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'''The Doctor's TARDIS''' was a [[TARDIS]] in which the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Ninth Doctor]] and [[the Master (Scream of the Shalka)|the Master]] travelled. It had a [[police box]] exterior and a [[mobile phone]] behind the front panel of the exterior doors.
|used by = [[The Doctor]], [[Stoyn]], [[Susan Foreman]], [[the Master]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Vicki Pallister]], [[Steven Taylor]], [[Polly Wright]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], [[Zoe Heriot]], [[Leela]], [[K9]], [[White Guardian]], [[Romana]], [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka]], [[Vislor Turlough]], [[Ace]], [[Grace Holloway]], [[Charlotte Pollard]], [[Zagreus]], [[Rassilon]], [[Children of Time]], [[River Song]], [[Amy Pond]], [[Clara Oswald]], [[Tasha Lem]], [[Nardole]], [[Heather (The Pilot)|Heather]], [[Yasmin Khan]]
|actor = Suranne Jones
|other actor  = Caitlin Blackwood
|other actor2 = Jenna Coleman
|voice actor = Nicholas Courtney
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'''The Doctor's TARDIS''' — also called '''the Ship''', '''the Box''', and simply '''the TARDIS''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Food for Thought (comic story)|Food for Thought]]'') — was [[the Doctor]]'s primary means of transport. It was capable of travelling through [[space]] and [[time]]. The Doctor voyaged all across [[N-Space|the universe]] in this vessel, from the [[Big Bang]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Slipback (audio story)|Slipback]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing O'Clock (short story)|Nothing O'Clock]]'') to the [[end of the universe]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chaos Pool (audio story)|The Chaos Pool]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Petals (comic story)|Petals]]'') and from the [[centre of the universe]] ([[TV]]:'' [[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') to its [[edge of the universe|outermost edges]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil (TV story)|Planet of Evil]]'', ''[[Underworld (TV story)|Underworld]]'') The craft was also capable of travelling between [[Parallel universe|parallel realities]], in spite of the fact that it was not specifically designed for inter-dimensional travel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') Like all other TARDIS models, the Doctor's TARDIS was controlled via a central [[TARDIS control console|control console]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', et al.)


Other [[Time Lord]]s frequently characterised the Doctor's TARDIS as woefully out-of-date. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') [[Narvin]] called it "scrap", compared to [[Narvin's TARDIS|his own]] [[Type 400]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Quantum Possibility Engine (audio story)|The Quantum Possibility Engine]]'') Indeed, by at least the time of the [[Fourth Doctor]], if not earlier, the TARDIS model — called a "[[Type 40]]" — had been pulled from general service on [[Gallifrey]], and replaced by more advanced models. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
When the Doctor's TARDIS dematerialised and rematerialised, an arc of lightning arced from the light on the top. The interior of the Doctor's TARDIS consisted of a [[TARDIS control room|control room]] with a large [[spiral staircase]] around the outside of the room. The [[TARDIS control console]] was round with panels set around it with mostly brass-like controls. There was a large section of technology set atop the central column that, whilst dematerialising, moved up and down.


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 itself once told the [[Eleventh Doctor]] that while it may not have always taken him where he ''wanted'' to go, it had always taken him to where he ''needed'' to go. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') As the [[Twelfth Doctor]] knew her, the TARDIS was always "looking for trouble"; he loved her for it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')
Additionally there was a [[Zeppelin]] hangar, which [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|the Master]] would on occasion leave the Doctor's umbrella stand in. ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'')


As the centuries passed and all of the Doctor's companions came and went, the Doctor's faithful TARDIS remained their constant companion. Apart from the TARDIS, the Doctor only had [[memories]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') They shared an unbreakable bond, and the Doctor came to feel that in the end, it was just the Doctor and their TARDIS, travelling the universe together. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] thought of her as his oldest friend. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wild Animals (audio story)|Wild Animals]]'') Such was this bond, that, in [[Alternate timeline (The Name of the Doctor)|an alternate timeline]], the TARDIS eventually became the Doctor's final resting place, containing his personal [[time stream]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') The TARDIS eventually chose a name for herself, but she never revealed it to anyone, not even the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Toy Story (short story)|Toy Story]]'')
The Doctor's TARDIS was depicted in many cultures on [[Earth]] in a variety of forms, such as being depicted as the temple of the household "gods", the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]], by [[Lobus Caecilius]]'s family after they were rescued from the destruction of [[Pompeii]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'') being painted on a church's stained glass window after the Doctor "smote [a] demon" at a convent in the [[1300]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] using the power of its image to counter the influence of the [[Promethean]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'') According to [[the Moment]], the noise the TARDIS made when it appeared brought hope to anyone who heard it, no matter how lost they were. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
[[River Song]] was known to steal the TARDIS when the Doctor was out. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'')
== Procurement ==
=== Dubious origins ===
According to one account, the Ships on the Homeworld were born from [[the Matrix]], whom they referred to as Mother. As part of a secret plan, Mother also conceived two hybrid offspring, twin sisters who were only half-Ship. When the time came for them to choose their Homeworlder pilots, [[Lolita|one]] chose "[[The Master|the dangerous-looking one]]", and the other chose "[[The Doctor|the cuckoo]]". At this point, Mother expressed "complete resignation" with the latter Ship, realising that she had been wasting her time with her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Toy Story (short story)|Toy Story]]'')
Both the [[First Doctor|First]] and [[Third Doctor]]s implied he had built his TARDIS himself, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Backtime (comic story)|Backtime]]'') which the [[Twelfth Doctor]] mentally described, in hindsight, as an empty boast trying to impress "the apes" whom the Doctor had, in a way, looked down upon. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') A dissenting account claimed that this boast was genuine, and that the Doctor had been a genius [[mathematician]] whose unprecedented [[equation]]s allowed him to conceptualise [[Space]] and [[Time]] into a single concept, the [[Idea of the Living Matter]], based on which he had built the one and only TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Equations of Dr Who (short story)|The Equations of Dr Who]]'') [[Graham O'Brien]] later told [[Thomas Edison]] that the TARDIS was "copyright: [[Thirteenth Doctor|her]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (TV story)|Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror]]'')
Although many accounts instead depicted [[TARDIS]]es as a class of vehicle common on the Doctor's [[Gallifrey|homeworld]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', etc.) one of the Doctor's fellow Time Lords, [[the War Chief]], still knew the Doctor as an expert in TARDIS engineering, who might be able, if he could be convinced to do so, to help him improve the flawed [[SIDRAT]]s that the War Chief had given the [[War Lord]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] indeed had the ability to build a TARDIS console from scratch. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
One of the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s [[the Doctor's memories|repressed memories]] "from before he was born", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') thus relating to the early life of [[the Other]], a semi-mythical figure from early [[Gallifreyan history]] who had helped raise the Gallifreyan civilisation into that of the Masters of Time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') inspired [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]] to write the tale of ''[[The Old Man and the Police Box]]'', wherein which the Doctor/Other had originally been an inventor from Victorian England who kept making alterations to his [[police box]] prototype until it had the ability to travel in time and space, at which point the old man decided to run away from Earth aboard his serendipitously-created Ship. Smith's account gave no indication of a hard break between the time traveller creating the [[Time Lord]] society and the life of the [[First Doctor]], stating that the man eventually grew bored of the world he'd created and ran back to Earth aboard the same old police-box-shaped time machine. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
However, by most accounts, the Doctor had actually stolen the TARDIS. The Doctor himself admitted this on many occasions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]],'' ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'', ''[[Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)|Trial of the Valeyard]]'', ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'') a theft that the TARDIS, once she gained the ability to speak, with a [[Idris|humanoid body]] as anchor, described as mutual; wanting to see the universe, she had herself stolen a pilot to run away with, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') in line with the account that she had chosen him as her pilot. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Toy Story (short story)|Toy Story]]'')
=== Previous owners ===
If it had not been built by the Doctor, the TARDIS was previously owned by "several irresponsible owners" before the Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Collision Course (audio story)|Collision Course]]'') though accounts differed as to whether the last of them was [[Marnal]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') or [[Marianna]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Abandoned (audio story)|The Abandoned]]'') After [[Ulysses]] and [[Penelope Gate]] wiped Marnal's mind and deposited him in [[1883]] [[England]], they took his TARDIS with them; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]] once identified it as a "family heirloom". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
Some other accounts differed on the TARDIS's status prior to the Doctor's theft of it, and implied that it came from the general, [[High Council|government]]-controlled "stockpile" of TARDISes after the model had been officially decommissioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles (short story)|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 Adric countered that he thought the Doctor outright owned the vehicle, the Doctor said, "Well, on a sort of 'finders, keepers' basis, yes." ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
=== The choice ===
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 (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') Although he already possessed a [[Type 50]] TARDIS the Doctor needed to leave Gallifrey in a "hurry," according to the [[Fifth Doctor]], and he stole a different TARDIS instead of [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|his first TARDIS]]. However, he made it clear that if things had gone differently during his escape, he would have taken the Type 50. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prisoners of Fate (audio story)|Prisoners of Fate]])''
The Doctor had received a recommendation for this particular TARDIS from [[Clara Oswald#Splinters|a version]] of future companion [[Clara Oswald]]. She actually stopped him from taking [[TARDIS (The Name of the Doctor)|another TARDIS]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') saying that the [[navigation system]] on this one was "knackered" but he'd have more fun with it. He took her suggestion and dismissed the other TARDIS to take the Type 40 instead. When the Doctor stole it, the TARDIS was in a [[repair shop]] and two Time Lords were surprised that anyone would want to steal it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
The TARDIS herself said she was "a [[museum]] piece", though this may have been figurative. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') The Doctor would not learn until their [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] that the TARDIS' previous owner [[Marianna]] had been aboard for the entire time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Abandoned (audio story)|The Abandoned]]'') [[Stoyn|Quadrigger Stoyn]] was also onboard during take off, working as an [[engineer]] in the [[TARDIS engine room]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')
None of these accounts precluded the possibility that the Doctor had somehow been responsible for its creation. Indeed, another account compromised between theft and creation. It claimed while the Doctor had not built the TARDIS from scratch, he had substantially modified/rebuilt it. According to this view, he achieved control of the TARDIS without using a direct mental link. This let him bypass the feature on most TARDISes which sent a tracking signal to the Time Lords. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'') As a result, while the Doctor still had a significant mental link with the TARDIS early in his travels, such as when the ship assisted him with his first [[regeneration]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') he did not impose his will on it, allowing the TARDIS to go where it wished rather than exerting direct control. The TARDIS herself later stated that her unreliability to go where the Doctor wanted was due to her always going to where he was ''needed''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor’s Wife]]'')
These accounts notwithstanding, the most direct commentary on the Doctor's acquisition of the TARDIS came from the Doctor and the TARDIS itself. When the Doctor was summoned to be the defence counsellor to [[the Valeyard]] in his trial, he exclaimed to [[Darkel|Inquisitor Darkel]] that he confessed to stealing a TARDIS and running away from Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)|Trial of the Valeyard]]'') At a later point in the Doctor's life, when [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]] transferred the soul of the TARDIS into [[Idris]], the TARDIS gave its side of the story. She confirmed she had been out of commission, a "museum piece", when the First Doctor met her. She also confirmed that the Doctor had ''stolen'' her, denying the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s attempt to characterise the action as "borrowing". However, she also considered that ''she'' had stolen ''him'', and had no intention of ever giving him back. She was unlocked, and deliberately let the Doctor in, because she wanted to explore the [[universe]], and sensed he would be an ideal match.
