I LOVE how the initial 11th Doctor's TARDIS interior has so many little corridors and staircases that lead off out of the line of sight, making you think, 'where does this lead??', and just giving this interior such a feeling of endless possibilities.
That'd probably work for the crystal design, a central crystal column in the middle, with a more computer-y kind of console with gold ring accents around the sides
The Eighth Doctor's TARDIS interior is my all time favorite: that is the first time that the interior truly felt infinite to me (mostly because they had a bigger budget and had enough money to build a truly massive set).
My first time seeing it was the screenshot in the video and it blew me away!! 🤯i'm excited to see it in action now when i do finally get around to the tv movie 👀
the best looking tardis IN MY OPINION is capaldi's tardis Is big, it has bookshelves, furniture and boards it looks like a place where you can spend hours on when not traveling
I’d like to make the argument that the museum that houses “Gallifrey Falls No More” is the Tardis after the Doctor becomes The Great Curator in “Day of the Doctor”. You see the round things (love the round things) on the wall as the Curator walks away from 11’s Tardis. I wouldn’t put it past the Doctor to convert the it into a museum of all the of their adventures throughout the ages. And maybe they finally fixed the Chameleon Circuit so it could shift into a larger building. The fact that it’s a U.N.I.T facility as well makes it likely that they helped set up his retirement.
Although, seeing as they're clearly not going to follow up on the Curator, I like to assume he was just the Fourth Doctor in disguise, giving his future self a little lesson and telling him the name of the painting.
I just LOVE how you can see under the console in that season 5 layout! I think my top 3 are about the same as yours, but in terms of where I'd rather live in I might choose the 12th Doctor's instead (for layout/lighting, I like the elevations and the decently lit room with cold light and touches of warmth). Yet I really like the corals and the roundels in 13th's (I mean have you seen the official instagram pics? The hexagon shapes criss-crossing each other are simply gorgeous!)
Never knew that, honestly, thanks for letting me know! It was actually diving me insane not knowing what they were called. I only knew them as the round-things
New you would put McGann's high up as I heard you gush before. Didn't think you would have Smiths first one as top (as much as it is my own personal fave too) I don't know if you ever spotted little touches with it, but the tv screen in that console is a Magpie (the brand from The Idiots Lantern)? That brand has popped up a few times in NewWho so nice tiny touch.
The Hand of Fear and The Deadly Assassin. I heard between seasons, while it was in storage, that particular TARDIS got wet, warping the wood. Which is why it didn't show up after that.
I do like your #1 choice because for me, it was the first time that the Tardis felt like it went on forever, just because of the stairs leading out of the control room. None of the prior designs ever gave me the feeling of an immense ship existing across all time and space, crammed into a blue box.
For me the RTD-era coral TARDIS interior will never be beaten. I love the organic, lived-in look that interior had, and it looked homely. Second place would have to be the "posh kitchen" interior used in the later part of the Moffatt-era. That interior was a beautiful set.
I'm sorry, but you didn't tick everyone off. Video spoilers: I absolutely agree with you about the 11th doctor's first tardis interior. It has a lot going on, but it's not distracting. If someone mentions the 11th doctor's tardis, I always think of the series 5 one, because that's the one I associate with him. I'm also probably biased as 11 is absolutely my favourite doctor
You picked my least favourite as your number 1, but I'll let you off as you picked my number 1 as your number 2. For videos line this it would be really good if you maybe had a TV news style box at the side with a picture of what you're talking about. I'd really love to see the console room you're describing as you describe it. I found myself scrubbing back to the picture of what you were taking about to remind myself as you were saying how you felt and then trying to find the place again in your description.
I would like the next tardis to feel like a living room where someone could actually live. I think the console should go back to being a small octagon in the middle without the pillar going to the ceiling, it would be nice to have a crimson lighting and possibly a sofa or a bit of furniture. Sort of like the eighth doctor’s tardis.
Coming from someone who has only seen modern who this is my list 7. War doctor tardis (day of the doctor) 6. 9th and 10th doctor’s tardis (coral) 5. 13th doctor’s tardis (the only good thing about seasons 11 and 12) 4. 12th doctor’s tardis 3. 8th doctor’s tardis (library) 2. 11th doctor’s first tardis (season 5) 1. 11th doctor’s 2nd tardis (A.K.A prototype 12th doctor)
For me worst to best: Whittakers 2018 Eccelston/Tennant 2005-2010 Matt Smith 2010-12 Season 27 Time Monster Pertwee 1971 Smith 2012-13 Tom Baker 1976 Tom/Peter 1978-83 80s 1983-89 Pertwee 1973 Secondary 1977 Capaldi 2014-17 Original 1963-70 McCann
9/10s Tardis is always lit really weirdly in Moffats era, it's much darker and greener. Also my head cannon is that because 11 crashed into a shed when he regenerated, all the junk from the shed were featured in the Tardis console.
Honestly, the darker lighting made the RTD console room look better. It looks better in Series 1-2, The Doctor's Wife, and Day of the Doctor than it does when they decided to over-light it for Series 3 & 4.
I couldn’t agree more with your top pick. Matt Smith’s first TARDIS was perfect 👌. I love the typewriter as keyboard, the random pinball machine built into the console, the desk bell-it’s just the best fit for Smith’s Doctor.
My personal favourite didn't make the list, I guess it's just a little too indistinct from the ones around it but for me it hits just the perfect balance of aesthetic, and that is the tardis console room first seen in The Three Doctors and then again in Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks. By death to the daleks it had kind of been simplified and didn't look so nice for me, but in those three stories it just looked great, they had the old style overhead tv monitor screen, the roundels looked great, there was a lot of space, there was an interesting bit off to the side with cupboards and a little pull-out bed, there was the bit with the round overhead lights at the back, the whole thing just looked lovely, kind of a newer remake of the original one, where earlier pertwee tardis sets had reused a lot of bits from the original set, this one I think had mostly new parts. It is similar to a few of the other pertwee sets, but it is by far the peak just for those subtle things.
