It's possible the TARDIS did have a laboratory, but it was farther than the Doctor wanted to walk. Either that, or it was ejected in the episode Castrovalva.
The original police box actually looks quite a bit like the 2010 TARDIS design! I get the feeling they always reference the original box when making a new design
@@WeTravelbyNight There was even concept art for a TARDIS which was *very* similar to the MK II box! Unfortunately it wasn't used and they just adapted the '05 model
Very good video; It actually is referenced in the show relatively often that the TARDIS is not a completely accurate representation of a 1960's police box.
One point overlooked here is that the real Police box was made of concrete! I know this to be true as I saw a film once of the example outside Wimbledon Chase station being "demolished".
I remember an episode (Logopolis) where the doctor tried to fix the Tardis and make the chameleon circuit work properly. He landed by a real police box to get accurate measurements with the intentions of making the Tardis exterior accurate, thus fixing the chameleon circuit.
The interesting thing about that story is that there was a genuine police box at that location, which is why they wanted to use it. But before filming commenced it was demolished so they had to bring the previous TARDIS prop out if retirement.
@@GrilloTheFlightless I thought the plan was for the old prop to appear by the side of the real police box and turn into the new prop when the Doctor fed in the measurements. But they had to "bring forward" the new prop as the real police box after the demolition happened. I could be wrong. It has been known.
This and the other police box video was very informative. I had know idea that the first police box was an American invention. Looking forward to your video showing the differences between the Doctor's TARDIS through the years.
The first 10-second render for the Tardis comparison video has now been done, so a start has been made. It might be a three-parter - classic era, movie boxes, and new era - but we shall see.
The children's book "Make Way for Ducklings", set in 1940s Boston, shows a police officer using a US police box to make a phone call near the Charles River.
IIRC, the original DW police box prop was made smaller because the one made for "Dixon of Dock Green" couldn't fit into the elevator at Lime Grove studio D. So right from the start they couldn't be too accurate about it.
I thought it was made for a show called Z Cars? I'm also curious how the theatrical film TARDIS, which actually has the door opening outward if I recall correctly, was designed. Did they use an actual police box or just a more accurate design?
@@lorisarvendu Wasn't the original intent to have it change every time, like we're told told the Chameleon Circuit should work, but they didn't want to change props every rematerialization?
@@ShadowWingTronix It did have the door opening outward. It's he most accurate Tardis prop to the original box, but it's still quite far off and definitely it's own design.
I read somewhere that when the 1st doctor who came out. The designs of the 1st call Box were trademarked and thus couldn't be replicated and used for entertainment. So, they got as close as they could, while still looking different enough. Not sure how true it is or not. However, once once they fill out of use. The trademark lapsthe trademark lapsten they were able to almost replicate the call boxes entirely in later interations of the show.
Maybe. It is illegal to duplicate a police officer's uniform, so all those that appear in films and in TV have deliberate departures from real ones in their design.
Course now I think the BBC holds the actual trademark for a big blue box marked police and and the contracts on the metropolitan police box have long since been void
Yes but he did what he did because he wanted to be near Rory and wife. After all in Tom Baker’s time we did see the interior some of it including the fact that there is a huge swimming pool so yeah he could’ve probably done it somewhere around there he chose not to because he’s not good alone and he miscalculates when he is alone.
Interesting the flashing red light colour. I know in later stories they used a rotating blue lamp and recent stories have it flashing blue. The days of monochrome television dictated the need to have the white light, but something I’ve learnt there today. I know there was a plan for Matt Smith to have a screen accurate prop but they repainted the one used by David Tennant complete with St John Ambulance badge. 😁
they builded it with around the same size, they do look familiar but are two different props, tennants and smiths/capaldi's are both on display somewhere in london (screen used props) and are both seperate from eachother. so yes similar, but not a repaint.
actually smith did open the doors correct once, it was in his first episode the eleventh hour where the doors can be seen opening outwards the first time he exists the tardis.
