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| [[Image:St--7d67.jpg|thumb|right|The Rani's TARDIS in the form of a translucent pyramid in "Time and the Rani."]]The '''chameleon circuit''' enables the outer plasmic shell of a [[TARDIS]] to assume any shape, in order to blend in with its surroundings. A TARDIS with a functioning chameleon circuity can appear as almost anything, if its owner desires. The owner can program the circuit to make it assume a specific shape or else the TARDIS itself can decide what form to take.
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| ==The Doctor's chameleon circuit==
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| The chameleon circuit of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], however, has rarely worked properly since the [[First Doctor]] made a sudden departure from [[Totter's Lane]], [[Shoreditch]], [[1963]], and has usually remained in the shape of a [[London]] [[police box]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'')
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| The Doctor has occasionally attempted to fix his TARDIS's chameleon circuit. He hoped to repair it in [[Logopolis]] by using [[block transfer computations]], but [[the Master]] interfered with the Logopolitans' calculations. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''). He succeeded in repairing it for a brief period when he returned to Totter's Lane in [[1986]], but it quickly reverted to its usual police box form. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
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| The Doctor once referred to the chameleon circuit as a "cloaking device", possibly for the benefit of the [[American]] [[Grace Holloway]], who was probably familiar with ''[[Star Trek]]''. The fact that the Doctor hesitated slightly before using the term "cloaking device" suggests that he was trying to think of an alternative to "chameleon circuit". ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]'')
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| :''It has been suggested that when the Doctor "borrowed" his TARDIS from [[Gallifrey]], it was in for repairs, and one of the broken systems was the chameleon circuit.''
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| ==Other chameleon circuits==
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| Other TARDISes have displayed the versatility of which a working chameleon circuit is capable.
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| [[The Monk's TARDIS]] appeared as a sarcophagus in an [[England|English]] church of [[1066]], ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Meddler]]''), a large stone on [[Tigus]], and a stone block in Ancient [[Egypt]]. The Doctor caused it to appear as an Ionic column, a stage coach, a tree, an igloo, a rocket, and a biplane before impishly setting it as a police box. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
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| [[The Master's TARDIS]] has appeared as a horse box ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]''), a computer bank ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]''), a Corinthian column ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Time-Flight]]''), a grandfather clock ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''), the calcified [[Melkur]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''), a police box ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''), a fireplace ([[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''), a [[Concorde]] airplane ([[DW]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'') and an "[[iron maiden]]" ([[DW]]: ''[[The King's Demons]]'').
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| [[The Rani's TARDIS]] took the form of both a cabinet ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') and a translucent pyramid ([[DW]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'').
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| [[Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS]] is in the shape of a red double decker bus (Number 22 to Putney Common), and is (at one point according to Iris) slightly smaller inside than out. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[The Blue Angel]]'', ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Verdigris]]'')
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| Professor [[Chronotis' TARDIS]] looked like his rooms at [[St. Cedd's College]]. ([[Shada]])
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