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|name = The Doctor's TARDIS
|type        = [[Type 40]], Mark 3 [[TARDIS]]
|origin      = [[Gallifrey]]
|first=  An Unearthly Child (TV story)
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'''The Doctor's TARDIS''' — also called '''the Ship''', '''the Box''', and '''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 in his vessel from the [[Big Bang]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Slipback]]'') to the [[end of the universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]], [[Listen]]'') The craft was also capable of travelling between parallel realities in spite of the fact that it was not specifically designed for inter-dimensional travel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
 
Other [[Time Lord]]s frequently characterised the Doctor's TARDIS as woefully out-of-date.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]]'')  Indeed, by at least the time of the Doctor's [[fourth incarnation]], if not much earlier, the model — called a "[[Type 40]]" — had been pulled from general service on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
 
The craft was prone to a number of technical faults, ranging from depleted resources  ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]'') to malfunctioning controls ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'') to a simple inability to arrive at the proper time or location. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'' and many others)  However, because the TARDIS was a living being, these "faults" may instead have been at least partially attributed to the manifestation of the ship's free will. Indeed, the TARDIS itself once told the [[Eleventh Doctor]] that 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 centuries passed and all of the Doctor's companions came and went, his faithful TARDIS remained his constant companion. They shared an unbreakable bond, and the Doctor came to feel that in the end, it was just him and his TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') Such was this bond, that, in 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]]'')
 
== Procurement ==
In his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]], the Doctor implied he had built his TARDIS himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]'') Whether there was some truth to this or not, he and others later stated that he had, in fact, stolen it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', ''[[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 Doctor's Wife]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (graphic novel)|The World Shapers]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trial of the Valeyard]]'') The TARDIS was once owned by the [[Time Lady]] [[Marianna]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Abandoned (audio story)|The Abandoned]]'') and later by the [[Time Lord]] [[Marnal]], and due to his exile at the time of the Doctor's procurement of the TARDIS, he claimed that the Doctor stole it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') Other accounts differ to this, and implied it came from the general, [[High Council of Time Lords|government]]-controlled "stockpile" of TARDISes after the model had been officially decommissioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] told [[Adric]] that "it was in for repairs on Gallifrey when [he] borrowed it." When the [[Alzarian]] countered that he thought the Doctor outright owned the vehicle, the Doctor said, "Well, on a sort of 'finders, keepers' basis, yes." ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
 
When the Doctor first decided to leave Gallifrey, he had the chance to take a Type 53, but dismissed it as "soulless" in favour of the Type 40. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') The Doctor received a recommendation for this particular TARDIS from a version of future companion [[Clara Oswald]]. She actually stopped him from taking another TARDIS, saying that the navigation system on this one was "a bit nackered" but he'd have more fun with it. He took her suggestion. 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 itself said it was "a [[museum]] piece", though this may have been figurative. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
 
None of these accounts precluded the possibility that he had somehow been responsible for its creation. Indeed, another account compromised between theft and creation. It claimed while the Doctor had not built the TARDIS from scratch, he had substantially modified/rebuilt it. According to this view he achieved control of the TARDIS without using a direct mental link. This let him bypass the feature on most TARDISes which sent a tracking signal to the Time Lords. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5]]'') 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]]''), he did not impose his will on it, allowing the TARDIS to go where it wished rather than exerting direct control.
 
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 defense counselor 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]]''). 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. It confirmed it had been out of commission, a "museum piece", when the First Doctor met it. It also confirmed that the Doctor had stolen it, denying the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s attempt to characterise the action as "borrowing". It also stated that ''it'' had stolen ''him'', and had no intention of ever giving him back. It was unlocked and had deliberately let him steal it because it wanted to explore the [[universe]] and sensed he would be an ideal match. When it asked the Eleventh Doctor what his first incarnation said upon seeing it, he recalled saying "you were the most beautiful thing I've 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. ([[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 Monk]] claimed to have a Mark IV TARDIS. ([[TV]]: "[[Checkmate (episode)|Checkmate]]") The [[dematerialisation circuit]] of [[the Master's TARDIS]] was a Mark II, compared to the Doctor's Mark I. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') When the ''[[Teselecta]]'' scanned the Doctor's TARDIS, its records stated the timeship was a ''TT [[Type 40]], Mark 3.'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
 
During a visit by the [[Fourth Doctor]] to [[Gallifrey]], the Doctor's TARDIS was unambiguously called a "Type 40". At that time, it was made clear that all other Type 40s had long since been officially decommissioned and replaced by newer models. The fact that the Doctor's TARDIS was a Type 40 was not common knowledge, even to the [[Castellan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') This designation was used with greater frequency afterward. It was even used by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as an excuse to [[Winston Churchill]] for his tardy response to [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]'s summons. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') When the TARDIS had the opportunity to speak to the Eleventh Doctor in the body of [[Idris]], it called itself a "Type 40" without any qualification. ([[TV]]: ''[[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 his TARDIS' date of manufacture, as one chronicle indicated that he celebrated "her birthday". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'')
<!--The Name of the Doctor doesn't specify the type of the TARDIS or the one the Doctor nearly took — just that the former's the one with the faulty navigation system.-->
 
