Which Interior Tardis Model Is The Most Recent?

The TARDIS interior has undergone numerous redesigns over the years, with some being more dramatic than others. The current design features white walls and ceilings with grey detailing, with only colorful parts on the hexagonal control panel. This color scheme is a callback to the TARDIS interiors of Jo Martin’s Fugitive Doctor and William Hartnell’s First Doctor. The TARDIS works like a “desktop theme”, with each Doctor able to customize it to their own preferences.

The TARDIS interior has changed almost as much as the Doctor’s face, with many variations of the Time Lord’s famous ship. The current TARDIS interior will be given a complete overhaul before David Tennant’s run ends, just in time for the new Doctor. The TARDIS has changed its form many times, with the current layout being huge and modern, boasting an almost Apple store look of all white and grey combined with an X-Men’s Cerebro style spherical structure.

In the 60th anniversary special The Star Beast, the new TARDIS interior was unveiled, aiming to be darker, moodier, and more technical than before, along with a sense that the TARDIS could actually fly. The new look console room is expected to feature in every new era of Doctor Who.


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What is the most advanced TARDIS type?

Before the Last Great Time War, around 100 different types of TARDIS were issued, with Type 89 being the most advanced non-military TARDIS. Military TARDISes ranged from Type 94 to Type 89. The classification system does not include the Space Inter-time Dimensional Robot All-purpose Transport (SIDRAT) constructed by early Time Lords. Later TARDIS models have larger shift ratios in wave loops, allowing for identification at a distance. Time Lords can also identify the TARDIS by sight or by checking its molecular patina.

The sound made by Relative Dimensional Stabilizers during materialization varies between different types of TARDIS. While many systems can be upgraded to later models, some components remain unique to that model. Operators must code the Main Space Time Element to match the specific type of the TARDIS.

What is the newest type of TARDIS?

The TARDIS, a fictional spaceship, is named after its numerical Type, which is fixed and follows its specific specifications. The Doctor typically operates a Type 40 TARDIS, with higher Type numbers indicating later models. A successful TARDIS Type can lead to over 300 creations. The Type 89 TARDIS is the most advanced non-military TARDIS, while military TARDISes can reach up to Type 94. During the Time War, fully sentient and interactive TARDISes were called Type 100s, but they were more properly referred to as Form 101 or Form 103. The Form 105 was the most advanced TARDIS known during the Time War. For more information on the various TARDIS models created by the Time Lords, see Chapter 9.

Can a TARDIS fit inside a TARDIS?
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Can a TARDIS fit inside a TARDIS?

The Time Lords (TARDIS) are a type of spaceship that can travel through space and time, but they have also been seen flying through physical space, as seen in “The Runaway Bride”. This extended flight strains the TARDIS’s systems and can lead to a Time Ram, resulting in mutual annihilation if both TARDISes occupy the same space and time. In Logopolis, the Master tricked the Doctor into materializing his TARDIS around the Master’s, creating a dimensionally recursive loop.

A TARDIS’s interior is much larger than it appears from the outside, as it is “dimensionally transcendental”, meaning its exterior and interior exist in separate dimensions. The Fourth Doctor explained this to his companion Leela in The Robots of Death, using the analogy of a larger cube fitting inside a smaller one. Transdimensional engineering was a key Time Lord discovery, and stepping inside the ship for the first time usually results in shock.

Susan Foreman, the Doctor’s granddaughter, claimed to have coined the name TARDIS, but the word is used to describe other Time Lords’ travel capsules as well. The Discontinuity Guide suggests that Susan was a precocious young Time Lady, and the Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt records Susan telling the First Doctor that she gave him the idea when he was, implicitly, the “Other”.

Why did the inside of the TARDIS change?

The Doctor, overcome with grief at the loss of Amy and Rory, retreats to the clouds and alters the interior desktop theme of the TARDIS. The Snowmen TARDIS interior design alterations revert to earlier conceptualizations, exhibiting a more digital and less organic quality while nevertheless retaining an air of enchantment. The console is a simple, six-sided design, devoid of the bulky, unwieldy panels that were a feature of previous models.

Will there be a new TARDIS interior?

The 60th anniversary special The Star Beast has revealed the new TARDIS interior, featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. The sparkling white interior is reminiscent of the first TARDIS, helmed by William Hartnell’s First Doctor. The special showcases the TARDIS in all its glory, with Tennant’s Doctor sprinting around the full length. Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble is also pleased with the new TARDIS, which has its own coffee machine.

