Doctor Who: 10 Secrets Of The TARDIS You Need To Know

[@qdllc]

The TARDIS doesn’t have faulty navigation...watch The Doctor’s Wife. The TARDIS wanted to see the universe, and it has the ability (as a sentient machine) to pilot itself. Its “faulty navigation” is the TARDIS overriding the pilot’s instructions. As she said, “I always took you where you needed to go.”

[@ruthgar9753]

Agreed, and I think the Doctor always knew this, when I first started watching the show in the Tom Baker years (3rd-4th regeneration episode was my first one), it seemed to me that the 4th knew that when they didn't show up where he wanted to go, it was because there was something there that he needed to take a look at. He just went with the "Well, where exactly are we now?" routine for the benefit of his companions. At least that's how it appeared to me at the time. With Matt's Doctor though, he was the happy go lucky Doctor not a care in the world, until you got him a bit angry, than all of his lives and years as a timelord would start to show in his demeanor and he would just say something like "Hello, I'm the Doctor, basically........... run"

[@qdllc]

Ruthgar - Remember the Tom Baker episode where the TARDIS landed on a fake earth with a village populated by robots who looked human? Two things bothered me that The Doctor’s Wife answered. How could the TARDIS get the wrong earth? It’s astronomically impossible unless the fake earth was on the opposite side of the sun in the same star system (so earth couldn’t know it was there and it would be plausible to make a “wrong turn” on the way to earth). Next, how and why did the TARDIS leave once Sarah Jane put the key into the door. The Doctor said the TARDIS went on to the real earth, but ON ITS OWN...without passengers...potentially leaving the Doctor forever stranded? If the TARDIS was sentient, and it could see all of space and time (as indicated in The Doctor’s Wife), it (1) knew the Doctor needed to go there, and (2) knew the Doctor would find another way to get to earth before it left.

[@DanBen07]

Thay don't realise the tardis could be alive until the 3rd story: The Edge of Destruction (1964). Then the 3rd doctor does make some comments about the Tardis being alive. And then as the show goes on more comments are made.

[@Mortlupo]

@@qdllc She knew..that's why she took them there.

[@paigebice900]

Maybe that's what makes it faulty. While a TARDIS that takes you where you "need" to be but not where you want is perfect for someone like The Doctor, it would be a pain in the ass for other Time Lords.

[@TheHorrorDevotee]

The TARDIS being alive is just... amazing. It adds so much nuance to what would otherwise be a silly plot device

[@leem4386]

The Eye of Harmony’s a collapsING star, not a collapsED one. It’s locked in its last moments before collapse.

[@Caitlinsculpts]

Isn't the Eye of Harmony a collapsing star AND a black hole in perfect balance and not one or the other?

[@sonnypanrucker9088]

Shut up nerd

[@leem4386]

sonny panrucker ok 🤐

[@thedoctor2311]

@@sonnypanrucker9088 That's not really a necessary thing to say, is it? People come here to watch these videos and discuss what's going on in them. If you think that nerd is really an insult, then maybe you shouldn't be here.

[@sonnypanrucker9088]

The Doctor it made me laugh

[@bernardcoombs1778]

I might have missed it but I think something important was left out: In "The Doctor's Wife" after the Doctor says, "You never took me where I wanted to go", Idris/the Tardis replied "But I always took you where you NEEDED to go." This would imply that, rather than malfunctioning, the Tardis' navigation was completely under control ... by the TARDIS!

[@bernardcoombs1778]

Oh this was addressed already. Sorry.

[@DoctorMysterio15]

Then why did the doctor forced the TARDIS to function properly with a hammer more than once?

[@bernardcoombs1778]

@@DoctorMysterio15 Maybe sometimes the Tardis needed to be .. woken up 🤔

[@kjreed4526]

The way I look at it, the navigation is definitely faulty, the tardis just has more control over it than the doctor, for example, the tardis took the doctor to the area where Craig lived, which was not where he wanted to be, because there was danger in the flat above, but when the doctor took Clara home and accidentally ended up in Scotland, that had nothing to do with the tardis and there was no danger for him to “need” to be there, so that was just the navigation messing up

[@RaggedyDoctor11]

Here’s another secret: the TARDIS has a hidden fez rack. I just didn’t tell Jodie, that’s why she had to order one

[@ede-uj4sz]

Nice LOL

[@ede-uj4sz]

Nice LOL

[@1928crows]

Yeet

[@wolfythewolf4457]

oop-

[@Phoenix-tk7dv]

Woooooow You Really Love Fezs!

[@MrRonald327]

It’s a nice box.

[@rascalgaming8298]

It’s w lot more than that mate

[@stocktonjoans]

actually, it's not that nice, the build quality of the police box itself is kinda basic

[@bonniethesans5923]

It’s an ice box

[@danthemeegs8751]

nice boxes are nice

[@cyogenic1052]

Hey, nice box

[@Pub2k4]

Neil Gaiman is a f*cking genius writer. In one episode, he gave the TARDIS a personality, and with one line he SIMULTANEOUSLY wrote out the possibility of any person ever playing that role again. “I’ll always be here. But this is when we talked. And now even that has come to an end.” I’m not crying, you’re crying! 😭

[@mryellow6918]

They already said something like that. About tardis not being able to talk to you. Because it becomes sentient and goes crazy

[@Pub2k4]

@@mryellow6918 I mean, the TARDIS is sentient. It’s a living thing. They are grown.

