Doctor Who: 10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About The TARDIS

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The number of TARDIS inaccuracies floating around is bigger on the inside...

BY JOHN WILSON
JANUARY 14TH, 2023

Doctor Who first aired on 23 November 1963, and introduced the world to “the Doctor” a Time Lord who fled his planet (later identified as Gallifrey), to travel through time and space in a machine known as the TARDIS. According to the Doctor’s granddaughter Susan, who claimed that she coined the acronym, TARDIS stands for "Time and Relative Dimension in Space."

This ship resembles the blue British police call boxes that were ubiquitous on the streets of many English cities in the 1960s. It was explained that the TARDIS has a “chameleon circuit” that allows it to take on the image of something common to the surroundings of the planet that it lands on, but the circuit broke after a trip to 1960s London and the TARDIS is now stuck in this form until the Doctor gets around to fixing it.

The chameleon circuit is but one of those TARDIS tidbits that lifelong fans debate and new viewers often get wrong when they discuss the show. With several decades of writers and showrunners, story points are changed, established lore is contradicted, or some things are simply just forgotten, even by the most dedicated fans.