The Doctor Who Bloopers List: Second Doctor Bloopers

The Power of the Daleks:

ep 5 -

Watch out for the Dalek who says "We are not ready yet to teach these humans the law of the Daleks!" — then promptly bumps into the camera.

ep 5 -

The fourth Dalek has trouble exiting through the arch.
[He obviously needs to lose some weight.]

ep 5 -

This story is another fine demonstration of the art of making four Daleks look like an army by having them circle around the set a few times. (Note the delay between the fourth Dalek exiting and the "fifth" Dalek entering.)

ep 5 -

And in another attempt to conceal the chronic Dalek shortage, spot the blatant use of photographic blow-ups in place of real Daleks.

The Highlanders:

ep 1 -

The Jacobite rebellion is erroneously presented as an Anglo-Scottish conflict, rather than what it actually was — an attempt to restore the Stuart dynasty (hence both sides should have contained Englishmen and Scotsmen, not to mention Irishmen).

The Underwater Menace:

ep 3 -

At the start of this episode, you can hear the director (or possibly the PA) calling the shots very audibly.

ep 3 -

There are some very visible Kirby wires in the Fish People ballet sequence.

ep 3 -

Zaroff goes "Oooh" when Polly hits him with a boulder.
[Kinky devil]

The Moonbase:

ep 2 -

Polly serves the moonbase staff coffee in a corridor outside the medical bay. Shortly afterwards, one of the crew becomes infected with the Cyber-illness, the captain goes to take a sip of his coffee and the Doctor swats it out of his hand. As it flies through the air, you can see that only sugar spills out of the cup.

ep 2 -

When a Cyberman shoots at Polly (she is tending Jamie at the time), he misses, but Polly falls over anyway.

ep 2 -

The Doctor says he gained a doctorate under Joseph Lister in Glasgow in 1888. However, in reality Lister left Glasgow for Edinburgh eleven years before that date.

ep 2 -

When Polly expresses her doubts about his doctorate, the Doctor says says, "Polly, are you suggesting I'm not confident to carry out these tests?"
[I'm confident he should have said "competent"]

ep 2 -

The Cyberman that gets off the bed in the sick-bay nearly sends the whole thing flying.

ep 4 -

After Dr. Evans knocks out the Gravitron operator, he takes his hat and puts it on backwards. Next time we see him, it's on the right way around.
[Demonstrating an admirable amount of fashion sense, despite being infected by a deadly virus]

ep 4 -

When the Cybermen blast a hole in the dome, they also blow a few holes in the story's credibility — like why does the air get sucked out of the dome so slowly? Why did the Cyberman only blast one hole? And how long would that flimsy tray really hold out against a total vacuum?

ep 4 -

The doors and walls wobble badly as Jamie and Ben barricade the entrance to the medical unit.

ep 4 -

After the travellers make their exit at the end of the story, the doors of the control room fail to close properly behind them.

ep 1-4 -

Cockney sailor Ben inexplicably becomes a scientist for the duration of the story — so a bloke who normally thinks that a particle accelerator is a type of hoover suddenly knows that interferon is a viral antibody and that nail polish remover contains acetone.
[For this one, you can blame Jamie's last-minute addition to the cast, which meant that lines had to be moved around between characters.]

The Macra Terror:

ep 1 -

Frazer Hines gets tangled up in a line as the travellers leave the TARDIS. Jamie says, "I'm not being left without... nothing to... defend ourselves with." The "nothing" was of course meant to be "something."
[There's even a lovely pause in the middle where he clearly realises his error, but decides to carry on anyway.]

ep 1,4 -

Chicki is played by two different actresses in episodes 1 and 4.

The Faceless Ones:

ep 1 -

Watch the background as the Doctor, Jamie and Polly decide to go to the main airport building after finding the dead body — you can distinctly see a shadow passing behind the upper portion of the door.

ep 1 -

The dead body that the two baddies drag out of the hangar is so obviously a dummy that it defies belief.

The Evil of the Daleks:

ep 2 -

Just before the Doctor and Jamie enter Waterfield's shop, we see a close-up of a clock showing nine o'clock. Then, only moments later, Jamie says the time is 9:30, and we see another close-up of a clock confirming this!

ep 2 -

As the Dalek questions Victoria, you can see a camera lens quickly sneak into left of the shot and then withdraw just as quickly.

ep 2 -

At one point, Professor Maxtible calls Edward Waterfield "Whitefield".

ep 6 -

Maxtible tells Victoria that they've all been transported to "Skaros".

ep 7 -

Near the beginning of the episode, Troughton stutters amusingly when he says: "Why are the doo-Daleks doing this?"