[@davidrust3169]

Hunh. A while back, long before the rebirth series began, the black hole (aka "the Eye of Harmony") was explained to have been a super-massive black hole (kept stable by powerful, dimensionally-stabilizing technology) that was engineered by one of the Prime Three "Founders of Gallifrey", Omega. Omega had been the stellar engineer who designed and constructed the hole and had been thought lost in the effort. He was found, however, not to have perished but still dwelt in a strange, half-realm of thought, energy, and quasi-matter, either just within the event horizon or heart of the Eye of Harmony, itself ("The Three Doctors" and "Arc of Infinity"). This incredibly powerful black hole was also defined as being kept beneath the Panopticon on Gallifrey. ("The Deadly Assassin".) The made-for-TV movie with Paul McGann said, however, that it was in the center of the TARDIS, itself. This discrepancy led to the explanation that all TARDISes had the Eye of Harmony co-located within their hearts. In essence, each TARDIS has the Eye of Harmony within its heart, simultaneously, via bent-space. Each draws from its near-infinite energy, simultaneously. Then, when the first "re-charge" episode of New Who happened ("Boom Town"), it was proposed that since Gallifrey was "no more" that the Eye of Harmony simply wasn't available any longer. Therefore, the Doctor had done some serious re-wiring and re-engineering to allow the ship to fuel-up on ambient artron energies by parking it on naturally-occurring (or unnaturally-occurring) temporal/spatial rifts. Later, after Gallifrey was released from its pocket universe (some time between the end of "Time of the Doctor" and the end of "Heaven Sent"), the Eye of Harmony re-connected to the TARDISes across space-time as long as their relative timeline put them post-Time War. I'm not sure if you'd ever run into this series of explanations but it's what most Whovians of my age (too old: forgive me!) seem to think is the case. Or not. It's a wonderfully growing and changing show so all this could be changed or ret-conned at a moment's notice! :)

[@arandil1]

Classic/Nu fan here... this was my understanding as well... at least in terms of Alpha sources [Televised shows].

[@Humaricslastcall]

The TARDIS's eye of harmony, from my viewpoint, is basically a copy of the true eye of harmony that is kept active via Artron energy. The TARDIS's eye of harmony is basically a tesseract that draws from the true eye of harmony. Basically, the TARDIS has 2 exteriors. One operating exterior, and one exterior orbiting the true eye of harmony (where-whenever that may be).

[@drwho7915]

Worm

[@calculator17]

5:04 it isn’t a black hole it’s a star very close to becoming a black hole but it isn’t one.

[@alpborakirte801]

Trapped in a single moment in time just before becoming a black hole.

[@Wolfboy573]

What he said ^

[@sanicinapanic4264]

Technically it’s going to be counted as a black hole because if it stopped right before it becomes a black hole that means it’s not a star because it’s in the in between of changing but it’s really not a black hole

[@thephoenixking1086]

@@sanicinapanic4264 Or "A Collaspsing Star"....

[@jadey1422]

11 had the best on-screen relationship with the TARDIS. I know other doctors refer to her as sentient too, but The Doctor's Wife and the few episodes in season 7 where he's trying to get Clara and the TARDIS to get along really solidified her as a character...sort of. Plus a fair few of these facts seem to be from his era, perhaps Moffat was just more interested in the TARDIS that other writers.

[@Doctor_Odin]

If you’re going to mention the doctors wife episode then you might as well mention the fact that the tardis told him that her Unreliable navigation system errors was intentional she took him where he needed to be not necessarily where he wanted to be. Basically forcing him to police all space-time

[@Dragonborne223]

I'm a simple man, i see a TARDIS, i click like

[@stargazer65]

Ethan Keen same

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

I'm not quite as simple, but 'TARDIS' is certainly enough to earn a 'like' from me, as well. 😉😏😁

[@Kingpotatowastaken]

Tardis simp

[@kaitlynmaxwell3737]

The episode "The Doctor's Wife" always seemed to imply to me that the TARDIS was more of the Doctor's wife than River Song was. After all, the TARDIS showed up through out the whole episode where as River Song was only briefly mentioned at the end. I thought that was deep. Why name the episode that, unless it's about her? Well either way, it seems fairly obvious that the Doctor has a very fond and strong love for his TARDIS.

[@Attackontrashcan]

I mean...he did call the TARDIS sexy,and he pets the TARDIS alot

[@grimtheassassin]

@@Attackontrashcan ok.

[@lanapowell]

I think the bit at the end best explains: DOCTOR: (speaking to the TARDIS) What do you think, dear? Where shall we take the kids this time? AMY: Look at you pair. It's always you and her, isn't it, long after the rest of us have gone. A boy and his box, off to see the universe. DOCTOR: Well, you say that as if it's a bad thing. But honestly, it's the best thing there is.

[@flaggerify]

River said she’s a child of the Tardis.

