$ X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.arts.drwho: 22515T Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.1B7+SPC1,2 05/22/93 VAX/VMS V5.5-2; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb!rutgers!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!unix1.tcd.ie!domalley Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho5 Subject: iT's BlOoPeR tIme aGAiN - hErE'S tHe LisT... - Message-ID: <domalley.739237166@unix1.tcd.ie> P From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley) ) Date: 4 Jun 93 23:39:26 GMT 8 Sender: usenet@cs.tcd.ie (NN required at ashe.cs.tcd.ie)% Organization: Trinity College, Dublin  Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1.tcd.ie 
 Lines: 683  O OK people, here be the newest update of the bloopers list, with 18 (count 'em!) 2 new additions, bringing the total to nearly 130...B For those of you who've seen the list before, the new entries are G preceded with '++', so just search for that pattern and you'll only see  the new ones...   @ As always, if you spot any more, I'd appreciate it muchly if you0 mailed them to me at: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie ....   [Begin]   N *()@_&()^$(#_!^(_@^(_^($@!^(@)!^%&($#!+_$_+|_!|($_#+!)_$+&(_^*&(%^*$^@!*?~,\%-N &^                                                                          +`N }?  ThE iNcOmPLeTe liSt oF DOctOr WhO BlOoPeRS, flUbs aNd OtHeR bLUndErS... >;N +|  ComPilEd bY DaNiEL o'MaLLeY (DoMaLleY@uNIx1.tCd.iE) - UpDaTeD JunE 93.  #(N {[                                                                          :|N ^&*(!$^(@^*!()#&*_#^)_+|~_#@&*!(+#?&*(_@*()+!}:!"<>!@,.<:'*}"'@(-&()_!)(_~@)!\  L This list is the result of my postings, requests and desperate pleas for the very worst of Doctor Who... B Those things that make producers and actors alike cringe when theyE see them on screen, make viewers laugh, and make me go :"Hey, there's  another one for the list!" ...  N Yes, it's the humble blooper, also known as: the flub, the SNAFU, the cock-up,  or 'the director's fault'... ;-)  G Note: Since I conceived the idea of this list and built it up into what E you see before you, I realised that calling it the 'blooper' list was @ in itself a blooper... The word is usually only used to describeF 'out-takes', i.e. scenes that were messed up so badly, they were never shown...M So the question is, should I change the name, and what should I change it to? C On rec.arts.movies they call the equivalent the 'flubs list' and on B rec.arts.startrek it's the 'SNAFU list'... So does anyone have any suggestions?G I think I'll keep it as bloopers for a while, anyway - sounds better...     ) But enough of the drivel, what's in here?   A Contained in this list are more than 120 examples of these little C beauties, most of which were contributed by the sterling readers of 9 rec.arts.drwho., so my thanks and appreciation to them...   D If you've seen this list before, you won't want to be reading it all& again, looking for the few new ones...A So I've made it easier for y'all - New entries and amendments are  denoted by '++'.  G If you know of any more, no matter how subtle, don't hesitate to e-mail 2 it to me - my address is: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie     K Note: this list is also available for anonymous ftp at frontios.niagara.edu < as /pub/Doctor_Who/matrix/bloopers , and from me via e-mail, if you grovel a bit...F Also, an updated version of this list will be posted to rec.arts.drwho' during the first week of every month...   I The sort of thing I'm ideally looking for are *on-screen* examples of the 
 following:# 1) Actors messing up their lines... + 2) Actors/monsters tripping or stumbling... + 3) Backstage personnel visible on screen... 2 4) Blatantly obvious strings/supports on models... 5) Sets wobbling... 6 6) Boom microphones/shadows of same visible in shot...  C Or anything else that would count as a foul-up, bleep or blunder...   I What I don't want are complex continuity blunders, a la 'Mawdryn Undead', P *except* where these occur within *the same* story - i.e. something said in ep.2N contradicts something else said in ep.1, (or even in the same episode), etc...  ) Other examples of what I'm NOT after are: G - Ace finds a spiral earring in Greatest Show in the Galaxy and pins it G on her jacket. But it was visible in Silver Nemesis, the story screened @ before GSITG... [Happened because SN was actually made first...]L - All the inconsistencies between Remembrance of the Daleks and An UnearthlyJ Child - like where exactly Susan left her history book, the misspelling of 'Foreman', stuff like that... I - WOTAN referring to the Doctor as 'Doctor Who' in The War Machines (Yes, G I know we all know he isn't supposed to be called that, but again, this 6 is a continuity thing spanning more than one story...)  