Last appearance of the classic TARDIS console on television!
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- The console room of the TARDIS was seen on television for 26 years between 1963 to 1987 - this version was introduced during the fifth doctor’s tenure during the 25th anniversary special “The Five Doctors” after the 5th Doctor left the show the 6th Doctor used it for his entire run and so did the 7th Doctor briefly. By the time of this clip on the original series run the console itself was on its last life - the motor for the central column was dying and the production team destroyed the walls of the room because they were nothing but rotting wood thus you could tell the obviously fake walls. Enjoy this piece of history. I don’t own the video - all rights go to the BBC and the late John Nathan Turner!
I know it was because the walls had been junked. But I like to imagine that an in universe explanation for the darker Tardis is that the Doctor was reformatting it into what it looks like in the TV movie.
Yes... it was also reminescent of early Tom Baker's spookier TARDIS (see Pyramids of Mars) with the bigger, flatter and clean-cut roundels). I loved it at the time!
The Doctor didn't pay his electric bill !!
One of the darkest times for the Doctor. Unloved by the BBC, under promoted, openly ridiculed by senior management, and about to disappear into the wilderness. A very sad state of affairs.
It's going in the same root once again but this time it's a woke and this time Fans cancelled the show and BBC still don't get it
The darkest time is the time of New Who.
@@DavidTyler No they didn't and the BBC get things better than you do:
"It’s obviously undeniable that the ratings are down this series compared to Jodie Whittaker’s first adventures, which attracted a huge number of viewers. However, it is worth noting that these ratings were themselves a big step up from Peter Capaldi’s final series in 2017 (you can see the overnights for all four most recent series in the handy graph below, created by TVZone), and were bucking a general downward trend in recent Doctor Who.
It’s not like for like - Capaldi’s series 10 was in the spring on Saturdays, a tougher slot compared to Whittaker’s two winter series on a Sunday night - but if this latest series had come right after series 10, the ratings drop would be significantly less noticeable (and in fact, the overnights are generally healthier in the Whittaker era, possibly due to the move to Sunday nights).
Maybe, really, Whittaker’s first series was the blip - a big influx of people curious about the new casting of the Doctor - and now things are settling down again to about the level you’d expect for a 15-year-old reboot of a nearly 60-year-old TV show.
It’s not as simple as saying that “clearly fans don’t like the show any more and have stopped watching it” - this has been a gradual decline since 2015 or earlier. And in a landscape when fewer young people than ever are watching BBC shows and audiences are being eaten up by big-budget sci-fi dramas on platforms like Netflix, Doctor Who was always going to struggle.
The glory days of David Tennant et al were in a different TV landscape, and if the Tenth Doctor touched down now it seems unlikely he’d command anything close to the ratings he did over a decade ago.
In fact, arguably, for Doctor Who’s latest series to be almost maintaining the ratings set three years ago isn’t a bad achievement considering what a drop there was between Capaldi’s 2015 and 2017 series (see above).
Then again, the fact that the consolidated ratings are dropping could be a concern, as it goes against the common defence we hear for lower TV ratings as a whole - specifically that more people watch on catch-up or on-demand, so overnights are an outdated measurement.
For Doctor Who the overnights are actually telling a slightly more positive story, which could be interpreted as uncertain viewers no longer being tempted after the fact. Alternatively, the fact that the show is on Sunday nights now could suggest that people are less likely to miss the show when it airs compared to when it was on Saturday nights, meaning overnights stay healthy even as viewers depart, with the shortfall more evident in catch-up.
But what does this all actually mean for Doctor Who? It’s not as simple as “the ratings are down so Doctor Who will be cancelled,” as for the publicly-funded BBC there’s an interesting question about exactly what ratings are for beyond bragging rights. Obviously they need to make TV that people want to watch - but which people?
At a recent event, BBC Drama boss Piers Wenger made the point that Doctor Who fulfils a need for family programming that is part of the BBC’s charter, and said they were far from wanting to rest the show.
“I worked on Doctor Who myself, I produced it for many years, and I can honestly say that I don’t think it’s been in better health, editorially,” he said at the time.
“I think it’s fantastic and I think that, the production values obviously have never been better.”
“It’s also not just funded by the BBC, it’s funded by lots of international partners, it’s an incredibly important show for younger audiences, still watched by families in a world where there are fewer and fewer shows that have the power to do that, so it will always be an important show for us and I think we’re a very long way from wanting to rest it.”
