'Dr Who' director admits breaking Tardis

Doctor Who director Douglas Mackinnon has admitted to accidentally breaking the Tardis console during the recent Sontaran two-part story.

The 47-year-old told The Sunday Mail: "During filming I was working on the Tardis and I managed to break the bit in the middle which goes up and down. I wanted it to go too fast for a dramatic scene and it just stopped working. I couldn't believe I'd broken the Tardis."

Mackinnon, behind the cameras on both 'The Sontaran Stratagem' and 'The Poison Sky' added: "Thankfully, we managed to fix it half an hour later but I had this surreal phone call with my nine-year-old son Thomas, who is a massive Doctor Who fan, back home in Fife and said: 'You'll never believe what I did today... and he shouted to my wife Mandy: 'Mum, Dad's broken the Tardis!'"

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