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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Why is a TARDIS so big?
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 17:11:58 EDT
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> The reason it is so big is that at one time they were considered as
> traveling labs, and had a number of travelers in the TARDIS.  Also,
> one of the episodes involving Tom Baker and the *old* Master (when the
> DOCTOR came back as the Lord President) showed the TARDIS beyond the
> control room, and zillions of rooms and corridors, etc.

Actually, this one didn't involve the Master; the previous one set on
Gallifrey (The Deadly Assassin) did.  This one (The Invasion of Time)
involved a race called the Vardans.  The TARDIS was shown to have a bathroom
(in the Roman sense of "bath" - i.e., swimming-pool size and equipped with
several of those inflatable thingies used by kids in swimming pools), an art
gallery, a workshop, a hothouse, and a sickbay (which, unless the sickbay
was equipped with medical robots, makes the claim that it wasn't intended as
a one-person ship more plausible).  It also had an elevator (or "lift" for
those on the other side of the big pond) for getting between the floors,
although the Doctor apologized for it being out of order...

	Guy Harris