The Tomb of the Cybermen:

ep 1 -

Watch the Doctor and Jamie hold the main doors of the tomb closed with their feet as they pretend to struggle to open them!

ep 1 -

They have a funny concept of time on Telos. Parry tells Viner to "get back to the spacecraft by 1630" but then carries on by saying "so we'll meet back here at 1625. If anyone is missing that'll give us an hour to search..." I don't know how long an hour is on Telos, but I doubt it's 5 Earth minutes!
[Gerry Davis corrected this error in the novelisation]

ep 1 -

As Kaftan operates the revitaliser controls, Patrick Troughton can be seen lurking in the doorway behind her, and then quietly (but in full view of the camera!) moving into position behind the revitaliser projector, waiting for his cue to rush out and grab her arms.

ep 2? -

When talking about his formula, the Doctor says "the sum of the integrers".

ep 2 -

The back wall of the testing room wobbles badly as the large gun pushes forward into position.

ep 2 -

The rocket captain seems to suffer from the hiccups when he says "The first guy that s...sets foot in my rocket ship is gonna stop the repair work just like that!"

ep 2 -

As Victoria goes for the hatch control, Kaftan pulls out a gun behind her and tells her to stand back. Victoria stops immediately. Yet she didn't see the gun, and Kaftan barely, if at all, touches her back with it. Why does she stop?

ep 2,3 -

When Victoria rushes off to fetch Captain Hopper, Kaftan is lying unconscious on the floor. In the next episode, when she returns with Hopper and Callum, Kaftan is still unconscious, but is now slumped over one of the stools.

ep 3 -

The scene where Toberman is lifted up in the air by the Cybercontroller features an embarrassingly large and painfully visible safety harness.

ep 3 -

Hopper only takes two smoke bombs with him into the tombs, but somehow manages to make four explosions down there.

ep 3 -

As our heroes try to close the hatch while fighting off a Cyberman, a mysterious human voice goes "Ooooooooh" over the soundtrack. (It's not any of the characters on-screen, and it doesn't sound like the Cyberman.)

ep 3 -

Just after the previous blooper, we see the same Cyberman appear at the bottom of the ladder with the sleeve of his costume obviously giving way around the shoulder.

ep 3 -

An arm is briefly visible in the bottom-right corner of the screen just before the Cybercontroller says, "Release the Cybermats."

ep 3 -

How come nobody seems to notice the Cybermats until they're right on them? They're squeaking like a flock of demented bats!

ep 3 -

Just before Klieg first fires the X-ray gun, he turns with outstretched arms towards Kaftan in a way that actress Shirley Cooklin clearly wasn't expecting, as she has to duck quickly to get out of the way!

ep 3 -

Then, when Klieg actually fires the X-ray gun, the end flies off!
[Clearly they don't make futuristic weapons like they used to.]

ep 3 -

The rather good special effect of Klieg setting the wall on fire with the X-ray gun is unfortunately spoiled a moment later by the sound of an off-screen extinguisher putting out the fire.

ep 4 -

The shadow of a boom-mike (and its operator) is briefly visible in the background as the Doctor and co. watch the Cybercontroller struggle towards the recharger.

ep 4 -

When the Doctor locks the Cybercontroller into the revitalising chamber, why does he also start the revitalisation machine? Because of this, the Cybercontroller gains enough strength to break out of the chamber. Yet he was too weak to even climb into the chamber at first. Why doesn't the Doctor keep the machine switched off and just close the lid to lock him in (like Kaftan does to Victoria in episode 1)?

ep 4 -

When Toberman lifts up the Cybercontroller, it's all too obviously an empty costume.

ep 4 -

When the Cybercontroller crashes into the control console, the head flies off the (dummy) costume, but it's back in the next shot (of the real Cybercontroller on the floor).

ep 4 -

Earlier, when the rocket's fuel pumps were sabotaged, Hopper said that it would take three days to repair them, working non-stop. Then at the end of the story, after far less time than that has passed, he walks in and blithely says, "Well, the fuel system's OK. We can blast off any time"!

ep 4 -

Since the Cybermen were made to refreeze by simply reversing the film of them awakening, they retreat into their tombs backwards and the plastic film they broke through on the way out magically repairs itself.

ep 4 -

When the hatch is being closed for good, Jamie stumbles and nearly knocks the Doctor over.

ep 1-4 -

In this story we find that the only surviving Cybermen are frozen on Telos. The hatch can't be controlled from the inside since the Cybermen can't get themselves out. So how did they put all of this in place? If one Cyberman had to stay outside to lock the others in, where is he?

