68-454: Long Game or Long game may refer to: " The Long Game ", a 2005 Doctor Who TV episode The Long Game (film) , a 2023 American historical sports drama film Long Game, or Ludus Anglicorum , an historical English tables game Long game, or long con, a scam that unfolds over time Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
136-591: A cloaking mechanism (later referred to as the "chameleon circuit") was devised to explain this. In the first episode, An Unearthly Child (1963), the TARDIS is first seen hidden in a London scrapyard in 1963, and after travelling back in time (" The Cave of Skulls ") to the Paleolithic era , the police box exterior persists. In a subsequent story, The Time Meddler (1965), the First Doctor explains that
204-530: A flash memory drive for Apple MacBook which it claims is "bigger on the inside". They also claim native integration with Apple's Time Machine backup software . The European Space Agency has sent 3,000 tardigrades ("water bears") into orbit on the outside of a rocket; 32% survived. The experiment was named Tardigrades in Space, or Tardis. Cultural references to the TARDIS are many and varied. In music, The KLF (performing as "The Timelords") released
272-671: A "perception filter" that causes people to ignore it, thinking that it is normal. In another episode, it also has a function called the Hostile Action Displacement System (H.A.D.S), which makes it teleport away if it senses danger and will not return until after the danger is dealt with. In the 60th anniversary special " The Giggle ", the Fifteenth Doctor created a copy of TARDIS for the Fourteenth Doctor . Responding to speculation that
340-514: A Time Lord who goes by the name of the Doctor . TARDISes are built with a "chameleon circuit", a type of camouflage technology that changes the exterior form of the ship to blend into the environment of whatever time or place it lands in. The Doctor's TARDIS always resembles a 1960s London police box , an object that was very common in Britain at the time of the show's first broadcast. Owing to
408-669: A bad guy. Pegg had previously played Don Chaney in the Eighth Doctor audio play Invaders from Mars . When the Editor announces the Jagrafess's name to the Doctor and Rose, he pronounces it as "The Mighty Jagrafress of the Holy Hadrajassic Maxaraddenfoe." Pegg has stated during interviews that he found this an extremely difficult line to say. Voice artist Nicholas Briggs had recorded voice work for
476-538: A diagram of the TARDIS in her attic, as shown in The Sarah Jane Adventures episode " Invasion of the Bane " (2007). In the two-part serial The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2008), Sarah Jane becomes trapped in 1951 and briefly mistakes an actual police public call box for the Doctor's TARDIS (the moment is even heralded by the Doctor's musical cue, frequently used in the revived series). It makes
544-650: A full appearance in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2009), in which the Doctor briefly welcomes Sarah Jane's three adolescent companions into the control room. It then serves as a backdrop for the farewell scene between Sarah Jane and the Tenth Doctor, which echoed nearly word-for-word her final exchange with the Fourth Doctor aboard the TARDIS in 1976. It reappears in Death of the Doctor (2010), where it
612-401: A grade of B−, describing it as "entertaining" and a welcome throwback to the classic series. However, he questioned the developing tradition of the Doctor not being the hero of the episode and noted that there were some dangling threads. Reviewing the episode in 2013, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times was more positive, writing that it "acts brilliantly as a satire of the media." He also praised
680-417: A large, invisible air bubble around its exterior that allows occupants to survive in an area that lacks oxygen as long as they are close to it and in one episode, it can create a bridge tunnel that occupants can use to cross over to out-of-reach areas such as another ship. The TARDIS is also shown to be strong enough to tow other ships and planets and can even withstand black holes. It is also able to generate
748-613: A malfunction in the chameleon circuit after the events of the first episode of the show, An Unearthly Child , the Doctor's TARDIS is stuck in the same disguise for a long period. The Doctor has attempted to repair the chameleon circuit, unsuccessfully in Logopolis (1981) and with only temporary success in Attack of the Cybermen (1985). In the 2005 television story " Boom Town ", the Doctor reveals that he has stopped trying to repair
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#1732801501161816-401: A move to a more steampunk -inspired set design, which later influenced the set design in the revived series from 2005 onwards . The production team conceived of the TARDIS travelling by dematerialising at one point and rematerialising elsewhere, although sometimes in the series it is shown also to be capable of conventional space travel. In the 2006 Christmas special, " The Runaway Bride ",
