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recalled in later interviews that he was never happy with Brachacki's contribution and only kept him on as designer out of necessity, as there was not the time to request a replacement. Original Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert was impressed with Brachacki's work on the TARDIS interior even though
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The TARDIS interior saw occasional redesigns over the following twenty-six years, but always in line with the original concept. The console room was completely redesigned for the show's fourteenth season, but still the concept was retained of the single central console and the roundels on the wall.
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the roundels set into the wall, intended to pulsate when the ship was in motion. (This and other initial concepts were never realised due to budgetary restraints.) Hussein later noted that the roundel pattern arose simply from the fact that the plastic with which Brachacki had made his initial
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TV movie, and the new series that began broadcasting in 2005. Even then the central console was retained, and the new television series includes the geometric patterns on the walls.
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This became the default TARDIS design: hence the same concept applied for the brief glimpse of the interior of the Rani's TARDIS in the episode season twenty-two serial
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in the 1960s. Although he worked on several programmes, he is best remembered as the first production designer for
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the central hexagonal console, designed so that all controls should be equally accessible to a single pilot
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the moving time column, intended to give an at-a-glance indication of the ship's status and whereabouts
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the scattering about of random furniture and objects from different periods
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The Handbook: The First Doctor – The William Hartnell Years 1963-1966
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The TARDIS interior was completely redesigned again for the 1996
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Brachacki was production designer for the very first episode of
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in 1963, making him responsible for the iconic design of the
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Brachacki’s concept for the TARDIS interior included:
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Dębieńsko
Poland
production designer
BBC Television
Doctor Who
TARDIS

An Unearthly Child
Barry Newbery
Waris Hussein
The Mark of the Rani
Doctor Who
docudrama
An Adventure in Space and Time
Blake's 7
When the Boat Comes In
Fall of Eagles
Play for Today
Paul Temple
The Liver Birds
Peter Brachaki
BBC Two
Howe, David J.
Mark Stammers
Stephen James Walker
ISBN
0-426-20430-1
"An Adventure in Space and Time: TARDIS designer cast"
Peter Brachacki
IMDb

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