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This list is the result of my postings, requests and desperate pleas for the
very worst of Doctor Who - those mistakes that make producers and actors alike
cringe when they see them on screen, make viewers laugh, and make me go: "Hey,
there's another one for the list!".

Yes, it's the humble blooper, also known as: the flub, the SNAFU, the cock-up,
or 'the director's fault'.

Basically what I mean are *on-screen* examples of the following from
absolutely *any* Doctor Who story:

1) Actors messing up their lines,
2) Actors/monsters tripping or stumbling,
3) Backstage personnel visible on screen,
4) Blatantly obvious strings/supports on models,
5) Sets wobbling,
6) Boom microphones/shadows of same visible in shot,
7) Absolutely anything else that could count as a foul-up, bleep or blunder...


Contained in this list are over 600 examples of these little
beauties - most of which have been e-mailed to me by the observant,
helpful and just plain generous readers of rec.arts.drwho.
(Unfortunately, because of the sheer number of them, I'm unable to
thank them all by name - they really are too numerous to mention.)

In any case, my thanks and very grateful appreciation go to them all
- without them, I simply wouldn't have been able to do this.
(You've got a lot to answer for, guys!) 


If you've seen this list before, you won't want to be wading through it all
again, looking for new entries  - so I've made it easier for everyone.
Additions and major amendments since the last update are denoted by '++'.


If you know of any more, no matter how subtle, don't hesitate to e-mail
them to me - my address is: domalley@orca.ucd.ie

Note: this list is also available for anonymous ftp at:
frontios.niagara.edu  or  tardis.soc.staffs.ac.uk
as the file:  /pub/Doctor_Who/matrix/bloopers

(tardis is a mirror of frontios, so it may not have the most up-to-date
version of the list available.)

If you don't have ftp access, you can just e-mail me and ask for it.

I will also post the changes to the list to rec.arts.drwho whenever I
make an update.  (Just the changes, though - not the whole list, as
it's well over 100K by now.)

Coming soon: A HTML version of the list!


DISCLAIMER:
Unfortunately, I don't have the free time (or the video collection)
to check out all of the entries in the list - so not all of the
bloopers may be, shall we say, entirely accurate.

I just compile the list from submissions which are either e-mailed to me,
or posted to rec.arts.drwho.  I do minimal editing on many of them, so
most are as the original submitter typed them - warts and all.

What this means is that some bloopers have the wrong episode number,
have the foul-up described badly, or are just plain erroneous.

About one-fifth of the entries (for stories I've been able to check myself,
like 'Tomb of the Cybermen' or 'Earthshock') are 100% guaranteed accurate.
The others basically aren't.

So if anyone spots any errors and lets me know, my eternal gratitude
will be theirs... (And just remember, it's not my fault they're wrong!)



IMPORTANT NOTE:
Remember folks, I'm only looking for simple production foul-ups which would
probably not occur if the scene was shot again...  (There are exceptions,
but you get the general idea, I hope.)
What I *don't* want are complex continuity blunders, a la 'Mawdryn Undead',
*except* where these occur within *the same* story - i.e. something said
in episode 2 contradicts something else said in episode 1...
(It could even be in the same episode.)

Other examples of what I'm NOT after are:

- Ace finds a spiral earring in Greatest Show in the Galaxy and pins it
on her jacket.  But it was visible in Silver Nemesis, the story screened
before GSITG...  [Happened because SN was actually made first.]
- All the inconsistencies between Remembrance of the Daleks and An Unearthly
Child - like where exactly Susan left her history book, the misspelling of
'Foreman', things like that...
- WOTAN referring to the Doctor as 'Doctor Who' in The War Machines (Yes,
I know we all know he isn't supposed to be called that, but again, this
is a continuity thing spanning more than one story.)

I don't want these precisely because they bridge more than one story - if I
included all of these as well, I'd have to make a separate lists for the
continuity screw-ups of stories like the above - which I don't want to do
right now.
I'd rather keep things simple... Can you blame me?


But enough of the drivel, the list is what you're after, so here it is.
The stories are arranged in chronological order, and the episode number is
given where known.

Enjoy!


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An Unearthly Child:
-- (pilot ep) As Barbara and Ian enter the class-room to offer Susan a
lift home, Barbara's shoe gets stuck in the door, and she can be seen
struggling for quite a while to free it.
++ (pilot ep) When Ian and Barbara are driving in the car, a stagehand can be
seen moving behind them.
++ (pilot ep) Carole Ann Ford flubs a line when talking about "John Smith
and the Common Men". She says that they have gone from "2 to 19" when she
corrects herself and says "19 to 2 on the charts."
-- (pilot ep) After Ian and Barbara enter the TARDIS, you can see a
shadow move along the TARDIS doors.
-- (pilot ep) The TARDIS doors won't shut.
-- (pilot ep) During a tracking shot of the TARDIS, the cameraman
stumbles and a clatter is heard.
-- (ep 1) you can hear the PA calling the shots on some sections if you listen
carefully (one example is when the Doctor is operating the TARDIS console,
shortly before Ian is "zapped".)
-- (ep 2&3) The reprise at the start of episode 3 is different to
the cliffhanger at the end of episode 2 - notice how the skulls in the
cave are all in different positions...
-- (ep 3?) There's some delightful running on the spot with scrolling
background as the TARDIS crew are escaping through the forest!
-- (ep ?) If you look carefully into the corners of the TARDIS, in one scene
a stagehand can be seen between a gap in one of the corners (it's a pretty
big gap too, about 10-20 centimetres).

The Daleks:
-- (ep 2) While in the Dalek cell, William Hartnell refers to the
anti-radiation drugs as "anti-radiation gloves"!
-- (ep 2) There are some painfully obvious shots of Susan "running" through
the forest by running-on-the-spot against a scrolling background.
-- (ep 3?) In one shot of the interior of the Dalek city, a boom shadow is
clearly visible.
-- (ep 5?) When the Thals are jumping across the chasm, I think it's Ian
who grabs onto the rock wall when he lands.  His handhold breaks off with
the rip of tearing styrofoam, and the white spot where it was is visible
for the rest of the scene.
-- (ep 5) In one of the scenes in the Dalek control room, one Dalek runs into
the control console with an audible THUD.
-- (ep 7)  One of the Daleks rattles noisily as it trundles down a corridor.
Obviously one of its castors wasn't balanced correctly...

Doctor Who and the Daleks (the first movie):
-- As Susan is being escorted from the Dalek city to fetch the anti-radiation
medicine from the TARDIS, watch the leftmost Dalek following her.
At one point, its upper half suddenly rises up 3 or 4 inches, then drops
back down again - as if the operator had stepped on a nail!
-- Shortly afterwards, as Susan opens the doors to the TARDIS, the
interior lights don't come on.  (They do on every other occasion in the
movie when the doors are opened)

The Edge of Destruction:
-- (ep 1) You can see the studio floor in the "white void" outside the
TARDIS door in early shots.

The Keys of Marinus:
-- (ep 1) When the Voord falls through the hidden panel, you can see a woman
standing behind the panel as the trick wall spins around.
-- (ep 1) You can see the hands of stage assistants pushing the rotating wall
sections around.
-- (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*."
-- (ep 6) One of the Voord comes into the control chamber, trips on the bottom
edge of the door, and stumbles over to Yartek.
-- (ep ?) Just after Barbara is taken inside the city, on the next shot you
can see a stagehand dart behind Ian.
-- (ep ?) When Susan falls into the pyramid, a stage hand can be seen
venturing onscreen before they cut.

The Aztecs:
-- (ep 1) Just after the Doctor corrects Ian's pronunciation, he
fluffs his lines and giggles.
-- (ep 1) Ixta, who is supposed to be an Aztec warrior, sounds strangely Welsh.
-- (ep 1) Just as the camera is moving in filming the sacrificial scene,
there is a visible jump as the cameraman crashes into the altar...!
-- (ep 2?) When the Doctor is in the garden place for the first time he
fluffs his lines again, quite badly this time.

The Sensorites:
-- (ep ?) During the story, Captain Maitland has to cut out the lock of one of
the spaceship doors using a drill, leaving several large white marks on the
door.  You can see these marks on those doors, even before the scene in which
they were made!
-- (ep ?) In one scene the action cuts from the underground caves back to
the city, but the sound effect of dripping water carries on until about
halfway through the scene, when the grams operator finally wakes up and
turns it off.

The Reign of Terror:
-- (ep 3) During the gunfight to rescue Susan and Barbara from the wagon
taking them to be guillotined, one soldier is seen kneeling by a wheel (on
the right of the screen) - then in the next frame, he's magically standing up! 
-- (ep 6)  The Doctor fluffs his lines slightly when talking to the jailor.

The Dalek Invasion of Earth:
-- (ep 3?) In one scene, when London is supposed to be abandoned, you can
clearly see a truck driving calmly by in the background.
-- (ep ?) In the attack on the Daleks ship there are a few obvious cardboard
cut-outs in the background.
-- (ep ?) At the attack on the Dalek saucer, a Dalek is pushed down the ramp,
falls over and lies still.  In the next shot the head of the Dalek is
pointing in another direction.

Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (The second movie):
-- When the camera pans quickly from right to left in the food room,
you can see the Robotising room in the background.
-- When Susan escapes in the red van and it crashes into the Daleks, you can
see the windscreen being smashed twice, once in close-up and once in long-shot,
so the driver can see where he is going.

The Rescue:
++ (ep 1) While saying "Everyone on board was invited to a grand sort of
meeting" to Barbara, Vicki stumbles on the word "invited".
++ (ep 1) And while saying "Why doesn't he kill you?", Maureen O'Brien
starts to say "did" instead of "doesn't" before correcting herself.
++ (ep 1) Eagle-eyed viewers will catch a glimpse of Maureen O'Brien's
underwear as she bends over to get the flare gun out of the cupboard.
-- (ep 2) When Sandy (Vicki's "pet") is seen in its cave just before
Barbara kills it, a stagehand is visible moving around behind it to the left.

The Romans:
++ (ep 2) Hartnell has one of his forgetful spells when he haltingly
spits out the following after the attempt on his life:  "You know I am
so constantly outwitting the opposition... I tend to forget the
delights and satisfaction... of the arts... of the gentle art of
fisticuffs".
++ (ep 2) Later on, same scene, Hartnell again:  "My dear, it was a
vasecte-...  an accepted thing in this age to hire an assassin,
prefunbly [consults cue card]...  prebbably someone dumb, and then he
couldn't denounce you".  Poor Maureen O'Brien looks as if she feels his
pain through the fumbling.
++ (ep 2) Nero asks the Doctor to play upon the Imperial Lyre.
Hartnell:  "That, your Excellency, would be an impossibizi..bility".
++ (ep 2) William Hartnell stutters amusingly (again) while saying "disastrous".
++ (ep 2) Nero's lyre-playing is embarrassingly fake - the notes
"plucked" by the actor differ greatly from the music being played.
-- (ep 2) Hartnell's memory strikes again the first time the Doctor
meets Tavius; there's an embarrassing pause as Hartnell forgets what to
say, and then remembers just as Tavius is going on to the next line of
the script.
++ (ep 3) Nero says to the empress in their first scene together:  "Naturally I
apee.. appreciate the feelings of my fellow artists".
++ (ep 3) A boom mike makes an appearance while Tigilinus is chasing
Nero around, trying to put his olive garland on.
++ (ep 4) The gladiatorial fight scene which begins this episode
contains one of the few instances of mooning in the show's history.
After Ian's friend has killed one of Nero's guards, Nero kicks the body
off the stage and down into the arena.  The guard's very short skirt
then flies up and gives the world a good long glimpse of shapely buttock.

The Web Planet:
++ (ep 1) Hartnell loses his lines and ruins an entire scene.  After
Ian's line, "How do we open the doors?  We have no power?", the pain begins.
The Doctor is supposed to explain the presence and purpose of
an item he is holding, but he can't get his lines out.  In fact, he
appears to have forgotten the entire purpose of the scene. Ian has to
look three times at the small object -- during the eternity of horrible
and irrelevant improvisation -- before Hartnell spits out
inexplicably:  "This is not merely a decorative object".  He then goes
on to finish the scene as if it had all made perfect sense:  a real trooper.
++ (ep 1) Outside the TARDIS, in the same scene where Ian's pen
vanishes, a boom mike shadow makes a brief but unmistakeable appearance
on the front of Ian's coat.  Look for it as he follows the Doctor off
the set, a split second before he whirls around to see if he is being followed.
++ (ep 1) In the scene where Barbara goes in to see if Vicki has
awakened from her aspirin-induced nap, she sits down in front of a very
reflective wall (you can see her reflection at the end of the scene,
when she gets up abruptly and leaves the room).  The blooper comes soon
after she first sits down, however:  you can see a spotlight being
moved in to shine on her, but it also reflects into the camera.  In the
next shot of Barbara it has been moved.
++ (ep 1)  At the episode's climax, Hartnell returns to find the TARDIS
missing, and has the line, "My TARDIS".  It was dubbed over for some
reason, and incredibly badly.  His lips move almost a full second before
any sound is heard.
++ (ep 2) In the scene immediately after the Menoptera destroy Barbara's gold
bracelet, the Doctor and Ian walk onto the set.  Some mountain ranges ring the
background, but when Hartnell walks on, he casts his shadow on them -- making
it all too obvious that they are four inches high and right next to him!
++ (ep 2) In the scene right after Vicki leaves the TARDIS and encounters
the Zarbi, the Doctor and Ian are still being taken somewhere by their
own group of ant creatures.  They enter the set from directly in front
of the camera, walking away from it with their backs to the lens.  Look
for another great shadow on Ian's coat just as they move away:  the
camera and the cameraman's head!
++ (ep 3) When Ian is running away from the Zarbi, there is a scene
where two bloopers happen in rapid succession.  First, a Menoptera
flies down to land behind him and follow him; the rope on which he was
lowered shows brightly against the black background.  A half-second
later, the "Larvae gun" (that short little Zarbi-owned monster that
looks like it was constructed out of spare parts for a car-wash) is
dragged onto the scene; the rope used to pull it can be seen on the floor.
-- (ep 3) a Zarbi is scuttling about, and runs straight into the camera
with a loud CLUNK.  The camera shakes for a second or two after that...
(and wouldn't you if you had just been run into by a Zarbi? ;-)
++ (ep 4) At the episode's climax, the Menoptera spearhead flies in to
do battle with the Zarbi.  And there's not a single one of them without a
hugely visible rope dangling them from the ceiling..
++ (ep 5) Near the episode's beginning, Vicki and the Doctor emerge on
the surface of the planet with their captive Zarbi.  Watch the scene
background, which is supposed to indicate a desert stretching off into
the distance.  Instead it becomes the display screen for a shadow
free-for-all.  The next scene, where the three walk on from the rear of
the stage, is the same.   Again it happens (this time VERY noticeably)
when the Doctor and Vicki return to the Animus' headquarters.
++ (ep 6) Just as the episode begins, the Animus dome descends to speak
with the Doctor.  "You attempted escape?", it asks.  Says Hartnell:
"We have been on a slight ... exploitation."  Lines, lines, lines.  It
appears very possible that he misread his cue card because of the hazy
plastic shield through which he was looking at the time.
++ (ep 6)  At the end of that first scene, the Doctor and Vicki are led
off, ostensibly to "the centre"; Hartnell is groaning and clutching his
face.  The camera cuts to Barbara, who is supposed to be on the other
side of the planet -- yet we still hear Hartnell groaning pretty
loudly!  Obviously he didn't realize that his scene was over, and that
the camera was long off him.  Poor Jacqueline Pearce just has to ignore
him, and keep a straight face while saying, "The Doctor will have
reached the control section by now".
++ (ep 6) The string from which the Animus itself is suspended is
clearly visible in almost every scene.
++ (ep 6) Just after the Animus is destroyed, a group of Zarbi proceeds
to dig out water from the planet surface, and some Menoptera come over
to join them.  The weight of all the actors makes the wooden stage
creak fearfully for a good long while.  This is far from the dusty
planet surface the designers were trying to create.
++ (ep 6) Next come the Optera, hopping around grunting, "Light is
good" like a trio of Beavis 'n' Butthead insects.  They make a point of
hopping over to the backdrop, showing with their shadows that it's
completely fake.
++ (ep 6) When the TARDIS finally takes off (thank God!), we see a side
view of it.  One of the window panels is broken and is leaning inward
ridiculously.
-- (ep 6?) Watch the mountains closely, and in some scenes you can
see the wooden supports holding them up..
++ (ep 6) To wrap up the technical glory that is this adventure, the
final scene has every costume designed for Vortis gathered together in
one group, in order to parade around and blatantly destroy, once and
for all, the credibility of the backdrop.  Finally comes the biggest
blooper of all:  the credits indicate that one "Howard King" was hired
to do the lighting for the show, obviously one of the biggest mistakes
in Doctor Who history.  "Light is good", the Optera are finally
convinced.  Wrong, sweeties..

