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History section for The Doctor's TARDIS.

History

Prior to the Doctor

In the Doctor's first three incarnations, he occasionally implied that his TARDIS was a unique invention of his personal design, (PROSE: The Equations of Dr Who, TV: The Chase, COMIC: Backtime) something the Twelfth Doctor later recalled as empty boasts designed to impress his human companions. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time)

By most accounts, the ship that would become the Doctor's TARDIS was one of 305 Type 40 TT capsules that had been manufactured. (TV: The Deadly Assassin) Like her sister ships, she was installed with the Record of Rassilon. (TV: State of Decay)

Prior to winding up with the Doctor, the TARDIS had had "several irresponsible owners", (AUDIO: Collision Course) including Marnal (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) and Marianna. (AUDIO: The Abandoned) Susan Foreman suspected that the TARDIS had at one point been to Goliatha where a Golithan Spiney Back Beetle had found its way into the TARDIS control console. (AUDIO: The Hollow Crown) In one account of her first night aboard the TARDIS, Susan found evidence that led her to suspect it had once had a much larger crew who voyaged the cosmos in it. (AUDIO: The Beginning)

Departure from Gallifrey

The TARDIS was eventually withdrawn from service and set to be scrapped, the First Doctor suspecting that it had been already been decommissioned, (AUDIO: The Beginning) before it was "borrowed" by the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan in their escape from Gallifrey. Upon entering, the Doctor declared the TARDIS to be the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

By one account of the theft, Susan was one of Rassilon's descendants, Lady Larn, and had hidden herself aboard the TARDIS, electing to join the Doctor when he stole the craft. (PROSE: Birth of a Renegade) In another, the Doctor's only company when he boarded the TARDIS was the Hand of Omega which overrode the safeguards that forbade the ship from travelling into Gallifrey's past so that the Doctor, the reincarnation of the Other, could collect his granddaughter. (PROSE: Lungbarrow) In another, the Doctor had simply found the TARDIS and with no one claiming possession of it, he helped himself to it. (PROSE: Something Borrowed, Something Blue)

In another account, in which Susan found the ship at the same time as her grandfather, the Doctor had not initially intended to take the Type 40, being persuaded to do so by a Gallifreyan echo of Clara Oswald. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) In this account, the TARDIS engines were in the process of being dismantled by Quadrigger Stoyn, his face being badly burnt when the Doctor took off. (AUDIO: The Beginning)

The TARDIS' departure from Gallifrey caused a "commotion", one that the Eleventh General recalled witnessing. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) The Doctor's original TARDIS hired a Celestial Intervention Agency agent named Maris to locate the Doctor, angry at having been left behind in favour of an inferior model. Meanwhile, the Master and the Rani learnt of the Doctor's escape and became desperate to figure out where he had gone. (PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir)

First flight

By one account, after leaving Gallifrey, the TARDIS landed on Iwa where the Doctor and Susan first encountered the human race. (PROSE: Frayed)

In another, Stoyn shut down the engines with the Doctor managing to make an emergency landing on the moon of planet Earth, 450 million years prior to the human era. When Stoyn confronted the Doctor and Susan, the former destroyed Stoyn's homing device to prevent the Time Lords from finding them and removed the ship's dematerialisation circuit so that Stoyn could not maroon them. Exploring, the three met the Archaeons who removed the TARDIS' temporal stasis capacitor while the power was still on, breaching the stasis field and freezing everyone in the immediate area for 450 million years until the moon was colonised by humanity. In the interim, the TARDIS had recharged itself, Stoyn bargaining its power to the Archaeons when they came under attack from Earth. When Stoyn stepped outside to speak to the First Propagator, the Doctor and Susan returned to the ship, inserting the dematerialisation circuit and fleeing. The Doctor, after having seen a first contact video about humanity had hoped to visit Earth itself only for the ship to wind up on an alien planet. Reflecting on these events, Susan noted that the TARDIS wouldn't land on Earth for quite some time afterwards. (AUDIO: The Beginning)