[@BarioIDL]

@@flaggerify sweet home space alabama jk she was affected by time vortex,what can tardis do anyway

[@eclipsedragonwing]

"It is sorely in need of an upgrade." TAKE THAT BACK YOU FIEND!!! Besides, the Doctor's TARDIS is a Type 40 Scientific Exploratory vessel, perfect for someone who prefers to explore and learn. It's a pioneering vehicle.

[@lanapowell]

"Yes, that's me. A Type 40 TARDIS. I was already a museum piece when you were young..."

[@myrddyn]

Saying you need to upgrade the Type 40 is like saying your dog is over 10 years old, time to upgrade it to a newer dog.

[@mryellow6918]

It also had alot of faults like it being able to expload the universe. But also the doctors version is probably the best. It's been used and updated by himself that much its resistant to alot of shit that would just murk a normal tardis.

[@chpsilva]

Also, the TARDIS has a pool. Can't believe you forgot this...

[@zacherymcdonnell281]

chpsilva but we knew that its not something we DIDN’T know

[@Someone-sk8cg]

But you never know where

[@Mortlupo]

I though that was had a pool, didn't they eject that during one of the Tom Baker era shows?

[@Someone-sk8cg]

Charles Batchelor got put in again in Matt smiths era, I just thought it was there always but not always used

[@tortysoft]

The library, or one of them, is in one of the pools iirc.

[@stocktonjoans]

the doc's wife has to be one of the all time best episodes, i absolutly love it

[@honeychroma]

2:52 i cant believe Taz Wanted is in this video used to be my favorite game as a kid

[@Squicx]

The oldest companion in DW history. Let's pray Chibnall *OR ANY FUTURE WRITERS* doesn't give it a backstory NO ONE WANTS or they transfer its matrix into a new TARDIS leaving it's 50 years in the making outer shell destroyed or written out. *THE TARDIS MUST NEVER BE TOUCHED IN ANY WAY. MAKE THAT A LAW*

[@Squicx]

@Andrew Elie Neil extended the Story. What I mean is that I hope they don't make the TARDIS a dead girl that died as a child then was uploaded to the matrix. Shit like that

[@ftumschk]

Given that the Doctor had Susan with him when he "borrowed" the TARDIS, then Susan is the oldest companion on the show. Not that the TARDIS was ever a companion in the proper sense; it's no more a companion than the sonic screwdriver.

[@monkeybone1080]

I think it's safe to say after the damage they've done to the Doctor that nothing is safe. Expect future seasons to reveal that to grow a Tardis it requires the sacrifice of failed time lord children who couldn't stare into the vortex to nourish the soil and give it Galifreyian DNA so it can form symbioses with actual Timelords... or almighty immortal gods that birthed timelords.

[@ankaplanka]

Maybe all the travelling in a faulty time machine for that long has caused a few paradoxes along the way that might be explained later on? One commenter on an another video said that the Doctor being a timeless child might be less of a big deal than it actually is, but from our perspective it's supposed to be mind-blowing, and all of it might just stem from a bunch of bored people in an another dimension, or whatever the term would be in this case, who either wanted to troll a separate dimension or thought that child was way too annoying somehow and yeeted them into that hole. Wouldn´t that be hilarious if that was the case? But also sad because the Doctor's "real first" incarnate was actually abandoned by her own people.. So all in all, some people with way too much power playing gods and probably even watch it all unfold as entertainment.. What do you guys think about this? I'm actually curious! (I know I wrote this in an another comment section, just wanna see how many like this idea)

[@ftumschk]

@@monkeybone1080 Come to think of it, that "staring into the vortex" stuff is pretty suspect. It's fair enough to take a pop at Chibnall for his dodgy ideas, but some of them have been quite sensible, and it's easy to forget that Moffat and Davies (especially) have given us a fair bit of nonsense. Chibnall's idea of rooting regeneration in biology/genetics makes a lot more sense than having it involve exposure to the vortex, which always struck me as bordering on the magical. I also liked it when Chibnall went back to showing us the Doctor maintaining the TARDIS as a _machine_ (e.g. Spyfall Part One), which is closer to what the TARDIS always was in Classic Who, and makes a lot more practical, scientific sense than the idea that TARDISes are grown.

[@AnglicanFish]

My friend: so is the TARDIS alive Me: well yes, but actually no

[@julieeverett7442]

well yes, it IS alive

[@TimeLady8]

Third Doctor: I let the TARDIS decide. She's not a complete fool. Mike Yates: You speak as if she were alive. Third Doctor: Yes, I do, don't I.

[@grimtheassassin]

Is.

[@grimtheassassin]

If it is not alive, then how the fuck do I go anywhere?

[@CaptRobertApril]

I've generally figured that Gallifrey had a programme like Blue Peter, and they had a contest to name the new time machine, which Susan won.

[@thebloxburgblues-bloxburgm4783]

*canon*

[@Domisbeast]

Anyone else just smile when he mentioned The Legend of Dick and Dom

[@danthemeegs8751]

dick and dom in da bungalow was the GOAT

[@Alpha101Wolf_MC]

What Ep was the tardis in?