To me it looked like the Doctors study room with a smaller console where Capaldi had the upper tier for .McGanns interior as well as McCoys in themovie was a bigger version of the wooden console room for Tom Baker .
The fourth doctor "wooden console" was seen in the Deadly Assassin story especially when he writes the letter to the Time Lords when he foresees the Assassination of the President (I believe that is what they called the leader) of the Time Lords. This was one of my favorites probably mainly because my Grandparents had a desk that was very similar to that interior and I felt a connection to it.
Still think Twelve's TARDIS interior is the best in the show's history, it's just complete perfection. The actual architecture of the interior is beautiful; sleek and alien, but also very grand and not overcomplicated or busy. The orange light in the time rotor fills the whole room with a warm homely glow, it feels safe and inviting. Then you've got all the furniture like the bookshelves, chalkboard, armchairs, instruments etc - it feels like someone's home. And that's why it's perfect; Twelve's TARDIS feels like the living room in your grandparent's house, and also like the most advanced spaceship in the universe.
Personally, I like Tennant's the most because, in addition to 13's, it really makes the TARDIS *feel* organic. And I really like the grate/mesh flooring with the storage underneath, which gives it a bit of a workshop-ish feel Edit: but personally my list is exactly the same as yours except I would move 9&10's to first place, and maybe switch 12 and War's
See, Jodie's TARDIS WOULD be in my personal top 5 if it was just based on the concept. I'm a big fan of the idea that hers and Eccleston and Tennant's take, where the interior is reminiscent of something that's actually alive and I find that far more interesting, and unique than many of the other designs. However, that being said... God, the execution is godawful. From how fake the crystal looks, to the starkness of the room itself, it just doesn't feel right at all. Eccleston and Tennant's TARDIS wasn't BRILLIANTLY made either (the weird foam bits, and the weird plasticy texture) but I find that more excusable, given where the show was at that point, and also because that control room also managed to look so HOMELY. Not just with seating, but with the different levels to the room, so the characters could sit or actually interact with the interior even if in just subtle ways (leaning on rails, etc.). Capaldi's TARDIS is probably my favourite of all time, though. God I love the lighting.
This is one of your more lovable performances. I sympathize somewhat with your choices but I'm honestly not sure which interior I like best. Born in 1954, I rather like the older ones, but I don't discard the newer ones, which have something to be said for them. I also feel that the TARDIS should look lived in, because it is: it's the Doctor's home. There should be clutter, and personal touches. You choose a number one, but you give us only a very brief glimpse of it, presumably assuming that we remember it well. Please take pity on those of us with poor memories, and give us at least a bit more exposure to your favourite TARDIS interior.
I hate how 13ths console matches the screwdriver because there’s no reason for them to look the same unless they’re connected which is impossible because the new sonic is BRAND new and if it is that reason the console should have changed because the sonic should have changed because she made it, which is cool, but it’s only made for functionality even though it’s later on used for absolutely EVERYTHING
I wondered if you'd come up with the same one as me. You did! Yay! I actually had different reasons, well, other than the just flat out cool features on the consul which could and did become plot points at a whim. I LOVED the fact the floor was transparent so you could set scenes underneath, and watch the Doctor tinker with his beloved machine. And when it was walked on, there was so much depth. It was like a sucker punch when they went to the steel floor. The pumping up and down action of the time travel thing (not sure what its called) adds so much more tension to the adventure than the merry go round spinning, though I kind of got used to it by the end of Capaldi's run. I loved that the shape wasn't a straight tower, but more reminiscent of a Chihuly glass sculpture. It was the perfect Tardis. I loved it so much. Kind of an interesting related point; did anyone catch at the end of Deep Breath when we first meet Missy? If you look closely, I think she's actually on her Tardis. Pond and statue in the middle for a consul, you have the columns, the deck area, and why can't a Tardis look like an outdoor garden? They can look like anything.
Man, this on was a roller coaster. My heart sank when you said number 11 was the eleventh Doctor's Tardis and then again at the end when I though you forgot it. It's my absolute favorite, suited smith perfectly and it just looked like a playground of adventure for me! I think it's called the copper Tardis? Honestly I thought 8's would have been at the top, but I'm happy to be wrong
What about the TARDIS console room from "The Three Doctors" (1973)? That's my personal favorite interior of the Pertwee era. It was fairly spacious, it had a very obvious Hexagonal shape echoing the shape of the console, and that interesting glass paneled alcove at the back with the overhead lighting. Plus the deep set roundels held over from the 60's design and the updated console that was a sort of Hartnell version Mk2. Sure the "Colony In Space" (1971) version is nice, but the "Three Doctors" version is much better! I also am not a big fan of the shallow roundelled walls of Tom Baker's early seasons, but to be fair the shallow roundelled walls were only on one side of the room. The other side was the standard deep-set roundels which were lit up and looked good, so it was an interesting mix actually. So depending on the shot angle it could look good or bad. The later lit-up yellowish ones that carried on into the 80's were much better than the first shallow roundel design. Although I kind of prefer the console in the Pertwee era, so I guess the "Three Doctors" variant is my favorite version of the 70's. I do really like the (1963) Hartnell original and the 1983 "Five Doctors" (onwards) console room too. And the 8th Doctor (1996) movie version even though it didn't have any roundels. Actually the lack of good roundels has been my main criticism of most of the new series console rooms. My favorite New series console room design is the Capaldi version as it is the closest to the classic series variants that I like. Oh, and whereas I loved the wood paneled walls of the Tom Baker secondary control room, I hated it's tiny little console with nothing but a few buttons on each side. Now the walls from that room paired with the beautiful 8th Doctor redwood console would be awesome!
I totally agree! I’ve designed my own Console Rooms before and the 8th Doctor’s first Console Room is my inspiration as well. I love the lived-in type Console Rooms so much.
