In the two-part serial The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2008), Sarah Jane becomes trapped in 1951 and briefly mistakes an actual police public call box for the Doctor's TARDIS (the moment is even heralded by the Doctor's musical cue, frequently used in the revived series).
The Doctor's TARDIS always resembles a 1960s London police box (which were very common at the time), owing to a malfunction in the chameleon circuit after the events of An Unearthly Child, the pilot episode of the show (although it was temporally repaired in Attack of the Cybermen, which ends with it returning to the form of a police box).
While there is no known precedent for this notion, a November 1960 episode of the popular radio comedy show Beyond our Ken included a sketch featuring a time machine described as "a long police box".
The police box design has also been registered as a trademark by the BBC, despite the design having been created by the Metropolitan Police. ==Conceptual history== When Doctor Who was being developed in 1963 the production staff discussed what the Doctor's time machine would look like.
In the first episode, "An Unearthly Child" (1963), the TARDIS is first seen in a scrapyard in 1963.
The complete 2005 season DVD box set, released in November 2005, was issued in packaging that resembled the TARDIS. One of the original-model TARDISes used in the television series' production in the 1970s was sold at auction in December 2005 for £10,800. ==In popular culture== A MacBook hybrid drive company is named tarDISK.
It then serves as a backdrop for the farewell scene between Sarah Jane and the Tenth Doctor, which echoed nearly word-for-word her final exchange with the Fourth Doctor aboard the TARDIS in 1976.
They also claim native integration with Apple's "Time Machine Backup" software. Tardis Environmental UK are a supplier of portable toilets has their logo as a red TARDIS. "Doctorin' the Tardis" was a 1988 novelty pop single by The Timelords (better known as The KLF) which hit number one in the UK and had chart success worldwide.
The 1993 VHS release of The Trial of a Time Lord was contained in a special-edition tin shaped like the TARDIS. With the 2005 series revival, a variety of TARDIS-shaped merchandise has been produced, including a TARDIS coin box, TARDIS figure toy set, a TARDIS that detects the ring signal from a mobile phone and flashes when an incoming call is detected, TARDIS-shaped wardrobes and DVD cabinets, and a USB hub in the shape of the TARDIS.
Writer Patrick Ness has described the ship's distinctive dematerialisation noise as "a kind of haunted grinding sound", while the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips traditionally use the onomatopoeic phrase "vworp vworp vworp". In 1996 the BBC applied to the UK Intellectual Property Office to register the TARDIS as a trademark.
Skiff was named 3325 TARDIS. Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger created a piece entitled Time and Relative Dimensions in Space in 2001 that is structurally a police box shape faced with mirrors.
The Patent Office issued a ruling in favour of the BBC in 2002. ==Other appearances== The word TARDIS is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. ===Spin-offs=== The sound of the Doctor's TARDIS featured in the final scene of the Torchwood episode "End of Days" (2007).
However, in the revived series (since 2005), it has been stated that despite the broken chameleon circuit, the TARDIS is able to generate a "perception filter", so that it is ignored by anyone not already aware of its presence.
The 1993 VHS release of The Trial of a Time Lord was contained in a special-edition tin shaped like the TARDIS. With the 2005 series revival, a variety of TARDIS-shaped merchandise has been produced, including a TARDIS coin box, TARDIS figure toy set, a TARDIS that detects the ring signal from a mobile phone and flashes when an incoming call is detected, TARDIS-shaped wardrobes and DVD cabinets, and a USB hub in the shape of the TARDIS.
The complete 2005 season DVD box set, released in November 2005, was issued in packaging that resembled the TARDIS. One of the original-model TARDISes used in the television series' production in the 1970s was sold at auction in December 2005 for £10,800. ==In popular culture== A MacBook hybrid drive company is named tarDISK.
In the 2006 Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride", the Doctor remarks that for a spaceship, the TARDIS does remarkably little flying.
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