K I don't want these precisely because they bridge more than one story - if I H included all of these as well, I'd have to make a separate lists for theO continuity screwups of stories like Mawdryn Undead... Which I don't want to do. 6 I'd rather keep things simple... Can you blame me? ;-)  C Hey there's an idea, why don't I make a separate list of continuity : errors that have cropped up in the show over the years...?F (Or am I completely insane to even consider taking on such a task? ;-) Somebody tell me.   L Anyway, enough of the ranting and raving, on with the show - the stories areO arranged in chronological order, and the episode number is given where known...  Enjoy.    L &^(!)^*)^%#**)!^%#**)@!$^*)&($?<>,.@(*^*)$(!#&$_)*$)_)_!`~)_#|=\_(@)_#&^%]|\M %^                                                                        )~  L )*                          tHe FuN sTArTs hERe...                        *.L ^&                                                                        -#L /:()+-==)_+@!(**^%)^#$%$&**^@#()%*&()&^%@_&()@&_^)#&^)&&_&(_*)&%^$%:":"{}><>   An Unearthly Child: , -- (pilot ep) The TARDIS doors won't shut...A -- (pilot ep) During a tracking shot of the TARDIS, the cameraman   stumbles and a clatter is heard.N -- (ep 1) you can hear the PA calling the shots on some sections if you listen
 carefully.L ++ (ep ?) If you look carefully into the corners of the TARDIS, in one sceneG a stagehand can be seen between a gap in one of the corners (pretty big  gap too, about 10-20 cm)...    The Daleks: H -- (ep 5?) When the Thals are jumping across the chasm, I think it's IanI who grabs onto the cave wall when he lands.  His handhold breaks off with H the rip of tearing styrofoam, and the white spot where it was is visible for the rest of the scene.M -- (ep 5) In one of the scenes in the Dalek control room, one Dalek runs into ) the control console with an audible THUD. G -- (ep ?) Painfully obvious shots of Susan "running" thru the forest by 3 running-on-the-spot against a scrolling background.    Edge of Destruction:F -- (ep 1) You can see the studio floor in the "white void" outside the TARDIS door in early shots.    The Keys of Marinus:M -- (ep 1) You can see the hands of stage assistants pushing the rotating wall  sections around.L -- (ep 1) Just after Susan's shoes have been dissolved in the acid pool, the@ Doctor says to Ian: "And if you'd had your shoes on, my boy, you could have lent her hers."D -- Just after Barbara is taken inside the city, on the next shot you% can see a stage-hand dart behind Ian. N -- (ep 6) One of the Voord comes into the control chamber, trips on the bottom. edge of the door, and stumbles over to Yartek.G -- During the story, Captain Maitland has to cut out the lock of one of ) the spaceship doors, using a noisy drill. G He leaves several large white cut marks on the door.  You can see these D marks on those doors, even before the scene in which they were made.   The Aztecs: G ++ (ep ?) The camera crashes into the sacrificial altar in one scene...    The Dalek Invasion of Earth:M -- In the attack on the Daleks ship there are a few obvious cardboard cutouts  in the background.H -- When Susan escapes in the red van and it crashes into the Daleks, theJ windscreen is smashed twice, once in closeup and once in long shot, so the! driver can see where he is going. F -- At the attack on the Dalek saucer, a Dalek is pushed down the ramp,E falls over and lies still.  In the next shot the head of the Dalek isw pointing in another direction.L -- When the camera pans quickly from right to left in the food room, you can* see the Robotising room in the background.M -- In one scene, when London is supposed to be abandoned, you can clearly seew, a car driving calmly by in the background.     The Romans:eE -- A boom mike makes an appearance while Nero is getting his haircut.i   The Web Planet: K -- Apart from numerous appearances of wires, etc., the backs of the scenerynE flats can be seen in several shots: mountains with wooden supports...l  
