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{{first pic|The Time Machine TV movie.jpg|The [[Seventh Doctor]] reads ''The Time Machine'' in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')}} | {{first pic|The Time Machine TV movie.jpg|The [[Seventh Doctor]] reads ''The Time Machine'' in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')}} | ||
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'''''The Time Machine''''' was a [[science fiction]] [[novel]] by [[H. G. Wells]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|The Time Lord Letters]]'') | '''''The Time Machine''''' was a [[science fiction]] [[novel]] by [[H. G. Wells]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|The Time Lord Letters]]'') published in [[1895]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|The Time Lord Letters]]'') and adapted into several [[film]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]'') | ||
In [[1885]], Wells encountered the [[Sixth Doctor]] and the [[Morlox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'') He was also friends with the inventor of Earth's first time machine, [[Theophilus Tolliver|Theo Tolliver]], who in [[1897]] embarked on his second trip through time and met the [[Third Doctor]] while escaping [[Mar-Kom]]'s prison in [[1350]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Eternal Present (comic story)|The Eternal Present]]'') By another account, it was [[Penelope Gate]] in [[1883]] who invented the first time machine, meeting the Seventh Doctor on her travels; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'') she later became [[the Doctor's mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') | |||
[[File:Shada The Time Machine.jpg|thumb|left|[[Chronotis]] reading ''The Time Machine'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'')]] | |||
One copy was owned by [[Professor Chronotis]], and he was reading it when first met by the [[Fourth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] later read a first edition of this book before visiting a peaceful planet not unlike prehistoric Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'') | |||
[[Will Arrowsmith]] was fairly sure that the [[Victorian era|Victorian]]-esque [[TARDIS console room]] used by the [[Seventh Doctor]] towards the end of his life was inspired by ''The Time Machine''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Persuasion (audio story)|Persuasion]]'') The Seventh Doctor relaxed by reading a copy of this book during his aborted mission to return [[the Master]]'s remains to [[Gallifrey]]. A skipping record interrupted him, followed by the escape of the Master's [[Deathworm]] and the TARDIS crash-landing in [[San Francisco]] on [[30 December]] [[1999]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | [[Will Arrowsmith]] was fairly sure that the [[Victorian era|Victorian]]-esque [[TARDIS console room]] used by the [[Seventh Doctor]] towards the end of his life was inspired by ''The Time Machine''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Persuasion (audio story)|Persuasion]]'') The Seventh Doctor relaxed by reading a copy of this book during his aborted mission to return [[the Master]]'s remains to [[Gallifrey]]. A skipping record interrupted him, followed by the escape of the Master's [[Deathworm]] and the TARDIS crash-landing in [[San Francisco]] on [[30 December]] [[1999]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | ||
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In [[April]] [[1912]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] gifted a copy of ''The Time Machine'' to [[Connie Daniels]]. He included inside a note with a warning for the [[Daniels family (Rose)|Daniels family]] not to board the ''[[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Battle Scars (audio story)|Battle Scars]]'') | In [[April]] [[1912]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] gifted a copy of ''The Time Machine'' to [[Connie Daniels]]. He included inside a note with a warning for the [[Daniels family (Rose)|Daniels family]] not to board the ''[[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Battle Scars (audio story)|Battle Scars]]'') | ||
''The Time Machine'' | ''The Time Machine'' was [[Clive Finch (The Endless Night)|Clive Finch]]'s favourite book. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Flood (RTDC audio story)|The Flood]]'') | ||
''The Time Machine'' | ''The Time Machine''{{'}}s film adaptations included a [[1960]] version by [[George Pal]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]'') The [[First Doctor]]'s companion [[Oliver Harper]] had seen this adaptation, and he connected [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] with the time machine in the story, thinking initially that the TARDIS could move in [[time]] but not [[space]]. He expected to see [[Shoreditch]] in the "time of the [[dinosaur]]s" or the [[21st century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]'') | ||
Other adaptations included a [[91st century]] version starring a [[Silurian]] and spoken in [[haiku]], and a version featuring [[Quark]]s and [[Giant Wasp]]s which the [[Sixth Doctor]] said "hadn't even been bad enough to be good". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]'') | |||
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