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The TARDIS has been shown to be incredibly rugged, withstanding gunfire ( the 1996 television movie, Doctor Who ; " The Runaway Bride "), temperatures of 3000 degrees without even scorching (" Forty-Two "), atmospheric re-entry (" Voyage of the Damned "), falls of several miles (" The Satan Pit ") and sinking into pooling acid ( The Almost People ).
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Like the TARDIS, it has become one of the icons of the programme ; spinoff media such as The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood have replicated its functions in devices such as the sonic lipstick, sonic blaster, sonic pen and sonic modulator.
Doctor Who has become so much a part of British popular culture that not only has the shape of the police box become more immediately associated with the TARDIS than with its real-world inspiration, the term " TARDIS-like " has been used to describe anything that seems to be bigger on the inside than on the outside.
Despite changes in the prop, the TARDIS has become the show's most consistently recognisable visual element.
The dimensions and colour of the TARDIS props used in the series have changed many times, as a result of damage and the needs of the show, and none of the BBC props has been a faithful replica of the original MacKenzie Trench model.
However, the Doctor's TARDIS has been seen to be able to fly through physical space, first in " Fury from the Deep " ( 1968 ) and at repeated times throughout the revived series, most notably in " The Runaway Bride " ( 2006 ), in which the TARDIS is shown launching into space ( most previous incidents show the TARDIS flying only after it has dematerialised from a location ).
" In " The Doctor's Wife " the TARDIS says she has 30 desktops archived, although the Doctor has only changed it a dozen times " yet ".
When he accuses the TARDIS of being unreliable, she defends herself by saying that she has always taken him where he needed to go, if not where he wanted.
Cosmetically, the police box exterior of the TARDIS has remained virtually unchanged, although there have been slight modifications over the years.
From " An Unearthly Child " ( 1963 ) to " The War Machines " ( 1966 ), the TARDIS also had a St. John Ambulance badge on the main doors, as did real police boxes ; this has been reinstated and the window frame colour has returned to white for Matt Smith's first season as the Doctor, shown in 2010.
The TARDIS lock's security level has varied from story to story.
Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the Doctor's TARDIS and drained its power in " The Web Planet " ( 1965 ) and " Death to the Daleks " ( 1974 ), while its course has been diverted by " The Keeper of Traken " ( 1981 ), the " Mandragora Helix " ( 1976 ) and by the Daleks ' " time corridor " in " Resurrection of the Daleks " ( 1984 ).
The TARDIS has the ability to turn invisible, allowing it to avoid the detection by President Nixon, Canton Everett Delaware III and Area 51 operatives (" The Impossible Astronaut ", " Day of the Moon " ( 2011 )).
In " The Stolen Earth " the Tenth Doctor is shot by a Dalek's energy weapon, which has always been shown to instantly kill any other lifeform, yet is still conscious and able to return, with the aid of Rose, Donna and Jack, to the TARDIS in order to regenerate.
It has been suggested that, since perfecting the science of time travel, they have withdrawn, bound by the moral complexity of interfering in the natural flow of history ( compare with the Prime Directive from Star Trek ); in " Earthshock ", the Cyberleader, when notified of the arrival of a TARDIS, is surprised at the presence of a Time Lord, stating " they are forbidden to interfere ".
In the revived series, the TARDIS has an organic look, and the Doctor states in " The Impossible Planet " that TARDISes are grown, not made.
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It is shown to have been created by the TARDIS as part of its automatic regeneration.
The Doctor's TARDIS was for most of the franchise's history said to have been stolen from the Time Lords ' home planet, Gallifrey, where it was old, decommissioned and derelict ( and, in fact, in a museum ).
In " Frontios " ( 1984 ), the Fifth Doctor believes the TARDIS to have been destroyed in a meteorite bombardment, apparently contradicting the earlier claim of indestructibility.
I can see you've been doing the TARDIS up a bit.
" Several people have managed to just wander into the TARDIS without any problem over the years, including some who became companions ; since the TARDIS uses keys, it could easily have been left unlocked.
The words " Bad Wolf " have also been spray-painted on and around the TARDIS in previous episodes.
It has been announced that the existing footage will form part of the provisionally entitled Legacy Boxed Set alongside the 1993 documentary More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS.
Although the dimensions and colour of the TARDIS used in the series have changed many times, none of the BBC props have been a faithful replica of the original MacKenzie Trench model.
In the episode, two teachers at the school, science teacher Ian Chesterton and history teacher Barbara Wright, discover that one of their students, Susan Foreman, is an alien time traveller who has been attending the school as her grandfather, the Doctor ( the central character of the series ), makes repairs on their time machine, the TARDIS.
The Rani escapes in her TARDIS, but it has been commandeered by the Tetraps, who take her prisoner.
* It is never explained how the Rani escaped the predicament in which she had last been seen in The Mark of the Rani ( trapped with the Master in her TARDIS and a rapidly-growing Tyrannosaurus rex embryo ).
