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| One of the original TARDIS Police Telephone Box exterior shell props, as seen in the opening episode of Marco Polo. |
A vehicle of immense power and incredible technology, as well as being a place of safety and a unique 'home' of sorts to the wandering exploits and adventures of the original Doctor Who and his 'Granddaughter' Susan, the TARDIS (initials made from the words Time And Relative Dimensions in Space) can go anywhere and in any time, where it would prove itself as one to be one of the greatest, iconic vehicles in the annals of film and television science fiction and space fantasy.
An incredible storytelling device for the series concocted by the imaginative BBC Drama Department's lovably bolshy 'Numero Uno', Sydney Newman, he deliberately wanted 'the ship' to be seen in its exterior form as a small Blue Police Telephone Box, one of many that would be every day recognisable to the viewing populace of the new show back in 1963, and who'd all get an incredible surprise alongside two London schoolteachers one day, when, on a dark and foggy night, investigating one of their mysterious pupils, they'd dare to intrude within it's open doors...
Enjoy this selection of impressive images of the original TARDIS interior...
1963 Tardis - TARDIS Exterior - The Doctor Who Site
Doctor Who TARDIS Set History showing Console Room Designs
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| The original TARDIS control room interior, designed by talented BBC staffer Peter Brachaki, as seen in its full original glory for An Unearthly Child, before many alterations began to the set over the course of the Hartnell era, and beyond. |
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| The huge and distinctive hexagonal canopy would soon disappear from the set due to its bulk as well as the varying diminished-in-size and restricted studio spaces that the control room had to be housed in for filming. |
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| The panel in closer detail. |
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| William Hartnell and Carole Ann Ford rehearsing the TARDIS dematerialisation from London, 1963. |
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