In their travels, the Doctor and Susan came to regard the TARDIS as their home. (AUDIO: Tick-Tock World)

On Earth

The TARDIS eventually landed in London in the 1960s, coming to rest in I.M. Foreman's junkyard. (TV: An Unearthly Child) By one account, the Blessing Star had allowed the Doctor to properly pilot the ship to the destination, at the cost of burning out its navigation system. (PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story) By another, the TARDIS had been placed there by the Father of Time, telling the Doctor and Susan that they would find "a new life" there. (COMIC: The Test of Time)

The ship's chameleon circuit caused it to disguise itself as a police box while in London, a form which it became stuck in. (TV: An Unearthly Child) One account stated that this was part of the Eleventh Doctor's plan to defeat the Prometheans, him travelling back to the junkyard and deliberately destroying the circuit. (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone) The Eighth Doctor though claimed to have removed the circuit to use it to disguise the Hand of Omega. (AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention)

The Doctor's travels

While living on Earth, Susan had enrolled herself at Coal Hill School. The various gaps in her knowledge worried two of her teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright who followed her home on November 23rd 1963 and forced their way into the TARDIS when they heard her voice from inside it. Unwilling to allow humans to have knowledge of his ship, the Doctor set the ship for Earth's caveman era to dispose of the interlopers only for all to unite against the Tribe of Gum, making it back to the ship just before the tribe could deal a killing blow. (TV: An Unearthly Child) Though the Doctor attempted to London in 1963, the TARDIS instead brought the group to the planet Skaro, (PROSE: What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious") knowing how important encountering the Daleks would be to the Doctor's character. (TV: Into the Dalek) After the Thal-Dalek battle, the Doctor attempted to use the fast return switch to return Ian and Barbara home only for the switch to become stuck and take the TARDIS to the beginning of a star system, the gravity fields nearly destroying it before the Doctor repaired the switch. (TV: The Edge of Destruction)

When the Doctor crossed paths with the Master on Destination, the Master claimed the Doctor's TARDIS as a substitute for his own. Having taken Ian and Barbara as hostages, the Master found himself overpowered, the humans managing to use the fast return switch to guide the ship back to Destination. (AUDIO: The Destination Wars)

On July the 20th 1966, the TARDIS was stolen by Edward Waterfield on the orders of the Dalek Prime. Brought to Skaro, the TARDIS was held in the Dalek Emperor's chamber who threatened to destroy it unless the Second Doctor helped the Daleks isolate the Human factor. After discovering the factor and letting it loose in Dalek society, the Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon managed to return to the TARDIS, taking on Victoria Waterfield as a new companion. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)

Following Victoria's departure and Zoe Heriot joining, the TARDIS was caught in the eruption of a volcano on Dulkis, the heat causing malfunctions in the fluid links. Unable to conventionally take off, the Doctor employed an emergency unit that sent the ship into the White Void. Once repairs were complete, the Doctor tried to return to N-Space only for the ship to collapse and the three winding up in the Land of Fiction. Once they had defeated the Master Brain, the three returned to reality, the TARDIS reassembling around them. (TV: The Mind Robber)

The TARDIS later landed in what the Doctor initially thought was World War I but discovered was a planet owned by the War Lords who sought to use brainwashed humans as an army. Though able to halt the plan, the Doctor was forced to call on the Time Lords to return the displaced humans to their own times. The Doctor tried to fly away from the planet before the Time Lords arrived only for the ship to be remotely operated from and brought back to Gallifrey. In his trial for the violation of the non-interference policy, the Doctor was exiled to 20th century Earth and the TARDIS was grounded. (TV: The War Games) The interference of the Celestial Intervention Agency led to a brief delay in this being enforced but their hand was eventually forced. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords)