Good video - but it still suggests a uniformity of the original Mark II Police Box that in real life was missing - yes there was a common concrete mould for the basic shape - but after that, different people often finished the police boxes slightly inconsistently (from the photographic evidence left, and people who were around in the 40s/50s & 60s and remember them. They didn't ALWAYS have a red light bulb, they didn't always have the blue glass - possibly because of wear&tear and maintenance, they didn't always have the same base (depending on where they needed to be stood), or the same metal-ware handles on the door/telephone box. I think we often gaze at the original plans, and the authorial intent of the design and forget that the construction of these boxes was not a full factory process, but involved many different labourers/carpenters/electricians etc to make do with what materials they had. In that sense, some of the TARDIS prop "errors" are not really wrong, just reasonable variations for a dilapidated Police Box that had seen much use. The basic shape mistakes, however - are totally valid criticisms - and it says something about the power of the show that many fans prefer some of the more inaccurate shape details of the prop compared to the original design. Still you made all the basic points really well, thank-you!
Fantastic! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love the Tardis. He/she/it is my favourite character in the whole 60 year history of Doctor Who. I even prefer the Tardis to any of the incarnations of the Doctor. Has anyone produced a history (book) on the actual police box? I would love to acquire a copy.
Love doctor who and this video is great! Super calming and informative!! Keep up the great work mate! (also fun fact but in one of my fave episodes "The Doctor's Wife" its actually brought up how for well over thousands of years the doctor has been opening the doors wrong haha!)
The BBC have now copyrighted the image, but I have a police box pencil case from the late seventies, before that happened, so it's actually a real police box image, although shaped as a pencil case with no sticking out roof features and of course completely different in colour, from any TARDIS items I have, even the flat topped ones like a lunch bag. You can't get any police box souvenir items anymore, unless they are Dr Who TARDIS s.
I really loved this video . Fantastic absolutely fantastic . Make no mistake the tardis interior is actually infinite but due to dudgetery restraints the BBC can only ever show us a tiny portion of the interior at any given time . 😉
Wouldn't that be cool if the TARDIS light flashed red when she took off? Do any of these differences have anything to do with the British Police taking the BBC to court over the unauthorized use at that time of using a likeness of a British Police Call Box as a prop?. I know the BBC won but maybe they weren't allowed to make TARDIS to scale after that?
See, the thing is, the TARDIS can be infinite, but only makes rooms as needed. She obviously decided that the Doctor would only briefly need a lab, and decided their kitchen would work fine. 😄
Don't want to nit-pick, but the models used are missing some details, particularly on the corner posts. I'd suggest checking out the plans on TARDISBuilders.
You can't really expect the first to be the closest, primarily because of budgetary considerations and the fact that it had to be light enough to move around the studio and to location shooting, including places of limited height restriction.
The Eleventh Doctor : I always read the instructions! Idris : There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say? The Eleventh Doctor : That's not instructions. Idris : There's an instruction at the bottom. What does it say? The Eleventh Doctor : "Pull to open." Idris : Yes, and what do you do? The Eleventh Doctor : I push! Idris : Every single time. Seven hundred years, police box doors open *out* the way.
They still did a good job. I'd be surprised if anyone watching the first episode of An Unearthly Child immediately hollered "That's not factual!" Some of the changes are of course necessary to the story (to the canon version at least). Opaque windows because you obviously don't want just anyone looking inside. Doors logically opening inwards because internally they in another dimension. Double doors because it's the only entrance and there's sometimes some big stuff/beings going in and out of there.
It''s true the 11th doctor (Matt Smiths doctor) said the Tardis is infinite but he probably use Amy and Rory's kitchen because as we've seen like in the episode "journey to the center of the tardis" he could easily get lost and probably doesn't know where everything is. after all when Amy asked about a Swimming pool in a Library he said "It probably got off to somewhere, I'll find it later" though we the viewers usually don't see any farther than the main console room few episodes have traveled deeper and shown that the tardis keeps a copy of every console room it's ever generated and has quite a few bedrooms and closets and quite possibly so much more we've never seen.
i know im not old enough to remember police boxes, but i think they may have forgotten to remove one at the shops by where i grew up, as i think i remember one there, though peter davis was time hopping when i was young
Could the difference in light color have originally had a legal reason? Since police boxes were still in use when the original prop was made, they could very well have been restricted by statute had they needed to put the prop on a real street for an episode. Might be worth investigating.
