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?] |