TARDIS exterior (Jikū Daikettō!)
By one account, one TARDIS police box exterior design was used by the First Doctor, taking the form of a red telephone box. (PROSE: Jikū Daikettō! [+]Loading...{"ed":"Japanese edition","release year":"1980","1":"Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)","2":"Jikū Daikettō!"}) Other accounts indicated it to have a different exterior design at this time, more akin to a standard police box, (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"], etc.) blue in colour. (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites [+]Loading...["The Klepton Parasites (comic story)"], TV: Spearhead from Space [+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"], etc.)
Design
The design appeared as a red telephone box, with a pair of doors with glass windows leading into the control room. Above the doors, the design bore a symbol resembling a royal cypher with the letters "E R", along with the words "POLICE TELEPHONE". (PROSE: Jikū Daikettō! [+]Loading...{"release year":"1980","1":"Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)","2":"Jikū Daikettō!"})
History
The exterior appeared to be in use when the First Doctor encountered Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright on Barnes Common and they, along with the Doctor's granddaughter Susan, wound up in an adventure on Skaro. (PROSE: Jikū Daikettō! [+]Loading...{"release year":"1980","1":"Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)","2":"Jikū Daikettō!"})
An alternate reality counterpart of the TARDIS took a similar red telephone box design. (COMIC: The Continuity Cap [+]Loading...["The Continuity Cap (comic story)"])
Behind the scenes
- This TARDIS exterior was unique to the Japanese translation of Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"].
