76-505: The Leisure Hive is the first serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 August to 20 September 1980. It marks the return of John Leeson as the voice of K9 . In the serial, a criminal organisation of alien Foamasi , called the West Lodge, attempt to buy the planet Argolis from
152-575: A flash memory drive for Apple MacBook which it claims is "bigger on the inside". They also claim native integration with Apple's Time Machine backup software . The European Space Agency has sent 3,000 tardigrades ("water bears") into orbit on the outside of a rocket; 32% survived. The experiment was named Tardigrades in Space, or Tardis. Cultural references to the TARDIS are many and varied. In music, The KLF (performing as "The Timelords") released
228-648: A 1960s London police box , an object that was very common in Britain at the time of the show's first broadcast. Owing to a malfunction in the chameleon circuit after the events of the first episode of the show, An Unearthly Child , the Doctor's TARDIS is stuck in the same disguise for a long period. The Doctor has attempted to repair the chameleon circuit, unsuccessfully in Logopolis (1981) and with only temporary success in Attack of
304-579: A London scrapyard in 1963, and after travelling back in time (" The Cave of Skulls ") to the Paleolithic era , the police box exterior persists. In a subsequent story, The Time Meddler (1965), the First Doctor explains that the TARDIS should automatically adopt a disguise, such as a howdah (a carrier on the back of an Indian elephant in the Indian Mutiny ) or a rock on a beach. Accounts differ as to
380-482: A TARDIS coin box, TARDIS figure toy set, a TARDIS that detects the ring signal from a mobile phone and flashes when an incoming call is detected, TARDIS-shaped wardrobes and DVD cabinets, and a USB hub in the shape of the TARDIS. The complete 2005 season DVD box set, released in November 2005, was issued in packaging that resembled the TARDIS. One of the original-model TARDISes used in the television series' production in
456-581: A bridge tunnel that occupants can use to cross over to out-of-reach areas such as another ship. The TARDIS is also shown to be strong enough to tow other ships and planets and can even withstand black holes. It is also able to generate a "perception filter" that causes people to ignore it, thinking that it is normal. In another episode, it also has a function called the Hostile Action Displacement System (H.A.D.S), which makes it teleport away if it senses danger and will not return until after
532-406: A brightly lit white chamber, lined with a pattern of roundels on the walls and with a central hexagonal console which contained a cylindrical "time rotor" that moved when the TARDIS was in transit. Numerous alterations were made to the central console and to the layout, but the overall concept remained constant. In Season 14 (1976–77), a dark wood-panelled "Control Room Number 2" was briefly used for
608-551: A few episodes, but the white console room set was reinstated in Season 15 , due to damage to the set. After the cancellation of the television show, a radically redesigned TARDIS set was used in the 1996 TV movie , heralding a move to a more steampunk -inspired set design, which later influenced the set design in the revived series from 2005 onwards . The production team conceived of the TARDIS travelling by dematerialising at one point and rematerialising elsewhere, although sometimes in
684-554: A holiday complex and message of peace built by surviving Argolins after their devastating 20-minute war with the Foamasi forty years earlier. They arrive at a point of crisis: the Leisure Hive is facing bankruptcy (because of falling tourist trade due to stiff competition from other leisure planets) and the Argolins' Earth agent, Brock, and his lawyer Klout have arrived bearing an offer to buy
760-472: A large expense in special effects. The distinctive accompanying sound effect – a cyclic wheezing, groaning noise – was originally created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by sound technician Brian Hodgson by recording on tape the sound of his mother's house key scraping up and down the strings of an old piano . Hodgson then re-recorded the sound by changing the tape speed up and down and splicing
836-586: A novelty pop single in 1988 entitled " Doctorin' the Tardis ". The record reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and had chart success worldwide. It was a reworking of several songs (principally Gary Glitter 's " Rock and Roll Part 2 ", The Sweet 's " Block Buster! " and the Doctor Who theme music ) with lyrics referencing Doctor Who , specifically the TARDIS. In 2007, the British rock band Radiohead included