The Eleventh Doctor recalled that upon first touching the [[TARDIS control console|console]], the First Doctor said "[she was] the most beautiful thing [he'd] ever known". The TARDIS was shown to be very fond of him, admitting as [[Idris]] that she had always wanted to say a proper hello to him, but was unable to, as she was "not constructed that way". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
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== 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 [[dematerialisation circuit]] of [[the Master's TARDIS]] was a Mark II, compared to the Doctor's Mark I. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') When the ''[[Teselecta]]'' scanned the Doctor's TARDIS, its records stated the timeship was a ''TT [[Type 40]], Mark 3.'' The record also stated it had been reported stolen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') The [[Scrolls of Gallifrey]] indicated that the Doctor's TARDIS was a Mark 1. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')
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 (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') This designation was used with greater frequency afterwards. 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 (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'') When the TARDIS had the opportunity to speak to the Eleventh Doctor in the body of [[Idris]], it called itself a "Type 40" without any qualification. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') [[River Song]] defined it a "Type 40 Mark". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pond Life (comic story)|Pond Life]]'')
The Eleventh Doctor appeared to know the date of her creation, as one chronicle indicated that he celebrated "her [[birthday]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'')
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== Exterior ==
[[File:The doctor's TARDIS leaves for the first time.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's TARDIS leaves [[Gallifrey]]. ([[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-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'')
The Doctor's TARDIS would have had both abilities, were the chameleon circuit operational. Shortly after the Doctor first left Gallifrey, the TARDIS materialised on [[the Moon]], taking the shape of a [[boulder]]. On its second trip, it landed on another [[Planet (The Beginning)|planet]] in the shape of a giant [[mushroom]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') Later still, the [[First Doctor]] had landed on [[Iwa]], where the TARDIS had posed as a boulder once again, in that [[planet]]'s [[desert]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Frayed (novel)|Frayed]]'') While 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]]'') [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] mentioned the TARDIS also had previously appeared as a [[sedan chair]] and an [[Ionic column]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')
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]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Cave of Skulls]]'' et al.) It had also created [[Bernard Whittam|Constable Bernard Whittam]] as part of the disguise. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Day at Work (audio story)|The Last Day at Work]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] sabotaged the chameleon circuit before the TARDIS left 1963 London as part of a plot to foil the [[Promethean]]s so that the blue box shape was imprinted into the [[race memory]] of humanity. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'') Not knowing this, the First Doctor and Susan expressed surprise that it had not changed form when they arrived at a new destination. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')
On at least one instance, it was implied that the chameleon circuit ''was'' working or at least, the Doctor was able to fix it, but that they were fond of the police box shape so the TARDIS remained in that form. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'')
By their [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], the Doctor was telling their [[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 blend in best with the environment.... and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.|Eleventh Doctor|Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video)}}Despite being stuck as a police box, the shade of colour for the box varied from light blue, ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' - ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') dark blue ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' - ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') bright blue ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' - ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') and blue with a green tint. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]] ''- present) The windows also varied, being black, ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' - ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') dirty yellow, ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' - ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') bright white ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' - ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') or pale yellow. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'' - present)
[[File:On_the_Planet_Vortis.jpg|thumb|The TARDIS lands on [[Vortis]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[On the Planet Vortis (comic story)|On the Planet Vortis]]'')]]
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 (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'') The [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] recognised it, ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') as did the [[Black Guardian]]'s operative known as [[the Shadow]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] also recognised it, which led to her reunion with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') [[Donna Noble]] was also on the look-out for the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'') 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 (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'') The TARDIS was seen so much throughout history that, as Sarah Jane explained, you could [[Google]] "Doctor, blue box" and get results. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'') The blog ''[[Into The Unknown (blog)|Into The Unknown]]'' ran an article chronicling sightings of the mysterious blue box throughout history, though were unaware of its true nature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alabama's Blue Box (short story)|Alabama’s Blue Box]]'')
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 (short story)|Useless Things]]'') [[Rosemary Kizlet]]'s team faced "an embarrassment" when they thought the police box in [[Earl's Court tube station|Earl's Court]] was the Doctor's space-time vehicle. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') [[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 (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'') After accidentally aiding [[the Trickster]] by preventing her parents' deaths, Sarah Jane sought out the TARDIS to get the Doctor's help; however, as she time travelled to the 1950s, Sarah Jane mistook a regular police box for the TARDIS since they were "everywhere" at the time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
Because the police box shape was relatively easily recognised, the Doctor made several attempts to change the exterior of the TARDIS. None were particularly successful. In the end, they forewent changing how the TARDIS' outer shell looked by their [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]], deciding that they actually liked it. When [[Mickey Smith]] questioned the wisdom of leaving the TARDIS parked in the middle of Cardiff, thinking the appearance of a police box would draw unwanted attention, the Doctor reasoned that it was not a concern - people would see a blue box in the middle of the city and walk past it, taking no further notice ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'') due to the TARDIS's [[perception filter]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'')
:''These attempts are chronicled at [[chameleon circuit]].''
The exterior of the TARDIS changed shape when it entered [[siege mode]]. In this form, it took the shape of a cube etched with [[Gallifreyan (language)|Gallifreyan]] writing with no way of getting in or out, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') making it look similar to the [[Pandorica]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') If the TARDIS had insufficient power, this mode could not be turned off, leaving life support to fail. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')
By the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s time, the TARDIS exterior was [[Size leak|bigger than it was]] when used by the [[First Doctor]], especially the windows. The Twelfth Doctor commented to his predecessor, "it's all those years of bigger on the inside; you try sucking your tummy in that long." ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')
The integrity of the TARDIS' exterior had brought into question by the Doctor's companions occasionally, in reference to its wooden aesthetic; ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') nevertheless, it had proven to be dense enough to emerge unscathed from the full impact of a car and survive numerous buildings and explosives landing on top of it, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'', [[The Innocent (audio story)|''The Innocent'']]) and even "the assembled hordes of [[Genghis Khan]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') However, a temporal loop could render the TARDIS defenceless, as the Tenth Doctor put it, in situations like that, ''"that wooden door is just wood."'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
=== 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]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)|The Doctor and the Dalek]]'') According to one account, there was only ''one'' door, which opened outward from the left. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[TV Terrors (TVC 709 comic story)|TV Terrors]]'') By the time of the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the doors could be opened by the snap of the fingers. To the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s surprise, this worked for him, too. ([[TV]]:'' [[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', '' [[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') The Eleventh Doctor's companion [[Clara Oswald]] also made use of this ability. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
The right-hand door usually had a [[lock]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'', ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'' et al.) although 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 (TV story)|The War Machines]]'')
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]]'', ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') While the Second Doctor inhabited the TARDIS the emergency phone was sometimes on the right-hand panel, but by the time of his adventure on [[Dulkis]], it had returned to the left-hand door. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators (TV story)|The Dominators]]'') The TARDIS once communicated with [[Timothy Dean]] using its phone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') Although during the Doctor's ninth incarnation, this phone was (usually) non-functional, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') by their eleventh incarnation, the phone could be used to send and receive calls, and this continued into their twelfth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') A sign on this small door offered instructions on use of the phone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
[[File:TARDISat60Fathoms.jpg|thumb|The [[Second Doctor]] enters the TARDIS via the roof. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Peril at 60 Fathoms (comic story)|Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'')]]
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 (comic story)|Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'') [[Peri Brown]] also exited the TARDIS from the door on the roof. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enlightenment (comic story)|Enlightenment]]'') The Doctor also tried to enter through the back panels, the occasional cat flaps and once through the central beacon. It was indicated that these would usually work, but did not in this case. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS (novel)|Heart of TARDIS]]'')
During [[the Flux]] event, affecting [[Time (planet)|Time]], the exterior doors of the TARDIS were prone to disappearing, and new doors kept spawning in the TARDIS interior, each time the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and her [[companion]]s entered from the outside. These doors could show up at odd angles, including on the [[TARDIS control room|control room]] [[floor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)|The Halloween Apocalypse]]'', ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'', et al.)