The Space Museum:
-- (ep 1) In one scene, the Doctor bends over to examine some footprints
on the ground, and you can see his shadow being cast onto the "landscape"
behind, plainly showing that it's just a painted backdrop after all...
[Well, what did you expect? ;-) ]

The Chase:
-- (ep 1) As the Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki are watching the Space/Time
Visualizer, Ian is seen singing along to the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride".
Coming from Earth in 1963, Ian has never heard this song before - yet he knows
the words...
-- (ep 1) Note that when Barbara goes back to the TARDIS to turn off the
Visualizer, she walks on to the set where the Visualizer is from the wrong
direction!  She's supposed to enter from the door on the left (where they all
left when the Doctor announced "We're about to materialize!"), but she just
walks on from nowhere...  Not only that, but she yells from where she walked
on to the Doctor to come quickly, which is followed by him entering from
the same nowhere that she did!
-- (ep 1)  When Vicki leaves in a huff, she leaves a screwdriver on
the Space/Time Visualizer.  It promptly falls off with a loud clatter 
that William Hartnell reacts to by groaning...
-- (ep 2) Look at the back of the Aridian's heads, as you can almost always
see the actor's hair sticking out from under the mask.
-- (ep 2) When the Doc and co. are on Aridius, in the background you
can see the sand dunes stretching off into the far distance, but when
they walked across the screen they cast shadows on the dunes - rather
giving away the fact that they were just cardboard cut-outs!
-- (ep 2) When the Doctor, and Barbara are being held by the Aridians, Vicki
comes to find them.  When she is rushing to meet them, she knocks an Aridian
over.  Keep your eye on him.  After a few seconds, he gets up, looks confused
for a second and then looks at *someone* behind the camera.  He then "sneaks"
off the set...
-- (ep 2) Why is it that the Daleks could get in close enough to get a
very good picture of the Marie Celeste, but still were x minutes 
away?  And how can you have a 10 minute lead in the Space/*Time* continuum??
-- (ep 2&4) The Doctor appears to leave his coat on Aridius, though he somehow
has it back by the time they reach Mechanus...
-- (ep 3) Watch out for the motionless and rather knackered-looking Daleks
standing on either side of the ramp into the Dalek ship.  These are actually
2 ex-movie Daleks which were returned to the BBC to be used in the show,
but there wasn't enough time to replace the movie style large base and
jam-jar dome lights...  So these bits were simply removed in the hope
no-one would notice.  [This info comes from the instruction sheet for the
Sevans Models Dalek kit.]
-- (ep 3)  Just after the Doc & Co. escape from Aridius (when Barbara says
that he wasn't bursting with enthusiasm), a boom shadow moves across the Time
Rotor (or whatever you call that gadget thingy).
-- (ep 3)  Just after the previous blooper, Ian, Barbara and Vicki all gather
around the Doctor.  Vicki puts her hands deep in her pockets and starts to
wiggle her legs, move her hands (in the pockets) and shake her hips.
Judging by the desperate (but hilarious) facial expressions (a silly
embarrassed grin with a wide *urgent* look in her eyes), she had a need to
visit the Ladies room...
-- (ep 3) This may or may not be a blooper: in one of the scenes in
the TARDIS, Vicki starts pointing out that "Doctor! The rotor is slowing
down!".  To which he responds, "No, but I'm not ready!".  The blooper is (I
think) that Vicki seems to be pointing at those two strobe light
circular thingies on the console, when the rotor (at least I thought it
was) is in the central column.  If the rotor is those two strobe thingies,
then the blooper is the fact that from that point in the story on,
whenever you see the TARDIS console (when the TARDIS is in flight), you
never see those strobe things active.  Someone either forgot to turn on
the strobe things, or Vicki doesn't know where to point...
-- (ep 4) Before the TARDIS materializes in the
Haunted House, you hear the Dalek Time Machine materialization sound for
no reason whatsoever.  Then you hear and see the TARDIS materialize.
-- (ep 4) As the TARDIS materializes in the haunted house, note the
shadow of the person on the TARDIS door who quickly runs away when it
has fully materialized.
-- (ep 4) The Doctor and Ian enter Frankenstein's lab in the haunted house. 
They see the Monster lying unanimated on a table.  Behind the table is a large
ventilation screen.  Behind this screen is an empty Dalek - note that at this
point in the story, the Daleks weren't supposed to have arrived yet. 
A later scene in this same room shows that Dalek in action, "exterminating"
the Monster.
-- (ep 4) Listen for when William Hartnell says: "I say, I think we'd better
go and check where Vicki and Barbara *is*!".  It's shortly after he and Ian
enter the haunted house.
-- (ep 4) When the Doctor and Ian escape from Frankenstein's monster and the
monster lies down on its couch again, we hear Vicki's next line "What's that
in aid of?" a few seconds before she actually says it in the next scene.
(Apparently, Maureen O'Brien jumped her cue and said the line before the
camera was actually on her.)
-- (ep 4) Immediately after the previous blooper, Barbara's next line,
the quote about "Ask not for whom the bell tolls..." seems to suggest
that we should have just heard a spooky-sounding bell go off about then...
So where did it vanish to?
-- (ep 4) There's a clearly visible boom mike and operator standing in the
shadows as Ian and the Doctor come down the stairs of the haunted house for
the last time.
-- (ep 4) Frankenstein's Monster is credited as just "Frankenstein".
OK, so it's a small nitpick - So sue me. ;-)
-- (ep 4) When the Daleks establish that the Doctor & Co. are approaching the
planet Mechanus, we see a rectangular screen in their time machine with a 
series of three-digit numbers underneath the main monitor, supposedly
part of the machine.  But when a Dalek moves in front of the screen, the
numbers are (partially) superimposed on the Dalek!
-- (ep 4&5) Don't forget the terribly convincing scenes of the
Doctor and the Robot Doctor...  I mean, they showed close-ups of the
other actor who was supposed to look like William Hartnell, though he
didn't look very much like him at all...
-- (ep 5?) There's also a shot of the jungle on Mechanus where you can see
a Dalek in the background before they're supposed to have arrived....
-- (ep 5) Watch the scene where Vicki finds the TARDIS for the first time
(on Mechanus).  Afterwards, you can see a boom in the background.
And if you keep looking at the background you can see the operator's hand
pick something up off the ground...
-- (ep 5) When Ian and the Doctor are carrying Vicki back to the cave, in the
background is the Dalek ship, right outside the cave (instead of half-way
across the jungle) - and they don't even notice it!
-- (ep 5) When the Daleks are massing to attack our heroes, they pass by
the entrance to their cave and continue half-way across the jungle to the
entrance again!
-- (ep 5) In one scene in the jungle on Mechanus, a BBC camera cruises through
the background - you can see a large white '3' painted on its side...
-- (ep 6) When Ian and Barbara are starting to climb down from the Mechanoid
city roof.  Barbara slips and falls head-first off the roof.  Ian saves her...
by grabbing her pants.  Right at the belt-line.  They slide several inches
before the cameras cut away.  And people wonder why Ian and Barbara probably
got married after the series. ;-)
-- (ep 6) As the Doctor and Ian come back down from the roof of the city,
Steven walks over to talk to them.  The camera "dramatically" follows Steven
around the set until a certain point where the camera suddenly jerks, we
hear a soft "thunk" and then a "oooh!" from the cameraman!  Stubbed his
toe, methinks.  ;-)
-- (ep 6) There's a moment when the Doctor and co. have been first captured
by the Mechanoids that the camera is jostled *very* obviously.
-- (ep 6) When the door to Steven's "cell" drops, it bounces a few times before
it closes for good.
-- (ep 6) The rope that is supposed to be lowering everyone down almost a 
quarter of a mile is quite slack!
-- (ep ?) In one scene where the Daleks are entering their time machine,
you can see one lifting itself up get over the lip at the entrance!
-- (ep ?) There's a scene where a Dalek is moving along on some sand, and you
can see that it leaves *footprints* in the sand after it!
++ (ep ?) In one scene in the Dalek craft, you can see someone running
across the bottom right hand corner of the screen - quickly, but noticeably.
-- Then there's the entire interior design of the Dalek spacecraft, the bad
dubs on the Robot Doctor, Barbara suddenly running over to that crumbling
wall on Aridius just so that the Mire Beast can grab her, the visible wires
on the bats, the misplaced sound effects, William Hartnell's ubiquitous
messing up of his lines, the Visualiser that has names of Sol planets written
on it although it's supposed to be able to tune anywhere, the bad accents in
the Empire State Building, I could go on forever......

The Time Meddler:
-- (ep 1) Hartnell says: "But I'm not a mountain goat and I prefer walking
to any day..." and then adds "...and I hate climbing!"
-- (ep 2&3) The reprise to episode 3 is completely different to the
cliffhanger in episode 2: Steven does different things to the door, and
the sheepskin rug on the bed changes completely.

Galaxy Four:
-- (ep ?) In the only surviving clip from this story, Peter Purves cocks up
his line!

Mission to the Unknown / The Daleks Masterplan:
-- The message left on the tape recorder found in the first episode
of "Masterplan" is different from the one left by Marc Cory in "Mission".
(Editor's Note: I decided to make an exception to my "no flubs bridging stories"
rule and include this one because it's all the same story, really.)

The Massacre:
-- (ep 4) Hartnell's little solo speech was unintentionally truncated,
as Hartnell apparently forgot his lines!
-- (ep 4) At one point, the Doctor calls Chesterton "Checkerton"!

The Ark:
-- (ep 1) The Doctor notices Dodo's daft costume and asks her:
"Have you been fruiting about in my wardrobe?" (or something that
sounds very like 'fruiting'...)
-- (ep 1&2) At the end of episode one, Zentos says: "Take them to custody
and later they will be made to suffer for the crime that they have
committed."  However, in the reprise in episode two this becomes
"...they will be made to *answer* for the crime..."

The Gunfighters:
++ (ep 1) Taking it for granted that this entire episode is one huge blooper,
let's move on.  Given that the combatants at the O.K. Corral actually spoke
with neither British nor Australian accents, we can forgive the actors
portraying them - with only a disapprovingly raised eyebrow.  However,
their struggle to create an American accent sometimes impedes their
ability to remember lines.  For instance, one of the good old boys in
the saloon comes out with:  "Now let's get this straight.  You mean you
don't know where Holliday ... y-you never met Holliday either?"  All
that's left out is "g'day mate".
++ (ep 3) After Dodo holds a gun on Doc Holliday, he flubs his line:  "For the
first time in my life, I have just been taken -- beaten ... to the draw".
Taken out and beaten would be better.
++ (ep 3)  The Doctor enters the jail to tell Wyatt Earp that Steven (calling
himself Steven Regret) has ridden off to find Dodo and Doc Holliday, but seems
to have some trouble recalling the gender of his companion.  Earp: "You mean
Regret has gone after Holliday alone?"  Hartnell:  "No, no, my dear marshal,
no, she's gone with a young man by the name of Ringo."
-- (ep 3) A bulb blows at the end of this episode.

The War Machines:
-- (ep 4) The Doctor is examining the back of one of the War Machines.
When he's finished, he stands up - and bangs his head quite hard on the
overhanging part at the top of the machine! [Must have hurt... But he carried
on regardless.]
-- (ep ?) As the Doctor is examing the War Machine, he passes his cloak
down to Ben over its gun arm, knocking the metal spokes out of the gun,
and making a very audible *clang!* when it hits the floor!
And as if this isn't funny enough, Ben then stoops down, picks up the
offending bit of metal, and balances it back on the gun before slinking off
very sheepishly! (And all this occurs in the centre of the screen in full
camera view...)

The Tenth Planet:
-- (ep 1) The credits at the end of this episode spell Kit Pedlar's name as
KITT.
-- (ep 3) And a similar thing happens in this episode, where the credits
mis-spell Gerry Davis's name as DAVIES.

Power of the Daleks:
-- (ep 5) The fourth Dalek has trouble exiting through the arch (also terrible
photo blow-up Daleks).
-- (ep 5) It's painfully obvious that there are only four Daleks who keep
going around the set and coming back through the door again to make it look
like there is a whole legion of Daleks.  (Note the delay between the time the
fourth Dalek exits and the "fifth" Dalek enters.)

The Underwater Menace:
-- (ep 3) at the start of this episode, you can hear someone (either the
director or the PA, probably) calling the shots/directing the actors.
(It's very audible indeed.)
 
The Moonbase:
-- (ep 2) The Cyberman that gets off the bed in the sick-bay nearly
sends the whole thing flying...
-- (ep 4) Dr Evans, infected with the virus makes his way to the Gravitron and
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.
-- (ep ?) When the Cybermen blast the hole in the side of the dome the air
gets sucked out - but very slowly.  Surely it should be almost instantaneous?

The Faceless Ones:
-- (ep 1) Watch the background as the Doctor, Jamie and Polly decide
to go to the main airport building after finding the dead body - you can
distinctly see a shadow passing behind the upper portion of the door!

The Evil of the Daleks:
-- (ep 2) As the Dalek questions Victoria, you can see a camera lens quickly
sneak into left of the shot and then quickly withdraw!
-- (ep 2) Marius Goring (Professor Maxtible) messes up when he refers to 
Edward Waterfield as "Whitefield"...
++ (ep 7) Near the beginning of the episode, listen to Patrick Troughton say:
"I wonder what the doo-daleks are d-doing.."

The Tomb of the Cybermen:
-- (ep 3) The scene where Toberman is lifted up in the air by a Cyberman
features an embarrassingly large and clearly visible safety harness.
-- (ep 3) Just after they close the hatch on a Cyberman who then punches
at it, we see the same Cyberman emerge from the bottom of the ladder
with the sleeve of his costume obviously giving way around the shoulder.
-- (ep 3) The end of Klieg's X-ray laser flies off when he first fires it!
-- (ep 3) Listen carefully when they're shutting the hatch on the Cyberman -
a very deep human voice goes "Oooooooo" over the soundtrack.  I'm sure this
isn't the Cyberman - check it out, and see what you think.
-- (ep 4)  When the hatch is being closed for good, Jamie stumbles and
nearly knocks Victoria over.  Luckily the Doctor managed to grab him before
he fell...
-- (ep 4) When Toberman lifts up the Cybercontroller, it's so obviously
an empty costume that it's pathetic!

The Ice Warriors:
++ (ep 1) The explanation Clent gives for the Ice Age is totally wrong.
He says that too many plants were destroyed, and as plants produce carbon
dioxide, that meant a shortage of CO2 in the atmosphere, hence the ice age.
But plants *use up* CO2, so getting rid of them would *raise* the temperature!
(i.e, the 'greenhouse effect'.)

Enemy of the World:
-- (ep 3) It's interesting to observe that seemingly every sound in this
episode has been redubbed and as a result is out of synch - sometimes
quite badly.  An example is when Milton Johns has his thugs break into
Giles Kent's trailer - there is a three-second lag between the breaking
of the plates and the sounds they make...

The Wheel in Space:
-- (ep 6) After the meteors have been destroyed and Leo Ryan is berating
the Doctor for choosing to send Jamie and Zoe out in the middle of it,
the Doctor tells him that many lives will be lost unless they "switch over
to sexual air supply"(!)  It's supposed to be 'sectional', but clearly 
Pat Troughton had other things on his mind at that moment...
-- (ep 6) Everyone keeps referring to 'meteorites', which is incorrect.
They should be called 'meteors', as they only become meteorites *after*
they enter the Earth's atmosphere.
 
The Dominators:
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie are wandering around the ruin,
a boom shadow can be seen.
-- (ep 1) In this story, the costume designers must have gone insane...
Almost every costume is silly and rather impractical.  Their only function 
seems to be to make this blooper list longer..!  
We see our first example of this in episode 1, when Wahed (the female on
Kully's craft) is running down the hill.  Her "skirt" (one can hardly call
that horrible object a skirt) flies way up, exposing her knickers.
-- (ep 1) When Kando (the girl in the survey team) is sitting down at the
communication panel, you can see that her costume has fallen apart at the back,
exposing her knickers for all to see.  She seems to realise this, because from
that point on in the scene she either keeps her back away from the camera, or
holds her costume together with her hands....
-- (ep 2) Then Zoe (Wendy Padbury) decides to struggle into one of those 
monstrosities...  When she gets out of the Capsule, her skirt has bunched up 
at the front and her undies are visible.
-- (ep 2) When the survey port is being destroyed, the thing to keep the
bottom part of the costume up (a small zip located in the back of the costume)
has come undone.  When the smoke is rushing around her, the skirt actually 
*falls* down without her knowing it.  She is standing around looking very 
silly in her black knickers with her costume around her ankles for quite a 
while before the camera cuts out.  The next time we see her, the skirt is 
back up, but again, unzipped...
-- (ep 2) Later, Zoe brushes some dirt off of her shoulder.  The strap on the
dress gets knocked off too, but she picks it up pretty quickly.  Later, when
she says, "Better than being cooked in here," the strap is down again. 
Kully then says, "Lets try to open this door," and they move over to the door.
With her back to the camera the dress starts to slide and thankfully for her,
she quickly wakes up to the fact that it is down....
-- (ep 3) In this episode, Wendy Padbury again has problems.  She bends over to 
put a rock down, and the zip on her costume breaks.  It's quite clear for us to
see, but she doesn't realize this.  And when Balan collapses she turns her back
to the camera and rushes to help him.  What follows is a very amusing scene in 
which Wendy Padbury tries to look stern, but her exposed knickers 
counteract any facial expression she can make. :-)
++ (ep 4?) Behind the arms of the Quarks, you can see the the arms of the
operator inside them quite clearly (especially when they are flapping around
to 'recharge').
-- (ep 4) Kando rushes to help Teel, who has fallen. One of the Dominators
grabs her and picks her up.  Her skirt flies way up exposing a generous amount
of her undies.
-- (ep 5) Again Zoe's zipper wreaks havoc.  First of all, when she leaves the
tunnel, her skirt drags on the ground behind her, sending it higher and higher.
When Jamie and Kully bomb the drilling rig, she rushes over to the Doctor and
stands with her back to the camera...  Her fly's down at this point.
However, the next time we see her, it's back up.  Later, when the Doc is
finished his round of drilling she comes over and gives him a report of the
drilling.  Again, the "franticness" that Wendy Padbury tries to convey is
rendered somewhat amusing as her zipper is again yawning wide open. 
Then, when Kully comes down injured, she rushes over to help him down the
ladder.  Guess what?  It's still open.  When Jamie follows Kully down, keep
your eye on Jamie and Zoe.  Frazer Hines goes over to Wendy Padbury and
gestures towards her bum, possibly telling her that she is exposing herself
at this area.  This doesn't help, because later when the Doctor has the seed
device her zipper is down even farther than before....
-- (ep ?) In the Dominators' ship, there another one or two scenes of Wendy
Padbury's open zipper.  It's a wonder she didn't know that it was there - 
it must have been pretty draughty...
-- (ep ?)  Watch out for the amusing scenes demonstrating the art of
how-to-make-three-Quarks-look-like-a-lot-more...

