All TARDIS in Space / Mid-Flight Scenes | Doctor Who (Classic)

Every time the TARDIS has been seen mid-flight or in space in the classic series, from An Unearthly Child to the TV Movie.
As a bonus, I've included any clips I could find from animations of classic stories, or from Wilderness Era projects that also showed the TARDIS in flight.
Another KZbinr ‘tardis_relevant_m’ has already made a similar video like this showing all the scenes of TARDIS flight in 21st Century Who, if you like this video I suggest watch that after.

[@domtaylor1887]

0:00 An Unearthly Child 0:36 The Chase 1:06 The Web of Fear 1:40 Fury from the Deep 1:59 The Mind Robber 2:55 Inferno 3:11 The Time Monster 3:19 Planet of the Daleks 3:24 4th Doctor Intro 3:40 Pyramids of Mars 4:22 Whose Doctor Who 4:38 The Invisible Enemy 5:50 The Horns of Nimon 3:06 3:33 3:50-4:18 4:45-5:49 6:24-6:34 and 11:42-11:48 ? 6:35 Full Circle 6:51 Warrior's Gate 7:17 The Keeper of Traken 7:24 Castrovalva 7:47 Four to Doomsday 8:59 The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet 9:17 Time and the Rani 9:43 7th Doctor Intro 10:02 Delta and the Bannermen 10:08 The TV Movie 10:44 Search Out Science 11:31 Dimensions in Time 11:49 Doctor Who Night 12:10 Curse of the Fatal Death 12:15 Shada (8th Doctor Version) 13:03 Scream of the Shalka Intro 13:16 The Invasion (animated reconstruction) 13:28 Shada (4th Doctor Version) 14:15 The Macra Terror (animated reconstruction) 14:45 Terror of the Vervoids Blu-Ray Intro

[@darth_autie_117]

4:48 is underworld

[@sam12288]

11:48 is kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHKuiWidgLOUa9ksi=QqJpuMPSu7Ge75AZ at 1:23

[@oliverjroebuck]

3:50 - 4:14 is Masque of Mandragora

[@oliverjroebuck]

6:24 is the Horns of Nimon

[@domtaylor1887]

Thanks to all the people who filled in the gaps. There are a lot of episodes of Classic Doctor Who, so it's hard for me to remember what scenes go with which episode.

[@fastertrackcreative]

The very obviously tiny model in the early episodes is quite cute.

[@mistamemewide]

I love the mid flight sequences of the tardis because it encapsulates what Doctor Who is: You are getting beautiful sights of time and space as a weird ass Police Box flies through space.

[@user-ms1pg2ok4i]

That first take off that we witness from an Unearthly Child-- that's a great scene! And the TARDIS not sounding like the TARDIS? That's cool! Never saw that. Happy 60 years of Doctor Who to you! Thanks for posting!

[@themightybob]

Wdym? that's the full tardis take off sound, it goes on for a minute but they cut it down later on

[@themightybob]

"there we are, in perfect flight" * cut to the tardis hurtling through the vortex *

[@sumthingwikked4257]

To be fair, it's like Operation: Don't touch the sides.

[@abdullahlol6098]

where is this in the video? i never saw it

[@themightybob]

​@@abdullahlol6098 at the end

[@LPTV84]

I love how oever time, they figured that it would be spinning through space.

[@BarryLetts379]

Science never applied to the BBC writers

[@pcb1175]

In terms of effects quality, going from the clip from the beginning of trial of a time lord at 8:59 to the opening of time & the rani at 9:18 immediately afterwards is the biggest shift in quality since caves of androzani to twin dilemma.

[@Agills-Photography]

This

[@ShamrockParticle]

The dvd release doesn't have the candy gumball thing at 9:20. Was that from an unused render of the theme, or was that for the UK release only? (I'm in the US). Thanks!

[@WimpyKelv12]

Not a fair comparison considering one was tried and tested practical effects and the other was new fangled and experimental CGI.

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Did the same effects team for Trial do the effects for Red Dwarf?

[@pcb1175]

@@sumthingwikked4257 Yeah I think so

[@themightybob]

Man I really love the echoey sound it had in the 60s and 70s, those dimensional stabilisers were REALLY out of phase

[@DoctorWhoStudiosForFun]

2:31 Zoe: Jamie, The Doctor! AAAEAEAEAEAEAEAE AAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAE

[@monkeyspinach4724]

8:59 "Wow, that actually looks great - looks like this is where they got the hang of these effects!" 9:17 "Never mind."

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

Yeah honestly the CGI TARDIS only worked in the 1987 opening and the 1996 TV movie

[@okankyoto]

I just wish the Trial of a Timelord background starfield was in sync with the awesome motion control move, its always felt like some variable was incorrectly set and it moves way faster than the camera move itself.

[@404TVfr]

​@@The_Blue_Otaku1996 movie Tardis is a model.

