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.”

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

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

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! 😭

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!

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

It’s a nice box.

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! :)

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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*

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I love this Doctor Who youtube channel.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It must suck being a TARDIS.

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

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

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

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

Good video, very informative! Thanks

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

the world's favourite police box

Another great video

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

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

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..

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!

This was a really good list!

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!

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.

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

That's like saying you need to ditch Rosie in the Jetson's for a modern model!

I'm definitely a madman with a box

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

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

It all makes PERFECT sense to me!! :) Thank you for setting the record straight young sir!!!

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

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?

The doctor got his "virginity" stolen at fact 1 xD

He brings up at some point while talking to a companion about the fact that the tardis was grown and that's why it was the last one

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.

I always thought the reason a yard is has a chameleon circuit is because it’s not only to disguise the tardis it also disabled the tardis true weight and sized atleast that’s what i believed when I saw the doctors wife episode

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

I have a question I have never heard before Who did the TARDIS belong to before it got to the repair shop

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

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

Tom Baker told Leela how the T.A.R.D.I.S looks bigger on the inside than the outside. And the T.A.R.D.I.S ran on Ziton 7 ore from Varos with Colin Baker. Before the temporal rift in Cardiff.

First you take a large box. Then you put it in a small box. It’s that second part that that People tend to have a problem with.

Thanks for the video.

It's the wobbulator going up and down all the time that I find fascinating.

11 when Donna Noble became infected with the doctors intelligence ( only way I can think two phrase that) she did put out a way to fix the Chameleon Circuit

It’s not powered by a black hole. It’s powered by a star in a constant state of decay.

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.