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There were occasions on which the Doctor or their companions needed to use the key to ''lock'' the doors, ([[TV]]: "[[Strangers in Space]]") while on others ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') the act of merely closing the doors locked the TARDIS. It was evident that the TARDIS' lock could be set to secure either automatically or manually. | There were occasions on which the Doctor or their companions needed to use the key to ''lock'' the doors, ([[TV]]: "[[Strangers in Space]]") while on others ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') the act of merely closing the doors locked the TARDIS. It was evident that the TARDIS' lock could be set to secure either automatically or manually. | ||
However, a key was not always needed to open a TARDIS. During the Doctor's first encounter with [[River Song]] (from his point of view), she remarked that she had witnessed his future self open the doors of the TARDIS by snapping his fingers. The [[Tenth Doctor]] reacted with disbelief, but later successfully opened the doors in this fashion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'') After regenerating into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh self]], the Doctor again opened the TARDIS by snapping his fingers, demonstrating that this method had become a reliable way for him to do so. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') The Doctor did, however, continue to make regular use of his key to unlock the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'', et. al.) After losing the key in their [[Thirteenth Doctor|thirteenth incarnation]], the Doctor simply told the TARDIS what had happened and she opened up on her own. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'') | However, a key was not always needed to open a TARDIS. During the Doctor's first encounter with [[River Song]] (from his point of view), she remarked that she had witnessed his future self open the doors of the TARDIS by snapping his fingers. The [[Tenth Doctor]] reacted with disbelief, but later successfully opened the doors in this fashion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'') After regenerating into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh self]], the Doctor again opened the TARDIS by snapping his fingers, demonstrating that this method had become a reliable way for him to do so. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') The Doctor did, however, continue to make regular use of his key to unlock the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'', et. al.) After losing the key in their [[Thirteenth Doctor|thirteenth incarnation]], the Doctor simply told the TARDIS what had happened and she opened up on her own. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'') | ||
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