The TARDIS of the television series Doctor Who is perhaps a modern expression, though fictional, of the effect sought to be created in the mind of the viewer of a catoptric chamber.
The lyrics, which take the form of a conversation between two reconciling lovers, are noted for a reference to the TARDIS from Doctor Who.
In The Dalek Invasion of Earth, an episode of the BBC's Doctor Who, the TARDIS materialises under the Kew Railway Bridge, where it is subsequently trapped when the bridge collapses.
The machine travels in time and space, and stands for Time and Relative Dimensions in Space.
The neighbourhood is also home to one of the last remaining 'TARDIS' police boxes in the city – the Somerton TARDIS on Chepstow Road.
The lecture is held at the Royal Institution's lecture hall and interspersed with small segments of Cox on the TARDIS with the Eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith.
It is named after the TARDIS, the time travel vehicle used by the Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
As well as the theme song, most of the recurring themes for the season were introduced in the opening episode, "The Eleventh Hour", including Amy’s childhood themes ("Little Amy", "Can I Come With You?", "Little Amy: The Apple", "Amy in the TARDIS") and the Eleventh Doctor’s themes, "I Am the Doctor" and "The Mad Man With A Box", replacing tracks previously associated with the Ninth and Tenth Doctors ("The Doctor’s Theme" and "The Doctor Forever").
She led armies in Ancient Egypt, and when the TARDIS crew landed in Paris in 1626, becoming embroiled in a plot to kill Queen Anne, Erimem was able to inspire and lead a combined force of both King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu's guards against the English forces of the Duke of Buckingham (The Church and the Crown, 2002).
The story begins in China, 1800, when the Doctor and his companions arrive in their time machine, the TARDIS, at the English Trade Concession in Canton.
Vicki recalls a journey in which the TARDIS landed on the frozen River Thames, during the frost fair of 1814.
Doctor Who - The TARDIS Inside Out (May 1985, Picadilly Press Ltd., by John Nathan-Turner and illustrated by Andrew Skilleter, Paperback; October 1985, Random House Children's Books (library), Hardback)
Calling himself Thelonios, he used the illuminated art skills of the other monks to create a circuit to repair his TARDIS.
River Song (Alex Kingston) is incarcerated in her cell on the first night after appearing to kill the Doctor ("The Wedding of River Song") when she hears the TARDIS.
Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles point out the theatrical influence on this story, drawing particular attention to Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, and that the point of the story is to lead the audience to think that it's a story about an alien presence infiltrating the TARDIS in order to pull off the twist that the ship is actually conscious.
Chorley, who has been attempting to find a way out of the underground, is told of the TARDIS by Victoria and he rushes off to Covent Garden tube station to find it, locking Victoria and The Doctor in the common room.
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As the web clears, the Doctor operates a device to land the TARDIS some distance away from its expected point of materialisation, on the London Underground system in the Covent Garden station.
In the concluding scenes, Sarah Jane and the Doctor each tell the other not to forget them: this same exchange took place in The Hand of Fear, as Sarah Jane left the TARDIS for the final time until The Five Doctors.
Within the programme's narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions.