Doctor Who - Discussions on Season 5 onwards

I so hate this phrase.

"It's been around for a bit and I'm bored of seeing it, so replace it please." is what you really mean.

I'm guessing you're older than 4 years. Are you staring to look a little stale?

Do you never decorate your house?

not every four years

That's hardly the same thing - the TARDIS is supposed to be an ancient vessel, and for most of its screen existence it has gone largely unchanged.

Its should be consistent, I would say.

From what I remember (Geekey info to follow):

Hartnell & Troughton - Similar set up although the walls & door placement always changed, at least one wall was a photocopy of the roundels

http://unisyc.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/console-40-01.jpg
Hartnell/Troughton era console room

Pertwee - Continued with the Hartnell/Troughton one, including the photocopied wall (which is evern more noticable in colour, see below) Then got redesigned with the "washing bowl" wall (See Below) for The Time Monster only which was disliked by Producer Barry Letts & was damamged in storage anyway. New set & change to console.

http://unisyc.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/console-40-02.jpg
Pertwee era Tardis with photocopy wall to right

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-sounds/tardis-exterior-chamber.jpg
Photocopied wall seen, was also used for an inside wall on the right of the picture.

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-sounds/new-tardis-time-monster.jpg
"Washing Bowl" variant from The Time Monster

Tom - Continued on from Pertwee, Season 14 saw the excellent Wooden console (See below), which was damaged in storage & was dislike dby Graham Williams anyway. New white design introduced, of which the wall style at least remained until 1988's Greatest Show In The Galaxy, the console instelf remained until the end of Tom's reign

http://www.whoniverse.org/tardis/pictures/consoleroom_season14.jpg
Tom Baker Season 14 console

Peter/Colin/Sylvester - Peter kept the Tom's console until The Kings Demons. The Five Doctors saw the new console introduced (See below) which was in use up to & including Battlefield, although the walls were damaged between Greatest Show & Battlefield

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Tardisconsole.jpg/300px-Tardisconsole.jpg
Used from The Five Doctors until Greatest Show

McGann - Unique, one off console & console room, looked great but felt less like a spaceship & more like a front room, not that that is necessarilly a bad thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/tvmovie/images/340/dw50.jpg
McGann Tardis room

Thanks - that was interesting. Don't remember the wooden console room from Tom's era.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Tardisconsole.jpg/300px-Tardisconsole.jpg

Yay - that's the one I remember well - and it was with us for years and years and years.

EDIT: Or perhaps its the one after the one I remember for years and years.

Anyway - "Stale"? *Pfft*

The 80's console room was used (some would argue overused) a lot during Peter's era & Colin's era, in Castrovalva all sorts of rooms appear during the first two episodes giving a sense of how big it is inside (even though it unfortunately is all on one level).

After the Hiatus it appeared less & less. Some say it looked stale by Colin's era but I always rather liked it, even the old BBC Micro monitors

The Wooden one was only used in four of six stories of Season 14, of which it's biggest apperance is during The Deadly Assassin.

If I remember I'll try & post a picture of the "propsed" one for Season 27, off of the Survival DVD, sometime this evening

Oh please.

I'd like to see that.

Here's a little something that Google will be doing for Comic Relief.

Google goes Whoogle!

I have seen this mentioned in a few places. It looks very very dodgy.

Who is running it? The domain has been registered through a company that hides the real owners details. They use gmail as their only contact details and don't mention any registered charity numbers.

How are they allowed to use the Dr. Who name and logo when "DrWhoogle.com is completely independent of the BBC" and "is a Doctor Who fan site".

Either this is something very dodgy or it is run by people who have made a site that looks very dodgy.

Can anyone expand on a memory I have of the TARDIS landing inside the TARDIS console room, and each time the Doctor and companion entered the doors, the interior got darker and darker?

Hmmm?

Wasn't that when the Doctor 's TARDIS landed inside the Master 's TARDIS during the Pertwee era [maybe Time Monster ?)