 The Chase:L -- (ep 1) As the Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki are watching the Space/TimeG Visualizer, Ian is seen singing along to the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride".nN Coming from Earth in 1963, Ian has never heard this song before - yet he knows the words...L -- (ep 4) The Doctor and Ian enter Frankenstein's lab in the haunted house. N They see the Monster lying unanimated on a table.  Behind the table is a largeM ventilation screen.  Behind this screen is an empty Dalek - note that at this$E point in the story, the Daleks weren't supposed to have arrived yet. ^K A later scene in this same room shows that Dalek in action, "exterminating"  the Monster.D ++ (ep 4) Frankenstein's Monster is credited as just Frankenstein..., OK, so it's a small nitpick - So sue me. ;-)L -- (ep 6) When Ian and Barbara are starting to climb down from the MechanoidN city roof.  Barbara slips and falls head-first off the roof.  Ian saves her...I by grabbing her pants. Right at the belt-line.  They slide several incheseK before the cameras cut away. And people wonder why Ian and Barbara probablys# got married after the series... ;-) K -- In one scene in the jungle on Mechanus, a BBC camera cruises through theyL background.  Must have been an early version of the Special Weapons Dalek...K -- There's a clearly visible boom mike and operator standing in the shadows;G as Ian and the Doctor come down the stairs of the haunted house for thew last time...K -- Then there's the entire interior design of the Dalek spacecraft, the badlH dubs on the Robot Doctor, Barbara suddenly running over to the crumblingL wall just so that the tentacles can grab her, the visible wires on the bats,C the Visualiser that has names of Sol planets written on it yet it'saC supposed to be able to tune anywhere, the bad accents in the Empires( State Building, I could go on forever...   The Time Meddler:gJ -- (ep 1) Hartnell says: "But I'm not a mountain goat and I prefer walking6 to any day..." and then adds "...and I hate climbing!"J -- (ep 1) When Steven and Vicki find the Monk's wrist watch in the forest,J Steven cites this as proof positive that the Doctor and Vicki don't reallyJ have a time machine.  He says "How can there be a wrist watch in the TENTHG century", even though the Doctor has told him it is 1066 - the ELEVENTHw
 century...   Galaxy Four:H -- In the only surviving clip from this story, Peter Purves cocks up his line...!  / Mission to the Unknown / The Daleks Masterplan:eC -- The message left on the tape recorder found in the first episodeh; of "Masterplan" is different from the one left by Marc Coryr
 in "Mission"./I (I decided to include this because they are the same story, after all...).   The Ark:I -- (ep 1&2) At the end of episode one, Zentos says: "Take them to custodyrB and later they will be made to suffer for the crime that they have@ committed."  However, in the reprise in episode two this becomes3 "...they will be made to *answer* for the crime..."s   The Gunfighters:2 -- (ep 3) A bulb blows at the end of this episode.L ++ (ep 4) The cliffhanger incorrectly says "Next Episode: Doctor Who and the Savages"....   The War Machines:.H ++ (ep 3?) The Doctor, who is sitting down under an overhanging cupboardI or something, stands up and cracks the back of his head/shoulder on it...'   The Tenth Planet:eK -- (ep 1) The credits at the end of this episode spell Kit Pedlar's name aso
 K-I-T-T...   Power of the Daleks:N -- (ep 5) The fourth Dalek has trouble exiting through the arch (also terrible photo blow-up Daleks).   
 The Moonbase:nC -- (ep 2?) The Cyberman that gets off the bed in the sickbay nearly  sends the whole thing flying...oN -- (ep 4) Dr Evans, infected with the virus makes his way to the Gravitron andN knocks out the operator. He takes the operator's hat and puts it on backwards!> However, by the next time we see him, it is on forwards again.   Tomb of the Cybermen: P -- Both fight scenes where somebody is lifted up in the air by another character/ feature strings the size of safety harnesses...uO -- Just after they close the hatch on a Cyberman who then punched at the hatch, M we see the same Cyberman emerge from the bottom of the ladder with the sleevea8 of his costume obviously giving way around the shoulder.; -- The end of Klieg's gun flies off when he first fires it!hJ -- Listen carefully when they shut the hatch on the cyberman - a very deepE human voice goes "Oooooooo" over the soundtrack.  I'm sure this isn'tu4 the cyberman - check it out, and see what you think.  a The Mind Robber:N -- (ep 1) When the Doctor pushes Jamie & Zoe back into the TARDIS, the caption: "Producer, PETER BRYANT" is visible on the TARDIS scanner!  
