TARDIS exterior (Rose)
During the Doctor's TARDIS's use by the Eighth, War, Ninth, and Tenth Doctors, its outer shell had a distinct TARDIS police box exterior design.
One account indicated this was the seventh major design of the Doctor's TARDIS exterior. (PROSE: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...["TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"])
Design[[edit] | [edit source]]
Its sides were panelled, with four panels per slat and two slats per side, with the highest panel being six-segment blue-frame windows.
The TARDIS doors opened inward and had a door handle on the right door. The TARDIS lock was located on the left side of the right door, between the two middle panels.
The left door had a telephone panel with black writing on a white background.
The Police Public Call Box signs had yellowy writing on a black background, with back-lighting. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], et al.)
The design was taller than most, having a two-tiered roof with a steeper incline and elevation for the TARDIS lamp. (PROSE: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...["TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"])
During the Last Great Time War, the exterior had damage in various parts, including the windows and telephone panel. (TV: The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"], The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2006, a boy sprayed graffiti which read "Bad Wolf" on the side of the TARDIS after it had materialised on the Powell Estate . (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) The Ninth Doctor made him clean it up after the Slitheen crisis. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"])
In a hypothetical series of events where Lady Cassandra had not exploded and instead became a beach towel, she was once hung from a washing line alongside a pair of socks from the side of the TARDIS. (PROSE: Cassandra [+]Loading...{"name":"\"cassandra\"","series":"[[DWA 1]]","anthology":"Things to do with a Defeated Enemy","page":"16","1":"Cassandra (short story)"})
This exterior was replaced after the TARDIS was damaged by the Tenth Doctor's regeneration. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Prior to the introduction of the next TARDIS exterior, this exterior was used for promotional images of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan when they were respectively announced as playing the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.
