X-NEWS: spcvxb.spc.edu rec.arts.drwho: 37121 Xref: spcuna rec.arts.drwho:37121 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Path: spcuna!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!news.tcd.ie!unix1.tcd.ie!domalley From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Daniel O'Malley) Subject: aT lAsT... iT'S bLOoPeR tImE aGAiN..! Message-ID: Sender: usenet@news.tcd.ie (USENET News System) Organization: Trinity College, Dublin Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 17:18:54 GMT Lines: 1010 Sorry for the long gap, folks - but I've only just got back on the net after a 4-month absence... But here, for your delectation and delight, is... [drum roll please!] The newly updated and greatly expanded blooper list [with almost 70 new entries!] New ones are marked with '++' so you can just scan for those if you've seen the list before... And, as always, if you have any comments/corrections/suggestions/additions, just e-mail me. Thanks. Have fun, kids... Daniel. ^<:'*}"&*(!$^(@^*!()#&*_#^)_+|~_#@&*!(+#?&*(_@*()+!}:!"<>!@,.'@(-&()_!)(_~@)!\ *()@_&()^$(#_!^(_@^(_^($@!^(@)!^%&($#!+_$_+|_!|($_#+!)_$+&(_^*&(%^*$^@!*?~,\%- &^$ !+` }?+ ThE iNcOmPLeTe liSt oF DOctOr WhO BlOoPeRS, flUbs aNd OtHeR bLUndErS.. />; +|^ ComPilEd bY DaNiEL o'MaLLeY (DoMaLleY@uNIx1.tCd.iE) - UpDaTeD oCt 93. #( {[+ ^:| ^&*(!$^(@^*!()#&*_#^)_+|~_#@&*!(+#?&*(_@*()+!}:!"<>!@,.<:'*}"'@(-&()_!)(_~@)!\ )^$(#_!^(_@^(_^($@!^(@)!^%&($#!+_($_+|_!|($_#+!)_$+&(_^*(&%^*$^@!*?~,\%-*)@_(& This list is the result of my postings, requests and desperate pleas for the very worst of Doctor Who... Those things that make producers and actors alike cringe when they see them on screen, make viewers laugh, and make me go: "Hey, there's another one for the list!"... Yes, it's the humble blooper, also known as: the flub, the SNAFU, the cock-up, or 'the director's fault'... ;-) Basically what I mean are *on-screen* examples of the following from absolutely *any* Doctor Who story: 1) Actors messing up their lines... 2) Actors/monsters tripping or stumbling... 3) Backstage personnel visible on screen... 4) Blatantly obvious strings/supports on models... 5) Sets wobbling... 6) Boom microphones/shadows of same visible in shot... 7) Absolutely anything else that could count as a foul-up, bleep or blunder... Contained in this list are almost 190 examples of these little beauties, most of which were contributed by the sterling readers of rec.arts.drwho, so my thanks and appreciation to them... If you've seen this list before, you won't want to be wading through it all again, looking for new entries... So I've made it easier for everyone - Additions and major amendments are denoted by '++'. If you know of any more, no matter how subtle, don't hesitate to e-mail them to me - my address is: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie Note: this list is also available for anonymous ftp at frontios.niagara.edu as /pub/Doctor_Who/matrix/bloopers , and from me via e-mail, if you grovel a bit... Also, an updated version of this list will be posted to rec.arts.drwho regularly, probably during the first week of every month... (Provided that I don't get flamed for wasting bandwidth - the list is getting fairly large by now...!) DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately, I don't have the free time (or the video collection) to check out all of the entries in the list - so not all of the bloopers may be, shall we say, entirely accurate... I just compile the list from submissions which are either e-mailed to me, or posted to rec.arts.drwho... I do minimal editing on many of them, so most are as the original submitter typed them - warts and all. What this means is that some bloopers have the wrong episode number, have the foul-up described badly, or are just plain erroneous... For example, more than one person has mailed me saying that they couldn't see Katy Manning's knickers in 'Curse of Peladon' - she was wearing a long dress in that episode, they say... Well, until I see the story and judge for myself, that one stays in... And the same goes for the rest of them - About one-fifth of the entries (for stories I've seen recently, like 'Tomb of the Cybermen' or 'Earthshock') are 100% guaranteed accurate... The others basically aren't. So if anyone spots any errors and lets me know, my eternal gratitude will be theirs... (And just remember, it's not my fault they're wrong!) IMPORTANT NOTE: Remember folks, I'm only looking for simple production foulups which would probably not occur if the scene was shot again... (There are exceptions, but you get the general idea, I hope...) What I *don't* want are complex continuity blunders, a la 'Mawdryn Undead', *except* where these occur within *the same* story - i.e. something said in ep.2 contradicts something else said in ep.1, (or even in the same episode), etc... Other examples of what I'm NOT after are: - Ace finds a spiral earring in Greatest Show in the Galaxy and pins it on her jacket. But it was visible in Silver Nemesis, the story screened before GSITG... [Happened because SN was actually made first...] - All the inconsistencies between Remembrance of the Daleks and An Unearthly Child - like where exactly Susan left her history book, the misspelling of 'Foreman', stuff like that... - WOTAN referring to the Doctor as 'Doctor Who' in The War Machines (Yes, I know we all know he isn't supposed to be called that, but again, this is a continuity thing spanning more than one story...) I don't want these precisely because they bridge more than one story - if I included all of these as well, I'd have to make a separate lists for the continuity screwups of stories like Mawdryn Undead... Which I don't want to do. I'd rather keep things simple... Can you blame me? ;-) (Hang on a sec, there's an idea, why don't I make a separate list of continuity errors that have cropped up in the show over the years...? Or am I completely insane to even consider taking on such a task? ;-) Somebody tell me.) One final thought: Since I conceived the idea of this list and built it up into what you see before you, I realised that calling it the 'blooper' list was in itself a blooper... The term is usually only used to describe 'out-takes', i.e. scenes that were messed up so badly, they were never shown... So the question is, should I change the name of this list, and if so, what should I change it to? On rec.arts.movies they call the equivalent the 'flubs list' and on rec.arts.startrek it's the 'SNAFU list'... So does anyone have any suggestions? I think I'll keep it as bloopers for a while, anyway - sounds better... But enough of the ranting and raving, and on with the show - the stories are arranged in chronological order, and the episode number is given where known... Enjoy. /:()+-==)_+@!