10 Times Doctor Who REFUSED To Give Fans What They Wanted

1. The Classic TARDIS Interior

Doctor Who Rose Tyler
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Modern TARDIS interiors have covered the full spectrum of the good (Smith/Capaldi), the bad (Matt Smith's first) and the ugly (Jodie Whittaker's). However none of them have ever been able to live up to the sleek, classic white room from the original 1963 - 1989 run. This wouldn't be so bad if the show didn't continue to tease fans by showing how good that interior looks on modern TVs.

Fans first got a look at the classic TARDIS interior, of sorts, in The Day of the Doctor, when it glitches into the War Doctor's console room. Then there was the TARDIS that the Doctor and Clara use to escape Gallifrey in Hell Bent, then there's the First Doctor's TARDIS in Twice Upon A Time. And finally, in Fugitive of the Judoon, the Ruth Doctor has a variation on the classic TARDIS interior.

Each time the classic console room appears, it looks considerably cooler than whatever one the incumbent Doctor is currently occupying. It's appeared in the modern run so many times now that any suggestion it wouldn't work on modern telly loses all credibility. Let's hope they finally take the plunge and put Ncuti's Doctor in this design classic.

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