Okay personally for me it’s 1. 12th doctors console 2. 11th doctors 2nd console 3. 9th/10th doctors console 4. 5th/6th and 7th doctor console (love all the buttons on it and it’s just a brilliant design in my opinion) 5. Fugitive of the judoon tardis console (I love this design and I personally think it’s better than Jodies console design) 6.The war Doctors console (nice mix of classic and new who) 7.13th doctors console(it’s creative and colourful and unique) 8. The 11th doctors 1st console 9..4th doctors wooden console 10.The original 1st console 11. 4th doctors 2nd console 12. The 3rd doctors salad bowl console 13. The 8th doctor console 14. 2nd Doctor console(not much really changed. 15.The 4th doctors 1st console xx
Excellent post and spot on with the placements and rationale. 11's first "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" kind of TARDIS was my favorite as well...I'm mean it had a Hot and Cold faucet handle and a "zig zag plotzer". Awesome.
Ahh! Your top 3 were so close to mine! I would've just ranked 8's TARDIS in first place and 11's first console in 2nd. War's console does fit nicely in 3rd 😊
YES! I love the Whimsy Tardis. It's Art Deco and Steampunk and gorgeous eye candy. My absolute favorite. A perfect match for The Eleventh Doctor. When I think of The Doctor's Wife, it's like the personality of this interior.
The “round things” are actually called roundels, so you were pretty close. And I think the Secondary Control Room (The wooden one) I think first came in “The Hand of Evil” Tom Baker and Sarah Jane Smith. Actually it seems I’m wrong about the first reveal of the Wooden Console Room. According to the Interwebs it was first shown in “The Masque of Mandragora” a series repeated so often in Australia when I was a kid I may well have a mental block about it
McGann's TARDIS was epic and perfect. Just the right amount of lived in. I loved the card catalog where he randomly kept his gold dust (in case of Cybermen?). That and Capaldi's are probably tied for my personal favorite, though I love the white walls with the roundels - it's such a clean design. I know there's wallpaper of that for sale online somewhere, and one day, I'm going to get some to do up a Doctor Who room. My wife is slowly coming around to this idea, and I'm going to make it happen.
You know, I hadn't thought of it but you're entirely right about series 11 Tardis. You know there's a point when we've spent too little time with it when I'm looking at a picture of it and can't even remember it.
I liked this video. Just a suggestion- it would have been cool if as you were describing why you ranked each tardis your camera went up into the left corner over the picture of each tardis so we could continue to see what you were talking about - I found myself pausing and rewinding a lot. Other than that, great ranking. Capaldi’s will always be my favourite though. I love the bookshelves and the chalkboard too much
From the new series: 7: 13th Doctor 6: 11th Doctor (version 2) 5: War Doctor 4: 11th Doctor (version 1) 3: 9th / 10th Doctor 2: 14th / 15th Doctor 1: 12th Doctor I need to watch more of classic who before I can rank those TARDIS
Yeah, that's what I liked about series 5 also. I like the idea that it may have some weird things, like he might have a typewriter hooked up to an accordion or something.
All I know about my TARDIS interiors is that McGann's and Series 5 to 7a's are my top 2 favorite designs. And I favor all modern TARDISes over the ones seen from 1963 to 1989. (I've always liked TARDIS interiors that do something different from the traditional white console room with a shorter time rotor.)
I never cared for the 8th Doctor's TARDIS until you pointed out the ancient library comparison. That's actually nice. My favourite's probably the "oddball" design - as I call it; the wooden one - probably because it was just so different to all the others.
I really like when the tec looks practical. Where it could actually be a scientific instrument. Going off that, I would say the 12th doctors TARDIS is my most loved The warm orange light contrasting his alien personality. The metal looking like a high tech professors office. The Chalkboard. It just all works.
I mostly agree with everything you say here. I would put the current crystal TARDIS dead last, and I would rank the Davies coral design lower than you did (maybe even second to last). And I would put the original TARDIS somewhere higher, but I'm not sure how high. I really loved how it appeared in the first season. It was so much bigger than it was in later seasons. I don't know why they shrank it down. And I liked how it had additional machinery behind glass walls and stuff. I would put the first Matt Smith version slightly lower, and I would probably put Capaldi as number one (although the movie TARDIS might take that spot if I ever get around to seeing it again). I do think Moffatt overdid the silly controls a bit. I think it would've worked better with more traditional buttons, knobs, switches, and sliders, plus no more than two or three out-of-place weird-object devices. (And I really hated the bicycle pump.)
The 10th doctor isn't my favorite Doctor, so you're good. I'm very happy where you put his TARDIS. Oh and don't forget to add 12's electric guitar into his living space. :)
Speaking personally: 1. I’d’ve ranked the “pub” interior (from “masque of mandragora”) a bit higher, mainly because I find wood a warming material plus I appreciate its compactness. 2. The 5/7 Doctor’s control room is the one that dated the worst. Bear in mind that PCs were the novelty during the 80s, and “keyboards” represented cutting edge, the “future look” of sci-fi. 3. I’d have included the interior recreation from “An Adventure in Space and Time” and seen in “Twice Upon A Time.” Distinct from the original because it’s filmed in colour with better technology available; that does make a significant difference in perception. 4. Another one I’d add: Chronotis TARDIS interior from “Shada.” Something comforting about the idea of a den and library hiding a time machine.
In defence of Davison's 2nd console (Keyboards) you may not have noticed but, with that particular console, the Doctor gets a heck of a lot better at actually getting to where he aimed for! Thinking on it I get the feeling the TARDIS was made deliberately more functional and easier for him to control (when he didn't have six other people helping him pilot)on's second Console,
Ok so yes I understand why Moffat changed it but what about a story reason? Here's my take on why eleven changed it, So as everyone knows amy, rory and eleven were very close and when they "died" he couldn't look at the tardis without feeling sad so he changed it to spare his feelings. Just an idea not to be taken literally.
Your number 14 is one of my favourites. I suppose because for years the original set had fallen to pieces and the few attempts to make something new for Jon had looked so cheap. This looked clean and fresh and like the Doctor was ready to travel again. The salad bowls is a myth by the way. They are way too big for starters. I quite like that one too. How you can prefer Jon's previous room perplexes me. It's a the tatty remains of the once beautiful Hartnell set shoved in a corner. My least favourite is The Five Doctors one and that's just because it's over lit. When the light drops it looks really good.
