Telephone box

A telephone box, also known as a telephone booth, (TV: Delta and the Bannermen) telephone kiosk, (TV: Time-Flight) or public call box, (TV: Rose) was a small building which featured a telephone. Following a stopover in 1963 London, the Doctor's TARDIS was stuck with the exterior shape of a telephone box, specifically a police box, due to a malfunction in its chameleon circuit. (TV: "The Cave of Skulls" (TV: An Unearthly Child)