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History section for The Doctor's TARDIS.

Prior to the Doctor
Although a handful of accounts suggested that the Doctor's TARDIS was a unique invention of his personal design, (PROSE: The Equations of Dr Who, The Chase) the Twelfth Doctor later recalled these as empty boasts designed to impress his human companions. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time)

By most accounts, the ship that would become the Doctor's TARDIS was one of 305 Type 40 TT capsules that had been manufactured. (TV: The Deadly Assassin) Like her sister ships, she was installed with the Record of Rassilon. (TV: State of Decay)

The ship's first known owner was Marnal. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) Susan Foreman suspected that the TARDIS had at one point been to Goliatha where a Golithan Spiney Back Beetle had found its way into the TARDIS control console. (AUDIO: The Hollow Crown) On her first night aboard the TARDIS, Susan found evidence that led her to suspect it had once had a much larger crew who voyaged the cosmos in it. (AUDIO: The Beginning)

Departure from Gallifrey
The TARDIS was eventually withdrawn from service and set to be scrapped, the First Doctor suspecting that it had been already been decommissioned, (AUDIO: The Beginning) before it was "borrowed" by the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan in their escape from Gallifrey. (TV: ''The Doctor's Wife)

By one account of the theft, Susan was one of Rassilon's descendants, Lady Larn, and had hidden herself aboard the TARDIS, electing to join the Doctor when he stole the craft. (PROSE: Birth of a Renegade) In another, the Doctor's only company when he boarded the TARDIS was the Hand of Omega which overrode the safeguards that forbade the ship from travelling into Gallifrey's past so that the Doctor, the reincarnation of the Other, could collect his granddaughter. (PROSE: Lungbarrow) In another, the Doctor had simply found the TARDIS and with no one claiming possession of it, he helped himself to it. (PROSE: Something Borrowed, Something Blue)

In another account, in which Susan found the ship at the same time as her grandfather, the Doctor had not initially intended to take the Type 40, being persuaded to do so by a Gallifreyan echo of Clara Oswald. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) In this account, the TARDIS engines were in the process of being dismantled by Quadrigger Stoyn, his face being badly burnt when the Doctor took off. (AUDIO: The Beginning)

The TARDIS' departure from Gallifrey caused a "commotion", one that the Eleventh General recalled witnessing. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) The Doctor's original TARDIS hired a Celestial Intervention Agency agent named Maris to locate the Doctor, angry at having been left behind in favour of an inferior model. Meanwhile, the Master and the Rani learnt of the Doctor's escape and became desperate to figure out where he had gone. (PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir)

First flight
By one account, the TARDIS landed on Iwa after leaving Gallifrey where the Doctor and Susan first encountered the human race. (PROSE: Frayed)

In another, Stoyn shut down the engines and forced the ship to land on the moon of planet Earth, 450 million years prior to the human era. When Stoyn confronted the Doctor and Susan, the former destroyed the TARDIS' homing device to prevent the Time Lords from finding them and removed the ship's dematerialisation circuit so that Stoyn could not maroon them. Exploring, the three met the Archaeons who removed the ship's temporal stasis capacitor while the power was still on, breaching the TARDIS' stasis field and freezing everyone in the immediate area for 450 million years until the moon was colonised by humanity. In the interim, the TARDIS had recharged itself, Stoyn bargaining its power to the Archaeons. The Doctor and Susan though managed to return to the ship, inserting the dematerialisation circuit and fleeing. The Doctor, after having seen a first contact video about humanity had hoped to visit Earth itself only for the ship to wind up on an alien planet. Reflecting on these events, Susan noted that the TARDIS wouldn't land on Earth for quite some time afterwards. (AUDIO: The Beginning)

In their travels, the Doctor and Susan came to regard the TARDIS as their home. (AUDIO: Tick-Tock World)

On Earth
The TARDIS eventually landed in London in the 1960s, coming to rest in I.M. Foreman's junkyard. (TV: An Unearthly Child) By one account, the Blessing Star had allowed the Doctor to properly pilot the ship to the destination, at the cost of burning out its navigation system. (PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story) By another, the TARDIS had been placed there by the Father of Time, telling the Doctor and Susan that they would find "a new life" there. (COMIC: The Test of Time)

The ship's chameleon circuit caused it to disguise itself as a police box while in London, a form which it became stuck in. (TV: An Unearthly Child) One account stated that this was part of the Eleventh Doctor's plan to defeat the Prometheans, him travelling back to the junkyard and deliberately destroying the circuit. (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone) The Eighth Doctor though claimed to have removed the circuit to use it to disguise the Hand of Omega. (AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention)

The Doctor's travels
While living on Earth, Susan had enrolled herself at Coal Hill School. The various gaps in her knowledge worried two of her teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright who followed her home on November 23rd 1963 and forced their way into the TARDIS when they heard her voice from inside it. Unwilling to allow humans to have knowledge of his ship, the Doctor set the ship for Earth's caveman era to dispose of the interlopers only for all to unite against the Tribe of Gum, making it back to the ship just before the tribe could deal a killing blow. (TV: An Unearthly Child) Though the Doctor attempted to London in 1963, the TARDIS instead brought the group to the planet Skaro, (PROSE: What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious") knowing how important encountering the Daleks would be to the Doctor's character. (TV: Into the Dalek) After the Thal-Dalek battle, the Doctor attempted to use the fast return switch to return Ian and Barbara home only for the switch to become stuck and take the TARDIS to the beginning of a star system, the gravity fields nearly destroying it before the Doctor repaired the switch. (TV: The Edge of Destruction)