I just got a kick out of this, from today’s Washington Post Corrections:
In the Feb. 27 Weekend section, the “Fare Minded” column inaccurately described the T.A.R.D.I.S. (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), or Tardis, the time travel machine used in the BBC television series “Doctor Who,” as a British phone booth. It is a single blue police call booth, a model in use in Britain from the 1930s to the 1970s.