(**^%)^#$%$&**^@#()%*&()&^%@_&()@&_^)#&^)&&_&(_*)&%^$%:":"{}><> &^(!)^*)^%#**)!^%#**)@!$^*)&($?<>,.@(*^*)$(!#&$_)*$)_)_!`~)_#|=\_(@)_#&^%]|\ %^)! ^?)~ )*(@ tHe FuN sTArTs hERe... />*. ^&"\ |~-# **^%)^#$%$&**^@#()%*&()&^%@_&()@&_^)#/:()+-==)_+@!(_&(_*)&%^$%:":"{}><&>^)&& )^%#**)!^%#**)@!$^*)&($?<>,.@(*^&^(!)^**)$(!#&$_)*$)_)__#&^%]|\!`~)_#|=\_(@) An Unearthly Child: -- (pilot ep) The TARDIS doors won't shut... -- (pilot ep) During a tracking shot of the TARDIS, the cameraman stumbles and a clatter is heard. -- (ep 1) you can hear the PA calling the shots on some sections if you listen carefully. -- (ep ?) If you look carefully into the corners of the TARDIS, in one scene a stagehand can be seen between a gap in one of the corners (pretty big gap too, about 10-20 cm)... The Daleks: ++ (ep 1?) At one point, the Doctor calls Ian 'Chesterfield', rather than Chesterton... -- (ep 5?) When the Thals are jumping across the chasm, I think it's Ian who grabs onto the rock wall when he lands. His handhold breaks off with the rip of tearing styrofoam, and the white spot where it was is visible for the rest of the scene. -- (ep 5) In one of the scenes in the Dalek control room, one Dalek runs into the control console with an audible THUD. -- (ep ?) Painfully obvious shots of Susan "running" thru the forest by running-on-the-spot against a scrolling background. Edge of Destruction: -- (ep 1) You can see the studio floor in the "white void" outside the TARDIS door in early shots. The Keys of Marinus: -- (ep 1) You can see the hands of stage assistants pushing the rotating wall sections around. -- (ep 1) Just after Susan's shoes have been dissolved in the acid pool, the Doctor says to Ian: "And if you'd had your shoes on, my boy, you could have lent her hers." -- (ep 6) One of the Voord comes into the control chamber, trips on the bottom edge of the door, and stumbles over to Yartek. -- (ep ?) Just after Barbara is taken inside the city, on the next shot you can see a stage-hand dart behind Ian. -- (ep ?) During the story, Captain Maitland has to cut out the lock of one of the spaceship doors, using a noisy drill. He leaves several large white cut marks on the door. You can see these marks on those doors, even before the scene in which they were made. The Aztecs: -- (ep ?) The camera crashes into the sacrificial altar in one scene... The Dalek Invasion of Earth: -- (ep ?) In the attack on the Daleks ship there are a few obvious cardboard cut-outs in the background. -- (ep ?) When Susan escapes in the red van and it crashes into the Daleks, the windscreen is smashed twice, once in closeup and once in long shot, so the driver can see where he is going... -- (ep ?) At the attack on the Dalek saucer, a Dalek is pushed down the ramp, falls over and lies still. In the next shot the head of the Dalek is pointing in another direction. -- (ep ?) When the camera pans quickly from right to left in the food room, you can see the Robotising room in the background... -- (ep ?) In one scene, when London is supposed to be abandoned, you can clearly see a car driving calmly by in the background... The Rescue: ++ (ep 2) When Vicki's pet is seen in its cave, a stagehand is visible behind it to the left... The Romans: -- (ep ?) A boom mike makes an appearance while Nero is getting his haircut. The Web Planet: -- (ep ?) Apart from numerous appearances of wires, etc., the backs of the scenery flats can be seen in several shots: mountains with wooden supports... The Chase: -- (ep 1) As the Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki are watching the Space/Time Visualizer, Ian is seen singing along to the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride". Coming from Earth in 1963, Ian has never heard this song before - yet he knows the words... ++ (ep 1) Note that when Barbara goes back to the TARDIS to turn off the Visualizer, she walks on to the set where the Visualizer is from the wrong direction! She's supposed to enter from the door on the left (where they all left when the Doctor announced "We're about to materialize!"), but she just walks on from nowhere... Not only that, but she yells from where she walked on to the Doctor to come quickly, which is followed by him entering from the same nowhere that she did.... ++ (ep 4) Before the TARDIS materializes in the Haunted House, you hear the Dalek Time Machine materialization sound for no reason whatsoever. Then you hear and see the TARDIS materialize. ++ (ep 4) As the TARDIS materializes, in the haunted house, note the shadow of the person on the door who quickly runs away when the TARDIS is fully materialized... -- (ep 4) The Doctor and Ian enter Frankenstein's lab in the haunted house. They see the Monster lying unanimated on a table. Behind the table is a large ventilation screen. Behind this screen is an empty Dalek - note that at this point in the story, the Daleks weren't supposed to have arrived yet. A later scene in this same room shows that Dalek in action, "exterminating" the Monster. -- (ep 4) There's a clearly visible boom mike and operator standing in the shadows as Ian and the Doctor come down the stairs of the haunted house for the last time... -- (ep 4) Frankenstein's Monster is credited as just Frankenstein... OK, so it's a small nitpick - So sue me. ;-) -- (ep 6) When Ian and Barbara are starting to climb down from the Mechanoid city roof. Barbara slips and falls head-first off the roof. Ian saves her... by grabbing her pants. Right at the belt-line. They slide several inches before the cameras cut away. And people wonder why Ian and Barbara probably got married after the series... ;-) -- (ep ?) In one scene in the jungle on Mechanus, a BBC camera cruises through the background. Must have been an early version of the Special Weapons Dalek... ++ (ep ?) listen carefully when the Dalek asks for arrival time in Earth minutes. The microphone that makes the voices sound mechanical clearly picks up someone saying, "Huh? What? Oh, yeah." (This happens again later in the story!) ++ (ep ?) When the Doctor, and Barbara are being held by the Aridians, Vicki