6 Top BBC Dramas 2019: 16-34s (Out of the top 10 dramas across all channels)
Line of Duty (1.4m/39.0%)
Luther (1.4m/33.3%)
Peaky Blinders (1.2m/36.0%)
Doctor Who (1.1m/29.3%)
His Dark Materials (1.0m/32.0%)
Call the Midwife (0.9m/25.8%)
Notably, in terms of attracting 16-34-year-olds to BBC Drama Doctor Who was the fourth-most successful show, jumping ahead of series like Death in Paradise, Silent Witness and Call the Midwife despite their higher overall ratings. Different people are watching Doctor Who than are watching these shows, so why wouldn’t you want to keep this broad church?
More practically, as Wenger also pointed out, Doctor Who’s funding comes from other sources beyond the BBC alone - for example, the commercial arm BBC Studios - and compared to most other shows it has a dedicated fanbase keen to buy DVDs and merchandise and attend events.
From these avenues, Doctor Who as a show offers opportunities other BBC series with bigger ratings don’t. At time of writing, you can’t buy a DS Steve Arnott action figure, no matter how many millions tune into Line of Duty every week. Doctor Who fans are engaged in a way few other shows are, so it’s not as simple as saying there are fewer of them watching so the series should be canned.
These days, people like to say ratings don’t matter - and in a lot of ways they don’t. While some shows do still command big audiences for the most part our viewing is fragmented and split across multiple channels and platforms, while TV also competes for our attention with the attractions of the internet. The power of overnight ratings has diminished, and there are other ways to judge a show as a “success,” particularly on the non-advertising-based BBC.
With that said, though, ratings do tend to start to matter if a show is doing well in them - for example, in Jodie Whittaker’s first series, when the big leap in viewers was well-publicised by the BBC - and the bad PR of making a show that fewer and fewer people are watching is the flipside to that, even if you’re not losing money on the show itself.
But I don’t think this is the case for Doctor Who, and in my opinion it seems unlikely that this dip in ratings is anyway close to the end for the series. Maybe in a few years, if the trend continues, we’ll be having a different conversation - but for now Doctor Who is still in pretty good health, even if it’s not the top show on the BBC in terms of eyeballs onscreen. There’s at least one more series on the way, and I’d be very surprised if there weren’t more after that.
If nothing else, it’s hard to think of any sort of replacement that would still bring in millions of viewers, attract young audiences and create a whole world of commercial opportunities at a stroke. For a while yet, the Doctor seems safe from extermination."
www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-03-10/doctor-who-ratings-explained/
@@LordZontar the reports of the ratings where not that huge for her at all she couldnt get the big ratings matt and david did or peter did there all over 10mill if you think doctor who in good health then you are blind
@@DavidTyler It is you who is blind. The entire television environment has changed in the years between David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker. Ratings for all television shows for broadcast nights are down across the board because viewing habits and platforms have changed and either you didn't bother to read the article or you have some trouble comprehending the material. I'm sorry if this contradicts whatever agenda you're running on, but that is your problem entirely.
That was such a fine TARDIS console.
It was falling apart
Agreed.
The console itself wasn’t falling apart but the lighting elements and crystalline structure in the column were needing attention. The walls of the console room set were falling apart and had been junked by that point.
@@danivarius As you say they actually already had been junked - apparently. *Greatest Show in the Galaxy* (the story previous to this) was the last appearance of the console room walls that were used from Tom Baker's time on. If you look closely the 'roundels' here are not the same as in *Greatest Show,* they are larger and flush with the wall and actually look more like they did in the very early version of the console room as seen up until *Pyramids of Mars* (and in my view much better - see: ruclips.net/video/3tyBYzeIJjI/видео.html - and compare to this; ruclips.net/video/O08TLVuKpRg/видео.html). This is apparently because they were made just for this scene (the only time seen at all during this season) and hung up on a curtain type of material. The darker lighting helped to make this less obvious.
The plan was to create an entirely new control room (and console) for the following (and never-to-be-produced) season 27.
@@danivarius The studio was not very proactive (as in allocating the budget) in moving to actually fix or replace the TARDIS set pieces, which they probably could have been doing during the break between seasons. This might have been a very subtle signal that the show was going to be axed. The current BBC head was very anti sci-fi and despite all the plans and determination to do the third season of The Tripods, that got the ax too.