Exile on Earth

While trapped on Earth, the Third Doctor used UNIT "funds and equipment" to repair the TARDIS. (TV: The Three Doctors) Though unable to fly his craft himself, the TARDIS could still be moved to other times and places by the Time Lords. (TV: Colony in Space)

In one of the Doctor's attempts to escape his exile, he physically removed the TARDIS control console from the ship with his disabling of many security protocols sending him to another reality. (TV: Inferno)

After the first three incarnations of the Doctor had stopped Omega, the Time Lords gifted the Third Doctor a new dematerialisation circuit and returned his knowledge of how to fly the ship. (TV: The Three Doctors)

Free once again

Though the Doctor was ostensibly free once again, the CIA was known to remotely steer the TARDIS to locations where they needed plausible deniability. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords)

Shortly after the Fourth Doctor had regenerated into the fifth, the TARDIS was set on course for Event One by the Tremas Master before it was steered clear. (TV: Castrovalva)

Following the Master's trial, the Seventh Doctor was tasked with transporting his remains back to Gallifrey. Managing to survive thanks to a Deathworm Morphant, the Master damaged the TARDIS and forced it to make an emergency landing in San Francisco. (TV: Doctor Who)

During the Kotturuh crisis, the Dalek Time Squad intercepted the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS and attached it to the engines of their saucer, allowing them to travel back to the Dark Times. (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) After the Defence of Gallifrey, the Doctor managed to reclaim his ship and return to his time. (AUDIO: Mutually Assured Destruction)

Last Great Time War

Initially refusing to fight in the Last Great Time War, the Eighth Doctor used his ship to rescue innocents who were caught in the crossfire. With knowledge of Time Lords becoming more commonplace in the universe, the TARDIS came to be seen as an omen of evil. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)

While aboard the starship Theseus, the Doctor met Bliss. (AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus) Upon entering the TARDIS, Bliss was protected from the rewriting of Derilobia's timeline that should have erased her from history. (AUDIO: The Lords of Terror)

Following the Daleks being wiped from N-Space, the Doctor left his TARDIS on Gallifrey when needing to investigate Grahv, instead taking, and crashing, Tamasan's TARDIS. (AUDIO: The War Valeyard)

During the Fifth Segment of the conflict, (PROSE: The Stranger) the Doctor failed to rescue Cass Fermazzi, crashing on the planet Karn where the Sisterhood convinced him to join the conflict. Accepting their reasoning, the Doctor regenerated into his ninth incarnation. (TV: The Night of the Doctor) Though openly identifying himself as a warrior, the new Doctor refused to allow weapons to be installed on his TARDIS, insisting that it be left as it was. (AUDIO: Light the Flame) Over the course of the conflict, the War Doctor modified the TARDIS to respond to his screwdriver's signal. (AUDIO: The Thousand Worlds, The Heart of the Battle)

When the Doctor protested Rassilon's plan to stop the Eternity Circle, he was exiled once again, the TARDIS being sent to die in the under croft with its clearance codes revoked. When the Doctor and Cinder reclaimed the ship, the Castellan allowed the ship to take off, the two stopping Partheus from deploying the Tear of Isha on the Tantalus Eye before they travelled to the Death Zone. There, the Doctor collected Borusa, since rewired into a possibility engine, and brought him to the Tantalus Spiral, the former President of the High Council being able to use his powers to remove Dalek influence from the sector. Despite the victory, the Doctor was left appalled at the lengths that the High Council had been prepared to go and swore to end the war. (PROSE: Engines of War)

Stealing the Moment, the Doctor decided to destroy both the Time Lords and Daleks completely. Sentient, the Moment summoned the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors to show the War Doctor what such a choice would turn him into. Though the War Doctor was initially convinced to double down on his initial idea, Clara Oswald convinced the Doctors to "be a doctor" and find an alternative. Inspired by their recent adventure with stasis cubes, the Doctors decided to shunt Gallifrey into a parallel pocket universe. Summoning "all thirteen" of themselves, the Doctor flew thirteen versions of the TARDIS into Gallifrey's lower atmosphere and saved their homeworld from the Dalek Fleet. Countless more versions of the TARDIS from across its timeline were subsequently summoned to Gallifrey to help deal with the fallout of this. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)

