Doctor Who: Time - Part One | Comic Relief 2011
Why Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange recommends it
Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange answerers point people to it as the canonical on-screen example of the TARDIS landing inside itself and of the Doctor meeting a version of himself from moments ahead.
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What it is
Part One of a two-part Doctor Who mini episode made for Comic Relief 2011, starring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory aboard the TARDIS. Rory drops the thermal couplings, trapping the trio in a space loop where the TARDIS materialises inside itself. It runs about four minutes and is hosted on the BBC's channel.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Space and Time (Doctor Who).
What people said
Cites KutuluMike · 2012-09 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “What would happen if you portalled the TARDIS inside itself?”
As @Daniel Roseman points out in his comments, this has actually happened in the Children of Need special mini-episodes Space [this video] and Time [LINK] (contained on a Doctor Who DVD and confirmed to be "canon" by Moffet). In this episode, an emergency landing causes the TARDIS to materialize in the "nearest safe location", which happens to be inside the control room of the TARDIS. Several interesting things happen once this takes place: The doors to the TARDIS form a closed spatial loop. Anyone entering the doors of the "inner TARDIS" come through the doors of the "outer TARDIS" and vice versa. There does not appear to be any way to actually leave the TARDIS, nor for anything that's not alrea
Cites Elliott Frisch · 2014-06 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Is 'Time Crash' considered part of Doctor Who canon?”
Good ones! What about the other minisodes? Like the brilliant (and comedic) Clara and the Tardis [LINK] , Space [this video] and Time [LINK] . Sorry, as an American the difference between Children in Need and Red Nose day are difficult to ascertain.
Cites Equalsk · 2017-01 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Has the Doctor ever knowingly interacted with his current incarnation”
In the BBC Children in Need special Space / Time [LINK] , the 11 th Doctor speaks to a version of himself from mere moments into his future. DOCTOR: I'm setting up a controlled temporal implosion. It's the only way to reset the TARDIS but unless I find exactly the right lever to control the implosion we're all gonna die. AMY: You don't know which lever? DOCTOR: No, but I'm about to find out. (A second Doctor steps into the TARDIS through the main doors) DOCTOR 2: The wibbley lever! DOCTOR: The wibbley lever. Thank you! (The original Doctor throws the wibbley lever and steps into the TARDIS parked in the control room which then dematerialises) You can watch both parts legally on YouTube, at l