wnl@rocksanne.UUCP (William LeFebvre) (08/02/84)
However, has anyone noticed that the only times the Doctor CANNOT control the TARDIS is when he is trying to return his assistants to where ever they came from? It's obvious why the Doctor can't control the TARDIS when trying to return his companions -- he doesn't want to return them! I'm not saying that he consciously misadjusts the co-ordinates ... perhaps there is some subconscious desire to keep his companion on board, and the TARDIS (being the clever machine that it is) picks up on it. (I thought it was a reasonable explanation). Actually, some of the instances when the TARDIS ends up in the wrong place are caused by the other Time Lords. As an example, in the beginning of The Brain of Morbius, the Doctor was very upset that the Time Lords had interfered with the navigation of the TARDIS. They had placed him on that planet to take care of some of their unfinished business. This also happend at the beginning of The Genesis of the Daleks when the Time Lords interfered with the Transmat beam that was taking the Doctor, Sarah, and Harry from future Earth to a space station. Bill LeFebvre ...!rochester!rocksanne!wnl "Never trust a man with dirty fingernails."
ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) (08/07/84)
The tardis is more accurate in the Davidson era because it underwent repairs in "Logopolis", Baker's last show. They evedently didn't repair the chamelion circuit, though. Turloh (sp?) is truly alian. In "The King's Deamons" he mentioned seeing some sights on another planet before he met the doctor. That's the last Davidson show we got to see in Silicon Valley, so I never found out just where the guy was supposed to be from. Rats. Wait! Don't anyone tell me! I want to see it for myself!! -- "Trivia is important." Ron Christian Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif. (...ios!wjvax!ron)