comes to find them. When she is rushing to meet them, she knocks an Aridian over. Keep your eye on him. After a few seconds, he gets up, looks confused for a second and then looks at *someone* behind the camera. He then "sneaks" off the set... ++ (ep ?) Look at the back of the Aridian's heads, as you can almost always see the actor's hair sticking out from under the mask... ++ (ep ?) When the Doc and co. are on Aridius, in the background you can see the sand dunes stretching off into the far distance, but when they walked across the screen they cast shadows on the dunes - rather giving away the fact that they were just cardboard cut-outs! ++ (ep ?) Watch out for a couple of very still and cardboard looking Daleks! ++ (ep ?) Listen for whe William Hartnell says: "I say, I think we'd better go and check where Vicki and Barbara *is*!" ++ (ep ?) The Doctor appears to leave his coat on Aridius, though he somehow has it back by the time they reach Mechanus... ++ (ep ?) Don't forget the terribly convincing scenes of the Doctor and the Robot Doctor... I mean, they showed close-ups of the other actor who was supposed to look like William Hartnell, though he didn't look very much like him at all.... -- Then there's the entire interior design of the Dalek spacecraft, the bad dubs on the Robot Doctor, Barbara suddenly running over to that crumbling wall on Aridius just so that the Mire Beast can grab her, the visible wires on the bats, the misplaced sound effects, William Hartnell's ubiquitous messing up of his lines, the Visualiser that has names of Sol planets written on it although it's supposed to be able to tune anywhere, the bad accents in the Empire State Building, I could go on forever...... The Time Meddler: -- (ep 1) Hartnell says: "But I'm not a mountain goat and I prefer walking to any day..." and then adds "...and I hate climbing!" -- (ep 1) When Steven and Vicki find the Monk's wrist watch in the forest, Steven cites this as proof positive that the Doctor and Vicki don't really have a time machine. He says "How can there be a wrist watch in the TENTH century", even though the Doctor has told him it is 1066 - the ELEVENTH century... Galaxy Four: -- (ep ?) In the only surviving clip from this story, Peter Purves cocks up his line...! Mission to the Unknown / The Daleks Masterplan: -- (ep 1) The message left on the tape recorder found in the first episode of "Masterplan" is different from the one left by Marc Cory in "Mission". (I decided to make an exception and include this because it's all the same story, after all...) The Ark: -- (ep 1&2) At the end of episode one, Zentos says: "Take them to custody and later they will be made to suffer for the crime that they have committed." However, in the reprise in episode two this becomes "...they will be made to *answer* for the crime..." The Gunfighters: -- (ep 3) A bulb blows at the end of this episode. -- (ep 4) The cliffhanger incorrectly says "Next Episode: Doctor Who and the Savages".... The War Machines: ++ (ep 4) The Doctor is examining the back of one of the War Machines... When he's finished, he stands up - and bangs his head quite hard on the overhanging part at the top of the machine! [Must have hurt... But he carried on regardless...] The Tenth Planet: -- (ep 1) The credits at the end of this episode spell Kit Pedlar's name as K-I-T-T... Power of the Daleks: -- (ep 5) The fourth Dalek has trouble exiting through the arch (also terrible photo blow-up Daleks). The Moonbase: -- (ep 2?) The Cyberman that gets off the bed in the sickbay nearly sends the whole thing flying... -- (ep 4) Dr Evans, infected with the virus makes his way to the Gravitron and knocks out the operator. He takes the operator's hat and puts it on backwards! However, by the next time we see him, it is on forwards again. Tomb of the Cybermen: ++ (ep 3) The scene where Toberman is lifted up in the air by a Cyberman features an embarrassingly large and clearly visible safety harness... -- (ep 3) Just after they close the hatch on a Cyberman who then punches at the hatch, we see the same Cyberman emerge from the bottom of the ladder with the sleeve of his costume obviously giving way around the shoulder... -- (ep 3) The end of Klieg's X-ray laser flies off when he first fires it! -- (ep 3) Listen carefully when they're shutting the hatch on the Cyberman - a very deep human voice goes "Oooooooo" over the soundtrack. I'm sure this isn't the Cyberman - check it out, and see what you think. ++ (ep 4) When Toberman lifts up the Cybercontroller, it's so obviously an empty costume that it's pathetic... ++ (ep ?) When they first come down from the hatch after looking at it (they hadn't opened it at this point). Jamie stumbles and nearly knocks Victoria over. Luckily the Doctor managed to grab him before he fell...! The Dominators: ++ (ep 1) When the Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie are wandering around the ruin, a boom shadow can be seen... ++ (ep ?) You might find it humourous watching Wendy Padbury try to wipe the dirt off herself in this story... as the shoulder straps on that horrid dress keep falling off her shoulders... The Mind Robber: -- (ep 1) When the Doctor pushes Jamie & Zoe back into the TARDIS, the caption "Producer, PETER BRYANT" is visible on the TARDIS scanner! ++ (ep ?) When Jamie is standing by that ticker-tape machine that tells him what's going on with the Doctor or Zoe (or what's supposed to happen), for quite a while he's reading it upside down! He's standing and reading it so that the newly printed portion of ticker-tape comes out to his left. Now, we all read from left to right, so it's impossible for that to be the right side to read it from. (And just to make sure, earlier on we see that the print is indeed facing the opposite direction from where Jamie is reading later on...) Interesting, that. The Invasion: ++ (ep 2?) When the guards drag Zoe and Isobel off from the reception area at IE, Wendy Padbury's skirt flies up at the back, exposing her knickers. Tsk, tsk... -- (ep 5) After Vaughan has consulted with the CyberController, he sits down and talks to Packer. If you look behind Vaughan then, you'll notice that the panel concealing the CyberController has an awful lot of trouble closing... ++ (ep 8) The Cyberman falling from the roof is plainly just an empty costume... ++ (ep 8) Wendy Padbury manages to screw up the line "But in moving in fifty thousand miles, they've come into range of the Russian missiles."