The Police Box from the Peter Cushing Dr. Who films is actually rather close to the real thing, that one is far taller than the prop from the TV series.
I find it interesting how the police box can look like anything, be any color, and it doesn't even have to _say_ police box on it, but the Tardis always takes the same appearance just with a slightly different silhouette. Always blue, always six panels on each window, always an ordinary Yale lock, always a lantern on the top, always "Police Public Call Box" and "Police Telephone; Free For Use Of Public; Advice & Assistance Obtainable Immediately; Officers & Cars Respond To All Calls; Pull To Open." I supposed if the show ever used a different police box model, it would be less recognizable as the Tardis.
The TARDIS did have a workshop, but it was probably jettisoned at some point 😊 Adric: It's just like the TARDIS Doctor: I hope not, that could cause some dangerous dimensional instabilities, no it's just an ordinary police box
The TARDIS opens both ways, the Doctor just has a habit of opening them inwards, in a episode where the TARDIS is in a body she siad "there's a sighn on my door you've been walking past it for 700 years what does it say" Doctor : That's not instructions TARDIS : There's an instruction at the bottom what does it say? Doctor.: pull to open TARDIS : Yes and what do you do? Doctor : I push
Well for starters police box doors open outwards. Tardis doors dont And also the doctor probably used amy and rorys kitchen as a lab because he lost the actual lab. Its not rare for rooms in a tardis to move or vanish or he just switched it off ( you can do that) And the tardis can generate an infinate number of corridors and rooms. So it is infinate
Well, her chameleon circuit was slightly malfunctioning so she didn't get an exact copying of the police box.. Think she continues to try over the years.
Didn't the Fifth Doctor have to "burn" something like 25% of the interior volume in an emergency move to generate power? Incidentally taking out the Zero Room he needed to settle his regeneration?
Infinite? Nah, rather large though, somewhat the size of the original two World Trade Center towers in NYC combined, though she's jettisoned some rooms over the years.
Yes, I've noticed, and will be mentioning it in a future video. I admit I hadn't really looked closely at the newest box, but it is surprisingly more accurate than the 2005 and 2010 box. The Peter Cushing box also has a properly stacked roof.
Burg the pushing of the door off the TARDIS was explained in the drs wife when the TARDIS was made flesh and she told him he Nevers reads what on the door when it says pull and she says what do you do you allways push
I always fort the police boxwas a sorta site o vffice on a building/road works, fancy shed, keep the rain off, maybe a heating stove, or something, keep warm, like on the there protol land area, not where going back to police station for a break not really practicable use of time?
Yes it was exactly that. But primarily it was the communications system before police had personal radios. If the station needed to get a message to the beat officer they would phone the box/make the light flash to he could"see" the call. He would phone into the station from there. Maybe on an 8 hr shift he would check in with the station every 2 hours
who owns the rights to the police box or does the uk police metropolitan lend it surely if selling them in the shops as toys the they should get a cut of if selling millions
@We Travel by Night the REAL classic Metropolitan police box Design was never used in Doctor Who ? HA HA ! Wrong ! i believe it was used twice ! the American 1st Doctor - Peter Cushing ! in the 2 American Doctor Who movies ! i believe his Movie Tardis police box is more like the the REAL classic Metropolitan police box Design thus the only Tardis that is more like the original Police Box as appose to the TV versions ! well 12th and 13th doctors came closer to the original though oh and also just a minor nit pick @We Travel by Night your 2 Police boxes original and Tardis are missing the st john ambulance logo on the doors ! which also leads to the question why was there a st john ambulance logo on the Police box and Tardis ? well i could understand the Tardis having it as a jab at the Doctor coming outta the police box as a sort of inside joke but it turns out the real police Boxes had it too ! the st john ambulance logo ! so was there phone calls from Police boxes to not only call police but Doctors too ? just asking ?
