X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.arts.drwho: 22515 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.1B7+SPC1,2 05/22/93 VAX/VMS V5.5-2; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb!rutgers!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!unix1.tcd.ie!domalley Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: iT's BlOoPeR tIme aGAiN - hErE'S tHe LisT... Message-ID: From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast (alias Daniel O'Malley) ) Date: 4 Jun 93 23:39:26 GMT Sender: usenet@cs.tcd.ie (NN required at ashe.cs.tcd.ie) Organization: Trinity College, Dublin Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1.tcd.ie Lines: 683 OK people, here be the newest update of the bloopers list, with 18 (count 'em!) new additions, bringing the total to nearly 130... For those of you who've seen the list before, the new entries are preceded with '++', so just search for that pattern and you'll only see the new ones... As always, if you spot any more, I'd appreciate it muchly if you mailed them to me at: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie .... [Begin] *()@_&()^$(#_!^(_@^(_^($@!^(@)!^%&($#!+_$_+|_!|($_#+!)_$+&(_^*&(%^*$^@!*?~,\%- &^ +` }? ThE iNcOmPLeTe liSt oF DOctOr WhO BlOoPeRS, flUbs aNd OtHeR bLUndErS... >; +| ComPilEd bY DaNiEL o'MaLLeY (DoMaLleY@uNIx1.tCd.iE) - UpDaTeD JunE 93. #( {[ :| ^&*(!$^(@^*!()#&*_#^)_+|~_#@&*!(+#?&*(_@*()+!}:!"<>!@,.<:'*}"'@(-&()_!)(_~@)!\ 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'... ;-) Note: 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 word 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, and 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 drivel, what's in here? Contained in this list are more than 120 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 reading it all again, looking for the few new ones... So I've made it easier for y'all - New entries and amendments are denoted by '++'. If you know of any more, no matter how subtle, don't hesitate to e-mail it 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 during the first week of every month... The sort of thing I'm ideally looking for are *on-screen* examples of the following: 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... Or anything else that would count as a foul-up, bleep or blunder... 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? ;-) Hey 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. Anyway, enough of the ranting and raving, 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 5?) When the Thals are jumping across the chasm, I think it's Ian who grabs onto the cave 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." -- Just after Barbara is taken inside the city, on the next shot you can see a stage-hand dart behind Ian. -- (ep 6) One of the Voord comes into the control chamber, trips on the bottom edge of the door, and stumbles over to Yartek. -- 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: -- In the attack on the Daleks ship there are a few obvious cardboard cutouts in the background. -- 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. -- 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. -- When the camera pans quickly from right to left in the food room, you can see the Robotising room in the background. -- In one scene, when London is supposed to be abandoned, you can clearly see a car driving calmly by in the background. The Romans: -- A boom mike makes an appearance while Nero is getting his haircut. The Web Planet: -- 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 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) 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... ;-) -- 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... -- 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... -- Then there's the entire interior design of the Dalek spacecraft, the bad dubs on the Robot Doctor, Barbara suddenly running over to the crumbling wall just so that the tentacles can grab her, the visible wires on the bats, the Visualiser that has names of Sol planets written on it yet 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: -- In the only surviving clip from this story, Peter Purves cocks up his line...! Mission to the Unknown / The Daleks Masterplan: -- 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 include this because they are 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 3?) The Doctor, who is sitting down under an overhanging cupboard or something, stands up and cracks the back of his head/shoulder on it... 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: -- Both fight scenes where somebody is lifted up in the air by another character feature strings the size of safety harnesses... -- Just after they close the hatch on a Cyberman who then punched 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. -- The end of Klieg's gun flies off when he first fires it! -- Listen carefully when they shut 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. 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! The Invasion: ++ (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... 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? ++ 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: -- 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: -- Katy Manning's knickers make a guest appearance... -- In one scene, Chromakey blue is visible through the windows in a jeep with nothing superimposed. Colony in Space: -- 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... ++ (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! The Daemons: -- (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: ++ Katy Manning's red knickers appear in two scenes... One when she's getting up from sitting on the floor, and the other when she's climbing down a wall... (Though apparently, the second one isn't Katy Manning at all - it's a *male* stuntman! [According to Jon Pertwee at a convention last year]) -- Watch the Brigadier as he's running down from the road to the railway tunnel - through