Re: From the Archives .....

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

Todays posting from the Archives comes from a thread called
"Seasons 5 & 6: Comments" from back in July 1991 ....
 Quote At that point in the series, regeneration (it hadn't even
been called that) was only done by the Doctor; it was something he
built into the TARDIS (since at that point, the TARDIS was
something he made). End Quote
 O.K. so for a long time it seemed that The Doctor could only
regenerate whilst with-in The TARDIS, but, originally, was it
actually suggested that Regeneration was *ONLY* possible because of
what The Doctor had Built into HIS TARDIS Type 40??

 The comments aren’t quite accurate. Whoever wrote that was just
wrong, even then.
 Yes, in “The Power of the Daleks” the Doctor says “I've been renewed.
It's part of the Tardis. Without it, I couldn't survive” - implying
that the regeneration process (as it would become known in “Planet of
the Spiders” eight years later) was linked in some way to the TARDIS.
But nothing suggests that the Doctor had developed that process.
 And the TARDIS was not believed to be something the Doctor had built;
that concept was in the Peter Cushing movie version of “Doctor Who
and the Daleks”, but like the movie decision that the Doctor was a
human from the future whose name was Doctor Who, it was never part of
the TV series.
 That’s made explicit by the fact that the very first time the Doctor
meets up on-screen with another of his people, in “The Meddling
Monk”, the Monk also has a TARDIS - a slightly later model than the
Doctor’s - but with largely compatible parts (which we know because
the Doctor steals some and uses them). Making it a production vehicle
made by the Doctor’s people.