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#1733086059418912-414: A people rendered sterile by the war. Recognising their value as scientists, Mena, instead of confining them, engages the Doctor and Romana to help Hardin with his work. The time travellers know Hardin has been faking his work, but Romana feels that the experiments should have worked. After discovering a skin of Klout in a wardrobe, Stimson, Hardin's financier, who travelled with him and persuaded him to fake
988-628: A rejuvenated Doctor built up in a FIFO stack ; first in, first out. She and the first Doctor to emerge (the real one) return to the Generator Room, where Hardin has put Mena into the Recreation Generator. Pangol, enraged that the Doctor has foiled his attempt to create an army, reenters the Generator, which closes behind him. The Doctor reveals that he set the machine to "rejuvenate", and it cannot be stopped. Pangol and Mena seem to be merging, so
1064-519: A result of damage and the requirements of the show, and none of the BBC props has been a faithful replica of the original MacKenzie Trench model. Numerous details have been altered over time, including the shape of the roof, the signage, the shade of blue paint, the presence of a St John Ambulance emblem and the overall height of the box. The original prop remained in use for around 13 years until it collapsed – reportedly on Elisabeth Sladen 's head. A new prop
1140-401: A return to the format of early seasons, virtually all serials from Seasons 18 through 20 are linked together, often running directly into each other. Three serials – Full Circle , State of Decay , and Warriors' Gate – are part of a trilogy within the season. These three serials include the arrival of Adric and the departure of Romana and K9. Over the period of Christmas 1980, the season took
1216-913: A spoof on the Mafia. The original name of Argolis is given as Xbrrrm. The Leisure Hive was released on VHS in January 1997, on DVD in July 2004, and as part of the Doctor Who DVD Files (issue 98) in October 2012. Peter Howell 's incidental music was released as part of the compilation album Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3: The Leisure Hive in 2002. Doctor Who (season 18) The eighteenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who consisted of seven four-episode serials broadcast from 30 August 1980 with
1292-417: A two-week transmission break between the broadcasts of State of Decay and Warriors' Gate . The entire season was broadcast from 30 August 1980 to 21 March 1981. All releases are for DVD unless otherwise indicated: TARDIS The TARDIS ( / ˈ t ɑːr d ɪ s / ; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space") is a fictional hybrid of a time machine and spacecraft that appears in
1368-472: Is re-creation , the repeated creation of things or people. Sneaking back to the Recreation Room, the trio discover a group of Argolins, led by Pangol, performing dangerous experiments in order to perfect a secret project, under the guise of entertainment. Meanwhile, Brock and Klout bring a new offer from a mysterious organisation called West Lodge. It is then, while tearing up the offer, that Pangol reveals
1444-499: Is alternatively rendered in the plural. The first story, An Unearthly Child (1963), used the singular "Dimension". The 1964 novelisation Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks used "Dimensions" for the first time and the 1965 serial The Time Meddler introduced the plural in the television series – although the script had it as singular, actor Maureen O'Brien changed it to "Dimensions". Both continued to be used during
1520-399: Is no known precedent for this notion, a November 1960 episode of the popular radio comedy show Beyond Our Ken included a sketch featuring a time machine described as "a tall telephone box". The concept of a cloaking mechanism (later referred to as the "chameleon circuit") was devised to explain this. In the first episode, An Unearthly Child (1963), the TARDIS is first seen hidden in
1596-423: Is selected instead. The machine malfunctions while he is inside and he emerges – having aged 500 years – an old man with flowing white hair. Mena's son, Pangol, the most warlike and vindictive of the Argolins, orders that the Doctor and Romana be confined. Hardin later frees them, which is when the slower-witted Doctor notices something odd about the name Recreation Chamber . Romana sees it too, eventually: recreation
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#17330860594181672-521: The Monty Python comedy troupe opened their reunion show, Monty Python Live (Mostly) , with a trademark animation featuring the Tardis – dubbed the "retardis" – flying through space before the Pythons came on stage. In film, the TARDIS makes a cameo appearance in a number of productions, including Iron Sky (2012) and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019). The TARDIS has also featured within