Honestly, I think Thirteen’s/Whittaker’s TARDIS is my favourite. I agree it’s more claustrophobic than previous new-era control rooms, but this is the first time I can look at the TARDIS interior and truly believe that the TARDIS is a sentient, living creature just as much as it is a machine. I also don’t mind how dark it is because of how beautifully those crystals glow. Personally, if you took the organic vibe of Whittaker’s, the multiple storeys and staircases of Smith’s, and the homeliness of Capaldi’s, you’d get my perfect TARDIS. Oh, and just add some windows to the outside world, woo :-p
8th Doctor Interior gets the #1 slot for me. 12's "professorial" interior is #2 11's green lit interior is #3 4's Secondary Control Room is #4 1st Doctor original is #5 Then... it's a grab bag. Most of the classic stuff is aok. I think they were going for 1970s mod for 3's salad bowl room, so it doesn't bother me too much. While I like the organic nature of 9-10 interior, it's definitely in the bottom half of the list. Whimsical 11 is a step up, but not much (to me). 13s crystal spider might sit above those two. I don't count the mash-up Day of the Doctor set, as it wasn't "real", but instead a product of timelines merging. But, if we were to include that, then I think we'd need to include "sexy" humanoid TARDIS, and she'd be very near the top. 😉
We are all entitled to personal opinions on the console interiors, and it was well presented without bashing. As for my personal favorite, I would say the Twelfth Doctor. Then again, everything about that incarnation means a lot. Similar to you, I was not quite the biggest fan of the Coral interior.
Solid list as always. I would put the 'salad bowl' 3rd Doctor TARDIS at the very bottom and the wooden alternate room higher but not by a lot. The 9 and 10 Doctors' TARDIS always looked kind of 'junky' so I'd have even slightly lower than you did. The 13th's is too dark and not a fan of having essentially rocks in the control room. The 4th Doctor's red column one is to me the main and original console (based on my original viewing of the shows as a kid in the 70s/80s, obviously it's not the very first one XD ), so I'd have it pretty high but not number one. I love the 11th/12th Doctors' control room and the TV movie one a lot, more than even Tom's and I'm pretty much a 'classic snob'! The 'whimsy' one is decent but I'd have rated it a bit lower down, roughly 5th or 6th.
I really liked the 9th and 10th Tardis, it just looks so comfy. You just want to chill on those things and read a book or something :D made me feel like it was actually the doctors home
In a redesign video they uploaded they said they had to change the interior because they moved to a new location and they had a smaller space to work with and Matt's original one did not fit
Yeah I love the bookshelves in the all the homie touches of the 12th doctor's TARDIS it's my all-time favorite so far I really like the new tardis for 13 cuz I think it's really cool the way the crystals kind of wave around as the tardis flies and it's just kind of really interesting looking a lot like the original coral tardis
How did I know that Smith's first TARDIS would be ranked number one? I totally agree with your choice though, it's just so much fun to look at. I think the reason that the "nonsense" works is that the Doctor didn't redesign it himself, the TARDIS did that in this instance, so there are bits and pieces of just about everything. Although honestly even if the Doctor had designed it, I think it would have been the same, Smith's Doctor is so scattered he would just have grabbed anything lying around.
I LOVE how the initial 11th Doctor's TARDIS interior has so many little corridors and staircases that lead off out of the line of sight, making you think, 'where does this lead??', and just giving this interior such a feeling of endless possibilities.
Yah same
I love how the canonical name for the circular decorations on the Tardis walls has become "the round things"
"Can I tick off everybody with this list?!" Such a Doctor-y thing to say. You truly make the fans proud, Nathaniel. :D
The 12th Doctor's Interior is my favorite. It really fits him
I think it's smazing how much each Tardis interior fits their Doctor for New Who.
I'd like the next TARDIS interior to have a purple light and gold accessories
Doctor Who and her trusty Pimpmobile
That'd probably work for the crystal design, a central crystal column in the middle, with a more computer-y kind of console with gold ring accents around the sides
Yes please!
Purple & Gold? Very Assyrian.
And bisexual lighting. Everybody seems to be doing this these days.
The Eighth Doctor's TARDIS interior is my all time favorite: that is the first time that the interior truly felt infinite to me (mostly because they had a bigger budget and had enough money to build a truly massive set).
My first time seeing it was the screenshot in the video and it blew me away!! 🤯i'm excited to see it in action now when i do finally get around to the tv movie 👀
the best looking tardis IN MY OPINION is capaldi's tardis
Is big, it has bookshelves, furniture and boards it looks like a place where you can spend hours on when not traveling
Rafa Diaz so did the 7’s in the movie
You failed. I'm a Classic fan and you didn't annoy me.
I call Matt's first TARDIS room the Mad Toybox and it's definitely one of my personal favorites as well next to Capaldi's Professor's office.
Wooden console room first appeared in The Masque of Mandragora
oh i agree so much with this list!
I LOVE the 11th's doctor interior SO much! It looks so magical, and i love it!
I’d like to make the argument that the museum that houses “Gallifrey Falls No More” is the Tardis after the Doctor becomes The Great Curator in “Day of the Doctor”. You see the round things (love the round things) on the wall as the Curator walks away from 11’s Tardis. I wouldn’t put it past the Doctor to convert the it into a museum of all the of their adventures throughout the ages. And maybe they finally fixed the Chameleon Circuit so it could shift into a larger building. The fact that it’s a U.N.I.T facility as well makes it likely that they helped set up his retirement.
Or the Trenzalore dead Tardis
Loooveee the way you think!!
Although, seeing as they're clearly not going to follow up on the Curator, I like to assume he was just the Fourth Doctor in disguise, giving his future self a little lesson and telling him the name of the painting.
When I started the video I was like I’ll throw hands if Matt Smith’s first tardis isn’t first 😂😂 good list dude
@Jessica Wise I was the opposite I was all like: “I’ll throw my hands if the eleventh doctors tardis is no 1”
Saaaame, I love everything about that room. The glass, the colors, the lighting, the fact that it seems so big, et cetera.
I just LOVE how you can see under the console in that season 5 layout!