On most occasions, the left-hand door was set to a fixed position. Likewise, the windows on the door were most often seen in a closed position, though the [[First Doctor]] sometimes opened them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
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]]'')
Sometimes both doors could be pushed ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'') or pulled open, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') but according to the TARDIS herself, the doors should ''not ''open inwards and this was the Doctor opening them wrong - she claimed that they "open out the way". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
The windows on the doors and around the exterior could be opened, at least during the First Doctor's tenure. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'', ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'')
During the Doctor's first incarnation, a faded [[St John Ambulance]] logo could be seen on the door, even though it was sometimes barely visible under a layer of paint. Beginning during their second incarnation, it was not present. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators (TV story)|The Dominators]]'' onwards) When the TARDIS regenerated itself at the start of their [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], a new St John sticker appeared on the door. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') The sticker was completely removed after the TARDIS "did [herself] up" after the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'')
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 (TV story)|Turn Left]]'') When the TARDIS "regenerated" consequent to the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s regeneration, this sign became backlit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' - ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') After the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s regeneration, the sign turned into a black [[plaque]] with white letters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'')
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 (TV story)|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]]'') Later, the Twelfth Doctor travelled for a time with [[Jata]], a member of a race that resembled Terran horses, and who likewise was able to enter and exit through the TARDIS doors. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[From the Horse's Mouth (comic story)|From the Horse's Mouth]]'')
If the TARDIS entered siege mode, the door disappeared entirely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')
=== Lock and key ===
{{Main|TARDIS key}}
==== Operation ====
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 (TV story)|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 lock had a [[metabolism detector]], preventing [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] from using the key. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') The Doctor had designed this function himself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Founding Fathers (audio story)|The Founding Fathers]]'')
It could be opened with the standard Gallifreyan key for its outdated model. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
Rare individuals managed to break open without a key. Among those, the companion [[Adric]] through lock-picking ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') and the [[gastropod]] [[Mestor]] through its [[psychic power]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'')
According to [[Clara Oswald]], the Doctor kept seven separate TARDIS keys hidden throughout the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')
==== Design and features ====
[[File:HendersonKey.jpg|thumb|left|Dr. [[Henderson (Spearhead from Space)|Henderson]] holding the "Yale lock" [[TARDIS key]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')]]
The external design of the key changed over time. It usually appeared to be an ordinary Yale lock key. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', and others) However, it occasionally appeared to have a more ornate, [[Gallifreyan]] motif. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
The key could be modified by the Doctor to track and locate the TARDIS, allowing them to find the TARDIS if it was within a hundred years of their position. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|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 (TV story)|Father's Day]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|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 [[snapping|snapped]] his fingers, ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') although this function was not used consistently until his eleventh incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') [[Clara Oswald]] also displayed this ability twice, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') the second time to shut the doors after the [[Twelfth Doctor]] did the same to open them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') When the Eleventh Doctor taught Clara this ability, he expected that it would take her time to master; he was surprised that she even managed to do this with [[glove]]s on. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
The Doctor has also shown the ability to summon the TARDIS with the key in their eleventh and twelfth incarnations: the Eleventh Doctor used the key to materialise the TARDIS around himself and Clara Oswald to save them from the [[Weeping Angel]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') while the Twelfth Doctor used the key to summon the TARDIS to save him from a free-fall, skydiving through the doors once it appeared nearby. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') In one case, the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] no longer had a key due to losing everything in her pockets after falling out of the TARDIS in midair. In this case, the TARDIS opened the door for her on its own after she told it she had no key. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'')
If modified properly, the TARDIS keys exhibited the perception filter properties of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
== Interior configuration and appearance ==
=== Overview ===
[[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 (novel)|Invasion of the Cat-People]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') The halls also changed, sometimes appearing as sterile halls with roundels, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'') a series of doors with rooms that are bigger on the inside, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'') pathways similar to caves, with lights in the walls, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'', ''[[Cindy, Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook (comic story)|Cindy, Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook]]'') octagonal hallways with roundels serving as lights, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') or futuristic hallways with octagonal doorways. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
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 (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] called this changing "the desktop theme". ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'') When the "desktop theme" was changed, the control room would flash with light and the newly selected version would take its place. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The Doctor was known to favour and dislike desktop themes due to their incarnation's preferences. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'') The TARDIS archived disused (and yet-to-be-used) control room configurations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') The TARDIS could also create and modify rooms on its own accord; for example, to prevent part of the [[architectural reconfiguration system]] from being stolen by shifting rooms and corridors to create a labyrinth, and to preserve passengers from threats by creating copies of the control room to house them in. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
There were at least seven decks inside the TARDIS. Not knowing what some of the buttons did on the console, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] accidentally caused the waste tanks on [[Deck 7]] to release their contents when piloting the TARDIS. Once River Song pointed this out, the Doctor winced "better avoid Deck 7 then." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'')
=== Roundels ===
{{Quote|Hey, look! The round things! [...] What are the round things? |[[Eleventh Doctor]]|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}
Affectionately known to the Doctor as "the round things", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', et. al) 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 (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'', ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'',''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Kane's Story (comic story)|Kane's Story]]'') At least one large roundel functioned as a [[TARDIS scanner|scanner]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]], [[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'')
[[File:11 in 1's TARDIS.jpg|left|thumb|The TARDIS wall was originally covered in roundels. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'')]]
The [[First Doctor]] kept some [[brandy]] in a roundel, ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') which was later found by [[River Song]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') and used one last time by the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') One roundel could display the [[time safe]] when this feature was activated, but otherwise this roundel was apparently normal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Imperial Moon (novel)|Imperial Moon]]'') On the whole, though, the Doctor had little clue as to their purpose, though later incarnations admitted to loving and missing them from the desktops of their respective TARDISes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]], [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') On one occasion, the [[Second Doctor]] removed a roundel, which allowed him to remove one of the outer windows to see outside the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
By their [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], the Doctor had forgotten the purpose of the roundels, yet nonetheless enjoyed their design. The [[Eleventh Doctor]], too, had no idea what purpose the roundels actually served. During a [[Multi-Doctor Event]], the two incarnations happily gushed about the roundels while in the TARDIS as it existed during the [[War Doctor]]'s life. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', et. al) The [[Twelfth Doctor]] would later state he was not happy with his redecoration of the TARDIS because it did not have enough "round things", as he stated he had somehow misplaced most of them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') Later, he would indeed add more roundels to the TARDIS control room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'')
=== Mass ===
[[File:Clara holds the TARDIS.jpg|thumb|The TARDIS, thanks to its adjusted mass, is held by Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')]]
The TARDIS' exterior was always lighter than the "true weight" of its interior. According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], "If the TARDIS were to land with its true weight, it would fracture the surface of the [[Earth]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') The TARDIS was said by [[Romana II]] to weigh fifty thousand tonnes in [[Alzarius]]' gravity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'') "[S]eventeen thousand tons of thrust" was jettisoned for the TARDIS to escape [[Event One]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') One time, when the TARDIS mapped its interior dimensions onto its exterior ones — making it the same size outside as inside — it was larger than [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') It was once described by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as being infinite, as new areas could be created and therefore add more weight. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'') The Twelfth Doctor once adjusted the TARDIS' relative gravity so that [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] could pick it up. This decrease of weight allowed the TARDIS to be light enough that the Doctor was able to, literally, move it by hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')
=== Control room ===
{{Main|TARDIS control room}}
[[File:ElevenAtTheConsole.jpg|thumb|left|One of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s TARDIS consoles. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')]]
The [[TARDIS control room|control or console room]] of the Doctor's TARDIS was the space in which the operation of the craft was usually affected. It was dominated by a large, hexagonal console, typically in or near the middle of the room. The room held 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 (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS]]'') On one occasion, when the TARDIS' exterior dimensions shrank, so did the door on the inside. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') On another occasion, when the [[extrapolator force field|extrapolator shielding]] could easily be breached by the weaponry of the [[New Dalek Empire]], who were "experts at fighting TARDISes", the [[Tenth Doctor]] described "that wooden door" at that point as being "just wood". ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') [[Queen]] [[Elizabeth I]] once pointed out that while the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS was bigger on the inside, the door wasn't, and her head was nearly taken off when the Doctor rode out of the TARDIS with Elizabeth on a [[Zygon]] which took on the [[body-print]] of a [[horse]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
There were many variants of the Doctor's control room. Indeed, the Doctor's TARDIS had more than one control room, the TARDIS itself claiming it had over 30 different versions in storage; being a different kind of temporal being, it could "archive something that hasn't happened." [[Idris]] telepathically told Rory how to go to one of the old console rooms, which, in this case, was the Ninth Doctor's console room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
=== Other rooms ===
==== Accommodations ====
Some of the [[companion]]s shared accommodations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') Many companions had their own [[bedroom]]s in the TARDIS, decorated to their tastes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]]'', ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') Some of the companions were given previously used rooms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')
According to one account, [[the Doctor]] provided a room for each companion, beginning with [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], and stored them all in a [[TARDIS holding ring|holding ring]] once they had departed. Each of these rooms was preserved just as its occupant had left it. At some point, the [[Eighth Doctor]] deleted every room but one. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'')
According to another account, [[Susan's TARDIS bedroom|Susan's bedroom]] was later occupied by a host of other companions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scribbles in Chalk (short story)|Scribbles in Chalk]]'', ''[[House (short story)|House]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') [[Romana's TARDIS bedroom|Romana's room]] was [[Architectural Configuration|jettisoned]] after [[Romana II]] left, as the TARDIS would not [[dematerialise]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') [[Adric's TARDIS bedroom|Adric's room]] was reused by [[Turlough]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') and then remained saved, deep within the TARDIS, into the time of the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tesseract (comic story)|Tesseract]]'')
All remaining bedrooms were deleted by [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]] when it possessed the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') [[Amy Pond's TARDIS bedroom|Amy and Rory's original quarters]] had a [[bunk bed]], much to their consternation. It was here that the couple conceived [[River Song]] on the night of their [[wedding]]. Amy and Rory secured a proper [[bed]] after escaping from House when the Doctor reassigned them to a new bedroom. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] also had [[Clara Oswald's TARDIS bedroom|a bedroom]], which she used if she needed sleep before heading back home to resume her job as [[nanny]] to the Maitland children. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]'')
[[File:10DY2 1 The Doctor's Room.jpg|thumb|The [[Tenth Doctor]] turns the light off in [[The Doctor's TARDIS bedroom|his bedroom]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Rose by Any Other Name (comic story)|A Rose by Any Other Name]]'')]]
The Doctor was asked once if he had a room but never answered. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') The Doctor didn't [[sleep]] as much as humans, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[Good Night (home video)|Good Night]]'', ''[[Bad Night (home video)|Bad Night]], [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') but preferred to sleep when alone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'') One of the few companions to ever see [[The Doctor's TARDIS bedroom|a bedroom used by the Doctor]] was [[Rose (A Rose by Any Other Name)|Rose-the-cat]], who would often sleep near his feet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Rose by Any Other Name (comic story)|A Rose by Any Other Name]]'')
==== Library ====
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:''See also: [[Book#The Doctor and books|the Doctor and books]]''
There was [[TARDIS library|a library]] in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'', ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', ''[[The Dimension Riders (novel)|The Dimension Riders]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Witch from the Well (audio story)|The Witch from the Well]]'') Its [[book]]s 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 (novel)|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 (novel)|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]]'', ''[[The I-Spy Book of British Birds]]'', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]''), ''[[Can You Forgive Her?]]'', the [[James Bond]] novel ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''), ''[[A History of the Varaxil Hegemony]]'', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Witch from the Well (audio story)|The Witch from the Well]]'') the ''[[Encyclopedia Gallifreya]]'', ''[[The History of the Time War]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'') ''[[Wisden]]'', ''[[A Brief History of Time]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fear of the Dark (novel)|Fear of the Dark]]'') [[Ludowig]]'s ''[[Histories of the Dalek Imperium]]'', and the only signed copy of ''[[The Quarry]]'' in the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'') The Doctor also possessed a copy of Christie's ''[[Death in the Clouds]]'' published in the year 5 billion, which they kept in the [[C chest]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Carrionite Curse (audio story)|The Carrionite Curse]]'') a complete set of all 11 ''[[Harry Potter]]'' novels ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') and a book entitled ''[[Advanced Quantum Mechanics]]'' that had an image of the TARDIS in its police-box camouflage on the dust jacket. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The Doctor's library also had books by [[Karel Capek|Capek]] and [[Truman Capote|Capote]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') Unknown to the Doctor, the library also contained books documenting the Doctor’s own adventures, which had been written by the TARDIS itself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Library of Time (short story)|The Library of Time]]'')
The Doctor also kept their [[Five Hundred Year Diary]] in the library. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Young Lions (audio story)|The Young Lions]]'')
Sometimes, small items other than books were also stored in the library. For instance, the [[Eighth Doctor]] kept his [[secateurs]] there, filed under "B" for [[Capability Brown]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Witch from the Well (audio story)|The Witch from the Well]]'')
During his travels with the Doctor, Adric had every book on [[mathematics]] in the TARDIS library. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zaltys (audio story)|Zaltys]]'')
During the time of the Tenth Doctor, there was a specific desk that, no matter where it was moved, always got rained on by a cloud layer in the upper stacks. The Doctor placed a saucepan on the desk to catch the water and keep [[psychic paper]] from mouldering because it produced [[psychic mould]] that would eventually turn into [[psychic mushroom]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'') By the time the Eleventh Doctor was recovering from regeneration after-effects, the pool fell into the library after a crash-landing but was later removed when the TARDIS had finished regenerating itself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') [[Clara Oswald]] also hid in the library when she was running from [[time zombie]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
At one point the [[Fourth Doctor]] discovered a second library, which he described as looking like as "necromancer's study". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Sting in the Tale (audio story)|A Sting in the Tale]]'') The console room 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]]'') The Twelfth Doctor showed similar taste, refurbishing his console room with bookshelves. He often took out a book relevant to a situation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', et al.)
