The Colin Richmond/Ed Thomas TARDIS

[deck5]

A thumbnail:



Link to the HUGE version (2146x3600 pixels): http://quartus.net/nbridges/images/tardis/2005box.jpg

[the doctor who2]

Here are the rest of the images i found from the web, this time for the TARDIS exterior being built.

[slidin_sidewayz]

That's something that bothered me for a while, when I first saw these pictures. The guys are (posed) looking at earlier TARDIS plans yet look at what they ended up with. Either they can't follow blueprints or they just threw those plans away and did what they felt like anyway. ;-)

[DoctorWho8]

Those were Purple's submitted efforts.  The pics of the model TARDISes are all his!
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[slidin_sidewayz]

Ahhhh.... so what you're saying is, they looked at the plans after they finished construction of 2 boxes, only to go 'Ohhhh... is THAT what it should have looked like? Whoops.'

[kiwidoc]

As I understand it, they left awarding a contract for the construction of the TARDISes until the last minute, until Purple's firm could no longer do them.  They then built them in-house at the BBC using suitably modified and slightly iffy designs (sorry Ed Thomas, it's true even though I've grown to like them personally...) and later posed with Purple's photos and models for the making-of photos because they probably didn't have any other reference material apart from the plans they'd drawn.

[davidnagel]

[kiwidoc]

Oh, those square panels!!         

[galacticprobe]

Isn't that the New Series "Series 1 Mark I" box? (Bill (DoctorWho8), you've made a better study of the New Series boxes than I think anyone else. It seems like you can tell one Series 1 box from another just by sniffing the air. What do you think?)

Dino.

[kiwidoc]

Oh yes, def one of the first 4 ever, before the doors were remade to make the panels less square.   Hadn't seen that particular picture before though.

[DoctorWho8]

This could be one of the promotional boxes, which did have the "squarer" door panel insets.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[pizzaroger123]

Hard to believe that was the base color of blue. I wonder how they darkened it?

[davidnagel]

Early days again, this time the box's 2005 Blue Peter appearance when Doctor Who coming back... a friend's pictures from their visit to TV Centre

[Kingpin]

Even then, she's starting to show wear and tear.  Cheers for the photos.

[warmcanofcoke]

BBC Promotional Gallery Images

Season One

"Rose"

"The End of the World"
"The Unquiet Dead"

"Aliens of London"

"World War Three"
"Dalek"

"The Long Game"

"Father's Day"

"The Empty Child"
"The Doctor Dances"
"Boom Town"

"Bad Wolf"

"The Parting of the Ways"