 The Invasion:aG ++ (ep 5) After Vaughan has consulted with the CyberController, he sitseD down and talks to Packer.  If you look behind Vaughan then,  you'll E notice that the panel concealing the CyberController has an awful lot  of trouble closing...    The Seeds of Death: L -- The Doctor's hair goes through remarkable changes in length and thickness% throughout the course of the story... O An example: He finds out Radner hasn't received the message to make it rain and&K comes to the conclusion that Jamie and Zoe have gone to the weather controloK centre themselves. Radner than says that this was where the Ice Warrior waseA last seen. The Doctor rushes out. (he's very hairy at this point)eL Outside the Doctor is running fast, probably trying to make up the time lostO when he went for his haircut, as his hair is an AWFUL lot shorter, no sideburns  etc. VERY obvious this one.o   The Ambassadors of Death:aP ++ (ep 1) Watch the scene where Van Lyden is sitting in the spaceship, as viewedN on the monitor screen at space control, right.  Well, Van Lyden says somethingI like "beginning rotation now", and the image on the screen rotates.  Well M assuming this image comes from a camera inside the shuttle, surely this wouldhM mean the ship rotated but the camera didn't, unless the camera was outside iniJ space (not a very satisfactory explanation!).  Surely if the camera was inI the spaceship, the ship could do a loop-the-loop and the image the camera M sent wouldn't change as the camera was effectively attached to the spaceship?"H ++ When the doctor goes up in the rocket to dock with the Mars probe, heE tells the space station controller that he can withstand more G force A than normal people, so they can use more M3 fuel to make the tripsG faster. The controller declines saying the risk of the rocket explodings is too great...yL However, later when the aliens are working with the doctor and he is sendingD them back to their ship on board a rocket, the doctor suggests usingH pure M3 fuel as the ambassadors will not be affected by G force. Why was> there no concern any more about the second rocket exploding???   Inferno:M ++ (ep 1) Look at the "Nuclear Power Output" gauge in the TARDIS laboratory -y1 they've spelt "Megavolts" as "MEGGA VOLTS". Oops!n   The Mind of Evil:eJ -- As the Doctor and the Master have a fist-fight in the prison governor'sG office, they knock over a water carafe, and slip and slide all over thea ensuing puddle. K This wasn't meant to happen, but they kept it in the finished episode, justr) because it looked great (so they said)...b   The Claws of Axos:5 -- Katy Manning's knickers make a guest appearance...kM -- In one scene, Chromakey blue is visible through the windows in a jeep witht nothing superimposed.e   Colony in Space:H -- There's one scene where a bunch of the colonists are standing around,L listening to a speech, and abruptly as you're watching, two of the colonistsK in the group suddenly switch places!  It's very abrupt - one moment they're J in place, the next moment they switch.  It looked like a bad edit to me...J ++ (ep 2) Watch the scene where Dent is interrogating Caldwell, just afterK he first brought the Doctor back to the IMC mining ship.  Watch the monitor M screen on the bridge.  In some shots it's in place, but in others (especiallyoP close-ups on Caldwell), the CSO is missing and there's just a bright blue light!   The Daemons:C -- (ep 5) The Doctor tells Jo to "get out of that ridiculous gown".eM Seconds later she's done so, and she's wearing the clothes that should surelysO have been blown up in the explosion in the chapel. (And don't tell me she'd got,5 them on under the gown, because I won't believe you.)h   Day of the Daleks:F ++ Katy Manning's red knickers appear in two scenes... One when she's G getting up from sitting on the floor, and the other when she's climbinge down a wall...C (Though apparently, the second one isn't Katy Manning at all - it'snH a *male* stuntman! [According to Jon Pertwee at a convention last year])H -- Watch the Brigadier as he's running down from the road to the railway tunnel - through the mud...s   Curse of Peladon:d# -- Katy Manning's knickers (again!)i   The Sea Devils: D -- (ep 3) When the submarine crashes to the sea bed, watch...  ThereA is a shot of the sub falling, cut to the inside and the crew fallfD around a bit.  Then the sub hits the sea bed, in a model shot, then L cut back again and they fall around a bit more... (i.e. they started falling! around before the sub was hit...)o   The Three Doctors:I -- (ep 4) During the scene when all the companions are returning to EarthmL via the pillar of smoke, you can see and hear each person walk up the stairsL to the pillar of smoke. Although they disappear, you can clearly *hear* them walk down the other side!sI -- You can see the reflections of some camera crew in the monitor used tot display the First Doctor.hK ++ How about the scene where JP hears the materialisation of PT's recorder? E He looks down and picks up the recorder, and mentions something abouta7 how he has seen it before and asks if anyone owns it...tL Well, we all saw it before we heard it materialise sitting on the console...