[@danthemeegs8751]

OLDandNEWGames101 ItsAlpha mists in time I think

[@Domisbeast]

@@Alpha101Wolf_MC no idea sorry. I'd love to even be able to watch any episode of it but it's not anywhere (legally... 🙄)

[@danthemeegs8751]

Domisbeast I tried to find the DVDs and I couldn’t even do that

[@TakerREAL]

I love this Doctor Who youtube channel.

[@highvoltage7797]

Journey to the centre of the Tardis had so much potential. We could of seen old consoles or companion rooms but no. Oh well.

[@blackphoenix77]

That was probably one of the worst episodes of the entire series, classic series included.

[@StillJustDreaming]

But we did see some old keepsakes, like Amy's old toy Tardis and the Doctor's cot that baby Melody Pond Williams slept in (I know, I know, but I'm skipping the spoiler detail a lot of you are thinking now)

[@highvoltage7797]

StillJustDreaming So stuff from the last two series. Not much history there. I wanted to see Adric, Nyssa and Tegan’s rooms or the sixties console. Something that was worthy of the shows 50th anniversary.

[@jimfarrell5004]

If my memory serves me correctly, even in the First Episode of Doctor Who, the Doctor when explaining the TARDIS to the two people he would kidnap in that episode (Ian & Barbara), he mentioned that the TARDIS changes shape as well as how the interior is larger than the outside. In the second episode of the series ("The Tribe of Gum", I believe) the Doctor would be upset that the TARDIS hadn't camouflaged itself. Susan, the Doctor's granddaughter (based upon her references to him), had a conversation with Barbara which summarized the former exteriors the TARDIS had assumed prior to their arriving on 1963 Earth. Police Boxes were common on street corners in the 1960s. Evidence would suggest that the reason why the TARDIS was in the repair shop on Gallifrey was due to the faults in its navigation system rather than its Camelion Circuit. The Doctor kept notes about how to operate the TARDIS because the "standard" navigation rules of the TARDIS were not what the were in the Operations Manual for a Type 40 TARDIS.

[@michaelbiscay9836]

I see you've redecorated the site. I don't like it.

[@ruthgar9753]

Oh you never do!

[@sorrowandsufferin924]

I'm not too sure myself. Not enough round things. I used to have lots of round things.

[@michaelbiscay9836]

@@sorrowandsufferin924 I LOVE the round things!

[@sorrowandsufferin924]

@@michaelbiscay9836 What ARE the round things?

[@michaelbiscay9836]

@@sorrowandsufferin924 I have no idea.

[@aech4509]

5:06 It is actually powered by a dying star.

[@kyrosonld.1353]

Yes.

[@AmberMetallicScorpion]

5:03 in all actuality, the T.A.R.D.I.S is powered not by a black hole, but by a star in the process of becoming one but has been put on pause, meaning that it will never reach the position of black hole. this star is known as the eye of harmony and each T.A.R.D.I.S has their own

[@safebox36]

Actually it's more complicated than that. The 11th doctor broke the 1st doctor's TARDIS in one of the comics (Hunters of the Burning Stone), fixing it in the police booth shape so that the memory of the TARDIS would be stuck in the subconscious of the human race for all of history so that the alien of the week he was fighting wouldn't plant fear in the human race thus leading them to eradicate themselves and so that they would know that there is always hope to be found somewhere.

[@williamg209two]

well it isnt cannon so we can ignore that

[@safebox36]

@@williamg209two Except most of the comics and Big Finish Productions are. 10s era is littered with references to them, and many of 11s side adventures that were mentioned but never shown later appeared in comics.

[@williamg209two]

@@safebox36 10s era wasn't littered with mentions to them

[@safebox36]

@@williamg209two you'd be surprised, most of the random phrases he threw out appeared in comics either before or after their TV appearance, thus they can be taken as mostly canon

[@williamg209two]

@@safebox36 id like you to reference some

[@realbadger]

In the second episode, upon noticing the chameleon circuit isn't working, Susan explains to Ian and Barbara numerous examples of shapes the external shell has produced, she even adds that one time it appeared as a Sudan chair... she and the doctor had had various numerous adventures long before reaching Earth (and staying there far longer than the Doctor would have liked), in 1963...

[@simon5143]

I've always imagined the creation of a TARDIS was the mechanical engineering of the Timelords (what we see), and then the extra-dimensional "soul" of the TARDIS that fuels it, or what makes time-travel possible. You mentioned that it's powered by a black hole, so I find it hard to believe that is also part of the organic part of it. And the fact that the chameleon circuit is still broken proves it's not completely organic. It would have either healed from the "injury" by itself or react with an immune response. Almost like the Daleks. Squizzy organic core that controls stuff and with mechanical parts giving it shape.

[@Hey_Its_Thor]

The chameleon circuit was fixed at one point I think during the 5th doctors time, but in the end he set it back to the police box. I remember a episode when I was younger. The Tardis turned into a piano and he played a small tune on it.

[@philnewton-england7795]

Yes......it’s transformed into an organ & a wardrobe - 6th Dr. (So not always stuck as a blue box’).