==== Wardrobe ====
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[[File:TARDIS wardrobe room.jpg|thumb|left|The wardrobe room used by the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')]]
The Doctor kept clothing from their previous [[incarnation]]s, as well as clothing for other people, in the [[TARDIS wardrobe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'', ''[[The Androids of Tara (TV story)|The Androids of Tara]]'', ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)|The Idiot's Lantern]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home (audio story)|No Place Like Home]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'') Its appearance changed over time, appearing as either a small closet, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') a storage room, ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') or a proper walk-in closet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') The [[War Doctor]] talked about "wardrobes", suggesting there could be more than one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'')
Some of the clothing in the wardrobe was picked up during travels ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') or left by ex-companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|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 Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', ''[[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]], ''etc.) The Tenth Doctor explained to [[Gabby Gonzalez]] that the TARDIS shopped on her own by landing in stores after hours, collecting clothes to make copies of, and returning the originals to avoid theft. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'') These proved useful on numerous occasions for the Doctor's companions, many of whom left on their travels without bringing many clothes of their own. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'') 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 (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')
By the time of the Doctor's [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]], the TARDIS was equipped with [[replicator]] technology, which allowed it to copy clothing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
[[Jo Grant]] once spent approximately two hours going through the wardrobe trying on different outfits. She considered many of them "groovy". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost in the Machine (audio story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'')
During [[Ace]]'s time in the TARDIS, it was apparently right next to the control room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'') The [[War Doctor]] once, having forgotten where the wardrobe was located, ended up giving incorrect directions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') When the [[Ninth Doctor]] was in [[Cardiff]] on [[24 December]] [[1869]], he gave incredibly long directions to [[Rose Tyler]] to get to the wardrobe; her being able to remember them was nothing short of a miracle. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') When the Tenth Doctor was travelling with Gabby, the wardrobe was located next to the laundry room. While walking to the laundry room, Gabby asked if the boot cupboard was the wardrobe, to which the Doctor explained that the "wardrobe's next door along -- I think. Might've moved it." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'') By the time of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s date with [[River Song]] following the TARDIS' repair, it had changed location. The directions that he gave River were considerably shorter. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''; [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[First Night (home video)|First Night]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]], having landed in [[1814]] at the height of the last [[Frost Fair]], gave directions similar to the ones his ninth incarnation gave to Rose, this time to his companion [[Bill Potts]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')
The [[Tenth Doctor]] once noted that there was a very limited range of women's clothing in the wardrobe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Reaver (audio story)|Time Reaver]]'') This was further backed up by the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], who noted that she had not had to buy women's clothes in "a while". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)|The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]'')
In the Eleventh Doctor's second console room, he gained easy access to the wardrobe through a chest on the sub level. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') The Doctor once changed out of his soaked outfit and into a fresh set of clothes incredibly fast, and when asked by Clara how he changed so quickly, he replied "[[wibbly wobbly, timey wimey|wibbly-wobbly wardrobe]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'') By the time of the Twelfth Doctor, however, entry to the wardrobe required travelling further into the ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')
According to the Thirteenth Doctor, there was a wardrobe hall in a lower substrata of the TARDIS, just off the control room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'')
==== Cloister bell/room ====
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[[File:736px-Eyeofharmony.jpg|thumb|right|The Cloister Room. ([[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 ancient with benches on the sides of the room and plants growing on the crumbling 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]]'')
[[Constance Clarke]] compared the Cloister Room to "an ugly industrial cathedral". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolute Power (audio story)|Absolute Power]]'')
[[Ace]] attempted to relax in the Cloister Room, but gave up when the bell would not stop ringing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'')
When the TARDIS interior went through a metamorphosis, the Cloister room became a grand and gothic room, similar to a place of worship, with an interface with the [[Eye of Harmony]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
The Tenth Doctor later implied that the room had reverted back to a garden state. He explained to [[Gabby Gonzalez|Gabby]] that the dirt molecules in their clothes would be deposited as fertiliser for "the cloisters" by the Laundro De-mat. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
==== Holding ring ====
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The [[TARDIS holding ring|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 the Doctor's former [[companion]]s, preserved as they had been the last time the companions were in the TARDIS. The rooms were saved in chronological order, suggesting that Susan was indeed the Doctor's first companion. Susan later 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", implied to be Susan's. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|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 it states, "for neatness" is unclear. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
==== Swimming pool ====
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[[File:TARDIS swimming pool.jpg|thumb|[[Leela]] swims in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]]
The TARDIS had a [[TARDIS swimming pool|swimming pool]]. It was used by [[Leela]] and [[Borusa]] to hide from the [[Sontaran]]s. Both the [[Fourth Doctor]] and Leela referred to this room as a "bathroom", and the Doctor described what [[K9 Mark I|K9]] called "[being] totally immersed in H2O" in this room as a "fine time to take a bath". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') [[Peri Brown|Peri]] froze the water with liquid nitrogen to turn it into an ice skating rink. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Roof of the World (audio story)|The Roof of the World]]'') It was later jettisoned due to leakage, which [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] found bothersome. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')
It was replaced sometime later. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'') After the TARDIS' crash following the Doctor's twelfth regeneration, the pool's water — or perhaps the pool itself — fell into the library. After the TARDIS had fixed itself, the swimming pool was restored but the Doctor did not know where it was; he stated that the Wardrobe contained "clothes, and, possibly, a swimming pool". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|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 (TV story)|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 (TV story)|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 (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') However, after the TARDIS changed once again, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') the swimming pool was "rebuilt"' and [[Clara Oswald]] walked by and saw it when she was trapped in the TARDIS after a salvage team damaged the ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
==== Zero Room ====
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[[File:Zero Room.jpg|thumb|The [[Fifth Doctor]] recovers in the [[Zero Room]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')]]
The [[Zero 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 eventually built. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance of the Daleks (audio story)|Renaissance of the Daleks]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] placed [[Charley Pollard]] in it in order to cure her from the virus she was infected with during their visit to the [[Amethyst Viral Containment Station]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'') The Seventh Doctor was able to purge the TARDIS of a demonic infection by subtly linking the tertiary console to the Zero Room, cutting the console off from the rest of the ship so that the Doctor could take action against the infection without it being aware of his actions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'') The War Doctor allowed [[Karlax]] to finish regenerating from exposure to the vacuum of space in it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') When the TARDIS was hijacked by the [[Celestial Toymaker]], who wished to use the TARDIS as his new playroom, the Twelfth Doctor trapped him in the Zero Room and ejected it from the TARDIS, making it the Celestial Toymaker's new playroom. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (comic story)|Relative Dimensions]]'')
==== Kitchen ====
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[[File:SusanFoodMachineTEOD.jpg|left|thumb|[[Susan Foreman|Susan]] uses the TARDIS [[food machine]]. ([[TV]]: "[[The Edge of Destruction (episode)|The Edge of Destruction]]")]]
A [[food machine]] area was originally near (but not in) the console room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'' and others) The food machine was apparently reinstalled at some point, since it was among the components Thomas Brewster sold to the crew of the Gamma while in possession of the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Reef (audio story)|Time Reef]]'') Later, the TARDIS had a [[TARDIS kitchen|full kitchen]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Sticks & Stones (comic story)|Sticks & 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 (TV story)|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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') On one occasion, the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Constance Clarke]] went searching for the kitchen so the Doctor could cook a meal for Constance, but he later admitted to her that he'd never been able to find it and it was why he chose to take out instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shield of the Jötunn (audio story)|Shield of the Jötunn]]'')
==== TARDIS Laboratory ====
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Early in her travels with the Doctor, [[Barbara Wright]] found the TARDIS laboratory, where she was assaulted by [[book]]s, boxes and various bits of equipment from the benches. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (novelisation)|The Edge of Destruction]]'')
The [[Third Doctor]] once recalled a time when he created a [[gas]] in the TARDIS lab which pacified a herd of rampaging [[volcano]] creatures. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Arkwood Experiments (comic story)|The Arkwood Experiments]]'')
When [[Ace]] was new on board the TARDIS, she explored its interiors and found the lab. She thought it was similar to [[Frankenstein]]'s lab, but with better lights. Ace didn't tell the [[Seventh Doctor]] she found it, because she knew he'd lock it up to keep her from making [[Nitro-9]]. She couldn't always find the place afterwards. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Echo (short story)|Echo]]'')
==== Laundry room ====
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[[File:TARDIS Laundryroom.jpg|thumb|The [[Tenth Doctor]] shows [[Gabby Gonzalez]] the laundry room. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')]]
Mel said that the Doctor used the [[TARDIS laundry room|TARDIS laundromat]] to wash his clothes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]'') [[Ba]]'s ship once became trapped in the TARDIS laundry room for four weeks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Life in the Day (short story)|A Life in the Day]]'') When the Eighth Doctor's coat was damaged by [[Tractite]]s the TARDIS laundry machine repaired it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'') The Tenth Doctor took Gabby to the TARDIS laundry room after their trip to [[Quomippins]], calling it the "Landro-Demat". He explained that the washing machine worked by dematerialising and analysing the clothes and then separating out the dirt and putting everything back together which meant nothing ever came out damaged. It also had an option that enabled the user to scent their clothes with any of thousands of scents, but it did have a glitch that caused the clothes to become rumpled. After accidentally putting his sonic through the wash, it caused a [[mud avatar|mud monster avatar]] to develop from their dirty clothes and at the end of the cycle, the Doctor's suit ended up with Gabby's flower print and her shirt ended up with pinstripes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
==== Flora and fauna ====
===== Botanical house =====
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The Doctor had a botanical house which contained a man-eating plant. This plant ate a [[Sontaran]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') There was also several miles of heathland where the [[Ecidien Cerebus Bird]] lived. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pursuit of History (audio story)|The Pursuit of History]]'')
===== Garden =====
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[[File:TARDIS garden.jpg|thumb|left|The [[TARDIS gardens|TARDIS garden]] during the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]]
There was a large [[TARDIS gardens|garden]] designed by the Doctor using block-transfer computation that needed to be tended — it contained bougainvillea, Draconian myrtle hedges and Vendican bladder-pods, plus a stream and set of swings. The [[Eighth Doctor]] said he once allowed an entire incarnation to pass without maintaining it. [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] called it the Doctor's 'pride and joy'. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat (audio story)|Scaredy Cat]]'') During the time when [[Jason (Conundrum)|Jason]] and [[Dr. Who (Land of Fiction)|Dr. Who]] controlled the TARDIS, Jason almost drowned [[Wolsey]] in the garden's pond. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'')
===== Park =====
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During the time that the [[Tenth Doctor]] travelled alone after the loss of [[Donna Noble]], the TARDIS spontaneously generated [[TARDIS park|a park]] where he spent two weeks growing [[oak]] trees. After using the [[artificial sun]] to make the branches spell the name "Rose", the Doctor decided it was time to move on from the park. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'')
===== Aquarium =====
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During an attack from a [[temporal mine]], the TARDIS shared its pain with the [[Tenth Doctor]] by vaporising the [[TARDIS aquarium|aquarium]], which caused him to feel the dead [[fish]] in his [[gallbladder]]. [[Christina de Souza (Keeping up with the Joneses)|Christina]] hoped that the Doctor would get his aquarium back. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'') Later, the Eleventh Doctor searched for the aquarium, but gave up on finding it after opening the doors to several other rooms. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')
===== Butterfly room =====
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By the time of the [[Eighth Doctor]], the TARDIS had a [[butterfly room]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') It was a huge room with a hillside and a meadow in it, it housed "about a billion butterflies". The Doctor often sat in a wicker chair at the top of the hill. After spending three years in [[Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre]] he recuperated in the butterfly room. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'')
===== Zoo =====
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As early as the [[Sixth Doctor]], there was a [[TARDIS zoo|zoo]] of endangered [[animal]]s, 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]]'')
==== Others ====
[[File:TARDIS corridor (The Invasion of Time, Part VI).jpg|thumb|left|Corridor in the TARDIS during the Fourth Doctor's time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]]