 Oh well...   Invasion of the Dinosaurs:L -- When Sarah is hit on the head by a beam knocked loose by the dinosaur, itL hits the back of her head and yet it's her forehead that appears bruised and
 scratched!   Death to the Daleks:J -- You can see the tracks they are moving on in one of the Exxilon outdoor mining scenes.. -- A Dalek's head is falling off in one scene.C -- When the city "root" guardian comes out of the water and attacks < the Exxilons, you can see the bit of string holding it up...   Planet of the Spiders:K -- The reprise in episode 6 is different from the cliffhanger in episode 5.r   The Sontaran Experiment:A -- Apparently you can see a car in the background of one scene...e   Terror of the Zygons:TG -- In the scene where the duplicate Harry steals the transmitter-thingytG from Sarah, the wound on his forehead is very light in colour (as if itdM had almost healed). When he runs out the door it is suddenly very dark red...r   Pyramids Of Mars:eP -- There is a hand holding the cushion down in the scene where Sutekh stands up.K -- Watch the knot in Scarman's tie during the story - it alternates betweeniM the stripe going from top-left to bottom-right to bottom-left to top-right....O (Don't ask how I noticed... It's not as if I spend an inordinate amount of time(H gazing at the knots in people's ties...  At least, I don't think I do... Well, I hope not... ;-)    The Android Invasion:DL -- (ep 1) There's a scene where the mechanics are shooting at the Doctor and4 Sarah, and they dive for cover behind a "meteorite".? In the shot when they later run for it, you can see a tarpaulineJ spread behind the meteorite - which wasn't there before.  My guess is theyJ laid it there so that the cast wouldn't get their costumes dirty when they dived for cover.   Seeds Of Doom:I -- Harrison Chase's chameleon tie! Never the same pattern twice (almost).    The Deadly Assassin:A -- (all eps) The copyright date on the credits reads "MCMLXXXVI".a (1986, instead of 1976)...   Talons of Weng Chiang:F -- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Leela leave the TARDIS, the door is openF and is not moving.  They walk away from the TARDIS for a few seconds. D When they hear the attack and run past the TARDIS again, the door is magically closed...g   Image of the Fendahl:eG -- For wobbling sets, check the walls of the corridors in this story...eJ -- (ep 4): Tom Baker says "only 3 minutes to go" and holds up 4 fingers...K -- The Doctor offers someone some jelly babies - but they're actually dolly. mixtures...o   The Sunmakers:G -- In the scene where the Doctor offers Cordo a jelly baby and eats onet? himself - it looks remarkably like a liquorice allsort to me...rJ -- Later he offers a humbug to the Gatherer - this is clearly a jelly baby? as the Gatherer bites the head off. (Humbug is, perhaps, a pun; ) i.e. the Doctor knows he's been lied to.)e   Androids of Tara:P7 -- There's a lovely scene in this story where Tom BakeraK starts to cross himself before a duel (he tries to cover it up by running atD hand through his hair, but I know a good Catholic when I see one ;-)O ++ When the Doctor first enters the Pavilion of the Summer Winds for the RomanaoN exchange, he pushes the door shut behind him.  On the ground outside the door,H you can see shadows move violently, and *just* as the door shuts, a handG reaches out, grabs the door handle, and closes it ("for" the Doctor)...    