What is a type 40 TARDIS?

The Type 40 represents the 40th significant production design for TARDISes since Rassilon’s original Type 1. The Doctor’s TARDIS is a Type 40 Mark 3, the Monk’s Type 40 Mark 4 represents an updated iteration, and the Master’s Type 45 is a subsequent, more sophisticated design.

Is the TARDIS female?
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Is the TARDIS female?

Gaiman proposed an episode focusing on the TARDIS, a concept not done in the entire series since 1963. The original plan focused on the Doctor being pursued by an enemy inside the TARDIS, but several changes were made to focus on the companion due to the Doctor’s knowledge of his ship. The TARDIS was made the threat rather than just an alien to avoid making it a simple “cat-and-mouse” game. The central idea was a “what if” scenario to see what would happen if the Doctor and the TARDIS got to talk together. Moffat liked the idea of featuring the TARDIS as a woman, believing this to be the “ultimate love story” for the Doctor.

Gaiman began writing the episode before Matt Smith was cast as the Eleventh Doctor, knowing David Tennant would play the Doctor differently. He had no issue writing the dialogue. The episode was originally slated for the eleventh episode of the fifth series but was delayed to the sixth series due to budget issues. Gaiman had to operate with less money than he would have liked, such as scrapping a scene set in the TARDIS’ swimming pool and using an Ood instead of his own monster.

The move to the sixth series also meant adding Rory, who had ceased to exist in the original slot in the fifth series. With Rory included, Gaiman had to “reshape” much of the second half of the episode, featuring Amy being on the run in the TARDIS. At some point, Gaiman became tired of rewriting drafts and asked Steven Moffat for help.

What does the R in TARDIS mean?
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What does the R in TARDIS mean?

The TARDIS, or Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space, is a fictional hybrid of a time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs. The exterior appearance of the Doctor’s TARDIS typically mimics a police box, an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain in the 1950s. However, its interior is shown as much larger than its exterior, commonly described as being “bigger on the inside”.

The shape of the police box is now more strongly associated with the TARDIS than its real-world inspiration. The name and design of the TARDIS are a registered trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), although the design was originally created by the Metropolitan Police Service. The word “Dimension” is alternatively rendered in the plural. The first story, An Unearthly Child, used the singular “Dimension”.

The 1964 novelisation Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks used “Dimensions” for the first time, and the 1965 serial The Time Meddler introduced the plural in the television series. Both continued to be used during the classic series, with the Ninth Doctor using the singular in “Rose”.

Is the Tardis interior infinite?
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Is the Tardis interior infinite?

The TARDIS, a spaceship used by the Doctor in Doctor Who, is known for its “bigger on the inside” design. Its large control room behind the police box doors houses a console for operating the TARDIS and a time rotor, which is described as a dimensionally transcendental space. The interior of the police box contains an infinite number of rooms, corridors, and storage spaces that can change their appearance and configuration.

The TARDIS allows the Doctor and others to communicate with people who speak languages other than their own and turn all written languages to English. The “translation circuit” (also known as the “translation matrix”) was first explored in The Masque of Mandragora. Researchers Mark Halley and Lynne Bowker have found that the TARDIS often gets it wrong when it comes to translation technology, but it is necessary to explain how people from different countries, time periods, and even other worlds can understand each other and appear to speak (mostly) flawless English.

The TARDIS also has special abilities, such as producing a large, invisible air bubble around its exterior, creating a bridge tunnel, being strong enough to tow other ships and planets, and even withstand black holes. It can generate a “perception filter” that causes people to ignore it, thinking it is normal. In one episode, it has a function called the Hostile Action Displacement System (H. A. D. S), which makes it teleport away if it senses danger and will not return until after the danger is dealt with.

In the 60th anniversary special “The Giggle”, the Fifteenth Doctor created a copy of TARDIS for the Fourteenth Doctor, and Russell T Davies stated that it is the original.

Is the TARDIS 4D?

The program makes reference to the concept of dimensional engineering, which posits that the interior of the structure in question exists within the fourth dimension (4D). However, from the perspective of the third dimension, it is only possible to perceive objects that exist within the third dimension (3D), as well as any dimensions that are lower than 3D (2D).

