>Here's another question. Are the exterior TARDIS doors distinct from the
>single, large internal TARDIS door? If so, there must be a small
>police-box sized space right inside the TARDIS, indicating two door sets.
>If there are two sets of doors, when the console door-close button gets
>pressed, does that shut the outside ones too?
>In Shada the doctor's scarf gets caught in the outside door. Since both
>sets of doors would have to be closed to dematerialize, I would think
>that would rip the doctor's scarf apart. So maybe there's only one set.
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Just a thought....... Towards the end of "Axos" when the master and the doctor
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are in the Tardis together (the doctors) we see a section of Tardis wall outside the doors. Actually, I think it is one of the photographic stills from the
Troughton era. So, AT THIS TIME we know there was a space between the inner and outer doors. Given that the Tardis has at least two control rooms (I seem to
recall a suggestion of a third, Granite control room, but can't remember where)_ who says that the control (console?>) room has to be anywhere near the main
doors (remembering also per Terminus, that the Tardis has a rear emergancy
exit).
However.............
Remember as well, that the architectural configuration can be changed (per
LOGOPOLIS, Castrovalva etc) so the answer to this question at any one point
of the Tardis' "life" may not be the definative answer.
Paul Lloyd
Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Western Australia