The [[Fifth Doctor]] showed the TARDIS to [[Erimem]] shortly after she joined the TARDIS. It contained a full-sized cricket pitch (for the Doctor to keep cucumber sandwiches in), several fields, several gardens, a rainforest area, various control relays, "the small library", a storeroom full of terracotta Chinese soldiers, and a Dimensional Induction Chamber. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home (audio story)|No Place Like Home]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] had a cupboard full of spare [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdrivers]] in a workshop, which was situated in Corridor 3, the fourth door along. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'') The [[Ninth Doctor]] had a room full of [[snow globe]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Retail Therapy (audio story)|Retail Therapy]]'')
By the time of the Doctor's [[tenth incarnation]], several rooms from years (and centuries) past still existed deep within the TARDIS, including the [[Cloister Room]] and a [[Adric's TARDIS bedroom|bedroom]] that had once been used by [[Adric]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tesseract (comic story)|Tesseract]]'') Although she did not live full-time aboard the TARDIS, ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', et al.) on occasion [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] slept in a [[Clara Oswald's TARDIS bedroom|spare bedroom]] (in which she could turn on the lights by voice control), with a wall design similar to the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS and she also passed through a smaller version of the library, a tool shed, an Italian bistro and finally a hallway which appeared to be a time loop. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') At one point, however, the TARDIS, apparently in a mischievous mood, made it impossible for Clara to find her way back to the bedroom, even causing her to meet future versions of herself. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]'')
The TARDIS at one point also had extensive utility areas and corridors which, along with the [[TARDIS swimming pool|swimming pool]] area, became battlegrounds during a [[Sontaran]] invasion of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') The Doctor had it up through at least his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video 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 (comic story)|Tesseract]]'')
Other rooms included the [[power room]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]'') the [[shell room]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Little Things (short story)|The Little Things]]'') the [[star chamber]], containing a small [[galaxy]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Persuasion (audio story)|Persuasion]]'') and an [[TARDIS armoury|armoury]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ice Cap Terror (comic story)|Ice Cap Terror]]'') The Twelfth Doctor had a room full of mentions and pictures of [[Ashildr]]'s time as an [[immortality|immortal]]. He believed Clara didn't know about it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'')
The [[architectural reconfiguration system]] was housed in a separate room. The TARDIS made the door disappear in an attempt to stop [[Gregor Van Baalen]] from removing one of its components. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
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 (novel)|The Well-Mannered War]]'') Another contained a claw-foot bathtub, approximately the size of an Olympic pool. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') The bathrooms weren't close together, causing the Doctor to misremember the amount. When [[Jack Harkness]] was using the shower, the [[Ninth Doctor]] offered a waterfall room as a substitute to [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctormania (comic story)|Doctormania]]'')
There was a [[TARDIS sauna|sauna]] lined with wooden panels and benches. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'') It also had a fully-stocked [[TARDIS spa|spa]] next to the [[TARDIS laundry room|laundry room]], which had scented candles, a bathtub and a radio; possibly the Doctor kept a spare outfit or two in this room. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
There was a [[TARDIS laboratory|laboratory]] which [[Ace]] used to create her explosive [[Nitro-9]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
There was a large salon which the [[Fourth Doctor]] referred to as a "[[TARDIS boot cupboard|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 (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'') The Tenth Doctor and Gabby passed the boot cupboard on their way to the laundry room. At the time it was a literal shelf built into the coral walls and overflowed with boots. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
The Doctor had an [[TARDIS art gallery|art gallery]] with works from throughout history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') He had rescued them from the disasters which history stated destroyed them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'')
There was a [[TARDIS garage|garage]]. The Tenth Doctor kept a [[The Doctor's moped|Vespa motor scooter]] in storage within the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)|The Idiot's Lantern]]'') The Sixth Doctor once rented a [[Volkswagen]] and stored it in the TARDIS as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness (novel)|Instruments of Darkness]]'') The Eleventh Doctor had an anti-gravity scooter which he took out of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') [[Clara Oswald]] once parked a motorcycle in the console room; it was subsequently removed from the room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The Doctor's beloved old car, [[Bessie]], was also kept around as well. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[What He Wants... (comic story)|What he Wants...]]'')
It had a [[TARDIS sickbay|sickbay]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blood Furnace (audio story)|The Blood Furnace]]'') The Seventh Doctor treated [[Melanie Bush]] in the sickbay after she was injured by an [[explosion]] in the console room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blood Furnace (audio story)|The Blood Furnace]]'') 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 vivisection. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')
It had a [[TARDIS drawing room|drawing room]], as well, 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 (video game)|The Gunpowder Plot]]'') It's possible the Doctor liked to [[sleep]] here. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'')
There was a [[TARDIS sun room|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 (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
The Eleventh Doctor remarked after a lot of pipe climbing and jumping that he was "[g]oing to reactivate the [[TARDIS gymnasium]] after this." ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')
At some point the TARDIS had a [[LEGO room]] in which [[Clara Oswald]] searched for the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. Several LEGO buildings were scattered around the room. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'')
The [[Fourth Doctor]] had an entire room filled with scarves to choose from, according to [[River Song's diary|River's diary]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') There was apparently enough [[The Doctor's scarf|multicoloured scarves]] to fill up two rooms with boxes of them once the Doctor regenerated and lost interest in them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')
The [[box-room]] was a storage space. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Exodus (comic story)|Exodus]]'')
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 104]] was where thousands of sacks were kept. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'') Though not ''all'' of the Doctor's old clothes ended up there. Some could still be found in the wardrobes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
It had a [[TARDIS workroom|workroom]] filled with tools of various shapes and sizes and a back wall with several coils of wire, though not in an organised state. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')
There was what appeared to be a [[cricket]] club and [[cricket pitch|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]]'') The Doctor and Nyssa found a [[wine cellar]] here whilst looking for the ancillary power cell. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]]'')
The [[Eighth Doctor]] had a [[croquet court]] in the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia (audio story)|Caerdroia]]'') He also created an [[TARDIS art studio|art studio]] for [[Josephine Day]] while she was travelling with him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Music of the Spherions (comic story)|Music of the Spherions]]'')
There were multiple starboard passenger compartments, one of which the Tenth Doctor used as a dry ski slope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'')
There was a [[TARDIS television room|television room]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Turnabout is Fair Play (short story)|Turnabout is Fair Play]]'') a [[TARDIS games room|games room]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]'') and a [[TARDIS theatre|theatre]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mel-evolent (audio story)|Mel-evolent]]'')
There were [[TARDIS water slides|water slides]] and [[TARDIS boating lakes|boating lakes]], as well as a [[TARDIS rainforest|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]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'')
[[River Song]] claimed to have a dressing room in the TARDIS, to the [[Tenth Doctor]]’s surprise. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Precious Annihilation (audio story)|Precious Annihilation]]'')
== 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 (TV story)|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 (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[You Are the Doctor and Other Stories]]'') The Time Lords were also able to pilot the TARDIS by remote control, ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') usually, as the Fourth Doctor once bitterly noted, so he might take care of "some dirty work they don't want to get their lily-white hands on". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS (novel)|Heart of TARDIS]]'') However, this claim may have been at least partly an exaggeration, as the Twelfth Doctor was able to pilot the First Doctor's TARDIS with no issue when his own ship was temporarily stolen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')
The [[Second Doctor]] once used a portable [[Stattenheim remote control]] to summon his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|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 (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') and [[the Silence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
The Doctor was also known, on occasion, to summon the TARDIS using [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|their sonic screwdriver]], particularly during their [[War Doctor|wartime]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thousand Worlds (audio story)|The Thousand Worlds]]'', ''[[The Heart of the Battle (audio story)|The Heart of the Battle]]'', ''[[A Thing of Guile (audio story)|A Thing of Guile]]'') and [[thirteenth incarnation]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A New Beginning (comic story)|A New Beginning]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (TV story)|The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos]]'') However, the TARDIS found this demeaning, and the Thirteenth Doctor noted that the TARDIS got "prickly" at being summoned too often. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A New Beginning (comic story)|A New Beginning]]'')
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]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'', ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'')
The TARDIS could be set for a time-delayed takeoff. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'')
==== The Eleventh Doctor's console ====
The systems of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s [[console room#Sixth version|console room]] prior to his [[retirement]] above Victorian London ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') were fairly well-understood. 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. 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 [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdrivers]] 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]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')
=== 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 (TV story)|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]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'', ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|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 (audio story)|Human Resources]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] was able to use a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman's]] gun inside it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'') 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 (TV story)|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. She then proceeded to fire a bullet into the TARDIS console releasing deadly gases into the control room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] appeared to have restored the temporal grace at some point, as she stated the TARDIS had neutralised Dr [[Leon Perkins]]' gun when he entered the ship. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A New Beginning (comic story)|A New Beginning]]'')
=== 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 (novel)|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 (TV story)|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. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bride of Peladon (audio story)|The Bride of Peladon]]'')
There were also emergency settings established by the Doctor. [[Emergency Program One]] was a way to rescue companions (but not the Doctor themself) if the Doctor's death seemed inevitable, transporting the TARDIS (with the companion inside) back to the companion's respective time and home. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') Another could reunite the TARDIS with the Doctor if they were separated; initially, it required someone to enter the TARDIS and insert an 'authorised command disk' to activate it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink (TV story)|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 (TV story)|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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|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 (audio story)|The Beast of Orlok]]'')
The TARDIS was capable of extensive self-repair after suffering a hull breach. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') After more extensive damage, a complete rebuilding could take place, changing the interior and exterior appearances. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
In the event of a crash-landing, such as when the TARDIS crashed into [[Pete's World|a parallel world]], oxygen gas masks were deployed as a safety measure. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
The TARDIS had an alarm system known as the [[cloister bell]] that activated in dire circumstances. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'', ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'', ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
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 (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') It also was capable of creating a time loop in an area at least as large as ELF Storage as another form of delaying tactic, this time to keep said building's occupants and the Doctor safe from Executioner Daleks, though it had trouble maintaining this loop as it decayed on each go around. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eve of the Daleks (TV story)|Eve of the Daleks]]'') 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 (TV story)|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]]'')
According to the [[First Doctor]], the TARDIS did not have an emergency lighting system. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Marco Polo (novelisation)|Marco Polo]]'')
=== 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. This was called the [[Hostile Action Displacement System]] (HADS) by the [[Second Doctor|Second]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Krotons (TV story)|The Krotons]]'') and [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'') A different HADS existed as well, a "Dispersal" action that scattered the atoms of the TARDIS to keep it from being destroyed; it could be reconstructed by signalling it with a sonic device. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|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. 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]]'')
Prior to the [[Last Great Time War]] and following from the time of the Doctor's [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], the TARDIS had a [[TARDIS force field|generator]] that created [[force field]]s 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 (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') and could protect individuals within it from the vacuum of space. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon (TV story)|The Horns of Nimon]]'', ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'')
After the [[Last Great Time War]], however, the TARDIS no longer possessed a force field generator, causing the [[Ninth Doctor]] to steal and install a [[Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] as a substitute instead. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') The extrapolator pulled the TARDIS a short distance away from the [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]] when she pulled her from the beginning of [[Earth]] to [[2007]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|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.