[@GTArajgaming]

The only thing wrong with the type 40 was the doctor's lack of piloting skills and empty data banks. as noted in the official comics, the 11th doctor is the one that jammed the chameleon circuit when 1st and susan were off delivering the hand of omega in 1963 As for the TARDIS's power source for time travel nuclear energy will also do, as third can be seen travelling to parallel earth after hooking the console up (outside of the ship) to a nuclear power plant and using a surprisingly small amount of power to travel

[@abigsmiley5u]

The TARDIS also knew of both the Doctor acquiring new regenerations in The Time of the Doctor and the past regenerations from The Timeless Child. She announced in The Doctor's Wife that there were 30-40 control rooms, From both past and future incarnations of the Doctor.

[@chefkdowg]

The comillion circuit was fixed once, during the sixth doctors time, and there is several traveling around and placed in random places. Also, in the third doctor time, he was stranded, and could not leave so he traveled by automobile everywhere.

[@Attackontrashcan]

There were two cars one was a yellow car called Bessie One was a car that looked like a stingray ( I don't remember the name of the car but I heard Jon Pertwee bought it himself)

[@robertespley248]

@@Attackontrashcan it was (rather embarrassingly) called the WHOmobile

[@Attackontrashcan]

@@robertespley248 thanks

[@savaialaddams6273]

@@Attackontrashcan , Pertwee built the Who 1.

[@savaialaddams6273]

The Time Lords went into his mind and took away his knowledge of how to fly the TARDIS, so he built Bessie.

[@Daikon_Micucci]

The only way that the extra dimension rule can make sense is if one room in the TARDIS is dedicated to the empty space of the original cylinder, with a similar door that opens into it. Then you can say that the entire dimension that is the inside of the ship fits within the door frame of its shell.

[@patricklenigan4309]

"I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a timelord and ran away!" OMG...WHAT?!

[@mini-mei]

I haven't watched Dr. Who in ages but seeing all those little clips makes me fall in love with the show all over again.

[@Oldmangamess]

The timeless child be like Nah I'm gonna retcon the origins of the doctors tardis

[@ljllob4740]

1:15 that's false he went to loads of places with Susan before he landed in 1963 another thing wrong Susan is a gallifreyan not a time lady

[@cheggs6607]

I swear it changed into a cake before hand among other things😂

[@calculator17]

Yes the doctor mentioned it in the crusade or something

[@geoserenity]

Also it wasn't permanently broken and stuck as a police box, it's changed form a number of times in the original series

[@alpborakirte801]

What? So Susan can’t regenerate?

[@ljllob4740]

Alp Bora Kirte she can't regenrate

[@RandomWolf]

Not just that deleted scene from Journey's End, but Captain Jack Harkness was also seen trying to grow his own TARDIS in the Torchwood Hub. Also, you might be interested to know that the material TARDISes are made/grown from is a type of Gallifreyan coral.

[@tyrantking9000]

"It was named after his granddaughter." Me: "THE DOCTOR HAD A CHILD?!"

[@jamescalder5115]

Yep a few, he mentions a fair bit especially in episodes like The Doctors Daughter

[@liamcruse739]

@Mary Foster yeah but his kids were pre time war.

[@Attackontrashcan]

@Mary Foster and I think Marilyn monroe in that one episode He also considers the TARDIS his wife

[@Attackontrashcan]

Also his first companion is literally his granddaughter whom he mentions in "rings of akitan" (I forgot how to spell it)

[@julieeverett7442]

@@Attackontrashcan not to mention the one he actually travelled with in 63/64

[@IsThereLifeOnMars1971]

the chairs in the 9th and 10th Doctors TARDIS is actually a car seat that the Doctor found on his travels.

[@jimkirk4357]

It's a sci-fi romantic adventure story. A symbiotic love story of 2 beings very much more alien than they appear and completely beyond our ability to really understand. Think about how LONG they've been together and how interdependent they actually ARE.

[@o2bnparadise]

Will: It's almost romantic. Me: Well, they do flirt throughout the episode, and he does call her "Sexy"...

[@hayleyhughes40]

The Tardis doesn't need an upgrade. It may be old, but I have a suuuuper old sewing machine that still works better than modern ones I've had in the past. Love your Type 40 Tardis.

[@devx1677]

The Doctor likes Explosions and crashing.. and the sounds.

[@mryellow6918]

Well it doesn't work better than most of them tho. It has like big flaws. Most you see on the show that the doctor himself ends up fixing. Making it probably the best tardis in existence

[@monkeywrench1290]

It also has self-upgrade.

[@tardisglitch547]

Imagine the Doctor travelling in one of the type 506 Tardises that were made later on, not long before the time war I think.

[@Attackontrashcan]

I personally I don't think he would do that because it might make his TARDIS jealous if she's jealous around humans she'll definitely be jealous around another TARDIS

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

The trip to Earth was not the first outing. During "Edge of Destruction" the scanner shows several other planets the Dr and Susan had visited before picking up Ian and Barbara.

[@apersonandaperson]

I like how he started explaining what dimensional Engineering was totally not like I already knew what is was.

[@johnnicpon5783]

Actually its Trans Dimensional Engineering. A key Time Lord discovery. As stated by the 4th Doctor.

[@apersonandaperson]

@@johnnicpon5783 yes, but it is also referred to as Dimensional Engineering.

