Talk:TARDIS

list of appearances and infobox

okay... a TARDIS does not appear in every Doctor Who story, believe it or not. aside from Mission to the Unknown it doesn't appear in a few of the Pertwees or in a couple of early Tom Baker stories except in the opening credits.

as for the actual list of appearances, as I said about the Gallifreyan list of appearances, we might as well concentrate on TARDIS'es that don't belong to the Doctor. The Doctor's TARDIS can have its own list of appearances and the list of appearances can just detail appearances of TARDIS'es owned by other people. (which would still come down to a really, really long list. not as long as the list of appearances by the Doctor's TARDIS, though.) for the same reason, the police box picture in the infobox really belongs in the article for the Doctor's TARDIS, rather than this one. a "generic" TARDIS without the chameleon circuit having changed it into anything, has never appeared in the television series, though they have some of the comics. (in The War Games, SIDRAT's, sort of like a TARDIS, do appear though, without disguise.) --***Stardizzy*** 07:57, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Are we going to add in occurrences of the Master's Tardis to this article or would that require another article? Azes13 14:36, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I think it would be good for the Master's TARDIS to have a separate article, after all he's had a few that could do different things.

Also it does differ in appearace quite drastically from the Doctor's (the whole black room thing in Keeper of Traken).

--Tangerineduel 16:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

the Master's TARDIS should definitely have an article devoted to it (though, technicall, he must have had more than one TARDIS, but then, so has the Doctor [in the novels... it gets sort of complicated]). as should the Rani for that matter. remember, we can and should cover the Whoniverse in ridiculous detail. (that includes some ridiculous details.) --***Stardizzy*** 03:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Type 40 versus TARDIS

a lot of the information in this article pertains to the Doctor's Type 40 so I plan on going over this and putting almost all the information here in a Type 40. the military TARDISes from 4-Dimensional Vistas (from Doctor Who Magazine comics story) and Marie, the Type 103 sentient TARDIS (who looks like a woman) from Alien Bodies have very little to do with what we think of as a TARDIS, i.e. a Type 40. so this article could use a more general, overview kind of focus.--***Stardizzy*** 16:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Other Questions

Where did ST Capsule come from, I'm pretty sure in Deadly Assassin they say TT capsule, rather than ST...or is this a mondegreen as far as lines go? --Tangerineduel 12:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I remember it as TT capsule, too. --***Stardizzy*** 12:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I've just checked About Time 4 (as I haven't got the Deadly Assassin on hand), it states (when discussing The Deadly Assassin) that "The Doctor's TARDIS is officially designated a type-forty TT capsule, described as obsolete and out of commission." Miles, L. & Wood, T. 2004, About Time 4, Mad Norwegian Press, Illinois.

Astrid Peth

As we all know Astrid Peth is the companion for the 2007 christmas special, and Astrid is an anagram of TARDIS. What some don't know is that Peth is welsh for Part, which makes Astrid Perth part TARDIS. The article for TARDIS does say that certain TARDIS(es) were indistiguishable from part humans. 23:40 22 December 2007

Tardis

This should be properly titled "Tardis". British convention is to write acronyms where you say each letter in capitals, like "USA" and those in which you say the word are capitalised first letter and everything else lower case like "Nato". 86.143.43.151 18:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

In all media (ie novels, non-fiction books, audio drama information and anything else) it is written TARDIS. --Tangerineduel 13:40, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

When the Tardis phone calls Rose's mobile, it reads "Tardis".

USB Tardis

not sure where to put this, figured here would be good as any, Doctor Who Tardis 4 Port USB Hub --Uberfuzzy 18:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

This would need to go, together with other Doctor Who products manufactured by Wesco, on its own pages and in the Category:Doctor Who merchandise category or on a combines page such as the Character Group action figures article. --Tangerineduel 11:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Type 39 TARDIS

One of the unfilmed scripts involved Romana and the Doctor visiting cambridge and meeting a retired fellow time lord whose office was actually a type 39 TARDIS if i remember right. The bbc turned this into a webisode a couple of years back along with Shalka. Perhaps worth a mention.

Bigger on the inside...

do you think the inside is a completely different dimension from the outside, and when you pass through the outer doors you are instantly transported to that 2nd dimension?

and what of the inside shaking when the outside is being damaged?

Article needs another lead image

Considering this article is about TARDISes in general, NOT the Doctor's TARDIS, the image used here should not be of the phone box. Alternatives could include interiors of the Master's or Rani's TARDISes. Alternately, don't we see some "generic" TARDISes in The Invasion of Time? 23skidoo 13:27, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I substituted image of a generic TARDIS from The War Games. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 18:44, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

thanks for finding that. it looks great.

That's not even a picture of any TARDIS. It's a SIDRAT, which is an entirely different machine (though related) with its own page. Maybe the graveyard/junkyard of TARDISes in The Doctor's Wife might be an option for generic TARDIS images. NileQT87 21:13, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

External Links

Removed the following text:

• TARDIS Technical Index - an attempt to document and compile all of the information that has been "revealed" about the TARDIS

The site no longer exists and the link leads to a squatter page. wannablessedbe 00:28, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

It's back now, by the looks of things. Could someone else verify that the site is back up?--The Traveller 11:15, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Non-canon

"According to non-canon sources outside of the television programme itself, TARDISes were of two broad categories — exploratory and military. Of the two, TARDISes without armaments were apparently more common."

If these sources are valid resources (see Tardis:Canon policy) then they're considered canon by this wiki. Are the sources that tell us that there are exploratory and military TARDISes valid resources? Besides, out-of-universe things shouldn't be in the in-universe part.--The Traveller 11:14, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

infobox

is there a reason that the infobox is not completed. I mean, where it says {{{object name}}} should it not say tardis? Has it been vandilised? please explain. --Torchwood 2 23:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Rassilon imprimatur not necessarily true

It should be noted that the Sixth Doctor made his remarks regarding the "Rassilon imprimatur" to Peri knowing that the Stike was listening in, which led Stike to force Six to use the machine, giving Six the opportunity to sabotage it. That being the case, the information is suspect, as it could have been Six's intention all along to mislead Stike. Rob T Firefly 11:13, November 21, 2009 (UTC)

Weight of the Tardis

Given that a Tardis 'occupies more than three dimensions', what proportion of its weight will be measurable in each set of three dimensions? In their default forms in the three-dimensional part of the multiverse we occupy it is obvious they do not exert their full weight on their footfall. Jackiespeel 16:30, January 14, 2010 (UTC)

Main image

Is it right to assume that the black box from The War Games is a TARDIS? Is it identified as such in the televised serial or any other valid resource? It's a nice picture, of course, but if it can't be confirmed to actually show a TARDIS then maybe it isn't appropriate.81.99.89.44 08:40, March 21, 2010 (UTC)