BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Doctor Who (before the Tardis)

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Doctor Who (before the Tardis): "Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show, writes Tom Geoghegan.

The Doctor without his time-travelling police box is difficult to imagine, but its creators initially proposed he journey through space in an invisible machine covered in light-resistant paint."