I think my top 3 are about the same as yours, but in terms of where I'd rather live in I might choose the 12th Doctor's instead (for layout/lighting, I like the elevations and the decently lit room with cold light and touches of warmth).
Yet I really like the corals and the roundels in 13th's (I mean have you seen the official instagram pics? The hexagon shapes criss-crossing each other are simply gorgeous!)
Wooden tardis was a whole season-and only dropped when it warped between seasons lol-also round things called roundels
Seriously? Roundels? Where'd you find that out? Never heard that before but sounds interesting I guess.
Ross Carlin They’ve always been called roundels.
@@rosco31100 I've known they were called roundels for years.
Never knew that, honestly, thanks for letting me know! It was actually diving me insane not knowing what they were called. I only knew them as the round-things
This referred to as the Victorian auxiliary control room
New you would put McGann's high up as I heard you gush before.
Didn't think you would have Smiths first one as top (as much as it is my own personal fave too)
I don't know if you ever spotted little touches with it, but the tv screen in that console is a Magpie (the brand from The Idiots Lantern)? That brand has popped up a few times in NewWho so nice tiny touch.
Kevin Maltby Rassilon statue and all
The Hand of Fear and The Deadly Assassin.
I heard between seasons, while it was in storage, that particular TARDIS got wet, warping the wood. Which is why it didn't show up after that.
I do like your #1 choice because for me, it was the first time that the Tardis felt like it went on forever, just because of the stairs leading out of the control room. None of the prior designs ever gave me the feeling of an immense ship existing across all time and space, crammed into a blue box.
my favourite tardis interior would have to be capaldi's
Capaldi's is my second choice. My first would be the 4th's with columns and roundels.
I'd put that at the top of mine as well. It hit me as both a cool control room and a cool place to live.
@windowsxp4971 Agreed. Capaldi's the best.
I think 12's TARDIS is the best at representing that Doctor's personality
I would say the same with Smith's first Tardis, but 12's Tardis is a close second for me
For me the RTD-era coral TARDIS interior will never be beaten. I love the organic, lived-in look that interior had, and it looked homely.
Second place would have to be the "posh kitchen" interior used in the later part of the Moffatt-era. That interior was a beautiful set.
Someone needs to do a logo ranking.
Trivia: At 8:06, they only built one wall. The "wall" on the right is just a giant photograph of the wall on the left.
I agree with everything EXCEPT number 1. I
totally, absolutely, completely HATE series 5 tardis XD but as I said, I agree with everything else.
The Eighth Doctor needed a tv series just for that incredible TARDIS design alone. Audio doesn't quite do it justice.
How about Comics involving the 8th Doctor?
I'm sorry, but you didn't tick everyone off.
Video spoilers:
I absolutely agree with you about the 11th doctor's first tardis interior. It has a lot going on, but it's not distracting. If someone mentions the 11th doctor's tardis, I always think of the series 5 one, because that's the one I associate with him. I'm also probably biased as 11 is absolutely my favourite doctor
"You've redecorated. I don't like it." Literally same. I hate change so much. I need time to prepare for it.
You picked my least favourite as your number 1, but I'll let you off as you picked my number 1 as your number 2.
For videos line this it would be really good if you maybe had a TV news style box at the side with a picture of what you're talking about. I'd really love to see the console room you're describing as you describe it. I found myself scrubbing back to the picture of what you were taking about to remind myself as you were saying how you felt and then trying to find the place again in your description.
I wish we could have seen more of that interior. We never had the time to get to know it.
I believe it is designed this way so as to not piss off the BBC.
I would like the next tardis to feel like a living room where someone could actually live. I think the console should go back to being a small octagon in the middle without the pillar going to the ceiling, it would be nice to have a crimson lighting and possibly a sofa or a bit of furniture. Sort of like the eighth doctor’s tardis.
I like the one from Shada. Another time Lord made his own tardis look like his library/study
I always called 11’s first interior “cheese tardis” but even though I always said that it’s my second favorite behind capaldi’s
Yaas! We got some serious love for Eight's Tardis! Definitely my favorite interior hands down!
I love 11th Doctor interior. It suits him so well. So fun and colourful.
Coming from someone who has only seen modern who this is my list
7. War doctor tardis (day of the doctor)
6. 9th and 10th doctor’s tardis (coral)
5. 13th doctor’s tardis (the only good thing about seasons 11 and 12)
4. 12th doctor’s tardis
3. 8th doctor’s tardis (library)
2. 11th doctor’s first tardis (season 5)
1. 11th doctor’s 2nd tardis (A.K.A prototype 12th doctor)
When the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) changed the interior, I remember his saying "He hated the colour." It was too white.
Roundy things on the wall are called (Roundels). 😊
I was waiting for a video on the TARDIS interiors for so long. Thanks so much.
For me worst to best:
Whittakers 2018
Eccelston/Tennant 2005-2010
Matt Smith 2010-12
Season 27
Time Monster
Pertwee 1971
Smith 2012-13
Tom Baker 1976
Tom/Peter 1978-83
80s 1983-89
Pertwee 1973
Secondary 1977
Capaldi 2014-17
Original 1963-70
McCann
i like your list although i really have a strong disliking to the mccann tardis
9/10s Tardis is always lit really weirdly in Moffats era, it's much darker and greener. Also my head cannon is that because 11 crashed into a shed when he regenerated, all the junk from the shed were featured in the Tardis console.
Honestly, the darker lighting made the RTD console room look better. It looks better in Series 1-2, The Doctor's Wife, and Day of the Doctor than it does when they decided to over-light it for Series 3 & 4.
THOSE GLASSES LOOK SO GOOD ON YOU
(just wanted to say again)
I couldn’t agree more with your top pick. Matt Smith’s first TARDIS was perfect 👌. I love the typewriter as keyboard, the random pinball machine built into the console, the desk bell-it’s just the best fit for Smith’s Doctor.