== 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 and the Rani]]'', ''[[Time-Flight]]'')
 
The Doctor's TARDIS would have had both abilities, were the chameleon circuit operational. Before he met [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], the [[First Doctor]] had landed on [[Iwa]], where the TARDIS had posed as a boulder in that [[planet]]'s [[desert]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Frayed]]'') On [[Quinnis]], the First Doctor was unhappy when the TARDIS landed in a bazaar and chose to turn into a market stall, complete with a striped awning. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Quinnis (audio story)|Quinnis]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] showed [[Adric]] how the TARDIS could be changed to the shape of an [[Egypt]]ian [[pyramid]], implying he could override the chameleon circuit's "automatic" functionality. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] mentioned the TARDIS had appeared as a [[sedan chair]] and an [[ionic column]]. ([[TV]]: "[[The Cave of Skulls]]")
[[File:11 in 1's TARDIS - 2.jpg|thumb|The Eleventh Doctor sabotages his first incarnation's chameleon circut. ([[COMIC]]: [[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|''Hunters of the Burning Stone'']])]]
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]]") 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]]: "[[The Cave of Skulls]]")
 
By his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh self]], the Doctor was telling his [[companion]]s that the chameleon circuit ''was'' working, but due to a fault, invariably assumed its customary police box shape: {{quote|It's camouflaged. It's disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first ''nanosecond'' of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a twelve-dimensional data map of everything within a thousand-mile radius and then determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment.... and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.|Eleventh Doctor|Meanwhile in the TARDIS (TV story)}}
 
 
[[File:TardisTargetDeath.jpg|thumb|The [[Dalek]]s became familiar with the TARDIS' [[police box]] exterior. On the [[planet]] [[Exxilon]] they used a model of it for target practice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'')]]
Friends and enemies could identify the TARDIS by its unvarying shape. The [[Dalek]]s even used miniature copies of the TARDIS for target practice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'') The [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] recognised it ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]''), as did the [[Black Guardian]]'s operative known as [[the Shadow]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] also recognised it, which led to her reunion with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'') [[Donna Noble]] was also on the look-out for the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'')
 
On one occasion, an actual police box — namely, the last of its kind, which was situated on the [[Barnet]] by-pass — scared a group of [[alien invasion|invading aliens]] away from Earth when they mistook it for the Doctor's ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Useless Things]]'') Miss [[Kizlet]]'s team faced "an embarrassment" when they thought the police box in [[Earl's Court]] 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]]'') 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]]'')
 
Captain [[Jack Harkness]] was on the look-out for "a version of" the police box throughout the [[20th century|20th]] and early [[21st century|21st centuries]] to avoid meeting the Doctor before their initial meeting. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Members of [[LINDA]] also knew of the outer shape of the Doctor's TARDIS, as did the [[Abzorbaloff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')
 
Because the police box shape was relatively easily recognised, the Doctor made several attempts to change the exterior of the TARDIS. None were particularly successful. In the end, he forewent changing how the TARDIS' outer shell looked by his ninth incarnation, deciding that he liked it. 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 reasons 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]]'')
 
:''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. If the TARDIS had insufficient power, this mode could not be turned off. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')
 
=== Door ===
[[File:TARDIS Phone Rings.jpg|left|thumb|The telephone panel opens. ([[TV]]: [[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]])]]
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]]'') By the time of the Tenth Doctor, the doors could be opened by the snap of the fingers. ([[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 attained this ability. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The right-hand door had a [[lock]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'', ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'' and many others) On the left-hand door was a panel in which was a replica of a [[telephone]] used in real [[police box]]es to summon the [[police]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') Although during the Doctor's ninth incarnation this phone was (usually) non-functional, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') by his eleventh incarnation the phone could be used to send and receive calls. ([[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]]'') A sign on this small door offered instructions on use of the phone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') On most occasions, the left-hand door was set to a fixed position. Likewise, the windows on the door were most often seen in a closed position, though the [[First Doctor]] sometimes opened them.  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
[[File:TARDISat60Fathoms.jpg|thumb|The [[Second Doctor]] enters the TARDIS via the roof. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'')]]
 
There were exceptions to all these statements.
The [[Second Doctor]] once entered through the ''top'' of the TARDIS, by lifting a panel on which the roof lamp rested. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'') He also tried to enter through the back panels, the occasional cat flaps and once through the central beacon. It was indicated that these would usually work, but did not in this case. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS]]'')
 
The lock was sometimes on the left-hand door, even though normal entry was still through the right. ([[TV]]: most [[serial]]s prior to ''[[The War Machines]]'')
 
The left-hand door was sometimes used for egress and the right-hand one stayed in a fixed position. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'')
 
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]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')
 
The windows on the doors and around the exterior could be opened, at least during the First Doctor's tenure. ([[TV]]: "[[World's End]]", "[[Desperate Measures]]", "[[The Centre]]")
 
