Doctor Who: 10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About The TARDIS

10. The Round Things Don't Have A Function

The “round things” (as the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors affectionately call them) are called roundels, and are circular or hexagonal design elements within the walls of the TARDIS control room.

It's often forgotten that these roundels are more than just decorative, and that they've had many different functions over the decades.

The roundels have been used to access the TARDIS' interior circuitry, to hold lights, and the Third Doctor even used one of them as a scanner. The First Doctor kept brandy within one of the roundels, and River Song had an entire mini bar tucked away inside one. “Don’t tell Dad!"

By the time of the Tenth Doctor, both he and his next incarnation had forgotten the uses for the roundels, but expressed love for them when they saw them in the War Doctor’s TARDIS.

The Twelfth Doctor lamented the lack of round things in his control room, wondering if he had misplaced them - but he made sure to correct this problem later on!