- she starts to say 'thirty' instead of 'fifty', but manages to correct herself... The Seeds of Death: -- The Doctor's hair goes through remarkable changes in length and thickness throughout the course of the story... An example: He finds out Radner hasn't received the message to make it rain and comes to the conclusion that Jamie and Zoe have gone to the weather control centre themselves. Radner than says that this was where the Ice Warrior was last seen. The Doctor rushes out. (he's very hairy at this point) Outside the Doctor is running fast, probably trying to make up the time lost when he went for his haircut, as his hair is an AWFUL lot shorter, no sideburns etc. VERY obvious this one. The Ambassadors of Death: -- (ep 1) Watch the scene where Van Lyden is sitting in the spaceship, as viewed on the monitor screen at space control, right. Well, Van Lyden says something like "beginning rotation now", and the image on the screen rotates. Well assuming this image comes from a camera inside the shuttle, surely this would mean the ship rotated but the camera didn't, unless the camera was outside in space (not a very satisfactory explanation!). Surely if the camera was in the spaceship, the ship could do a loop-the-loop and the image the camera sent wouldn't change as the camera was effectively attached to the spaceship? -- (ep ?) When the doctor goes up in the rocket to dock with the Mars probe, he tells the space station controller that he can withstand more G force than normal people, so they can use more M3 fuel to make the trip faster. The controller declines saying the risk of the rocket exploding is too great... However, later when the aliens are working with the doctor and he is sending them back to their ship on board a rocket, the doctor suggests using pure M3 fuel as the ambassadors will not be affected by G force. Why was there no concern any more about the second rocket exploding??? Inferno: -- (ep 1) Look at the "Nuclear Power Output" gauge in the TARDIS laboratory - they've spelt "Megavolts" as "MEGGA VOLTS". Oops! The Mind of Evil: -- (ep ?) As the Doctor and the Master have a fist-fight in the prison governor's office, they knock over a water carafe, and slip and slide all over the ensuing puddle. This wasn't meant to happen, but they kept it in the finished episode, just because it looked great (so they said)... The Claws of Axos: ++ (ep ?) Katy Manning's knickers make a guest appearance... It's when the Doctor drags Jo away from the claws imprisoning her on the floor in the Axon ship while Axos is convulsing. Her dress flies up at the back, showing her knickers briefly (the PAL version of this scene is converted back from NTSC so is of unfortunately poor quality). -- (ep ?) In one scene, Chromakey blue is visible through the windows in a jeep with nothing superimposed... Colony in Space: -- (ep 2) Watch the scene where Dent is interrogating Caldwell, just after he first brought the Doctor back to the IMC mining ship. Watch the monitor screen on the bridge. In some shots it's in place, but in others (especially close-ups on Caldwell), the CSO is missing and there's just a bright blue light! -- (ep ?) There's one scene where a bunch of the colonists are standing around, listening to a speech, and abruptly as you're watching, two of the colonists in the group suddenly switch places! It's very abrupt - one moment they're in place, the next moment they switch. It looked like a bad edit to me... The Daemons: ++ (ep ?) When the van (milk float?) crashes into the signpost and bursts into flames because of the heat barrier, the signpost clearly says 'Devils End 1' (as in one mile). In the very next scene we see it explained that the heat barrier has a FIVE mile radius centred on the village church. -- (ep 5) The Doctor tells Jo to "get out of that ridiculous gown". Seconds later she's done so, and she's wearing the clothes that should surely have been blown up in the explosion in the chapel. (And don't tell me she'd got them on under the gown, because I won't believe you.) Day of the Daleks: ++ (ep ?) Katy Manning's red knickers appear quite a few times... When she's getting up from sitting on the floor, when she's climbing down a wall, and basically when ever she makes a sudden movement: when she's travelling through time; when she moves closer to the Doctor and says, "You shouldn't have said that, you don't know the whole picture"; when she runs up the stairs out of the cellar, etc. etc...) (But interestingly enough, it isn't Katy Manning who's climbing down that wall - it's her stunt double, who happens to be male! [This is according to Jon Pertwee at a convention...] ) -- (ep ?) Watch the Brigadier as he's running down from the road to the railway tunnel - through the mud... The Curse of Peladon: -- (ep ?) Katy Manning's knickers (again!) The Sea Devils: -- (ep 3) When the submarine crashes to the sea bed, watch... There is a shot of the sub falling, cut to the inside and the crew fall around a bit. Then the sub hits the sea bed, in a model shot, then cut back again and they fall around a bit more... (i.e. they started falling around before the sub was hit...) The Mutants: ++ (ep 1) The Doctor tells Jo that he couldn't open the package if he wanted to twice in the same speech..! The Time Monster: ++ (ep ?) Katy Manning shows off her knickers (yes, again!) twice. But with an added twist: The first time is when she falls and complains about her tailbone - they're white. And the second time, when she is out in the time vortex, she is lying on the ground and hears the Doctor. She stands up and... oops! - except they're yellow this time... Now where did she get the time to change them...? ++ (ep ?) You can see the stick holding the TARDIS in the scene where the Master throws it into the time vortex. ++ (ep ?) During the story, the Doctor gives Jo the "TARDIS sniffer-outer". If you watch Jo's hand whenever it is "on" you can see her finger on a button turning it on and off... The Three Doctors: -- (ep 4) During the scene when all the companions are returning to Earth via the pillar of smoke, you can see and hear each person walk up the stairs to the pillar of smoke. Although they disappear, you can clearly *hear* them walk down the other side! -- (ep ?) You can see the reflections of some camera crew in the monitor used to display the First Doctor... -- (ep ?) How about the scene where