[net.tv.drwho] TARDIS upgrade

dub@pur-phy.UUCP (Dwight) (12/16/84)

> It seems that between the 20th and 21st season
> ("The King's Demon" and "Warriors of the Deep")
> the TARDIS console received a major upgrade.
>         Bryant S. Hazard
>         ihnp4!ihuxe!hazard

	Are you certain it was between those two episodes?  I thought
that the revisions came during "Enlightenment".  As you'll recall, the
Eternals made the TARDIS vanish for good.  Only when they needed the
Doctors help did they reassemble it.  They did this by having the
Doctor concentrate his thoughts on the TARDIS.  They picked his mind
and reconstructed the TARDIS.  I distinctly remember Toulough (sp?)
asking the Doctor "Is it the TARDIS?  Will it really work?"
and the Doctor replying "Probably better than ever, I suspect."
	Perhaps the Doctor imagined in his mind what the TARDIS should
look like if it were in tip-top shape (which, in the past, it never
has been).  The Eternals created for him the new, improved TARDIS.
			       Dwight Bartholomew
UUCP:{ decvax, icalqa, ihnp4, inuxc, sequent, uiucdcs  }!pur-ee!pur-phy!dub
     { decwrl, hplabs, icase, psuvax1, siemens, ucbvax }|purdue!pur-phy!dub

lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer) (12/20/84)

> 	Are you certain it was between those two episodes?  I thought
> that the revisions came during "Enlightenment".  As you'll recall, the
> Eternals made the TARDIS vanish for good.  Only when they needed the
> Doctors help did they reassemble it.  They did this by having the
> Doctor concentrate his thoughts on the TARDIS.  They picked his mind
> and reconstructed the TARDIS.  I distinctly remember Toulough (sp?)
> asking the Doctor "Is it the TARDIS?  Will it really work?"
> and the Doctor replying "Probably better than ever, I suspect."
> 	Perhaps the Doctor imagined in his mind what the TARDIS should
> look like if it were in tip-top shape (which, in the past, it never
> has been).  The Eternals created for him the new, improved TARDIS.
> 			       Dwight Bartholomew
> UUCP:{ decvax, icalqa, ihnp4, inuxc, sequent, uiucdcs  }!pur-ee!pur-phy!dub
>      { decwrl, hplabs, icase, psuvax1, siemens, ucbvax }|purdue!pur-phy!dub

NO, NO, NO!  In the episode, Enlightenment, the Eternals did NOT destroy
the Tardis, they hid it in the Doctors own mind.  I don't remember the
exact line where they told the Doctor this, but it was something like
"The Tardis has been with you all along."



                                           John L. Templer
                                     University of Texas at Austin

    {allegra,gatech,seismo!ut-sally,vortex}!ut-ngp!lindley

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                                           John L. Templer
                                     University of Texas at Austin

    {allegra,gatech,seismo!ut-sally,vortex}!ut-ngp!lindley