884-659: A novelty pop single in 1988 entitled " Doctorin' the Tardis ". The record reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and had chart success worldwide. It was a reworking of several songs (principally Gary Glitter 's " Rock and Roll Part 2 ", The Sweet 's " Block Buster! " and the Doctor Who theme music ) with lyrics referencing Doctor Who , specifically the TARDIS. In 2007, the British rock band Radiohead included
952-402: A police-box-shaped bottle for a TARDIS bubble bath. The 1993 VHS release of The Trial of a Time Lord was contained in a special-edition tin shaped like the TARDIS. With the 2005 series revival, a variety of TARDIS-shaped merchandise has been produced, including a TARDIS coin box, TARDIS figure toy set, a TARDIS that detects the ring signal from a mobile phone and flashes when an incoming call
1020-414: A real [police box]. The phone's just a dummy, and the windows are the wrong size." The TARDIS console room was designed for the first episode by set designer Peter Brachacki and was unusually large for a BBC production of this time. It was noted for its innovative, gleaming white "futuristic" appearance. Like the police box prop, the set design of the TARDIS interior has evolved over the years. From
1088-415: A room where she sits down in a chair located in the centre of a round table. The reporters are connected to the computer via a special port installed directly into the brain. The Doctor believes there is a malevolent purpose to the station that is holding back human development. He learns from Cathica that a select few are invited to Floor 500, which is believed to be the highest promotion that can be earned on
1156-606: A shark. The initial design was also described as a "lump of meat on the ceiling". "The Long Game" was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 7 May 2005. Overnight ratings showed that the episode had been watched by 7.51 million viewers live, a 38.9% audience share. It received a final rating of 8.01 million viewers in the UK, the sixth highest-rated broadcast on BBC One for the week. The episode received an Audience Appreciation Index score of 81. "The Long Game"
1224-530: A time rotor. The presence of a physically larger space contained within the police box is explained as "dimensionally transcendental", with the interior being a whole separate dimension containing an infinite number of rooms, corridors and storage spaces, all of which can change their appearance and configuration. The TARDIS also allows the Doctor and others to communicate with people who speak languages other than their own, as well as turn all written languages to English. The "translation circuit" (occasionally called
1292-604: A working title: "Adam". Another working title for this story was "The Companion Who Couldn't". According to Davies, the concept of "The Long Game" was originally written in the early 1980s and submitted to the Doctor Who production office. Whether it was ever read by the production team of the time is unclear, as Davies received a rejection from the BBC Script Unit, who advised him to write more realistic television about "a man and his mortgage" instead. Davies reworked
1360-430: 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. While a TARDIS is capable of disguising itself, the exterior appearance of the Doctor's TARDIS typically mimics a police box , an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain in the 1940s and 50s. Paradoxically, its interior
1428-686: Is detected, TARDIS-shaped wardrobes and DVD cabinets, and a USB hub in the shape of the TARDIS. The complete 2005 season DVD box set, released in November 2005, was issued in packaging that resembled the TARDIS. One of the original-model TARDISes used in the television series' production in the 1970s was sold at auction in December 2005 for £ 10,800. In 1996 the BBC applied to the UK Intellectual Property Office to register
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#17328015011611496-524: Is no longer welcome in the TARDIS . The Doctor leaves with Rose, just as Adam's mother arrives at home; she accidentally activates his port. In the book The Shooting Scripts , Russell T Davies claims that he had originally set out to write this episode from Adam's perspective, watching the adventure unfolding from his point of view (exactly as Rose did in "Rose") and seeing both the Doctor and Rose as enigmatic, frightening characters. He even gave this outline
1564-488: Is shown as being much larger than its exterior, commonly described as being "bigger on the inside". Due to the significance of Doctor Who in popular British culture , the shape of the police box is now more strongly associated with the TARDIS than its real-world inspiration. The name and design of the TARDIS is a registered trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), although
