TARDIS console (The TV Movie)

TARDIS console
Type:	TARDIS control console
Used by:	Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor
First appearance:	Doctor Who

Main TARDIS consoles on TV

The TARDIS control room used by the Seventh and Eighth Doctors had a wooden and metal TARDIS control console. It was the most significantly different model of console the Doctor's TARDIS had seen at that point, featuring a time rotor which extended further upwards than it had before.

Layout

The base of the console was made of metal with three supports holding up the base of the control panels, which were made of wood. The controls adopted a somewhat Victorian aesthetic, including wooden dials, switches and a large brake lever which enacted an emergency halt in the TARDIS's flight.

While the console had a small monitor connected above the time rotor, there was a large lever on one of the panels which activated a larger scanner which engulfed the entire ceiling of the control room. This console had a completely different time rotor; instead of being a singular column ascending and descending like previous consoles, the time rotor on this console was a raised cylindrical structure, containing two sets of ascending and descending, translucent rods, one at the top and one at the bottom, with the structure itself halting at a different metal structure at the top, with four support girders emerging from it, which were connected to the floor around the base of the console with room for the Doctor to move around it. (TV: Doctor Who ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])

History

After the Morphant Master damaged the console, the Doctor needed to fix it using a beryllium chip. (TV: Doctor Who ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• Many details of the next televised TARDIS console could be seen to be prefigured in this one. The Eighth Doctor replacing a TARDIS component with a Beryllium chip could be seen as the first step towards the 2005 console which is almost entirely built from scavenged technology. Additionally, the Doctor having to hit the console to make it work would be a trait picked in the revived series with the Doctor's hammer.