The Unquiet Dead:

10 In the opening TARDIS scenes, as the Doctor and Rose are chatting, the changing camera angles make Rose's hair alternate between being behind her ear, hanging free, behind the ear, hanging free...

20 Dickens looks much younger than he should — in 1869 he was 57, with greying hair and beard, and looking increasingly haggard as he approached the end of his life. Whereas Simon Callow's Dickens looks fine and healthy, with no visible grey in his hair — resembling Dickens as he would have looked in his 40s.
[Ironic, given that Simon Callow was himself grey-haired and in his mid-50s when the episode was filmed!]

30 How did the old woman get into the Dickens show? The poster clearly says "Admission by Ticket" — was she conveniently buried with tickets in her pocket?

40 How does the Doctor buy the newspaper? As he thought he was in Naples, wouldn't he have tried to offer Italian lira to the newspaper-seller, instead of pounds/shillings/pence?
[Maybe he has some slightly-psychic coins to go with his slightly-psychic paper?]

50 Look out for a red postbox in the background at one point — while it's the correct shape (hexagonal) for the time period, it's the wrong colour — all British pillarboxes were green until 1874.

60 If Sneed "didn't plan any of this" what's he doing with a chloroformed rag in his pocket?

70 In the scene where Sneed and Gwyneth are on top of the hearse, the street lamp in the background moves about between shots of Sneed talking.
[Presumably the horses moved about between takes.]

80 Look out for the modern lightswitch in Sneed's house — painted green to avoid detection, but still there all the same.

90 Look out for Redpath's eyes moving when Dickens opens the coffin.
[Maybe he had gas? Ho ho.]

100 In the pantry scene, right after the "big bad wolf" bit, we get a long shot of the pantry, and in the bottom-left of screen you can see the Doctor's jacket in shot — not only is this before he appears, but it's in the wrong place to boot.

110 Why isn't it possible for the Gelth to open the door to get to the Doctor and Rose? The Doctor simply pulled the door closed earlier, and simply pushes it open later.

120 If the Gelth need the gas from decomposition to animate human corpses, surely Sneed couldn't have come back to "life" so quickly after having his neck broken?

130 How does Dickens get back into the house after he slams the front door? There's no-one inside who would open the door for him.

140 Dickens couldn't have taken the "mail coach" back to London — mail coaches were phased out in Britain during the 1840s-50s (in favour of trains), so by 1869 they were ancient history. Besides, we saw from earlier in the episode that Dickens has his own coach — why doesn't he take that?

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