1632-461: Is situated at a rift of temporal energy, the Doctor often appears on Roald Dahl Plass directly above it in order to recharge the TARDIS. In the episode, Jack Harkness hears the tell-tale sound of the engines, smiles and afterwards is nowhere to be found; the scene picks up in the cold open of the Doctor Who episode " Utopia " (2007) in which Jack runs to and holds onto the TARDIS just before it disappears. Former companion Sarah Jane Smith has
1700-535: Is stolen by the Shansheeth who try to use it as an immortality machine, and transports Sarah Jane, Jo Grant and their adolescent companions ( Rani Chandra , Clyde Langer and Santiago Jones ). The TARDIS appears in the two film productions, Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966). In both films the Doctor, played by Peter Cushing , is an eccentric scientist who invented
1768-551: Is the seventh episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 7 May 2005 on BBC One . It was written by executive producer Russell T Davies and directed by Brian Grant . In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor ( Christopher Eccleston ) and his companion Rose Tyler ( Billie Piper ), having been joined by near-future genius Adam Mitchell ( Bruno Langley ), land on Satellite 5 in
1836-487: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop by sound technician Brian Hodgson by recording on tape the sound of his mother's house key scraping up and down the strings of an old piano . Hodgson then re-recorded the sound by changing the tape speed up and down and splicing the altered sounds together. When employed in the series, the sound is usually synchronised with the flashing light on top of the police box, or
1904-532: The Monty Python comedy troupe opened their reunion show, Monty Python Live (Mostly) , with a trademark animation featuring the Tardis – dubbed the "retardis" – flying through space before the Pythons came on stage. In film, the TARDIS makes a cameo appearance in a number of productions, including Iron Sky (2012) and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019). The TARDIS has also featured within
1972-692: The Somerton area of Newport in South Wales is known as the Somerton TARDIS . An asteroid discovered in 1984 by astronomer Brian A. Skiff was named 3325 TARDIS on account of its cuboid appearance. A number of geological features on Charon , the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto , have been named after mythological or fictional vessels, and one is named the Tardis Chasma . A data storage manufacturer called tarDISK markets
2040-639: The "translation matrix") was first explored in The Masque of Mandragora (1976), as the Doctor explained to his companion, Sarah Jane , "Well, I've taken you to some strange places before and you've never asked how you understood the local language. It's a Time Lord's gift I allow you to share. But tonight, when you asked me how you understood Italian, I realised your mind had been taken over." The translation circuit has also been explored in comparison with real-world machine translation, with researchers Mark Halley and Lynne Bowker concluding that "when it comes to
2108-508: The 1920s by the Scottish architect Gilbert Mackenzie Trench . The idea for the police-box disguise came from a BBC staff writer, Anthony Coburn , who rewrote the programme's first episode from a draft by C. E. Webber . While there is no known precedent for this notion, a November 1960 episode of the popular radio comedy show Beyond Our Ken included a sketch featuring a time machine described as "a tall telephone box". The concept of
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2176-418: The 1965 serial The Time Meddler introduced the plural in the television series – although the script had it as singular, actor Maureen O'Brien changed it to "Dimensions". Both continued to be used during the classic series; in " Rose " (2005), the Ninth Doctor uses the singular (although this was a decision of actor Christopher Eccleston — the line was plural in the script for the episode). The acronym
2244-528: The Christmas 1963 edition of Radio Times , which refers to "the space-time ship Tardis ". In the fictional universe of the Doctor Who television show, TARDISes are space- and time-travel vehicles of the Time Lords , beings from the planet Gallifrey . Although many TARDISes exist and are sometimes seen on-screen, the television show mainly features a single TARDIS used by the show's protagonist ,
2312-557: The Doctor and Rose to take him home. The concept of "The Long Game" was originally submitted by Davies to the Doctor Who script office in the 1980s. Davies had also been interested in doing a storyline about a failed companion. In addition, critics have pointed out that the story is a satire on the media. Production for the episode took place in Newport in November and December 2004 and in Coryton, Cardiff in December. "The Long Game"