The Armageddon Factor:J -- (ep 6) When the Shadow is about to go into the TARDIS, one of the mutesI kicks up the carpet on the studio floor.  The carpet sits on his foot fore/ a while, then flips up again when he walks off.s   Nightmare of Eden:K -- Dask, the policeman, calls Tryst 'Dask' when he is interrogating him...!t   Meglos:iL -- Notice that thick, black sexy piano wire holding one of the planets up inG place as General Grugger and Meglos travel in one of those funky Gaztaka spaceships.t   State of Decay:iA ++ There's a scene between Tom Baker and Lalla Ward in this story G where she rattles off a long list of something or another and Tom Baker I turns to her at the end of it and says "Very good!". I heard that she hadtI trouble getting that line right and they just decided to go ahead and use, that take...   Warrior's Gate:iN ++ In one scene, several actors are situated in the lower left of the shot andK up a staircase positioned along the left and upper center part of the shot.tH In the lower center and right part of the shot is the "blaster", the oneH covered with foil.  Watch this lower area for a mike on a boom, extendedK perhaps two thirds of the way across the screen, trying to catch the voicesnH of people on the staircase.  Clearly the sound guy thought the staircaseJ was in close-up or something.  This one makes the boom-mike-shadow-on-the-F actors-face that was so common in the first 15 or so years of the showK completely invisible.  I wonder if the boom mike guy was sick that week andi JNT was subbing?  ;-)   
 Logopolis:L -- (ep 4) At the end when the radio telescope is tilting, it is obvious that: the Master is just a freeze frame or a cardboard cutout...L ++ A very annoying inconsistency in this story is the magically metamorphing door control lever....B They must use about four different controls on the console in thisK story alone to control the doors. When the TARDIS materializes "2.6 metres" K away from the London Police box on the Barnett Bypass, Adric's hand reacheseI out for the familiar red door control lever. Seeing this, the Doctor says K "No!" Adric: "Aren't we going outside to measure it?", confirming that thisu  red lever is the door control...I However, for example, when the Doctor materializes the TARDIS underwater,uD Adric uses that weird green and grey hollow thingy to open the door.G He sticks his finger in the hollow part, then runs to the door to brace M himself against it. But, when the Doctor is trying to figure out what's wrong G with the TARDIS, or something to that effect, when the Police box is iniH the console room already, the Doctor pulls the black lever with the grey handle to open the doors.... The question is:> What on earth is going on in this story with the door lever???   Castrovalva:; -- (ep 1) The Doctor's footwear has regenerated with him...e   Four to Doomsday: L -- In the room where the TARDIS is when something visits it, not the crew orJ the Doc, a member of the studio staff is seen hiding behind a crate in the foreground.a   Kinda:/ -- Watch out for the incredible bouncy snake...d   Earthshock:bK -- (ep 1) Watch the scene when the last soldier in the search party hears ahN noise down in the caves and turns around. By the time he does so, the androidsK have disappeared down a side corridor, but you can see the shadow of one ofpK them on the cavern wall... The soldier would have had to have been blind to.
