TARDIS console (The Masque of Mandragora)
For a short period, the Fourth Doctor relocated to a second control room in within his TARDIS with an entirely different console to the white technological design of his usual consoles. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora [+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"]) Smaller and more spartan than previous designs, the console, which was entirely made of wood, did not possess a time rotor.
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Instead of a time rotor, this had console sometimes had a circular mirror at its centre. Tegan Jovanka argued to the Fifth Doctor looked like it was used for shaving and he concurred that it "could also be used for that". (AUDIO: The Kamelion Empire)
The controls were an array of buttons concealed behind hinged wooden flaps on the console itself. Not all of these hinged flaps concealed controls either, with one hiding a writing desk beneath it, complete with Prydonian Chapter stationery. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
The corners on the outer edge of the console's panels were decorated at their corners with brass ram's heads. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora [+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"], et al.)
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The Seventh Doctor later tricked Qataka, a megalomaniac who had downloaded her mind into the TARDIS, into thinking that the life support systems were controlled from the secondary control room's console, which he subsequently jettisoned from the TARDIS. However, Qataka was able to use the console to turn herself into the Timewyrm. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys)
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- Damage to this prop was the reason that the "second control room" was not a longer-lasting part of the show. While in storage between filming of Season 14 and Season 15, the wooden parts of this console were warped by humidity, leading to it becoming unusable. (REF: Impossible Worlds)