Quite fitting how the last time you see it it's gone dark, like it's slowly fading from existence after how many years it's been here
Ah, so that’s where they got the soundbite for the anniversary episode!
Peter Davison's line that is "Soon be there!" Is from the Five Doctors too if you wanna know.
Always annoyed me they used sound bites when a lot of the actors are still alive.
It would have been so much better if they used the living actors voices and we heard them bickering with eachother.
@@thebobbrom7176 That would be great. But a lot of the actors are incredibly old now, so their voices are far different than they were during their times as the Doctor, so it wouldn't have worked very well that way either.
@@jaycorbin5361 They sound fine when they do Big Finish
@@thebobbrom7176 Maybe, When I see Big Finish it's usually impersonators not the actual actors.
As much as I would have loved to see McCoy work that control room, it’s kind of a reality check that that room in a sense was getting old and nearing the end of its days, the neglect of the set in a way did it a favour to achieve the sense that a new room was needed, and enter late 7/8’s TARDIS console. It had seen a lot, 3 doctors using it, imposters roaming around, cybermen blasting it, difficult multi-doctor time events, etc. “Wearing a bit thin”
And the console was almost blown up completely in Enlightenment.
I love everything about this episode. Ace and Seven were wonderful. I guess I never realized this was the last time we would see the good old classic console.
Standby
Ready
Commencing Calculations
Soon be there
0:28
"Gonna lock onto these coordinates."
"And for my next trick!"
Ah,I see. Wondered why I recognized that line.
Geronimoooooo !!
Allons-y !!
Oh for God sake Gallifrey STAND !!!
@@thebluetardis ANGRY EYEBROWS!
@@deferguard7748 “Gonna lock onto these coordinates*”
0:28 The Day of The Doctor.
Why is it dark in here?
“No budget, so it’s drapes for TARDIS walls. So sad.”
Nicholas Dickens it was because the set walls had been found to have been thrown away in error. There wasn’t time to make new ones rather than budget problems in this instance.
God how badly did the bbc treat the last few seasons of dw?
@@emotionalsupportostrich2480 they still do treat it badley look at it now
@@DavidTyler - in what way do they treat it badly now?
@@DavidTyler why do they think no one actually cares about it?
I've always liked the classic TARDIS console and it's nice to see again.
"Why's it dark?"
"It's... atmospheric!"
"Oh. Like a wine bar?"
Or 'a restaurant for the French..'! 😦
If only Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, whom the worked for for as his scientific advisor of UNIT got to see this version of the Doctor's TARDIS console,, he would be surprised. This story marked the last time the Brigadier was seen in classic Doctor Who and also Bessie, the yellow roadster that was driven by the 3rd and 4th Doctor.
I wonder if he would like the fact The Doctor redecorated.
@@SKINNYGINGERTOP Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart probably would. like the redecoration of the TARDIS console room.
@@SKINNYGINGERTOP Youve had this place redecorated havent you? Dont like it.
That is one of the top quotes of the Doctors.
Classic Who had the best lines one could use in real conversations.
@@diracsea4590 My favourite is _"There's no point being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."_ The 4th Doctor said it.
This was the last time he was seen in Doctor Who period. Although he did return in The Sarah Jane Adventures as well as in the fan-made spin-off Downtime.
Just realised you can hear the usual console room sound effects including the arrival ping from the time rotor. This sort of stuff hadnt really appeared at all for some years due to the lack of console room scenes.
Or maybe they thought that it was stupid. Not every button needs to make a noise, other than the actual noise of being pressed.
It was the central column, not time rotor 🙄
@@danivarius The central column is the time rotor.
Every season 24 story had a console scene but they were pretty brief.
In my opinion this was the best TARDIS console, and console room.
Absolutely.
In my opinion looks kindof cheesy ngl
Certainly the console
@@wisteela Agreed. Perhaps I went overboard with the console room bit, as the background was just a drape at this point in the show’s history 😂
Surely you don't mean these roundelle drapes version? :)
I was crushed when I saw this set in the BBC trailer. I loved that 1983 set.
what do you mean
The 1983 set was damaged and cheaply/hurriedly replaced for this scene, and it's really obvious.