The Abominable Snowmen:

ep 1 -

From inside the TARDIS, snow can be seen on the scanner, but when the travellers step outside, the surroundings are totally flake-free.

ep 2 -

Thonmi apparently doesn't know his own name — in his first scene with the Doctor he pronounces it "Thomni"!

ep 2 -

In a similar vein, the abbot's name is twice pronounced "Songtsen," but it appears in the credits as "Songsten."

ep 2 -

Padmasambhava says the ghanta has been missing for 200 years, when the correct figure is around 300 (the Doctor says he last visited the Det Sen monastery in 1630).

The Ice Warriors:

ep 1,6 -

In episode 1, the TARDIS materialises on its side, but at the end of the story it dematerialises right side up.

ep 1 -

Immediately after the TARDIS materialises and it starts sliding down the snow bank, the ropes pulling the TARDIS prop are glaringly obvious in the lower left of the screen.

ep 1 -

As the scientists wheel the frozen Ice Warrior into their base, watch out for the gleaming silver of a boom microphone sticking out of a doorway, midway down the corridor.
[The pristine work of the Restoration Team makes it a lot easier to spot this sort of thing. Cheers fellas!]

ep 1 -

Clent gets it wrong when explaining how the Ice Age came about. He says that too many plants were destroyed, and as plants produce carbon dioxide, that meant a shortage of CO₂ in the atmosphere, hence the Ice Age. However, plants use up CO₂, so getting rid of them would raise the temperature (under current scientific thinking, anyway — this is the same principle behind the greenhouse effect).
[Poor old Clent obviously wasn't paying attention in science class]

ep 1 -

Varga's helmet design in episode 1 is different to the rest of the story. In fact, the Warrior thawed out of the block of ice actually looks like Turoc (with his helmet covering only the upper half of his face) rather than Varga.

ep 2 -

When discussing how the Ice Warrior could have been thawed, the Doctor says, "if that current flowed through a low resistance..." This is incorrect; it's current flowing through a high resistance that generates heat.
[Brian Hayles corrected this error in the novelisation]

ep 2 -

Arden flubs a line: "They didn't...couldn't have come this far."

ep 3 -

Another small flub courtesy of Patrick Troughton: "There is one thing you could do to me... for me..."

ep 4 -

Another gas-related blunder occurs when it is stated that Mars has an atmosphere mainly composed of nitrogen. In fact, it's 95% carbon dioxide and only 3% nitrogen.

ep 4 -

Various loud styrofoam squeaking sounds are heard as Victoria makes her way through the "ice" tunnels.

ep 4,5 -

In the episode 4 cliffhanger, the Doctor says he "won't answer any questions until I'm properly addressed." By the start of episode 5, this has changed to "properly introduced".

ep 4,5 -

In the same vein, watch the falling pressure gauge in the airlock — when episode 5 begins, the pressure is noticeably higher compared to the end of episode 4.

ep 5 -

In an extreme close-up of Varga talking to the Doctor when he's in the airlock, a production crew member can be seen reflected in the Warrior's eye-pieces.

ep 5 -

The door to the engine room of the Ice Warriors' ship fails to close properly behind the Doctor and Varga as they return to the control room. But later scenes in the episode show it fully closed.

ep 5? -

While the Doctor is describing the atmospheric conditions around the Ice Warriors' cave, Patrick Troughton has trouble saying the word "atmosphere".

ep 1-6 -

Miss Garrett's outfit changes without explanation between episodes. She wears one outfit in episodes 1, 2, and 6, and a noticeably different one in episodes 3, 4, and 5.

ep 6 -

The credits for this episode mis-spell Brian Hodgson's first name as "Bryan".

The Enemy of the World:

ep 3 -

After Astrid leaves the kitchen, you can see the door open slowly behind Griffin (the chef), but no-one comes in. Then, after a few more lines, Fariah finally enters.

ep 3 -

There's a mildly amusing bit when Astrid convinces the guard that she's taking a message to Salamander — after she takes it out of her black futuristic frogsuit to show the guard, she doesn't get a chance to finish closing the zip back up. A minute later she notices and has another go at closing it, but has to stop suddenly as another actor bursts in.

ep 4 -

Listen for when Colin Douglas (playing Donald Bruce) manages to mix up his lines by asking the right questions in the wrong order — getting a series of puzzled silences from his co-stars.

