Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!ihlpg!jcjeff From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Why is a TARDIS so big? Message-ID: <1055@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 00:14:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1055 Posted: Sat Aug 10 00:14:30 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:48:44 EDT References: <456@moncol.UUCP> <569@hou2a.UUCP> <3209@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 32 > In article <569@hou2a.UUCP>, pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP) writes: > > * - I still say that only The Doctor's capsule > > is called the TARDIS, as named by his grand-daughter > > Susan in the first story "An Unearthly Child." > > > NOT TRUE!! I remember an episode (Rassilon forgive me but I > can't remember the title) where the Doctor lands on a planet where > the inhabitants are familiar with time lords and their vehicles. > Some people notice the TARDIS and say something like: > > "A TARDIS?" What is it doing here??" It WAS stated in the very first episode, that Susan had invented the name. (I saw the first broadcast back in '63!) The episode that the quote came from is, I think, "The Deadly Assassin" The two episodes were put out 14 years apart, and is quite possible that it was a simple goof.(Careful records are kept of long running programs so that goofs like that should not appear.) -- [ Why pander life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat - The Smiths ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || employed by North American Philips Corporation || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclaimer about anything and everything that I may have typed || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------