The TARDIS is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television show Doctor Who and its associated spin-offs, often noted for its interior being substantially larger than its exterior
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Why was the Tardis in a museum?
According to wikipedia, the Doctor took the Tardis from a museum.
The Doctor's TARDIS was for most of the series' history said to have been stolen from the Time Lords' home planet, Gallifrey, ...
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Does the Doctor choose where the TARDIS goes or does the TARDIS?
It seems like the Doctor ends up in places that need him most. Does the Doctor choose where the TARDIS goes or does the TARDIS itself? He can "see" the timeline (not sure of the details on that) but ...
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Maximum Number of People in the TARDIS at once?
What is the maximum number of people that have been inside the TARDIS at once?
Is it in the David Tennant series 4 episodes "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End", when all "The Children of Time" have ...
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How can the Tardis speak to Clara in “Hide”?
In "Hide", a hologram of Clara appears as the Tardis speaks to her - but at the end of "The Doctor's Wife", Idris (essentially possessed by the Tardis at this point) says that she (the Tardis) would ...
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How fast does the TARDIS accelerate time between itself and Earth?
I recently started watching Doctor Who (onto season 3) and noticed that the first time Rose traveled in the TARDIS and returned to her present timeline it had been about a month since she left. The ...
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What is the relationship between the Time Vortex and the Heart of the TARDIS?
In the episode, The Parting of Ways, Rose seemingly absorbs the heart of the TARDIS and the Doctor tells her that she looked into the Time Vortex and that nobody is meant to see that.
So at this ...
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Has the Doctor ever snapped his fingers to open the TARDIS since early series 5?
When The Doctor first meet with River Song, she pretended he could open the TARDIS by snapping his fingers :
[...] But not "my" Doctor. Now my Doctor, I've seen whole armies turn and run away. ...
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How can other time lords, post time-war, drive/fly a TARDIS?
Two parts allow time lords to fly through time and space, in TARDII (?):
When a Gallifreyan was granted the rank of Junior Time Lord in the Time Lord Academy, they received their symbiotic nuclei. ...
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How are the doctor and his tardis connected?
I was listening to some Chameleon Circuit, and I noticed this line:
I'm linked to the Doctor symbiotically
Got his imprint on my Briode Nebuliser
And I looked it up, this is what tardis.wikia ...
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Could the TARDIS stop a Weeping Angel?
A Weeping Angel freezes if it is observed, due to quantum shenanigans. The TARDIS is alive, and is I think, aware of the inhabitants of... herself.
If an Angel entered the TARDIS, is it resonable to ...
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What would happen if you portalled the TARDIS inside itself?
The TARDIS is one of the few fictional objects that could contain themselves. Firstly, because "it's bigger on the inside" but secondly because the TARDIS has some means of sustaining paradoxes (which ...
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Does the front door of the TARDIS always open up to the control room?
In all of the episodes of Doctor Who that I've seen the TARDIS' front door opens up to the control room. However, it would seem that given the TARDIS' capabilities it would be possible for the door to ...
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What happens to the people inside when the TARDIS is tilted?
If the TARDIS is turned upside down or is laid horizontally, what happens to the contents - including people?
Does the TARDIS up / down orientation change? Or does it have an artificial gravity so ...
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Is it the TARDIS that allows the Doctor to speak baby?
In Closing Time The Doctor shows off the fact that he can 'speak baby' with Stromaggedon. In previous episodes we see that the TARDIS lets anyone who's been in it can speak as though they've got a ...
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Was the episode “The Doctor's Wife” (S06E04) canonical?
In the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife" (season 6, episode 4), written by guest writer Neil Gaiman, the character 'House' places the TARDIS matrix in the body of a human woman, which allows the ...
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Build or Grow a TARDIS?
In the deleted scene where the 10th Doctor leaves Rose and the Human-Doctor on the alternate universe, the Doctor gives the meta-crisis Doctor a piece of the TARDIS to grow a new one.
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What happened to the Coral TARDIS template?
In the beginning of Matt Smith's tenure of being the Doctor you see David Tennant's "Coral" templated TARDIS control room getting, basically, blown up and destroyed.
Therefore the Doctor has to wait ...
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Has the TARDIS's chameleon circuit always been broken?
The Doctor's TARDIS is stuck as a police box. Has that always been so? Specifically:
has it had that shape right from the start
has it appeared as a police box in every episode?
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How much does the Doctor's TARDIS weigh from the outside?
Lady Romana is quoted as saying a TARDIS weights 5x10^6 kilograms, but I've also read that she was mistaken in this or that she was referring to the inside.
The Doctor's TARDIS has been moved a ...
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How big is the interior of the TARDIS?
Do we have any idea how big the interior of the TARDIS is?
Is it even a fixed size, since it was recently renewed?
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Where's the extra TARDIS?
The following question is about the S6E1 episode of Doctor Who, The Impossible Astronaut, where we see a character for a few minutes.
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Has the TARDIS cloaked before?
In season 6 episode 1, The Impossible Astronaut, The Doctor cloaks the TARDIS, rendering its external appearance invisible. Is this the first time the TARDIS has shown this capability?
