Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!lipman From: lipman@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Tardis interior (continued) Message-ID: <5835@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 12:19:10 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.5835 Posted: Sun Feb 26 12:19:10 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 23:27:20 EST Sender: lipman@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 34 From: mother::hughes (Gary Hughes - CSSE uVAX & AI Systems Group) The 'old' control room (the wood panelled one) had not been seen in any of the earlier series (which makes the appearance of the recorder somewhat confusing). In the very early series the Tardis was always considered to have more rooms than the control room. Sets for the living quarters were used quite frequently in the first two series. For a long time the emphasis shifted away from the Tardis (and time travel itself) itself and more towards the various locations it took them to. The earlier series implied that the console itself was the heart of the Tardis and not merely a control panel. Several times, is mentioned that the time rotor (the cylinder in the middle of the console) is the drive mechanism of the Tardis. In one story (The Meddling Monk) the Doctor removes the dimensional stabiliser from the console of another Tardis (the monk's) causing it to become the same size on the inside as it was on the outside (small in this case!). Re my comments about hula hoops, princess telephones etc being sold as 'scale model Tardis' and the reply about full size models...one of the functions of the above mentioned dimensional stabiliser was to match the 'size' of the Tardis and its inhabitants to that of the outside environment (mentioned in another old Hartnell story (Planet of the Giants ?) where a Tardis malfunction brings them to earth (circa 1965) but far too small). It would have to be alrge princess telephone to qulaify as a full scale model. Gary Hughes UUCP: ...{ decvax | allegra | ucbvax }!decwrl!rhea!mother!hughes ARPA: ...decwrl!rhea!mother!hughes@{ Berkeley | SU-Shasta } reality?: DEC, ZKO1-2/C07, 110 Spit Brook Rd, Nashua NH 03062