The emergency phone was sometimes on the right-hand panel while the Second Doctor inhabited the TARDIS, but by the time of his adventure on [[Dulkis]], it had returned to the left-hand door. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators]]'')
 
During the Doctor's first incarnation, a faded [[St John Ambulance]] logo could be seen on the door, even though it was sometimes barely visible under a layer of paint. During his second incarnation, it was not present. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators]]'' onwards) When the TARDIS regenerated itself at the start of his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], a new St John sticker appeared on the door. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
[[File:BadWolfTardisDoor.jpg|left|thumb|The TARDIS writing temporarily reads "Bad Wolf." ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')]]
The exact wording on the sign on the telephone door varied slightly over time — once it, and the writing otherwise on the front of the TARDIS, was changed to read [[Bad Wolf meme|BAD WOLF]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'') When the TARDIS "regenerated" consequent to the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s regeneration, this sign became backlit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' onwards)
 
By the time he was going to have the [[chameleon circuit]] repaired by the [[Logopolitan]]s, the [[Fourth Doctor]] had installed a handle on the telephone panel on the left-hand door. This remained a subtle, if functional, part of the design. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'')
 
At some point prior to arriving to his unexpected death in [[San Francisco]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] affixed a small handle to the right-hand door. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') This handle persisted after the "regeneration" of the TARDIS consequent to the arrival of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' onwards)
 
The Eleventh Doctor somehow fixed the TARDIS doors to accommodate his robotic T-Rex companion [[Kevin (When Worlds Collide)|Kevin]], although it was never explained how. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[When Worlds Collide (comic story)|When Worlds Collide]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
[[Susan Foreman|Susan]] suggested that the key forced the user to insert it precisely or the lock would self-destruct. ([[TV]]: "[[The Survivors (episode)|The Survivors]]") Later, the key was [[isomorphic controls|isomorphic]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'')
 
It could be opened with the standard Gallifreyan key for its outdated model. ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'')]]
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 to track and locate the TARDIS, allowing the Doctor to find the TARDIS if it was within a hundred years of his position. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (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]]'')
[[File:TardisKey&Lock1996.jpg|thumb|The Gallifreyan design of the TARDIS key. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
At one point, the [[Tenth Doctor]] installed a system that let him lock the TARDIS remotely using a fob (as a joke, the TARDIS roof light flashed and an alarm chirp was heard, similar to that used on vehicles on Earth). He could open the door remotely. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also discovered, with the help of [[River Song]] after their adventure in [[the Library]], that the door would open when he snapped his fingers, ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (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]]'') using the ability to shut the doors the second time after the [[Twelfth Doctor]] did it to open the doors. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') The Doctor has also shown the ability to summon the TARDIS with the key in his 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 Angels]], ([[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]]'')
 
If modified properly, the TARDIS keys exhibited perception filter properties of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
== Interior configuration and appearance ==
[[File:Tardis_rooms.JPG|thumb|The TARDIS had many, many rooms. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'')]]
The TARDIS interior went through occasional metamorphoses, sometimes by choice, sometimes for other reasons, such as the Doctor's own [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Cat-People]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
 
Some of these changes were physical in nature (involving secondary control rooms, etc.), but it was also possible to re-arrange the interior design of the TARDIS with ease, using the [[Architectural Configuration]] system. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] called this changing "the desktop theme". ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'') 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]]'') The TARDIS archived disused (and yet-to-be-used) control room configurations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') The TARDIS could also create and modify rooms on its own accord. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
 
=== Roundels ===
[[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 TARDIS interior walls generally consisted of [[roundel]]s — circular or hexagonal indentations that lined the TARDIS console room's interior walls and sometimes the walls deeper in the ship's interior. Some roundels concealed TARDIS circuitry, devices, or lights. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'', ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', ''[[Vengeance on Varos]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Kane's Story (comic story)|Kane's Story]]'') At least one functioned as a [[TARDIS scanner|scanner]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]], [[The Beast Below]]'') On the whole, though, the Doctor had little clue as to their purpose, though his later incarnations admitted to missing them from the desktops of their TARDISes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]], [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
 
=== Mass ===
[[File:Clara holds the TARDIS.jpg|thumb|The TARDIS, thanks to its adjusted mass, is held by Clara. ([[TV|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 exterior dimensions onto its interior ones — making it the same size inside as outside — it was larger than [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'') It was once described by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as being infinite. ([[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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')
 
=== Control room ===
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[[File:ElevenAtTheConsole.jpg|thumb|left|One of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s TARDIS consoles. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')]]
The [[TARDIS console room|control or console room]] of the Doctor's TARDIS was the space in which the operation of the craft was usually effected. It was dominated by a large, hexagonal console, typically in or near the middle of the room. The room held a [[TARDIS scanner|scanner]] for viewing the outside and offered immediate access to the exterior through a set of doors. According to one source, the trip from the console room to the outside required the passenger to step through the [[real world interface]] at the heart of the [[outer plasmic shell]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Many other accounts demonstrated that the doors were just doors, though the TARDIS was cocooned in a breathable [[atmosphere]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (TV story)|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 "[e]xperts 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]]'')
 