Notably, in the revived series, in which Gallifrey has been destroyed, the TARDIS lacks its own power source, and must draw power from fissures in the fabric of reality.
After a failed attempt at escaping from the hospital ( which results in him nearly being shot dead by an overzealous UNIT trooper ), the Doctor discovers that his TARDIS has been disabled by the Time Lords and he is trapped on Earth.
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The production team conceived of the TARDIS travelling by dematerialising at one point and rematerialising elsewhere, although sometimes in the series it is shown also to be capable of conventional space travel.
The revived series uses the Yale key version, most notably shown in " Blink " ( 2007 ), when the Weeping Angels attempt to gain access to the TARDIS using a stolen key.
In " Utopia " ( 2007 ), and in " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ( 1964 ), the TARDIS was shown to have an internal deadlock ; once thrown, it would prevent entry even for authorised users with authorised keys.
In " Turn Left " ( 2008 ), the " Police Box " sign and all other text on the TARDIS is shown as replaced with the words " Bad Wolf ", as is all text in the universe ; this is interpreted by the Doctor as an urgent warning concerning the end of the universe.
In the Series 4 episode " Journey's End ", the Tenth Doctor was shown to use his telepathic abilities to wipe Donna Noble's mind of certain memories, specifically the memories of her travels in the TARDIS and to ' implant ' a defence mechanism which is activated in ' The End of Time '.
In " The Forest of Fear ", they are shown to escape from the settlement, but are subsequently intercepted before reaching the TARDIS.
* Excepting a brief CSO shot of one wall in Terror of the Autons, this is also the first time that the inside of the Master's TARDIS ( a redress of the Doctor's TARDIS set ) is shown.
During the loading time, a map of the area of the TARDIS the player will explore is shown.
While the episode appears to follow immediately from the previous episode " School Reunion ", Moffat notes in the audio commentary that when he wrote the episode he had not yet read the end of " School Reunion ", hence the lack of continuing animosity shown towards Mickey by Rose after he joins the TARDIS crew.
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The Invasion of Time introduced a red carrier ship which could be briefly seen on the TARDIS scanner in episode 5.
In " The Edge of Destruction " ( 1964 ), the power source of the TARDIS ( referred to as the " heart of the TARDIS ") is said to be beneath the central column of the console.
Before a TARDIS becomes fully functional, it must be primed with the biological imprint of a Time Lord, normally done by simply having a Time Lord operate the TARDIS for the first time.
According to Time Lord law, unauthorised use of a TARDIS carries " only one penalty ", implied to be death (" The Invasion of Time ").
In the mini-episodes " Space " and " Time " ( 2011 ), an accident results in the TARDIS automatically materializing in " the safest spot available ," which turns out to be inside its own control room.
As seen in " The Trial of a Time Lord " ( 1986 ), the experiences of the TARDIS and its crew can be recorded and played back from the Matrix, the Time Lord computer network that is the repository of all their knowledge, as well as the memories and experiences of deceased Time Lords.
Newer TARDIS models apparently have more advanced locking mechanisms that are touch-sensitive or may be operated by remote control.
In the 2008 episode " Forest of the Dead ", River Song ( a character whose timeline intersects with the Doctor in reverse order ) says to the Doctor that she knows he would be able to open the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers.
In " The Runaway Bride " ( December 2006 ), " The Stolen Earth " ( 2008 ), and " The Beast Below ( 2010 )", however, the doors can be opened safely while the ship is in vacuum, as the TARDIS protects its occupants ( see the " Defences " section below ).
There is evidence that objects clinging to the outside of the TARDIS may be carried with it as it dematerialises.
The pair are admiring the TARDIS, thinking it to be a piece of art, when the Doctor ( Tom Baker ), Romana ( Lalla Ward ) and Duggan ( Tom Chadbon ) rush into it and it dematerialises.
After being trapped on the TARDIS as it is about to be destroyed, she is drawn towards the Doctor's hand, which was severed in the 2005 Christmas special and loaded with unused energy from a partial regeneration ( see " Journey's End ", 2008 ).
On 26 October 2011, 2 Entertain announced that only the Shada fragments would be released on DVD, along with the 1993 documentary Doctor Who ': Thirty Years in the TARDIS and other items, possibly sometime in 2012.
It can, however, be opened with the Doctor's TARDIS key.
* This is the lone example of a BBC-only production prior to 2005 in which the TARDIS interior appears to be lit when viewed from the exterior.
* The exterior TARDIS prop was the same Mark II fibreglass version used in the 1980s and in the 30th-anniversary story Dimensions in Time ; Curse was the last time the prop would be used.
Running to what appears to be a police box to call for backup, Tom enters TARDIS, a time machine operated by its creator, Dr. Who ( Peter Cushing ), with his niece Louise ( Jill Curzon ) and his granddaughter Susan ( Roberta Tovey ).
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