Is the TARDIS interior infinite?
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Is the TARDIS interior infinite?

The TARDIS, a spaceship used by the Doctor in Doctor Who, is known for its “bigger on the inside” design. Its large control room behind the police box doors houses a console for operating the TARDIS and a time rotor, which is described as a dimensionally transcendental space. The interior of the police box contains an infinite number of rooms, corridors, and storage spaces that can change their appearance and configuration.

The TARDIS allows the Doctor and others to communicate with people who speak languages other than their own and turn all written languages to English. The “translation circuit” (also known as the “translation matrix”) was first explored in The Masque of Mandragora. Researchers Mark Halley and Lynne Bowker have found that the TARDIS often gets it wrong when it comes to translation technology, but it is necessary to explain how people from different countries, time periods, and even other worlds can understand each other and appear to speak (mostly) flawless English.

The TARDIS also has special abilities, such as producing a large, invisible air bubble around its exterior, creating a bridge tunnel, being strong enough to tow other ships and planets, and even withstand black holes. It can generate a “perception filter” that causes people to ignore it, thinking it is normal. In one episode, it has a function called the Hostile Action Displacement System (H. A. D. S), which makes it teleport away if it senses danger and will not return until after the danger is dealt with.

In the 60th anniversary special “The Giggle”, the Fifteenth Doctor created a copy of TARDIS for the Fourteenth Doctor, and Russell T Davies stated that it is the original.


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  • David Tennant must be such a joy to work with. His enthusiasm about everything about the show is adorable. He just wants to press all the buttons, fly through time and space and be a Doctor. When I saw him run around the Tardis in The Star Beast, honestly I could’ve blindly believed that was his genuine first reaction to the new Tardis.

  • I’m so glad they recorded and posted this, it gives us a much better appreciation for this new Tardis and all the work and ingenuity that went into it. They actually mapped it out in VR first? Goodness, it helps you realize that what you see on screen is just the tip of the iceberg. Plus, I guess I just assumed that the scale of it was enhanced on screen with some movie magic, but they actually built a full-sized solid structure that is every bit as big as it appears on the screen. Wow!

  • Amazing amount of work went into building this beautiful set! It has become my favorite, I think part of the reason is that it reflects so much light! Ten’s old Tardis was very dark, I thought, Eleven’s and Twelve’s improved on that somewhat, and can’t say I cared for Thirteen’s at all. Love this new Tardis, love to have Tennant back even for a short while, and can’t wait for Ncuti!

  • even tho i like the clean look, i feel like its a bit empty, just like 13’s tardis. i always felt like Capaldi’ tardis was a great mix of a spaceship and a home, it actually felt like the doctor lives there with all his trinkets. i get that they are trying to make it look like the first doctor tardis but we have come a long way, we can have more stuff in the console room.

  • Unless we ever see the 8th Doctor’s Tardis with the library design and brighter lights from the comics/Big Finish, this may be my favourite “wallpaper” in live action. Retro and futuristic, clean and yet busy, and just fun to look around play with as seen by Tennant there. Great work by the design crew.

  • They’ve done such incredible work realising this vision. The scale and the style of it is really an achievement. It’s honestly like a dream. As a life long fan I always hoped something like this was possible. One day, maybe during the next anniversary I’d love to see a Tardis control unit/room that combined all previous control units/rooms. All the memorable features of each. Not in a patchwork way, but driven by function and beauty. How might they all become integrated? Would their geometry and relative… dimensions of each panel, component, bulb wattage, set, schematic, animated graphic, frequency and cymatic resonance of the cloister bell, the hexagons in the Museum, even when the show was broadcast reveal something more fundamental about the nature of space time and reality itself? Like it’s all been a riddle pointing in the same direction? Like we’ve already made a Time Machine but it’s spread across time in a TV show so to us it’s only a set? I say this in part because it amazes me how close the tools we create to further science look like the earlier dreams of science-fiction. Why does the latest quantum computer from Google evoke the Tardis’ central column. Coincidence yes, but perhaps one that’s fundamentally linked to the nature of consciousness itself? The fact this specific timeline from 1963 has lead here. Of all the probable futures we could have ended up in, we live in this one, where that machine actually exists, it seems at least plausible there’s more to the Tardis than even we know.