Here’s something, as much as I have watched Dr. Who, from Jon Pertwee on, it’s a bloody “SHOW”. This is trying to turn something into reality. Just like Trekkies trying to turn a “SHOW” into reality. Just means y’all need to step back into the real world.
I find this video very informing , but feel your models could do with some work , id love to get in contact and help in anyway , if your'e interested , i work in freelance rendering accurate realistic POLICE BOX's TARDIS or otherwise and have alot of info on the later modern TARDIS boxes history and changes from 2005 to present do you have instagram or twitter or discord? would love to chat more about this
To all who have watched this video - whether you liked it, hated it, or were indifferent - I thank you.
The original prop was altered to go into scene lift.
It's possible the TARDIS did have a laboratory, but it was farther than the Doctor wanted to walk. Either that, or it was ejected in the episode Castrovalva.
I love it. Thank you for the information.
Allons-y!
I thank you too!
The original police box actually looks quite a bit like the 2010 TARDIS design! I get the feeling they always reference the original box when making a new design
I have heard Steven Moffet wanted the 2010 box to echo the William Hartnell box. I was happy to see the return of the white window frames.
Also the police box used in the two 1960s Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies looks the closest to the real life mark 2 police box
@@WeTravelbyNight There was even concept art for a TARDIS which was *very* similar to the MK II box! Unfortunately it wasn't used and they just adapted the '05 model
I thought it was
Very good video; It actually is referenced in the show relatively often that the TARDIS is not a completely accurate representation of a 1960's police box.
One point overlooked here is that the real Police box was made of concrete! I know this to be true as I saw a film once of the example outside Wimbledon Chase station being "demolished".
Yup. Concrete structure; only the doors were made of wood. Teak, if I recall correctly.
@@filthycasual8187 Teak sounds likely as it can stand our weather without disintegrating.
Oh, I had no idea! Learn something new everyday😊
Concrete?! Blimey! That had never ocured to me. cool.x
They were classed as buildings, rather than street furntiture like a normal phone box.
5:30 "somewhat different" xD love the subtle humour
2:10 “It is immediately apparent the TARDIS is smaller.”
Only on the outside!
The TARDIS has at least one laboratory. The Doctor just can't remember where it is.
I remember an episode (Logopolis) where the doctor tried to fix the Tardis and make the chameleon circuit work properly. He landed by a real police box to get accurate measurements with the intentions of making the Tardis exterior accurate, thus fixing the chameleon circuit.
Funny you mention that episode, as I just watched it the other day. Lol
There was also an episode where the Doctor got it somewhat working, "Attack of the Cybermen". It was broken down again by the end of the story.
The interesting thing about that story is that there was a genuine police box at that location, which is why they wanted to use it. But before filming commenced it was demolished so they had to bring the previous TARDIS prop out if retirement.
@@GrilloTheFlightless I thought the plan was for the old prop to appear by the side of the real police box and turn into the new prop when the Doctor fed in the measurements. But they had to "bring forward" the new prop as the real police box after the demolition happened.
I could be wrong. It has been known.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 it’s likely that you’re correct.
This and the other police box video was very informative. I had know idea that the first police box was an American invention. Looking forward to your video showing the differences between the Doctor's TARDIS through the years.
The first 10-second render for the Tardis comparison video has now been done, so a start has been made. It might be a three-parter - classic era, movie boxes, and new era - but we shall see.
@@WeTravelbyNight That's great news. Thanks for the update!
@@WeTravelbyNight Nice! I'm subscribing to see this (maybe) three parter!
The children's book "Make Way for Ducklings", set in 1940s Boston, shows a police officer using a US police box to make a phone call near the Charles River.
