Doctor Who: Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best
3. The TV Movie TARDIS (1996)
The TARDIS interior in the 1996 TV Movie is absolutely gorgeous. Although clearly influenced by H.G Wells' The Time Machine, it also feels like the Jules Verne console room that Phillip Hinchcliffe would've had, if he'd had the money back in 1976.
It's expansive, grand, and it all fits into a tiny British police box. Aside from Paul McGann's reinvention of the Doctor as a romantic hero, the TV Movie's stunning console room is its other crowning achievement.
Sure, the actual Eye of Harmony shouldn't be there, but Moffat kind of fixed that in Series 7. In doing so, he allowed fans to appreciate what a stunning piece of work designer Richard Hudolin's console room is.
The warmth of the lamplight contrasted by the chilly blue of the TARDIS in flight or in danger is a neat touch. Meanwhile, the grand staircases and gothic cloister room gave the Doctor's impossible ship a sense of scale that it's struggled to replicate before or since.
Although given how much the TARDIS gets bumped around in the time vortex, all those candles and open flames feel like a bit of a fire hazard.