The concept for the TARDIS’s Cloister Room was initially very different. <\/p>
As Doctor Who<\/a> fans patiently await their first look at the Fourteenth Doctor\u2019s brand new TARDIS interior, production designer Malcolm Thornton has revealed that a twist was originally planned for the blue box in Tom Baker<\/a>\u2018s final story.<\/p>\n Thornton worked on the Fourth Doctor\u2019s story Logopolis, which was the first to introduce the TARDIS\u2019s Cloister Room.<\/p>\n He revealed the scrapped twist when speaking at the BFI Southbank on Saturday 4th November, as part of a panel entitled The TARDIS: The Most Famous Time Machine in the Universe.<\/p>\n Thornton said of the Cloister Room: \u201cThat hadn\u2019t been established as a set at that stage, so it was a blank piece of paper for me.<\/p>\n \u201cBut my concept for the cloisters was going down into the bowels of the TARDIS \u2013 not on any sort of level with the control room and the other ancillary rooms, but to take the Doctor on a journey downwards\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cBut the budget was the problem, really. Great idea, but the budgets for the design department on Doctor Who were pretty limited, really.\u201d<\/p>\n