I wonder why the new producer decided to change the appearance of the Tardis? It took me long enough to get used to the last one! I don't think it has ever been explained in the series why the control room looked so different when Doctor Who came back. For what reason would The Doctor have had to change the control room's appearance?
Apparently it was because The Moff wanted the Tardis exterior to look more like the Peter Cushing one, however in the end it didn't end up like that apparently, dimensions wise at least
The console room has changed quite a few times over the years, here's the comparison pics I posted on GB last year (barring the 7th image), bare in mind there were more inconsistencies during the first 3-4 Doctors console rooms, plus several variations of Pertwee's are missing, but then again the console room varied from story to story in his run:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ01.png
From the first Ever story, An Unearthly Child
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ02.png
From Season 2's last story The Time Meddler
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ03.png
From the Season 5's first story The Tomb Of The Cybermen (there's not enough surviving material between Season 3-4 to get any decent shots of the Tardis interior)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ04.png
From Season 6's The Mind Robber
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ05.png
From Season 6's last & Patrick Troughton's last story The War Games
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ15.png
From Season 8's Colony In Space (made of scraps from the Hartnell/Troughton years hence the close confinement)
http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-sounds/new-tardis-time-monster.jpg
From Season 9's The Time Monster, this console room was only ever used for this story
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ06.png
From Season 10's The Three Doctors
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ07.png
From Season 13's Planet Of Evil
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ08.png
From Season 14's Robots Of Death (used for Season 14 only)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ09.png
From Season 15's The Invisible Enemy (screen shots from first apperance)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ10.png
From Season 18's Full Circle (back walls are different)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ11.png
From Season 20's The Five Doctors (everything here is new, new wall panels, new console)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ12.png
From Season 26's Battlefield (final appearance of the console room, the wall was badly damaged in between the wrap for Season 25 & commencement of filming of Season 26 & considering the "borrowed" time the series was on, they mocked up a temporary wall)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Johnny1989/TardisZ14.png
The wonderful Movie console room, sadly never used again
Be interesting to see the new console room just to see how much of a departure it is this time.
Last edited by Johnny83 on 13 January 2010 9:38pm - 3 times in total