There were many variants of the Doctor's control room. Indeed the Doctor's TARDIS had more than one control room. The TARDIS itself said it had over 30 different versions in storage; being a different kind of temporal being, it could "archive something that hasn't happened." [[Idris]] telepathically told Rory how to go to the old console room which was the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s console room.  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
 
=== Other rooms ===
 
==== Accommodations ====
Some of the [[companion]]s shared accommodations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') Many companions had their own rooms in the TARDIS, decorated to their tastes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]], [[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') Some of the companions were given previously used rooms; in the case of [[Turlough]], it is most likely because Tegan didn't know where to find other rooms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') Romana's room was jettisoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') According to one account, the Doctor provided a room for each companion and stored it in a [[TARDIS holding ring|holding ring]] even after they departed from him. At some point, the [[Eighth Doctor]] deleted every room but one. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'')
 
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] was asked if he had a room, but did not answer. The other bedrooms had also been deleted by [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]] when it possessed the TARDIS, leaving Amy and Rory's the only one. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') Amy and Rory's original (pre-House) quarters were furnished with bunk beds, much to their consternation. Nevertheless, the couple quickly conceived [[River Song]] despite the less than optimal marital accommodations. They secured a proper bed after escaping from House when the Doctor agreed to give them one when reassigning them to a new room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
 
==== Library ====
:''See also: [[Book#The Doctor and books|the Doctor and books]]''
[[File:TARDIS library Journey.jpg|thumb|The TARDIS library. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')]]
There was a [[library]] in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks]]'', ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', ''[[The Dimension Riders (novel)|The Dimension Riders]]'') Its books included ''[[Brave New World]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wheel of Ice (novel)|The Wheel of Ice]]'') ''[[Jane's Spaceships]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks]]'') ''[[Every Gallifreyan Child's Pop-Up Book of Nasty Creatures From Other Dimensions]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') ''[[The Time Machine]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS]]'') ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]] (signed first printing, with last page missing), ''[[War and Peace]]'', ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', ''[[The I-Spy Book of British Birds]]'', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning]]''), ''[[Can you forgive her?]]'', the [[James Bond]] novel ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''), 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]]'') [[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, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') 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]]'') His library also had books by Capek and Capote. {{fact}}
 
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] tore out the final pages of each book "so the story will never end [for him]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') Unlike his successor, however, the [[Tenth Doctor]] loved a book with a death at the end, particularly [[biography|biographies]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') The Tenth Doctor in fact ''specifically'' protested about his copy of ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]'' missing the last page. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'')
 
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]]'') 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'')
 
==== Wardrobe ====
[[File:TARDIS_wardrobe_room.jpg|thumb|The wardrobe room used by the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')|left]] The Doctor kept some of the clothes from his previous [[regeneration]]s, as well as clothing for other people in the TARDIS wardrobe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'', ''[[The Androids of Tara]]'', ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'', [[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]]''), a storage room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]''), or a proper walk-in closet ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'') The [[War Doctor]] talked about "wardrobes", suggesting there could be more than one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War]]'')
Some of the clothing was picked up during travels ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]], [[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]], [[The Fires of Pompeii]], [[The Eleventh Hour]], [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') or left by ex-companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]], [[Army of Ghosts]], [[Partners in Crime]], [[Space (TV story)|Space]]'') It contained clothing from various times and environments, to suit where and when the TARDIS' occupant(s) found themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[The 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 shops on her own by landing in stores after hours, collecting clothes to make copies of it, 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]], [[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]], [[Victory of the Daleks]]'') And the Doctor has often availed himself of its selection when attempting to define a style for himself, post-regeneration; ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'', ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') and possibly [[Romana II|Romana]] as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'') The Fifth Doctor, however, discovered his wardrobe in an unidentified anteroom. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
 
At least some of the clothes had pockets that were [[Dimensionally transcendental|bigger on the inside]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
 
[[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]]'') When the [[Ninth Doctor]] was in [[Cardiff]] on [[24 December]] [[1869]], he gave incredibly long directions to [[Rose Tyler]] to get to the wardrobe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') When the Tenth Doctor was traveling 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 (TV story)|First Night]]'')
 
In the Eleventh Doctor's second console room, the wardrobe relocated to a chest beneath the main console. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') The Doctor once changed out of his outfit and into his standard 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]]'')
 
==== Cloister bell/room ====
[[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 a garden with benches on the sides of the room and plants decorating the pillars. The [[Fourth Doctor]] visited this room with [[Adric]] shortly before his [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
 
The [[Fifth Doctor]] used to hide from [[Tegan Jovanka]] in the Cloister Room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home (audio story)|No Place Like Home]]'')
 
[[Ace]] attempted to relax in the Cloister Room, but gave up when the bell would not stop ringing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'')
 
