jgd@ih1ap.UUCP (10/12/83)
To jfg, and to other misinformed folks, There have been some questions on the net about the Doctors TARDIS having the ability to change apearance. According to the novel versions of Dr. Who episodes the introductions state that the TARDIS was ripped off by the Dr. while it was in for repairs. At which time it was in the form of the blue british police box. Aparantly it was in the shop to repaired because the "camelion circuit" which accomplishes the appearance change was not functioning. In the episode "Logopolis", the last episode staring Tom Baker, he pushes a button on the console which extrudes a tipical looking micro processor keyboard that is the control for the camelion circuit. "You have to input the instructions in machine code" the Dr. says to Adrick. Then an image appears on his viewscrean in back on the console and as a demonstration he calls up an image of a piramid. "Of course youll need a real world interface" he says to Acrick, (he means a door). He then explains that it hasen't worked for some time and that he was going to ask Romana to fix it some day. Feeling that this matter of the camelion circuit not working has now aquired a very high priority he gos to eEarth to precisley measure an authentic police box, take the measurments to the planet Logopolis and through "block transfer computation" have the circuit fixed. The Master all the while has been waiting in the background to foil the Dr. as best he can and ...... well for those of you who havent seen it, I'll stop here. If there are anymore questions I'll view my video tape and come up with more accurate info on bolth TARDIS control rooms 1 & 2, the masters TARDIS, or block transfer computation. Jerry Donovan ih1ap!jgd AT&T/Western Electric Naperville Il.
futrelle@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/19/83)
#R:ih1ap:-24200:uiucdcs:12500049:000:662 uiucdcs!futrelle Oct 18 21:59:00 1983 According to a few of the shows, the Doctor's TARDIS is one of the very few that can't change form at will, simply because it's broken. In a later Peter Davison episode, the Master gives his TARDIS the form of a Concorde. Also, in "Arc of Infinity", the Doctor says he can't find Omega, the nasty antimatter timelord, because he doesn't know what form Omega's made his TARDIS. Apparently, the TARDIS is in very bad shape: a quarter of the rooms are gone, the "temporal grace" circuit, which made it impossible to shoot a gun inside the TARDIS, is broken, and the Doctor has to hit it to make it dematerialize. Joe Futrelle An avid Who fan stuck in Urbana, IL
nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley) (10/25/83)
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I saw an old beatup VW in Boston the day before yesterday. License plate?
TARDIS
I wonder if it was?
-nazgulWADA@SANDIA.ARPA (10/31/83)
From: Michi Wada <WADA@SANDIA.ARPA>
I partially disagree with Jerry Donovan's statement about the Doctor's
TARDIS. While it is true the Doctor stole the TARDIS when it was in for
repairs, I disagree that he stole it when it was in the shape of the blue
British police box. In the VERY FIRST EPISODE of Dr. Who the audience
finds the Doctor in London during the 1960's. He has been there for a
long period of time (several months) and his granddaughter, Susan, has
been attending school there. The Doctor leaves that time when 2 of
Susan's teachers stumble across the TARDIS and learn it is not an ordinary
police box. The TARDIS travels to the time of the caveman. As the Doctor
and his granddaughter leave the TARDIS they both comment that the TARDIS
should have changed its shape and are surprised that the TARDIS has
remained in the shape of a police box.
Michi Wada
Sandia National Labs
Albuquerque, N.M.
-------odom@uiucuxc.UUCP (11/08/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-1315300:uiucuxc:12400009:000:283 uiucuxc!odom Nov 7 16:44:00 1983 The Doctor has a granddaughter?!?!? That implies a family somewhere (or at least a significant other)! Pray, tell more! i've only been watching the Doctor for about a year and cannot afford to buy all the books. does anybody have a capsule history of him?? thanks in advance.
twt@uicsl.UUCP (11/15/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-1315300:uicsl:10700054:000:200 uicsl!twt Nov 7 23:13:00 1983 Probably the REAL reason the TARDIS is stuck in the shape of a police box is because it's cheaper and easier for the prop department. Do the Doctor Who books follow the episodes exactly? Mary
speaker@umcp-cs.UUCP (11/19/83)
The first Doctor in the Doctor Who series had a grandaughter named susan... who always called the Doctor "grandfather." Their exact relationship has never been rigidly defined by the BBC. -- - Speaker-To-Stuffed-Animals speaker@umcp-cs speaker.umcp-cs@CSnet-Relay