Having suffered severe damage when Donna Noble accidentally spilled coffee on the TARDIS control console, (TV: The Star Beast [+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) the Doctor's TARDIS underwent a regeneration, briefly leaving Donna and the Fourteenth Doctor stranded at the edge of the universe due to the reactivation of the HADS. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
History[]
Breaking the TARDIS[]
![The malfunctioning TARDIS expels fire after landing on a . (: [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/2/22/OFF_WE_GO%21_WBY.png/revision/latest?cb=20231202200609)
The malfunctioning TARDIS expels fire after landing on a spaceship. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
While being taken to visit her grandfather, Donna Noble accidentally spilled coffee on the TARDIS control console, severely damaging the ship and sending flying it out of control. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) The TARDIS flew out of control to a variety of times and places, (COMIC: Untitled [+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2023).) including briefly crashing in Isaac Newton's tree in 1666. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) Eventually the Fourteenth Doctor decided they had to abandon the damaged ship, (COMIC: Untitled [+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2023).) which they did after the TARDIS materialised on a spaceship at the edge of the universe. The ship played "Wild Blue Yonder" during the landing, apparently in an attempt to warn the Doctor and Donna of the danger lurking there.
![The TARDIS is clicked into gear. (: [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/8/89/Sonic_Screwdriver_Regeneration.png/revision/latest?cb=20240628235212)
The TARDIS is clicked into gear. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
Explaining to Donna that the TARDIS could regenerate if he could "click it into gear", the Doctor used a regular screwdriver to remove the door lock and inserted his sonic screwdriver to activate the TARDIS' regeneration which was signaled by the lamp on top lighting up. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
Hostile Action[]
As an unexpected side effect of triggering the TARDIS' regeneration, the Doctor also inadvertently reactivated the HADS which had been shut off years before. Detecting the threat of the Not-things, the HADS caused the still regenerating TARDIS to take off, leaving the Doctor and Donna stranded. Realising that the HADS was responsible, the Doctor and Donna departed to find and deal with the threat so that the TARDIS would return.
![The TARDIS triumphantly returns. (: [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/8/81/WBY_Return.png/revision/latest?cb=20240628234047)
The TARDIS triumphantly returns. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
After detecting that the Not-thing copy of the Doctor would be unable to stop the ship's self-destruct, thus ending the hostile action, the fully repaired TARDIS returned playing "Wild Blue Yonder" once again, (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) almost as if the TARDIS was celebrating its own glorious return. (PROSE: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Mark Morris, adapted from Wild Blue Yonder (Russell T Davies), 60th Anniversary Novels (Target Books, 2023).) Almost taking along the Not-thing copy of Donna by accident, the Doctor ejected the creature from the TARDIS (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) using a brand new lever that was presumably included in either the TARDIS' recent redesign or the regeneration (PROSE: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Mark Morris, adapted from Wild Blue Yonder (Russell T Davies), 60th Anniversary Novels (Target Books, 2023).) and escaped with Donna as both the spaceship and the Not-things were destroyed. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) Unlike the previous two regenerations of the TARDIS, (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010)., The Ghost Monument [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 11 (BBC One, 2018).) the exterior and interior appearance did not change and the TARDIS simply repaired the damage that it had sustained. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