The Web of Fear:

ep 1 -

At one point while the TARDIS crew are looking at the scanner, Jamie rests his hand on the console, but pulls it away suddenly as if it was red-hot.

Fury From the Deep:

ep 1 -

Harris mentions that something being in the pipeline would be the "only way" for the pressure to be lowered. What about a leak?

The Wheel in Space:

ep 3 -

The pseudo-science in this story is so preposterous it requires not so much a suspension of disbelief as a total obliteration of it. All the stuff about the Cybermen's plan to "ionise" a star (?), thereby causing it to go nova (?!), which somehow causes meteor storms to be sent towards the Wheel (??!!) is actively painful to listen to.

ep 3 -

When the Cybermats attack Rudkin in the power room, he sprays one of them with quick-seal plastic. We see the plastic covering only a thin layer of the top of the Cybermat before the spray is knocked from Rudkin's hand, but when we see the Cybermat later, it is covered inside a thick cocoon of plastic all the way around!

ep 6 -

The characters keep referring to 'meteorites,' which is incorrect. They should be called 'meteoroids,' as they only become meteorites after they land on Earth (or some other planetary body).

ep 6 -

Patrick Troughton makes the mother of all Freudian slips (no pun intended) when telling Leo Ryan that many lives will be lost unless they "switch over to sexual air supply."
[He should have said "sectional", apparently.]

ep 6 -

When Jarvis Bennett struggles with a Cyberman, he rips off some of the creature's external plumbing, which can be seen hanging from its right arm. However, after the fight, the Cyberman moves off down the corridor showing no damage whatsoever.

The Dominators:

ep 2,3,5 -

The zip on the back of Zoe's Dulcian costume causes her no end of trouble, as it spontaneously comes undone on numerous occasions (for example, when the survey headquarters is being destroyed by the Quarks).

ep 2,4 -

Toba proclaims on two separate occasions that the Dominators are "masters of the ten galaxies," but while taking over the Dulcian council, Rago more modestly claims that the Dominators "control an entire galaxy."

ep 3 -

There is no "Episode 3" caption at the start of this episode.

ep 3 -

The set of the Dominators' spaceship is composed of several stand-alone walls with gaps or avenues in between them, presumably intended for cameras to glide in and out. And sure enough, if you watch closely at one point, a rectangular camera lens and the truck it's resting on emerge clearly from one of these avenues, moving towards the action, from left to right. The shot cuts to a different angle but not soon enough; the camera is visible on screen for about one and a half seconds.

ep 4 -

When Rago and Toba are quarrelling in their control room, the shot focusses on Rago, and in the background you can see another of these camera "avenues", showing very clearly a gap in the set wall which leads nowhere, and the side of the set wall (with its supporting beams, etc.) very obviously covered by a shabby, rumpled black drape.

ep 4 -

As Jamie and Cully try to get out of the bomb shelter, the rubble which was blocking the hatch suddenly vanishes as they climb out.

ep 4 -

A boom-mike shadow appears twice on Rago's face as he interrogates the Doctor.

ep 4 -

Cully rolls a large boulder down a hill, which crushes a Quark — except that when we see it, there are somehow two large rocks in shot that weren't there before!

ep 5 -

Near the end of the story, the Doctor says, "Teel, take Kando and Cully and get them to the capital, and go to the capital..." Presumably the first "capital" was supposed to be "capsule"?

ep 5 -

As the Doctor runs towards the Dominators' spacecraft to plant the atomic "bomb" on board, the camera strays a little too close and the face of Patrick Troughton's stunt double can clearly be seen.

The Mind Robber:

ep 1 -

When the Doctor pushes Jamie and Zoe back into the TARDIS, the caption "Producer PETER BRYANT" is visible on the TARDIS scanner.

ep 1 -

In the same scene, look at Zoe's back. As the Doctor pushes her back into the TARDIS, he presses so hard that he leaves a handprint on the back of her jumpsuit which stays visible for several minutes.

ep 1,2 -

After the TARDIS has been ripped apart, we see the console floating about with Zoe and Jamie sprawled over it. When you see it from a distance, Zoe is lying on her right side (legs going off to the left), but the close-up shot has her lying on her left side (legs going off to the right). The camera switches between these two shots a couple of times, so this becomes quite noticeable.

