In the beginning, in 1962, Sydney Newman was working high up in the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), and he was looking to make a new weekly show. This show was to be a ‘science fiction serial for a family audience,’ according to James Goss. Many ideas were pitched for …show more content…
Like, The TARDIS, for instance, is a complicated piece of machinery; nothing like a human or Timelord. This piece of machinery can travel to any place or time in all of existence. Its name, The TARDIS, stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space (The TARDIS). Susan Foreman, The Doctor’s granddaughter and first companion, gave it that name (The Doctor’s Companions). The TARDIS is bigger on the inside; an infinitive hidden dimension is stored away inside of the small 1950’s-England-police-box exterior. It was Anthony Coburn who thought of this clever disguise for a time machine (A Beginner’s Guide to The TARDIS). The TARDIS is very known world-wide, often symbolized as any other old English police box, and it has even reached its own OED entry (Tardis), just like the Daleks. One final, very iconic thing about The TARDIS is the landing/take-off noise it always makes. This noise was made in real life by running a key up and down a piano string (James Goss; Steve Tribe), and the sound is often described as