Post-Time War

As a result of the timelines being out of sync, the Doctor was unable to retain the knowledge of the Time War's true conclusion, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) believing that he had destroyed Gallifrey (TV: Dalek) and coming to consider his TARDIS to be the last of her kind. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

After landing in Cardiff to use the rift to refuel the TARDIS, the Ninth Doctor captured Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen and confiscated her tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator. As Jack Harkness worked in the TARDIS, the extrapolator identified it as an alien power source and, as Blon had programmed, locked on and used it to open the rift, Blon's ultimate intention being to destroy the planet whilst she used the extrapolator to escape. However, the stress caused the heart of the TARDIS to be exposed, regressing Blon to an egg and so giving her a second chance at life. (TV: Boom Town) Jack would later indicate that the TARDIS' presence resulted in the invisible lift used by Torchwood Cardiff. (TV: Everything Changes)

After visits to Raxacoricofallapatorius and Kyoto in 1336, the TARDIS was penetrated by a transmat, dispersing the Doctor, Rose and Jack across the Game Station whilst the TARDIS itself was stored in Archive Six. As the Doctor learnt, this was done by the Controller acting in defiance of her masters, the Daleks. With Rose held aboard the Dalek Flagship (TV: Bad Wolf) the Doctor and Jack used the TARDIS to retrieve her, with the new power of the extrapolator protecting it from the firepower of both the Daleks and their ship.

Back aboard the Game Station, the Doctor deceived Rose into entering the TARDIS before sending it away to return her home; leaving a message for Rose, the Doctor anticipated his death and instructed Rose to leave the TARDIS to die rather than fall into enemy hands. Refusing to leave the Doctor to his fate, Rose enlisted Mickey and Jackie's assistance to open the heart of the TARDIS. This resulted in Rose absorbing the energy of the vortex, transforming her into the Bad Wolf, granting her the power to resurrect the slain Jack whilst wiping out the Dalek Fleet. To save Rose's life, the Doctor absorbed the energy into himself before returning it to the TARDIS before departing, leaving Jack aboard the Game Station.

As a result, the Doctor regenerated into the Tenth Doctor who, (TV: The Parting of the Ways) in his delirium, caused the TARDIS to crash land as he attempted to take Rose home for Christmas. (TV: Children in Need Special) Later, the now unconscious Doctor was taken to the TARDIS which was teleported to the invading Sycorax ship, the Sycorax identifying it as a "clever blue box". It was here that the Doctor awoke, which he attributed to spilt tea, leading him to his confrontation with the Sycorax leader. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

After spontaneously falling through the Void, the TARDIS failed to respond, with the Doctor believing it to be dead. However, the Doctor found a stray TARDIS power cell and, by giving ten years of his life energy to it, enabled the TARDIS to be recharged over a period of 24 hours as the Doctor and company explored a parallel Earth. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) When the time came to return to their own universe, Mickey chose to stay behind to fight the Cybermen. (TV: The Age of Steel)

Within the Torchwood Hub, Jack heard the sound of the TARDIS (TV: End of Days) as the Doctor landed in Cardiff to refuel again. Rushing across the Roald Dahl Plass, Jack jumped onto the TARDIS as it materialised, clinging onto it as it flew through the vortex in an attempt to shake him off before arriving on Malcassairo in 100,000,000,000,000, the end of the universe; as Jack was now an immortal fixed point in time, both the Doctor and the TARDIS saw him as "wrong". It was here that the TARDIS would be seized by the War Master shortly before his regeneration to his next incarnation, who materialised without the Doctor but not before the Doctor fused the co-ordinates so that the Master could not travel any further back than 18 months prior to than the TARDIS' last destination. (TV: Utopia)