 miss it...K -- The Cybermen's mouth/chin pieces were originally clear plastic, but were!I later sprayed lightly with silver paint. Due to the order of filming theyi tend to swap back and forth.I -- You can see a member of the production team holding a clipboard in the D background of one shot in the spaceship hold. This information comes5 from Peter Davison, the only person who spotted it...eH -- There are at least two instances of Cybermen stumbling in this story:@ after one of the first battles, as the Cybes are walking up someG stairs, through the dead bodies, etc... one of them stumbles briefly...iH And a more noticeable one - as the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are being led? away from the bridge near the end of the story, the Cyberleaderi2 loses his footing as he gets to the bottom step...L -- Look at the scene after the troopers and Tegan are separated the troopers return to the TARDIS... K There are four troopers remaining at this point, the commander, a male withiE straight hair, a male with curly hair and a female. As they enter theeH TARDIS a Cyberman grabs the female trooper. In the next shot (inside theI TARDIS) the commander, the male with straight hair and the female trooperbK make it inside, closely followed by the Cyberman, but the curly-haired malemL trooper is missing. In a later scene the female trooper has disappeared, and$ the curly-haired male one is back...  = Timeflight: (not entirely sure if this is the right story...)aH -- The Doctor, at one point, has to hold the red door lever in position,F because it wouldn't stay in the "door open" position. Every time PeterF Davison tried to move his hand away, it'd start sliding back, and he'd) have to hold it again. Finally it stayed.n   Arc of Infinity:G -- JNT can be seen passing behind the telephone box when the Doctor andu? Nyssa are using the phone. (He's the guy in the sheepskin coat)fF (Qualifies as a blooper because it was apparently accidental, they say  he was shooing away tourists...)K Though I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was deliberate, a cameoh< a la Alfred Hitchcock... He would say that, wouldn't he? ;-)   Enlightenment:J -- Not too major, but early on in the story, when the sailors in Striker's@ ship are running up the stairs, one of them stumbles slightly...B -- Fairly blatant one here: When Tegan enters Wrack's cabin, she's: talking (with her eyes open) when she's frozen by Wrack...? Cut to another shot of Tegan, with her eyes closed this time...o7 But if she was totally frozen, how did her eyes close? D   Warriors of the Deep: E -- Apparently you can see some special effects bods standing about int) one scene - I've yet to spot it though...iI -- Plus, you can see a production person run across the set. The SilurianhK costumes come apart, too, and white T-shirts can be seen through the holes.tK (This story apparently fell more behind production schedule than any other. G I read that some takes were, as far as the actors knew, just full-dresst rehearsal.)   	 Frontios:h> -- (ep 3 or 4?) Tegan is being chased and goes to the surface.G She locks the door by putting a rod through the two door-handles of thehF double doors.  in a later scene, the door is being broken open and the3 rod is on the top of the handles, not through them.r   Resurrection of the Daleks:eE ++ (ep 1) Somebody accidentally omitted to credit Leslie Grantham.... K -- (ep 2 [or ep 4 in the 25-minute version...])  As Mercer and Stien escortfL the Doctor to confront Davros, watch the wall behind them as the door slidesG shut.  The "wall" is a semi-transparent scrim.  You can clearly see theeL silhouette of a stagehand push the door shut, straighten up, and walk off...   The Twin Dilemma:yM -- When the Doctor is in the safehouse at the computer trying to work out theeI door release code (when Peri just about notices the bomb that is clickingkH its way to oblivion), note that the silver glittery computer terminal isP kind of wobbly and swaying a tiny bit every time the Doctor punches in a code...   Revelation of the Daleks:eM -- (ep 2 [or ep 4 in the 25-minute version]) When the DJ fires his ultrasonic H gun the first time (to show Peri), he shatters the doors to his studio. I Later, when the Daleks advance into the studio, the miraculously repairedr! doors open as they approach it...h   The Trial of a Time Lord:nN ++ (ep ?) One of the many times that the Doctor interrupts the Matrix's replayK of events, you could hear what sounds like studio direction just before theoG replay begins again.  Most of it is unintelligible, but "take 6" can bee> distinctly heard as the action fades in on the monitor screen.K The question is - is this one of the technical crew, or is it simply one ofeL the distinguished Time Lords in attendance being overly loud at the Doctor's
