TARDIS console (The Eleventh Hour)
The Eleventh Doctor's first control room had an eclectic TARDIS control console.
Associated control rooms
This console appeared in the Eleventh Doctor's first control room. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"], et al.)
A panel resembling a mashup of several parts of this console, most strongly the helm panel, appeared in the remembered TARDIS. (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TotT TV story)"], et al.)
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. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) The box for this lever was repurposed from a Magpie Electricals Type V 310-A mains receiver. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
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 upper portion of the middle of the panel also had a device which could function as a tractor beam. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
At times, a button for mustard was present as a large yellow button on the lower part of the glass panel and a button for ketchup was present as a red indicator on the right edge. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
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)"]) The typewriter was Magpie Electricals branded. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) It could also function as a printer. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
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 upper part of its left edge sometimes had a service bell. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
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)"])
An amp cord extending from this panel could connect the species matcher to the TARDIS. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
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)"])
Curving from over the top of this panel were two faucets labelled "hot" and "cold". (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. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) The keyboard was Magpie Electricals branded. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
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. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) The Eleventh Doctor once described its function as "[making] a lot of noise". A nearby control could set the TARDIS in flight in a rough manner, which the Doctor described as "[making]] everything go topsy turvy". (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
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. (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"])
One of the controls on the bottom right of its glass panel could make the TARDIS play soothing music. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
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)
The friction contrafibulator was somewhere on this panel. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])
Upper controls
By the later parts of the Doctor's travels with Amy and Rory, the console had a set of controls higher than the rest connected to the time rotor. The Doctor could stand on the helm panel to access these controls, needing them for particularly dangerous maneuvers such as navigating time distortions. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan [+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"])
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)"])
- When the Doctor tried to pilot the TARDIS to Mexico, he blamed his arrival at Mercy, Nevada on Rory getting toast crumbs on the console. (TV: A Town Called Mercy [+]Loading...["A Town Called Mercy (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.
- In the real world, this console is commonly known as the "copper console". (TEDW 2)
