From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: holliday{at}acm.org
Subject: Re: Is the TARDIS alive?

On 1/2/2011 6:38 PM, solar penguin wrote:
> Glenn Holliday wrote:
> 
>> On 1/2/2011 12:05 AM, T987654321 wrote:
>>>  When did the Doctor first indicate that the TARDIS is alive?
>>
>> Here is the earliest example I remember.  I don't have a DVD
>> of the relevant scene.  This may inspire others to cite more correctly -
>>
>> At the end of "Planet of the Spiders", the 3rd doctor returns
>> to UNIT to regenerate.  He says to Sarah Jane "The TARDIS
>> brought me home."  She says something along the lines of
>> "You say that as if it's alive," and the Doctor replies
>> "Yes."
>>
>> Anybody have a better rendering?
> 
> The dialogue actually comes earlier in the story, in part 3, when the
> Doctor is about to leave for Metabelis III to search for the kidnapped
> Sarah-Jane.
> 
> MIKE YATES: Yes, but, but, Doctor - a planet's a big place.
> DOCTOR: Yes, well, I always leave the actual landing to the TARDIS
> herself. She's no fool, you know?
> MIKE YATES: You speak as if she were alive?
> DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Yes...yes, I do, don't I? Bye, Mike.

Thanks!

-- 
Glenn Holliday holliday{at}acm.org

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