Doctor Who: Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best

13. The Third Doctor's TARDIS (Planet Of The Daleks Edition)

Doctor Who Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best
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The Third Doctor's TARDIS console in a shed in Season 7 doesn't really count. However, for an incarnation who was stranded on Earth, the Third Doctor had several variations of the TARDIS interior during his tenure.

This version was introduced in The Three Doctors, and lasted throughout Jon Pertwee's final two seasons after the Doctor had been given back the secrets of time travel, and a shiny new dematerialisation circuit. The interior is a solid callback to the iconic original version, with a shiny new TARDIS console installed.

However, Planet of the Daleks also revealed a bizarre upgrade by way of a cheap white wooden bedroom set. It was a means to let the Third Doctor recuperate after having been shot in the previous serial, without constructing a separate TARDIS sickbay set.

Doctor Who Planet of the Daleks TARDIS interior
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Unfortunately, the jarring image of a cheap bit of MDF furniture in the Doctor's impossibly futuristic space and time ship was totally jarring. This furniture set was quietly scrapped for the remainder of Pertwee's tenure.

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