The Curse of Peladon: | ||
 | ep 1 – | The king says that the reason the chairman delegate has not yet arrived is that Earth is "many light-years" away from Peladon, and Alpha Centauri agrees, calling it "a remote and unattractive planet". Rather odd, since Alpha Centauri is in fact the nearest star to our Solar System, being only 4.3 light-years away from us. (Arcturus, by contrast, is about 37 light-years from Earth.) Besides, the Ice Warriors have already arrived, and they're from Mars, which is right next door — why should it take any longer to come from Earth? |
| ep 2 – | As Jo walks along the castle ledge to escape from the Ice Warriors' room, we'll gloss over the fact that the "stone" wall behind her wobbles like a thin wooden panel (surprise, surprise) and mention something else instead: at one point, there's a quick shot of a piece of the ledge breaking off under Jo's shoe and falling down the cliff face. The only problem is that the shoe isn't Jo's! If you look closely, you'll see that the shoe in that brief shot is more pointed and of a darker colour than the shoes Jo is wearing, and has a strap across the ankle instead of being a slip-on.
[Perhaps the director found a piece of stock footage to use for this dramatic moment, hoping no-one would notice the mismatch. Ha!] |
| ep 2 – | Immediately after the previous blooper, when Jo gets back inside the castle, her hair, which had been blown about by the wind outside, is suddenly all nice and neat again. |
 | ep 3 – | When the Doctor goes through one of the secret doors leading down below the palace, watch the door as it closes behind him: overhead you can see the string which was used to pull the door open in the first place. |
| ep 3,4 – | On several occasions the Doctor's spinning mirror directly reflects the studio lights, rather undermining the desired impression of a barbaric citadel lit only by flaming torches. |
| ep 4 – | When Aggedor attacks Hepesh, the Doctor tries to calm the beast with the hypnotic spinning wheel. Unfortunately, he misses the wheel at one point and it stops spinning — luckily Aggedor doesn't seem to notice. |