The TARDIS – DeLorious – Brian Manton

1.

Splash page

The background is split into sections by diagonal zig-zag lines. Each of these bkg panels shows a different time period – The Cretaceous Period (T-Rex), Roman times (Centurions), the 80’s (T-Rex), the future (jetpacks).

In the foreground, existing in all or flitting between these time periods, we see the Back to the Future DeLorean crashed into the side of the TARDIS.

The Doctor scans the DeLorean with the sonic screwdriver.

Doc Brown pokes his head through the TARDIS doors.

The Doctor:  Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

Doc Brown:  Precisely!

TARDIS - 8 1/2 - R.A. Wonsowski

The page should be white without panel borders; panels should almost be implied, with maybe a blur focus at the edges to make the divisions more obvious...Caption boxes should be in blue boxes with white lettering.

1 - From a distance, we see the 8TH DOCTOR floating cruciform, upside-down and askew, in the nothing; he is battered, bloodied, and most definitely "dead".  There is a Kirby-esque spear through his torso and his sonic screwdriver is nailed into the center of his forehead.

CAPTION:  I have watched you wage your private war forever.


2 - Close-up on the 8TH DOCTOR's face.  His eyes are rolled up and the bloody sonic screwdriver is flickering out.

CAPTION:  I have watched you bleed and die for a Creation that does not acknowledge your presence or thank you.


3 - Same as 2, but pull out a touch, as the TARDIS warps in the background.

CAPTION:  I have found you, and lost you, and found you again.


4 - Pull out a touch, as we see the impaled 8TH DOCTOR waver and shine as the regeneration begins, the TARDIS closer now.

CAPTION:  And I have sheltered your broken body and mind as you are born again.


5 - Close back in on the head and torso, the TARDIS closer now.  The DOCTOR has regenerated, the spear now gone, revealing the clean and unhurt 9TH incarnation.

CAPTION:  Because your war continues.  Because you are needed.


6 - Close-up on the 9TH DOCTOR's face, framed by the open door of the TARDIS, now right behind him. The DOCTOR's eyes are slammed wide open.

CAPTION:  Because I love you.

The TARDIS - Excellent - Niel Jacoby

Full splash: The TARDIS and the phone booth from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure are floating next to each other in the void you see in the DW intro sequence. The Doctor(Smith) and his companion(Clara) are staring in disbelief as they lean out the TARDIS door, and Bill S. Preston, Esq., Ted "Theodore" Logan, Ulysses S. Grant, Ada Lovelace, Catherine The Great, Andre The Giant(who is poking part of his upper body out the broken window of one of the sides just to fit), and Confucius look in amazement out of the phone booth.

Clara, The Doctor, Grant, Ted, Bill, Ada, Catherine, and Confucius: WHOOOOOA!

Andre: SACRE BLEU!

The TARDIS - Meridian - J.D. Coughlan

Panel 1: Long panel, extreme wide shot of the TARDIS in the Time Vortex. It is just barely visible, so small. At either end of the Vortex is an explosion hurtling towards the middle, where the TARDIS is. Both look like fiery meteors about to smash the little blue box.

DOCTOR (CAP): "Okay, so we're at the precise middle of time, exactly halfway between the Big Bang and the Heat Death, and the Universe is having a mid-life crisis."

Panel 2: The TARDIS Control Room (current version). The Doctor (11th) frantically works the controls, while pointing at the viewscreen depicting Panel 1 to a worried Clara.

DOCTOR: Someone has activated an energy magnet in the Vortex that is attracting those two points together through time -- the two most powerful energy outputs in history -- and if they collide at this perfect halfway moment, the shockwave will reverberate backwards and forwards in time equally, destroying everything that ever was or will be!

Panel 3: On Clara, panicked, as the Doctor continues working controls.

CLARA: Well, what are you gonna do?

DOCTOR: Me? Nothing.

Panel 4: Same as Panel 1, but now the energy explosions are closer to the TARDIS.

DOCTOR: It's up to the TARDIS now.

DOCTOR: She needs to reverse the polarity... of the Universe!

END OF PAGE

Tardis – Trojan Tardis – Shaun Richens.

PAGE 22 – PANELS 7

22.1

Page wide panel. The vast sea of men that make up the armies of Greece spread across the desert horizon. The fierce fighting men of Sparta clearly define the horizon of war before us. KING MENELAUS stands on his golden chariot, pulled by two white stallions at the helm of this host.

KING MENELAUS:

Return my woman to me and I shall consider leaving your walls intact.

KING MENELAUS:

My host outnumber your brave but few warriors. We would envelop you like the ocean would a grain of sand.

22.2

Page wide panel. The huge towering walls of TROY stand strong. The fine archers of troy line the battlements. The massive wooden doors to the great city are locked and barred.

SFX:

VWORP

22.3

Repeat of 22.2 The small blue box that is the TARDIS now rests lightly on the hot sand in front of the gates of Troy.

SFX:

VWORP

22.4

Repeat of 22.3. The door of the Tardis is now open. The tenth DOCTOR (David Tennant) pokes his head out of the door.

THE DOCTOR:

Good afternoon Menelaus and the men of Greece. You don't know who I am. But I am known to most as the Doctor.

THE DOCTOR:

I'd like you to learn four more things about me today.

THE DOCTOR:

One, I do despise bullies.

22.5

Repeat of 22.4 The Doctor has now fully stepped outside of the Tardis, both doors are wide open but we cant see inside.

THE DOCTOR:

Two, I am a sucker for a love story, and oh boy does young Paris of this here nation of Troy love the fair Helen, no longer of Sparta.

