Doctor Who: 10 Secrets Of The TARDIS You Need To Know
What you don't know about the sports car of time travel...
For every Whovian out there, the TARDIS has become more of an icon of Britain than the Police Box it was modeled upon. From its very earliest appearance in 1963 sporting those azure panels and weather-beaten windows, it has captured the hearts and the imaginations of the child hiding behind the sofa within all of us.
Over the decades we have seen an amazing array of the TARDIS' capabilities; flying over a motorway in hot pursuit, shielding The Doctor from onslaught after onslaught, and even accidentally materialising inside of itself to save the occupants from the vacuum of time. Okay, so that last one is a bit more terrifying than amazing really, but the TARDIS is still showing us just how spectacular it truly is to this day.
With that being said, despite The Doctor's many adventures through space and time, there are actually very few incidences in which the full scope of the TARDIS is explored on the show. As such, there is still a great deal of mystery surrounding the miracle machine for the casual Doctor Who fan. It's up to people like me - the obsessives, naturally - to delve into the wibbly-wobbly history of the little blue box. Let me take you on a journey through time- machines.
10. It Has Been Faulty Since The Series Began
Most of you know by now that The Doctor has been zipping through space and time without a care for the where or why since he first stowed away from his home planet of Gallifrey, 'borrowing' the TARDIS from a repair shop with only his granddaughter for company, and a dream of a responsibility-free life of adventure (if only, Doc... if only). However, the TARDIS was not always the instantly recognisable pillar of pop-culture that it is today.
To help him blend in with the natural surroundings of 1960's England on what was supposedly his first real outing in the vessel, the TARDIS did a quick scan of the area and determined the box to be the most perfectly innocuous shape to have suddenly appeared on the street corner. What The Doctor didn't realise was that this "chameleon circuit" had actually developed a fault - hence the repair shop. All it took was that single journey and the circuit was jammed for good, giving us that look we know and love.
To top it off, the navigation system is also completely unusable, a fact that was compounded by 2013's The Name of The Doctor in which a Gallifreyan with an uncanny resemblance to future companion Clara Oswald remarks to The Doctor that a time machine with a broken navigation would be "much more fun". Each to their own!