IIRC, the original DW police box prop was made smaller because the one made for "Dixon of Dock Green" couldn't fit into the elevator at Lime Grove studio D. So right from the start they couldn't be too accurate about it.
I thought it was made for a show called Z Cars? I'm also curious how the theatrical film TARDIS, which actually has the door opening outward if I recall correctly, was designed. Did they use an actual police box or just a more accurate design?
@@ShadowWingTronix Both incorrect. It was made specifically for Doctor Who by the designer Peter Brachaki.
@@lorisarvendu Wasn't the original intent to have it change every time, like we're told told the Chameleon Circuit should work, but they didn't want to change props every rematerialization?
@@ShadowWingTronix It did have the door opening outward. It's he most accurate Tardis prop to the original box, but it's still quite far off and definitely it's own design.
@@ShadowWingTronix no it would have been too expensive to change.
Good video sir! I’m surprised this doesn’t have more views, but I’m glad to be here
I'm down-right delighted it's reached 1,000 views. I didn't think that was going to happen. And I'm happy you liked it!
I read somewhere that when the 1st doctor who came out. The designs of the 1st call Box were trademarked and thus couldn't be replicated and used for entertainment. So, they got as close as they could, while still looking different enough.
Not sure how true it is or not. However, once once they fill out of use. The trademark lapsthe trademark lapsten they were able to almost replicate the call boxes entirely in later interations of the show.
Maybe. It is illegal to duplicate a police officer's uniform, so all those that appear in films and in TV have deliberate departures from real ones in their design.
Course now I think the BBC holds the actual trademark for a big blue box marked police and and the contracts on the metropolitan police box have long since been void
To me, the original police box seems to have more resemblance to the Tardis used in the two Peter Cushing films.
Yes but he did what he did because he wanted to be near Rory and wife. After all in Tom Baker’s time we did see the interior some of it including the fact that there is a huge swimming pool so yeah he could’ve probably done it somewhere around there he chose not to because he’s not good alone and he miscalculates when he is alone.
Interesting the flashing red light colour. I know in later stories they used a rotating blue lamp and recent stories have it flashing blue. The days of monochrome television dictated the need to have the white light, but something I’ve learnt there today. I know there was a plan for Matt Smith to have a screen accurate prop but they repainted the one used by David Tennant complete with St John Ambulance badge. 😁
So how do you explain 3 different Tardis' in the day of the Doctor? 3 different sizes and colours
The Tardis is "alive" dontchaknow? It adjusts to the personality of its current Doctor!🤔😉
they builded it with around the same size, they do look familiar but are two different props, tennants and smiths/capaldi's are both on display somewhere in london (screen used props) and are both seperate from eachother.
so yes similar, but not a repaint.
Thanks for the video and looking at the subtle differences between a real police box and the Tardis used in the TV series.
With the door the tardis outright says to the doctor that the door should open outwards and not inwards in the episode “the doctor’s wife”
Hence the words on telephone door pull to open.
actually smith did open the doors correct once, it was in his first episode the eleventh hour where the doors can be seen opening outwards the first time he exists the tardis.
Good video - but it still suggests a uniformity of the original Mark II Police Box that in real life was missing - yes there was a common concrete mould for the basic shape - but after that, different people often finished the police boxes slightly inconsistently (from the photographic evidence left, and people who were around in the 40s/50s & 60s and remember them. They didn't ALWAYS have a red light bulb, they didn't always have the blue glass - possibly because of wear&tear and maintenance, they didn't always have the same base (depending on where they needed to be stood), or the same metal-ware handles on the door/telephone box. I think we often gaze at the original plans, and the authorial intent of the design and forget that the construction of these boxes was not a full factory process, but involved many different labourers/carpenters/electricians etc to make do with what materials they had. In that sense, some of the TARDIS prop "errors" are not really wrong, just reasonable variations for a dilapidated Police Box that had seen much use. The basic shape mistakes, however - are totally valid criticisms - and it says something about the power of the show that many fans prefer some of the more inaccurate shape details of the prop compared to the original design. Still you made all the basic points really well, thank-you!
