| IIRC the Doctor originally stole the Tardis and escaped from Galifrey, so he would have had to make temporary repairs to it with cellotape and superglue to keep it going, but then the first Doctor could never seem to control it properly anyway.
Later, after he is punished for interfering with the affairs of other worlds by the Time Lords, and then helps them out on a number of occasions, he has a kind of truce with them. There are even stories set on Galifrey when he is held in quite a high regard and could have even been made president. It is never explained why he didn't make Time to have repairs to it made then, or to even get a more modern Tardis model. If they wanted his help, you would have thought they could supply better equipment. |