 trial? ;-)B -- (sometime during Mindwarp [eps 5-8]) A bulb blows as the TARDIS dematerialises...hN -- (ep 12) (last ep. of Terror of the Vervoids) This is very nitpicky, I know,O but after the Doctor has destroyed the walking rhubarb, the camera shows a shott) of him holding a leaf in his left hand...eD Cut to another shot, with Mel coming up beside him, and the leaf has$ magically moved to his right hand...3 (Or is that the other way round? Can't remember...)e   Dragonfire:tF -- (ep 1) Watch for when Kane lays his coin on the control panel.  You1 can see the plywood grain of the "metal" console.nG -- Watch out for the Doctor's amazing appearing umbrella ...one minute rM he has it, then it's gone, then, for a brief second of Glitzs ship, he has itt again...L -- In the scene where Ace and Mel meet the Dragon, when Mel screams, look at/ the momentary expression of pain on Ace's face.nI According to Sophie Aldred, she had a massive headache that day, and herehF she was standing inches away from Bonnie Langford in full throat.  ;-)   Remembrance of the Daleks:H -- (ep 1) A camera pops out from a side wall at top right of the screen.J (This is in the scene where the Doctor and Ace first meet the Headmaster.)7 -- Present-day cars are driving past in several scenes.nO -- (ep 2) The TV announcer announcing "Doc..." gives the time as a quarter past = five.  This comes in episode 2 between breakfast and lunch!  t@ And even if it were a quarter past five, it should be pitch dark outside if it's November!  eJ (Note: The show being announced is obviously the first ever episode of DW,F but it wasn't shown at 5.15 anyway - it was delayed by about 8 minutes7 due to extra news coverage on the JFK assassination...)cH -- (ep 4) When the little girl kills the sergeant, he falls back againstK some stairs and if you watch, you can see the stairs slide backwards a bit!.   Silver Nemesis:oN -- As the Cybermen attack for the first time, one of them (just left of centre@ I think) is clearly having trouble keeping his head in position.P -- In 1638 a mathematician calculates that Nemesis will return exactly 350 yearsL later on 23rd November 1988. Unfortunately, something happened in 1752 whichL would render his calculations out by nearly two weeks... The Julian calendarI was brought in line with the Gregorian one, which meant that 10 days wereh< skipped over sometime in September of that year (I think...)E So Nemesis should actually return on 3rd December... (10 days later.)a; -- When the Doctor and Ace are running away from the peopley@ shooting at them, and they fall off a bridge into a stream, the B Doctor drops his umbrella to the right, i.e. downstream, and fallsG off the bridge to the left, i.e. upstream.  Then when we see him again,aD he is swimming upstream, with the umbrella in his hand.  I could be 9 wrong about the flow of the stream, but I don't think so.r   The Happiness Patrol:eH -- One of the female happy police wotsits rushes out behind, realizes itK isn't her cue, and runs back again (when the Doctor is repairing the buggy,  look in the background).   Battlefield:E -- (ep 1) In the TARDIS scene, look closely at the roundels - you cantD see the occasional 'crease', as if the wall was just a sheet hung upG behind the console... That's because it was! ;-) (The TARDIS walls propsA had been destroyed because of Andrew Cartmel's insistence that nob4 scenes were to be set inside the TARDIS any more...)   Curse of Fenric:C -- If Katy Manning's knickers count as bloopers, do Sophie Aldred's  stocking tops?A -- Somebody's finger is holding the door open for the Haemovores.gG -- At the end, when Ace and the Doctor run out of the exploding bunker,iF the Doctor stumbles in the mud and puts his hand out to catch himself,I getting mud all over his hand which he even stops to look at in an almost  symbolic gesture.rG Then they go in for the close-ups with him and Ace and when he puts hisd< hand up to rub her nose (same hand), it's perfectly clean.    L &^@(*)&!)^#*)^#!*)^$*)$&(!_&%(@;%&(!_&%(#!~%(:./*|,+\\~=)+_(_*'&^*$"!%$^&#^&L (*                                                                        #/L @#                                 tHE eNd                                [)L <}                               (FoR nOw...)                             -|L +|                                                                        "@L !(*_)(@_*(_+==-=\~\`';.\|,>:]^%}(!_&*&^)_&(+_*^$#@$^&*$))."_)(**&^%$#}[`~^%$   --L |       //              |------Daniel O'Malley--domalley@unix1.tcd.ie------|L |   ===//  ===    ===   |---"In the beginning, the universe was created.---|L | //  // //  // //  //  |-This has made a lot of people angry and has been-|L |  ==//   ==// //  //   |--widely regarded as a bad move.":Douglas Adams.--| --L |       //              |------Daniel O'Malley--domalley@unix1.tcd.ie------|L |   ===//  ===    ===   |---"In the beginning, the universe was created.---|L | //  // //  // //  //  |-This has made a lot of people angry and has been-|L |  ==//   ==// //  //   |--widely regarded as a bad move.":Douglas Adams.--|