  • as a lifelong fan going along perusal the classic era on re-runs/vhs/dvd and then going into the modern run of the show I began to imagine the ultimate Tardis interior that for me personally that I wanted to see, something thats a blend of classic and new…………………and they’ve done it with this interior! Absolutely love this one! and as bad as it’s going to sound I hope this interior lasts beyond Ncuti with future Doctors!

  • Absolutely love the design becuz for the first time in a long time we have a super bright well-lit set and you can really do a lot with such a huge space, the way 11 or 12 can have dialogue scenes with people separated by several levels or platforms, its like a big sandbox of opportunities I think. And I love that we got to see David Tennant’s completely giddy response the first episode we all see it. Technically all those Doctor Who sets can be done with a volume nowadays but not BBC and not Doctor Who productions, you guys put in all the work, and unlike some creations that can only be seen for one episode, we’ll be able to see this beautiful set for all of Ncuti’s run.

  • Overall I love the design and asthetic, especially the roundels which light different colours… but I can’t help feeling that everything below the console is completely pointless. We rarely saw what was down there when it got more opened up after 11’s first control room cos it was just the engine basically but it was nice to have the space for the couple scenes where it was useful. But with this, it just seems like too big a space for how little that it’s actually going to be used, unless there are reasons to see more there in future series… but I doubt it. Other than that, and some nitpicks of the controls aside, this might be my favourite TARDIS design ever.

  • I know the TARDIS itself sadly isn’t real, but I swear this article felt less like an actor seeing a new set, and more like two actors seeing each other again after several years. I’m sure that if the TARDIS was real, it would probably be just as excited to see David again as David was seeing it again.

  • This design brings back the one thing that’s been missing from TARDIS interiors recently – light. The TARDIS should feel like a safe haven. Somewhere you can run to where the monsters won’t get you (except in rare exceptional circumstances!). I always loved the contrast between the chaos outside, and the calm serenity inside. Caves of Androzani is a prime example, when the Doctor is running through the exploding mud flats, and eventually makes it to the safety of the TARDIS.

  • So it’s a step back towards Tardis designs of classic Who, with quite a bit more sterile white, but mixed with design elements of more modern control rooms, like the multiple levels and walkways, floor-to-ceiling time rotor and the doors of the police box on the inside. What I am missing a bit is the details around the room that made it feel more like a home to the doctor, not just a spaceship. Like with 11 having a coathanger and a wardrobe standing around, or 12 with his bookshelves and blackboard. This Tardis is missing that right now, and it makes it feel empty. Huge open space with lots of room to play around with, but nothing much in it. Hope this will change as it goes, maybe have the doctor decorate it here and there as the show goes on.

  • The episode was grand I loved every the moment orbit exit for the elephant in the room being the Isaac Newton it made for an amazing joke with the mravity bit, but can we not race swap historical fingers at least, as for the first episode it was keeping amazing all round except for the “there’s just something a male fronting person won’t understand” by that same logic you’re just some things that are female fronting person will never understand, both of those are pointless, you could have sead there is somethings a timelord will never understand, then that’s opened up to better storytelling because the doctors not a time lord so he/she/they CAN let it go beacuse the dr. Is everyone

  • One thing that will be missed is the complete freedom of movement for the camera that we got in 12 and 13’s interiors. I’m sure they’ll show off as much as possible, but we won’t get the feel that the unhindered cameras gave us before. It seems like they’ve sacrificed that for a larger interior, but I’d argue that 12’s interior (much smaller) was more atmospheric and homely than this. It felt like you could legitimately kick back with a book in 12’s TARDIS

  • From perusal the first episode I’m done with Dr Who… I dont want to taint my memories of David Tennants Doctor so yes il watch the old episodes but this new who I’m done with. Thanks for warning me in the first episode so I don’t ruin my memories and waste my time on this dog crap you are giving us now. Bye New who. 👋

  • I love it! Gorgeous! Check out all the ramps. Very ADA compliant. Great for going jogging on! Ever since I had my foot surgery, years ago, I’ve been annoyed at the 20th century convention of putting three or more little steps at the entrance of every house. So needless and stupid. Just make a concrete ramp with planters on either side. Great for wheelchairs, knee scooters, little grocery carts, and especially bikes! You have to bring your bike indoors these days.

