Doctor Who: Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best

12. The War Doctor's TARDIS (2013)

Doctor Who Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best
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John Hurt's TARDIS was the perfect mixture of old and new for the 50th anniversary. It retained the "round things" from the classic TARDIS interiors, but had the grungy columns and console of the 2005 - 2010 TARDIS.

Some may call this design an ugly mish-mash of ideas, but this was a Doctor who was fighting in the Last Great Time War. He likely didn't have time to consider a spot of redecorating! Although the TARDIS is glitching, this is indisputably what the War Doctor's TARDIS interior looked like during the Time War.

If the TARDIS is a reflection of each Doctor's persona (in the modern era at least) then this was the ideal interior for the man who rejected the title. It's a TARDIS interior that is stripped back to basics, but retains some of the quirks of the character. The perfect console room for John Hurt's War Doctor, effectively.

As it's a one-night-only sort of TARDIS it's hard to rank it any higher, but there are some interesting ideas here. It also begins the modern series' obsession with the "round things" that would continue throughout the remainder of the Moffat era, and into the Chibnall one.

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