{"id":698239,"date":"2026-07-18T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698239\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:21:12","slug":"doctor-who-fan-builds-1983-tardis-console-room-in-his-back-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698239\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who fan builds 1983 Tardis console room in his back garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Doctor Who fan has brought a childhood dream to life by building a full-scale replica of the interior of the Tardis in his back garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brendan Sheppard and a small team spent two years recreating the console room from 1983 at his home in South Kyme, Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is the first time in nearly 40 years that it has been completely remade, 100% accurate,&#8221; Sheppard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors can step through a full-size police box into the Tardis, work the controls and dress up in classic costumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie Aldred, who played Ace in the show, officially opened the experience on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the centre of the room is a hexagonal console with recreations of the original buttons and switches seen in the TV programme, along with a scanner screen and other props.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Doctor Who fan has brought a childhood dream to life by building a full-scale replica of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}