I don't understand why you didn't compare it to the still existing police boxes in Glasgow.
There is a joke in The Doctor's Wife that the TARDIS's doors have a sign that clearly reads "pull to open" yet the Doctor pushes to open.
Fantastic!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I love the Tardis.
He/she/it is my favourite character in the whole 60 year history of Doctor Who.
I even prefer the Tardis to any of the incarnations of the Doctor.
Has anyone produced a history (book) on the actual police box?
I would love to acquire a copy.
Love doctor who and this video is great! Super calming and informative!! Keep up the great work mate!
(also fun fact but in one of my fave episodes "The Doctor's Wife" its actually brought up how for well over thousands of years the doctor has been opening the doors wrong haha!)
The BBC have now copyrighted the image, but I have a police box pencil case from the late seventies, before that happened, so it's actually a real police box image, although shaped as a pencil case with no sticking out roof features and of course completely different in colour, from any TARDIS items I have, even the flat topped ones like a lunch bag. You can't get any police box souvenir items anymore, unless they are Dr Who TARDIS s.
This is oddly.. relaxing.
have watched since 63 and and stood outside 'one' in glasgow 77 - iish. This was a fdamn informarmative vid, Cheers.
I really loved this video .
Fantastic absolutely fantastic .
Make no mistake the tardis interior is actually infinite but due to dudgetery restraints the BBC can only ever show us a tiny portion of the interior at any given time . 😉
Wouldn't that be cool if the TARDIS light flashed red when she took off? Do any of these differences have anything to do with the British Police taking the BBC to court over the unauthorized use at that time of using a likeness of a British Police Call Box as a prop?. I know the BBC won but maybe they weren't allowed to make TARDIS to scale after that?
See, the thing is, the TARDIS can be infinite, but only makes rooms as needed. She obviously decided that the Doctor would only briefly need a lab, and decided their kitchen would work fine. 😄
If memory serves correctly, the TARDIS was on it's side and difficult to get in or out, so the kitchen was easier to access...
the TARDIS has a laboratory but it is an infinite walk to get there.
I would love to see a tardis exterior directly designed after a real box. That would be so cool
Don't want to nit-pick, but the models used are missing some details, particularly on the corner posts. I'd suggest checking out the plans on TARDISBuilders.
I am making modifications to the models, and I know TardisBuilders (excellent site - I name-check them in an earlier video).
You can't really expect the first to be the closest, primarily because of budgetary considerations and the fact that it had to be light enough to move around the studio and to location shooting, including places of limited height restriction.
I am guessing the Doctor really just want to hang out with them instead of being by himself.
one fun fact is that the Tardis' doors were meant to open outwards, it's just that the doctor never dies so and prefers to push open instead
Gracias por compartir tan interesante información.
The Eleventh Doctor : I always read the instructions!
Idris : There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say?
The Eleventh Doctor : That's not instructions.
Idris : There's an instruction at the bottom. What does it say?
The Eleventh Doctor : "Pull to open."
Idris : Yes, and what do you do?
The Eleventh Doctor : I push!
Idris : Every single time. Seven hundred years, police box doors open *out* the way.
They still did a good job. I'd be surprised if anyone watching the first episode of An Unearthly Child immediately hollered "That's not factual!"
Some of the changes are of course necessary to the story (to the canon version at least). Opaque windows because you obviously don't want just anyone looking inside. Doors logically opening inwards because internally they in another dimension. Double doors because it's the only entrance and there's sometimes some big stuff/beings going in and out of there.
It''s true the 11th doctor (Matt Smiths doctor) said the Tardis is infinite but he probably use Amy and Rory's kitchen because as we've seen like in the episode "journey to the center of the tardis" he could easily get lost and probably doesn't know where everything is. after all when Amy asked about a Swimming pool in a Library he said "It probably got off to somewhere, I'll find it later" though we the viewers usually don't see any farther than the main console room few episodes have traveled deeper and shown that the tardis keeps a copy of every console room it's ever generated and has quite a few bedrooms and closets and quite possibly so much more we've never seen.