When the TARDIS interior went through a metamorphosis, the Cloister room became a grand and gothic room with an interface with the [[Eye of Harmony]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
The Tenth Doctor later implied that the room had reverted back to its 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 holding ring was a storage area of the TARDIS which let the Doctor preserve certain rooms. When [[Lucie Miller|Lucie]], [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and [[Alex Campbell|Alex]] investigated it, the ring contained the rooms of many of his former [[companion]]s, preserved as they had been the last time the 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". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions]]'') The Doctor's penchant for such archiving recalls the TARDIS's policy of archiving past and future console rooms, though whether out of nostalgia or, as it states, "for neatness" is unclear. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
 
==== Swimming pool ====
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The TARDIS had a swimming pool. It was used by [[Leela]] and [[Borusa]] to hide from the [[Sontaran]]s. Leela mistakenly called it "the bathroom", confusing the pool for a bathtub. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')
[[Peri]] froze the water with liquid nitrogen to turn it into an ice skating rink ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Roof of the World]]'')
It was later jettisoned due to leakage, which [[Mel]] found bothersome. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')
[[File:TARDIS swimming pool.jpg|thumb|[[Leela]] swims in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]]
It was replaced some time later. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') After the TARDIS' crash following the Doctor's tenth regeneration, the pool's water — or perhaps the pool itself — fell into the library. After the TARDIS had fixed itself, the swimming pool was restored but the Doctor did not know where it was; he stated that the Wardrobe contained "clothes, and, possibly, a swimming pool". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') He eventually found it, and offered to go and swim a few laps to give Amy and Rory some privacy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'') Later, to save River Song after she had leapt off a New York skyscraper, the Doctor had Amy and Rory open all the doors leading to the pool to cushion River's landing in the sideways TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'') The Doctor said he got rid of it to "give the TARDIS a bit of welly" when going outside the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') However, after the TARDIS has changed once again ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''), the swimming pool has "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]]'')
 
==== Flora and fauna ====
The Doctor had a botanical house which contained a man-eating plant. This plant ate a Sontaran.  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') There was a large garden during designed by the Doctor using block-transfer computation that needed to be tended — it contained bougainvillaea, 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. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat]]'')
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As early as the Sixth Doctor, there was a [[TARDIS zoo|zoo]] of endangered animals, a coffee machine and a jungle-like room. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'') The zoo also existed during the Seventh Doctor's lifetime ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Echo (short story)|Echo]]'') and was still in operation as recently as the Tenth Doctor's life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo (novel)|The Last Dodo]]'') During an attack from a [[temporal mine]], the TARDIS shared its pain with the Tenth Doctor by vaporising the [[aquarium]] which caused him to feel the dead fish in his gall bladder. [[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]]'')
 
==== 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 built. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[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]]'')
 
==== 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]]'' 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]]'') Later, the TARDIS had a full kitchen ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[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]]'') Evidently this amenity was not a top priority for visitors as the Doctor noted that [[Clara Oswin Oswald|Clara]]'s early inquiry about whether the TARDIS had a kitchen was "(a) first". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') According to [[Romana]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] rarely used the kitchen. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'')
 
==== Others ====
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 rain forest area, various control relays, "the small library", a storeroom full of terracotta Chinese soldiers, a Dimensional Induction Chamber. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'') 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 bedroom that had once been used by [[Adric]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[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 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Clara and the TARDIS]]'')
 
The TARDIS at one point also had extensive utility areas and corridors which, along with the swimming pool area, became battlegrounds during a [[Sontaran]] invasion of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') He had it up though at least his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') The Doctor was under the impression it had been jettisoned until he stumbled across it in his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tesseract]]'')
 
Other rooms included the [[power room]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]''), the [[shell room]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Little Things]]'') the [[star chamber]], containing a small [[galaxy]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Persuasion (audio story)|Persuasion]]'') and an [[TARDIS armoury|armoury]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ice Cap Terror]]'')
 
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]]'') Another contained an claw-foot bathtub, approximately the size of an Olympic pool. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'')
 
Mel said that the Doctor used the TARDIS laundromat to wash his clothes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor]]'') [[Ba]]'s ship once became trapped in the TARDIS laundry room for four weeks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Life in the Day]]'') 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 works by dematerialize and analyse the clothes and then separate out the dirt and put everything back together which means nothing ever comes out damaged. It also has an option that enables the user to scent their clothes with any of thousands of scents, but it does have a glitch that causes the clothes to rumple. After accidentally putting his sonic through the wash, it caused a mud monster avatar to develop from their dirty clothes and at the end of the cycle, the Doctor's shirt ended up with Gabby's flower print and her shirt ended up with stripes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
 
There was a [[sauna]] lined with wooden panels and benches. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')
 
There was a laboratory which [[Ace]] used to create her explosive [[Nitro-9]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
 