2380-418: The Doctor remarks that for a spaceship, the TARDIS does remarkably little flying. The ability to travel simply by fading into and out of different locations became one of the trademarks of the show, allowing for a great deal of versatility in setting and storytelling without a large expense in special effects. The distinctive accompanying sound effect – a cyclic wheezing, groaning noise – was originally created in
2448-404: The Editor and Jagrafess, but Pegg's performance was almost enough to make up for it. Overall he felt that the story "presents a few too many simple ideas, with the cumulative effect that this is a story that feels slight at best, underdeveloped at worst. The episode is hardly a failure, but it could have been so much more." In Who Is the Doctor , a guide to the revived series, Graeme Burk described
2516-478: The Fifteenth Doctor's TARDIS was a "new" one, Russell T Davies said that it is, in fact, the original. When Doctor Who was being developed in 1963 the production staff discussed what the Doctor's time machine would look like. To keep the design within budget it was decided to make the outside resemble a police telephone box , a common piece of street furniture that had originally been designed in
2584-484: The Jagrafess controls the lives of the people on the planet below by manipulating the news. Meanwhile, Adam discovers that he can gain access to information about Earth's future. He has an information port installed in his brain and uses Rose's phone to call his answering machine at home and transfer data to it. The port also allows the Jagrafess into Adam's mind. The Jagrafess learns about the Doctor and makes plans to kill him. The Doctor, aware of Cathica's presence outside
2652-560: The Jagrafess, but his contribution was not used because it sounded too similar to the Nestene Consciousness (which Briggs had voiced in " Rose "). "The Long Game" was produced singularly in the series' fourth production block. Filming in the studio took place at the Unit Q2 warehouse in Newport from 30 November to 3 December, on 7 December, and from 10 to 15 December 2004. The spike room set (used for Floors 139 and 500),
2720-626: The TARDIS as a trademark . This was challenged by the Metropolitan Police , who felt that they owned the rights to the police box image. However, the Patent Office found that there was no evidence that the Metropolitan Police – or any other police force – had ever registered the image as a trademark. In addition, the BBC had been selling merchandise based on the image for over three decades without complaint by
2788-516: The TARDIS himself. As one of the most recognisable images connected with Doctor Who , the TARDIS has appeared on numerous items of merchandise associated with the programme. TARDIS scale models of various sizes have been manufactured to accompany other Doctor Who dolls and action figures, some with sound effects included. Fan-built full-size models of the police box are also common. There have been TARDIS-shaped video games, play tents for children, toy boxes, cookie jars, book ends, key chains, and even
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2856-411: The TARDIS police box props used in the series have changed many times, as a result of damage and the requirements of the show, and none of the BBC props has been a faithful replica of the original MacKenzie Trench model. Numerous details have been altered over time, including the shape of the roof, the signage, the shade of blue paint, the presence of a St John Ambulance emblem and the overall height of
2924-583: The TARDIS should automatically adopt a disguise, such as a howdah (a carrier on the back of an Indian elephant in the Indian Mutiny ) or a rock on a beach. Accounts differ as to the origin of the police box prop. While the BBC asserts that it was constructed specially for Doctor Who , it has been claimed that the box was a reused prop from the BBC television police dramas Z-Cars or Dixon of Dock Green (a claim later repeated by Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat ). The dimensions and colour of
2992-528: The TARDIS, issued on Niue Island in the South Pacific Ocean by the Perth Mint to mark the 50th anniversary of the Doctor Who television show; and Tardis Environmental, a British sewage company, in reference to the similarity of their portable toilets to a police box. "Tardis" has also become a slang term used in the British real estate industry, to suggest that a house or apartment
3060-407: The box. The original prop remained in use for around 13 years until it collapsed – reportedly on Elisabeth Sladen 's head. A new prop was introduced for The Masque of Mandragora in 1976, and there have been at least six versions in total. The evolution of the prop design was referenced on-screen in the episode " Blink " (2007), when the character Detective Inspector Shipton says the TARDIS "isn't