  • It’s a good transition interior Tardis, because I don’t think the 15th Doctor is gonna keep the same control room for long or at all. However me personally, I really don’t like it. It’s too much of a mixture of the default desktop and that one room from X-men, however I do like how the lights change. But I will always love Matt’s interior and Peter’s interior, and a part of me was more expecting to see David in Jodie’s control room than this

  • His face at 1:51…that right there is a large child with an incredibly built funhouse at their disposal. It reminds me of my grandparents favorite saying. “Growing old is inevitable…but growing up…THAT is a choice!!” They were both so much fun growing up, my grandmother was our families first gamer….I remember my grandfather buying an Atari 2600 on day one, as he said…that thing is 200 bucks, she would spend that in two weekends at the arcade!! LMAO>

  • The get that the “High Council” thing was just a passing joke, but it does raise an interesting thought. It’s easy to forget, but the TARDIS was originally built by the Time Lords, so it’s funny just to imagine a group of designers sat around, working on each layout. Or some high-ranking politian walking through 11’s first and just being like “Not enough thingamabobs.”

  • I don’t want to say I hate this Tardis because there was a lot of work put into it, but I’m a bit sick of the lack of personality of the recent Tardis designs. The Tardis is supposed to feel like the Doctor’s home. It’s where the Doctor lives. And the last 2 Tardis’ have been so bland and emotionless. They don’t reflect who the Doctor is at all. I got used to Jodie’s Tardis, but this one is just too uninspired.

  • it looks like sportacus’ airship makes sense the BBC would draw inspiration from it. similarities both are mysterious not human guys who go around saving people, both travel in an iconic blue ship that gets them where they need to go, have a companion, and have an evil nemesis that stands against everything the hero is, also sportacus is an elf according to the original Icelandic dub on the show his name literally translates to “sport elf” so he is indeed non-human

  • Yeah, I have to say it’s always felt like the TARDIS was a bit under-utilized, mostly in the Davies era – I feel like the Moffat era at least made an attempt to utilize the unique nature/properties of it with episodes like “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS” and “The Doctor’s Wife”. I have to say that those were both really creative and memorable episodes, the former really making me wonder why we haven’t seen more of this never-ending interior. I also like that we see (or at least hear about) more basic stuff like the TARDIS bedrooms during the Snith era, too. I always felt like the fact that the Doctor truly lives in this time machine with his companions to be a crazy thing, too – living outside of time would give one an odd perspective.

  • Don’t forget that if you need a really large amount of power to escape from a dangerous situation (Black Hole etc) you can delete rooms (like the zero room and at least one bedroom and swimming pool were deleted) to gain it possibly from matter/energy conversion. Also as they are time machines one might pop- up in you r time other than this one you can’t say they don’t exist anymore as they can be in any time before and after they were destroyed. 😀

  • Considering that the inside of the type 40 TARDIS is infinitely large and automatically reconfigures its inside as needed to be. it is effectively the cheapest possible real estate one could ever have because an infinitely large space divided by any cost per square meter rate, makes it an infinitesimally small sum per sq mt. therefore the best investment one could ever make. however, the one thing you cannot do is go on any form of complete tour.

  • Nicely done and highly entertaining article, though of course one wonders just how far fan level obsession will go…I mean it’s tempting to go crazy with a Tardis, (I sometimes make one in minecraft for lulz) and of course you’re all like, “okay, what rooms can I put in it?” I built a massive library in one…and this and that and then I realised…what’s the point of a Tardis is not to Go Places? It kind of defeats the purpose of having a Tardis and experiencing everything if everything is already IN the Tardis. Not criticising you or the article, just fans take things too far at times lol

  • I’m interested in viewing the type 4 travel machine. It sounds like an impressive vehicle ship. However, I have some concerns: Given the age of the structure, is the wiring up-to-code? I’m concerned about fires and electrocution. Also is the fire suppression system at 4AX standards? If this requires modernisation that need to be taken into account when making an estimate on costs on top of the purchase. Has the temporal leakage issue been resolved? I heard that this was an issue with the Type 4 series.

  • If I did have it Curtis I think I would want my interior to be a Disney interior and an outer interior full of Disney pictures and being able to meet Walt Disney myself That’s just how I would want it and maybe if I want if I choose to have a study room it would be in a western like type fashion but still a dizzy while you’re looking at it hey you have your way of having a tortoise I have my way

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