There was a large salon which the [[Fourth Doctor]] referred to as a "boot cupboard", much to [[Sarah Jane Smith]]'s surprise. When Sarah Jane said it was a bit too big to be a boot cupboard he replied, "I've seen bigger boot cupboards." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'') The 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 art gallery with works from throughout history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') He had rescued them from the disasters which history stated destroyed them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'')
 
There was a garage. The Doctor kept a [[The Doctor's moped|Vespa motor scooter]] in storage within the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]'') The Sixth Doctor once rented a [[Volkswagen]] and stored it in the TARDIS as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness]]'') The Eleventh Doctor had an anti-gravity scooter which he took out of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'')
 
It had a sick bay. In the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS, this was up the stairs, to the left, then left again. It apparently had medical supplies to heal [[Mo Northover|Mo]] from live vivisection. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
 
It had [[TARDIS Drawing Room|a drawing room]], which the Eleventh Doctor claimed to be his "private study". Inside it were mementos of his many incarnations' travels. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'') The items inside it varied. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot]]'')
 
There was a sun room with a sun lounger. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')
 
There was a green door near the drawing room, which the Eleventh Doctor told Amy not to go through. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')
 
When the Eleventh Doctor was trying to get out of his universe, he said he was deleting the scullery room and squash court seven to give the TARDIS an extra boost. This indicated he had at least six other squash courts. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
 
The Eleventh Doctor remarked after a lot of pipe climbing and jumping that he was "[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. {{fact}}
 
At least two rooms dedicated to housing boxes of [[The Doctor's scarf|multicolored scarves]] existed. ([[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 his 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]]'')
 
It had a workroom filled with tools of various shapes and sizes and a back wall with several coils of wire, though it is not in an organised state. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')
 
There was what appeared to be a [[cricket]] club and pitch deep within the bowels of the TARDIS. It was here that the freshly regenerated [[Fifth Doctor]] chose his outfit. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') The Doctor and Nyssa found a [[wine]] cellar where whilst looking for the ancillary power cell. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Haunting of Thomas Brewster]])''
 
By his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], the Doctor had a [[croquet]] court in the TARDIS ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia (audio story)|Caerdroia]]'') and a Butterfly Room. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'')
 
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 garden next to the [[Cloister]]s where the dirt from the laundry room was deposited after it was re-purposed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
 
There was a spa room through the laundry room door. Gabby used this to wash up after being muddied on Quompipping. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Laundro-Room of Doom (comic story)|Laundro-Room of Doom]]'')
 
During the time that the Tenth Doctor travelled alone after the loss of [[Donna Noble]], the TARDIS spontaneously generated a park where he spent two weeks growing [[oak tree]]s. 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]]'')
 
There was a [[television]] room. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Turnabout is Fair Play (short story)|Turnabout is Fair Play]]'')
 
== Systems ==
=== Specific control systems ===
The [[Fourth Doctor]] claimed that the TARDIS controls were [[isomorphic controls|isomorphic]], though this appeared to have been a ruse for the benefit of [[Sutekh|Sutekh the Destroyer]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') Indeed, various [[companion]]s were able to operate the TARDIS and even fly it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Visitation]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', ''[[Journey's End]]'', ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'') The Time Lords were also able to pilot the TARDIS by remote control, usually, as the Doctor once bitterly noted, so he might take care of "some dirty work they don't want to get their lily-white hands on". ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'')
 
The [[Second Doctor]] once used a portable [[Stattenheim remote control]] to summon his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'') The TARDIS was also vulnerable to diversion or relocation by the [[Guardians of Time|Guardians]], [[Eternal]]s, and other immensely powerful beings such as the [[Keeper of Traken]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') and [[the Silence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
 
The Fourth Doctor installed a [[randomiser]] in the navigational sub-systems. It was eventually removed, and ended up being left behind on [[Argolis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'')
 
The 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 [[sonic screwdriver]]s and other technology — which eventually housed the [[laser screwdriver]]) and a Heisenberg focusing device which was used to break [[Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle]]. This device was called a [[zigzag plotter]]. ([[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]]'', ''[[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]]'', ''[[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]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] was able to use a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman's]] gun inside it. ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'', ''[[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]]'')
 
=== Emergency systems ===
The Doctor's TARDIS contained emergency systems such as the [[Jade Pagoda]], a 'life boat' of some description, which could in theory be piloted. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') In emergencies it would lock onto the nearest [[planet]] with a breathable atmosphere and bearable climate. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sanctuary]]'')
 
The TARDIS also had a system which, when the TARDIS was adrift in space and unmanned, would automatically lock onto the nearest centre of gravity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'') 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 his companions (but not the Doctor himself) if the Doctor's death seemed inevitable, transporting the TARDIS (with the companion inside) back to the companion's respective time and home. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[Silence in the Library]]'') Another could reunite the TARDIS with the Doctor if they were separated; initially it required some one to enter the TARDIS and insert an 'authorised command disk' to activate it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'') After this, it seemed to be fully installed and integrated into the ship's systems; the TARDIS automatically commenced the emergency program without external aid in various attempts to reach the Doctor, who had been trapped in a time-loop. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
 