1748-667: The Somerton area of Newport in South Wales is known as the Somerton TARDIS . An asteroid discovered in 1984 by astronomer Brian A. Skiff was named 3325 TARDIS on account of its cuboid appearance. A number of geological features on Charon , the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto , have been named after mythological or fictional vessels, and one is named the Tardis Chasma . A data storage manufacturer called tarDISK markets
1824-537: The Time Lords , beings from the planet Gallifrey . Although many TARDISes exist and are sometimes seen on-screen, the television show mainly features a single TARDIS used by the show's protagonist , a Time Lord who goes by the name of the Doctor . TARDISes are built with a "chameleon circuit", a type of camouflage technology that changes the exterior form of the ship to blend into the environment of whatever time or place it lands in. The Doctor's TARDIS always resembles
1900-627: The cold open of the Doctor Who episode " Utopia " (2007) in which Jack runs to and holds onto the TARDIS just before it disappears. Former companion Sarah Jane Smith has a diagram of the TARDIS in her attic, as shown in The Sarah Jane Adventures episode " Invasion of the Bane " (2007). In the two-part serial The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2008), Sarah Jane becomes trapped in 1951 and briefly mistakes an actual police public call box for
1976-726: The 1970s was sold at auction in December 2005 for £ 10,800. In 1996 the BBC applied to the UK Intellectual Property Office to register the TARDIS as a trademark . This was challenged by the Metropolitan Police , who felt that they owned the rights to the police box image. However, the Patent Office found that there was no evidence that the Metropolitan Police – or any other police force – had ever registered
2052-602: The Argolin people there as a West Lodge base. Meanwhile, the young Argolin Pangol ( David Haig ) seeks to start a war against the Foamasi, to whom his people had previously lost, with an army made of clones of himself. The Fourth Doctor and Romana 's holiday in Brighton ends abruptly when K9 chases a ball, takes in seawater, and explodes. They instead venture to the Leisure Hive of Argolis,
2128-443: The British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs. While a TARDIS is capable of disguising itself, the exterior appearance of the Doctor's TARDIS typically mimics a police box , an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain in the 1940s and 50s. Paradoxically, its interior is shown as being much larger than its exterior, commonly described as being "bigger on
2204-469: The Cybermen (1985). In the 2005 television story " Boom Town ", the Doctor reveals that he has stopped trying to repair the circuit as he has become fond of its appearance. The other TARDISes that appear in the series have chameleon circuits that are fully functional. While the exterior is of limited size, the TARDIS is famously "bigger on the inside". Behind the police box doors lies a large control room, at
2280-473: The Doctor and others to communicate with people who speak languages other than their own, as well as turn all written languages to English. The "translation circuit" (occasionally called the "translation matrix") was first explored in The Masque of Mandragora (1976), as the Doctor explained to his companion, Sarah Jane , "Well, I've taken you to some strange places before and you've never asked how you understood
2356-468: The Doctor grabs the Helmet of Theron and throws it into the visualising crystal, stopping the mechanism. Mena exits rejuvenated, holding Pangol, who has regressed to a baby. The Foamasi agents reappear, revealing that the West Lodge criminals tried to escape in the shuttle (so, in the words of the Doctor "Brock and Klout are kaput"). Against Romana's advice, the Doctor leaves the Argolins and Foamasi to make up and
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2432-550: The Doctor's TARDIS (the moment is even heralded by the Doctor's musical cue, frequently used in the revived series). It makes a full appearance in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2009), in which the Doctor briefly welcomes Sarah Jane's three adolescent companions into the control room. It then serves as a backdrop for the farewell scene between Sarah Jane and the Tenth Doctor, which echoed nearly word-for-word her final exchange with
2508-458: The Doctor's TARDIS featured in the final scene of the Torchwood episode " End of Days " (2007). As Torchwood Three's hub is situated at a rift of temporal energy, the Doctor often appears on Roald Dahl Plass directly above it in order to recharge the TARDIS. In the episode, Jack Harkness hears the tell-tale sound of the engines, smiles and afterwards is nowhere to be found; the scene picks up in
