Staying in the TARDIS
Staying in the TARDIS was a website created by the BBC in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, consisting of a variety of Doctor Who themed resources for families to keep themselves occupied during Lockdown, launched in late April, 2020[1].
Content[[edit] | [edit source]]
The website included a variety of content for families to peruse and keep themselves occupied, such as, but not limited to, "Where's the Doctor", puzzles, recipes, colouring sheets, quizzes and free audio dramas. For a limited window, more audios and comics were available as well, with these offers expiring after a certain period of time.[2][3]
Challenges[[edit] | [edit source]]
From the advent of the website to the first week of June, weekly challenges were posted for people at home to work on,[4][5] sharing their work as well on [6] twitter.
Prose[[edit] | [edit source]]
Previously hosted on the Doctor Who website,[7] Staying in the TARDIS came to include a variety of short stories written by former Doctor Who writers, as Chris Chibnall felt that Doctor Who needed to be doing something now that the world was going through a tough time.[8] These works were later republished in Adventures in Lockdown along with many works from the Doctor Who: Lockdown!, as well as new works written other Doctor Who writers. When the website originally launched, these were not included, but moved there sometime in late May or early June.[9]
| # | Title | Featuring | Author | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Things She Thought While Falling | Thirteenth Doctor | Chris Chibnall | 25 March 2020 |
| 2 | Doctor Who and the Time War | Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor | Russell T Davies | 26 March 2020 |
| 3 | Press Play | Thirteenth Doctor, Susan | Pete McTighe | 1 April 2020 |
| 4 | The Terror of the Umpty Ums | The Doctor | Steven Moffat | 7 April 2020 |
| 5 | The Shadow Passes | Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, Graham | Paul Cornell | 15 April 2020 |
| 6 | The Simple Things | Thirteenth Doctor, Graham, Yaz, Ryan | Joy Wilkinson | 22 April 2020 |
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
Archived copies of the website
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Twitter post announcing the launch of Staying in the TARDIS
- ↑ SitT Limited Time Offer
- ↑ An archived version of the site showing access to more comics and audio dramas
- ↑ An early challenge
- ↑ The last challenge
- ↑ The results of the last Challenge
- ↑ Original postings of the Prose Stories
- ↑ Interview with Emily Cook
- ↑ Earliest archive of the website
