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From: WADA@SANDIA.ARPA
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Subject: The TARDIS
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Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 10:57:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 31 10:57:34 1983
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From:  Michi Wada <WADA@SANDIA.ARPA>

    I partially disagree with Jerry Donovan's statement about the Doctor's 
TARDIS.  While it is true the Doctor stole the TARDIS when it was in for 
repairs, I disagree that he stole it when it was in the shape of the blue
British police box.  In the VERY FIRST EPISODE of Dr. Who the audience 
finds the Doctor in London during the 1960's.  He has been there for a 
long period of time (several months) and his granddaughter, Susan, has 
been attending school there.  The Doctor leaves that time when 2 of 
Susan's teachers stumble across the TARDIS and learn it is not an ordinary 
police box.  The TARDIS travels to the time of the caveman.  As the Doctor 
and his granddaughter leave the TARDIS they both comment that the TARDIS 
should have changed its shape and are surprised that the TARDIS has 
remained in the shape of a police box.

                                    Michi Wada
                                    Sandia National Labs
                                    Albuquerque, N.M.
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