22.6

Repeat of 22.5 But a small host of figures have started to emerge from the Tardis and flank the Doctor, a band of Vikings, a samurai warrior, a humanoid reptilian battle monk with a quarter staff, a world war II british sniper, an android that is battered and scratched. Figures still in shadow file out from the great and vast Tardis.

THE DOCTOR:

Three, when you're as old as I am you have made a friend or two.

22.7

Insert panel in the right hand corner of 22.6. Close up on the Doctor.

THE DOCTOR:

Four if I can't break history a little, who can?

TARDIS – Dude, Where’s Your TARDIS? - MK Stangeland Jr.

(5 Panels)

PANEL 1: View from inside a Police Box, the kind that the TARDIS is disguised to look like. The door is open, and standing in front of it are DOCTOR WHO and EDWARD (new character, no reference.) DOCTOR WHO looks perplexed at what he’s seeing.

PANEL 2: Outside the police box with DOCTOR WHO and EDWARD in LONDON. DOCTOR WHO closes the door.

DOCTOR WHO: That’s not right. That’s not right at all.

EDWARD: This isn’t the TARDIS.

PANEL 3: DOCTOR WHO looks around to see if there’s something he’s missing.

DOCTOR WHO (1): This should be the TARDIS.

DOCTOR WHO (2): I’m certain I left it right here.

PANEL 4: DOCTOR WHO opens the Police Box door again and looks inside to confirm that no, it is not in fact the TARDIS.

DOCTOR WHO: Where’s my TARDIS?

EDWARD: You don’t know where your TARDIS is?

PANEL 5: DOCTOR WHO slams the Police Box door shut.

DOCTOR WHO: It’s certainly not here.

SFX: SLAM!

EDWARD: Dude, where’s your TARDIS?

(END PAGE)

The TARDIS - Not Like the Others - Grant McLaughlin

1 - The current Doctor (Matt Smith) and Clara stand inside the TARDIS, looking out its open doors.  The panel perspective is angled so we're looking head on at the two, unable to see what lies outside the TARDIS.  The Doctor looks happy and excited, while Clara looks a bit confused.

DOCTOR: Here we are!

CLARA: Doctor...

2 - Reverse angle.  Now behind the pair, we can see that they are looking out towards an ocean, with ships, seagulls, and the like.  However, the whole thing is flipped 90 degrees (like they're lying on their side).  Clara cocks her head to the side; the Doctor scratches his head, considering.

CLARA: ...do things seem a little more sideways than usual?

DOCTOR: Maybe a teeny bit.

3 - Now outside of the TARDIS proper.  The machine is lying on its side, and the Doctor and Clara are in the process of crawling out of it.

DOCTOR: Let's see what we have here.

4 - Angled from behind the pair again.  The Doctor looks out towards the wide ocean, holding out his sonic screwdriver to take measurements.  Clara looks behind them (and towards the reader).  What she sees brings a mischievous smile to her face and she tries to get the Doctor's attention (perhaps tugging on his sleeve).

DOCTOR: No, this doesn't make any sense at all.

CLARA: Doctor...

5 - One more reverse angle and a major pull back for good measure.  The Doctor and Clara find themselves at an industrial shipping dock, with tons of shipping containers lining the dock behind them (along the lines of this, but more crates).  Of course, between them and the crates is the TARDIS lying on its side.  While we're further away, it should be evident that the Doctor is annoyed and Clara is trying to stifle laughter.

DOCTOR (1): Oh, ha ha.  Very funny.

DOCTOR (2): You're not fooling anyone, you know!

The TARDIS - It's What Is On The Inside...- Ben Rosenthal

1.  A girl in her mid-twenties is walking around a small second hand book shop.  She isn't really interested in anything.

VOICE (off panel)
Can I help you, miss?


2.  A man in his mid fifties is standing next to the girl now.  We assume he is the chop keeper.  He is dressed in a coat, vest and a bow tie.  He is talking to the girl with a compassionate look on his face.

GIRL
No thanks.  I'n just waiting for my boyfriend.

SHOPKEEPER
Ah.  And this is why you look so bored?

GIRL
Heh,  kinda.


3.  A wide panel featuring the Shopkeeper, arms outstretched as he describes all the things one could do to not be bored.  He is enticing her.

SHOPKEEPER
Hm.  What if I told you I could find a way for you to see anything you want, at anytime you want.  Live in ancient Rome, explore alien planets.  Witness the beginning of the universe or watch it fade away to nothing.  You could be a hero or a villain.  An alpha or an Omega.  You could even be a God!

GIRL
You - you're him aren't you!


4.  A panel showing the Shopkeeper which is reaching for something behind his back.  The girl is looking up at him, wide eyed and excited.

GIRL
Where is it?   Where is your TARDIS?

SHOPKEEPER
I'm afraid I don't have  TARDIS, my dear.
But I do have this.  It has the ability to take you anywhere and any when.


5.  A panel of the shop keeper handing over an open blank book.  This is from the girl's point of view, so it looks as if The Shopkeeper is handing the blank book to us.

SHOPKEEPER
Now, make it bigger on the inside.

Why The TARDIS?

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VWORP Yes it's TARDIS week here on Thought Balloons. It's bigger on the inside, smaller on the outside. It may not take you where you want to go, but it will take you where you need to be.


House and spaceship with the core of an exploding sun, the at times almost sentient blue box is the one constant of every Doctor Who episode. What creative fodder will it loan our tenured writers this week?

On a side note, you all heard about that recently discovered Van Gough painting from earlier this year (Under the Cover), right? Take a look in the top left corner.

Mind.

BLOWN!

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