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

@@404TVfr Ohhh... Well it mixes very well with the CG time vortex and honestly it's aged well

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

@@404TVfr Yeah it indeed makes perfect sense

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

1:59 Such a chilling scene

[@seanryan3020]

2:26 Yeah, baby!

[@swanboyproductions]

Paul Mcganns is my most favourite one, and that’s because they didn’t use and CGI or a paper model, or some crappy cardboard model made in under a day, they used an actual wooden prop and well made model for it, it lights up, the lighting looks like it’s actually travelling through a vortex, in my opinion it looks realistic!

[@meiray]

Never really clocked how we never saw the TARDIS in flight for 5 years between 1981 and 1986.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Four years*, 1982*.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

The clips from The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep. Wow! Especially the latter. How did they even pull it off??? It's nothing like the CG TARDISes we've had in maybe the past 10 years or so, but it's still just mind-blowing. Top-tier FX work, worthy of a feature film

[@kingbolo4579]

I guess in Fury from the Deep it's established that it spins, and it's never really questioned after that.

[@triscuitbiscuit435]

Spinning gives people more to look at I guess instead of just watching something get smaller or bigger, same thing can be said in new who too lol

[@Concreteowl]

It is weird how the model door plaque remained white long after the prop changed.

[@raharu.]

1:59 was actually a nice sequence

[@sam12288]

2:32 “Jamie, the doctor! AAAAAAA-“

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Me, staring at Zoe's 🍑: ... ... ... OH, THE DOCTOR! OH, WE'RE IN A VOID!!!

[@timeywimeybrony]

11:46 LETS go!!!!!!!! This is one of my Fav DW commercials EVER

[@BarryRonchetti]

I swear Sylvester says 'Sod You' at 11:11 lol

[@davidrenwickjunior]

Awesome compilation ❤❤

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Great vid

[@MyleneAJala]

2:34 THE CUTOFF-

[@MyleneAJala]

roses are red, i forgot how to tie my shoe. i replied to my comment cuz no one wanted to

[@fastertrackcreative]

What episode is that at 2:14? ? Creatively-done. They may have had low budget and no CGI options, but they weren't low on creativity.

[@oliverjroebuck]

The Mind Robber

[@Pikminer-5087]

The Mind Robber

[@fastertrackcreative]

Thank you does the scenario carry over from previous episode or is it independent? The volcano I mean@@oliverjroebuck

[@iLikeTheUDK]

They did have miniature models though, like they did even in expensive feature films. You can do really great stuff with models, especially with motion control techniques and more minor special photography techniques developed for and in the wake of Star Wars in the 70s and the 80s

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

9:22 When the Doctor got attacked by the Blockbusters board.

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Gimme a C, please, Bob!

[@AWriterWandering]

9:38 the doctor seems to have borrowed some Asguardian technology

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

It may already be noted by others: you skipped some of the animations - The Invasion, Shada both have TARDIS “in space” elements. A fine montage. Some good music cues. Recognized where each clip is from.

[@Doctor_Smith]

12:17 Onwards 😊

[@cbw06]

What's 3:06 from? I first thought the unused/test footage for Four's titles but they're not. Also 5:05, the fade looks less like a simple reverse dissolve and more like The Time Meddler's credits.

[@Doctor_Smith]

3:06 is from The Claws of Axos.

[@happierabroad]

Where do you find those animated episodes? I've never seen them before. How come there are no Doctor Who video games?

[@Uzumakipavel]

I wonder if some of those materials were updated in the Collection blu-rays

[@petirgarda1005]

02:23 hot damn!

[@Charon.1]

Where is the "Fury from the Deep" clip from? I thought it was all missing.

[@Doctor_Smith]

The clip was reused in The War Games.

[@Charon.1]

@@Doctor_Smith Thanks!

[@adamberthiaume309]

2:25

[@morningstar9849]

Jamie, it's the Doctor! AAHAHAAHGAHHG!

[@alextheconfusing2263]

Man...I gotta watch the Mind Robber again. Totally because its an amazing serial and not at all because of the shot of Zoe's ass...

[@SadBnnuy]

It's the best serial for a reason

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Forget British Steel. She's got British 🍑

[@wiltaylor]

Okay but in theory the Tardis dematerializes here and then rematerializes there! Why does it need to fly through anything other than to waste time for the story? Sorry always wondered about this? What is it flying through? Why don't we see it take off if iwe see it land erratically all the time?

[@alhawki99]

It's knackered 🤣

[@JusGodden]

An explanation possibly requires a much deeper understanding about ancient Gallifreyan technology and transdimentional engineering that us humans could not yet comprehend... And it's knackered.

[@junomiller522]

Sometimes the Tardis dematerializes in one place and rematerializes in another, when it does this it bridges the place of departure and destination by traveling through the Time Vortex, basically just the "space" between one moment and the next that surrounds and underlies all space and time. Other times it just sorta flies around through regular old space, or as the show calls it N-space.