The Mind Robber:
++ (ep 1)  Watch when the Doctor pushes Zoe and Jamie into the TARDIS.  He
presses so hard that he leaves a handprint on the back of Zoe's jumpsuit
that stays for several minutes!
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor pushes Jamie & Zoe back into the TARDIS, the caption
"Producer, PETER BRYANT" is visible on the TARDIS scanner!
++ (ep 1&2) After the TARDIS has been ripped apart, we see the console
floating about with Zoe and Jamie sprawled over it.  When you see it from
a distance, Zoe is lying on her right side (legs going off to the left), the
tight shot has her lying on her left side (legs going off to the right).  You
see these two shots back and forth a couple of times so it really becomes
noticeable.
-- (ep 3) When Jamie is standing by that ticker-tape machine that tells him
what's going on with the Doctor or Zoe (or what's supposed to happen), for
quite a while he's reading it upside down!  He's standing and reading
it so that the newly printed portion of ticker-tape comes out to his
left.  Now, we all read from left to right, so it's impossible for that
to be the right side to read it from.  (And just to make sure, earlier
on we see that the print is indeed facing the opposite direction from where
Jamie is reading later on...)  Interesting, that.
-- (ep 3) When the Doctor and friends enter the house which leads into the
Thesean labyrinth and the wooden door creaks shut, the sound glitches and
the sound cuts off and repeats itself halfway through.  The door is well
shut by the time it's all over...
++ (ep 4)  It's painfully clear that the shelfs and books in the library are
just cardboard cut-outs.  Look at how the shadows fall on them.
++ (ep 4)  When the Doctor et al. first meet the Master, the following
exchange takes place:   Master [proudly]: "...and for twenty-five years
I've delivered five thousand words every week!"
Doctor [thoughtfully]:  "Ah, so you're a writer."
Zoe:  "25 years! 5000 words a week!"  [thinks]  "Why, that's well over
half a million words!"
It certainly is. It's over six and a half million words, in fact.
Zoe was obviously thinking in non-Aristotelian arithmetic.
-- (ep 5) During the big battle-of-the-imaginations scene at the end of
this episode, the Master of the Land of Fiction decides that the Doctor is
expendable, and has him surrounded by White Robots.  The camera closes
in on his right profile, and he shouts out, "Change Weapons To Destructor
Beams!".  While he says the word "Destructor", three thick white streams of
saliva come spraying out of his mouth and across the screen...!
++ (ep ?)  The map of the maze, which is on the Master's screen, doesn't
correspond to what Zoe says about following the pattern of "1st on the
left, 2nd on the right, 3rd on the left, 4th on the right and so-on."  On
the map, going they way Zoe said they did, they would have made it to the
middle of the maze after the second right!

The Invasion:
-- (ep 2) In this story, Sally Faulkner (who played Isobel Watkins) and
Wendy Padbury (who played Zoe Heriot) seem to have a little contest between 
themselves.... It all starts in episode 2, as Isobel is lying on the floor
photographing Zoe.  She takes a rest and stands up.  As she does so, her
white knickers make their first (but not last) appearance....
-- (ep 2)  In one scene, Zoe pronounces 'integer' with a hard G instead of
a soft 'j' like the rest of us...
-- (ep 2) Wendy Padbury's knickers make their debut as her skirt rides up
her back when she is being pushed and pulled out of the IE reception area.
Her white polka dot undies are clearly visible....
-- (ep 2) Zoe quickly takes the lead when she is again pushed and pulled by
IE guards... This time it is when they are leaving Vaughn's office: one of the
guards pushes her through the door.  She goes so fast that her mini-skirt
just flies up.
-- (ep 2) At the very end of this episode, after Zoe and Isobel have 
been knocked out, the guards are carrying them to the cartons.
They are both being carried horizontally, with their legs pointing 
towards the camera...  Unfortunately, it's rather hard to avoid noticing
female undergarments in situations like that..!
++ (ep 3) Vaughn sends Packer to see Professor Watkins, so Packer gets into
the elevator and pushes the "3" button.  Later in the same episode, the Doctor
and Jamie are being led from meeting the professor when they escape into the
elevator and start it moving. When the Doctor starts to sabotage the elevator,
Jamie complains "but we're 6 floors up!", and Packer confirms a few minutes
later that they are on the 6th floor.  Obviously, the professor is on the 6th
floor.  Perhaps the toilet is on the 3rd floor?
-- (ep 3) When Jamie and the Doctor are climbing up the lift shaft to escape
from the I.E. henchmen, look at the cables behind them. Considering they're
supposed to be holding up a lift they don't look very taut... they're wobbling
about like mad!
-- (ep 5) After Vaughan has consulted with the Cybercontroller, he sits
down and talks to Packer.  If you look behind Vaughan then, you'll 
notice that the panel concealing the CyberController has an awful lot
of trouble closing...
-- (ep 5) Zoe is sitting on the table.  The Doctor and Jamie come in and she
slides off just a bit too quickly, so her skirt snags briefly on the edge...
This makes it 4-2 for Zoe...
-- (ep 5) While Isobel is trying to let the Brig let her take photos of the 
Cybermen, Zoe is sitting on a (different) table.  She is facing the camera 
and is sitting with her knees *jammed* together.  Well, nice try!  Her
undies still manage to put in an appearance anyway...
At this stage, one is almost expecting to see them mentioned in the end
credits..!  "ZOE'S UNDERGARMENT'S STUNT DOUBLE - Terry Walsh"
-- (ep 5) When Zoe, Jamie and Isobel are getting out of the jeep to get photos
of the Cyberman,  our two female friends jump out rather fast, exposing
their underwear yet again...  Watch Benton's looking at Wendy Padbury's
knickers.  Jamie almost had to drag him away...
-- (ep 5) Zoe is climbing down a ladder into the sewer.  The angle of the
camera is positioned RIGHT underneath her, looking straight up her mini-skirt.
Douglas Camfield was obviously having fun directing this story...
-- (ep 6) Now that Zoe is up 7 - 3, Isobel tries to catch up as she is taking
photos of the Cybermen.  Jamie sees the Cyberman coming, and pulls her out of
the way.  Her hands are around her head (taking pictures) and she can't stop
her skirt from flying up.
-- (ep 6) Zoe pulls even farther ahead later this episode...  It's when the 
Cybermen are attacking in the sewer and she races to get up the ladder.  
Although that camera has moved position, you can still see her underpants.
Thankfully, Douglas Camfield seemed to tire of this little jape after
episode 6, so there are no more bloomers on view anywhere...
The final score is:   Zoe - 8  Isobel - 4... So Wendy Padbury wins!
-- (ep 7&8)  What exactly are Cybermen doing with lace-up shoes??
(You can see them in close-up while they are marching through
the streets...)
-- (ep 8) The Cyberman falling from the roof is plainly just an empty
costume...
-- (ep 8) Wendy Padbury manages to screw up the line "But in moving in
fifty thousand miles, they've come into range of the Russian missiles."
- she starts to say 'thirty' instead of 'fifty', but manages to correct
herself...
-- (ep ?) When the Cyberman comes out of that box (when they try to use
the Professor's machine on it), part of the fabric gets stuck to him. 
The camera switches to his back, and we can see the fabric being pulled away...

The Krotons:
-- (ep 1) After the scene where the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe leave the TARDIS,
they start to climb some rocks.  Fraser Hines comes down too fast and crashes
into Wendy Padbury who is thrown back, ooh, about 10 feet, I'd say. 
(What an awkward pillock.)
-- (ep 4) When one of the Gonds has his legs trapped under a rock,
just before the Doctor and Zoe can help him he shifts his legs slightly
and the "rock" wobbles considerably.  It's then quite amusing to watch Pat
Troughton and Wendy Padbury pretend the lump of polystyrene is heavy...
-- (ep 4) While Jamie and Beta are making the sulphuric acid, at one point
they walk backwards into each other.  At this moment, Beta's face mask has
slipped below his nose - but we then immediately see a shot from another
camera in which the mask is in place again...
-- (ep 4) The one time we see a whole Kroton (as it emerges from the
Machine), spot the bulge in the bottom section where the operator's leg is
moving!
-- (ep 4) When the rock pile buries the Doctor, Wendy Padbury is on 
her knees.  This is probably not the best position to be in while wearing 
such a short skirt...  [Doncha just love those sexist BBC directors?]
-- (ep ?) Whenever Zoe is on the stairs the camera is positioned right
underneath her.  [ditto previous comment about the director]
-- (ep ?) Keep an ear out for Pat Troughton's tendency to say "Joey"
instead of "Jamie, Zoe" ?
-- (ep ?) When the Doctor and Zoe are being taken into the Krotons,  we see
Jamie coming to stop them.  The strange thing is, we see Jamie starting
to run from a standstill, but supposedly he has just being running from
somewhere else.

The Seeds of Death:
-- (ep 1) As the Doctor is coming out of the TARDIS and struggling into his 
coat, notice that his braces (that's "suspenders" in Americanese) have come
unbuttoned from his trousers on one side and are flapping around...
-- (ep ?) The Doctor's hair goes through remarkable changes in length and 
thickness throughout the course of the story...
An example: He finds out Radner 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.  Radner than says that this was where the 
Ice Warrior was last seen.  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 an awful lot
shorter, no sideburns etc.  (This one is very obvious...)
-- (ep ?) 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 ?) 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 ?)  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 ?) Take a look at one of the Ice Warriors approaching the Weather
Control station.  There is a head-and-shoulders shot in which several
strands of long black hair are sticking out from beneath the back of his
helmet...  (Though of course, we don't know whether or not Ice Warriors
actually do have hair - who knows what they're hiding under that armour? ;-)
-- (ep ?) Watch carefully for the scene where Zoe's pants are falling down.
She's in the background and looks very silly!
-- (ep ?) During the scene in the space museum when they're building the
rocket, you can distinctly hear the sound of a wrench (or some other metal
tool) being dropped on the cement floor!

The War Games:
++ (ep 2) The Doctor is in a tree with Zoe, and he's looking through a
mini-telescope at some troop movements.  However, when the scene switches
back to the Doctor and Zoe, the picture is still cropped into a circle for
a brief moment.
++ (ep ?) Zoe supposedly has memorized the names of the resistance leaders,
yet she doesn't know who the Mexican is.
-- (ep ?) In one scene Zoe seems to be holding her pants up.  The story
goes that the buckle and zipper broke, but the filming was so far behind
schedule that they told her to keep going regardless...

Spearhead from Space:
++ (ep 1-4) General Scobee's epaulets have only two decorations, though
a Royal Army general's epaulets have three decorations: crossed swords,
a crown, and a diamond.  (Could someone knowledgeable verify this?)

The Silurians:
-- (ep 1) At the beginning, when Liz stands up from kneeling, her belt
gets caught on the bottom of her skirt and raises it up, letting those
hordes of drooling fans see her stocking tops for a while.
-- (ep ?) Watch Liz's belt - first it's tied on the right and then later
it's tied on the left...  And then back again!

The Ambassadors of Death:
-- (ep 1) Watch the scene where Van Lyden is sitting in the spaceship, as viewed
on the monitor screen at space control...  Well, Van Lyden says something
like "beginning rotation now", and the image on the screen rotates.  Well
assuming this image comes from a camera inside the shuttle, surely this would
mean the ship rotated but the camera didn't, unless the camera was outside in
space (not a very satisfactory explanation!).  Surely if the camera was in
the spaceship, the ship could do a loop-the-loop and the image the camera
sent wouldn't change, as the camera was effectively attached to the spaceship?
-- (ep 1&7) In episode 1, we see a matte shot of the launch control room,
which has a high ceiling.  At the very end of episode 7, we see another such
shot... only they used the wrong backdrop this time...  Suddenly the room has
the same roof as the rocket launch site seen in episode 5...
-- (ep ?) 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 the risk of the rocket exploding
is too great...
However, later when the aliens are working with the doctor and he is sending
them back to their ship on board a rocket, the doctor suggests using
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???
-- (ep 4?) When Reegan goes into the cell to help the 'dying' Ambassador,
one of them touches him and he flies against the wall. But when the
Ambassadors touch *anyone* else, they are killed!  Interesting, that...
-- (ep 4) Listen out for Taltalian's amazing changing accent in his car
when he confronts Liz!
-- (ep 4&6) The same guard (stuntman Max Faulkner) who is killed by the
Ambassador whilst at the main gate in episode 4 is alive and well in
episode 6...!   (Unless he's got a twin... ;-)
-- (ep ?)  When Lennox is being 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, hitting a "brick" wall that shakes quite a bit... ;-)

Inferno:
-- (ep 1) Look at the "Nuclear Power Output" gauge in the TARDIS laboratory -
they've spelled "Megavolts" as "MEGGA VOLTS". Oops!
++ (ep 1) This is a pretty general problem, but it's best illustrated
by an instance in Episode 1.  The first person to be turned into a
monster by the ooze is supposed to be red-hot (as are they all):  in
fact, when he dies lying against a wall, the paint is blistered and
burnt by the heat from his body.  Yet his clothes remain undamaged, and
do not burst into flame!  I guess the BBC couldn't tolerate a bunch of
singed, greenish nudists running around a children's show menacing the cast.

Terror of the Autons:
-- (ep 1) That whole scene where the Auton is knocked down the cliff wasn't
meant to happen.  Stuart Fell (the stuntman) had it planned so that the car
would stop short, and he'd take a few steps down the hill.  Well, the car
stopped too late and he goes flying down the hill at breakneck speed
(though he wasn't hurt).  That explains why the camera keeps switching
angles, because none of the cameramen were expecting it!
-- (ep 1) When the Master hypnotises Jo in Farrell's office, he asks her
who went to the radio telescope. Jo replies "Myself, the Brigadier and
the Doctor".  So what happened to Mike Yates then?

The Mind of Evil:
++ (ep 3) After the Master has the Doctor brought to the prison office,
he informs him that he intends to steal a "nuclear" weapon away from
U.N.I.T. to blow up the World Peace Conference.  As has already been
firmly established in the previous two episodes, it is a nerve gas
missile; the Master himself even heard this information from having
tapped the phones at HQ.  Pertwee wisely ignores Delgado's blunder.
-- (ep 3) As the Doctor and the Master have a fist-fight in the prison
governor's office, they knock over a water carafe, and slip and slide all
over the ensuing puddle.
This wasn't meant to happen, but they kept it in the finished episode, just
because it looked great (so they said)...

The Claws of Axos:
-- (ep 3) Katy Manning's knickers make a guest appearance...  It's when
the Doctor drags Jo away from the claws imprisoning her on the floor in
the Axon ship while Axos is convulsing.  Her dress flies up at the back,
showing her knickers briefly (the PAL version of this scene is converted
back from NTSC so is of unfortunately poor quality).
-- (ep 4) In one scene, Chromakey blue is visible through the windows in a
jeep with nothing superimposed...
-- (ep ?) In this story, they have a particle accelerator that accelerates
particles to the speed of light and beyond, and they even have an instrument
that measures the effect, marked in "X light"!
(If I understand my relativity correctly, particles cannot be
*accelerated* to the speed of light, let alone beyond it, because at
that point they would have to have infinite mass.)
-- (ep ?) Watch out for the very wobbly brick wall in the scene where the
Brigadier and co. are running into the lab just as the Doctor is accelerating
the Axonite.

Colony in Space:
-- (ep 2) Watch the scene where Dent is interrogating Caldwell, just after
he first brought the Doctor back to the IMC mining ship.  Watch the monitor
screen on the bridge.  In some shots it's in place, but in others (especially
close-ups on Caldwell), the CSO is missing and there's just a bright blue light!
-- (ep ?) There's one scene where a bunch of the colonists are standing around,
listening to a speech, and abruptly as you're watching, two of the colonists
in the group suddenly switch places!  It's very abrupt - one moment they're
in place, the next moment they switch.  It looked like a bad edit to me...
-- (ep 3?) There's a scene where the Doctor and Jo sneak into the Master's
TARDIS to have a look around...  There is an alarm beam across the door at
about knee level, so they have to wiggle under the beam on their backs.
A couple of times they accidentally bump into the massive internal doors of
the TARDIS and the doors wobble in a decidedly un-massive manner...!

The Daemons:
-- (ep 1&3) When that tree is blocking Jo and the Doctor's way up to Devil's
End (this is at night), they both decide to get out of Bessie and run to
the Devil's Hump.  Notice that Bessie's headlights are left on.  Now, when
the Doctor goes back to collect Bessie later on, her headlights are off,
and moreover, she starts like a charm.  (No flat battery there...)
So is this a blooper, or did the Doctor manage to rig up a device to
automatically shut off Bessie's headlights..?
-- (ep 2&3) When the van (milk float?) crashes into the signpost and bursts
into flames because of the heat barrier, the signpost clearly
says 'Devils End 1' (as in one mile).  In the very next scene
we hear it explained that the heat barrier has a FIVE mile radius
centred on the village church. 
++ (ep 3?) When the Master summons Azal, look behind the Master's shoulder
and play spot-the-crew-member..

The Claws of Axos:
++ (ep ?)  When the Doctor and Jo escape from Axos, Jon Pertwee trips and
falls flat on his face.

Colony in Space:
++ (eps 2&5) One of the IMC crew members in part 2 has suddenly become
a colonist in part 5.. (he's played by Pat Gorman, I think.)

