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From the First through to the Third Doctors, The Doctor's TARDIS console room retained a relatively consistent look, although it's specifics changed more than any iteration other than the the Seventh Doctor's.
When the interior of the TARDIS used by the First Doctor was first seen by Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, it was a bright white room, with roundels on the walls and a large computer bank taking up a major part of the "back" wall. These computer banks contained the fault locator and various systems relating to navigational control. (TV: An Unearthly Child, "The Dead Planet") One wall consisted of white hexagons with roundels implemented on them. The Doctor was known to store brandy behind one of these roundels. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
The First Doctor's TARDIS was prone to random shifts in appearance. Typically, one wall of roundels appeared flat, as if they were printed on. (TV: An Unearthly Child) On another instance, a separate octagonal wall was seen in the place of this. (TV: Twice Upon a Time) Usually, the front doors were bulky, featuring triangular points near the hinges. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et. al) This was not universal, however. On one occasion, the doors resembled that of a lift door, (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites) while on another, they were flat and simplistic with three roundels on each side. On this occasion, the doors were golden and the walls were velvet, while the console was orange. (COMIC: Prisoners of Gritog, Prisoners of the Kleptons)
While travelling with Jamie and Victoria, the Second Doctor temporarily synchronised his TARDIS with Gallifrey by linking it to the Stattenheim remote control. It was reflected by the change in its change of appearance. (AUDIO: The Black Hole) It looked similar to the grey interior and console later used by the Fourth Doctor but as large as the one used by the Fifth and with an additional teleport control on it. (TV: The Two Doctors)
The Third Doctor's console was pale green (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians, Inferno) and later changed its entire design including the time rotor. (TV: The Claws of Axos)
The Third Doctor briefly changed the walls of the console room, adding concave "bowl" shaped structures over the regular roundels, with edges that jutted out from the wall, and featuring shallower, non-backlit roundels for the half-roundels at the tops and bottoms of the walls. One of the roundels served as a replacement for the scanner, a picture appearing in its centre. (TV: The Time Monster) He later reverted to the more traditional design, though with a more visible separation between the roundels and the wall behind them. (TV: The Three Doctors)
The Fourth Doctor continued to use this console room, adding a wall featuring the shallow, non-backlit roundels first seen during his encounter with Kronos at some point during his travels with Sarah Jane Smith. (TV: Planet of Evil, Pyramids of Mars)
