Doctor Who: Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best

2. The Eleventh Doctor's Second TARDIS (2012 - 2013)

Doctor Who Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best
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Designed by Michael Pickwoad, Matt Smith's second console room was utterly stunning. The clean lines, the bright lights, and the silver spaceship aesthetic really helped to sell the inside of the TARDIS as infinitely bigger than the exterior.

It was the first time that modern Doctor Who fully embraced the design potential of the Doctor's ship. It's spacious, it's futuristic, and it's an absolute stunner, quite frankly. It was the best Christmas present that Doctor Who fans could have asked for back in 2012.

It also retained the multi-floor design of Matt Smith's original TARDIS, allowing for some lovely shots of the Doctor tinkering underneath the console. The mushroom of wires at the base of the console was a beautifully subtle nod to the fact that the TARDIS is a living thing.

And has there been anything cooler than those big silver rotating discs at the top of the time rotor that spin when the TARDIS is in flight?

It was in this TARDIS that Steven Moffat attempted to right the wrongs of The Invasion of Time, by revealing other rooms. The TARDIS library was remarkable, even if Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS wasn't.

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