Day of the Daleks:
-- (ep 1) When the house is being attacked by the Ogrons, the male freedom
fighter (in studio) loses his hat while running out to fight.  In the next
shot (on location) he has it back on again.
-- (ep 1) Watch the Brigadier as he's running down from the road to the
railway tunnel - through the mud...
-- (ep 1) At the start of this story, when the Doctor is messing around
in the TARDIS trying to get it working, he hands a clipboard and pen to Jo.
As he does so, the pen falls off the board and gets stuck about halfway down
the console where it stays for several more shots.  But: then Jo hands the
clipboard back to the Doctor *with* the pen, and no sign of her having
gone to fetch the errant writing implement...
-- (ep 1?) Watch the scene where the controller is reporting the status of
what is going on in the future.  The camera pulls right back to show who he has
been reporting to - the Daleks.   In awe of seeing them for the first time,
the boom operator has forgotten to move out of the way and the boom mike is
still easily seen sitting above the controller's head.
-- (ep ?) If you look at the Daleks' "screen" on which the Controller is
depicted (in the upper-right corner), you can not only see that it's a
video overlay of course, but you can see the edges of the "screen" waver
noticeably as the switcher's hand jiggles!
-- (ep ?) Katy Manning's red knickers appear quite a few times... When she's 
getting up from sitting on the floor, when she's climbing down a wall,
and basically when ever she makes a sudden movement: when she's travelling
through time; when she moves closer to the Doctor and says, "You shouldn't
have said that, you don't know the whole picture"; when she runs up the
stairs out of the cellar, etc. etc...)
(But interestingly enough, it isn't Katy Manning who's climbing down that
wall - it's her stunt double, who happens to be male! [This is according
to Jon Pertwee at a convention...] )

The Curse of Peladon:
-- (ep 2) When the Doctor and Jo go through one of the secret doors 
leading down below the palace, watch the door as it closes behind them - 
overhead you can see the string which was used to pull the door open in
the first place....

The Sea Devils:
++ (ep 1) The Doctor has a telescope, which he uses to look at the Master's
prison with.  Yet when the camera switches to the close up of the castle,
it shows the view from a pair of binoculars.
(It's another matter entirely that when you use *real* binoculars, it
doesn't look like that sideways figure-of-8 shape anyway!)
-- (ep 1) When Jo and the Doctor are climbing the ladder to get into the
sea-fort, it's painfully obvious that it isn't Katy Manning, but a bloke
in a Jo Grant wig.  It looks dreadful - but totally hilarious!
-- (ep 2) When the Doctor and Jo are carrying the fat guy out,
you can see shadows and light moving around in the background as if
there's someone there. (And indeed, there probably is.)
-- (ep 2?) While in the sea-fort, the Doctor rigs up the radio to transmit
messages, but somehow still gets it to receive them too...  Handy, that.
-- (ep 3) When the submarine crashes to the sea bed, watch...  There
is a shot of the sub falling, cut to the inside and the crew fall
around a bit.  Then the sub hits the sea bed, in a model shot, then 
cut back again and they fall around a bit more... (i.e. they started falling
around before the sub was hit...)
-- (ep ?)  The radio that the Doctor built couldn't have worked...  If you
look at the device (this is clearest right before it explodes), you can see
that there's a 9 Volt battery clip sticking out of it.  The blooper is
that there is no battery in the socket, so electricity cannot flow between
the two metal terminals...  Therefore the whole thing shouldn't be able to
work at all because there isn't a complete circuit..!  (But I doubt that the
Doctor would let small details like that stop him... ;-)

The Mutants:
-- (ep 1) The Doctor tells Jo that he couldn't open the package if he wanted
to twice in the same speech..!

The Time Monster:
-- (ep ?) Katy Manning shows off her knickers (yes, again!) twice. But
with an added twist: The first time is when she falls and complains about
her tailbone - they're white.  And the second time, when she is out in
the time vortex, she is lying on the ground and hears the Doctor. She stands
up and... oops! - except they're yellow this time...  Now where did she get
the time to change them...?
-- (ep ?) You can see the stick holding the TARDIS in the scene where the
Master throws it into the time vortex.
-- (ep ?) During the story, the Doctor gives Jo the "TARDIS sniffer-outer".
If you watch Jo's hand whenever it is "on" you can see her finger on a button
turning it on and off...

The Three Doctors:
-- (ep 1-4)  Whenever the scanner is used it shows a picture of the lab
with the TARDIS in one corner.  Wait a moment...  If the scanner is
mounted *on* the TARDIS then how can it be in the picture?
-- (ep 1) How about the scene where JP hears the materialisation of PT's
recorder?  He looks down and picks up the recorder, and mentions something
about how he has seen it before and asks if anyone owns it...
Well, we all saw it before we heard it materialise sitting on the console...
Oh well...
-- (ep 1&3) Katy Manning does it again (just when you thought it was safe..!)
First, when the Gell Guards come out of the drain...  The Doctor tells her
to back slowly behind the car.  Instead she jumps over the seat.  When she is
doing it, the back of her mini-skirt lifts up.  Oops! You can see her light
blue knickers clearly.  And secondly, when they escape from Omega's
castle, she comes down a hill a bit too quickly.  Oops (again)! 
-- (ep 2) When Bessie is seen for the first time in anti-land, look
at the tires...  You can see the dust from the ground all over them as if
the car had been driven.  But in the story it was "supposed" to have been
teleported...
-- (ep 2&4) You can see the reflections of some camera crew in the monitor used
to display the First Doctor...
-- (ep 2-4) When Omega is looking at his "magic screen", you can see the
outline of the actual television set at the edge of the image...
-- (ep 3&4) Watch Omega throughout the story - at various times, Stephen
Thorne's lips are visible, and in one profile shot so is his jaw, yet when
the mask is removed, we find that Omega has been dissipated...  (So he
shouldn't have any lips, dammit!)
-- (ep 4) During the scene when all the companions are returning to Earth
via the pillar of smoke, you can see and hear each person walk up the stairs
to the pillar of smoke.  Although they disappear, you can clearly *hear* them
walk down the other side!

Carnival of Monsters:
-- (ep 1) As Jo sneaks across Major Daly's "office" (while Daly is asleep)
to retrieve the 'Illustrated London News', you can hear a pencil being dropped
and rolling across the floor!

Frontier in Space:
++ (ep ?) Jo seems to change her outfit between episodes - while being
held in the in the prison cell..
-- (ep ?) When the Doctor goes out to repair the spacecraft, look out
for the very obvious strings holding him up...
-- (ep ?) During the Doctor's spacewalk, he pulls an oxygen tube from
his spacesuit. Not only does his suit *not* depressurise, but the thrust
from it only pushes him in one direction - toward the spaceship hatch!
Handy, that...
-- (ep ?) And after the Doctor's spacewalk, you can see a production assistant
waiting to help Pertwee back into the hatch...
-- (ep ?) During the last of the "kidnapping attempts", the Doctor and Jo
are running away from the Ogrons.  Jon Pertwee dives behind a small wall, 
and Katy Manning comes behind him and bends over to hide behind the wall. 
But while she does this, the seat of her pants rip apart quite badly at
the seam...

Planet of the Daleks:
-- (ep 1) After the Doctor recovers from his 'coma', he gets up and
stands at the console.  If you watch the central column at this point,
you can see (in one of the mirrored surfaces) a reflection of one of
the production crew moving around...
-- (ep 2) As the Doctor is being escorted out of the lift in the
underground complex, watch the Dalek as it passes through the door - 
it bumps into the side with an audible 'thunk'!
-- (ep 2) When the Spiridon is treating Jo's infected arm, have a look
on the ground - you can see the shadow of whoever is holding the bowl.
'So what?', I hear you ask... Well, Spiridons are supposed to be
invisible!  (Makes it rather hard for them to cast shadows, doesn't it?)
++ (ep 2) The rock that hits Jo on the head is so large it should've crushed
her skull like a grape or at least caused major concussion. Also notice that
Katy Manning obviously knows she's going to be zonked on the head, and blinks
uncontrollably just before it strikes..
++ (ep 3?) When the Doctor and co. escape up the shaft with the aid of
a giant hankie, the Dalek that they send after him has a blatantly obvious
string attached to its top.
++ (ep 4?) Vicious Spiridonian jungle animals have surrounded the Thals'
fire encampment.. but their silhouettes are clearly cardboard cutouts
with glowing lights for eyes. When the Thals shoot and "scare off" the
animals, the eye lights go off, but their silhouettes clearly remain!
-- (ep 5?) In the scene when the Daleks enter the rock circle (where
Jo and the Thals have been hiding), watch one of the Daleks as it glides
straight into one of the rocks - which then can be seen and heard scraping
across the studio floor!
-- (ep 6) That rather daft-looking Supreme Dalek seems to have a few
problems with its eyepiece, which lights up in a similar way to the
normal Dalek voice-indicator lights whenever the dude happens to be
talking...  The main problem is that it also seems to light up when
OTHER Daleks are talking as well!  Watch one particular scene in this
episode involving an exchange between the Supreme and two other Daleks
to see this.
-- (ep ?) You can see the strings that lower the door of the Dalek ship...
++ (ep ?) Despite being light years away from the nearest salon, Jo's hairstyle
mysteriously changes halfway through the story..
++ (ep ?) The pots of the "exotic Spiridon jungle plants" are clearly visible in
several shots..

The Green Death:
-- (ep 2) After the lift brake fails at the start of the episode, a close-up
shot of Katy Manning shows her miner's helmet lacking a lamp. But in the
next shot, the lamp magically returns...
-- (ep 2) In the fight scene with the security guards, Pertwee's double
is wearing the wrong colour wig...
-- (ep 2) When the Brigadier phones Professor Jones looking for cutting 
equipment to rescue Jo and Bert from the mine, Jones suggests asking Global
Chemicals instead, since he tried to borrow some from them 'several weeks ago'.
But when the Brig is talking to Stevens at Global Chemicals and mentions the
Professor, Stevens says something like: "Ah yes, he came looking for our
cutting equipment *yesterday*"..
-- (ep ?) Jon Pertwee mispronounces "chitinous" (i.e, mollusc-like) - the
first syllable should be pronounced 'kite', but he says it as 'chit'.
Afterwards, the production team received a letter that said: "The reason
I'm writin' / Is how to say chitin." ;-)

The Time Warrior:
-- (ep 1?) When Linx first meets Irongron and plants his flag (claiming Earth
for the Sontaran Empire), immediately before the scene change, and for no
apparent reason, Irongrod and Bloodaxe both turn their heads and look away
from Lynx, off stage to their right...  [Is this a case of bad editing
or something?]
-- (ep ?) Sarah is put to work peeling potatoes... in the 12th century.
(Potatoes were not introduced to Europe until Elizabethan times.)

Invasion of the Dinosaurs:
++ (ep 2) When Mike Yates is about to sabotage the Doctor's gun, he glances
down at it in the back of the Brigadier's jeep - and it can be seen that the
sabotage device is already on it. (Although we don't see him put it on until
on shortly afterwards).
-- (ep 2) When the UNIT soldiers are shooting at the tyrannosaurus, the CSO
is very badly lined up - making it seem like their rifles are aimed at the
building beside it.
-- (ep 4?) As the Doctor is being 'herded' through the underground complex,
watch the right wall when the second door falls.  It wobbles quite badly...
-- (ep ?) When Sarah is hit on the head by a beam knocked loose by the
dinosaur, it hits the back of her head and yet it's her forehead that
appears bruised and scratched!

Death to the Daleks:
-- (ep 2?) Watch for when Sarah-Jane is supposed to be trapped in the cage...
except she's not!  The empty cage can be clearly seen in the background.
Apparently Lis Sladen got sick of waiting around for them to set up the shot,
so wandered off to get a cup of tea. When she came back they were already
filming and didn't want to reshoot it thinking no one would notice...  Ha!
++ (ep 4) When they are placing the bomb on the beacon, watch as the chap
doing it slams it into place, and you can see the whole structure move.
He even reaches out quickly and grabs the pole as if he's afraid it's about to
fall over.
-- (ep ?) You can see the tracks the Daleks are moving on in one of the Exxilon
outdoor mining scenes.
-- (ep ?) A Dalek's head is falling off in one scene.
-- (ep ?) When the city "root" guardian comes out of the water and attacks
the Exxilons, you can see the piece of string holding it up.

The Monster of Peladon:
-- (ep ?) Watch out for the *really* obvious stunt double when the Doctor is
fighting the guy with the sonic lance...
-- (ep ?) When the Doctor is holed up in the refinery and being attacked by
Ice Warriors, he sends out the fake Aggedor to fry them.  Notice that
before he does this, there is a gaping huge hole in the door.
When Aggedor rematerializes after zapping them, we can see the door
to the right side of the screen and it is untouched...

Planet of the Spiders:
-- (ep 6) The reprise in this episode is different from the cliffhanger
in episode 5...

Robot:
++ (ep ?) At one point in the story, the Doctor hurriedly types out
a letter to leave for the Brigadier and Sarah-Jane, and pins it to the TARDIS.
Later when Sarah-Jane reads the note, you can clearly see it's been handwritten!

The Ark in Space:
-- (ep 1) Watch out for Lis Sladen's knickers...  (They appear when
Harry and the Doctor lift Sarah onto a couch to recover from her fit
of suffocation, and as she is lifted her dress flaps down at the
back, showing a brief glimpse of her knickers...  Which are white, FYI.)
Lis Sladen later said that she regularly used to receive requests by post
for those particular undies...  And at one time simply despatched a brand
new unworn pair by return of post to the lonely deviants in question..!

The Sontaran Experiment:
-- (ep 2) Watch when the Doctor is fighting with Styre: in the long shots
he's standing up straight, but in the close-ups, he's crouched over.
-- (ep ?) Apparently you can see a car in the background of one scene...
++ (ep ?) And apparently there's a farm cottage visible in the background
at one point, too..

Genesis of the Daleks:
-- (ep 4) When Gharman is hit over the head by Nyder, just listen to
the squeak he makes!
++ (ep 6) In a few of the final scenes, watch as the Daleks talk to Davros.
The voice-lights are sometimes totally out of sync with the speech.
-- (ep 6) The Doctor enters the Dalek incubation chamber wearing a short
red jacket, without his hat.  He emerges wearing a long brown
overcoat, and his hat (last seen in episode 1).  He is wearing this
costume at the end of the story when he, Sarah Jane and Harry use the
time ring to proceed to Nerva Beacon.
[More interestingly, at the start of Revenge of the Cybermen (immediately
afterwards - i.e. when they find themselves on Nerva Beacon again), the
Doctor's long coat and hat have vanished.... and in their place is... you
guessed it, his short red jacket...!]
++ (ep ?) Watch closely when the Doctor grabs the stalagtite to help free
Harry from the giant clam.  The rock comes away suddenly and the Doctor hits a
"boulder" which wobbles back and forth.

Revenge of the Cybermen:
-- (ep 3) Shortly after the Doctor makes his speech to the Cybermen about
how pathetic they are, watch for a wobbling Cyberman head...
-- (ep ?) Elisabeth Sladen pulls a "Katy Manning" twice.  She had terrible
trouble with those tight pants she was wearing.  Watch when she escapes
from the Vogons and is climbing up a rock.  She gets to the top and in order
to get down the other side she goes feet first and is spread-eagle. You can
see a long, slim, hole at her crotch - either her fly's down or she
ripped the pants wide open (looking at the scene however, it's much more
likely to be the latter).  You can clearly see white underpants underneath.
The next is a few scenes later when Harry helps her down a rocky
hill.  The camera is behind them.  She comes down a bit fast and the pants fall
down a few inches before the camera cuts out and she presumably pulls them back
up.  But not before we see the white knickers again...
-- (ep ?) Look at the lower windows in the outer hallway of the beacon.  It 
looks like the stars are on a piece of paper that is taped to the outside of the
window (because they are). 
-- (ep ?) Watch when the Cybership is approaching.  Before it is in visual
range, they say that it is coming "straight at them".  But when the ship
comes into visual range and they show it on the screen, it is at an angle
and completely stationary.  After a minute passes THEN the ship moves. (i.e.
they said the ship was moving before it actually did... Silly buggers.)
++ (ep ?) As Nerva Beacon is coming in to crash-land on Voga, the Doctor
manipulates the controls just enough to send the Beacon flying over the
surface of the planet, but missing it.  They take great pride in showing
the moving planet surface as this happens, but it's painfully obvious
that the mountains and hills are actually on a rotating drum, spinning on
its side... (Besides, what planet could rotate that fast??)
++ (ep ?)  When Sarah gets out of the boat, she nearly falls flat on her face.

Terror of the Zygons:
-- (ep 2) When the Doctor and the Brigadier are examining the soldier who was
crushed by the Skarasen, you can see one of his (the soldier's) fingers move
very slightly.  Very hard to do if you're dead...
-- (ep 3) When Sarah is wandering around the Zygon spaceship, you can clearly
see the outline of her undergarments through her clothes.
-- (ep 3?) In the scene where the duplicate Harry steals the transmitter-thingy
from Sarah, the wound on his forehead is very light in colour (as if it
had almost healed).  When he runs out the door it is suddenly very dark red...

Planet of Evil:
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Sarah first leave the TARDIS, the light
on top of the police box keeps flashing (this is only supposed to happen
in flight).  And when Sarah returns later in the episode, the light has
stopped flashing...  Odd, that.
-- (ep 4) When the Doctor drags the antimatter-infected Sorenson into
the TARDIS, he dematerialises without closing the doors.  This should
have rather unpleasant effects (as Salamander once found out)!
-- (ep 4) As Tom Baker walks around the Anti-Matter pool, his foot crashes
through the set!