2584-461: The Doctor's and their own time ships. Generally, "TARDIS" is written in all uppercase letters , but may also be written in title case as "Tardis". The word "Tardis" first appeared in print in the Christmas 1963 edition of Radio Times , which refers to "the space-time ship Tardis ". In the fictional universe of the Doctor Who television show, TARDISes are space- and time-travel vehicles of
2660-438: The Doctor, played by Peter Cushing , is an eccentric scientist who invented the TARDIS himself. As one of the most recognisable images connected with Doctor Who , the TARDIS has appeared on numerous items of merchandise associated with the programme. TARDIS scale models of various sizes have been manufactured to accompany other Doctor Who dolls and action figures, some with sound effects included. Fan-built full-size models of
2736-512: The Foamasi was later reused in the 1981 BBC The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as the leader of the G'Gugvuntt. A new TARDIS prop is introduced in this episode which replaces the one used since The Masque of Mandragora (1976). This prop would be used right until the end of the original series' production in 1989. The Randomiser, which had been introduced in The Armageddon Factor ,
2812-602: The Fourth Doctor aboard the TARDIS in 1976. It reappears in Death of the Doctor (2010), where it is stolen by the Shansheeth who try to use it as an immortality machine, and transports Sarah Jane, Jo Grant and their adolescent companions ( Rani Chandra , Clyde Langer and Santiago Jones ). The TARDIS appears in the two film productions, Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966). In both films
2888-400: The Generator, but fails. The Foamasi shuttle tries to leave and is destroyed by Pangol, who dons the Helmet of Theron and uses the Generator to create an army of Tachyon replicas, in order to rebuild the Argolin race. He orders that Romana be put outside, while Hardin finds Mena dying and carries her to the Generator room. As Romana is taken, the clones are revealed to be merely tachyon images of
2964-542: The Hive’s Tachyon Recreation Generator, which is the main tourist attraction and can duplicate and manipulate organic matter. He witnesses a human tourist being killed after it is sabotaged in the latest of a series of such acts. When Mena returns to Argolis, her body clock begins to speed up, a side-effect of the radiation-heavy atmosphere. Earth scientist Hardin has been brought to Argolis to help her and her people by using time experiments to rejuvenate
3040-590: The Randomiser attached to the Recreation Generator (thus leaving the TARDIS vulnerable to the Black Guardian). Working titles for this story included The Argolins and Avalon . Writer David Fisher conceived of the Foamasi as a race of criminals. "Foamasi" is a near-anagram of " mafioso ". The episode was written as a satire of the decline of tourism in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. The alien costume used for
3116-513: The TARDIS, issued on Niue Island in the South Pacific Ocean by the Perth Mint to mark the 50th anniversary of the Doctor Who television show; and Tardis Environmental, a British sewage company, in reference to the similarity of their portable toilets to a police box. "Tardis" has also become a slang term used in the British real estate industry, to suggest that a house or apartment
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3192-503: The altered sounds together. When employed in the series, the sound is usually synchronised with the flashing light on top of the police box, or the fade-in and fade-out effects of a TARDIS. Writer Patrick Ness has described the ship's distinctive dematerialisation noise as "a kind of haunted grinding sound", while the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips traditionally use the onomatopoeic phrase "vworp vworp vworp". The sound of
3268-570: The artistic license if we recognise that, as in other science fiction works, the presentation of some type of ubiquitous translation tool is necessary to explain to the audience how people from other countries, time periods, and even other worlds, can understand each other and indeed appear to speak (mostly) flawless English." The TARDIS also has other special abilities: it can produce a large, invisible air bubble around its exterior that allows occupants to survive in an area that lacks oxygen as long as they are close to it and in one episode, it can create
3344-452: The beginning of "New Argolis". The Doctor, Romana, and Hardin find Foamasi agents in the Hive and escort them to the council chamber, where the agents reveal Brock and Klout to be Foamasi impersonators. The lead agent reveals West Lodge to be a criminal group who need Argolis as a base of operations. With the leader, Brock, captured, the organisation is doomed to fold and the Foamasi prepare to take