@@SciFiAssasin ahhh wdym by bbc trailer though
The trailer for the original 1989 broadcast.
kinda cool seeing 7 pilot the tardis. u never really see him do that often
That is true. The only time we really see him proper pilot the TARDIS was Delta and the Bannermen
@@LanceHerod-n5d And briefly in the movie.
Thats because it was destroyed and so they had none to film with so did a mock up version hence why its dark in this scene so you can't tell.
It’s odd to think that we didn’t see the interior for almost the entirety on the Classic era’s last season.
I'm pretty sure we didn't even see the interior for Tom's first season as well
@@thestigmister And Jon Pertwee's first season had the console outside the Tardis. I think the first time the third Doctor is seen inside the Tardis is a few serials into his second season - Claws of Axos.
We only saw the tardis interior once in season 25 as well
We didn't get to see the TARDIS interior much during Jon Pertwee's run, only in a few stories. We also didn't see it much during Tom Baker's first 2 seasons, nor during Sylvester McCoy's run.
The set was falling apart by that point and they had no budget to rebuild it- the reason why it’s dark in this scene is to hide the fact the Wall behind McCoy is cardboard
I liked Ace's new costume. Nothing against the jacket with all the patches, but the green made her look more grown-up
This episode is the beginning of the end.
The Tardis console room final appearance, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge- Stewart and U.N.I.T., Bessie the 1980s and Doctor Who it self.
The round wall drapes is a homage of the 60s and 70s and it is quite brilliant with the dark lit room.
Reason why is the rest of the Tardis interior rotted out with in 3 years in bad storage!!!
Overall I would have loved to see Who lasted for the 27th season under Andrew Cartmel and the proposed new Tardis room let alone season 24-26 have 3-5 more stories in a season alone.
But tragic event makes history and a legacy to be remembered by!!!
McCoy looks sad, almost like he knows this is his final season, he doesn't want to leave him, he wants to keep on playing The Doctor, but the BBC won't let him.
Funny how a measure taken for purely for budget reasons with the last appearance of the classic tardis interior unintentionally foreshadowed all the big expensive dim-lit control rooms that were to come.
What appeared on New Who was crap.
@@fjccommish and he's allowed to like it
@@fjccommish Well personally I prefer the New Who console rooms, the classic interiors were all monotone except for the 4th Doctor's alternative wooden console room, but everyone is allowed their individual preferences.
@@commenterjosh2428 I thought the console room introduced during Matt Smith's tenure and used during Peter Capaldi's entire run was a good compromise between Classic and New Who design principles. I never liked the "coral" console room and the one that replaced it looked like something out of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
The latest version seems like a step backward.
@@icemachine79 Personally, I prefer the coral console room over the metallic console room, but I respect your opinion. I also like the metal, but it comes in at a close second behind the coral.
I suppose it's because my favorite Doctor is Tennant, but Smith and Capaldi were great too. And of course Eccleston was great too, don't skip Nine!
As for the classic Doctors, I don't really have much opinion to give, but I've seen clips of them all, and all the actors were great, the 80s Doctors just needed higher budgets.
Such a shame the console room set from The Five Doctors onwards was too damaged by this point (allegedly). It was my favourite TARDIS set by far and I’d still be watching Doctor Who today if they still used it.
I thought the walls of it were thrown out in Error
Battlefield is one of my favourite episodes and it was one of the first episodes of DW I ever watched that led me to becoming a fan.
This is one of my favorite Tardis control rooms. The dark, cheap, paper Tardis. Really suited McCoy
Ace looking very fetching in this episode!
Shhh you're not allowed to say that anymore... lol
The console room looks awesome here witbout the BBC overnighting everything, a small insight into what could have been.
Capldi gets minimalistic version of the tardis that looks like a classic and says, “ How do you like my new wheels?”
A couple bits of the description are wrong but the clip itself is very appreciated, thank you
What’s wrong with the description? I’m always open to constructive criticism!!
@@dj5819 The Five Doctors was the 20th anniversary, not the 25th
and the show did indeed run for 26 years, but that puts its end in 1989, not '87
sorry to sound so annoyingly nitpicky; I've grown up with the show since my formative years, so the details like that are things that are ingrained into my brain xD
And ofcourse of all the clips there are this one at 0:28 had too be used in the 50th anniversary special
The scene is from Battlefield, which was the 1st story of the 26th and final season of the classic series.