[@Firellius]

The TARDIS also made a brilliant cameo in the sci-fi/fantasy show 'The Librarians'. When Flynn Carson has to travel back in time, he and the other Librarians head into the Time Machine chamber, where various iconic time machines are stored, and sure enough, Cassandra Killian lifts a cloth cover to sneak a peek at the iconic blue box underneath. The scene is even preceded by a musical homage to the theme of Doctor Who.

[@Coxswain]

Fact 11: It’s noise is a teenager going through puberty moaning POLICE BOX NOISE

[@ThroatSore]

The Tardis navigates perfectly. It always puts he Dr where he or she needs to be.

[@jan_Sanku]

Dimensional engineering has nothing to do with perspective and is sligthly more realistic than this video claims, but if it's actually possible we won't figure it out in a long long time. Also, AFAIK the eye of harmony is a collapsING star in stasis, not yet a black hole

[@kcwade2616]

The Tardis navigation maybe knackered but it always takes the Doctor needs to be.

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

There's also a subtle reference to the TARDIS in the KingsIsle game "Wizard101". However, due to copyright, it's not blue but red, it's a Telegraph box, not a Police box and the NPC that "owns" it is called the Professor, rather than the Doctor. Another fun fact, his "assistant" NPC inside the box is called "Rose Piper", which is also a subtle reference to the actress Billie Piper that played the David's doctor's companion, Rose Tyler. There are numerous pop culture references from The Beatles to Star Trek.

[@doctor49152]

in the second episode of the first serial Susan mentions that it's been an ionic column and a sedan chair before. It wasn't the first trip out from Gallifrey.

[@ericreese7792]

Yes, the chameleon circuit did hold out for a LITTLE while after they left Gallifrey before conking out. And Six got it going again, for a little while, but it went right back to being a police box and apparently likes it that way.

[@SleepySinnerS]

The galafrayen is actually Clara Oswald who stopped the great intelligence by replacing him in all the doctors “bad days”

[@azuremitten2077]

Yeah I’m going to ignore what you said about the fact that science cannot make a tardis and I’m just going to make my own

[@TheEqualizer-iw1bz]

Paul McGann’s Doctor had a practical TARDIS by having a living room in the control room (somewhere to sit and relax between and during travels). I think I missed the TARDIS encounter in Fallout (because I don’t remember it at all), I only had the Star Trek Guardians of Forever encounter.

[@star.master_cranium]

The TARDIS. The greatest piece of Time Travel Media for all of eternity. People who say the Dolorian is better just never understood how powerful even the oldest Type of those Gallifreyan Timecapsules can be. Also come on the TARDIS is the Doctor’s oldest and most trusted companion. Period!

[@DogsAreTheBest312]

My favorite TARDIS will always be the Eccleston/Tennant one.

[@JShort89]

yeah, the Coral theme is nice XD But I preferred Capaldi/Smith's, if only for the rotor and dual- monitors.

[@wild4130]

@J Short me too!!

[@Witherboss2015]

I like the original look.

[@flaggerify]

Very ugly. Capaldi’s was best.

[@God-yb2cg]

Honestly I think the Tardis (unlike the rest of the show) gets better and better each season, newest Tardis is always the best Tardis.

[@wizbolt4929]

I think the plant given to rose is the central tree that generates everything in Tardis as shown in some episode

[@Arniox]

It's interesting that the Doctor either didn't have a TARDIS or had a different TARDIS before the division wiped his mind. Back when they were the timeless child. Before the classical 1st doctor.

[@Wolf359inc]

The TARDIS from ClassicWho was a purely defensive vehicle. It had a Chameleon Circuit, to disguise itself, and developed a huge outer shell to protect itself from overwhelming force (I forget what this was called, but it turned the exterior of the TARDIS into a cube- someone will no doubt recall...). In NuWho, it can turn invisible (which defeats the purpose of having a Chameleon circuit), and can generate a force field (though that might have been a one-off, due to additional, non-Time Lord equipment - I don’t recall). It has also been shown to be quite effective as a battering ram on several occasions. If Type 40’s can self-upgrade on return to Gallifrey, then Who knows what else the Doctor’s TARDIS can do, given the “advancements” the Time Lords made during the events of the Time War. Also, I wonder if, being sentient, the TARDIS can pick and choose what upgrades it receives, or if they are auto-installed?

[@m25632]

I like the idea that while newer models of TARDIS, in the time war in particular, would probably have some kind of weapon capabilities, the Doctor would just ram things with it. No lasers, no photon torpedoes, just the sturdiest hull in the universe.

[@Wolf359inc]

@@m25632 you are my third comment on three year old posts today! Is there something in the water? :)

[@ColdHeart9000]

This should be on the a very useful box website

[@AA-os8zf]

the world's favourite police box

[@androidaxolotl8311]

I always liked to imagine that the Doctor actually doesn't know how to pilot the TARDIS and she's secretly piloting herself throughout the series.

[@nasmannen]

The eye of harmony is actually a little more complicated than described here. Not every tardis has one, in fact untill the 8th Doctor movie, no TT capsule had it. The eye of harmony was located on Gallifrey, and every Tardis was connected to it. I believe there's a story where the Doctor removes the eye of harmony from Gallifrey to protect it from the daleks.

