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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 the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs.
Doctor Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name "the Doctor".The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex.
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TARDIS is a fictional time machine and spacecraft in the television programme Doctor Who and its associated spin-offs. TARDIS may also refer to: Somerton TARDIS, a police box in Newport, Wales; 3325 TARDIS, an asteroid; Tardis Chasma, a chasma on the moon Charon; Tornado Advanced Radar Display Information System, a part of the Panavia Tornado ...
The Doctor is the protagonist of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.An extraterrestrial Time Lord, the Doctor travels the universe in a time travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, often with companions.
"The End of the World" is the second episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. Written by executive producer Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn, the episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 April 2005 and was seen by approximately 7.97 million viewers in the United Kingdom.
River Song is a fictional character created by Steven Moffat and played by Alex Kingston in the British science-fiction series Doctor Who.River Song was introduced to the series as an experienced future companion of series protagonist the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time in his TARDIS.
"The Stolen Tardis" (1979), a spin-off comic printed in issue No. 9 of Doctor Who Weekly (the original name of Doctor Who Magazine) also claims that "not everyone on Gallifrey is a Time Lord", [130] while a feature in issue No. 21 instead states that the Doctor is "a member of a race called the Time Lords".