Doctor Who: Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best
4. The 20th Anniversary TARDIS (1983 - 1989)
To celebrate Doctor Who's 20th anniversary, the TARDIS interior got a subtle but significant upgrade to see the show through to its cancelation in 1989. The columns from Tom Baker's console room remained, but were reshaped to provide more space.
There was also a designated space for the scanner, all the better for Susan and Turlough to helplessly watch the Cybermen place explosives at the base of the TARDIS in The Five Doctors.
A brand new console was also installed, with that memorable fragmented time rotor which ultimately inspired the central tubes that feature in every new TARDIS from 1996 onward.
In what was a sign of things to come, the BBC no longer had the set by the time of Sylvester McCoy's final season. This is why the Seventh Doctor's TARDIS scenes in Battlefield are shot in front of a blanket.
Thankfully, Doctor Who would come back bigger than ever in 2005, consigning the blanket fort TARDIS to the niche corners of history.