3128-453: The central console and to the layout, but the overall concept remained constant. In Season 14 (1976–77), a dark wood-panelled "Control Room Number 2" was briefly used for a few episodes, but the white console room set was reinstated in Season 15 , due to damage to the set. After the cancellation of the television show, a radically redesigned TARDIS set was used in the 1996 TV movie , heralding
3196-417: The circuit as he has become fond of its appearance. The other TARDISes that appear in the series have chameleon circuits that are fully functional. While the exterior is of limited size, the TARDIS is famously "bigger on the inside". Behind the police box doors lies a large control room, at the centre of which is a console for operating the TARDIS. In the middle of the console is a moving tubular device called
3264-410: The condition is arthritis . No trace of this motivation remains in the finished programme, although Grant discusses it as if it were still present. Langley and Grant also reveal that the "frozen vomit" that Adam spits out in one scene was in fact a "kiwi and orange ice cube". Simon Pegg had grown up with Doctor Who and considered it a "great honour" to guest star. He was pleased at being cast as
3332-455: The control room set, and the suburban house set were recorded at the former BT building in Coryton, Cardiff on 6, 8, and 9 December. The house set was later rebuilt for recording in the Newport warehouse on 15 December. The Jagrafress was entirely made of computer-generated imagery animated by The Mill . It was given a shark -like design, with the intention that it would "snap out" like
3400-479: The design was originally created by the Metropolitan Police Service . TARDIS is an acronym of "Time And Relative Dimension in Space". The word "Dimension" is alternatively rendered in the plural. The first story, An Unearthly Child (1963), used the singular "Dimension". The 1964 novelisation Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks used "Dimensions" for the first time and
3468-506: The episode as "entertaining, if unspectacular." He called Pegg the best guest star so far, and stated that Langley did a "superb job" at conveying Adam, but he felt that the episode did not have much else beside the failed companion storyline. Burk criticised the satire for not being subtle enough and borrowing from other stories such as Nineteen Eighty-Four . He also remarked that it was a shame Adam's motives were cut, as well as development between Rose and Adam. Burk's coauthor Stacey Smith?
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#17328015011613536-546: The fade-in and fade-out effects of a TARDIS. Writer Patrick Ness has described the ship's distinctive dematerialisation noise as "a kind of haunted grinding sound", while the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips traditionally use the onomatopoeic phrase "vworp vworp vworp". The sound of the Doctor's TARDIS featured in the final scene of the Torchwood episode " End of Days " (2007). As Torchwood Three's hub
3604-594: The gameplay of a number of popular video games , including Lego Dimensions and Fortnite: Battle Royale . To promote the Barbie film released in July 2023, a pink TARDIS was unveiled next to Tower Bridge in London on 11 July, as Ncuti Gatwa would appear in both Barbie as a Ken and in Doctor Who as the Fifteenth Doctor . Other references to the TARDIS have included a $ 2 silver commemorative coin depicting
3672-408: The guest cast and characters and Adam's departure. In 2011, Den of Geek's Mark Harrison wrote that "In retrospect, 'The Long Game' is an underrated and perfectly enjoyable mid-series episode," praising Adam's departure. Reviewing "The Long Game" for The A.V. Club in 2013, Alasdair Wilkins gave it a grade of "B−". He found it "inessential" and commented that it was not very clear on the motives of
3740-414: The inception of the show in 1963 up until the end of the " classic series " in 1989, the design of the TARDIS console room remained largely unchanged from Brachacki's original set, a brightly lit white chamber, lined with a pattern of roundels on the walls and with a central hexagonal console which contained a cylindrical "time rotor" that moved when the TARDIS was in transit. Numerous alterations were made to
3808-485: The police. The Patent Office issued a ruling in favour of the BBC in 2002. The word TARDIS is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary . A number of legacy police boxes are still standing on streets around the United Kingdom. Although now no longer used for their original function, many have been repurposed as coffee kiosks, and are often affectionately referred to as TARDISes. A police box in
