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TARDIS
Summary
Infobox fictional artifact
| name = TARDIS
| image = Tardis BBC Television Center.jpg
| caption = TARDIS prop used between 2010 and 2017
| source = Doctor Who
| source_type = TV
| company = BBC
| first = An Unearthly Child (1963)'
| creator =
| genre = Science fiction
| type = Time machine/spacecraft
| uses = Travels through time and space
| traits = Can change its outer dimensions and inner layout, impregnable, telepathic
| affiliation =
The TARDIS (ˈtɑrdɪs; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional hybrid of the time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs. Its exterior appearance mimics a police box, an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain. Paradoxically, its interior is shown as being much larger than its exterior, commonly described as being "bigger on 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), despite the fact that the design was originally created by the Metropolitan Police Service.
TARDIS is an acronym of "Time And Relative Dimension(s) in Space". The word "Dimension" is alternatively rendered in the plural. 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 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", and this publication has often italicised it to connote a ship's name.
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