The [[Twelfth Doctor]] activated what was called "[[siege mode]]" in order for the TARDIS to survive being run over by a train. It prevented anyone from entering and exiting the TARDIS. It also required energy to exit siege mode, which, at the time, the TARDIS did not have. It was activated by pulling a lever on the underside of the console. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')
The [[dimensional displacement system]] protected the TARDIS against Vortisaur attacks in the [[Time Vortex]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'')
In the midst of temporal distortion, the TARDIS interior retreated itself from the exterior as a defence. However, it took a while for the ship to fully reconstitute itself from this defence procedure. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Echoes of War (audio story)|Echoes of War]]'', ''[[One Life (audio story)|One Life]]'')
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]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)|Day of the Vashta Nerada]]'') After [[Karlax]] tried to shoot the [[War Doctor]] inside the TARDIS and instead hit [[Cinder]], who took the shot for the Doctor, the Doctor retaliated by dematerialising the TARDIS and leaving Karlax in the middle of the [[Dalek]] [[Eternity Circle]], where he was swiftly exterminated by them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'')
=== Offensive systems ===
[[File:Size Control TARDIS breaks Ship.jpg|thumb|The outer shell of the TARDIS ruptures a space-vessel as it is enlarged. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Size Control (comic story)|Size Control]]'')]]
The TARDIS later gained some offensive systems of some 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 (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
After they caused a paradox by killing the [[Eighth Doctor]], the TARDIS fought back against two [[Rarkelian]]s by trapping them in two time periods at the same time, a fate [[Helen Sinclair]] thought was horrible. The revived Doctor was able to use the TARDIS to free the assassins by sending them back to their own time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divine Intervention (audio story)|Divine Intervention]]'')
Even after regenerating into his [[War Doctor|war incarnation]] during the [[Last Great Time War]], the Doctor refused to allow weapons to be installed into his TARDIS, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Light the Flame (audio story)|Light the Flame]]'') though he did use his ship in combat. At one point he whirled the TARDIS at [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek saucers]] with enough force to tear through them, bursting through the other side. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') At the [[Fall of Arcadia]] on the last day of the Time War, the War Doctor destroyed a group of [[Dalek]]s by ramming them with the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
=== Intuition circuits ===
Following his encounter with [[the Monk]] in [[1066]], the [[First Doctor]] installed a device in the TARDIS that could detect disturbances in history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Schoolboy's Story (short story)|The Schoolboy's Story]]'') Using a holographic representation of the universe connected to its neural net, the TARDIS was effectively able to make hunches, guesses on where it needed to be. Though the TARDIS was able to guess where it was needed, it was unable to inform the Doctor of what he needed to do once he got there. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[...And Eternity in an Hour (short story)|...And Eternity in an Hour]]'')
The [[Fifth Doctor]] asked the TARDIS to scan the universe for any references to [[Richter's Syndrome]], having it "keep its ears open." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Whispering Forest (audio story)|The Whispering Forest]]'') Towards the end of the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s life, the TARDIS was able to tap into galactic communication networks and eavesdrop on the universe, which is how he learned of the [[Persuasion machine]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Persuasion (audio story)|Persuasion]]'')
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's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') When the Doctor refused to regenerate, the TARDIS took him to meet his [[First Doctor|original incarnation]], to teach him he needed to accept it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
=== Invisibility option ===
[[File:DW 60x1 The Impossible Astronaut 373.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's TARDIS becoming visible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')]]
The TARDIS had the ability to become [[Invisibility|invisible]] though only under special circumstances. It happened during the time of the [[Second Doctor]] when a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] missile struck the TARDIS after it had materialised near the dark side of [[the Moon]]. The missile damaged the ship's [[Visual stabiliser circuit|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 story)|The Invasion]]'')
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] landed the TARDIS invisibly in the [[Oval Office]] in [[1969]]. President [[Richard Nixon]] was present when the TARDIS landed and he remained unaware of it until it became visible. The Doctor said he rarely used this feature because it drained an enormous amount of the TARDIS' power. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'') He also later used invisibility to hide his TARDIS in [[Area 51]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')
The [[TARDIS exterior staircase]] was similarly invisible from the ground below. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')
=== Other systems ===
The TARDIS could extend an [[oxygen]] bubble, or air shell, for a distance beyond its doors, allowing them to be opened while in [[space]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') and even allowing individuals to survive outside the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon (TV story)|The Horns of Nimon]]'', ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'') This could be used to create an [[air corridor]], which the [[Eleventh Doctor]] once used to rescue [[River Song]] from the [[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|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]], [[GAME]]: [[Shadows of the Vashta Nerada (video game)|Shadows of the Vashta Nerada]]'') On at least one occasion, during which [[Salamander]] attempted to launch the TARDIS with the doors open, the TARDIS did not protect the console room from the effects of the vortex. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'')
The TARDIS had systems to protect its occupants from alien viruses they might encounter on their travels. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'') The console room also contained [[nanite]]s capable of providing medical treatments, including healing [[Ace]]'s burst ear drums and curing [[Charlotte Pollard]] after she was poisoned. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)|The Shadow of the Scourge]]'', ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'')
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 (TV story)|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-ROM]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|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 (TV story)|Blink]]'')
The TARDIS could be put one second out of sync 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 possessed [[translation circuits]] which allowed the Doctor and others to understand a wide variety of languages. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'')
The TARDIS had a link to [[the Matrix]]. Following the [[Last Great Time War]], this Matrix was the only one left. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')
The TARDIS had a [[chronon shell]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'') as well as an [[TARDIS matrix|interior matrix]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
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 story)|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 (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The One (comic story)|The One]]'') The Doctor displayed the ability to do this himself when landing in President Nixon's office in [[1969]], but chose to keep the sound even after he became aware of how to stop it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') While conversing with the [[War Doctor]], [[the Moment]] noted this sound saying that it and the fact that it heralded the appearance of the TARDIS and the Doctor brought hope to anyone who heard it, no matter how lost. The War Doctor agreed, saying that he liked to think it did, not getting that she was referring to him since the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor were about to materialise their TARDISes when he had no hope left. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
The Eleventh Doctor also said once that the console had buttons for [[ketchup]] and [[mustard]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|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|The TARDIS voice interface in the form of Amelia Pond. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')]]
The TARDIS had "[[telepathic circuit]]s" that could transmit messages to individuals through their thoughts. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') The telepathic circuits could also be linked to an individual, allowing them to fly the TARDIS using their thoughts and memories. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]], [[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') They could also be used to gather space-time coordinates. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
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 (TV story)|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 (TV story)|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 (TV story)|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 (TV story)|Hide]]'')
The TARDIS had an extractor fan. This was used to get rid of gases in the control room. It could be activated by voice command or from the console. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]], [[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]], [[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
The TARDIS contained a [[TARDIS lift|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]]'')
The TARDIS was provided with a [[seismic scanner]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'')
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] claimed that the TARDIS had a GPS with the voice of [[Davros]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trouble in Paradise (audio story)|Trouble in Paradise]]'')
A [[lambent tachyonic visualiser]] existed in the control room of the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'')
The TARDIS had an automatic oxygen supply. 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 (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'')
According to the Twelfth Doctor, "[t]he TARDIS should be able to detect anything in [[N-Space|the known universe]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')
As the TARDIS was a Type 40, it had a control room for the technology of the Dimensioneers of [[Gallifrey]] which allowed access and manipulations of other dimensions. {{Macqueen|c}} took advantage of this in one of this schemes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')
The [[time anomaly relocation distributor]] shifted the TARDIS forward in time by an hour if it detected a threat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aquitaine (audio story)|Aquitaine]]'')
The central column was able to dispense a [[biscuit]] for the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'')
The TARDIS was equipped with several [[shaving machine]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mire and Clay (short story)|Mire and Clay]]'')
== Personality ==
In the first time, the [[First Doctor]] showed to be not fully aware of the consciousness of his vessel, until its first attempt to communicate when it warned the crew of its impending destruction by developing faults and allowing the Doctor to find the problem. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'') Indeed, despite being a machine, the TARDIS was sentient and 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 (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') Though intelligent, it was usually unable to communicate in words with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'')
Even though the TARDIS did not always take the Doctor where he wanted to go, it always took him where he ''needed'' to be. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] considered "her" to be one of his most trusted companions; ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'') a sentiment the TARDIS itself shared, believing itself to be “the Doctor’s oldest and most cherished companion”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Library of Time (short story)|The Library of Time]]'') 
The TARDIS showed great fondness towards the Doctor. It claimed “the sight of them always [brought] feelings of comfort and home”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious" (short story)|What the TARDIS thought of “Time Lord Victorious”]]'') When the Doctor's history was changed so their [[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. Had it not, the Doctor would likely have become corrupted by the Faction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
When the Eighth Doctor was killed by two [[Rarkelian]]s, the TARDIS latched onto the paradox created to partially restore itself (having been inactive since being attacked by the [[Ravenous]]) and to fight back by reviving him and trapping the assassins in two time periods at once. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divine Intervention (audio story)|Divine Intervention]]'') 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; after succeeding, it indulged the Doctor by taking the form of [[Susan Foreman]] for a while, allowing the [[Tenth Doctor]] an ersatz reunion with his granddaughter. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')
Whilst it’s overall loyalty remained the same, the TARDIS appeared to have somewhat different opinions of specific incarnations. At one point it reflected on various Doctors, claiming the Tenth Doctor was “afraid of Death”, expressing how it missed the [[Ninth Doctor]], viewing the [[Eighth Doctor]] as the “last of the carefree Doctors”, and remembering how the [[Seventh Doctor]] “played terrible games with eternity and pullovers“. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious" (short story)|What the TARDIS thought of “Time Lord Victorious”]]'')
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 (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] both recalled witnessing the Doctor stroking parts of the console. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') 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 (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
