0:00:04 > 0:00:06Look at you.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Oh, you sexy thing!
0:00:12 > 0:00:15- VICTORIA: Where are we? - SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, it's the TARDIS, it's my home.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18At least, it has been for a considerable number of years.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21But it's a police box!
0:00:21 > 0:00:25What on Earth's it doing here? These things are usually on the street.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Feel it.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Feel it.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34- It's a faint vibration.- It's alive.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Alive.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39I'm alive.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43The Doctor's latest confused companion...
0:00:43 > 0:00:47- Goodbye. No, not goodbye, what's the other one? - '..is someone very familiar.'
0:00:47 > 0:00:50# Hello, old friend
0:00:51 > 0:00:55# The night is dark and I feel cold... #
0:00:55 > 0:00:58The Doctor meets the TARDIS.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00The TARDIS becomes a woman.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04- It's called the TARDIS, this thing. - Time And Relative Dimension In Space. - It's me.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09She's not only the Doctor's personal fantasy, but countless men around the country, I'm sure.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12See that box over there? That's me!
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Let's personify her. She gets 42 minutes of life.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17- What do I call you? - You can call me...
0:01:17 > 0:01:18Sexy.
0:01:18 > 0:01:23I think he's astounded, flabbergasted, afraid, endeared and turned on all at the same time.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25You have what you've always had.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28You've got me.
0:01:28 > 0:01:34So join Doctor Who Confidential as we witness an explosive meeting of minds.
0:02:08 > 0:02:15At the Doctor Who studios, the cast and crew are preparing to shoot on a set that seems very familiar.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25Hey, Confidential.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Back in your TARDIS.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29It's where I did my first scene. I can remember it
0:02:29 > 0:02:31weirdly like it was yesterday.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Terribly nervous. I did a little dance around here.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40I like this TARDIS. It's darker.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42It is a darker sort of light.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I don't know what it all does in the same way, though.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51A pump of sorts. Here she is, come on, Suranne. Come and say hello.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53This is the TARDIS, can you believe?
0:02:53 > 0:02:56She has no idea what she's let herself in for. Folklore.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00So, hi. This is Matt Smith with Suranne Jones. Hi, Suranne.
0:03:00 > 0:03:01- Hi, Matt Smith, how are you? - Good, thanks.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- How's your time been on Doctor Who? - Brilliant.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06- Everyone's been lovely.- Oh, thanks.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11I mean...were you intimidated about taking on such an iconic part and role?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- Yes. - It doesn't show, you're very good.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Thank you. Very intimidated by...you.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Oh, thanks. Well...
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Not when you smack yourself in the face!
0:03:25 > 0:03:27You have such sensible hair.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Sensible hair is such a good thing.
0:03:30 > 0:03:36Joining the cast and crew on set is the man responsible for bringing the TARDIS so explosively to life.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Writer Neil Gaiman.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Brilliant. Thank you very much.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43This is Neil Gaiman on Confidential.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46To have Neil around was a wonderful thing.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51I had weirdly watched a movie called Coraline not long before, and he's a sci-fi great.
0:03:51 > 0:03:58- Of course, Neil is one of the premier, if not- the- premier fantasy novelist on the planet.- Cool.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01That was Matt Smith.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Or possibly that was The Doctor.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05I'm not quite sure which one I was talking to.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09It occurred to me - not for the first time, knowing Neil's work -
0:04:09 > 0:04:11I just thought, "This guy's a Doctor Who fan."
0:04:11 > 0:04:13I can tell, I can smell it.
0:04:13 > 0:04:19He must. He loves Doctor Who. He's practically writing Doctor Who in disguise.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Exterior, Void Space.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Bubble Universe.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Floating in utter starless darkness, a small asteroid that's a junkyard.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39The Totter's Lane at the end of the universe.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45On the surface, wrecked and abandoned high and low-tech things,
0:04:45 > 0:04:50ripped-canvas temporary structures, held together by rope and junk.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54It could come off here and come around so we're just kind of doing that.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58There are four people there.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00They're all dressed in patchwork clothes that look
0:05:00 > 0:05:05like they were assembled from wardrobe cast-offs, using whatever was to hand.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07391, take one.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Action.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12- Will it be me, Uncle? - Yes it will be you.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16I only wish I could go in your place.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Nah. I don't, cos it's really going to hurt.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Holding Uncle's right hand is Idris, who is beautiful.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27She wears a wrecked Victorian party dress.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28It's starting.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33The scene we're doing right now is before the Doctor arrives on the planet
0:05:33 > 0:05:42and Idris, Aunty, Uncle and Nephew are preparing for House to kill me.
0:05:42 > 0:05:47It seems like a huge responsibility to the audience and, you know,
0:05:47 > 0:05:52all the fans of Doctor Who to deliver on personifying the TARDIS.
0:05:52 > 0:05:58It can't be a straightforward babe. It has to be someone with real character. Real, very, very sexy.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03At the same time, sexy plus motherly, plus utterly mad, plus serene.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06And action.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08What will happen?