3420-464: The centre of which is a console for operating the TARDIS. In the middle of the console is a moving tubular device called a time rotor. The presence of a physically larger space contained within the police box is explained as "dimensionally transcendental", with the interior being a whole separate dimension containing an infinite number of rooms, corridors and storage spaces, all of which can change their appearance and configuration. The TARDIS also allows
3496-455: The character out in Warriors' Gate . Nathan-Turner would produce Doctor Who until 1989. In a further attempt to update the image of the series, the original 1963 Delia Derbyshire arrangement of the theme music was replaced by a more contemporary-sounding arrangement by Peter Howell , and a new, '80s-styled neon tubing logo (which was en vogue at the time) designed by Sid Sutton replaced
3572-498: The classic series; in " Rose " (2005), the Ninth Doctor uses the singular (although this was a decision of actor Christopher Eccleston — the line was plural in the script for the episode). The acronym was explained in the first episode of the show, An Unearthly Child (1963), in which the Doctor's granddaughter Susan claims to have made it up herself. Despite this, the term is used commonly by other Time Lords to refer to both
3648-550: The course of a single season. The season also sees the debut of Matthew Waterhouse as Adric , Sarah Sutton as Nyssa , and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka , the three of whom would remain regular companions into the Fifth Doctor 's era, as well as the return of the Master , portrayed both by Geoffrey Beevers and Anthony Ainley . The season was the first to be produced by John Nathan-Turner , who would produce every season of
3724-600: The danger is dealt with. In the 60th anniversary special " The Giggle ", the Fifteenth Doctor created a copy of TARDIS for the Fourteenth Doctor . Responding to speculation that the Fifteenth Doctor's TARDIS was a "new" one, Russell T Davies said that it is, in fact, the original. When Doctor Who was being developed in 1963 the production staff discussed what the Doctor's time machine would look like. To keep
3800-406: The demonstrations, is brutally murdered and the Doctor is blamed. He is put on trial while Romana and Hardin perfect the time experiments. Just in time, they succeed and are able to bargain for the Doctor's freedom. However, after they leave, the hourglass of their experiment shatters. Due to her worsening condition, Mena volunteers to be the first guinea pig to test the time experiment, but the Doctor
3876-460: The design within budget it was decided to make the outside resemble a police telephone box , a common piece of street furniture that had originally been designed in the 1920s by the Scottish architect Gilbert Mackenzie Trench . The idea for the police-box disguise came from a BBC staff writer, Anthony Coburn , who rewrote the programme's first episode from a draft by C. E. Webber . While there
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#17330860594183952-609: The diamond logo most associated with the Fourth Doctor. The updated title sequence is most associated with the Fifth Doctor. Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Barry Letts, and Christopher H. Bidmead all protested against John Nathan-Turner's decision to add question-marks to Baker's shirts, arguing that it was gimmicky. Baker in particular was unhappy with it and told Nathan-Turner that it was "annoying, absurd, and ridiculous", while Bidmead later called it "a silly, quite absurd gimmick really". Bidmead, who found working with Tom Baker "difficult to say
4028-595: The events of Traken , the Master was thereafter played by Anthony Ainley , who would continue in the part for the rest of the classic series' run. Jacqueline Hill , who had played the First Doctor 's companion Barbara Wright , returned in Meglos , although playing a different character, the alien priestess Lexa. For Season 18 John Nathan-Turner replaces Graham Williams as producer. Barry Letts returns now as executive producer, for just this season. Christopher H. Bidmead also replaces Douglas Adams as script editor. In
4104-584: The extent on display here. Laurence Payne had previously played Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighters (1966) and later played Dastari in The Two Doctors (1985). Nigel Lambert would later voice the 'Priest Triangle' in " War of the Sontarans " and " Once, Upon Time ". David Fisher 's novelisation was published by Target Books in July 1982. It keeps many elements of the original script that were intended as
4180-535: The gameplay of a number of popular video games , including Lego Dimensions and Fortnite: Battle Royale . To promote the Barbie film released in July 2023, a pink TARDIS was unveiled next to Tower Bridge in London on 11 July, as Ncuti Gatwa would appear in both Barbie as a Ken and in Doctor Who as the Fifteenth Doctor . Other references to the TARDIS have included a $ 2 silver commemorative coin depicting