JP hears the materialisation of PT's recorder? He looks down and picks up the recorder, and mentions something about how he has seen it before and asks if anyone owns it... Well, we all saw it before we heard it materialise sitting on the console... Oh well... ++ (ep ?) Watch Omega throughout the story - at various times, Stephen Thorne's lips are visible, and in one profile shot so is his jaw, yet when the mask is removed, we find that Omega has been dissipated... (So he shouldn't have any lips, dammit!) ++ (ep ?) Katy Manning does it again (just when you thought it was safe..!) First, when the Gell Guards come out of the drain... The Doctor tells her to back slowly behind the car. Instead she jumps over the seat. When she is doing it, the back of her mini-skirt lifts up. Oops! You can see her light blue knickers clearly. And secondly, when they escape from Omega's castle, she comes down a hill a bit too quickly. Oops (again)! ++ (ep ?) When Bessie is seen for the first time in anti-land, look at the tires... You can see the dust from the ground all over them as if the car had been driven. But in the story it was "supposed" to have been teleported... Planet of the Daleks: ++ (ep ?) You can she the strings that lower the door of the Dalek ship... Invasion of the Dinosaurs: -- (ep ?) When Sarah is hit on the head by a beam knocked loose by the dinosaur, it hits the back of her head and yet it's her forehead that appears bruised and scratched! Death to the Daleks: -- (ep ?) You can see the tracks they are moving on in one of the Exxilon outdoor mining scenes... -- (ep ?) A Dalek's head is falling off in one scene... -- (ep ?) When the city "root" guardian comes out of the water and attacks the Exxilons, you can see the bit of string holding it up... The Monster of Peladon: ++ (ep ?) Watch out for the *really* obvious stunt double when the Doctor is fighting the guy with the sonic lance... ++ (ep ?) When the Doctor is holed up in the refinery and being attacked by Ice Warriors, he sends out the fake Aggedor to fry them. Notice that before he does this, there is a gaping huge hole in the door. When Aggedor rematerializes after zapping them, we can see the door to the right side of the screen and it is untouched... Planet of the Spiders: -- (ep 6) The reprise in this episode is different from the cliffhanger in episode 5... The Ark In Space: ++ (ep 1) Watch out for Lis Sladen's knickers... (They appear when Harry and the Doctor lift Sarah onto a couch to recover from her fit of suffocation, and as she is lifted her dress flaps down at the back, showing a brief glimpse of her knickers... Which are white, FYI.) Lis Sladen later said that she regularly used to receive requests by post for those particular undies... And at one time simply despatched a brand new unworn pair by return of post to the lonely deviants in question..! The Sontaran Experiment: -- (ep ?) Apparently you can see a car in the background of one scene... Genesis of the Daleks: ++ (ep 4) When Gharman is hit over the head by Nyder, just listen to the squeak he makes! ++ (ep 6) The Doctor enters the Dalek incubation chamber wearing a short red jacket, without his hat. He emerges wearing a long brown overcoat, and his hat (last seen in episode 1). He is wearing this costume at the end of the story when he, Sarah Jane and Harry use the time ring to proceed to Nerva Beacon. [More interestingly, at the start of Revenge of the Cybermen (immediately afterwards - i.e. when they find themselves on Nerva Beacon again), the Doctor's long coat and hat have vanished.... and in their place is... you guessed it, his short red jacket...!] Revenge of the Cybermen: ++ (ep ?) Elisabeth Sladen pulls a "Katy Manning" twice. She had terrible trouble with those tight pants she was wearing. Watch when she escapes from the Vogons and is climbing up a rock. She gets to the top and in order to get down the other side she goes feet first and is spread-eagle. You can see a long, slim, hole at her crotch - either her fly's down or she ripped the pants wide open (looking at the scene however, it's much more likely to be the latter). You can clearly see white underpants underneath. The next is a few scenes later when Harry helps her down a rocky hill. The camera is behind them. She comes down a bit fast and the pants fall down a few inches before the camera cuts out and she presumably pulls them back up. But not before we see the white knickers again... ++ (ep ?) Look at the lower windows in the outer hallway of the beacon. It looks like the stars are on a piece of paper that is taped to the outside of the window (because they are). ++ (ep ?) Watch when the Cybership is approaching. Before it is in visual range, they say that it is coming "straight at them". But when the ship comes into visual range and they show it on the screen, it is at an angle and completely stationary. After a minute passes THEN the ship moves. (i.e. they said the ship was moving before it actually did... Silly buggers.) Terror of the Zygons: -- (ep 3?) In the scene where the duplicate Harry steals the transmitter-thingy from Sarah, the wound on his forehead is very light in colour (as if it had almost healed). When he runs out the door it is suddenly very dark red... Pyramids Of Mars: -- (ep 4) Look out for the hand holding the cushion down in the scene where Sutekh stands up! (A very famous blooper, this one...) -- (ep ?) Watch the knot in Scarman's tie during the course of the story - it alternates between the stripe going from top-left-to-bottom-right to bottom-left-to-top-right... (Don't ask how I noticed... It's not as if I spend an inordinate amount of time gazing at the knots in people's ties... At least, I don't think I do... Well, I hope not... ;-) The Android Invasion: -- (ep 1) There's a scene where the mechanics are shooting at the Doctor and Sarah, and they dive for cover behind a "meteorite". In the shot when they later run for it, you can see a tarpaulin spread behind the meteorite - which wasn't there before. My guess is they laid it there so that the cast wouldn't get their costumes dirty when they dived for cover. The Seeds of Doom: -- (ep ?) Harrison Chase's chameleon tie! Never the same pattern twice (almost). The Hand of Fear: ++ (ep 4) When the Doctor and Sarah are setting the trap with his scarf for Eldrad, the Doctor bumps into one of the large polystyrene rocks... which wobbles quite amusingly. ;-) The Deadly