Pyramids Of Mars:
-- (ep 1) When Scarman breaks into the tomb, he says it's first dynasty, but
you clearly see King Tutankamun's throne as one of the collection of treasures.
-- (ep 1) The Doctor and Sarah get jostled by a time disturbance while
they're in the TARDIS.  Sarah stumbles, and when she reappears, the fancy
hair-clips she had on before have disappeared.
-- (ep 2) As Sarah climbs out of window after removing the ring from Ibraham
Namin, she kicks the backdrop outside and you can see it moving.
-- (ep 3) When the Doctor leaves the old house to find the dynamite, you 
can see his hat resting on a chair as he walks out the door.  Immediately
afterwards you see him walking through the woods with Sarah, and the hat
has magically relocated itself to being on his head again.
And when he eventually gets back to the cottage, the hat is there, sitting
in the chair as if nothing had happened...
-- (ep 4) Look out for the hand holding the cushion down in the scene where
Sutekh stands up.  (A very famous blooper, this one.)
++ (ep 4) Pity the special-effects designer who had to portray the TARDIS key
floating through the air into the hands of Scarman.  Three thin threads are
used to quite obvious effect.  Poor Scarman finally has to grab the dangling
thing out of the air when it does not land perfectly in his hands.
-- (ep ?) Watch the knot in Scarman's tie during the course of the story -
it alternates between the stripe going from top-left-to-bottom-right to
bottom-left-to-top-right...
(Don't ask how I noticed - it's not as if I spend an inordinate amount 
of time gazing at the knots in people's ties.  Honest.)

The Android Invasion:
-- (ep 1) There's a scene where the mechanics are shooting at the Doctor and
Sarah, and they dive for cover behind a "meteorite".
In the shot when they later run for it, you can see a tarpaulin
spread behind the meteorite - which wasn't there before.  My guess is they
laid it there so that the cast wouldn't get their costumes dirty when they
dived for cover.
-- (ep 1) While the Doctor and Sarah are walking through the forest (right
after they leave the clearing which the TARDIS is in), the Doctor pulls a
branch out of his way.  Lis Sladen isn't paying close attention and is in
the middle of her line when the branch flies back and hits her in the face.
You can tell she was stung a little (or a lot) because she give a little
squeak but manages to finish her line...
++ (ep 1) The Doctor's scarf gets caught in the bushes and branches while
walking along with Sarah, and Lis Sladen clearly laughs out of character.
++ (ep 1) When Tom Baker arrives at the Space Defence Centre, he asks a
stony-faced android guard where the commanding officer can be located.
The guard obviously has his pause button pressed, and is unresponsive -
except for an uncontrollable blink as Tom moves away.  The actor looks
duly abashed.
++ (ep 2) Tom Baker throws the android Sarah to the ground at the episode's
climax, and her face plate falls off to expose her electronic innards.
The fake hair adorning its head is appallingly obvious, being a completely
different texture and shade to Elisabeth Sladen's own hair.
++ (ep 4) When the Doctor comes through the automatic doors of the real
Space Defence Centre for the first time, they slide open, but not quite closed.
The poor souls in charge of making them slide don't notice.  The resulting gap
could have devastating effects on their air-conditioning bill..
++ (ep 4) In the fight scene between Tom Baker and his stunt double
android, the wig choice for his double leaves a great deal to be
desired.  It looks more like an Anita Bryant bouffant..
++ (ep 4) When Tom Baker's android double is finally destroyed at the
end, its skin disappears to reveal the metal skeleton beneath.  What's
problematic is that the skeleton is actually larger than Tom's face;
watch his left cheek.

The Brain of Morbius:
++ (ep 1-4)  Wouldn't it have been a lot easier if Solon had just transferred
Morbius's brain into the Doctor's body instead of chopping off the Doctor's
head, attaching it to the creature and THEN transplanting the brain?
++ (ep 4) The Morbius creature hits the camera as he falls to his death.
++ (ep 4)  Condo's death scene ranks high in terms of its stiltedness.
He gives a fine "Heil, Hitler" salute with both his right arm and leg,
then slams both to the floor at the moment of death as if he were being
crushed by a 16-ton weight.

The Seeds of Doom:
++ (ep 1) The fake snow looks relatively credulous ... until the scene
where Tom Baker digs up the second Krynoid pod.  It's so obviously huge
Styrofoam chunks that Tom looks like he's unwrapping a mail-order package.
-- (ep 2) When Keeler and Scorby are in the Antarctic base alone and
a call comes in on the radio, Scorby answers it and talks to the people
on the other end for a while.  The problem is - when he stops talking,
he's supposed to flip the switch on the radio from 'send' to 'receive'
so that he can receive the transmissions from the other end (since that's
how 2-way radios normally function).  However, on at least two occasions,
the voice of the other people comes in *before* he flips the switch..
++ (ep 4) Sarah's scream at the advancing Krynoid at the episode's
climax is a study in inability to suspend disbelief.  She's looking at
this big green plastic thing, and it shows on her face.  What's more,
her actual scream couldn't have been very convincing -- it was dubbed
in afterwards.
++ (ep 5) In several shots of the Krynoid after daybreak, it is
pictured with trees and sky behind it -- a bluescreen, naturally.  Yet
the trees in many of those bluescreen shots have no leaves on them.  No
real tree lacking foliage is shown in episode 5 (though Autumn does
inexplicably start to arrive in episode 6).
++ (ep 6)  As the Doctor and Sarah flee the house through the
undergrowth, which is supposedly moving wildly in order to ensnare
them, their hair is blown about just as well by the wind machines that
move the plants.  When they look up to see the house burning, in fact,
Sarah looks like she's just been standing next to a jet engine.

The Masque of Mandragora:
++ (ep 3) Hieronymous speaks spookily and intimidatingly until his
grammatical flub about eight minutes into the episode:  "The great god's
dwelling place must not be defiled by unbelievers in this last hours."
Er, quite.
++ (ep ?) When the Doctor and Sarah are discussing about astrology being
nonsense, at one point in the conversation, Tom Baker distinctly refers
to Sarah as Lis (i.e. Lis Sladen).  The line is something like: "It's
not nonsense, Lis!"

The Hand of Fear:
-- (eps 1&2) When the hand is seen crawling about the floor (CSOed onto the
background) the shadow it casts is often going in the wrong direction!
-- (ep 4) When the Doctor and Sarah are setting the trap with his scarf
for Eldrad, the Doctor bumps into one of the large polystyrene rocks...
which wobbles quite amusingly. ;-)
++ (ep 4) Eldrad jumps his cue and interrupts Sarah while she and the
Doctor are having an aside.  This happens just after they discover that
Rokon (king of Castria) has in fact been dead for a long time.  Sarah:
"But we saw him ... he spoke!"  The Doctor:  "A recording from the
past.  The king obviously knew there was a chance that Eldrad would
return."  Sarah's line is to be "The booby traps!", but Eldrad is too
busy blithering on about being robbed of his destiny in the
background.  She waits politely, then delivers her line.

The Deadly Assassin:
-- (ep 1) As the guards enter the TARDIS to arrest the Doctor, one of
them has some difficulty getting through the door...
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor has constructed his decoy with his pipe and hat,
one of the Council guards turns and looks right at Tom Baker as he's
sneaking out of the TARDIS (his decoy having worked).  It's blatantly
obvious that anyone with eyes in their head would have seen him
had they been looking at him like that!  Quite amusing.
-- (ep 1) When one of the guards is shot by the Master right next to the
Doctor, the guard cringes slightly before the sound of the gun and the
light go off...  What a wimp! ;-)
-- (ep 3) Sorris (the guard sent to kill the Doctor) is shot in the shoulder, 
but dies clutching his stomach!
-- (ep 4) In one of the final scenes, the Master's grandfather clock TARDIS
is seen at an angle.  You can see that it is just a board with a door held up
with some planks of wood...  So much for that wonderful Time Lord technology!

The Face of Evil:
++ (ep 2) Just before the Doctor is put to the test at the end of the
episode, he is taken to the pit and says, "So that's a Horda".  The
poor little Horda he's talking about is quite obviously being pulled
along on a just-visible thin wire.
-- (ep 3) The Doctor is trying to enter Xoanon's Sacred Temple, but there is
a Tesh standing guard with a blaster...  The Doctor and Leela lure him away from
the door, where Leela knocks the guard out, sending the blaster spinning off
down the corridor behind her...  The Doctor looks at the unconscious Tesh, and
heads off towards Xoanon.  Leela follows, but not before bending straight down
and picking up the blaster from right next to the Tesh...
++ (ep 4) Though the gun beams rarely come straight out of the nozzle,
in one scene this fact is very apparent.  At the beginning of the
episode, Leela enters the "Sacred Chamber" to rescue the Doctor from
Xoanon and shoots at the walls.  Her arm moves the gun around quite a
bit, but this has no effect on the beam it emits.  It continues to flow
outwards from the same point, very far from the gun barrel.
++ (ep 4) A few scenes later, Leela's mind is taken over by Xoanon and
she attempts to shoot the Doctor with one of the Tesh's guns.  In
avoiding the beam, he jumps up, turns and comes toward the camera while
Leela is shooting.  Though the beam is supposed to be behind him (Leela
is standing farther from the camera than he is), it appears in front of
him, because the special effects technicians didn't bother to fix the
scene up.  The result is silliness.

The Robots of Death:
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor & Leela are escorted by V9 to Uvanov's cabin
to await questioning, after they were rescued from the miner's scoop.
V9 leaves them and then listens at the door. As he does so you can
clearly see the actor's neck between the mask and his rollneck sweater!
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor leaves the TARDIS, he is wearing his scarf.
As he is escorted to Uvanov's cabin, it has vanished.  It re-appears
when he leaves the cabin.
++ (ep 2) Uvanov flubs his line just after Leela is caught:  "If we
could have got her to tell HER what those corpse markers were, we'd be
halfway to a confession!"  I think the man means "us".
++ (ep 3) When Taren Capel is modifying a Voc robot, there is a shot of the
robot's agitated hands as he reassures it. On the silver gloves the "Marigold"
logo is obvious.  It must have been on washing-up duty that day..
-- (ep 3) After the newly reprogrammed SV.7 leaves Toos' quarters,
the next shot shows Leela hammering on the locked door to the crew room,
yelling for help.  Now, keep an eye on the gold statue visible near the centre
of the room.  As the scene comes up, a studio light comes on a little late -
a bright light suddenly illuminates the gold statue about a second after the
cameras start rolling...
-- (ep 3) Watch the scene where Uvanov sticks a Laserson probe into the head
of one of the Vocs as it is strangling the Doctor.  After he shoves the probe
in, you can quite clearly see the suit's helmet come away from the rest of
the suit...
-- (ep 3) Watch really closely when Leela throws the knife at one of
the robots...  You can see the knife fall to the floor about a second
after she throws it.  Then, of course, the next shot shows the knife
sticking out of the robot's chest.  Well, I guess Leela isn't quite as
good a shot as we thought... ;-)
-- (ep 4) Immediately after the Doctor stabs SV.7 in the back of the head
and the robot crashes to the floor, the next scene shows the fallen figure of
SV.7 (Miles Fothergill) breathing heavily, his chest moving up and down,
in the background...
++ (ep 4) At the story's climax, Leela is hiding in a cupboard with a
canister of helium which alters the voices of everyone in the room
except the Doctor (supposedly because of his biology).  Taren Capel and
Leela had their voices filtered in post- production while the Doctor's
was left unchanged.  The technicians made an error, however:  when
Leela finally squeaks, "Will somebody let me out?", the Doctor quickly
rejoinders with "Ha!"  His short exclamation is on a much higher octave
than the rest of his following line.  They included it in the
filtration process by mistake.
++ (ep ?) While the Doctor is patching the communicator into the
android's head, he takes off the communicators top, yet magically it is
back on a few seconds later.
++ (ep ?) When Toos is being hunted by a robot, she shuts the door on its
hand.  When you see it from the inside of the room the hand is trapped at
a different place to the next shot, from outside.

The Talons of Weng-Chiang:
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Leela leave the TARDIS, the door is open
and is not moving.  They walk away from the TARDIS for a few seconds. 
When they hear the attack and run past the TARDIS again, the door is
magically closed...
-- (ep 6) While the Doctor is unconscious as a result of the Dragon Ray,
he says to Litefoot and Jago: "There's a one eyed yellow idol to the
North of Khatmandu. There's a little marble cross below the town."
"Kipling?", Litefoot asks. "Harry Champion, 1920", replies the Doctor.
However.... I have it on good authority that it was actually
J.Milton Hayes who wrote that.  (Robert Holmes screwed up... *gasp*!)
-- (ep ?) Magnus Greel puts Leela in the distillation chamber and switches
it on.  Cue red lights, bad effects, and Leela writhing about.  Then the
Doctor arrives and throws a battleaxe into the works.  Sparks fly, and the
machine stops, presumably broken.  Later, however, Greel is pushed into the
chamber, whereupon it turns on and does its thing just as if nothing had
happened to it.  Oh, and the axe disappears too.

Horror of Fang Rock:
++ (ep 2)  A poopie occurs when Lord Palmerdale wakes Harker up to ask
him if he can send a message to London for him.  [Palmerdale:  "Can you
use a Morse apparatus?" / Harker:  "Of course I can -- can I what?" /
Palmerdale:  "Can you use a Morse telegraph apparatus?" / Harker:  "Of
course I can."]  The answer to the first question was supposed to be
simply "Can I what?"  Both actors do a good job of covering this up, so
they didn't refilm.
++ (ep 3) After the Rutan has changed itself to resemble old Reuben, he
walks upstairs.  Palmerdale, Adelaide and Skinsale hear him from the
crew room and Skinsale goes to investigate.  When he opens the door,
you can clearly see that it is Reuben walking upstairs -- any myopic
idiot can.  Yet Skinsale deliberately looks downstairs to deliver his
lines,"Doctor?  Harker?",  ignoring all evidence provided by his eyes
and ears.  That part was obviously written for a much larger set.  To
top it off, Palmerdale asks, "What was that cry?  Did he say?"
Obviously not!  Skinsale stuck his head out of the door for five
seconds and didn't talk to anybody..
++ (ep 3) A MAJOR continuity flaw is embedded at the heart of this
story.  OK, so the Rutan changes itself into Reuben at the beginning of
the episode, and goes to stand around in his room before the killing
spree.  The actual Reuben's dead body is discovered at the episode's
climax; rigor mortis has set in, so the guy's been dead for hours.  It
MUST be the alien standing around in Reuben's room.  How, then, can the
alien have scaled the lighthouse exterior to electrocute Lord
Palmerdale in the middle of episode three?  There's only one alien
(otherwise the Doctor would have had to worry about blowing up the
scout ship, not just the mother ship), but apparently it can be in two
places at the same time!  (What was up with the writers?!)
++ (ep 4) Reuben, coming downstairs from killing Vince, stops in his own
room to see if someone is hiding there.  The Doctor is, hanging from
the window ledge outside.  When Reuben throws back the curtains, no one
is there and the shutters are open.  Yet when we see the exterior shot
of the Doctor hanging, the shutters on that window are closed.

The Invisible Enemy:
-- (ep 1) When the shuttle first lands on Titan, the Captain moves all the
switches towards him to the OFF position - but he misses one, which only
goes halfway down.
++ (ep 1) When Lowe is rescued by Leela from the Cryogenics Section, he
has frost all over his forehead and almost none on his cheeks.  Yet in
his next scene, it has gone from his forehead, and fresh frost entirely
covers his right cheek!
++ (ep 1) When Lowe crouches down behind the small bush to ambush the
infected Doctor, the surface of the table right next to him is clear.
Yet when we see it again seconds later, some object has been placed there
for him to knock onto the floor, alerting the Doctor.  Handy, that.
++ (ep 1) The affected space pilot enters the mess room in response to
this clatter, and Leela gets him with her knife.  Watch the knife in
his back when he falls -- it wobbles hilariously, and is obviously not
stuck in anything very solid.
-- (ep 2) Spot the member of the crew walking past in the background
in the very first scene.
++ (ep 2) At the episode's beginning, the Doctor is forced to try
shooting Leela; he resists, and the shots go wide.  Watch where his
second shot supposedly lands -- it has nothing to do with the
trajectory on which he is holding the gun!
++ (ep 2) After a rogue shuttle crashes into the foundation with enough
force to violently rattle the whole place and destroy an entire level,
we are supposed to believe that Prof. Marius finds -- intact and
undamaged -- the body of one of the shuttle occupants, who is infected.
I think not.
++ (ep 2) Professor Marius collects DNA from the Doctor and Leela in order to
clone them. Are we to assume, he also extracted DNA from their clothing?
Perhaps this would explain why their clones are fully dressed in identical
clothes when they appear.  (Of course, the most likely explanation is
that Mary Whitehouse would have had a fit if two unclad Doctor and Leela
clones had appeared instead.)
++ (ep 2) Apart from the microscopic copies of the Doctor and Leela,
Dr. Marius also chooses to inject a syringe full of air into the
Doctor's bloodstream at the end of the episode.  Rather irresponsible
of him, since doing that sort of thing usually causes an embolism.
(But no, Time Lord biology saves the day yet again..)
++ (ep 3) We are meant to take at face value the fact that K9, a
machine, can also be taken over by an organic virus.  Right.
++ (ep 3) K9 shoots the assailant, who infects him before expiring.
The overlay of K9's beam is very badly done.  It emanates from his eyes
before the camera moves around, making it then come from his snout.
++ (ep 3) When K9 shoots Leela, she drops cold even before his beam appears.
++ (ep 3) OK.. so the Doctor was cloned, and his clone was no longer
affected by the virus; i.e., the virus was not copied into his clone.
Then Lowe gets cloned and injected.  HE'S still affected; i.e., the
virus WAS copied into his clone.  Why the discrepancy? ... and the
argument, "Well, he's a Time Lord" won't fly.  If the real Doctor can
be taken over, then a 10-minute copy of him can be, too.
-- (ep 3) There's one scene where K9 has to shoot part of a wall
away to block a path, and even before he shoots the wall, you can see
the cracks where it's supposed to break away...
++ (ep ?) When they match up the two sets of blood cells using the viewer,
isn't it odd that the organisms are oriented the same way, and are swimming
in the same direction?  The two slides are identical.  What are the odds?