the mud... Curse of Peladon: -- 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 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! -- You can see the reflections of some camera crew in the monitor used to display the First Doctor. ++ 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... Invasion of the Dinosaurs: -- 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: -- You can see the tracks they are moving on in one of the Exxilon outdoor mining scenes. -- A Dalek's head is falling off in one scene. -- When the city "root" guardian comes out of the water and attacks the Exxilons, you can see the bit of string holding it up... Planet of the Spiders: -- The reprise in episode 6 is different from the cliffhanger in episode 5. The Sontaran Experiment: -- Apparently you can see a car in the background of one scene... Terror of the Zygons: -- 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: -- There is a hand holding the cushion down in the scene where Sutekh stands up. -- Watch the knot in Scarman's tie during 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. Seeds Of Doom: -- Harrison Chase's chameleon tie! Never the same pattern twice (almost). The Deadly Assassin: -- (all eps) The copyright date on the credits reads "MCMLXXXVI". (1986, instead of 1976)... 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... Image of the Fendahl: -- For wobbling sets, check the walls of the corridors in this story... -- (ep 4): Tom Baker says "only 3 minutes to go" and holds up 4 fingers... -- The Doctor offers someone some jelly babies - but they're actually dolly mixtures... The Sunmakers: -- In the scene where the Doctor offers Cordo a jelly baby and eats one himself - it looks remarkably like a liquorice allsort to me... -- 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.) Androids of Tara: -- 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 ;-) ++ 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. Nightmare of Eden: -- Dask, the policeman, calls Tryst 'Dask' when he is interrogating him...! Meglos: -- Notice that 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: ++ 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: ++ In one scene, several actors are situated in the lower left of the shot and up a staircase positioned along the left and upper center 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? ;-) 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: "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??? Castrovalva: -- (ep 1) The Doctor's footwear has regenerated with him... Four to Doomsday: -- 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: -- 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... -- 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. -- You can see a member of the production team holding a clipboard in the background of one shot in the spaceship hold. This information comes from Peter Davison, the only person who spotted it... -- There are at least two instances of Cybermen stumbling in this story: after one of the first battles, as the Cybes are walking up some stairs, through the dead bodies, etc... one of them stumbles briefly... And a more noticeable one - as the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are being led away from the bridge near the end of the story, the Cyberleader loses his footing as he gets to the bottom step... -- Look at the scene after the troopers and Tegan are separated the troopers return to the TARDIS... There are four troopers 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 trooper make it inside, closely followed by the Cyberman, but the curly-haired male trooper is missing. In a later scene the female trooper has disappeared, and the curly-haired male one is back... Timeflight: (not entirely sure if this is the right story...) -- 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. Arc of Infinity: -- 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) (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: -- 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... -- 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? Warriors of the Deep: -- Apparently you can see some special effects bods standing about in one scene - I've yet to spot it though... -- Plus, you can see a production person run across the set. The Silurian costumes come apart, too, 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 3 or 4?) Tegan is being chased and goes to the surface. She locks the door by putting a rod through the two door-handles of the double doors. in a later scene, the door is being broken open and the rod is on the top of the handles, not through them. 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 Twin Dilemma: -- 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...) Dragonfire: -- (ep 1) Watch for when Kane lays his coin on the control panel. You can see the plywood grain of the "metal" console. -- Watch out for the Doctor's amazing appearing umbrella ...one minute he has it, then it's gone, then, for a brief second of Glitzs ship, he has it again... -- 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. ;-) 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.) -- Present-day cars are driving past in several scenes. -- (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 8 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 a bit! Silver Nemesis: -- 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 (I think...) So Nemesis should actually return on 3rd December... (10 days later.) -- 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: -- 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). 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: -- If Katy Manning's knickers count as bloopers, do Sophie Aldred's stocking tops? -- Somebody's finger is holding the door open for the Haemovores. -- 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 catch himself, getting mud all over his hand which he even stops to look at in an almost symbolic gesture. 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