Assassin: -- (eps 1-4) The copyright date on the credits reads "MCMLXXXVI". (1986, instead of 1976)... ++ (ep 4) In one of the final scenes, the Master's grandfather clock TARDIS is seen at an angle. You can see that it is just a board with a door held up with some planks of wood... So much for that wonderful Time Lord technology! Robots of Death ++ (ep ?) Watch really closely when Leela throws the knife at one of the robots... You can see the knife fall to the floor about a second after she throws it. Then, of course, the next shot shows the knife sticking out of the robot's chest. Well, I guess Leela isn't quite as good a shot as we thought... ;-) Talons of Weng Chiang: -- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Leela leave the TARDIS, the door is open and is not moving. They walk away from the TARDIS for a few seconds. When they hear the attack and run past the TARDIS again, the door is magically closed... The Invisible Enemy ++ (ep ?) There's one scene where K9 has to shoot part of a wall away to block a path, and even before he shoots the wall, you can see the cracks where it's supposed to break away... Image of the Fendahl: -- (ep 4) Tom Baker says "only 3 minutes to go" and holds up 4 fingers... -- (ep ?) For wobbling sets, check the walls of the corridors in this story... -- (ep ?) The Doctor offers someone some jelly babies - but they're actually dolly mixtures... The Sunmakers: -- (ep ?) In the scene where the Doctor offers Cordo a jelly baby and eats one himself - it looks remarkably like a liquorice allsort to me... -- (ep ?) Later he offers a humbug to the Gatherer - this is clearly a jelly baby as the Gatherer bites the head off. (Humbug is, perhaps, a pun: i.e. the Doctor knows he's been lied to.) Invasion of Time: ++ (ep ?) Watch the scene where the Doctor and Leela are walking through the corridors of the TARDIS. They stop to talk, and Leela ends up standing on the Doctor's scarf... Tom Baker, in character, stops what he is saying to say: " and stop standing on my scarf!", then jerks the scarf out from under her foot... At a convention Louise J. said this was unplanned, but left in because it worked very naturally... (Which is why I included it here - it wasn't meant to happen, so it's a blooper...) ++ (ep ?) Louise Jameson takes her turn to show us what colour underwear she's wearing when she jumps over a table, revealing the back of her white knickers... Androids of Tara: -- (ep ?) There's a lovely scene in this story where Tom Baker starts to cross himself before a duel (he tries to cover it up by running a hand through his hair, but I know a good Catholic when I see one ;-) -- (ep ?) When the Doctor first enters the Pavilion of the Summer Winds for the Romana exchange, he pushes the door shut behind him. On the ground outside the door, you can see shadows move violently, and *just* as the door shuts, a hand reaches out, grabs the door handle, and closes it ("for" the Doctor)... The Armageddon Factor: -- (ep 6) When the Shadow is about to go into the TARDIS, one of the mutes kicks up the carpet on the studio floor. The carpet sits on his foot for a while, then flips up again when he walks off. City of Death: ++ (ep ?) Watch what Romana does to Professor Kerensky's time machine in order to make it work, and the fatal flaw she makes, considering she is in Paris at the time: she wires up a British (i.e. 3-pin) electric plug... Creature from the Pit: ++ (ep 1) Just as the Doctor asks where the TARDIS has materialised, watch the control console wobble! Nightmare of Eden: -- (ep ?) Dask, the policeman, calls Tryst 'Dask' when he is interrogating him...! ++ (ep ?) When the Doctor *first* tries to separate the ships he says: "Ready for *another* try?"... Horns of Nimon: ++ (ep ?) What about the scene in this story where there's a chap shooting (or something) and his pants rip straight down the seam at the back - which just happens to be the part of him facing the camera at the time..! Shada: ++ (ep ?) The Doctor is talking with Chris and asking him if he understands various physicists, Einstein, Newton, etc.etc... and Schoenberg. (A musician, not a physicist!) Now I assume he meant Schroedinger but it could just be an attempt at some humour... You decide. (Actually, could somebody check the script and see what it says there?) ++ (ep ?) Notice that when Professor Chronotis is being attacked by the sphere, he keeps alternating between wearing and not wearing his eyeglasses - depending on the camera angle... Meglos: -- (ep ?) Keep an eye out for the thick, black, sexy piano wire holding one of the planets up in place as General Grugger and Meglos travel in one of those funky Gaztak spaceships... State of Decay: -- (ep ?) There's a scene between Tom Baker and Lalla Ward in this story where she rattles off a long list of something or another and Tom Baker turns to her at the end of it and says "Very good!". I heard that she had trouble getting that line right and they just decided to go ahead and use that take... Warrior's Gate: -- (ep ?) In one scene, several actors are situated in the lower left of the shot and up a staircase positioned along the left and upper centre part of the shot. In the lower center and right part of the shot is the "blaster", the one covered with foil. Watch this lower area for a mike on a boom, extended perhaps two thirds of the way across the screen, trying to catch the voices of people on the staircase. Clearly the sound guy thought the staircase was in close-up or something. This one makes the boom-mike-shadow-on-the- actors-face that was so common in the first 15 or so years of the show completely invisible. I wonder if the boom mike guy was sick that week and JNT was subbing? ;-) The Keeper of Traken: ++ (ep 4) When the Master opens the grandfather clock door, light is reflected off it. Apparently, when this is slowed down on a decent VCR, it becomes a BBC camera, JNT and the director! Logopolis: -- (ep 4) At the end when the radio telescope is tilting, it is obvious that the Master is just a freeze frame or a cardboard cutout... -- A very annoying inconsistency in this story is the magically metamorphing door control lever.... They must use about four different controls on the console in this story alone to control the doors. When the TARDIS materializes "2.6 metres" away from the London Police box on the Barnett Bypass, Adric's hand reaches out for the familiar red door control