Doctor Who's TARDIS, along with a few Daleks and other props from the iconic TV show, have landed at a suburban Australian home for a unique Christmas lights display.

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British expat Jayson Whiteley and his Australian wife Cassandra are avid fans of the show, and have turned their front yard in an Ipswich cul-de-sac, into a dazzling display to show off some of their collection of props.

Neighbours come and sit with the family in deck chairs as the sun goes down, as more people arrive to take a look, many dressed in Doctor Who-themed outfits.

The Whiteleys show people around the display, taking photos of fans in front of Daleks, the TARDIS and a Cyberman.

Mr Whiteley said the display was set up to look like a scene from a Doctor Who set.

"We have an English police car fending off a Dalek attacking the street, we have a TARDIS parked there — we don't know where the Doctor is — so it looks like we're being attacked by Daleks at the moment and half a Cyberman — he's called Arthur," Mr Whiteley said.

"Doctor Who in England is predominantly on [television] at Christmas, so we do our own Doctor Who theme, so this is our Christmas display."

Mr Whiteley says the display is set up to look like a scene from a Doctor Who set. ( ABC News: Anna Hartley )

Mr Whiteley said seeing people's enjoyment was why he set up the display.

"We've be doing it for a couple of years now and people love it," he said.

"People just come and go. I can't believe it because Doctor Who is English and you don't expect to see it in the middle of an Australian suburban street.

That's why we do it — bringing Doctor Who to the other side of the world."

One woman from New South Wales visiting her son in Brisbane said she had specifically asked to go and see the display after she had seen her son post about it on social media.

"This is my Christmas present — for him to drive me here from his place at Westlake [on Brisbane's westside]," she said.

Mr Whiteley said seeing people's enjoyment was why he set up the display. ( ABC News: Anna Hartley )

Props used in TV show

The couple brought the props with them when they moved to Australia from England, where they supplied props for events and parties.

"We had the TARDIS for about 20 years — nobody knew what it was until the show came back — that's when people realised the garden ornament we had was a TARDIS," Mr Whiteley said.

A Cyberman which Mr Whiteley calls Arthur. ( ABC News: Anna Hartley )

Mr Whitely said many of his Doctor Who props had been used in the TV show.

He said he had started to hire the TARDIS out in England and then got a call from the BBC asking if it could borrow some of their Daleks as well.

"From that point on we then supplied more and more as and when they [the BBC] needed them," he said.

Mr Whiteley said the life-size props had been built by fans.

"Various people make them — we acquire them through there," he said.

"A lot of our friends make them and we have four different TARDIS, and one of them took a friend about five years to build, so it's not a short process."

Before they moved from England, the couple supplied props for events and parties. ( ABC News: Anna Hartley )

Meeting the Doctors

Mr Whitely said his seven-year-old daughter Emmalyn was already a big fan of the show.

Emmalyn said the new 13th Doctor — the first female Doctor Who, who is played by Jodie Whittaker — was her favourite, and she had even cut her waist-length hair short to look like her.

She said she had been dressed as the "girl doctor" when they met Peter Capaldi — the actor behind the character's 12th incarnation at last year's Supanova fan convention on the Gold Coast.

"We did the Gold Coast parade, we had Peter in the back [of the car], so we drove Peter around in the car … he was very, very nice," Mr Whiteley said.

Mr Whiteley said he thought his one-year-old son Callen's first word would be "Dalek" instead of "dada".

Mr Whiteley said the full display would be packed away from Saturday night but the TARDIS would remain on show until the new year.

"We'll take it apart then," he said.

"The Daleks we'll bring out every now and again — we'll kind of announce when they'll sneak out and do another invasion."