Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!lepine@ctoavx.DEC From: lepine@ctoavx.DEC Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Where does the name TARDIS come from? Message-ID: <83@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:17:01 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.83 Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:17:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:19:06 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 14 In "AN UNEARTHLY CHILD", Susan does credit herself with the creation of the name TARDIS. Perhaps she won a competition that the Time Lords held because they couldn't think of a very good name for it themselves? Or perhaps she is the legendary Lady Larn...? > I remember an episode...where the Doctor lands on a planet where the > inhabitants are familiar with the time lords and their vehicles... I think that the story you are referring to is "UNDERWORLD" when the Doctor lands on a Minyan spacecraft. In this case, the exact reference to the TARDIS is as "one of the time ships of the gods!" --Simon Barker