Image of the Fendahl:
-- (ep 1) When the TARDIS console room tips up, in the background you can
see that the Doctor's hat-stand stays upright...  But in the next TARDIS
scene, we see the same hat-stand being picked up from the ground by the
Doctor and Leela!
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Leela emerge from the TARDIS into the field,
if you look carefully, you'll see that the light on top of the TARDIS is
missing!
++ (ep 2) Note the scene when Ted Moss visits Max Stael, just after Max
says:  "I will deal with them.  Now go, quickly."  As they walk toward
the door, the cameraman moves with them, bumps into the table with an
awful clunk and shakes the camera very noticeably.
-- (ep 2) At the end of the episode, the Doctor offers the Fendahl skull
a jelly baby, but it's clearly a liquorice allsort..
++ (ep 4) The cameraman has another bumpy time in the cellar when the
Doctor is bringing Max Stael a pistol with which to commit suicide.  As
Tom Baker stomps across the platform, the camera shakes around
terribly, particularly at just the moment Tom vanishes behind the
Fendahl Thea.
-- (ep ?) For wobbling sets, check the walls of the corridors in this story...

The Sunmakers:
++ (ep 1) An exchange which occurs early on in the story:
Cordo: "But, Your Honour, I already work a double shift now!
I have only my three hours' sleep time away from the foundry!"
Gatherer: "21 hours a week!  Well, you must manage without sleep time
until the debt is paid."  Shouldn't that be 21 hours per DAY?  Not per week?
++ (ep 2) The cameraman stumbles and shakes the shot as Leela is confronting
"the Others" with their cowardice, just as Mandrel says "They've got things
called guns, and what have we got?"
-- (ep 3) Leela asks K9 to "get" two guards that arrive in a transport vehicle.
After shooting the second guard a close up of K9 shows his nose blaster
fully retracted.  Then the camera cuts to a shot of Leela, K9 and two others,
whence you can see K9's nose blaster fully retract *again*.
++ (ep 3) Mugshots of the Doctor and Leela are flashed separately on
viewscreens throughout the city, seeking the capture of one and announcing
the impending execution of the other.  Perhaps the picture of the Doctor
could have been obtained by the city's scanners when they were set up to
track him.  But where did the picture of Leela come from -- *without* the
wound on her forehead?  She wasn't known to the authorities until after
being shot..  (And if you think the photo might have been taken in the
hallway before her capture, think again.  There were no scanners there,
even though they're supposedly placed "everywhere" in the city..)
++ (ep ?) In the rehab centre, the backdrops behind the tables (also seen
in the collector's chamber) are actually metallization photos of AMD
(Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California) memory chips.
In one shot the word "AMD" can even be seen.  Apparently those in the
chip business find this utterly incredible..
-- (ep ?) In the scene where the Doctor offers Cordo a jelly baby and eats one
himself - it looks remarkably like a liquorice allsort to me...
-- (ep ?) 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.)

Underworld:
-- (ep 4) When the Doctor finds out that the race banks given to Jackson
are really fission grenades, he runs out of the ship to get rid of them.
Leela follows, carrying a shield gun on her right arm.  When she gets into the
tunnel, the gun is gone (and feeling rather unprotected she draws her knife)
- but when we next see her see her saving the Doctor, she's got the gun back
again...  Handy, that.
-- (ep ?) There's a scene where the Doctor lifts a small girl (one of the
cave-dwellers) in his arms - and her little bare behind can be seen for
a brief moment.  It's hardly "indecent", just slightly noteworthy as being
one of the few incidences of mooning in the series. (For the others, see
'The Romans' and 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'.)
++ (ep ?) The CSO in this story isn't good at the best of times, but the worst
can be seen about halfway through.  Leela tells one of the guys to stage a
"REVOLUTION!!!" and he is so afraid of this that he runs right through a rock.
Leela was so impressed, she went right ahead and ran straight though the rock
too..

The Invasion of Time:
-- (ep 1-6) The TARDIS exterior light remains on throughout the whole
of the story!
-- (ep 1) The Doctor is wearing his scarf on the Vardan ship. But it's on
the hat-stand when he returns to the TARDIS....
-- (ep 4) Watch for the scene where the Doctor puts the crown on K9's head.
He had to place it over the tin hound's ears, as it wouldn't fit over
the back of his head.  However, in the next scene, the crown has
mysteriously shifted to the back of K9's head...
-- (ep 5?) Watch the scene when the Sontarans are trying to break into
one of the rooms in the Citadel.  They don't have much success until they
try pulling on he door instead of pushing it...  But then the camera
cuts to the inside of he room, and we see the door swinging *inward*!
-- (ep 6) Watch the scene where the Doctor and Leela are walking through the
corridors of the TARDIS.  They stop to talk, and Leela ends up standing on
the Doctor's scarf...  Tom Baker, in character, stops what he is saying
to say: " and stop standing on my scarf!", then jerks the scarf out from
under her foot...
At a convention Louise J. said this was unplanned, but left in because it
worked very naturally...  (Which is why I included it here - it wasn't
meant to happen, so it's a blooper...)
-- (ep 6) Louise Jameson takes her turn to show us what colour underwear
she's wearing when she jumps over a table, revealing the back of her white
knickers...
-- (ep 6) This happens again, when Leela jumps off the wall to
attack the Time Lord...  (This is near the end - excuse the pun.)
-- (ep 6) One of the Sontarans chasing the Doctor and co. by the TARDIS
swimming pool nearly goes flying as he jumps over a chair.  The
actor claimed this was intentional, but of course he'd say that... ;-)
-- (ep 6) Watch the same Sontaran try valiantly to fall into the TARDIS
swimming pool - and fail!  After he trips over the chair you can see
him scoot over twice towards the pool, but it's still too far away for him
to fall in...

The Ribos Operation:
-- (ep 1) Watch Garron's wrist-communicator when he is undoing the clamps
on that man-hole thingy.  It keeps half-falling off and flapping about the
place...

The Pirate Planet:
++ (eps 1-4) Tom Baker's upper lip is shown in varying degrees of healing
throughout, depending on the shooting schedule. Just before this story began
shooting, Baker was bitten there by an overenthusiastic dog.
An attempt to explain it off was made by having the Doctor bang his face
against the console during their near-collision with Zanak en route to Calufrax.
-- (ep 1?) The Doctor spills his bag of "jelly babies" on the
floor, and we see a large number of liquorice allsorts among them.
++ (ep 2?) When the Doctor enters the Infinity Corridor, he's wearing his
white Ascot. Inside the Corridor, the Ascot disappears, but mysteriously
reappears once he and Romana arrive at the other side..
++ (eps 3&4) The strings holding up the crushed planets on display in the
-- (ep ?) Watch for the scene where K9 gives the Doctor a readout
of something-or-other...  The number which Tom Baker repeats back to
K9 is not the same, yet the metal mutt agrees...
(Is this a blooper, or more of Douglas Adams's humour at work?
We may never know for sure..)

The Stones Of Blood:
-- (ep 1) Watch out for the boom microphone which makes an appearance in
the first scene set in the stone circle.
-- (ep 1) And watch out for the stepladder which is plainly visible behind
the roundels of the TARDIS control room walls...
-- (ep 2) Just after the Doctor and Professor Rumford are in the secret room
of DeVries' house and find the pictures of Vivian Fay, an Ogri discovers them
and chases them out of the cellar.  The scene ends with a dramatic shot of the
Ogri lumbering straight towards the camera and blocking out the screen.
However, as it does so, before it gets to the camera, if you look to the
right-hand side of the Ogri, you can see a bearded production crew member
standing there reading a clipboard. You can also see two other stagehands
in shot during this scene, one of whom is pushing the the Ogri into place.

The Androids of Tara:
-- (ep ?) There's a lovely scene in this story where Tom Baker
starts to cross himself before a duel (he tries to cover it up by running a
hand through his hair, but I know a good Catholic when I see one. ;-)
-- (ep ?) When the Doctor first enters the Pavilion of the Summer Winds for
the Romana exchange, he pushes the door shut behind him.  On the ground
outside the door, you can see shadows move violently, and *just* as the
door shuts, a hand reaches out, grabs the door handle, and closes it ("for"
the Doctor)...
-- (ep ?) Watch for when Tom Baker crosses in front of the set (a la
Frank Drebin during the Crime Lab scene in the movie 'The Naked Gun'!)

The Power of Kroll:
-- (ep 1)  At the beginning, Thawn and someone else go to look for Roam
Dutt.   There are only four people manning the plant, and two of them
stay behind - so how is it there are clearly three people on the hovercraft??
-- (ep ?)  When the Doctor saves Romana from the Swampy dressed as Kroll,
he removes the fake head and throws the Swampy to the floor still wearing
the rest of the monster costume.  When he recovers, however, he isn't
wearing any of the costume at all, but is back in the regular Swampy outfit...

The Armageddon Factor:
-- (ep 6) When the Shadow is about to go into the TARDIS, one of the mutes
kicks up the carpet on the studio floor.  The carpet sits on his foot for
a while, then flips up again when he walks off.
-- (ep 6) Look carefully at the final TARDIS scene.  Just after the
Doctor arranges to have the Marshal's missiles deflected onto the Shadow's
planet, he explains what he did to Drax, K9, and Romana.  Look behind
the Doctor at the TARDIS wall as he does so.  The door to the interior
of the TARDIS is open, and through it we can see wooden panelling which
is probably part of another set or the back to the TARDIS set, and also
something which looks like some black sheets of foil...

Destiny of the Daleks:
++ (ep 1-4) The Daleks are repeatedly referred to as "robots" even though
they're not.  (They're cyborgs.)
-- (ep 1-4) Isn't it strange that the Skaro city seems to be populated
entirely by studio spot-lamps and luggage trolleys from Kings Cross Station?
-- (ep 2-4) I personally find it hilarious that whenever Davros moves,
you can see the upper half of his body shaking back and forth very quickly,
making it SO obvious that David Gooderson is waddling along frantically
underneath! ;-)
-- (ep 2) While being interrogated by the Daleks, Romana says that she
doesn't know anything about the Daleks, a fact that the Daleks confirm
with their lie-detector.  In one of the next scenes, she says to the
underground slave workers that "the Daleks used to be organic themselves
once".  So how did she know?? Is she just a good liar?
-- (ep 3) Just after the Doctor has escaped and blown up his bomb,
Davros goes wheeling around shouting his usual domination plans to anybody
who can be bothered to listen.  Now watch the Dalek sitting waiting for all the
others to go past.  Before it moves off after its fellows you can clearly see
the entire top section of the Dalek jump up for a second before slamming down
again as the unit moves off...
-- (ep 3) Watch for the scene where Davros zooms off down a corridor
and bounces off a wall!
-- (ep 3) Commander Sharrel says that Davros is a "mutant humanoid",
but the computer screen says "humanoid mutant"! (There *is* a difference,
y'know. ;-)
-- (ep 3) While the Doctor is outside the old Kaled city (Davros is inside
with the explosive strapped to his chair), the Doctor pulls out his sonic
screwdriver and, for no accountable reason, the sound effect of the TARDIS
interior is heard in addition to the standard sonic screwdriver noise!
Dick Mills goofed up, eh?
-- (ep 3) Look closely when three Daleks are seen moving across the wasteland
just behind a small sandbank obscuring their bases - they seem to be bobbing
up and down just as if they were.. walking?  Look more closely and you'll see
the  actual cotumes are very poor - more like cardboard & polystyrene 'dresses'!
-- (ep 4) Just after Davros has dispatched the six 'real' Daleks wearing
explosives, to the right of the picture can be seen another 'cardboard' Dalek
with wobbly neck rings, no mesh round the middle, and no ball & socket joint
for the visible arm. It also appears to be shaking badly...
-- (ep 4) When all the explosive-carrying Daleks are detonated, the same shot
of two Daleks is used repeatedly, just filmed from different angles (it's
pretty clear if you watch the background).
-- (ep 4) In the shot where five Daleks in a line appear to explode, play it
in slow-motion, and notice that in the very last frame prior to detonation,
three of the 'real' Daleks just disappear, and the blasts come out of the
ground...
-- (ep 4?) In one scene a Dalek says something like, "Self-sacrifice is
illogical, therefore impossible." to the Doctor, as if it suddenly thought
that it was a Cyberman... Then about ten minutes, all the Daleks are strapping
bombs to themselves to go on a suicide run. What kind of consistency is that??

City of Death:
-- (ep 1&2) Watch the scene where the Count's henchmen come into the cafe
to get the Doctor, Romana and Duggan and usher them all out at gunpoint.
When you see them on location in Paris, Duggan's not there!  But back at
the Count's place, he's reappeared.  Interesting, that.
++ (ep 1) When the Doctor and Romana are looking at the Mona Lisa, and a
time slip occurs, the events before and after the slip do not exactly match.
In particular, when the tour guide addressed the Doctor and asked him to move
along, the first time she went around him and tried to talk to him, while the
second time she didn't.
-- (ep 2) When Scaroth locks the Doctor, Romana and Duggan in the basement
and Duggan lights the lamp, notice that Tom Baker is standing between that
lamp and the actual stage light used to brighten the scene.
So, as the lamp is lit in front of him, his *back* glows bright under the
increased illumination...  Quite a weird effect.
-- (ep 3) There are no crowds outside the Louvre when the Doctor runs up
to it (just two gendarmes)...  Rather quiet for the world's most famous art
gallery, wouldn't you say?
-- (ep 3&4) Scaroth says his people died "400 million years ago",
and that this is when life on Earth started.  However, contemporary
theories estimate the beginnings of life on this planet as occurring
between 4,000 and 5,000 million years ago...
-- (ep 4) Watch what Romana does to Professor Kerensky's time machine
in order to make it work, and the fatal flaw she makes, considering she
is in Paris at the time: she wires up a British (i.e. 3-pin) electric plug...
++ (ep 4) The Doctor warns the Count not to mess around in time, and
the Count replies with "What else do you ever do?"  The problem is that
it is made clear that the Count hasn't heard of Time Lords, the Doctor,
TARDISes, etc. before this adventure.
++ (ep 4) During John Cleese's cameo, Tom Baker throws his scarf behind him
and hits Lalla Ward in the face with it.

Creature from the Pit:
-- (ep 1) Just as the Doctor asks where the TARDIS has materialised,
watch the control console wobble!
-- (ep 4) Before the TARDIS console explodes (as Erato is weaving his shell
around the neutron star), Tom Baker casts a sharp look over his right shoulder
- no doubt looking to see if the ground was clear where he was due to fall...
-- (ep 4) Isn't it strange that the hat-stand in the TARDIS console room
could remain upright after all that??

The Nightmare of Eden:
-- (ep 1) The Doctor says he represents "Galactic Insurance and Salvage",
but the read-out screen says "Galactic Salvage and Insurance"..!
-- (ep 1) Listen out for Tryst's amazing accent change... from a weird
Spanish/German hybrid to Italian in the same scene!
-- (ep 1&2) When the Doctor finds the vraxoin vial, he puts it in his
right coat pocket, from where it is then removed by Stott.  But at the end
of episode 2, Costa's scanner finds vraxoin traces... in the LEFT pocket!
-- (ep 3) Fisk, the policeman, calls Tryst 'Fisk' when he is interrogating
him...!
-- (ep 4) Della is shot in the shoulder, but collapses clutching her stomach...
-- (ep ?) When the Doctor *first* tries to separate the ships he says:
"Ready for *another* try?"...

The Horns of Nimon:
-- (ep 2) Watch the scene where the co-pilot is shooting, and his pants
rip straight down the seam at the back - which just happens to be the
part of him facing the camera at the time!  He then wanders around
for most of the rest of the episode with the tear plainly visible,
letting all and sundry have a good view of his underwear...
-- (ep 4?) The Doctor tells Seth (or was it Teka?) to set free the others,
and receives the reply "But they're dead!", which the Doctor refutes by
saying that they're only paralysed.  Watch the background right at this
moment, and notice that one of them wasn't going to let the fact that
he was paralysed stop him from moving his leg to get more comfortable..!
[Nice timing on this one. ;-) ]
-- (ep 4) About 5 minutes from the end of the story, Soldeed is shot
after he pulls the lever that sets the complex on overload, and
crumples to the ground dead beneath the lever.
Then, after the Doctor and everyone else get out of the complex, some screen
shots of inside the structure are flashed by - one of which is the room
with the lever that Soldeed pulled, except HE'S NOT THERE!   Hmm...
++ (ep ?) When the Doctor is pushed into the maze, you can still see Tom Baker
standing in the doorway; the FX don't cover him up completely (look for
his shoes!).
++ (ep ?) There's a scene when the co-pilot is standing on the Doctor's scarf.
The Doctor leaves the room and the end of the scarf flies across the room
with a TWANG!

Shada:
-- (ep 2) When K-9 checks Chronotis's vital signs and proclaims him
to be dead, you can clearly see Denis Carey's chest rising and falling
as he breathes.  Guess K-9 wasn't as smart as we thought..
-- (ep 2) Notice that when Professor Chronotis is being attacked by the
sphere, he keeps alternating between wearing and not wearing his eyeglasses -
depending on the camera angle... 
++ (ep 2) Romana calls Chris Parsons by his first name despite not having
been told what it is yet.  (Time Lord telepathy, I suppose.)
++ (ep 3) Skagra takes Romana into the TARDIS, but he forgets the TARDIS key
in the door, which remains there as it dematerialises.

The Leisure Hive:
++ (ep 4) When the Doctor ages/de-ages isn't it odd that DEAD hair folicles
also age and de-age accordingly?  It's also strange that his clothes (which
are also "dead") don't age either..

