TARDIS console (The Eleventh Hour)
The Eleventh Doctor's first control room had an eclectic TARDIS control console.
Layout
When the TARDIS regenerated itself, the console was also drastically different. The shape of the console had returned to hexagonal, but control panels maintained a very unique shape, with the panels themselves being slightly separated from each other. The panels were mostly made of glass and plastic materials with Gallifreyan shapes etched into them and lights present underneath. This was the second console to have a primary dematerialisation lever, which appeared similar to the throttle of a 21st century plane, but with yellow lights.
The time rotor was a different shape and the structure inside was a rising and falling glass structure illuminated by a green light from underneath. (TV: The Eleventh Hour to The Angels Take Manhattan) The Eleventh Doctor made all repairs to the console from underneath the glass floor on which the console was stationed; the console structure continued through the glass floor with an entire system of wires emerging from the base, which the Doctor was constantly reconnecting to improve the console's functionality. (TV: The Vampires of Venice et al.)
According to some accounts, each of the six panels controlled discrete functions. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
Monitor
The console had a pull-down monitor which was built from a Magpie Electricals television. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
Fabrication panel
The fabrication panel was the part of the console which the TARDIS doors. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
The bottom left corner of this panel had a crank for the harmonic generator.
The middle of its left edge had the red-handled lever for the Materialise/Dematerialise Function, an important part of flight.
Above the Materialise/Dematerialise Function was the time altimeter.
The middle of this panel had a circular fabrication dispenser (which was able to produce sonic screwdrivers and other technology) which eventually housed the laser screwdriver.
The middle of the panel also had a device which could function as a tractor beam. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
The right edge of this panel had the sump flush pipe. (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
Its right corner had a gearstick which had been repurposed as a Heisenberg focusing device, for overcoming Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
Communications panel
The communications panel was to the left of the fabrication panel. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
Its left edge had the Digital Com device, for communicating with advanced technology.
The top of this panel had an analogue telephone.
The top of this panel's glass section had a voice recorder, so the Doctor could leave himself memos.
The bottom left of the glass panel had a combination lock repurposed as into the "Analogue Radio Waves Detect/Monitor/Change"
The bottom left of the glass panel had the scanner/typewriter. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
Diagnostic panel
The diagnostic panel was to the left of the communications panel. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
Red-handled levers on this panel's left edge were the quantum foam manipulators. (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
The top of this panel had the inertial dampers and gauges which showed the cooling systems. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
The bottom right of this panel was an organic diagnostic area, which had a bunsen burner and a microphone/water dispenser. (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"], GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
The navigation panel was to the left of the diagnostic panel. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
The left edge of this panel had the time and space forward/back control.
In its centre was a spinning spiky ball known as the atom accelerator, (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) which was connected to a repurposed Pinball machine lever at the panel's base. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
At its base was a computer keyboard which had been repurposed as the spatial location input.
Its upper right section had the directional pointer. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
Helm panel
The helm panel was to the left of the navigation panel. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
The middle of this panel had the eyepiece, an alternative to visual scanners.
Its right edge had the time rotor handbrake, and another part of it had the space-time throttle. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
Mechanical panel
The mechanical panel was to the left of the helm panel. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"])
Its bottom left corner had the engine release lever.
The middle of its left edge had the large, black-handled door release lever.
At the top of its centre was a spinning device which functioned as the gyroscopic stabiliser.
The very top of this panel had the TARDIS display dials.
A crank on its bottom right corner was the locking down mechanism, which had to be used with the time handbrake. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
It also had the wibbly lever, which helped the Doctor and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams escape after the exterior shell of the TARDIS had materialised inside its interior shell. (TV: Time)
History
Regular usage
- As the Eleventh Doctor was getting used to his new console, he adjusted two faucet taps labeled "hot" and "cold" and dinged the bell. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
- The TARDIS generated the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver in its fabrication dispenser. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
- After Amy Pond accepted his offer to leave Leadworth, the Doctor began flipping the three switches on the mechanical panel. He then typed something on the typewriter, then pushed the black-handled lever on the materialise/dematerialise function, then pulled the navigation panel's pinball launcher (which made the atom accelerator start spinning and making pinball bouncing noises). After this, to set the TARDIS in flight, he pulled back the time rotor handbrake. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
- This console notably had official designations from the TV prop designers for the names and functions of many of the controls. (CON: Call Me the Doctor) From this, various tie-in media was able to give the same information about the console, with these names and functions appearing in TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"], The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"], and the pages of Doctor Who Adventures.