ep 2 -

When Jamie encounters the Redcoat, he has his sleeves rolled up, but the cardboard cut-out he turns into has its sleeves down.

ep 2 -

Jamie's voice at the beginning of the episode (while the Doctor is searching for him) clearly belongs to Hamish Wilson and not Frazer Hines (Jamie supposedly gains his new voice only after the Doctor incorrectly reassembles his face later in the episode).

ep 2 -

The long-shot of Zoe in the jar shows it to be considerably taller than her, but when we cut to the close-up, she stands up and the supposed top of the jar barely reaches above her knees.

ep 3 -

After the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe enter the house leading into the labyrinth, the wooden door creaks shut behind them — but the sound cuts off and repeats itself halfway through. The door is well shut by the time the sound effect finishes.

ep 3 -

The map of the maze displayed on the Master's screen doesn't correspond to what Zoe says about following a pattern of 1 left turn, 2 right turns, 3 left turns and so on. Judging from the map, if the Doctor and Zoe had gone the way Zoe claims, they would have made it to the centre of the maze after the second right turn.

ep 3 -

Watch the shadow of the Minotaur on the cave wall as it moves to attack the Doctor and Zoe. You can see that it's simply a mask being held up by someone's arms!

ep 3 -

The second time Jamie uses the tickertape, he reads it upside down. He stands in such a way so that the newly printed tape comes out to his right — which means the text must be upside down, unless the tickertape is printing the story backwards!
[If you're in any doubt, the earlier shot of Jamie using the tickertape shows him reading it from the correct side.]

ep 4 -

The fight between Zoe and the Karkus is very amusing. On at least two occasions Wendy Padbury doesn't even touch him, but simply goes through the motions of a judo throw, leaving Christopher Robbie to do all the work himself.

ep 4 -

After the fight, the Doctor and Zoe immediately hurry off after the Karkus, but in the next scene when they arrive at the castle door, Zoe is wearing Jamie's jacket and the Doctor has the Karkus's cloak, both of which were left behind at the fight scene.

ep 4 -

As the White Robots approach the travellers inside the castle, you can see that the neck ribbing on one of them has fallen down below the bottom of his head-piece.

ep 4 -

When the Doctor and co. first meet the Master, he boasts, "For twenty-five years I've delivered five thousand words every week!" Zoe replies, "Why, that's well over half a million words!" It certainly is — in fact, it's six and a half million words.
[Zoe is obviously thinking in non-Aristotelian arithmetic.]

ep 4 -

It's painfully clear that the shelves and books in the library are just cardboard cut-outs. Look at how the shadows fall on them.

ep 5 -

When the Doctor and Master hold their climactic battle of wits, the Master manages to spit all over the place while uttering the line, "Change weapons to Destructor Beams!"
[Childish, I know, but somehow amusing.]

ep 5 -

The computer console is very shaky when Zoe and Jamie are frantically hitting buttons to overload it.

The Invasion:

ep 2 -

In the scene where she destroys the I.E. reception computer, Zoe mispronounces "integer" — using a hard 'g' instead of a soft 'j' sound.

ep 2 -

When the Doctor calls up UNIT on the radio and asks to speak to the Brigadier, the operator replies, "Stand by... out"! Shouldn't he have said "over"?

ep 3 -

When Packer is sent to see Professor Watkins, he gets into the lift and pushes the button for the 3rd floor. Later, the Doctor and Jamie escape from Packer after their visit to the professor, and flee into the lift. When the Doctor tries to sabotage it, Jamie complains, "But we're 6 floors up!" and Packer confirms a few minutes later that they are indeed on the 6th floor — so obviously that's where the professor is.
[Perhaps the toilet is on the 3rd floor?]

ep 3 -

When Jamie and the Doctor are climbing up the lift shaft to escape from the I.E. henchmen, look at the cables behind them. Considering they're supposed to be holding up a lift, the cables look worryingly loose.
[Between this and the other lift blooper above, clearly they should have taken the stairs.]

ep 5 -

Vaughn gets the names of his staff confused and calls Packer "Gregory" when ordering him to work with Professor Watkins on his machine. Packer wisely ignores the slip, and says "Yes, Mr. Vaughn" anyway.

ep 5 -

When the Cyberman comes out of the box (when they try to use the Professor's machine on him), part of the fabric gets stuck to him. The camera switches to a view of his back, and you can see the fabric being pulled away.

