Doctor Who: Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best

5. The Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS (2014 - 2017)

Doctor Who Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best
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Sure, it's just a refit of Michael Pickwoad's design for the 50th anniversary series. However, he updates the Peter Capaldi TARDIS with enough significant changes to merit it having a place of its own on this list.

To complement Peter Capaldi's more brooding Doctor, the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS wasn't quite as bright and inviting as his predecessor's. The lights were turned down low, and the brilliant blue of the time rotor was instead replaced with a burning orange light.

The addition of the bookcase and the utilisation of the gallery as a library allowed for some truly breathtaking TARDIS scenes. Say what you like about In The Forest of the Night, but the bit where the camera spins around the TARDIS is a bravura shot, which is rarely seen in similar Doctor Who scenes.

It also gave Peter Capaldi heaps of space to move around the TARDIS, flicking switches, pulling levers, and playing out his childhood fantasy of finally becoming Doctor Who. It's a gorgeous set, and the second-best TARDIS interior of the modern era.

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