My personal favourite didn't make the list, I guess it's just a little too indistinct from the ones around it but for me it hits just the perfect balance of aesthetic, and that is the tardis console room first seen in The Three Doctors and then again in Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks. By death to the daleks it had kind of been simplified and didn't look so nice for me, but in those three stories it just looked great, they had the old style overhead tv monitor screen, the roundels looked great, there was a lot of space, there was an interesting bit off to the side with cupboards and a little pull-out bed, there was the bit with the round overhead lights at the back, the whole thing just looked lovely, kind of a newer remake of the original one, where earlier pertwee tardis sets had reused a lot of bits from the original set, this one I think had mostly new parts. It is similar to a few of the other pertwee sets, but it is by far the peak just for those subtle things.
The secondary Console room only appeared in Season 14, so that means from The Masque of Mandragora to The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
To me it looked like the Doctors study room with a smaller console where Capaldi had the upper tier for .McGanns interior as well as McCoys in themovie was a bigger version of the wooden console room for Tom Baker .
The fourth doctor "wooden console" was seen in the Deadly Assassin story especially when he writes the letter to the Time Lords when he foresees the Assassination of the President (I believe that is what they called the leader) of the Time Lords. This was one of my favorites probably mainly because my Grandparents had a desk that was very similar to that interior and I felt a connection to it.
The 12th Doctor’s Tardis is easily my favorite :)
Still think Twelve's TARDIS interior is the best in the show's history, it's just complete perfection. The actual architecture of the interior is beautiful; sleek and alien, but also very grand and not overcomplicated or busy. The orange light in the time rotor fills the whole room with a warm homely glow, it feels safe and inviting. Then you've got all the furniture like the bookshelves, chalkboard, armchairs, instruments etc - it feels like someone's home. And that's why it's perfect; Twelve's TARDIS feels like the living room in your grandparent's house, and also like the most advanced spaceship in the universe.
13th Doctor's look a bit like a sorcerer's lair to me.
The Sorcerer = Chris Chibnall
What I really like about the eighth Doctor's TARDIS is the ceiling, I really like the holo-map he's got.
Personally, I like Tennant's the most because, in addition to 13's, it really makes the TARDIS *feel* organic. And I really like the grate/mesh flooring with the storage underneath, which gives it a bit of a workshop-ish feel
Edit: but personally my list is exactly the same as yours except I would move 9&10's to first place, and maybe switch 12 and War's
See, Jodie's TARDIS WOULD be in my personal top 5 if it was just based on the concept. I'm a big fan of the idea that hers and Eccleston and Tennant's take, where the interior is reminiscent of something that's actually alive and I find that far more interesting, and unique than many of the other designs. However, that being said... God, the execution is godawful. From how fake the crystal looks, to the starkness of the room itself, it just doesn't feel right at all. Eccleston and Tennant's TARDIS wasn't BRILLIANTLY made either (the weird foam bits, and the weird plasticy texture) but I find that more excusable, given where the show was at that point, and also because that control room also managed to look so HOMELY. Not just with seating, but with the different levels to the room, so the characters could sit or actually interact with the interior even if in just subtle ways (leaning on rails, etc.).
Capaldi's TARDIS is probably my favourite of all time, though. God I love the lighting.
This is one of your more lovable performances. I sympathize somewhat with your choices but I'm honestly not sure which interior I like best. Born in 1954, I rather like the older ones, but I don't discard the newer ones, which have something to be said for them. I also feel that the TARDIS should look lived in, because it is: it's the Doctor's home. There should be clutter, and personal touches.
You choose a number one, but you give us only a very brief glimpse of it, presumably assuming that we remember it well. Please take pity on those of us with poor memories, and give us at least a bit more exposure to your favourite TARDIS interior.
I hate how 13ths console matches the screwdriver because there’s no reason for them to look the same unless they’re connected which is impossible because the new sonic is BRAND new and if it is that reason the console should have changed because the sonic should have changed because she made it, which is cool, but it’s only made for functionality even though it’s later on used for absolutely EVERYTHING
I wondered if you'd come up with the same one as me. You did! Yay! I actually had different reasons, well, other than the just flat out cool features on the consul which could and did become plot points at a whim. I LOVED the fact the floor was transparent so you could set scenes underneath, and watch the Doctor tinker with his beloved machine. And when it was walked on, there was so much depth. It was like a sucker punch when they went to the steel floor. The pumping up and down action of the time travel thing (not sure what its called) adds so much more tension to the adventure than the merry go round spinning, though I kind of got used to it by the end of Capaldi's run. I loved that the shape wasn't a straight tower, but more reminiscent of a Chihuly glass sculpture. It was the perfect Tardis. I loved it so much.
Kind of an interesting related point; did anyone catch at the end of Deep Breath when we first meet Missy? If you look closely, I think she's actually on her Tardis. Pond and statue in the middle for a consul, you have the columns, the deck area, and why can't a Tardis look like an outdoor garden? They can look like anything.
I really love the salad bowl Tardis interior!!! Am I alone?!
I absolutely agree with your #1 choice.
Man, this on was a roller coaster. My heart sank when you said number 11 was the eleventh Doctor's Tardis and then again at the end when I though you forgot it. It's my absolute favorite, suited smith perfectly and it just looked like a playground of adventure for me! I think it's called the copper Tardis? Honestly I thought 8's would have been at the top, but I'm happy to be wrong
What about the TARDIS console room from "The Three Doctors" (1973)? That's my personal favorite interior of the Pertwee era. It was fairly spacious, it had a very obvious Hexagonal shape echoing the shape of the console, and that interesting glass paneled alcove at the back with the overhead lighting. Plus the deep set roundels held over from the 60's design and the updated console that was a sort of Hartnell version Mk2. Sure the "Colony In Space" (1971) version is nice, but the "Three Doctors" version is much better! I also am not a big fan of the shallow roundelled walls of Tom Baker's early seasons, but to be fair the shallow roundelled walls were only on one side of the room. The other side was the standard deep-set roundels which were lit up and looked good, so it was an interesting mix actually. So depending on the shot angle it could look good or bad. The later lit-up yellowish ones that carried on into the 80's were much better than the first shallow roundel design. Although I kind of prefer the console in the Pertwee era, so I guess the "Three Doctors" variant is my favorite version of the 70's. I do really like the (1963) Hartnell original and the 1983 "Five Doctors" (onwards) console room too. And the 8th Doctor (1996) movie version even though it didn't have any roundels. Actually the lack of good roundels has been my main criticism of most of the new series console rooms. My favorite New series console room design is the Capaldi version as it is the closest to the classic series variants that I like. Oh, and whereas I loved the wood paneled walls of the Tom Baker secondary control room, I hated it's tiny little console with nothing but a few buttons on each side. Now the walls from that room paired with the beautiful 8th Doctor redwood console would be awesome!