Meglos:
-- (ep 4) The Doctor gives his coat to one of the mercenaries, and then
leaves in the TARDIS before everything blows up. How come he's still got his
coat then? Has he got multiple coats? Does he keep a spare, foldaway one in
his trouser pocket?
-- (ep ?) Keep an eye out for the thick, black, sexy piano wire holding
one of the planets up in place as General Grugger and Meglos travel in
one of those funky Gaztak spaceships...
-- (ep ?) When Meglos shows the dodecahedron to the Gaztaks on their ship
and says, "This ought to replace the odd torn jacket", there's a cough
which sounds like it's from someone in the studio, but definitely out of
the normal microphone range...

Full Circle:
-- (ep ?) In one scene, the Doctor tells Adric to cross his fingers  -
so of course the Boy Wonder crosses the forefingers of each hand instead
of the first two on one hand, but that was in the script.  The blooper
is that, in the first shot, he's got the right finger on top, while in
the next shot, the left is on top... [Or maybe it's the other way around.]

State of Decay:
-- (ep ?) There's a scene between Tom Baker and Lalla Ward in this story
where she rattles off a long list of something or other and Tom Baker
turns to her at the end of it and says "Very good!".  Apparently, she had
trouble getting that line right and they just decided to go ahead and use
that take...
-- (ep 4) During the storming of the Tower, isn't it amazing how many of the
so-called dead/stunned guards can move or reposition themselves long after
they've been shot by K-9 to enable doors to open or K-9 to pass??

Warrior's Gate:
-- (ep 2) When the two Gundans try to sandwich the Doctor, one drops
its axe on the Doctor's back but it bounces off...
-- (ep 3) At the end of the episode, a Tharil at the feast table hits the
serving girl in the shoulder.  The Doctor gets up, stands beside her, and
then moves slightly towards the left of the screen.  The camera follows -
but goes too far, and has to quickly correct itself.
-- (ep 3&4?) Keep an eye on K9's ears in this story...  Adric removes one
of them so that K9 can triangulate better whilst out in the "zero point"
white area.  K9 later arrives (without seeing Adric since) in the Tharils'
castle and meets the Doctor, *together with both ears*, yet when he returns
outside, one of them has gone again....
-- (ep ?) [People with less understanding of physics than Einstein can 
skip this one...]  Note that if K9 was confirming that basic laws (i.e.
Newton's laws) were still being obeyed then the whole thing about dimensional
contraction and mass instability was rubbish...  Newton's laws can only be
properly applied in an inertial frame, and seeing as how K9 and co. were not
at the centre of mass of the spaceship, they were suffering a non-uniform
acceleration.  (Which was due to the exponential nature of the impending
collapse - K9 concluded it was an exponential process). 
Editor's note: It wasn't me who spotted this one, but I wish it was... [grin.]
Now if only I could understand it as well - are there any Physics graduates
in the audience??
-- (ep ?) After Adric and Romana have sneaked into the ship by hiding under
the dust-cover for that big gun, you can see a boom mike bobbing around
in the background...
-- (ep ?) In one scene, several actors are situated in the lower left of
the shot and up a staircase positioned along the left and upper centre part
of the shot.
In the lower center and right part of the shot is the "blaster", the one
covered with foil.  Watch this lower area for a mike on a boom, extended
perhaps two thirds of the way across the screen, trying to catch the voices
of people on the staircase.  Clearly the sound guy thought the staircase
was in close-up or something.  This one makes the boom-mike-shadow-on-the-
actors-face that was so common in the first 15 or so years of the show
completely invisible.  I wonder if the boom mike guy was sick that week and
JNT was subbing?  ;-)

The Keeper of Traken:
-- (ep 4) When the Master opens the grandfather clock door, light is reflected
off it.  Apparently, when this is slowed down on a decent VCR, it becomes
a BBC camera, JNT and the director John Black!
++ (ep ?) When the Doctor and Anthony Ainley are being held in a jail cell,
spot the bogey in Tom Baker's nose..
-- (ep ?) In the scene where Tremas announces that the Keeper is dead,
part of Nyssa's fairy skirt gets caught on the Doctor's arm, so when they
stand up and he starts to gesture, the front gets lifted up.
Her undergarments are on view for all and sundry to view for quite
a long time, unfortunately undermining the serious atmosphere of the scene,
but providing many happy hours for all those Sarah Sutton fans...

Logopolis:
-- (eps 1-4) A very annoying inconsistency in this story is the magically
metamorphing door control lever..
They must use about four different controls on the console in this story
alone to control the doors.  When the TARDIS materializes "2.6 metres" away
from the London Police box on the Barnett Bypass, Adric's hand reaches out
for the familiar red door control lever.  Seeing this, the Doctor says "No!"
Adric says: "Aren't we going outside to measure it?", confirming that this
red lever is the door control...
However, for example, when the Doctor materializes the TARDIS underwater,
Adric uses that weird green and grey hollow thingy to open the door.
He sticks his finger in the hollow part, then runs to the door to brace
himself against it.  But, when the Doctor is trying to figure out what's wrong
with the TARDIS, or something to that effect, when the Police box is in
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???
-- (ep 1) Watch out for the really awful audio dubbing on Tom Baker in the
TARDIS console room...
-- (ep 1) Why place a litter-bin next to a 'Take Your Litter Home' sign?
It's a bit counter-productive, isn't it?? (This is next to the Police Box.)
++ (ep 4) When the Doctor is fighting the Master outside on the radio
telescope, he used his scarf to trip the Master up.  Where did he
find the time to do this, since the Master was only a few seconds
behind him?   Just afterwards, when the Master runs back inside the
control room to tile the telescope, the Doctor has his scarf back
around his neck.  Again, how did he find the time to do this?
++ (ep 4) When the Doctor pulls the cord out, as the radio telescope is
tilting, the sparks don't fall down.  They fall sideways.  (Because the
effect was achieved by tilting the camera sideways, surprisingly enough.)
-- (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...
-- (ep ?) When Adric takes the TARDIS back into the universe, watch the red
lever on the console just as he says, "Hold on, here we go!": he starts to
push it up, it starts to fall, and he tries to cover up by pulling it down
the rest of the way, all in about two seconds...

Castrovalva:
-- (ep 1) The Doctor's footwear has regenerated with him...
++ (ep 2?)  When Tegan & Nyssa start to carry the zero cabinet (after blowing
up the wheelchair in the stream), Nyssa gets her tiara caught on an overhead
branch - and it stays up there.  Neither Nyssa nor Tegan seem to notice..
++ (ep 4) When they're trying to find the way out of Castrovalva, Adric
announces "I can see".  He then sees the exit to the left - before he's
even looked in that direction!
-- (ep 4)  While the two Castrovalvians are searching for the cause of the
broken window, there is a scene when they look meaningfully at each other.
Right before the camera cuts away, the wall behind them starts to collapse...

Four to Doomsday:
++ (ep 2?) Tegan's sketch of "Earth fashions" is awfully quick.
If she's that good, what's she doing as an air stewardess?
-- (ep ?) Look closely at the Chinese Dragon to spot the dancers underneath,
dressed in their most authentic Ming Dynasty jeans and T-shirts!
-- (ep ?) In the room where the TARDIS is when something visits it, not the
crew or the Doctor, a member of the studio staff is seen hiding behind a crate
in the foreground...
Four to Doomsday:
-- (ep ?) The scene with the Doctor space-walking and using a rebounded
cricket ball to propel himself back to the TARDIS would have Isaac Newton
spinning in his grave!
As anyone with at least a half-decent knowledge of basic physics would tell
you, the Doctor couldn't have been propelled backwards that fast by such a
relatively small object as a cricket ball...
What would happen, if the Doctor were to actually try it, would be this:
After releasing the ball in the first place, he would have started moving
backwards by the action of throwing the ball. [Remember Newton's Third Law?]
And not just moving in a straight line, mind you - he would have spun backwards
in a slow cartwheel as a result of pitching the ball cricket-style, as he did.
Assuming he was lucky enough to get a perfectly perpendicular bounce from
that spacecraft, the ball would have caught up with him, impacting with
whatever part of his body was facing that way at the time, increasing
the rate of his spinning motion. [which still wouldn't be very fast...]
Why do I get the feeling that Terence Dudley knew full-well about this,
but wrote that scene the way he did just to annoy physics-conscious fans??

Kinda:
-- (ep 4) In the circle-of-mirrors scene in this episode, it's very clear
to see that one of the mirrors is missing (The one in the bottom-left corner
of the high-angle shots).  This is, of course, because the cameras doing
the ground-level shots had to have a wide enough area to shoot the action
inside the circle...
-- (ep ?) Watch out for the incredible bouncy snake...
-- (ep ?) Look very closely at the forest floors, and you'll be able to
see cords (which are large power lines).  Apparently JNT saw this during
production, and it was decided to just "buy" the shot, and hope it looked
like tree roots..!

The Visitation:
-- (ep ?) When Nyssa is pushing the Terileptil's android into her room,
you can see that her pants have fallen down a bit too far.  She hurriedly
pulls them up, making a big show of it in the process.
-- (ep ?) Has anyone else noticed the disappearing/reappearing hat trick that
Peter Davison does in this story?  One scene he's wearing it, next scene it's
gone...

Black Orchid:
++ (ep 1) As the TARDIS crew arrive at the cricket match, we hear a batsman hit
the ball towards the boundary, and see a fielder running after it... then
the umpire calls a wide! (It can't be a wide, because the batsman hit it.)

Earthshock:
-- (ep 1) Watch the scene when the last soldier in the search party hears a
noise down in the caves and turns around.  By the time he does so, the androids
have disappeared down a side corridor, but you can see the shadow of one of
them on the cavern wall...  The soldier would have had to have been blind to
miss it...
-- (ep 2) Just before he receives a message saying that the freighter
has received security clearance, the Cyberleader tries to press a button
on his console - and misses!  But we hear the appropriate sound effect
anyway...
-- (ep 3) About 15 minutes into the episode, as Tegan complains that she's
exhausted and Scott tells her to keep her voice down, look in the shadows
behind them - something that looks like a stick is being waved around
in the darkness..!  Then immediately afterwards as they climb the stairs
on their way to the bridge, you can see what could possibly be someone
holding a clipboard moving about in the background...  (This information
came from Peter Davison, the first person to spot it afterwards...)
-- (ep 3) After one of the first battles, as the Cybermen are walking up
some stairs through the dead bodies, one of them stumbles briefly...
-- (ep 3) During the cliffhanger, it's blatantly obvious that the 3 columns
of advancing Cybes are merely mirror images - watch the middle one's
right hand disappear!
-- (ep 4) Look at the scene after the troopers and Tegan are separated...
The troopers return to the TARDIS.  There are four of them remaining at this
point: the commander, a male with straight hair, a male with curly hair and
a female.  As they enter the TARDIS a Cyberman grabs the female trooper.
In the next shot (inside the TARDIS) the commander, the male with straight
hair and the female make it inside, closely followed by the Cyberman, but
the curly-haired male trooper is missing!  After they leave the TARDIS and
are evading Cybermen in the freighter's hold, the female trooper has
disappeared, and the curly-haired male one is back...!
-- (ep 4) As the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are being led away from the bridge,
the Cyberleader loses his footing when he gets to the bottom step...!
-- (ep 4) Watch Adric as he's trying to type in the final code on the
keyboard...  He keeps tapping a key or two, then pulling away from
the console because Matthew Waterhouse knows it's going to blow up
any minute, thanks to the final remaining Cyberman (which Adric isn't
supposed to know about...)
-- The Cybermen's mouth/chin pieces were originally clear plastic, but were
later sprayed lightly with silver paint.  Due to the order of filming they
tend to swap back and forth.  See if you can spot the changes...
-- (ep 4) After the freighter timewarps back, the Doctor says that it is
"still locked onto the same spatial co-ordinates", to explain why it will
still collide with Earth.  However, 65 million years ago, the Earth would
not be in the same position (spatially speaking), so the freighter would
merely fly through where the Earth *will* be in 65 million years... So it
shouldn't collide with anything at all!

Time-Flight:
-- (ep 1) Stapley and Nyssa see the Plasmatons materialize behind the
Doctor before they actually appear...
-- (ep 3) In the scene where Nyssa is about to be absorbed by the Xerophin
into their casket, she's standing in front of it glowing in a beam of pale
light.  While she's standing there shouting, a human hand briefly emerges
from the sarcophagus, and then falls back down.  Presumably, this was the
hand of one of the actors who would later play an emerging Xerophin ...
-- (ep 4) When Captain Stapley's Concorde finally manages to take off from
140,000,000 B.C., we see hazy stock footage of an airborne plane imposed
over the prehistoric set.  While the plane is lifting off, a crow flies
across the screen from right to left.  Now, while crows are quite common
and friendly in 1983, were they really that ubiquitous in prehistoric
times??

Arc of Infinity:
++ (ep 3) Leonard Sachs as Borusa stutters most amusingly on the word 'permit'
while uttering the line: "Only the gravest emergency would permit me to do
as you want.."
-- (ep 4) JNT can be seen passing behind the telephone box as the Doctor
is consulting the phone book.  (He's the guy in the sheepskin coat.)
This qualifies as a blooper because it was apparently accidental, they say
he was shooing away tourists...  Though I seem to remember reading somewhere
that it was deliberate, a cameo a la Alfred Hitchcock... He would say that,
wouldn't he? ;-)

Mawdryn Undead:
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Turlough are about to leave the TARDIS to
disable the T-Mat signal on Earth, the Doctor has to hold the red door
lever up, because it wouldn't stay in the "door open" position.
Every time Peter Davison tried to move his hand away, it'd start sliding
back, and he'd have to hold it again.  Finally it stayed...
-- (ep ?) There's a scene where Nyssa is running towards the TARDIS in
a clearing.  See if you can notice Sarah Sutton's total misunderstanding
of where the camera is, or indeed which camera she is on.

Terminus:
-- (ep 1) Watch where Nyssa accidentally drops her book in the corridor
of the Lazar ship. Some poltergeist has moved it at least a yard by
the time the Doctor finds it 10 minutes later...
++ (ep 2?) Near the end of the episode, there is a scene where The Doctor
and a woman (Goddard?) are walking along a sort of scaffolding towards some
stairs. We see them about to descend and the camera pans down to one of the
Vanir. As he moves towards the bottom of the staircase a foot can clearly be
seen up towards the top. Then, a small superimposed step is matted over the
foot. It even moves with the shot.  They tried to cover it up, but couldn't.
In fact, they made it worse by attracting attention to it.   The fools..
-- (ep 4) Turlough is trying to operate the TARDIS console when the
Black Guardian appears on the scanner, telling Turlough not to bother
with the TARDIS.  Turlough yells "I can operate it!" and slams his fist
down hard on the console... so much so that it visibly wobbles...  Whoops!

Enlightenment:
-- (ep 1?) 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...
-- (ep 3?) A fairly blatant one here: When Tegan enters Wrack's cabin, she's
talking (with her eyes open) when she's frozen by Wrack.
Then cut to another shot of Tegan, with her eyes closed this time.
But if she was totally frozen, how did her eyes close? 

The King's Demons:
-- (ep 2) Kamelion (as King John) is seen playing a lute, but he fingers
it as though it were a guitar. (The lute is not played like a guitar.)

The Five Doctors:
-- Near the beginning, Tegan comments on the Eye of Orion feeling just like
Earth after a thunderstorm.  The Doctor explains that this is because
the atmosphere contains an unusually high number of positive ions...
Well, it's actually *negative* ions which are present in large numbers
after a thunderstorm.  (And which have strange soothing effects on humans.)
Terrance Dicks should award himself a mild slap on the wrists for that one. ;-)
-- After the obelisk gobbles up Doctor #3 and Bessie, when it moves away
from where they were, you can see Bessie there for about a half-second,
before it fades away.  But let's not be picky! <grin>
-- Susan reminds us all how totally dense she is by tripping over a rock
and spraining her ankle - the rock in question being plainly visible
as the only object on an otherwise flat surface...
-- When Rassilon is giving Borusa immortal life, Borusa has his hand
dramatically poised - and when he lowers it, it bangs into Rassilon's coffin...
-- At the end, when the Doctors are all returned from whence they came,
they seem to have forgotten about poor old Bessie.
Is she supposed to drive back to Earth by herself?  Aw, shucks.

Warriors of the Deep:
-- (ep 4) Watch the scene where Doctor is standing on the Bridge, as
some Sea-Devils exit behind him. Two of them manage to walk straight
into each other!
-- (ep ?) Apparently you can see some special effects bods standing about in
one scene - I've yet to spot it though...
-- (ep ?) You can also see a production person run across the set at one
point...
-- (ep ?) The Silurian costumes come apart in places, and white T-shirts
can be seen through the holes!
(This story apparently fell more behind production schedule than any other.
Apparently some takes were, as far as the actors knew, just full-dress
rehearsal.)

Frontios:
-- (ep 1&2)  When Plantaganet is shot at the end of episode 1, he clutches
the right side of his chest.... but when we see him collapse in episode 2,
he clutches his left side!  Then, a few scenes later, when his shirt has been
removed, we see that the wound on his chest is placed very centrally...
-- (ep 2&3) In episode 2, Tegan is being chased by Brazen and some guards,
so she heads for the surface.  She locks the door by putting a rod through the
two handles on the double doors.  When the doors are being broken open in
episode 3, the rod is on the top of the handles, not through them...
-- (ep 4) In one scene aboard the still incomplete TARDIS, you can
just barely see the central column of the console rise to its 'up'
position on the left side of the screen.  Now, if none of the controls
were operative, I don't see how the column could move!

