A Tardis Console for the 1980s: quick-take

[@MrStarbuck27]

I remember sides of the console ending up as set dressing on BBc 1s movie game quiz show. In later seasons hosted by John Barrowman.

[@theborgqueen6891]

Wow! I came here from the Enterprise Main Engineering video and I am impressed by your videos! Subscribed

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

The console of my youth! 😀

[@nigelmathewsnrm]

Did you know that the console which this one replaced stood in for the Second Doc's console, when one was needed for The Two Doctors, with the addition of a recall device added. The Mike Kelt console made it's last on screen appearance in Classic DW in episode one of Battlefield, which was seen in semi darkness to hide the fact that the console room walls had been replaced with a stand-in.

[@WeTravelbyNight]

It did, indeed. And I liked Battlefield. The Drama Channel broadcast that serial in 2013 as part of the 50th anniversary. It held up surprisingly well.

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

I love every single console of the classic series! This is great. Thanks for the upload.

[@JustAboutTime]

My fave console .. the Blinking mushroom of death! 🤪

[@aquamonkee]

I loved this console during the Davidson - McCoy era's and when the did The Masters TARDIS in Planet of Fire the entire thing had black trim rather than just turning the lights down as they had previously

[@MarvelX42]

The best console! Also do you have the clips of it from Tomorrows World?

[@kaitlyn__L]

Since this is from 83, given the turquoise buttons, I have to wonder if the design was inspired by the DX7. Yep, the DX7 came out about half a year before the episode, which would leave plenty of time in production for that kind of industrial design to have an influence. Much like with this console, after the DX7 and until the 90s, all other synthesisers quickly did away with knobs, sliders, switches and dials in favour of many buttons and a screen. Even when it really hurt usability!

[@davidmullen6011]

The Console was specifically debuted in Doctor Who's 20th anniversary special. It's a shame the monologue to go with this video isn't more intelligent. Yes, of course this console is a product of the '1980s' - this is when it was built! But you need to put Mike Kelt's rethink of the original design into the context of where technology and progress was by 1983, household computers were just beginning to take off, handheld console games like 'scrambler' were making their first appearances, Star Wars:Return of the Jedi was in the cinema's, consolidating the phenomenal impact that that film trilogy had on both science-fiction and audience perception of what adventure SCI-Fi should be like visually. But "full of excess that typified the decade"? No. It wasn't excessive in _any_ way, it was just reflecting the speed and pace that technology was taking by 1983. The reason John Nathan-Turner commissioned this new design wasn't just whim, it was necessity. The old console was of the cheap & cheerful 1970s, by 1983 the explosion in household computers and the sort of big budget american science fiction inspired by Star Wars meant that any redesign of the Tardis Console was going to be a more complex looking and visually striking visual than the very sparse console array of the 1970s.... It is 'busy' as a design yes, but by this time we were getting computer keyboards appearing in every household, video games were just taking off, and for anyone who was there for Commodores, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, Atari, or even the first VHS players of this era - this new console was awesome! Cutting edge in fact. Which was the point.

[@vitaliylomanoff1759]

Make 1996 TARDIS Console!

[@AppallingGrandeur]

Yes, make the McGann console!

[@MarioLabot]

Any chance of Mike Tucker’s proposed design of the TARDIS console had there be a season 27.

[@CastellanSpandex]

I wish Character would make consoles for the 5" figures. They did for the 9th/10th/11th Doctor playsets, then nothing.

[@David1988Mufc]

I would glady pay wat ever the value for someone to make me an exact replica, watever the cost its always been my life long ambition to own one

[@e-convoy1783]

I wish to see a consoles based in the 1970s!

[@martinbennett8752]

I was disappointed that the time rotor only went up and down and the contents dis not spin like the previous model. The Rani's console got that right.

[@benflay6038]

Door handle was consistent and flight control 😅do le this one a lot

[@chucklemeister1529]

The only complaint I have about this console was that trim on the edges looks very tacky and cheap.