Great story with some really philosophical mystical moments. The Merlin future generation reference, and the direction is spot on
@@TNJX This first introduced me to Doctor Who.
This is how it should of been lit the entire time.
McCoy and Colin baker both wanted the sets to be less brightly lit, like this.
In the 2-part special titled Dimensions in Time, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who showing the 7 Doctors and some of his companions, it did show the Rani's TARDIS and the console room inside like the Doctor's.
Honestly I love the look of the room being dark.
My favourite TARDIS console. So 80s.
The studio replaced the wall roundels with paper partitions, basically a curtain lit from behind. you can see the wrinkles
Lol I noticed that just now too!
Even the set was worried about being cancelled. 😉
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Just to be a pedant - this is actually 1989; and the Five Doctors was the 20th Anniversary. :)
I was going to say that this is from 1989. Because 1963-1989 is that 26 years.
Don’t mind the darker version of this console room, tbh.
The voice is calling for "Merlin" (the Doctor), and in the words of River Song: "I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him". To any future viewers who are wondering where this scene is from -- it's Part One of "Battlefield", the first story of Season 26 -- a fun and very magical adventure involving UNIT vs Arthurian Knights with laser guns, a world-eating demon, magic and sorcery, and let's not forget Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart. Favourite line? *_"GET OFF MY WORLD!"_*
*Trade Secret* : The Walls had warped in storage at The BBC -
*That’s A Curtain.*
*That’s* why it’s so dark in there..
Very rarely that the Doctor pilots the TARDIS while the console room is dark.
The one time The Doctor gets to drive her right
It was done on purpose as part of the 'cartmel master plan' restoring the doctor's mystery/dark side
@@TNJX it was done because they threw the real set away and wanted to hide the fake temporary set.
The best TARDIS control room was the alternate control room (the wooden one).
Yes! Around "hand of fear"
The wooden control room was last used during Leela's season in the episode Horror of Fang Rock,the episode before K9 mark 1 joined the series in The invisible Enemy.
It was technically last seen in Robots of Death as the TARDIS interior was not seen in Talons of Weng-Chiang and Horror of Fang Rock.
This is in the day of the doctor like the scene and the audio
@TheBobBrom I mean that would mean they'd have to make a bunch of individual contracts just for cameos. And it's not like they could use big finish.
Ace was so cool....
The TARDIS: "Feeling a bit . . well, you know . . drapey! It's a passing mood, either backwards or forwards . . (vocal shrug) Could be sideways. As for that girl . . what's her name? Pace . . Mace . . Chase? Ace! She keeps fiddling with the afferent desktop stabilisers. It's making me weak in the . . well, the afferent desktop stabilisers. WATCH WHERE YOU'RE STORING THAT NITRO 9! . . Do you really want to create a black hole that could swallow Luxembourg? Silly girl!"
I LOVE Battlefield. Easily top 5 7th doctor stories. Jean Marsh....need I say more? Also the last classic appearances of Lethbridge-Stewart and Bessie.
1. Remembrance of the Daleks, 2. The Curse of Fenric, 3. Battlefield, 4. Ghost Light, 5. Time and the Rani.
0:28 the 50th anniversary used this line
Do note we (the audience) never see the console prop entirely on-screen. Having the whole room being dark helps conceal how beat-up the console really was at that time.
The console wasn't that bad really, just the set was thrown out.
I love how it says in the description that there were clearly fake walls
What are fake walls?
Are they things that look like walls, but you can walk straight through?
they means these are thrown-together cheap replacements for the standard TARDIS walls used.
@@pocket-dimension I know really, I just find it funny
In this case they were just curtains, I think. So yes, literally what you said!
The TARDIS wall where scrapped by this point that the reason for the walls being just black drapes
'Professor, why is it dark in here?'
'Because TC1 was already booked and the walls are made of rice paper, now leave me alone I'm busy'
'And isn't that a car door radio speaker (hastily sprayed matt white and made by Murphy or some such), I don't remember that being part of the console...:
Etc Etc
Too bad that there wasn't an episode of Doctor Who that showed the departure of Ace. The last appearance of that character was in the 2-part Dimensions In Time, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who showing the 7 Doctors and some of his companions.
Fuck the BBC really drove this series into oblivion. Came roaring back with Eccleston and now they've decided to let it go to pot again. Oh dear.