I think that the Tardis is still a bit different of the originals Police Box to make sure that the Doctor would not take the wrong Box.
i know im not old enough to remember police boxes, but i think they may have forgotten to remove one at the shops by where i grew up, as i think i remember one there, though peter davis was time hopping when i was young
1 difference is that one can time travel, and 1 cant
The series said that the doors can open in any direction. Both for myself and for myself.
But how does the Police Box, outside Earl's Court Station compare?
Could the difference in light color have originally had a legal reason? Since police boxes were still in use when the original prop was made, they could very well have been restricted by statute had they needed to put the prop on a real street for an episode. Might be worth investigating.
Creator making a serious comparison: "It is immediately apparent that the TARDIS is smaller."
Me: "Only on the outside."
Never mind one laboratory-there were multiple indoor swimming pools.
The Police Box from the Peter Cushing Dr. Who films is actually rather close to the real thing, that one is far taller than the prop from the TV series.
I find it interesting how the police box can look like anything, be any color, and it doesn't even have to _say_ police box on it, but the Tardis always takes the same appearance just with a slightly different silhouette. Always blue, always six panels on each window, always an ordinary Yale lock, always a lantern on the top, always "Police Public Call Box" and "Police Telephone; Free For Use Of Public; Advice & Assistance Obtainable Immediately; Officers & Cars Respond To All Calls; Pull To Open." I supposed if the show ever used a different police box model, it would be less recognizable as the Tardis.
The true police boxes were also made of concrete rather than the wood effect that the TARDIS has...
TARDIS didn’t replicate identically. She had a glitch back then.
Awesome 🤩👍⭐️I always loved the classic boxes there more original and I really like it 👏👏👏👏💙🪄
"It's immediately apparent that the TARDIS is smaller."
But it's bigger on the inside.
Would love a future Time Lord have a sexy red colored police box.
Sylvester McCoy had a pink one in Happiness Patrol
I’m “Blink” DI Shipley said “The phone is a dummy and the windows are too small”.
A radiator? They were heated?
Thank you for this video. I can assume that the differences are caused by a faulty chamelion circuit? :)
thank you
The TARDIS did have a workshop, but it was probably jettisoned at some point 😊
Adric: It's just like the TARDIS
Doctor: I hope not, that could cause some dangerous dimensional instabilities, no it's just an ordinary police box
Original hartnell box didnt have handles, too
The TARDIS opens both ways, the Doctor just has a habit of opening them inwards, in a episode where the TARDIS is in a body she siad "there's a sighn on my door you've been walking past it for 700 years what does it say"
Doctor : That's not instructions
TARDIS : There's an instruction at the bottom what does it say?
Doctor.: pull to open
TARDIS : Yes and what do you do?
Doctor : I push
The TARDIS may be smaller on the outside than the actual London Metropolitan Police box, but it’s bigger on the inside. LOL 😂
Well for starters police box doors open outwards. Tardis doors dont
And also the doctor probably used amy and rorys kitchen as a lab because he lost the actual lab. Its not rare for rooms in a tardis to move or vanish or he just switched it off ( you can do that)
And the tardis can generate an infinate number of corridors and rooms. So it is infinate
Well, her chameleon circuit was slightly malfunctioning so she didn't get an exact copying of the police box.. Think she continues to try over the years.
Didn't the Fifth Doctor have to "burn" something like 25% of the interior volume in an emergency move to generate power? Incidentally taking out the Zero Room he needed to settle his regeneration?
You forgot the biggest difference.... The original police box could not travel trough time.
Or can they?
... and, of course, the number one difference is that the Tardis is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Doctor who is still airing yk
Infinite? Nah, rather large though, somewhat the size of the original two World Trade Center towers in NYC combined, though she's jettisoned some rooms over the years.
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Don't forget, the TARDIS chameleon circuit are permanently on the fritze.
As long as it doesn't turn into a portable toilet box.
