TIME finally ran out for the Tardis yesterday — it was booked outside a London auction of Dr Who memorabilia.
Traffic warden Pauline Janes brought ten-year-old fan Thomas Haigh down to earth with a bump by handing him a parking ticket.
The BBC had ordered the sale — attended by 700 people at Bonhams — because it had run out of space in its costume warehouse.
The first lot to go under the hammer was a Dalek, sold for £6,400 — £2,000 more than the expected price — to London electronics director Dave Melven, 29.
He said: 'Owning a Dalek is the ultimate thing to possess. It's light years ahead of its time in design and function.'
Costumes
The second buyer was Professor Barry Harmer, 58, with his wife Maria who paid £6,800. The couple from Islington, North London, said they intended to keep the Dalek in their sitting room, 'where we can talk to it'.
They said that their front living-room window would have to be demolished to get it in the flat.
The only foreign bidder to get a look in — an American dentist from Ohio — paid more than £6,000 for various costumes, including nearly £2,000 for a Cyberman head.
The sale items fetched a total of £55,000.
Caption: GROUNDED: Dr Who time traveller Thomas Haigh
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