[@blackphoenix77]

You're thinking about the Hand of Omega, not the Eye of Harmony

[@nasmannen]

@@blackphoenix77 No, the hand of Omega is something that would allow for the creation of something like the eye of harmony and the Doctor took that too and hid it in 1963.(remembrance of the daleks) The eye of harmony was definitly one thing during the fourth doctor's run when it was buried in the panopticon on Gallifrey. (The deadly assasin). I was specifically talking about some time war stories from big finish in my original comment though.

[@BearsTrains]

One belated fact is that the Doctor was flying around for about 50 years with the handbrake still on. That's what make the distinctive noise

[@Jhymnbeau]

The T.A.R.D.I.S. was not in for repairs due to repair the Chameleon circuit. In fact, it was the Tenth Doctor who went back in time to disable the circuit to begin with. In his travels, The Doctor had come to realize that the Blue Box had become the symbol for a place to find emergency assistance during times of extreme crisis, for many different species and cultures throughout all of spacetime. The T.A.R.D.I.S. had essentially become The Doctor's personal "calling card" (and he wouldn't ever want it any other way).

[@viperbite25]

You should of said that the doctor leaves the brakes on which causes the iconic sound we know and love. Pointed out by River song.

[@tortysoft]

-and then often ignored after that...

[@hgwells1899]

Because it was just a flirtatious joke between River and the Doctor that went right over your heads

[@tortysoft]

@@hgwells1899 That is a cunning plan, but I don't think it was acted like that..

[@hank2188]

How’s there a repair shop for an organic being? Is it more so like physical therapy?

[@Daleymop]

I would love to see metacrisis and Rose pop back with a grown TARDIS. Whole the scene was cut, perhaps the idea could still be used that either the Doctor gifted the piece off camera, or that metacrisis, knowing his fate, secretly grabbed a piece of the TARDIS. And the Doctor knew all along, having spotted the missing bit, but let it slide. While this absolutely won't happen on the show, an audiobook or comic is very possible..

[@Croftice1]

Even if Meta-10 had a working TARDIS, it's not like they could pop out at any time in our universe. Not because 10th closed the cracks/borders/whatever, but because it was terribly dangerous/risky to cross them. Look at it, it was fairly easy to cross the border, as exactly that happened in the first place, when Mickey was told to hold some button for longer, than he should, because 10th forgot about it. The dangerous thing was that you might have ended up in the void between the dimensions. That's why 10th couldn't rescue Rose and had to leave her in Pete's world. He could cross the border, but would risk to fall into the void either right the second he crossed it, or later when returning with Rose. The risk was too big. So Meta-10 having a TARDIS would work just within the borders of Pete's world. Traveling throughout that universe, even through time, but again in that universe, not in ours.

[@robertnett9793]

One of the best eye opening explanations about the Tardis is an old silouhette-poster with famous space vessels from different sci fi franchises, showing everything from the Millenium Falcon to Borg Cubes to Ancient Ships from Babylon 5. They commented on the Tardis: "Well, we don't show it, as it is both to small and to big for this chart."

[@michaelodwyer4442]

David Tennant was the best doctor, of all the different doctors in the series.

[@seanmurphy4077]

This was a really good list!

[@Iron8127]

So in other words, The Doctor has a hold of a Time Machine,House,and a fountain of youth all in one? Interesting

[@triforceofcourage100]

It’s been stated a couple of times in New Who notably in Boom Town that the Doctor could probably fix the Chameleon Circuit they just don’t want to as they’ve grown fond of the shape which kinda makes sense

[@mryellow6918]

Doesn't really need it tho. Since it's still emmits a perception field

[@doctorleak5312]

It must suck being a TARDIS.

[@parentheses4662]

Imagine a police like this Me: **calls police** Police: yes? Me: *_the doctor was stolen_*

[@Spectahman2.0]

Then how the hell does the Ruth/Fugitive Doctor have a Police Box

[@wild4130]

That’s Chris for yoy

[@Witherboss2015]

Apparently its a past version of the doctor or some retconned shit that i don’t consider cannon

[@MetalMercutio]

Chinball retcon

[@SlippPlays]

Number 11: The doctor leaves the brakes on and that’s how that famous “Landing/Take off” sounds comes from.

[@elysiumstudios1322]

In the Sensorites or Aztecs the First Doctor mentions a previous adventure with Henry the Eighth before Ian and Barbara came aboard.

[@Kasterborus08]

I recall from the first episode 1963 Susan remarked that the TARDIS had looked like a Sudan chair and a Corinthian column, prior to it being stuck in the police box form.

[@Shaden0040]

The TARDIS and the Doctor is a romance.

[@liamwilliams1794]

If you think about it out of all the companions the tardis is the greatest. Its been the one constant in the doctors life and always there when he/she needs it.

[@Croftice1]

Not always, 13th had lost her TARDIS for a whole episode. And I wouldn't say the TARDIS is a companion, in that sense, she's more like a vehicle, a home and a close friend (maybe more as suggested), but companions are people you can talk with and they answer you. Ok, not always people ... and not always humanoid even (yes, K-9, didn't forget him), but still. The TARDIS has many functions, but being a companion isn't one of those really.

[@eyeplay6210]

I never knew it was grown and organic. That brings a whole new meaning to the Doctor's favorite word for her, he calls her sexy.

