not use the familiar television set-up of a central console with walls on each side, but a more random assortment of technological apparatus.
  • TARDIS seemed to lack a lock and key mechanism, unlike the television TARDIS. Several people entered the machine — Ian Chesterton, Alydon and Tom Campbell to name a few.
    • However, in the second film, Dr Who mentions that Tom must have opened the door just as he de-magnetised it.
  • This was the first TARDIS to have white police box doors inside the console room. The main Doctor Who series would adopt this detail with the revived series 1 in 2005. It had also been displayed by Doctor Why's TARDIS in the parodical 1975 TV story Hallo My Dalek.
  • In the comic adaptation of the film Dr. Who and the Daleks, the police box-shaped TARDIS is oddly coloured green as opposed to TARDIS blue.
  • It was never explained in either Dr. Who and the Daleks or Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. as to why TARDIS looked like a police box.
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