4256-615: The image as a trademark. In addition, the BBC had been selling merchandise based on the image for over three decades without complaint by the police. The Patent Office issued a ruling in favour of the BBC in 2002. The word TARDIS is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary . A number of legacy police boxes are still standing on streets around the United Kingdom. Although now no longer used for their original function, many have been repurposed as coffee kiosks, and are often affectionately referred to as TARDISes. A police box in
4332-617: The inside". Due to the significance of Doctor Who in popular British culture , the shape of the police box is now more strongly associated with the TARDIS than its real-world inspiration. The name and design of the TARDIS is a registered trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), although the design was originally created by the Metropolitan Police Service . TARDIS is an acronym of "Time And Relative Dimension in Space". The word "Dimension"
4408-479: The local language. It's a Time Lord's gift I allow you to share. But tonight, when you asked me how you understood Italian, I realised your mind had been taken over." The translation circuit has also been explored in comparison with real-world machine translation, with researchers Mark Halley and Lynne Bowker concluding that "when it comes to the science of translation technology, Doctor Who gets it wrong more often than it gets it right. However, perhaps we can forgive
4484-525: The lovely humour", while Baker said that he wanted the scripts to improve and regain some of the quality of the Philip Hinchcliffe era, as he felt that the quality of the scripts and storylines had declined under Graham Williams . He later said that he felt such improvements did not by and large occur, and that most of Nathan-Turner's changes were either cosmetic or misguided. Many of the new special effects introduced in this story were never used again to
4560-411: The origin of the police box prop. While the BBC asserts that it was constructed specially for Doctor Who , it has been claimed that the box was a reused prop from the BBC television police dramas Z-Cars or Dixon of Dock Green (a claim later repeated by Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat ). The dimensions and colour of the TARDIS police box props used in the series have changed many times, as
4636-418: The planet outright. However, the offer is from the Foamasi, the only species that could live on the planet's radiation-infused surface, and the Argolin board will not consider it. The shock of events causes Board Chairman Morix's rapid death – from the Argolin war curse of advanced cellular degradation – and his consort Mena is declared the new Chairman. The Doctor is intrigued by the manipulation of tachyons in
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#17330860594184712-424: The police box are also common. There have been TARDIS-shaped video games, play tents for children, toy boxes, cookie jars, book ends, key chains, and even a police-box-shaped bottle for a TARDIS bubble bath. The 1993 VHS release of The Trial of a Time Lord was contained in a special-edition tin shaped like the TARDIS. With the 2005 series revival, a variety of TARDIS-shaped merchandise has been produced, including
4788-541: The return of The Master and the regeneration of the Fourth Doctor. Season 18 is the final season of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor after seven years in the role. New companions Adric ( Matthew Waterhouse ), Nyssa ( Sarah Sutton ), and Tegan Jovanka ( Janet Fielding ) make their introductions in Full Circle , The Keeper of Traken , and Logopolis , respectively. Romana , played by Lalla Ward , departs from
4864-518: The rogues for trial. Pangol refuses to let them pass, and takes up the Helmet of Theron (a sacred symbol for Argolins and a reminder to espouse peace and understanding) and rallies the Argolins to his cause. The Doctor, seeing what he is up to, takes the Randomiser from the TARDIS and attaches it to the Recreation Chamber, hoping to destabilise the mechanism. Romana tries to dissuade Pangol from using
4940-495: The secret of his past and the reason he is the only young Argolin in the Hive. He was the only successful, undeformed child from a cloning experiment meant to save the Argolin using the Recreation Generator. But, driven insane by hatred of the Foamasi and a xenophobic fear of all aliens, he lusts for a war-forged empire like that of their ancestor Theron (who started the war and doomed the Argolins to extinction). He needs an alien witness to his taking Mena's place after her death, and to