On several key occasions, the TARDIS's close bond with the Doctor proved to be decisive in interaction with other TARDISes. When the [[Seventh Doctor]] had the consciousness of a nascent TARDIS planted in his mind as part of a Time Lord experiment, not only was the new consciousness more stable than other such imprints due to his link to his own TARDIS, but another TARDIS-mind was later able to communicate with the Doctor's ship and use that insight to understand what they should do. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate]]'') When the Eleventh Doctor accidentally caused a [[Type 1]] TARDIS to panic and unleash [[anti-time]] across the universe out of fear at the chaos it read from the Doctor's mind, the other twelve Doctors were able to convince the Type 1 to stop by linking it to their own TARDISes, the Type 1 accessing the TARDIS's databanks and convincing it that the universe was worth preserving. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')
The TARDIS had varying opinions of the Doctor's companions. It considered most of them to be strays and usually couldn't even remember their names, calling [[Amy Pond]] "the orangey girl" and [[Rory Williams]] "the pretty one". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') When [[Frobisher]] abused the dimensional stabilisers to create holographic gumblejack fish to hunt, the TARDIS went “on strike”, in the Sixth Doctor’s words. It took them to [[Eugene's World|Eugene’s World]], seemingly to force Frobisher to learn a lesson about the value of simulated life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Holy Terror (audio story)|The Holy Terror]]'') The only companion it showed a particular liking to was [[River Song]], although this was mainly because the TARDIS was, in a way, River's second mother since it had given her Time Lord DNA when River was conceived inside it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
The TARDIS was prejudiced towards certain companions, liking River because it considered her to be its "child" but also showing dislike for "impossible" companions, notably [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Clara Oswald]], and it went to the end of the universe in an attempt to shake off Jack ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') and refused to open for Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'', ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'') It also distrusted [[Charlotte Pollard]] during her travels with the Sixth Doctor, witholding from her the protections from alien viruses that it usually afforded its occupants. This left Charley vulnerable to [[Mila]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'')
The TARDIS had a tendency to be rather petty and spiteful to people it disliked. When [[Putta Pattershaun 5]] entered the TARDIS, he sensed it disliked him. In order to upset it, he insulted the TARDIS, Gallifrey, Time Lords, and the Doctor. The TARDIS lifted him up into the air and flung him out the doors. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Drosten's Curse (novel)|The Drosten's Curse]]'') It seemed to enjoy annoying Clara simply because Clara was impossible. The Doctor said the TARDIS was like a cat and was slow to trust. Clara once described the TARDIS as a "grumpy old cow". ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
One night the TARDIS played an elaborate practical joke on Clara that involved scaring her with a holographic leopard in the bathroom and time-looping the human and preventing her from finding the bedroom — while at the same time meeting multiple versions of herself. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]'') As time passed, however, the TARDIS came to warm up to Clara, to the extent that Clara was able to open the TARDIS doors with a snap of her fingers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') The TARDIS even extended its shielding around Clara to protect her through the Time Vortex when she hung onto the outside of the ship even though it meant it would take the TARDIS three hundred years to return to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
While possessed by the [[Zagreus]] entity, the TARDIS used an avatar appearance of [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] to interact with the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Charley Pollard]] and [[Rassilon]]. Similarly to the Doctor during this infection, the TARDIS portrayed a twisted and evil personality, going as far as torturing the Doctor and shooting former companion [[Leela]]. It showed hatred towards the Doctor's companions, specially envying his love for Charley. However, her "good side" still tried to help the Doctor, by creating ways to stop the [[anti-time]] infection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')
The TARDIS displayed a somewhat manipulative side. It claimed to have shaped the Doctors with “a lot of carefully accidental wrong turns”. When the Doctor created a [[Time Fracture]] by saving [[Adelaide Brooke]], the TARDIS planned how it could use the Fracture to take the Doctor to the [[Dark Times]] so he could resolve his “unfinished business” there. It also gave [[Brian (The Guide to the Dark Times)|Brian]], an [[Ood]] who had fallen into the [[Time Vortex]], “a nudge” in the belief he might be useful to the Doctor there. It wondered whether the Seventh Doctor would have been proud of her for this behaviour. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious" (short story)|What the TARDIS thought of “Time Lord Victorious”]]'')
It also exhibited a rudimentary sense of humour. Whilst her mind was uploaded to the telepathic circuits, [[Lucie Miller]] heard some of the TARDIS’ thoughts, causing her to giggle. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Worldwide Web (audio story)|Worldwide Web]]'') The TARDIS later appeared to tease the Eleventh Doctor by 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 it for not at least including "[[K9|the tin dog]]". ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS]]'') It did something similar when showing [[Clara Oswald]] images of past companions, including choosing a full-length image of Amy showing her legs as opposed to the simple portrait photos otherwise shown; this slideshow occurred after Clara [[deduce]]d laughter coming from the console when she asked if she was the first girl to stay the night in the TARDIS. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]'') The TARDIS also seemed to openly mock Clara by choosing Oswald's form for its holographic interface at one point. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
In many of their incarnations, the Doctor anthropomorphised it by referring to the TARDIS as "she" or "her" (common practice on Earth when referring to vessels). Some accounts suggest that the [[consciousness]] at the heart of the TARDIS ''was'' female. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe (short story)|The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') The TARDIS owed [[Mother G]] "a favor or two". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Mistress of Chaos (comic story)|Mistress of Chaos]]'')
[[File:Doctor's-wife.jpg|thumb|right|The TARDIS and her "thief". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|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, it thought [[Rory Williams|Rory]] was "pretty" and stated that ''it'' had chosen the Doctor as a travelling companion. It also referred to the TARDIS remains in a junkyard as "her sisters", implying that it considered all TARDISes on some level as female. Although the TARDIS had a habit of forgetting the Doctor's companions it did 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". It was puzzled by the Doctor's reference to [[fish finger]]s.
When asked its name by the Doctor, it chose to be called "Sexy" because that's what he called it in private, later introducing itself to Rory and Amy this way. It 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?" after the TARDIS lost its body, the TARDIS independently operated one of its own levers, thus proving its sentience and that it could indeed hear the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
The TARDIS' loyalty and affection for the Doctor continued following the Idris encounter, as [[Clara Oswald]] during one incident convinced the TARDIS to ''pilot itself'' into a [[pocket universe]], despite the risks to the ship, in order to rescue the Doctor. It should be noted however that the TARDIS did consider leaving the Doctor to die, showing a bit of cowardice until Clara persuaded it to rescue him. The TARDIS didn't like Clara but realised that it was being selfish when Clara spoke to it and went to rescue the Doctor. Not long after, the Doctor apparently managed to convince it to do it again in order to rescue an alien from the same universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
The Doctor and the TARDIS did fall out on occasion. It appeared to resist the Eighth Doctor’s efforts to go to the end of the universe after the deaths of Lucie and [[Alex Campbell]], allowing the Time Lords to immobilise it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'') When the Eleventh Doctor attempted to pilot it to the site of his own grave on [[Trenzalore]], the TARDIS forcibly shut down, halting itself in orbit above the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') When he later put it up for auction as a distraction in the [[Obsidian Mainframe]], the TARDIS barred him entry ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pay the Piper (comic story)|Pay the Piper]]'') and appeared to go along with [[Danny Fisher|Danny Fisher’s]] plan to wipe out [[Cornucopia]]. Once the Doctor apologised it ended its cooperation with Danny, with the Doctor believing they had “talked it over”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Blood of Azrael (comic story)|The Blood of Azrael]]'')
According to [[River Song]], the Doctor could just "swagger off back to his TARDIS" after defeating whole armies and "open the doors with a snap of his fingers". The [[Tenth Doctor]] responded that "Nobody can open a TARDIS by snapping their fingers," and that it didn't work like that, but after River died, he tested this ability out and found that River was telling the truth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'') The Doctor has been seen to use this ability a few times ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') with it only failing once due to [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]] being in control instead of the TARDIS itself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') Despite the TARDIS' former animosity towards her, [[Clara Oswald]] later gained this ability. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'')
Later, the TARDIS even allowed Clara to pilot her on two occasions using a psychic link; on the first occasion this was at the Doctor's behest, but the second occasion occurred when the Doctor was incapacitated and at Clara's initiative, even though it resulted in Clara unintentionally transporting the TARDIS to Gallifrey early in the Doctor's life, despite the potential for a paradox to occur. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') Clara was later allowed to help the Doctor pilot at times ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'' et al) and displayed the ability to pilot [[Clara's TARDIS|another TARDIS]] on her own from her experience with the Doctor's TARDIS, despite the layout being different. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
When the [[Twelfth Doctor]] hesitated to regenerate, the TARDIS flashed the lights, particularly on the centre column, at the Doctor when he commented on how saving the universe was a treadmill. The Doctor responded to the TARDIS' actions, stating that "yes, yes I know they'll get it all wrong without me." The TARDIS then flashed its lights at him again, only stopping when he decided to regenerate after all. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') Shortly after the regeneration, the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] called out to the TARDIS upon finally reuniting with her ship, asking it to "come to daddy" before remembering her new body's gender, correcting herself by saying "mommy". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'') During [[the Flux]], the TARDIS sustained damage but the Doctor made efforts to repair it after the crisis had passed. At the same time, the TARDIS established a [[time loop]] around the Doctor and her companions to protect them from a squad of [[Dalek Executioner]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eve of the Daleks (TV story)|Eve of the Daleks]]'')
== Destruction ==
Over its long history with the Doctor, the TARDIS came to several ends where it was actually destroyed, either rebuilding itself later or stopping the damage from occurring in the first place through temporal actions. These "deaths" included;
* Breaking apart while exposed to the forces outside the universe ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]'')
* The internal dimensions collapsing due to missing components ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Reef (audio story)|Time Reef]]'')
* Burning in [[time spillage]] from a [[vortex rupture]]; this assault was averted before complete destruction but still required the ship to rebuild itself ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'')
* Being broken apart by the [[gravity]] manipulations of [[Tractator]]s, requiring the [[Gravis]] to pull it back together ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'')
* Shattering across the infinity of time for a second due to a temporal explosion ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Paper Cuts (audio story)|Paper Cuts]]'')
* Reforming into a [[SARDIT]] after colliding with the [[Time Scaphe]] and being invaded by the [[Process]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
* Being [[time ram]]med by an [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|alternative TARDIS]] on the [[Silurian Earth]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'') only escaping due to a [[Fortean Flicker]] displacing it just before destruction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
* Being anchored in [[2044]] whilst [[Elizabeth Klein]] was attempting to use it to travel to [[2144]], resulting in the internal dimensions of the TARDIS being torn from its external dimensions, turning it into an ordinary police box. This was undone when Klein was erased from history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Architects of History (audio story)|The Architects of History]]'')
* Being erased from existence by a [[conceptual bomb]], until the Doctors managed to avert the circumstances that led to the bomb being deployed against them in the first place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
