Doctor Who: The TARDIS Console Room History in Pictures
Olga Hughes
A gallery of The TARDIS Console Room throughout fifty-two years of Doctor Who.
The TARDIS was first glimpsed on 23 November, 1963.Ian Chesterton (William Russell), The Doctor (William Hartnell), Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) and Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford)The Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) in his console roomThe Second Doctor consulting his 500 Year DiaryThe Third Doctor did ‘a spot of redecoration’ 1972’s ‘The Time Monster’
But ‘The Time Monster’ set was damaged and the new version saw the familiar roundels back…Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)The Fourth Doctor’s console was similar to the original from 19631976’s ‘The Masque of Mandragora’ introduced this new console room.The ‘secondary console room’ gave way to the ‘original’ in 1977’s The Invisible EnemyThis console was first seen in ‘The Five Doctors’ after a Cyberman had blasted the old one in ‘Earthshock’The Sixth Doctor’s (Colin Baker) first and last scenes were in the TARDISThe Eighth Doctor in his TARDIS in 1996This console room featured in only one adventureConcept artwork for the console room that debuted in 2005.The console room in the Ninth and Tenth Doctor’s eraThe Tenth Doctor’s (David Tennant) eccentric new digsThe Eleventh Doctor’s (Matt Smith) new console room in ‘The Eleventh Hour’The 2013 recreation of William Hartnell’s TARDIS in ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ featuring David BradleyA blend of twentieth and twenty-first century console room designsAnother new console first seen in 2012’s ‘The Snowmen’The Twelfth Doctor’s roundels might just be speakers…It’s Clara Oswald’s vintage-look TARDIS