It's because of Whittaker and Chibnall. Timeless Children was the final straw
The 7th doctor was actually saving Gallifrey.
Awwww, lovely stuff. Thanks for posting it.
When McCoy left, it ended for me. I'm a "Classic" kind of chap, ha ha!
In some strange way, his voice or manner reminds me somewhat of John Lydon (who would actually make quite a good Doctor, I reckon)
:-)
The BBC really didn’t treat the series well, they were disappointed with it but never gave it a chance to improve, and John Nathan Turner I feel unfairly gets a lot of the blame for that, they had the console room destroyed and then didn’t give the money for a new one so that would have to be held off for a year, and despite Season 26 having 3 amazing stories they decided to cancel the series
Pertwee did alright without a console room for a time, and it was nowhere to be seen during Tom's first season. I doubt it made any difference.
Ok I had to google it but this is why it’s dark. “The sequence in part one, where the Doctor and Ace receive a mysterious distress signal from sideways in time, was recorded on a hastily constructed set - the shortcomings of which were disguised by having the console room in semi-darkness - as the regular TARDIS scenery wall flats had been mistakenly junked after recording of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.“
The scene was always scripted to be darkly lit as the script editor and writers felt the set was too brightly lit (and they all generally hated writing for it anyway...). It's just a coincidence that it coincided with the lack of set. The set was away from TV centre for Greatest Show so it very likely got junked with all the other greatest show sets - and because the sets were generally handled with care it probably took a lot of bashing around to get it to Elstree Studios - every story usually saw the sets being patched up and repainted to cover all the dirty hand prints etc🤓
@@Darren79 obviously this was the beginning of the doctor’s grunge stage ;p
@@acwarrilow That was after his goth phase
Season 26, Episode 1 - "Battlefield" Part 1
6th September 1989
Damning evidence of Nathan Turner's incompetence (although there was a huge volume of it written long before this scene). I fhe and his monstrous partner weren't so busy trying to procure young boys he may have been able to do something about saving the show. I hope his place in hell is one where he is forced to watch "Timelash" over and over again.
ONE writer alleged in _2013_ that Turner was a sexual predator, with nothing to back it up. There's no reason to repeat these claims.
Jesus Christ, calm your tits, Mary Sue! Nobody deserves to be forced to endure unlimited viewings of Timelash! I cried at the end of the final episode. Those were tears of relief.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart would've liked that TARDIS console if he got to see it in this adventure.
Did this console show up on CBeebies painted Yellow, a few years ago ?
They should have done more TARDIS interior scenes during Sylvester McCoys time as the Dr . I did see panels of the console used on the set of the children's TV game show the movie game hosted by Philip Schofield .
Isn't this the same console as in the 11th doctor episode where he has to rebuild a TARDIS to chase his own?
Nope - this is the last console of the Classic era. Sleek cream computer keyboards and a transparend tiered wedding cake rotor... in The Doctor's Wife they make a smaller grey console from junk including a shower head.
The console looks better that way.
Agreed, it shows up all the wonderful flashing light:)
It reminds me of a big 1970s modular synthesizer or concert organ.
Totally didn't realise the walls were hung material when this was broadcast though I was 8 or something,... loved these two. Ace and 7 were my Sarah and 4. Btw does ANYONE know what the translated distress message is supposed to be saying? It sorta sounds like a word but also like heavy breathing (sent sideways in time). Would love to know...
"Merlin... Meeerlin" 🤓
@@Darren79 aaahhh, thankee :)
0:28
"Just got to lock on to his coordinates"
This was the last time the classic TARDIS console was seen on Doctor Who until the 2-part Doctor Who special Dimensions in Time, in which he goes against the Rani and the evil renegade Time Lady had someone travel with her in her TARDIS.
I liked Ace as a companion, but found her (the script) calling the Doctor "Professor" irritating.
@@georgemorgan4217 that why no women should play The Doctor he is a grandfather to Susan and doesn't feel like Doctor Who anymore being played by her just like Master missy thing just takes everything that made that character in first place it be like making superman into a woman it just doesn't work all they doing it just using the name the name of the show.
David Lomax I do think Michelle Gomez worked as the master/missy because she is a fantastic actress and had some decent scripts whereas Jodie doesn’t work as the Doctor at all her scripts are awful and the acting is subpar and bland throughout both of her seasons
another time the tardis interior were darker were in 5th Doctor story enlightenment
Is this the one with Brigadier Bambara?