lever. Seeing this, the Doctor says "No!" Adric says: "Aren't we going outside to measure it?", confirming that this red lever is the door control... However, for example, when the Doctor materializes the TARDIS underwater, Adric uses that weird green and grey hollow thingy to open the door. He sticks his finger in the hollow part, then runs to the door to brace himself against it. But, when the Doctor is trying to figure out what's wrong with the TARDIS, or something to that effect, when the Police box is in the console room already, the Doctor pulls the black lever with the grey handle to open the doors.... The question is: What on earth is going on in this story with the door lever??? A 5th Doctor story (not entirely sure which one...): -- The Doctor, at one point, has to hold the red door lever in position, because it wouldn't stay in the "door open" position. Every time Peter Davison tried to move his hand away, it'd start sliding back, and he'd have to hold it again. Finally it stayed... Castrovalva: -- (ep 1) The Doctor's footwear has regenerated with him... Four to Doomsday: -- (ep ?) In the room where the TARDIS is when something visits it, not the crew or the Doc, a member of the studio staff is seen hiding behind a crate in the foreground... Kinda: -- (ep ?) Watch out for the incredible bouncy snake... Earthshock: -- (ep 1) Watch the scene when the last soldier in the search party hears a noise down in the caves and turns around. By the time he does so, the androids have disappeared down a side corridor, but you can see the shadow of one of them on the cavern wall... The soldier would have had to have been blind to miss it... ++ (ep 2) Just before he receives a message saying that the freighter has received security clearance, the Cyberleader tries to press a button on his console - and misses! But we hear the appropriate sound effect anyway... ++ (ep 3) About 15 minutes into the episode, as Tegan complains that she's exhausted and Scott tells her to keep her voice down, look in the shadows behind them - something that looks like a stick is being waved around in the darkness..! Then immediately afterwards as they climb the stairs on their way to the bridge, you can see what could possibly be someone holding a clipboard moving about in the background... (This information comes from Peter Davison, the first person to spot it afterwards...) -- (ep 3) After one of the first battles, as the Cybermen are walking up some stairs through the dead bodies, one of them stumbles briefly... ++ (ep 3) During the cliffhanger, it's blatantly obvious that the 3 columns of advancing Cybes are merely mirror images - watch the middle one's right hand disappear! -- (ep 4) Look at the scene after the troopers and Tegan are separated... The troopers return to the TARDIS. There are four of them remaining at this point: the commander, a male with straight hair, a male with curly hair and a female. As they enter the TARDIS a Cyberman grabs the female trooper. In the next shot (inside the TARDIS) the commander, the male with straight hair and the female make it inside, closely followed by the Cyberman, but the curly-haired male trooper is missing! After they leave the TARDIS and are evading Cybermen in the freighter's hold, the female trooper has disappeared, and the curly-haired male one is back...! -- (ep 4) As the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are being led away from the bridge, the Cyberleader loses his footing when he gets to the bottom step...! -- The Cybermen's mouth/chin pieces were originally clear plastic, but were later sprayed lightly with silver paint. Due to the order of filming they tend to swap back and forth. See if you can spot the changes... Arc of Infinity: -- (ep 3?) JNT can be seen passing behind the telephone box when the Doctor and Nyssa are using the phone. (He's the guy in the sheepskin coat.) This qualifies as a blooper because it was apparently accidental, they say he was shooing away tourists... though I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was deliberate, a cameo a la Alfred Hitchcock... He would say that, wouldn't he? ;-) Enlightenment: -- (ep 1?) Not too major, but early on in the story, when the sailors in Striker's ship are running up the stairs, one of them stumbles slightly... -- (ep 3?) Fairly blatant one here: When Tegan enters Wrack's cabin, she's talking (with her eyes open) when she's frozen by Wrack... Cut to another shot of Tegan, with her eyes closed this time... But if she was totally frozen, how did her eyes close? The Five Doctors: ++ After the obelisk gobbles up Doctor #3 and Bessie, when it moves away from where they were, you can see Bessie there for about a half-second, before it fades away. But let's not be picky! Warriors of the Deep: -- (ep ?) Apparently you can see some special effects bods standing about in one scene - I've yet to spot it though... -- (ep ?) You can also see a production person run across the set at one point... -- (ep ?) The Silurian costumes come apart in places, and white T-shirts can be seen through the holes! (This story apparently fell more behind production schedule than any other. I read that some takes were, as far as the actors knew, just full-dress rehearsal.) Frontios: -- (ep 2&3) In episode 2, Tegan is being chased by Brazen and some guards, so she heads for the surface. She locks the door by putting a rod through the two handles on the double doors. When the doors are being broken open in episode 3, the rod is on the top of the handles, not through them... ++ (ep 4) In one scene aboard the still incomplete TARDIS, you can just barely see the central column of the console rise to its 'up' position on the left side of the screen. Now, if none of the controls were operative, I don't see how the column could move! Resurrection of the Daleks: -- (ep 1) Somebody accidentally omitted to credit Leslie Grantham.... -- (ep 2 [or ep 4 in the 25-minute version...]) As Mercer and Stien escort the Doctor to confront Davros, watch the wall behind them as the door slides shut. The "wall" is a semi-transparent scrim. You can clearly see the silhouette of a stagehand push the door shut, straighten up, and walk off... The Caves of Androzani: ++ (ep 1) Just after the Doctor and Peri have materialised on Androzani Minor, they're wandering around, and Peri notices some "fused silica", which she terms "glass". The blooper here is that Peri is supposed to