My favourite is either Matt's Smith's first or capaldis
I totally agree!
I’ve designed my own Console Rooms before and the 8th Doctor’s first Console Room is my inspiration as well. I love the lived-in type Console Rooms so much.
Okay personally for me it’s
1. 12th doctors console
2. 11th doctors 2nd console
3. 9th/10th doctors console
4. 5th/6th and 7th doctor console (love all the buttons on it and it’s just a brilliant design in my opinion)
5. Fugitive of the judoon tardis console (I love this design and I personally think it’s better than Jodies console design)
6.The war Doctors console (nice mix of classic and new who)
7.13th doctors console(it’s creative and colourful and unique)
8. The 11th doctors 1st console
9..4th doctors wooden console
10.The original 1st console
11. 4th doctors 2nd console
12. The 3rd doctors salad bowl console
13. The 8th doctor console
14. 2nd Doctor console(not much really changed.
15.The 4th doctors 1st console xx
Matt Smith’s first Tardis was my favourite, it was homely and had warm lighting. Easy to live in.
Excellent post and spot on with the placements and rationale. 11's first "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" kind of TARDIS was my favorite as well...I'm mean it had a Hot and Cold faucet handle and a "zig zag plotzer". Awesome.
Ahh! Your top 3 were so close to mine!
I would've just ranked 8's TARDIS in first place and 11's first console in 2nd. War's console does fit nicely in 3rd 😊
YES! I love the Whimsy Tardis. It's Art Deco and Steampunk and gorgeous eye candy. My absolute favorite. A perfect match for The Eleventh Doctor. When I think of The Doctor's Wife, it's like the personality of this interior.
The “round things” are actually called roundels, so you were pretty close. And I think the Secondary Control Room (The wooden one) I think first came in “The Hand of Evil” Tom Baker and Sarah Jane Smith.
Actually it seems I’m wrong about the first reveal of the Wooden Console Room. According to the Interwebs it was first shown in “The Masque of Mandragora” a series repeated so often in Australia when I was a kid I may well have a mental block about it
My ranking:
3rd doctor’s first interior
13th doctor’s interior
11th doctor’s 1st interior
Flat wall interior
Salad bowl interior
War doctor interior
Wooden interior
11th doctor’s redesigned interior
1st and 2nd interior
9th and 10th interior
8th doctor interior
4th doctors 2nd interior
5th Doctor redesigned interior
12th doctor’s interior
I forgot about the war doctors one his one was the mix of the classic and the coral
McGann's TARDIS was epic and perfect. Just the right amount of lived in. I loved the card catalog where he randomly kept his gold dust (in case of Cybermen?). That and Capaldi's are probably tied for my personal favorite, though I love the white walls with the roundels - it's such a clean design. I know there's wallpaper of that for sale online somewhere, and one day, I'm going to get some to do up a Doctor Who room. My wife is slowly coming around to this idea, and I'm going to make it happen.
4:36 the wooden Tardis was a regular Tardis for season 14 but they had troubles with it in storage so they didn’t use it in season 15
I'm pretty sure the Doctor calls the round things "the round things", too ;-)
You know, I hadn't thought of it but you're entirely right about series 11 Tardis. You know there's a point when we've spent too little time with it when I'm looking at a picture of it and can't even remember it.
I liked this video. Just a suggestion- it would have been cool if as you were describing why you ranked each tardis your camera went up into the left corner over the picture of each tardis so we could continue to see what you were talking about - I found myself pausing and rewinding a lot. Other than that, great ranking. Capaldi’s will always be my favourite though. I love the bookshelves and the chalkboard too much
From the new series:
7: 13th Doctor
6: 11th Doctor (version 2)
5: War Doctor
4: 11th Doctor (version 1)
3: 9th / 10th Doctor
2: 14th / 15th Doctor
1: 12th Doctor
I need to watch more of classic who before I can rank those TARDIS
Yeah, that's what I liked about series 5 also. I like the idea that it may have some weird things, like he might have a typewriter hooked up to an accordion or something.
All I know about my TARDIS interiors is that McGann's and Series 5 to 7a's are my top 2 favorite designs. And I favor all modern TARDISes over the ones seen from 1963 to 1989. (I've always liked TARDIS interiors that do something different from the traditional white console room with a shorter time rotor.)
I never cared for the 8th Doctor's TARDIS until you pointed out the ancient library comparison. That's actually nice.
My favourite's probably the "oddball" design - as I call it; the wooden one - probably because it was just so different to all the others.
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I really like when the tec looks practical. Where it could actually be a scientific instrument. Going off that, I would say the 12th doctors TARDIS is my most loved The warm orange light contrasting his alien personality. The metal looking like a high tech professors office. The Chalkboard. It just all works.
I mostly agree with everything you say here. I would put the current crystal TARDIS dead last, and I would rank the Davies coral design lower than you did (maybe even second to last).
And I would put the original TARDIS somewhere higher, but I'm not sure how high. I really loved how it appeared in the first season. It was so much bigger than it was in later seasons. I don't know why they shrank it down. And I liked how it had additional machinery behind glass walls and stuff.
I would put the first Matt Smith version slightly lower, and I would probably put Capaldi as number one (although the movie TARDIS might take that spot if I ever get around to seeing it again). I do think Moffatt overdid the silly controls a bit. I think it would've worked better with more traditional buttons, knobs, switches, and sliders, plus no more than two or three out-of-place weird-object devices. (And I really hated the bicycle pump.)
The 10th doctor isn't my favorite Doctor, so you're good. I'm very happy where you put his TARDIS. Oh and don't forget to add 12's electric guitar into his living space. :)
Capaldi's console room also had an electric guitar, which was a great addition...
