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Subject: Where does the name TARDIS come from?
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:17:01 EDT
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   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