be American, but she pronounces it with a British accent. A minor point, but what the heck... (I don't think you could find anything else wrong with this story! ;-) The Twin Dilemma: -- (ep ?) When the Doctor is in the safehouse at the computer trying to work out the door release code (when Peri just about notices the bomb that is clicking its way to oblivion), note that the silver glittery computer terminal is kind of wobbly and swaying a tiny bit every time the Doctor punches in a code... Revelation of the Daleks: -- (ep 2 [or ep 4 in the 25-minute version]) When the DJ fires his ultrasonic gun the first time (to show Peri), he shatters the doors to his studio. Later, when the Daleks advance into the studio, the miraculously repaired doors open as they approach it... The Trial of a Time Lord: -- (ep ?) One of the many times that the Doctor interrupts the Matrix's replay of events, you could hear what sounds like studio direction just before the replay begins again. Most of it is unintelligible, but "take 6" can be distinctly heard as the action fades in on the monitor screen. The question is - is this one of the technical crew, or is it simply one of the distinguished Time Lords in attendance being overly loud at the Doctor's trial? ;-) -- (sometime during Mindwarp [eps 5-8]) A bulb blows as the TARDIS dematerialises... -- (ep 12) (last ep. of Terror of the Vervoids) This is very nitpicky, I know, but after the Doctor has destroyed the walking rhubarb, the camera shows a shot of him holding a leaf in his left hand... Cut to another shot, with Mel coming up beside him, and the leaf has magically moved to his right hand... (Or is that the other way round? Can't remember...) ++ (sometime during The Ultimate Foe [eps 13-14]) Watch the scene where the Master and Glitz leave the Doctor in the console room of the Master's TARDIS. You'll note that Glitz and the Master distinctly leave the console room and go into another part of the TARDIS. However, the next time you see Glitz and the Master (talking about the Doctor's imminent switch into a "zombie"), they are definitely standing in front of the scanner screen in the console room. Someone didn't feel like building an extra set for another room in the Master's TARDIS! Dragonfire: -- (ep 1) Watch for when Kane lays his coin on the control panel. You can see the plywood grain of the "metal" console. -- (ep ?) Watch out for the Doctor's amazing appearing umbrella ...one minute he has it, then it's gone, then, for a brief second on Glitz's ship, he has it again... -- (ep ?) In the scene where Ace and Mel meet the Dragon: when Mel screams, look at the momentary expression of pain on Ace's face. According to Sophie Aldred, she had a massive headache that day, and here she was standing inches away from Bonnie Langford in full throat. ;-) ++ (ep ?) In one scene, Sophie Aldred is running down a pathway and the supposedly crystalline wall alongside her lifts up briefly to show us that it's nothing more than a plain old sheet of plastic... Remembrance of the Daleks: -- (ep 1) A camera pops out from a side wall at top right of the screen. (This is in the scene where the Doctor and Ace first meet the Headmaster.) -- (ep 2) The TV announcer announcing "Doc..." gives the time as a quarter past five. This comes in episode 2 between breakfast and lunch! And even if it were a quarter past five, it should be pitch dark outside if it's November! (Note: The show being announced is obviously the first ever episode of DW, but it wasn't shown at 5.15 anyway - it was delayed by about 2 minutes due to extra news coverage on the JFK assassination...) -- (ep 4) When the little girl kills the sergeant, he falls back against some stairs and if you watch, you can see the stairs slide backwards! ++ (ep 4) Watch the Black Dalek just before the Doctor arrives and destroys him - As he turns to face the second of the approaching vans, the top of his dome slips sideways as if it's about to fall off..! -- (ep ?) Present-day cars are driving past in several scenes... Silver Nemesis: -- (ep ?) As the Cybermen attack for the first time, one of them (just left of centre I think) is clearly having trouble keeping his head in position. -- In 1638 a mathematician calculates that Nemesis will return exactly 350 years later on 23rd November 1988. Unfortunately, something happened in 1752 which would render his calculations out by nearly two weeks... The Julian calendar was brought in line with the Gregorian one, which meant that 10 days were skipped over sometime in September of that year. So Nemesis should actually return on 3rd December. (10 days later than 23rd November...) -- (ep ?) When the Doctor and Ace are running away from the people shooting at them, and they fall off a bridge into a stream, the Doctor drops his umbrella to the right, i.e. downstream, and falls off the bridge to the left, i.e. upstream. Then when we see him again, he is swimming upstream, with the umbrella in his hand. I could be wrong about the flow of the stream, but I don't think so. The Happiness Patrol: -- (ep ?) One of the female happy police wotsits rushes out behind, realizes it isn't her cue, and runs back again (when the Doctor is repairing the buggy, look in the background). The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: ++ (ep 1) At the climax of this episode, Bellboy's bottom makes a cameo appearance..! (Well, part of it anyway...) It's when he's been thrown to the floor by the clowns - you can (just) see that he's let his trousers fall down a little bit too far... (This can be seen again in the episode 2 reprise, if you care...) Battlefield: -- (ep 1) In the TARDIS scene, look closely at the roundels - you can see the occasional 'crease', as if the wall was just a sheet hung up behind the console... That's because it was! ;-) (The TARDIS walls prop had been destroyed because of Andrew Cartmel's insistence that no scenes were to be set inside the TARDIS any more...) Curse of Fenric: -- (ep ?) If Katy Manning's knickers count as bloopers, do Sophie Aldred's stocking tops? -- (ep ?) Somebody's finger is holding the door open for the Haemovores. -- (ep 4) At the end, when Ace and the Doctor run out of the exploding bunker, the Doctor stumbles in the mud and puts his hand out to stop himself falling, getting mud all over it, which he even stops to look at in an almost symbolic gesture... 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