[@junomiller522]

Also it's knackered

[@acefilms1992]

it looks neat

[@keyzenthiru5867]

9:21 i got digimon vibes for some reason

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

Man, I love the times when practical effects were used heavily back then.

[@ThatBondGuy62]

Are those clips from Time and the Rani official? Can’t say I’ve ever seen them before!

[@zakramsey3508]

same!

[@Doctor_Smith]

The 1st half of that was deleted from the original episode.

[@akshaytrayner1960]

TARDIS fly more in classic than modern

[@plantainsame2049]

Reminder that this is like a few times between twenty six sesons

[@dediamkaming]

Isn't it weird that I actually liked the practical effects more despite being a NuWho fan?

[@plantainsame2049]

No it's you being a try hard Most people i've met like birth

[@dediamkaming]

@@plantainsame2049 You smoke meth or something?

[@kingbolo4579]

I think the Four to Doomsday spacewalk was when I stopped really believing in Dr Who any more - that and getting older.

[@LPTV84]

Ngl, the flight at 3:34 looks like a shot frame that would be in the new series.

[@JaredsGaming]

The clips from The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep are my favorites.

[@andrewdmcgill1]

In Time and the Rani what are those multi coloured hexagonal things? I don’t recall seeing them in the actual show

[@Doctor_Smith]

Apparently they are energy beams from the planet the TARDIS lands on.

[@EditedAF987]

The Rani’s satellites perhaps?

[@void4831]

what was that very last clip from?

[@drwhotvwam]

Ivd never seen that bit from time and the rani Cool video though, thank you

[@stevedickson5853]

All that tardis spinning, enough to make one dizzy..😵‍💫

[@kevincaulfield5755]

I’m your 723rd like I am honored

[@vorebiz]

Which story is 3:33 from?

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

It looks like the end Frontier in Space. The final story of Roger Delgado's Master.

[@vorebiz]

@@Benjiesbeenbetter. Ah yes you're right, thanks! Not seen it or Planet for years

[@DanBen07]

5:22 to 6:32 I've never seen any of that before and it looks like using really odd stuff lol. The model ship to the end is ok.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

It's The Creature from the Pit. Can't remember the season number but it's Romana 2's first season. For a disturbing experience, Google Erato Dr Who and select images.

[@DanBen07]

@@Benjiesbeenbetter. It's not a Tom Baker episode I've seen and based on the trailer I didn't think it would have space scenes.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

@DanBen07 I've just looked it up, deginately Creature from the pit. Serial 106. I don't think it's one that people really want to remember.

[@digipeeper]

Supposedly the TARDIS is a time vessel and from 1963-1979 the opening has 4 styles of Time Vortex. And should the TARDIS be traveling in that Vortex??? Space and science fiction is symbiotic and it looks cool that the TARDIS would be traveling in space like the Millennium Falcon, Liberator or Enterprise. It would be cemented in Vortex/Space travel in the 1996 movie and eventually the 2005 revival series.

[@julianaylor4351]

Come fly with me, Let's fly ....( in the Tardis ) 🎶 apologies to Frank Sinatra. 😁

[@TheTommygee37]

2:24 GYATT

[@cyberwomble7524]

The 80's incidental music conjures the voice of Peter Jones whenever I hear it... "Sol 3, also known as Earth...".

[@JoeyXSmith]

9:17 Red Dwarf had better space model shots than this! Why did DW do this? Both were running at the same time in the late 80's and at the BBC.

[@stockley_]

The head of the BBC hated the show at the time and after failing to get it cancelled due to public backlash, decimated the show's budget in an attempt to get the public to turn on the show so he can cancel it (which sadly worked in the end).

[@plantainsame2049]

Because computer generated graphics was the hot new thing

[@ACtheLegend]

The Keeper of Traken one made me cringe when I first saw it, but it's not bad.

[@somethingsomething7205]

You missed out Frontier in Space. And what the hell have they done to the Time & the Rani opening? No need to put "Classic" in the title. Nu-hu isn't canon, it's just another example of 21st century plagiarism.

[@Doctor_Smith]

You missed out Frontier in Space, it’s at 3:19.

[@somethingsomething7205]

@@Doctor_Smith I mean the scene right at the start of Frontier, when they zoom into the monitor & you can see the TARDIS on the screen. The scene you linked I thought was from Planet of the Daleks.

[@Doctor_Smith]

You’re right, just checked and I missed the shot on the monitor. The shot in the video is from the end of Frontier and reprised in Planet of the Daleks.

[@plantainsame2049]

Any loser who thinks doctor who has a cannon knows nothing about doctor who at all And does not deserve to even watch it because they clearly don't pay attention And anyone who only watches classic or only watches. New also doesn't deserve to watch it because it's not two shows its Fourteen in a trench coat

[@sumthingwikked4257]

You're a simple mind with a complex delusion.