Whilst the Doctor and his companions used Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator to escape, the Master used the TARDIS to visit Utopia at the end of the universe, where he recruited the humans turned Toclafane to invade the Earth of Martha's present. To prevent the paradox that this would entail, the Master cannibalised the TARDIS, converting it to a paradox machine which was kept aboard the aircraft carrier Valiant. The Toclafane invasion a success, (TV: The Sound of Drums) the machine maintained the paradox for a whole year in which the Master ruled Earth, the Year That Never Was, before Jack destroyed the machine, reversing time. Though the Doctor intended to care for the Master aboard the TARDIS, he was killed by Lucy Saxon before he could take him in. The TARDIS was restored, with both Jack and Martha leaving the Doctor's company. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

Soon after, the TARDIS entered a temporal collision with its earlier self, resulting in the Fifth Doctor briefly appearing in the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS before the later Doctor resolved the crisis, having watched himself do so from the perspective of his younger self. Though the Fifth Doctor advised his future self to remember to turn his shields up, (TV: Time Crash) this warning came too late as the TARDIS control room was penetrated by the bow of the spaceship Titanic. The Doctor was able to reform the wall, pushing the ship back before materialising the TARDIS within it. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)

The Doctor's regeneration into the Eleventh Doctor caused considerable damage to the TARDIS control room, (TV: The End of Time) leading it to fly erratically through the skies of London before crashing in Leadworth in 1996, where the Doctor met Amy Pond. In an attempt to stablise the TARDIS, the Doctor made what was intended to be a five minute jump but ended up traveling forward twelve years. After facing Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi, the Doctor returned to the TARDIS, which had changed its exterior and console room. After a brief trip in the "new TARDIS", the Doctor caught up with Amy, finding that he had went forward two more years. Ultimately, Amy joined the Doctor in the TARDIS. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)

Within a Silurian city, the Doctor found a crack in time through which he caught a piece of the TARDIS shell whilst the TARDIS at present was intact, much to his shock. (TV: Cold Blood) It later became apparent that the TARDIS would explode, as depicted in Vincent van Gogh's The Pandorica Opens, resulting in the destruction of the universe. Believing the Doctor to be responsible, an Alliance of numerous species assembled to stop him by imprisoning him in the Pandorica, only for an unknown force to take control of the TARDIS, which exploded with River Song aboard. This caused a total event collapse (TV: The Pandorica Opens) which threatened to destroy the universe whilst the Earth persisted as the eye of the storm; though its sun was now gone, the perpetual explosion of the TARDIS took its place. The TARDIS' emergency protocols sealed off the control room and putting it in a time loop, allowing for River to be retrieved by the Doctor who used the Pandorica to reboot the universe in what he called Big Bang Two. (TV: The Big Bang) The Doctor later learnt that the Kovarian Chapter of the Silence were responsible for the explosion of the TARDIS, having traveled back in an attempt to prevent the Doctor's arrival at Trenzalore, only to create the crack in the universe which would lead to Gallifrey, forming a destiny trap. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

In the centuries following the Time War's end, the TARDIS was discovered by a hypercube sent by House and drawn to its bubble universe where its matrix was removed and placed into Idris' body. Learning that this was the last TARDIS, House possessed the ship and attempted to reach N-Space only to be outmanoeuvred by the Doctor. Before returning to its home in the ship, the matrix offered a long overdue greeting to the Doctor who subsequently built a firewall around the matrix to prevent a repeat of such events. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

By one account that showed the Time Lords as having been destroyed, the Matrix had become sentient when all of Gallifrey died and uploaded itself to the Doctor's TARDIS to survive the planet's destruction. Resurfacing in the Eleventh Doctor's lifetime, the Matrix attempted to take control of the TARDIS, its conflict with the ship's own consciousness creating a miniature world within the ship itself before the Doctor and Clara Oswald trapped the artificial intelligence in a never ending wormhole. (COMIC: Sky Jacks)