3876-506: The room, loudly comments on how altering the environmental systems will likely kill the Jagrafess. Cathica reverses the cooling system, causing Floor 500 to overheat, killing the Jagrafess and the Editor. As the humans on board the station and on Earth come to wake from the stupor they have been in, the Doctor congratulates Cathica and gives her hope for the future. The Doctor discovers Adam's duplicity and takes him to his home on Earth. The Doctor destroys Adam's answering machine and tells Adam he
3944-524: The science of translation technology, Doctor Who gets it wrong more often than it gets it right. However, perhaps we can forgive the artistic license if we recognise that, as in other science fiction works, the presentation of some type of ubiquitous translation tool is necessary to explain to the audience how people from other countries, time periods, and even other worlds, can understand each other and indeed appear to speak (mostly) flawless English." The TARDIS also has other special abilities: it can produce
4012-461: The song "Up on the Ladder" on their album In Rainbows which begins with the line "I'm stuck in the TARDIS". In 2001, Turner Prize -winning artist Mark Wallinger created a piece or artwork entitled Time and Relative Dimensions in Space that is structurally a police box shape faced with mirrors. The BBC website describes it as "recent proof of [the TARDIS'] enduring legacy". In July 2014,
4080-504: The station. The Doctor, with Rose, hacks into the computer systems of the station and is detected by the Editor. The Editor allows the Doctor and Rose to travel to Floor 500, with Cathica following soon after. On Floor 500 the Doctor and Rose find the Editor directing control over the station through a number of dead humans. On the ceiling resides the Editor-in-Chief, the Jagrafess, to whom the Editor answers. The Doctor learns that
4148-463: The story for the new series. In the DVD commentary for this episode, director Brian Grant and actor Bruno Langley refer to an additional motivation for Adam's actions. Apparently, in earlier drafts of the script, Adam's father suffered from a disease that was incurable in his time (2012) and he hoped to learn about a cure which had been discovered between that year and 200,000. In the shooting script,
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#17328015011614216-423: The theme of "media control," and the Jagrafess, they criticised it for "[failing] to capture the imagination" because there was "no real palpable sense of threat" and that human culture looked identical to modern day. Rupert Smith of The Guardian wrote, "Anything that satirises the profession of journalism is all right with me, but this did it with style." Arnold T Blumburg of Now Playing gave "The Long Game"
4284-471: The title Long Game . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long_Game&oldid=1250657197 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Long Game " The Long Game "
4352-416: The year 200,000. Satellite 5 is a space station that broadcasts news across the entire human empire. However, the Doctor notices that the station is suspicious: there are no aliens, and those who are promoted to Floor 500 seem to disappear. The Doctor and Rose discover that the Editor ( Simon Pegg ) and an alien are controlling the rest of humanity by way of the press. Meanwhile, Adam makes a mistake that forces
4420-436: Was explained in the first episode of the show, An Unearthly Child (1963), in which the Doctor's granddaughter Susan claims to have made it up herself. Despite this, the term is used commonly by other Time Lords to refer to both the Doctor's and their own time ships. Generally, "TARDIS" is written in all uppercase letters , but may also be written in title case as "Tardis". The word "Tardis" first appeared in print in
4488-523: Was more positive, opining that a satire did not have to be subtle to be effective, and that viewers could still relate it to the news media today. Smith? also praised the way "The Long Game" showed the Ninth Doctor as an "inspirational figure." The two also questioned the decision to leave Adam in the 21st century with future technology. TARDIS The TARDIS ( / ˈ t ɑːr d ɪ s / ; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space")
4556-515: Was released on DVD in Region 2 alongside the following episodes " Father's Day ", " The Empty Child ", and " The Doctor Dances " on 1 August 2005. It was then re-released as part of the first series boxset on 21 November 2005. The episode received generally mixed reviews. SFX described it as an "okay" episode that was reminiscent of the earlier episode "The End of the World." Despite praising Pegg,
4624-465: Was watched by 8.01 million viewers in the UK and received generally mixed reviews from critics. The Ninth Doctor , Rose , and Adam arrive on Satellite 5, a space station orbiting Earth in the year 200,000. The Doctor gets Adam and Rose some credits to buy food while he looks around the station. The Doctor meets a woman named Cathica, a reporter who tells him that the station is a giant broadcast tower transmitting news across Earth. Cathica leads them to
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