ep 5 -

In the same scene, Gregory carefully attaches the leads from the machine to the Cyberman's head, near the "jug handles." Before he can operate the machine though, the lead nearest the camera slides downwards and almost falls off the Cyberman's head. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to affect the operation of the machine.

ep 5 -

After Vaughn has consulted with the Cyber Controller, he sits down and talks to Packer. Look behind Vaughn at this point and you'll notice that the panel concealing the Cyber Controller has an awful lot of trouble closing.

ep 6 -

As the invasion starts, we see a montage of shots of ordinary people affected by the Cyber-control signal. In the first one, a man is walking down the street when he suddenly collapses against a wall. His footsteps have been badly dubbed onto the soundtrack — a couple of extra steps are clearly audible after he visibly stops moving.

ep 6-8 -

Why exactly do Cybermen need lace-up shoes? (You can see them in close-up while they're marching through the streets of London.)

ep 7,8 -

In Vaughn's last argument with the Cyber Controller, the wires used to move the oscillating part of the machine are visible, running from it out the back of the set. They are especially blatant in the first shot of episode 8 (which differs from the cliffhanger at the end of the previous episode).

ep 8 -

The Cyberman falling from the roof is plainly just an empty costume.

The Krotons:

ep 1 -

At the very start of the story, watch out for the sliding door which refuses to open.

ep 1 -

After the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe leave the TARDIS, they start to climb some rocks — but Fraser Hines comes down too fast and crashes into Wendy Padbury, who is thrown back several feet.

ep 1 -

Patrick Troughton is heard to say, "I don't think so, Joey... Zoe..." as they watch Vana and Eelek in the learning hall.

ep 2 -

When the Doctor and Zoe are being taken in to the Krotons, we see Jamie coming to stop them. The strange thing is, we see Jamie starting to run from a standstill, but supposedly he has just being running from somewhere else.

ep 2-4 -

Whenever the base of a Kroton is visible, it is usually possible to see the operator's legs causing it to bulge outwards as he moves it along. This is especially blatant when a Kroton emerges from the Dynatrope in episode 4.

ep 3 -

On location, the TARDIS lands in the middle of a large flat area, but in the studio scenes when the Doctor and Zoe go rock-collecting, a rock wall has mysteriously appeared immediately behind the ship.

ep 3 -

When the Doctor and Zoe are captured by a Kroton near the TARDIS, the Doctor picks up his bag of rocks so fast that one of them falls out with a clatter.

ep 3 -

Beta is left behind in his laboratory to make sulphuric acid, but shortly afterwards he mysteriously appears at Selris's side as the Gonds attack the Dynatrope's foundations.

ep 4 -

A gaping tear is visible in the right-hand shoulder of Zoe's jacket as she watches the Doctor being buried in the rockfall. In later shots, it's been repaired.

ep 4 -

When one of the Gonds (Thara) has his legs trapped under a rock, just before the Doctor and Zoe can help him he shifts his legs slightly and the "rock" wobbles considerably. It's then quite amusing to watch Pat Troughton and Wendy Padbury pretend the lump of polystyrene is heavy.

ep 4 -

While Jamie and Beta are making the sulphuric acid, at one point they walk backwards into each other. At this moment, Beta's face mask has slipped below his nose — but we then immediately see a shot from another camera in which the mask is in place again.

The Seeds of Death:

ep 1 -

Commander Radnor arrives in the T-Mat control room on Earth, talks to Miss Kelly, and then exits through a pair of sliding doors at the back of the room. As he goes off to the right, a large piece of wood swings down from the top of the right-hand door.

ep 1 -

Watch for when one of the crew on the Moonbase is attacked by the Ice Warrior. He collapses across the main control console, which wobbles like a piece of cardboard, amazingly enough.

ep 1 -

When Eldred is interrogating the travellers, a couple of moving shadows can be seen over Jamie's shoulder. In fact, unwanted shadows plague a number of the scenes set in the museum in this episode.

ep 2 -

The microphone is out of range when Miss Kelly gives her line about having enough fuel reserves to reach the moon.

ep 2 -

During the scene in the space museum when they're preparing for the rocket launch, you can distinctly hear the sound of a wrench (or some other metal tool) being dropped on the cement floor.

ep 1,2 -

In episode 2, Fewsham tells Miss Kelly that Osgood killed Locke when he tried to fuse the controls, but back in episode 1, Locke told Radnor and Miss Kelly that it was Osgood who died.