@@WeTravelbyNight I think that's a ten minute jog from the control room. (Or a six minute panic dash)
@@WeTravelbyNight shh, don't give the BBC any ideas
Wait, didn't the TARDIS mention that her doors also open outwards in The doctor's wife and that the doctor has been doing it wrong for over 700 years?
the latest tardis has a 3 tier roof. So you saying no tardis has this isn't entirely accurate is it?
Yes, I've noticed, and will be mentioning it in a future video. I admit I hadn't really looked closely at the newest box, but it is surprisingly more accurate than the 2005 and 2010 box. The Peter Cushing box also has a properly stacked roof.
@@WeTravelbyNight I always wanted a ThisPlanetEarth peter crushing box
lol, the interior size is a little different.
The TARDIS is only smaller than a police box on the outside.
Accidental(?) TARDIS ASMR
Doc #4 did explain how different the Tardis was from a police box inside than outside simply. You could do same.. pity
Closest is the movie bix and the tyj 80s
Well it small because it’s bigger on the inside.
Burg the pushing of the door off the TARDIS was explained in the drs wife when the TARDIS was made flesh and she told him he Nevers reads what on the door when it says pull and she says what do you do you allways push
peter cushing's tardis prop actually had see through panes dispite what you say
That is true - no tinted or frosted window panels at all.
I always fort the police boxwas a sorta site o vffice on a building/road works, fancy shed, keep the rain off, maybe a heating stove, or something, keep warm, like on the there protol land area, not where going back to police station for a break not really practicable use of time?
Yes it was exactly that. But primarily it was the communications system before police had personal radios. If the station needed to get a message to the beat officer they would phone the box/make the light flash to he could"see" the call. He would phone into the station from there. Maybe on an 8 hr shift he would check in with the station every 2 hours
The TARDIS is only smallerr on the outside.
who owns the rights to the police box or does the uk police metropolitan lend it surely if selling them in the shops as toys the they should get a cut of if selling millions
@We Travel by Night the REAL classic Metropolitan police box Design was never used in Doctor Who ? HA HA ! Wrong ! i believe it was used twice ! the American 1st Doctor - Peter Cushing ! in the 2 American Doctor Who movies ! i believe his Movie Tardis police box is more like the the REAL classic Metropolitan police box Design thus the only Tardis that is more like the original Police Box as appose to the TV versions ! well 12th and 13th doctors came closer to the original though oh and also just a minor nit pick @We Travel by Night your 2 Police boxes original and Tardis are missing the st john ambulance logo on the doors ! which also leads to the question why was there a st john ambulance logo on the Police box and Tardis ? well i could understand the Tardis having it as a jab at the Doctor coming outta the police box as a sort of inside joke but it turns out the real police Boxes had it too ! the st john ambulance logo ! so was there phone calls from Police boxes to not only call police but Doctors too ? just asking ?
Mackenzie Tench
A video about the Tardis without any actual photos of the Tardis from the show for comparison. What a waste of time.
Here’s something, as much as I have watched Dr. Who, from Jon Pertwee on, it’s a bloody “SHOW”. This is trying to turn something into reality. Just like Trekkies trying to turn a “SHOW” into reality. Just means y’all need to step back into the real world.
It really would have been a good video. But that he talks to us like we're five-year-old children. Doesn't bode well with me.
Whut
You are obviously not a Yank so why say "Lab-Rat-Ory" instead of "Lab Ora Tory" like a normal person?
A brilliant video RUINED by a narrator whose patronizingly slow speech even toddlers would find offensive
Can you talk any slower
How the hell did you make this so boring. I got two minutes in and had to stop
I find this video very informing , but feel your models could do with some work , id love to get in contact and help in anyway , if your'e interested , i work in freelance rendering accurate realistic POLICE BOX's TARDIS or otherwise and have alot of info on the later modern TARDIS boxes history and changes from 2005 to present
do you have instagram or twitter or discord? would love to chat more about this
I would love to see a video comparing all of the tardis props! would be very interesting :)