To try and help Clara bond with the TARDIS, the Doctor opted to teach her how to pilot it, setting it to basic mode. Unfortunately this coincided with the Van Baalen salvage ship extending its magno-grab. The Doctor attempted to break free, succeeding when a future version of himself from an alternate timeline tossed him the magno-grab remote, shutting it down. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)

When the Siege of Trenzalore broke out, the Doctor tricked Clara Oswald back home, though he intended for the TARDIS to return to him. Discovering the ruse in time, Clara grabbed the TARDIS as it was taking off, delaying it by three centuries as it extended its force field to protect her. After the Siege had devolved into an open war, the Doctor managed to send Clara home, though this time bringing the TARDIS back to Trenzalore where it sat for six centuries. The TARDIS was then used by Tasha Lem to collect Clara so she could comfort the Doctor, now out of regenerations and finally dying. Clara however managed to convince the Time Lords to grant the Doctor more lives, him using the excess regeneration energy as a final weapon to defeat the New Dalek Paradigm. With the Siege over, the Doctor and Clara returned to the TARDIS and resumed their travels, the Doctor regenerating into the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

In his delirium, the Twelfth Doctor forgot how to pilot the TARDIS, leading to it falling into the mouth of a Tyrannosaurus rex which was displaced to Victorian London, where it regurgitated the TARDIS. In Glasgow of her time, Clara received a call on the TARDIS phone from the Eleventh Doctor who, just prior to his regeneration, convinced her to stay with his future self. (TV: Deep Breath)

When the Boneless invaded N-Space, they leeched energy from the TARDIS, most notably shrinking its exterior dimensions. Clara was eventually able to trick the Boneless into firing dimensional energy through a wall and into the TARDIS, allowing the Doctor to fire a pulse from the ship that sent the invaders back to their own realm. (TV: Flatline)

Shortly after Clara Oswald's death, the Doctor was teleported into his confession dial. Left in Rigsy's care, the TARDIS was painted with a memorial for Clara. (TV: Face the Raven) Emerging from the dial on Gallifrey, the Doctor made use of Extraction chamber 7 to save Clara, stealing a new TARDIS to escape the planet. When a neural block erased the Doctor's memories of Clara, she claimed the second TARDIS as her own, reuniting the Doctor with his ship. (TV: Hell Bent)

When the Twelfth Doctor spent seventy years as a professor at St Luke's University, the TARDIS was parked in his office. (TV: The Pilot)

When the Twelfth Doctor regenerated into the Thirteenth Doctor, the TARDIS was left severely damaged by the regeneration energy. (TV: Twice Upon a Time) Damaged and pilotless, the TARDIS crashed on Desolation. Stuck in a looping materialisation, the TARDIS became known as "the ghost monument" in the planet's culture before it was recovered by the Thirteenth Doctor. (TV: The Ghost Monument)

After crossing paths with Ashad in 1816, the Doctor and Team TARDIS followed him to the far future, leaving the TARDIS far from the battle that was to come. (TV: Ascension of the Cybermen) At its conclusion, the Doctor stole another TARDIS to bring her back to her own. Before she could take off, the Judoon teleported in and arrested the Doctor, teleporting her to a Judoon prison. (TV: The Timeless Children) Twenty years later, the Doctor was saved by Jack Harkness, the two teleporting back to the TARDIS. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)

When the Flux ravaged the universe, the Thirteenth Doctor threw the TARDIS in its path. (TV: The Halloween Apocalypse) Though this caused several system malfunctions in the TARDIS, (TV: War of the Sontarans) it did prevent the Flux from consuming the universe. (TV: Survivors of the Flux) A week after this, the Doctor, for the first time ever, reset the TARDIS' systems, repairing the damage that the Flux had done. This caused a time loop which enabled the Doctor and her companions to escape death at the hands of Dalek Executioners. (TV: Eve of the Daleks)