[@Amber-Chaos]

I'm surprised you didn't include a clip of "The Robots of Death" where Tom Baker's Doctor explains transdimensional engineering to Leela with two boxes instead of an infographic.

[@ultimatespiderman9962]

I'm definitely a madman with a box

[@patchworkfellow]

Especially with a box!

[@grimtheassassin]

No.

[@iabconsulting]

There is an episode in the original Doctor Who series where the Tardis Camellia circuit worked once and the Tardis got turned into a piano.

[@robertnett9793]

As you showed the title card for 'The Doctors Wife': By Neil Gaiman Didn't know this tidbit - but, for some reason I wasn't surprised in the slightest.

[@andrewpenn295]

Another great video

[@mrb3991]

Hi it was'nt a Galifreyian who told the doctor to use the other Tardiis Doctor it was an Aspect of Clara

[@Croftice1]

You mean an aspect of Clara, that the first Doctor didn't know yet at that time, imitating a random Gallifreyian, whom the Doctor maybe knew, or had seen sometimes? Yea.

[@just_kos99]

Can't believe you didn't mention the chameleon circuit being repaired momentarily, as we see the TARDIS turn into a flowery cabinet and a pipe organ in "Attack of the Cybermen" (Sixth Doctor). Colin boasted that HIS Doctor is the only incarnation to repair the circuit!

[@MrJdcirbo]

I like to think of the "bigger on the inside" bit as an orthogonal, hyperplane that's been fourth-dimensionally warped into the shape of a hyper-paraboloid so it intersects our hyperplane in just one, rectangular area (namely, the door).

[@Croftice1]

Doesn't explain the multitude of cases, when the outer shell was breached and it affected the inner as well. Space Titanic as one example. Other instances include (not really breaching in that sense) materializing the TARDIS around things and people, taking them inside. If only the DOOR is the only area, where the inner and outer dimensions cross, then nothing of those cases mentioned should ever be possible.

[@MrJdcirbo]

@@Croftice1 good points. I imagine some fourth dimensional geometry could explain all of that, but I don't know it. If the TARDIS is as I have described it, the events you speak of would be paradoxical. Hence... I'm probably wrong. I would like to hear a different, more encompassing hypothesis for the dimensional engineering involved in making the TARDIS, though. And thank you for bringing that to my attention. I completely forgot about that. Lol

[@Croftice1]

@@MrJdcirbo My understanding of how the TARDIS works is loosly similar to yours, but uses the gummy balloon and a cardboard box. If you put the balloon inside the box and fill it with enough air, it will touch all sides of the box, not just one. Since the TARDIS is a separate dimension, it can still be bigger, than the box itself, but from the outside viewpoint the balloon fits the outer box. And since the inner and outer shell walls actually touch, whatever happens to the outer shell, affects the inner as well. It would also explain stuff like in Blink, where the four Angels rock the TARDIS and the inside is shaking as well. Though in fact it obeys only one law: whatever the producers need at the moment. XD

[@timothyweers8054]

The fact of the first TV adventure the chameleon circuit got stuck in Totter's Yard. If you have noted, in the 3rd adventure, Susan remarked about an adventure that she and her grandfather took in the tardis before they met Barbara and Ian where they almost lost the tardis when looking at a picture on the scanner screen when they were caught up in the events of "the big bang" when the tardis wouldn't let them go onto the mistake of the faulty fast return switch. The Doctor remarked that he didn't steal the tardis but instead borrowed it, from the scrap heap on Gallifrey during the Jon Pertwee era. As for the tardis being Organic and keeping the doctor young, in the adventure Logopolis, entropy was taking over the inside of the tardis as he was showing by the removal of a piece of cement from the pillar, and needed to go and get it repaired on Logopolis. In fact the 6th doctor repaired the chameleon circuit, it was still malfunctioning and when it came back to the police box, it was disengaged to prevent it from becoming either more outrageous in appearance or not being able to find the doorway into it, because the command for the chameleon circuit as shown by Tom Baker is a key punch system that needs to have it programmed in for a door.

[@lucahermann3040]

9:28 "the TARDIS chooses the Time Lord, Mr. Potter" . - The War Doctor Didn't he phrase it like that at some point?

[@manamesjames7649]

Is it just me who wants to have a spin off of the human Doctor and Rose traveling through space and time?

[@ogoglethorp]

Some of it I knew, been watching since Pertwee/Baker time frame, still very informative. Thanks

[@WyrdRune]

The black hole Eye of Harmony is/was on Gallifrey as seen in The Deadly Assassin, which is connected to the miniature Eyes of Harmony on every TARDIS as established in the awful TV movie. There is no "larger box" inside a "smaller box". The police box was often described as an outer plasmic shell housing the gateway to the inner TARDIS dimension. The "frequent" refills with Artron Energy where only necessary after Gallifrey disappeared leaving the time capsule without a link to the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey.

[@ryangreen6255]

1. And she picked a really hot woman to inhabit.

[@Pxlarizar]

No. House put the tardis matrix in the woman

[@ryangreen6255]

@@Pxlarizar true. And he picked a hot one.

[@jeffwalker7185]

The Doctor wished really hard - however, to him, the Tardis has always been sexy.