ep 2 -

After destroying an Ice Warrior with the solar projectors, Phipps then turns the power off so he can unplug the projectors and plug his radio back in. But then he forgets to turn the power back on before going back to the radio and continuing with his Mayday call!

ep 3 -

In the model shot of the retro-rockets being fired, a metallic "clunk" is heard at one point.

ep 3 -

In the storeroom, when Zoe says "I think I heard something," she opens the door to the sight of an Ice Warrior standing right outside the door. But when we cut to a shot from the corridor showing Zoe looking out, the Ice Warrior has magically teleported itself several yards down the corridor and is facing the other way!

ep 4 -

Why does Slaar insist on killing the Doctor by T-Matting him into space, even though this will take ages to do? Why not just get one of the Ice Warriors to blast him?

ep 4 -

The Ice Warrior sent to Earth does a bizarre dance after he exits the T-Mat booth. Instead of being menacing and threatening, he just looks hilarious, especially in combination with the incidental music at this point.

ep 4 -

Phipps lifts Zoe up too high to get through the air vent, and she bumps her head.

ep 5 -

Watch carefully for the scene where Zoe's trousers are falling down, after she's been crawling through the ventilation duct. She's in the background and looks very silly!

ep 5 -

Watch the scene in the storage room where Jamie is fighting with an Ice Warrior. At some point one of them knocks against the wall, and it wobbles quite distinctly.

ep 5 -

When Eldred points to the Weather Control Bureau on a map, notice that it's actually in the opposite corner of the map to the one he's pointing to.

ep 5 -

The Doctor and Eldred discuss how the fungus has "a molecule of five atoms." Of course, no molecule so simple could be in any sense living or have the properties shown on-screen, but never mind that. The blooper is that the molecular model the Doctor is holding has more than five atoms in it (it's difficult to tell exactly how many because he keeps turning it, but there are at least six).

ep 5 -

The Doctor's hair goes through remarkable changes in length and thickness throughout the course of the story. An example: he finds out Radnor 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. Radnor then says that this was where the Ice Warrior was last seen and the Doctor rushes out (he's very hirsute 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 suddenly an awful lot shorter!
[Obviously a regenerating hairstyle is one of those mysterious Time Lord gifts.]

ep 5,6 -

The Grand Marshal is incorrectly credited as "Grand Marshall".

ep 6 -

When the Doctor enters the Weather Control Building (which is full of those suds), he and Zoe race down a corridor, then stop and talk for a few seconds. They then start to rush off to find Jamie when Zoe says, "No, this way" and points. Wendy Padbury starts going in that direction but slips on the mess of suds that is all over the floor. She bumps into the Doctor (who is also having balancing problems) almost knocking him over in the process... Finally, they both stagger off the screen. Pure slapstick!

ep 6 -

Zoe refers to Slaar by name, though none of the other characters except the Grand Marshal seem to know his name, and it is never mentioned when Zoe could have overheard it.
[Naturally we could assume she heard it mentioned off-screen, but where's the fun in that?]

The Space Pirates:

ep 1 -

When General Hermack and Major Warne are discussing their chances of intercepting the pirates at one of the 17 remaining space beacons, Warne says, "The odds are seventeen-to-one against our being in the right place at the right time." As any gambler will tell you, the odds in that situation are actually sixteen-to-one.

ep 2 -

When General Hermack gets coffee for himself, it's obvious that he's pretending — nothing emerges from the machine!

ep 2 -

A prominent boom-mike shadow appears over Major Warne's head in the scene where he and General Hermack discuss the LIZ 79's registration details.

ep 2 -

When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe wake up and the Doctor, hearing a noise, asks "What on Earth is that?", suddenly there's a totally out-of-place close-up of Zoe looking like she's crying, for no apparent reason!

ep 3,4 -

At the climax to episode 3 (as the Doctor and company fall off a cliff), their screams can be heard for several seconds — but at the start of episode 4, it's apparent that they've only fallen a few feet.