The TARDIS contained a switch labelled "LTD" (standing for "Locate The Doctor"). This was used by [[Lucie Miller]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beast of Orlok]]'')
 
The TARDIS was capable of extensive self-repair after suffering a hull breach. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'') After more extensive damage, a complete rebuilding could take place, changing the interior and exterior appearances. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
 
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]]'', ''[[Turn Left]]'', ''[[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]]'')
 
Another emergency program activated when the TARDIS exploded. This particular program locked the control room in a [[time loop]] to protect any occupant. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') There was also a safety mechanism for when TARDIS rooms were deleted, automatically relocating any living beings in the deleted room, depositing them in the control room; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') although the Fifth Doctor implied this automatic function would become inoperative whenever the TARDIS was on manual, stating: "Oh yes, that's the trouble with Manual Over-ride." ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
 
=== Defensive systems ===
Beyond the [[chameleon circuit]], the TARDIS could teleport itself a short distance away from its current location if it was being attacked, rematerialising after the attacker had gone. The [[Second Doctor]] called this the [[Hostile Action Displacement System]] (HADS). ([[TV]]: ''[[The Krotons]]'', ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'')
 
A related system was meant to protect the TARDIS from landing in the path of oncoming vehicles, by preventing it from landing on, for example, train tracks. This feature failed when the TARDIS landed on train tracks in [[Vichy France]]. The Second Doctor, [[Ben Jackson|Ben]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]] had to physically push the TARDIS out of the railway bed before the next train came down the tracks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Resistance (audio story)|Resistance]]'')
 
The TARDIS was at one point given a defensive shield utilising a [[Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'') Prior to this, it also had its own shielding. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') The extrapolator also pulled the TARDIS a short distance away from the [[Empress of the Racnoss]] when she pulled her from the beginning of [[Earth]] to [[2007]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
=== Offensive systems ===
The TARDIS later gained some offensive systems of sort; this may have been caused by its development into the [[Edifice (TARDIS)|Edifice]]. This weapon allowed the Edifice/the Doctor's TARDIS to destroy Gallifrey, although this was only accomplished by channelling ''all'' of the Edifice's energy into the weapons. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'')
 
At the [[Fall of Arcadia]] on the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[War Doctor]] was shown to destroy a group of [[Dalek]]s by colliding the TARDIS with them. ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'') Using a holographic representation of the universe connected to its neural net, the TARDIS was effectively able to make hunches, guesses where it needed to be. Though the TARDIS was able to guess where it was needed, it was unable to inform the Doctor of what he needed to do once he got there. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[...And Eternity in an Hour]]'')
 
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]]'') 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]]'')
 
=== Invisibility option ===
[[File:DW_60x1_The_Impossible_Astronaut_373.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's TARDIS becoming visible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')]]
The TARDIS had the ability to become [[Invisibility|invisible]]. 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]], causing it to become invisible when it materialised again on [[Earth]]. The Doctor fixed the offending circuit. ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'') He also later used invisibility to hide his TARDIS in [[Area 51]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
 
The [[TARDIS staircase]] was similarly invisible from the ground below. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')
 
=== Other systems ===
The TARDIS could extend an [[oxygen]] bubble for a distance beyond its doors, allowing them to be opened while in space ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]''), and even allow individuals to survive outside the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon (TV story)|The Horns of Nimon]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Time of Angels]], [[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]]'')
 
The TARDIS appeared to be able to lock onto the presence of other Time Lords, particularly members of the Doctor's family, even when doing so would create a [[temporal paradox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'')
 
The Doctor made modifications and additions from time to time. At one point the TARDIS was equipped to write [[computer]] files to standard Earth [[CD-ROM]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]] modified the control console to accept [[DVD]]s to allow [[Sally Sparrow]] to use a specialised control disc to activate the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
 
The TARDIS could be put one second out of 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]]'', ''[[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]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
It had brakes, which, according to River Song, were always on, which was why the TARDIS landed with a characteristic ''wheezing'' noise. When she landed the TARDIS without the brakes on, it landed without any sound. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'') The 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]]'') While conversing with the [[War Doctor]], [[the Moment]] noted this sound saying that it and the fact that it heralds the appearance of the TARDIS and the Doctor brings hope to anyone who hears it, no matter how lost. The War Doctor agreed, saying that he likes to think it does, 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]]'')
 
The TARDIS had a part called the "rectifier". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')
 
The TARDIS' engines automatically shut down when there were no people in the craft. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
 
[[File:TARDIS voice interface.jpg|thumb|right|The TARDIS voice interface in the form of Amelia Pond. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')]]
 
The TARDIS had "[[telepathic 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]]'')
 
The TARDIS could alter the environment within its rooms and even fast-forward time within itself (or at least create the illusion of time passing). ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
 
The TARDIS could stabilise the bodies of the [[Ganger]]s, by virtue of them entering the Control Room. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People]]'')
 
The TARDIS had a [[voice interface]] which the Doctor could communicate with. It could assume the form of a known individual. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'') The 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[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 [[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]]: ''[[UNIT: Dominion]]'')
 