I'd move Baker's wood one up with Cappaldi's and MacGann mainly because it does look like it would be the 4th Doctor's home.
Speaking personally:
1. I’d’ve ranked the “pub” interior (from “masque of mandragora”) a bit higher, mainly because I find wood a warming material plus I appreciate its compactness.
2. The 5/7 Doctor’s control room is the one that dated the worst. Bear in mind that PCs were the novelty during the 80s, and “keyboards” represented cutting edge, the “future look” of sci-fi.
3. I’d have included the interior recreation from “An Adventure in Space and Time” and seen in “Twice Upon A Time.” Distinct from the original because it’s filmed in colour with better technology available; that does make a significant difference in perception.
4. Another one I’d add: Chronotis TARDIS interior from “Shada.” Something comforting about the idea of a den and library hiding a time machine.
Was it the second doctor to first say that line " you re-decorated I don't like it"
Yeah, 2 said it first, but it has shown up since. I also think 2 said it on more than one occasion so that's a thing
First said in "The Three Doctors" by Troughton...
In defence of Davison's 2nd console (Keyboards) you may not have noticed but, with that particular console, the Doctor gets a heck of a lot better at actually getting to where he aimed for! Thinking on it I get the feeling the TARDIS was made deliberately more functional and easier for him to control (when he didn't have six other people helping him pilot)on's second Console,
I totally agree with your number 1 pick!
Great video as always. My list would be very different, but I’m not a snob, each to their own! I like difference of opinion!
Thanks for your video :)
I accidentally paused the video right at 17:22 and I don't regret it, look at his face.
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Ok so yes I understand why Moffat changed it but what about a story reason? Here's my take on why eleven changed it, So as everyone knows amy, rory and eleven were very close and when they "died" he couldn't look at the tardis without feeling sad so he changed it to spare his feelings. Just an idea not to be taken literally.
Head cannon. Whatever works for you, and I've heard others suggest it. It's the same reason in my head.
Your number 14 is one of my favourites. I suppose because for years the original set had fallen to pieces and the few attempts to make something new for Jon had looked so cheap. This looked clean and fresh and like the Doctor was ready to travel again. The salad bowls is a myth by the way. They are way too big for starters. I quite like that one too. How you can prefer Jon's previous room perplexes me. It's a the tatty remains of the once beautiful Hartnell set shoved in a corner. My least favourite is The Five Doctors one and that's just because it's over lit. When the light drops it looks really good.
Honestly, I think Thirteen’s/Whittaker’s TARDIS is my favourite. I agree it’s more claustrophobic than previous new-era control rooms, but this is the first time I can look at the TARDIS interior and truly believe that the TARDIS is a sentient, living creature just as much as it is a machine. I also don’t mind how dark it is because of how beautifully those crystals glow.
Personally, if you took the organic vibe of Whittaker’s, the multiple storeys and staircases of Smith’s, and the homeliness of Capaldi’s, you’d get my perfect TARDIS. Oh, and just add some windows to the outside world, woo :-p
I loved the updated design of the first TARDIS console room as seen in Hell Bent and Twice Upon a Time....
8th Doctor Interior gets the #1 slot for me.
12's "professorial" interior is #2
11's green lit interior is #3
4's Secondary Control Room is #4
1st Doctor original is #5
Then... it's a grab bag.
Most of the classic stuff is aok.
I think they were going for 1970s mod for 3's salad bowl room, so it doesn't bother me too much.
While I like the organic nature of 9-10 interior, it's definitely in the bottom half of the list.
Whimsical 11 is a step up, but not much (to me).
13s crystal spider might sit above those two.
I don't count the mash-up Day of the Doctor set, as it wasn't "real", but instead a product of timelines merging.
But, if we were to include that, then I think we'd need to include "sexy" humanoid TARDIS, and she'd be very near the top. 😉
We are all entitled to personal opinions on the console interiors, and it was well presented without bashing.
As for my personal favorite, I would say the Twelfth Doctor. Then again, everything about that incarnation means a lot. Similar to you, I was not quite the biggest fan of the Coral interior.
I loved the bookshelves!
The 11th Doctor's first TARDIS is my favorite also. It's funny because anyone else I talk to has it much lower on their list.
the wooden control room was used only once during the Mask of Mandragora in 1976. It was used because of an electricians strike.
The 8th Doctor's is easily my favourite.
Solid list as always. I would put the 'salad bowl' 3rd Doctor TARDIS at the very bottom and the wooden alternate room higher but not by a lot. The 9 and 10 Doctors' TARDIS always looked kind of 'junky' so I'd have even slightly lower than you did. The 13th's is too dark and not a fan of having essentially rocks in the control room. The 4th Doctor's red column one is to me the main and original console (based on my original viewing of the shows as a kid in the 70s/80s, obviously it's not the very first one XD ), so I'd have it pretty high but not number one. I love the 11th/12th Doctors' control room and the TV movie one a lot, more than even Tom's and I'm pretty much a 'classic snob'! The 'whimsy' one is decent but I'd have rated it a bit lower down, roughly 5th or 6th.
I really liked the 9th and 10th Tardis, it just looks so comfy. You just want to chill on those things and read a book or something :D made me feel like it was actually the doctors home
In a redesign video they uploaded they said they had to change the interior because they moved to a new location and they had a smaller space to work with and Matt's original one did not fit
Yeah I love the bookshelves in the all the homie touches of the 12th doctor's TARDIS it's my all-time favorite so far I really like the new tardis for 13 cuz I think it's really cool the way the crystals kind of wave around as the tardis flies and it's just kind of really interesting looking a lot like the original coral tardis
How did I know that Smith's first TARDIS would be ranked number one? I totally agree with your choice though, it's just so much fun to look at. I think the reason that the "nonsense" works is that the Doctor didn't redesign it himself, the TARDIS did that in this instance, so there are bits and pieces of just about everything. Although honestly even if the Doctor had designed it, I think it would have been the same, Smith's Doctor is so scattered he would just have grabbed anything lying around.