Look! The round things!
I love the round things…
What are the round things?
@@stevenduering7155 no idea…
the round things are just holes cut in a blanket because they'd let the real walls rot in a wet warehouse.
Classic doctor who episodes. More please you tube team. You tube fan. 3.58pm.
I don't know why Dr Who got cancelled in the 80s, Ace was best companion
Season 26 had low ratings but strangely enough more than the current series
I've always really disliked how the 80's console rooms looked, especially after the awesome secondary one used by Tom
It's like the electricians were saying: "Come on, this is awful, let's get out of here."
Now to Over analyze this comment! if die electricians left because of of awful then you will surely see the error in your deduction!
Such a shame. Yes, I know it was damaged. But that does not change the fact that Andrew Cartnell hated inside Tardis scenes. I spent the last two years of classic DW wondering why we never went inside it enymore. He needed to watch the first episode and realise that the 'bigger on the inside' thing was as fundamental to the show as The Doctor himself. Andrew just saw it as a magic box, I think. Why? I think because a few of the sixth Doctor's scenes inside it were a bit pointless. Maybe they were, but look how well it was used in the Davison years. Really spoilt the end of classic who for me.
This isn't it damaged this is it gone
Someone accidentally threw out the walls or something and they only had the console
That's a painted curtain behind them
0:28 7 saving gallifrey at the same time day of the doctor
The TARDIS being reduced to a shower curtain. Sad really
They can just about get away with it in the dark, but I agree, could have been better.
More like painter's plastic sheeting stretched onto a wood frame. And yes, it was a very quick, crude job.
Hey who turned out the lights
And they made the room dark to hide they put together a console room in the morning they shot.
Ace was/is a fox.
what episode is this from
Battlefield.
Check your description. You have two mistakes in that.
Anybody know what the voice said?
The voice is calling for "Merlin" (the Doctor). It's a very magical story involving Arthurian Knights and legends... Oh, and they have futuristic laser guns, because it's Doctor Who.
what episode was this from
Battlefield Part One.
Last appearance... first ep of the series
What's the clip from?
Season 26, Episode 14, Survival: Part 3
The video is from the first episode of Battlefield, the first story of Season 26. I've no idea why the person above is saying Survival. That was the last televised story and did not contain the console interior, though it did feature the Police Box exterior numerous times.
episode?
Battlefield
@@CongaLineMonkey oh thanks
Battlefield was one of the 1st episodes of Doctor Who I ever watched.
It looked so dark.
had they run out of money for the lights?
They (BBC) junked the walls for the Tardis so they filmed this in the storage by using curtains
I prefer the classic control room.
What episode is this?
Survival: Part 3
@@ShriekingHyperFixator thanks you!!!!! Also, when he says "across the boundaries that divide one universe from another" or something like that, that is the exact line that they used for the no sir all 13 scene in the Day of the Doctor
The video is from Part One of Battlefield, the first story of Season 26. For some reason, the above person keeps saying it's from Survival, which doesn't feature the console room at all.
@@ShriekingHyperFixator It's actually from Battlefield - first episode - first story of S26. Survival doesn't feature the console room at all.
Gallifrey calls...
Some fans believe this lack of budget heralded a new and exciting "dark" era for Doctor Who. Although a better phrase would be: "non existent"
Huh?
@@diamondaxe4133 he trying to mock the m coy fans and missing the point
The best console and TARDIS control room is the Twelve one.
May the war begin
@@Everie What war? I loved twelve's.
@@DivineDefect a lot of people hate Twelve's... I thought they would come here disagree 🤣
@@Everie Whaaaaaattttttt it's the best one! We are talking about the same tardis right?! :0
@@DivineDefect yes my dear. But every have a person to disagree
Imagine it said bad wolf
Didn't the BBC pay the electricity bill 🤔
You joke but that was almost the legit reason why it was so dark. The real reason was that the walls were just paper ones and not the real tardis walls as they had been thrown away as the show was being cancelled so they had it dark to hide the walls.
It never appeared at all in season 25
Yes, it did. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy says hello. Seven & Ace have quite a long scene in the TARDIS before going off on that wonderful adventure. Probably my favourite of S25. Remembrance is objectively the best, but Greatest Show ticks more boxes for me.