The Ambassadors of Death:

10ep 1 – Watch the scene where Van Lyden is sitting in the spaceship, as viewed on the monitor screen at space control. Van Lyden says "changing attitude of capsule", and the image on the screen rotates. But if the camera was in the spaceship, surely the camera image shouldn't change, since the camera would be attached to the spaceship? (Unless of course the camera was floating outside in space — hardly likely!)

20ep 1,7 – In episode 1, we see a matte shot of the launch control room, which you'll notice has a rather high ceiling. At the very end of episode 7, we see another shot of the same room — but suddenly it has the same roof as the rocket launch site seen in episode 5.

30ep 1 – When the Doctor asks the controller to get Taltalian to cooperate, a screen rises out of the desk with Taltalian's face projected on it. This is obviously done using CSO because later when the screen retracts down into the desk, the image of Taltalian doesn't move with the screen!

40ep 2 – When the Brigadier is about to climb aboard the truck carrying Recovery 7, he supposedly gives orders to the motorcycle outriders. He gestures off-camera and says, "Keep to the prepared route and clear the way ahead of us". However, Nicholas Courtney's eyes are looking completely away from where he's gesturing — clearly there's no-one actually in front of him (except the camera crew). Then he looks behind him and adds, "You bring up the rear" before climbing into the cabin, whereupon the camera shows there's no-one behind him either!

50ep 3 – An alien tosses Reegan into the corner of their storage cell, and the corner pillar of the cell wobbles very badly. Then, Lennox is chased up the stairs by the alien, Reegan is knocked away, the alien starts to collapse and Reegan jumps to get out of his way, bumping into a "brick" wall which also shakes in a most un-brick-like way.

60ep 4 – Listen out for Taltalian's amazing metamorphing accent in his car when he confronts Liz.

70ep 4,6 – The guard (stuntman Max Faulkner) who is killed by the Ambassador at the main gate in episode 4 reappears alive and well in episode 6!

80ep 4 – Quinlan's office safe slips about as the alien tries to open the door.

90ep 5 – At the beginning of this episode, the walls of Quinlan's office seem very flimsy when the UNIT soldier is killed by the alien, and also when the Brigadier rattles the handle of the door which has been fused shut by the alien.

100ep 5 – When Reegan is sabotaging the fuel bay, there is a sign misspelling M3 Variant as "Varient".

110ep 7 – When the Doctor transmits the SOS code, Benton recognises it before he hears the entire message.

120ep 7 – 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 that the risk of the rocket exploding is too great — however, later on when the Doctor is trying to transport the aliens back to their ship on board a rocket, he suggests using pure M3 fuel as the ambassadors will not be affected by G-force. Why is there no more concern about the rocket exploding?

130ep ? – Recovery 7's nose cone changes colour between scenes.

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