5016-420: The serial The Leisure Hive , to 21 March 1981 with the serial Logopolis . The season is Tom Baker 's final as the Fourth Doctor before his regeneration into the Fifth Doctor ( Peter Davison ), as well as Lalla Ward 's as companion Romana II and John Leeson 's as the voice of K9 . For the second time (The first being during Season 4 and third being Season 21 ), the entire main cast changed over
5092-504: The series in Warriors' Gate , along with John Leeson who returns to voice the robot K9 . With the arrival of Adric, this season marks the first time since 1967 that the Doctor has three regular travelling companions in the TARDIS. Peter Davison makes his first appearance as the Fifth Doctor in the closing moments of Logopolis . The Master returned to the show, this time played by Geoffrey Beevers , in The Keeper of Traken . After
5168-402: The series it is shown also to be capable of conventional space travel. In the 2006 Christmas special, " The Runaway Bride ", the Doctor remarks that for a spaceship, the TARDIS does remarkably little flying. The ability to travel simply by fading into and out of different locations became one of the trademarks of the show, allowing for a great deal of versatility in setting and storytelling without
5244-406: The show until 1989, and the first to feature script editor Christopher H. Bidmead . The season features a trilogy of connected serials, Full Circle , State of Decay , and Warrior's Gate , which form a trilogy set in a "bubble universe" called E-Space, as well as The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis , the first two serials of a trilogy continued in season 19's Castrovalva , centred on
5320-457: The song "Up on the Ladder" on their album In Rainbows which begins with the line "I'm stuck in the TARDIS". In 2001, Turner Prize -winning artist Mark Wallinger created a piece or artwork entitled Time and Relative Dimensions in Space that is structurally a police box shape faced with mirrors. The BBC website describes it as "recent proof of [the TARDIS'] enduring legacy". In July 2014,
5396-424: The trademark scarf altogether and managing to find a compromise. The show's stars took exception to many of John Nathan-Turner's other changes as well, with Tom Baker and Lalla Ward criticising the change in theme music and opening titles. Baker also criticised the new synthesised incidental music, comparing it unfavourably to Dudley Simpson 's earlier scores. Ward later complained that Nathan-Turner had "removed all
5472-586: The very least", supposedly told Baker and Nathan-Turner during recording of The Leisure Hive that exclamation marks would have been more appropriate for Baker's shirts. The Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy would later protest against his question-mark adorned jumper in similar terms, but the question-mark motif would remain until the end of the classic series in 1989. Baker also disliked his new scarf, requesting that his old multi-coloured one be re-instated, but expressed gratitude to costume designer June Hudson for refusing to adhere to Nathan-Turner's demands to ditch
5548-556: Was ditched in Part Four of this story. This was also the first story to use the Quantel DPE 5000 digital image processing system. Filming on the story ran badly over budget. The opening sequence on Brighton beach is John Nathan-Turner's paean to Visconti's celebrated 1971 feature film, Death in Venice . This was the first Doctor Who story which John Nathan-Turner produced. Nathan-Turner
5624-456: Was introduced for The Masque of Mandragora in 1976, and there have been at least six versions in total. The evolution of the prop design was referenced on-screen in the episode " Blink " (2007), when the character Detective Inspector Shipton says the TARDIS "isn't a real [police box]. The phone's just a dummy, and the windows are the wrong size." The TARDIS console room was designed for the first episode by set designer Peter Brachacki and
5700-409: Was keen to get away from what he considered the excessive silliness of recent Doctor Who stories, and wanted to increase the series' production values, because he felt that they were poor when compared with glossy American science-fiction series. Among the changes Nathan-Turner instituted was the scaling back of K9's appearances (the unit is out of commission for most of this serial), eventually writing
5776-410: Was unusually large for a BBC production of this time. It was noted for its innovative, gleaming white "futuristic" appearance. Like the police box prop, the set design of the TARDIS interior has evolved over the years. From the inception of the show in 1963 up until the end of the " classic series " in 1989, the design of the TARDIS console room remained largely unchanged from Brachacki's original set,
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