Doctor Who: Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best

10. The Third Doctor's TARDIS (The Time Monster Edition)

Doctor Who Every TARDIS Interior Ranked From Worst To Best
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The "washing-up bowl" TARDIS gets a hard time, but it's exactly what you'd expect from a 1970s update of the original 1960s design. It's not for nothing that it was this interior that the Lego Dimensions designers chose for the Third Doctor's TARDIS in the game.

It only lasted for the Doctor and the Master's game of TARDIS chicken in the time vortex at the end of The Time Monster, but it's an underrated gem. It has a sense of scale to it that other TARDIS console rooms don't always achieve, while the fact that the roundels double up as scanners is a neat touch.

The Master's TARDIS looked exactly the same on the inside, which is perhaps why they dispensed with this design in the very next serial.

This set was retained for The Three Doctors in the next season, but they stripped out the bowls to more overtly call back to the 1963 original. While this was an obvious choice for the show's 10th anniversary, it was disappointing that the more space-age spheres built into the walls were excised, never to be seen again.

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