The War Games:

ep 1 -

As the sergeant-major leads the Doctor back into his cell after the court-martial, you can hear a mysterious voice on the soundtrack saying something like "There they are"! Who says this? It certainly doesn't appear to be any of the on-screen characters.

ep 2 -

The Doctor is in a tree with Zoe, and he's looking through a mini-telescope at some troop movements. However, when the scene switches back to the Doctor and Zoe, the picture is still cropped into a circle for a brief moment.

ep 2 -

When the Doctor examines Jamie's entry in the prison register, he says he's "the latest arrival". So what about the Redcoat who arrived after Jamie, then?

ep 2,3 -

At the cliffhanger, Jamie points off-screen to some Romans who are supposedly charging along the road towards them, but we then see the same footage of Romans charging across a field as we saw a moment earlier!

ep 3 -

The ambulance reverses away from the charging Romans, but when it reappears in the 1917 zone it is travelling forwards.

ep 3 -

When the Doctor uses explosives to break into General Smythe's safe, the explosion happens and the safe door pops open while the fuse is still burning.

ep 4 -

When Lady Jennifer and Jamie are interrogated, the scene starts with all the actors frozen for a second before they start acting — obviously the vision mixer cut to that particular camera too early.

ep 4 -

After the Confederate officer tells his captives they are "dangerous Yankee spies" and moves away, you can hear a very audible voice on the soundtrack (presumably the director or a production assistant).

ep 4 -

As the scientist sets up the processing machine on Carstairs, he accidentally knocks part of the machine off. It clatters onto the floor, but he blithely ignores this and carries on.

ep 5 -

Carstairs has another run-in with the processing machine, when the Doctor convinces the scientist to deprocess him. This time, as the scientist attempts to position the two plate-like halves of the machine on either side of his head, we see that Carstairs is sitting up too high to allow the plates to move past his shoulders. Not to worry, though — despite supposedly being catatonic, Carstairs obligingly slumps down in his chair so that the machine can be positioned correctly.

ep 6 -

The fight with the guards in the landing area leaves something to be desired in the area of realism. At one point, Carstairs makes merely the motion of a throw and the guard he's "fighting" immediately falls off the ramp and onto the floor, unconscious.

ep 6 -

The Doctor tells Zoe that he is setting the SIDRAT to send them back to the 1917 zone, but they end up in the American Civil War zone instead. No one remarks on this discrepancy.

ep 7 -

The footage of the Romans charging is obviously recycled from the earlier episodes.

ep 7 -

Russell manages to kill Smythe despite the fact that his gun is obviously not aimed anywhere near him (a consequence of him slipping slightly as he comes through the door).

ep 7 -

As the Doctor comes into Smythe's room, the camera shows a little too much of the background — the top edge of the set is briefly visible.

ep 7 -

When the War Lord intervenes in the argument between the War Chief and the Security Chief, watch the guard behind him. He was apparently caught unprepared when the scene started, as we see him quietly put his goggles on and assume a pose of "at attention" like his fellow guard — all in full view of the camera!

ep 7,8 -

The cliffhanger and reprise don't match — observe the order in which the Doctor, Security Chief and guards file into the SIDRAT in both episodes. Also, the episode 8 reprise shows the rebels doing quite a lot of shooting at the guards, whereas in episode 7 for some reason they don't fire a shot as the Doctor is kidnapped in front of them.

ep 8 -

Zoe has supposedly memorised the names and faces of the resistance leaders, yet she doesn't know who the Mexican Villar is.

ep 8 -

The map of the time zones that Zoe and the others use to chart the Resistance activities doesn't match the action of the story — for example, the 1917 zone and the Roman zone are shown as being far apart, whereas episode 2 established that they are adjacent.

ep 9 -

A slip from the Doctor, immediately corrected, provides some unintended humour which undermines a dramatic scene, as he tells the War Chief, "Do you really think I'd take part in your disgusting steam... scheme?"

ep 9 -

The fight in the war room where the Security Chief is attacked and killed is made hilarious by the flimsiness of the curved consoles around the sides of the room, which distort like foam rubber when people press buttons on them or fall against them. Also, when the Security Chief dies, he collapses against one of the low dividing walls around the edge of the room, which wobbles badly.

ep 9 -

When the Doctor prepares his report for the Time Lords, he places the six tiles on the floor in a circular pattern, before starting his meditation. However, we then see a shot of the tiles in an unfolded-cube pattern, before they start moving and assembling themselves into a box.

ep 10 -

Struggling to enter the TARDIS, the Doctor asks Jamie and Zoe to help him with the key. But then we see him successfully open the door simply by pushing on it.

ep 10 -

As the War Lord's guards burst into the courtroom, they brush against one of the free-standing wall panels and make it wobble visibly.

ep 10 -

The Time Lord prosecutor asks the Doctor, "Do you admit that these actions were justified?" I'm not sure what word he should have said ("allege," perhaps?), but "admit" certainly isn't right.