Talk:The Holographic Excitation/@comment-1379990-20130214034539/@comment-3125805-20160511085109

The in-show joke is that the Tardis landed in London, Earth, sometime around 1958 - 63, and its onboard disguise system morphed its external appearance into something commonplace on Britain at the time. Then the disguise circuitry fritzed out and proved irreperable - and it now sticks out like a sore thumb wherever it goes, looking like a piece of street furniture only applicable to one small country on one backwater planet, and then only for a roughly forty-year period of that country's history....