== Personality ==
In the first time, the [[First Doctor]] showed to be not fully aware of the conscience of his vessel, until its first attempt to communicate through faulties. ([[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]]'') Though intelligent, it was usually unable to communicate in words with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'') 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]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] considered "her" to be one of his most trusted companions. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
 
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]]'') 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, liking River because it considered her to be its "child" but also showing dislike for "impossible" companions, notably [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Clara Oswin Oswald|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]]'')  The TARDIS had a tendency to be rather petty and spiteful to people it disliked and 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]]'') However, it presumably changed its mind about Clara as after the events on the future [[Trenzalore]], the TARDIS gave her the ability to control its doors with a snap of her fingers, an ability unique to the Doctor even among the Time Lords. ([[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]]'')
 
When the Doctor's history was changed so his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] regenerated ahead of schedule, the TARDIS sensed he had been infected with the [[Faction Paradox]] biodata virus, which threatened to turn him into a member of the Faction. The TARDIS took the infection into itself, holding itself together even after being nearly torn apart in a dimensional anomaly. Had it not, the Doctor would likely have become corrupted by the Faction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'') 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]]'')
 
While possessed by the [[Zagreus]] entity, the TARDIS used an avatar appearance of [[Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] to interact with the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Charley Pollard]] and [[Rassilon]]. Similarly to the Doctor during this period, 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 Doctor responded to the TARDIS' personality by showing it great tenderness. The [[Fourth Doctor]] referred to it as his "dear old thing" on more than one occasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Robots of Death]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] was overtly demonstrative towards it, calling it both "dear" and "you sexy thing" shortly after its own [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') In many of his incarnations he anthropomorphised it by referring to the TARDIS as "she" or "her" (which is 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]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
 
It also exhibited a rudimentary sense of humour, choosing to display only images of attractive female companions to [[Amy Pond]] when ordered to exhibit past companions of the Doctor, causing him to chide it for not at least including "[[K-9|the tin dog]]". ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (TV story)|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 deduced laughter coming from the console when she asked if she was the first girl to stay the night in the TARDIS. This was in the midst of the TARDIS playing an elaborate practical joke on Clara that involved scaring her with a holographic tiger 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]]'') The TARDIS also seemed to openly mock Clara by chosing Oswald's form for its holographic interface at one point. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
 
[[File:Doctor's-wife.jpg|thumb|right|The TARDIS and her "thief". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')]] The TARDIS displayed a feminine personality when her matrix was temporarily transferred into the humanoid body of [[Idris]]. While in this form, 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 (it later introduced 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?" 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]]'')
 
The TARDIS' loyalty and affection for the Doctor did not end following the Idris encounter, as [[Clara Oswin Oswald|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]]'')
 
According to [[River Song]], the Doctor's relationship with his TARDIS is unique even among the Time Lords. In their [[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|first encounter]], River told the Doctor that the TARDIS' affinity for him is so great that he can control the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor denied this as ''no'' Time Lord can do that but after River died, he tested it out and found that River was telling the truth, the TARDIS does let him control its doors that way. 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]]'') with it only failing [[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|once]] due to [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]] being in control instead of the TARDIS itself. 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]]'') 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 paradox. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'')
 
== Destructions ==
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 occuring in the first place through temporal actions. These "deaths" included breaking apart, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'') the internal dimensions collapsing, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Reef]]'') burning in [[time spillage]] from a [[vortex rupture]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') being broken apart by the [[gravity]] manipulations of [[Tractator]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'') shattering across the infinity of time for a second due to a temporal explosion, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[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]]'') being [[time ram]]med by an [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|alternative TARDIS]] on the [[Silurian Earth]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]'') being erased from existence by a [[conceptual bomb]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'') being torn apart after being caught in a dimensional rift leading between Earth and Avalon, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'') and exploding and causing the [[Time Field]] after being taken over by [[the Silence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]] ''/''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor]]'') In the [[alternate timeline]] known as [[Donna's 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 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. It's console room was shown to be overgrown as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
 
== 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]]'' and ''[[Time Crash]]'' in which the entire action of a story takes place within the TARDIS. ''[[Amy's Choice]]'' also falls into this category, although given the illusionary nature of the story, much of it was filmed on locations and sets other than the actual TARDIS. ''[[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]]''. In the television story ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'', more of the TARDIS was actively explored (albeit very similar areas) and parts of said areas were used by [[House (The 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 a look an extensive tour of the TARDIS.
* The Doctor's TARDIS appeared in the video game ''Fallout'' in a random encounter.
* The TARDIS has appeared in every televised ''Doctor Who'' story with the exception of ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'', ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''.
* The characteristic wheezing noise of the dematerialising TARDIS is made by scraping a key against piano wire.
* The TARDIS makes a brief cameo in {{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 cut scene in ''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 orangy 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.
 
== External links ==
* [http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-sound-effects-materialisation.html The Mind Robber - The Sound of the TARDIS: A History]
 
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