In the fourth episode of of the sixth season of
Doctor Who penned by
Neil Gaiman, the matrix of the
Doctor's TARDIS is removed and finds itself implanted within the body of a woman called
'Idris'.
Idris costume and junkyard TARDIS console from Doctor Who on display
Former
Coronation Street soap actress
Suranne Jones played the
TARDIS in human form and her costume and the makeshift
TARDIS console from
The Doctor's Wife episode were photographed on display at the
Doctor Who Experience in
Cardiff Bay on May 20, 2013.
Doctor Who season six TV billboard
I believe that
Barbara Kidd was
Costume Designer on this
Doctor Who episode and responsible for the screen look of
'Idris'.
Original Idris costume worn by Suranne Jones in The Doctor's Wife
In this 2011 episode the alien time-traveller and his
Companions, Amy and
Rory, are lured to a junkyard asteroid outside the universe by a fake distress call from the
Doctor's extinct
Time Lord race. The malevolent entity called the
'House' wants to harvest the energy of the
TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space) bioship, but inhabiting the form of
Idris the sentient
TARDIS matrix helps the
Eleventh Doctor build a junk
TARDIS console from scraps to escape.
Scrapyard TARDIS console from The Doctor's Wife
The look of this junk
TARDIS control console was actually the result of
BBC children's programme
Blue Peter's 'Design a TARDIS console' contest and 12-year-old
Susannah Leah saw her ideas become reality in this episode (with the help of the
Doctor Who production department no doubt).
Watch the episode now:
The Doctor's Wife [HD]
Buy the series:
Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series [Blu-ray]
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