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Oh, Nephew will drain your mind and your soul from your body and leave your body empty.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- I'm scared.- I expect so, dear.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22We're going to build a TARDIS.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26It takes a quarrel in a quarry for the Doctor and the TARDIS
0:06:26 > 0:06:29to really get to the heart of their relationship.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31The central idea of the story
0:06:31 > 0:06:37was what would happen if the Doctor and the TARDIS actually got to talk?
0:06:37 > 0:06:41I have actually rebuilt a TARDIS before. I know what I'm doing.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43You're like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike
0:06:43 > 0:06:47- in his bedroom, and you never read the instructions.- I always read the instructions!
0:06:47 > 0:06:50I thought there has to be a point there were the Doctor would say...
0:06:50 > 0:06:54You know, YOU have never been very reliable.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58- And you have?- You didn't always take me where I wanted to go.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02I thought, and if he said that, then I know what the TARDIS would say.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- No, but I always took you where you- needed- to go.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07And, knowing that,
0:07:07 > 0:07:12it's like the entire episode grew around that conversation,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- like a pearl around a little piece of dust.- Look at us talking.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Wouldn't it be amazing if we could always talk, even when you're stuck inside the box?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20You know I'm not constructed that way.
0:07:20 > 0:07:25She's every bit as smart as he is in her own way.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28But her own way is very different to his way.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31She exists across space and time - all of space and time simultaneously.
0:07:31 > 0:07:37I exist across all space and time, and you talk and run around and bring home strays.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Turn over.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45The Doctor and Idris are assembling a half-built console in front of them. A sort of Frankenstein thing.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And action!
0:07:48 > 0:07:51You'll need to install the time rotor.
0:07:51 > 0:07:56- How is this going to make it through the rift?- Cut.
0:07:56 > 0:08:01They've taken the one in the most of two walls, no ceiling, 1970s TARDIS as a shell.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06- And action! - We're almost done. Run computer.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Retroscope.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12And they're building things.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Picking up junk, examining it, breaking bits off,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17putting them into others.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Right. Perfect. Look at that. What could possibly go wrong?
0:08:20 > 0:08:24That's fine. That always happens. No, hang on. Wait!
0:08:24 > 0:08:29- Working incredibly smoothly together, as if they've been doing this for years.- Right. OK. Let's go.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Like a long-married couple.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39Oh, my beautiful idiot. You have what you've always had.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41You've got me.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48MECHANICAL THRUMMING
0:08:56 > 0:08:59What's interesting about that episode is that, by the end of it,
0:08:59 > 0:09:03we realise that it all comes back to good old TARDIS and Doctor.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05And from Idris's dead mouth,
0:09:05 > 0:09:08golden lights glitter and twinkle and gather.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Look at my girl. Look at her go!
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Bigger on the inside!
0:09:13 > 0:09:16A cascade of energy pours out of Idris's mouth,
0:09:16 > 0:09:20a twinkling mass of pure energy. It fades into the room.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24The lights in the TARDIS control room begin to flicker and change,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26as if half of the room is lit by golden light,
0:09:26 > 0:09:29the rest is still the greenish glow.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Finish him off, girl.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33The lights are chasing each other around the control room.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37The green glow is being vanquished by the golden light.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Then the control room goes dark.
0:09:40 > 0:09:45- A beat.- Doctor, are you there?
0:09:45 > 0:09:51- It's so very dark in here.- I'm here.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56I think it's very hard for him to leave her,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59to not have her around, physically. I think that must be...
0:09:59 > 0:10:01It's such a romantic idea, really.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06I'll always be here. But this is when we talked.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And now even that has come to an end.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12It must have changed the relationship with his ship.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15I don't know in what way yet. Maybe we'll find out.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18But I'm sure if you asked him again after that episode,
0:10:18 > 0:10:22he'd have a different perspective on the TARDIS. He must do.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32(I love you).
0:10:32 > 0:10:34He still loves her in exactly the same way.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38That connection is so strong and hopefully you get, from the episode,
0:10:38 > 0:10:41that that connection is so strong and that will never change.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Hours later, the Doctor is alone.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49He's finally finished the work,
0:10:49 > 0:10:54puts the cover back in place, presses a button on his sonic screwdriver
0:10:54 > 0:11:00and the screws go down by themselves. And then, very quietly, hesitantly...
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Are you there?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Can you hear me?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09No, I'm a silly old...
0:11:09 > 0:11:13OK, the Eye of Orion, or wherever we need to go.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Without him even touching the controls,
0:11:15 > 0:11:18the light coming through the central column burns brightly
0:11:18 > 0:11:21and with a crash of engines the TARDIS is taking them somewhere
0:11:21 > 0:11:25that's almost definitely not the tranquil Eye of Orion.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31MECHANICAL THRUMMING
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Woo!
0:11:38 > 0:11:40End credits.
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