* Being torn apart after being caught in a dimensional rift leading between Earth and [[Avalon (The Shadows of Avalon)|Avalon]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') caused by her sister [[Lolita]] in revenge for rejecting her alliance and starting her own generation of [[103-form]] timeships through the Doctor's companion [[Compassion]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Toy Story (short story)|Toy Story]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The TARDIS was only able to restore itself by latching on to [[I.M. Foreman]]'s [[bottle universe]], but the [[Faction Paradox]] [[biodata virus]] mutated it into the [[Edifice (TARDIS)|Edifice]] until the Doctor drained its power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
* Being drained by the [[Ravenous]], resulting in it crashing in London in [[2020]] and the interior collapsing, with the ship appearing to be a normal police box for weeks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'', ''[[Lost Property (audio story)|Lost Property]]'') The TARDIS was eventually able to begin to restore itself by latching on to a [[paradox]] triggered by [[Rarkelian]]s killing the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divine Intervention (audio story)|Divine Intervention]]'')
* Colliding with an [[Acari]] ship which caused the [[fifth dimension]] to split in two, triggering [[Event level chronal distortion|distortion]] which tore apart the ship. The [[Tef’Aree]] returned [[Emily Winter]] to the TARDIS a few seconds before it was destroyed, enabling her to prevent the event. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tesseract (comic story)|Tesseract]]'')
* Exploding and causing the [[Time Field]] after being taken over by [[the Silence]]. It was restored after [[Big Bang Two]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
* Having the engines [[Alternate timeline (Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)|explode upon collision]] with the salvage ship whilst the defences were down. However, the TARDIS froze the explosion by "wrapp[ing] her hands around the force" to give the Doctor time to resolve the issue, by using a rift created by the collision to warn his past self prior to the explosion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
The [[Supreme Dalek (The Magician's Apprentice)|Supreme Dalek]] ordered the destruction of the TARDIS, but it survived using its [[HADS|Hostile Action Dispersal System]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'' / ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
==Alternate versions==
===Alternate timelines===
In an [[Silurian Earth|unstable mini-universe]] created by [[First Monk|the Monk]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|the Doctor's TARDIS]] shutdown after the [[Third Doctor]]'s death at [[Wenley Moor]]. It was revived by [[Ace]] from the main timeline and used by the [[Seventh Doctor]] as his TARDIS had been lost in a tar pit. The Doctor used it to [[time ram]] his original ship to destroy the alternate timeline and continued travelling in it, believing his TARDIS destroyed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'') Initially this TARDIS' [[chameleon circuit]] was working again, however the Doctor eventually chose to deliberately break it again to keep the TARDIS in the police box shape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') The Doctor travelled in this TARDIS until being reunited with his original at [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s wedding, giving the alternate version over to [[Muldwych]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
In an alternate timeline where the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II|Romana]] died on [[Veridis]], the TARDIS began dying, with roundels cracking, the [[food machine]] breaking down and rooms disappearing. After some weeks there was nothing left. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Full Life (audio story)|A Full Life]]'')
In an [[alternate timeline (Klein's Story)|alternate timeline]] created by the Seventh Doctor and Ace's capture at [[Colditz]] in [[1944]], the Nazis captured the Doctor's TARDIS in [[1962]], shooting the Doctor when he emerged from the ship at a checkpoint. The [[Eighth Doctor|regenerated Doctor]] manipulated Nazi scientist [[Elizabeth Klein]], who was studying the TARDIS, into using the ship to travel back to 1944, having pre-programmed it to abandon her upon taking her there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Klein's Story (audio story)|Klein's Story]]'')
In an alternate timeline created by Elizabeth Klein repeatedly changing history, the Doctor was sent to stop her by the Time Lords in a TARDIS which was capable of erasing her from history. This TARDIS had black walls and low lighting and was able to disguise itself using a [[perception filter]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Architects of History (audio story)|The Architects of History]]'')
In a [[Donna's World|parallel world]], [[Rose Tyler]] believed that the TARDIS was dying due to the Doctor's death. Indeed, the TARDIS seemed to be in bad shape though it continued to try to help. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')
In [[Alternate timeline (The Name of the Doctor)|the alternate timeline]] where the Doctor died on [[Trenzalore]], the TARDIS itself was dying as well, presumably due to the Doctor's death and had grown to a giant size due to a "[[size leak]]" and acted as his tomb on the ruined planet. Its console room was overgrown and the console replaced by a bright light that was a scar allowing access to the Doctor's [[time stream]]. It was infiltrated by the [[Great Intelligence]] who subsequently lured the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] there, using them to access the control room to enter the Doctor's time stream. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
===Parallel universes===
In one [[parallel universe (Auld Mortality)|parallel universe]], [[The Doctor (Auld Mortality)|the Doctor]] made to steal a [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Auld Mortality)|TARDIS]] but was prevented from actually leaving by [[Quences (Auld Mortality)|Quences]]. The Doctor lived inside the TARDIS for years, unaware of its true nature, until [[Susan (Auld Mortality)|Susan]] helped him overcome Quences' deceptions. He subsequently departed Gallifrey in the ship, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Auld Mortality (audio story)|Auld Mortality]]'') and travelled freely through time and space in it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Storm of Angels (audio story)|A Storm of Angels]]'')
In the [[Unbound Universe]], the [[Unbound Doctor]] also travelled in a [[Unbound Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] which became stuck in the shape of a police box. After his trial at the hands of the [[Time Lord (Sympathy for the Devil)|Time Lords]], the TARDIS was fitted with an inhibitor, limiting it to moving only in space, and brought the Doctor to his exile in [[Hong Kong]]. The Doctor was able to overcome the inhibitor using a nuclear explosion, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)|Sympathy for the Devil]]'') and resumed his travels across the universe in the ship, accompanied by [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Unbound Universe)|Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masters of War (audio story)|Masters of War]]'') After the [[Great War (The Library in the Body)|Great War]], the Doctor attempted to use the TARDIS to escape to [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s universe, but failed. He and Benny travelled together in the exhausted TARDIS, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Library in the Body (audio story)|The Library in the Body]]'', ''[[Planet X (audio story)|Planet X]]'', ''[[The Emporium At The End (audio story)|The Emporium at the End]]'') eventually using the power of the [[Great Old Ones]] to enable the ship to reach her universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)|The True Saviour of the Universe]]'')
In another [[Parallel universe (Full Fathom Five)|parallel universe]], [[The Doctor (Full Fathom Five)|the Doctor]] became separated from the [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Full Fathom Five)|TARDIS]] at the [[Deep-sea Energy Exploration Project|DEEP]]. Decades later he returned to reclaim it, but was shot and killed before he could retrieve the ship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Full Fathom Five (audio story)|Full Fathom Five]]'')
In one [[Parallel universe (Exile)|parallel universe]], [[The Doctor (Exile)|the Doctor]] was imprisoned in [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Exile)|her TARDIS]] after her sentence was increased from exile due to her escape attempt. She was told that if she attempted to use the controls to escape the ship would dematerialise permanently, erasing her, however a letter from a Time Lord claimed this was not the case and she could escape. The Doctor chose to set the controls, wondering if the letter was actually true. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'')
== 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 television series since 1963, it has almost always been essentially a mode of conveyance, with the majority of stories taking place away from the vessel. There have been a few exceptions, such as ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'' and ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'' in which the entire action of a story takes place within the TARDIS. ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'' also falls into this category, although given the illusory nature of the story, much of it was filmed on locations and sets other than the actual TARDIS. ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|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 ''[[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 (comic story)|Tesseract]]''. In the television story ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' areas were used by [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|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. Later, ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'' gave an extensive tour of the TARDIS.
* The Doctor's TARDIS appeared in the video game {{wi|Fallout (video game)|Fallout}} in a random encounter.
* The Doctor's TARDIS also appeared in the 2013 video game {{wi|Call of Duty: Ghosts}} as a trophy stating "awarded for the largest interior with the smallest exterior."
* The TARDIS has appeared in every televised ''Doctor Who'' story with the exception of ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'', ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', and ''[[The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)|The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]''. A hallucination of the TARDIS interior appears in ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', but not the actual TARDIS.
* The characteristic wheezing noise of the dematerialising TARDIS is made by scraping a key against a piano wire.
* The TARDIS makes a brief cameo in {{wi|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 {{wi|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 Nazis' ships approach Earth, it is seen flying by quickly.
* In a deleted scene from ''Journey's End'', the Doctor gives the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]] a chunk of TARDIS while Donna tells them a fast way of growing one.
* [[Neil Gaiman]], writer of ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', writing in ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', indicated that Idris/the TARDIS was at one point also scripted to remark that it chose to remain in the police box form, not because of a broken chameleon circuit, but because the Doctor liked it. It also was to have qualified it calling Rory "pretty" and Amy as "the orangey girl" by stating it rarely remembered the names of the Doctor's companions.
* [[Suranne Jones]]' performance as the TARDIS in ''[[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. Prior to this episode, [[Nicholas Courtney]] portrayed the TARDIS infected by [[anti-time]] and acting of its own free will in the form of Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Lethbridge-Stewart]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''. The TARDIS' interface, which allows limited direct communication, later allowed two other actresses to portray an aspect of the TARDIS: [[Caitlin Blackwood]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'' as the interface takes the form of young [[Amy Pond|Amelia Pond]]; and [[Jenna Coleman]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'' as the interface takes the form of [[Clara Oswald]].
* The scene in the TV story ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'' where the Third Doctor mentions his TARDIS' and the Master's TARDIS' models of dematerialisation circuits turns out differently in the novelisation ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]''. In the novelisation, the Doctor specifies his TARDIS as "one of the original Mark One's [sic]", while the Master's TARDIS is "one of these flashy Mark Two jobs", and that this is the reason why the two circuits are not interchangeable.
* The TARDIS is both an ally and an enemy in the ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'' mobile game. In addition, a special Doctor-like ally called "A Mad Man with a Box", which has an appearance of the TARDIS was created for one of the anniversaries of the game.
* In the online game Wizard101, a special event (known as the "Five B.O.X.E.S.") features ''Doctor Who'' themes: it revolves around players assisting a character known as "The Professor" (a parody of "The Doctor"), who owns the "B.O.X." (a red-coloured TARDIS, disguised as a 'Telegraph Box'), with combating a villain called "The Maestro" (a parody of "The Master"), who seeks to disrupt the present by changing the past.
*In older episodes of ''Doctor Who'', especially from the First Doctor's era, characters often refer to the TARDIS as just "TARDIS" without "the," as if it is a proper noun, such as "Use TARDIS" and "TARDIS is."  Often, even within the same episodes, other characters say "the TARDIS."
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The Doctor's TARDIS was a TARDIS in which the Ninth Doctor and the Master travelled. It had a police box exterior and a mobile phone behind the front panel of the exterior doors.

When the Doctor's TARDIS dematerialised and rematerialised, an arc of lightning arced from the light on the top. The interior of the Doctor's TARDIS consisted of a control room with a large spiral staircase around the outside of the room. The TARDIS control console was round with panels set around it with mostly brass-like controls. There was a large section of technology set atop the central column that, whilst dematerialising, moved up and down.

Additionally there was a Zeppelin hangar, which the Master would on occasion leave the Doctor's umbrella stand in. (NOTVALID: Scream of the Shalka)

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