Resurrection of the Daleks:
-- (ep 1) Somebody accidentally omitted to credit Leslie Grantham....
-- (ep 2) As Mercer and Stien escort the Doctor to confront Davros, watch
the wall behind them as the door slides shut.  The "wall" is a semi-transparent
scrim.  You can clearly see the silhouette of a stagehand push the door shut,
straighten up, and walk off...
-- (ep 2) Somebody forgot to include a picture of Leela amongst all the 
other companions in the mind-drain sequence... oops!
++ (ep 2) When Tegan finds the canisters, she mentions how light they are and
tosses them about. However, when they arrive on the Dalek ship it takes two
troopers to pick one up.  Must be all that training they put air hostesses
through..
++ (ep 2?) In one of the scenes where the Doctor is strapped to a mind probe,
there is another body in the background next to Tegan and Turlough.
(Supposedly a corpse.)  But keep an eye on its hand, and you'll see it moving..

Planet of Fire:
++ (ep 1)  You see the mountains move against the desert floor when
the Doctor is walking on the surface of Sarn.
-- (ep 1)  Peri says "Elton John" with an English accent, even though she's
supposed to be American.
-- (ep 1-4) Watch how the question marks on the Doctor's braces keep changing
the way they face, depending on whether Peter davison is appearing in the
studio or on location...
-- (ep 4) Isn't it strange that when the Comparator is removed from
the Doctor's TARDIS, it is immobilised - but when the Doctor removes the
Comparator from the Master's TARDIS, Kamelion is still able to move it into
the flame jet.  Funny old world, innit?  (Or perhaps the Master's TARDIS
has this added perk built-in...)

The Caves of Androzani:
++ (eps 1-4) General Chellak's remote control quite blatantly belongs
to a twentieth-century television set.  Admittedly, the company logo has
been taped over, but the volume, brightness and contrast controls are
clearly visible in one close up (possibly in episode 1).
-- (ep 1)  Nicola Bryant's American accent slips again when she says "glass"
in a distinctly English manner.
-- (ep 1) The Doctor and Peri are exploring the cave system, when Peri
falls through a hole, supposedly down a slope and into a spectrox nest.
But after just enough time to say "boing", watch as Nicola Bryant's head
makes a quick reappearance.
-- (ep 3?) Maurice Roeves (playing Stotz) screws up the line "All right,
then where's the two kilos?".  He seems to start saying "spectrox" before
switching to "two".
-- (ep 4) As the Doctor is escaping from the gun-runners, his coat
is stained on the front of the right shoulder by a mud burst.
But shortly afterwards, when the Doctor is climbing down to find the
Queen Bat, his coat is completely clean...  And then, when he is actually
extracting the Queen's milk, the stains have magically re-appeared -
only to disappear again as he climbs back up the rock face afterwards.
And no prizes for guessing what happens in the next scene - yes, the
mud stains reappear!
(Thankfully they remain constant for the rest of the story - but
interestingly, they change again for the beginning of The Twin Dilemma,
which follows straight on from this episode.)
++ (ep 4) When the Doctor is in the cave getting milk from the Queen Bat,
the shot has been reversed - you can tell because the question marks on
the Doctor's collar are backwards.
-- (ep 4) Take a look at the mouse holes clearly visible in the TARDIS
during the regeneration...
-- (ep ?) When the gun-runners are throwing the guns off the catwalk, one
of them gets a little stuck and has to be pushed again.

The Twin Dilemma:
-- (ep 1) As the Doctor and Peri prepare to go out onto the asteroid surface,
the Doctor hits something on the console (not the door control) and heads
for the door.  We hear the TARDIS door sound effect, but the door doesn't
open.  Which is actually for the best, because Peri says something else and
the Doctor turns back for a few more lines, before going back to the console
and hitting the real door control.
-- (ep 2?) The silver computer terminal in the safe-house on Titan 3
seems to be rather prone to wobbling - an obvious example being
after Peri spots the bomb ticking away outside the room, and the Doctor
walks away from the terminal to have a look...

Attack of the Cybermen:
-- (ep 2) In the 'fight scene' between the Doctor and the Cybercontroller,
the carpet on the studio floor (under the central console) gets kicked up
and rather badly creased...
-- (ep 2) When Lytton stabs the CyberController, his "blood" gets splashed
onto the camera lens...

Vengeance on Varos:
-- (ep 1) After the TARDIS breaks down, the Doctor and Peri can be seen
standing over the console reading the manual, even though it is quite clearly
just a book full of blank pages!

Mark of the Rani:
-- (ep 1) The Rani leaves the bath house to find the Master, and Peri sneaks
in to rescue the Doctor.  Note that she takes special care to bolt the door
on the inside after she enters.  But when the Rani and the Master return, they
just walk in, the door being mysteriously unbolted...

The Two Doctors:
++ (ep 1) When the second Doctor materializes the TARDIS on the research
station, he and Jamie head for the TARDIS door, with every intention of
leaving, but the door isn't open, nor has the Doctor gone to open it.
He then quite conveniently remembers that he should "take the recall disk"
from the control console.  It was a prop needed for the story, so it wasn't
just an excuse for going back to open the door (there is dialogue during
this as well). He walks back to take it, and opens the door.  Clever chap..
-- (ep 3) The knife Shockeye uses to stab Oscar has a surprisingly
total lack of blood on it.
-- (ep 3?)  When the Second Doctor is running to hail down the lorry, he
slips slightly on the gravel of the roadway...

Timelash:
-- (ep 1) Peri pronounces "Daleks" with an English accent.
++ (ep 1) Watch for the moment when Maylin Renner (one of the Karfellans)
accidentally pulls a slider switch from the computer console.  But being
a professional, he quickly reattaches it without looking at it or drawing
a great deal of attention to it..
++ (ep 1) The Doctor says he is travelling light this time after Tekker's
enquiry as to whether Peri is his only companion.  But the last time
he was here (as the Third Doctor), he only had Jo Grant with him -
so he was travelling light then, too..
++ (ep 2) After the robots have attacked and there are several unconscious
guards on the floor, one of them quite noticeably shuffles his legs.
-- (ep ?) In one scene when the Doctor and Peri (or possibly Herbert)
enter the TARDIS, as the inner doors open, you can see one of them
bounce off the console room wall and start to close again..

Revelation of the Daleks:
-- (ep 2) In the very first scene - who is that guy walking past in the
background?
-- (ep 2) When the DJ fires his ultrasonic gun the first time (to show Peri),
he shatters the doors to his studio.  Later, when the Daleks advance into
the studio, the miraculously repaired doors open as they approach it...
-- (ep 2?) When those two chaps show a Dalek their security passes, you can
see the head of the Dalek operator through the "neck grille".

The Trial of a Time Lord:
-- (ep 1) Peri pronounces "fireball" with a English accent.
++ (ep 1?) Nicola Bryant then goes on to pronounce "sterile" with a long "i",
in a most un-American way.
-- (ep 1) At the end of this episode, a stone hits the Doctor too soon.
He was supposed to be stoned for a little while before being hit, but one
overzealous extra hit him too soon...  (This was a blooper Colin Baker
mentioned at a convention.)
-- (sometime during Mindwarp [ep 5-8]) A bulb blows as the TARDIS
dematerialises...
-- (ep 12) (last ep. of Terror of the Vervoids) This is very nitpicky, I know,
but after the Doctor has destroyed the walking rhubarb, the camera shows a shot
of him holding a leaf in his left hand...
Cut to another shot, with Mel coming up beside him, and the leaf has
magically moved to his right hand...
(Or is that the other way round? Can't remember...)
-- (ep 12) When the Vervoids are dying, one of them is blatantly a person in
a black sweat suit with a mask and a few leaves - You can even see the
drawstrings to the pants!
-- (ep 9&12) (beginning & end of Terror of the Vervoids)
Somebody moves the TARDIS around between these two episodes....
In episode 9, the bottom of the TARDIS is aligned with some yellow stripes on
the floor of the Hyperion's cargo bay.  In episode 12 however, the TARDIS is
at an angle to these stripes...
-- (ep 14) Watch the scene where the Master and Glitz leave the Doctor in the
console room of the Master's TARDIS.  You'll note that Glitz and the Master
distinctly leave the console room and go into another part of the TARDIS. 
However, the next time you see Glitz and the Master (talking about the Doctor's
imminent switch into a "zombie"), they are definitely standing in front of the
scanner screen in the console room.  Someone didn't feel like building an
extra set for another room in the Master's TARDIS!
-- (ep ?) One of the many times that the Doctor interrupts the Matrix's replay
of events, you could hear what sounds like studio direction just before the
replay begins again.  Most of it is unintelligible, but "take 6" can be
distinctly heard as the action fades in on the monitor screen.
The question is - is this one of the technical crew, or is it simply one of
the distinguished Time Lords in attendance being overly loud at the Doctor's
trial? ;-)
-- (ep ?) The whole Trial season had quite a few sound problems...  At several
points in the story, the sound from earlier in the story is mixed in with the
current sound.  Like, there's one example I can think of later in the
story where you suddenly hear, from out of nowhere, the Doctor saying,
"Very good!"  That was clearly from the beginning of The Mysterious
Planet when Peri said something about there not being any birds or
flowers or something.  The Doctor then said "Very good!" to her.  But,
much later on in the story it shouldn't magically come back, obviously...
Wonder whose fault that was?

Time and the Rani:
-- (ep ?) In one scene, the Rani instructs Urak to get the unconscious Mel 
from the TARDIS, to which he replies that she has already left its confines. 
But hang on a minute... the Rani was watching when Sarn was killed in the 
bubble-trap (after being scared by Mel) so she should have known already that
Mel wasn't in the TARDIS any more...  What gives?

Paradise Towers:
-- (ep ?) When one of the old ladies throws a knife at Pex, the string 
that it travels on is quite visible...

Delta and the Bannermen:
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Ray are in the laundry shed, a head pops up
in the background behind one of the shelves.  It freezes, obviously
realising that it shouldn't be there... then, in the next shot, it vanishes!
-- (ep 3) When the Doctor, Mel and Burton are escaping from Gavrok,
look closely at the shots of the Doctor driving...  You can see that he
is wearing glasses, as the light reflects off them every now and then.
But he wasn't beforehand, and they disappear the instant he gets off.
(Sylvester McCoy apparently is quite nearsighted, and obviously would not
want to drive a motorcycle without being able to see where he was going.
However, he also refused to have a stand-in.  Hence the reason why
he's wearing glasses...)  This also happens when the Doctor and Ray
are looking for Delta.

Dragonfire:
-- (ep 1) Watch for when Kane lays his coin on the control panel.  You
can see the plywood grain of the "metal" console.
-- (ep 1&2)  One rather irritating blooper revolves around the
cliffhanger to episode 1, with the Doctor dangling over a precipice,
clinging only to his umbrella.  In several shots, it's established that
it's quite a long way down - but eventually Glitz rescues him by going
to the bottom of the "precipice" and letting him step down onto 
his shoulders, implying that the fall was only a few feet after all! 
So either the Doctor has an extremely pronounced fear of heights,
or else the writer goofed up...
-- (ep ?) Watch out for the Doctor's amazing appearing umbrella...  One minute 
he has it, then it's gone, then, for a brief second on Glitz's ship, he has it
again...
-- (ep ?) In the scene where Ace and Mel meet the Dragon: when Mel screams,
look at the momentary expression of pain on Ace's face.
According to Sophie Aldred, she had a massive headache that day, and here
she was standing inches away from Bonnie Langford in full throat.  ;-)
-- (ep ?) In one scene, Sophie Aldred is running down a pathway and
the supposedly crystalline wall alongside her lifts up briefly to 
show us that it's nothing more than a plain old sheet of plastic...
(This isn't the only time it happens, either - watch the rest of the story.)
-- (ep ?) When Belazs goes to push down a button, the whole console strains 
under the pressure...

Remembrance of the Daleks:
-- (ep 1) A camera pops out from a side wall at top right of the screen.
(This is in the scene where the Doctor and Ace first meet the Headmaster.)
-- (ep 1?) There's a scene where you can see Sylvester McCoy's shadow on the
wall of the school cellar steps as he waits for his cue...
-- (ep 2) The TV announcer announcing "Doc..." gives the time as a quarter past
five.  This comes in episode 2 between breakfast and lunch!  
And even if it were a quarter past five, it should be pitch dark
outside if it's November!  
(Note: The show being announced is obviously the first ever episode of DW,
but it wasn't shown at 5.15 anyway - it was delayed by about 2 minutes
due to extra news coverage on the JFK assassination...)
-- (ep 3) When the Dalek shuttlecraft lands, you can see the wires 
lowering it down, along with the metal eyelets that attach them to the
shuttlecraft at each corner.
-- (ep 3) When the Dalek's shuttlecraft is landing, the view from outside
shows that the window to the laboratory is wide open. However, from the
inside, it's closed until the blast rips it from the frame!
-- (ep 3) Also, why didn't the same thing happen when the shuttlecraft
created the marks the Doctor looked at in episode 1?.  Or did someone clean
it all up and repair the windows without wondering how it happened..?
-- (ep 3?) When Ace is yelling at Mike for being a stinking dirty scumbag
(the second time), she's supposed to be very angry.  However, it's plainly
clear that she's doing her best not to laugh...  Near the end of the scene,
she has a grin breaking through, and you can see her actually smirking at
the end, as she runs off screen.
-- (ep 4) When the little girl kills Mike Smith, he falls back against
some stairs and if you watch, you can see the stairs slide backwards!
-- (ep 4) Watch the Black Dalek just before the Doctor arrives and
destroys him - As he turns to face the second of the approaching vans,
the top of his dome slips sideways as if it's about to fall off!
-- (ep ?) Present-day cars are driving past in several scenes...
-- (ep ?) In one scene, the Doctor switches seats with Ace while they are
in a van, supposedly during a blackout lasting about a second as they go
under a bridge.  Well, if you watch closely during the blackout, you can see
the Doctor and Ace sitting perfectly still until the lights come on, when
they bounce down leaving Ace to be surprised at the seat change. (and the
editing!)
-- (ep ?) See if you can notice where the Black Dalek's lights have been
made to flash using an electronic effect added in post-production (since the
actual lights failed to work during shooting).
++ (ep ?) Just before the Doctor tells Ace about the Hand of Omega, watch
as Sophie Aldred trips on some of the barbed wire.

The Happiness Patrol:
-- (ep 1&3) When the Doctor taps the sugar crystal stalagtites, they swing
about a bit.  Surely they would have broken off or disintegrated?
-- (ep 2) When Earl Sigma leaves the Doctor and Trevor Sigma, Trevor turns
as if hearing something before the harmonica music starts (then he says
"Hey, that's nice" just as it begins).
-- (ep ?) One of the female happy police wotsits rushes out behind, realizes it
isn't her cue, and runs back again (when the Doctor is repairing the buggy,
look in the background).

Silver Nemesis:
-- (ep 1) When the Doctor and Ace are running away from the people
shooting at them, and they fall off a bridge into a stream, the 
Doctor drops his umbrella to the right, i.e. downstream, and falls
off the bridge to the left, i.e. upstream.  Then when we see him again,
he is swimming upstream, with the umbrella in his hand.  I could be 
wrong about the flow of the stream, but I don't think so.
-- (ep 2) The Doctor and Ace use a jazz tape to jam the Cybermen's
communications and keep them from calling for reinforcements. 
Then in episode 3, they run out of tape (because, even with all the other
gizmos he built into the tape deck, the Doctor forgot to include auto-reverse!)
But once the tape stops, the Cybermen never call for those reinforcements...
-- (ep ?) 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.
-- In 1638 a mathematician calculates that Nemesis will return exactly 350 years
later on 23rd November 1988.  Unfortunately, something happened in 1752 which
would render his calculations out by nearly two weeks...  The Julian calendar
was brought in line with the Gregorian one, which meant that the 11 days from
the 3rd to the 13th of September that year were simply skipped over.
So Nemesis should actually return on 4th December. (11 days later than
23rd November...)

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy:
-- (ep 1) At the climax of this episode, Bellboy's bottom makes a cameo
appearance...  Well, part of it anyway - it's when he's been thrown
to the floor of the ring by the clowns...  You can (just) see that he's
let his trousers fall down a little bit too far...
(This can be seen again in the episode 2 reprise, if you care...)

Battlefield:
++ (ep 1-4) Keff McCulloch is credited only for "Incidental Music", instead of
his usual "Incidental Music/Theme Arrangement".
-- (ep 1) In the TARDIS scene, look closely at the roundels - you can
see the occasional 'crease', as if the wall was just a sheet hung up
behind the console...  That's because it was!  (The TARDIS walls prop
had been destroyed because of Andrew Cartmel's insistence that no
scenes were to be set inside the TARDIS any more...)

The Curse of Fenric:
-- (ep 1) When Kathleen's baby Audrey is revealed for the first time, she has
a teddy bear, which disappears almost immediately.  This is not surprising,
since it is actually a Superted, originating circa 1984...
-- (ep 1-4) The roadside signposts visible throughout should have been
removed at that point in history as part of the defence preparations
against possible invasion...  (Since that's what actually happened - but
then again, who said that the programme has to follow actual history?)
-- (ep 2)  As Jean and Phyllis jump into the water to go swimming, they're
fully clothed and wearing skirts.  As they swim, the tell-tale fog rises
around them, and they get turned into Haemovores.  When they're done
transforming, they come out of the water with big hairdos, long claws
- and pants.  Hmm, never knew that Haemovores had decency codes for dress...
-- (ep 3) When Ace is climbing down her rope ladder, a Haemovore grabs her
around the waist.  She jumps off, and his fingernails get caught on her skirt.
And for the longest time, the world gets a view of her underpants,
stocking tops and suspender belt.  Thereby causing quite a large number
of young male fans to wear a hole in their Fenric video at this
point through overuse of the pause control.  Hmm...
++ (ep 3)  When Ace is at the top of the ladder her underpants are black.  By
the time she gets down, they have changed to white.
++ (ep 3)  When the Russian soldiers are running to save Ace from the
Haemovores, the shadow of somebody can be seen casually walking in the
opposite direction.
-- (ep 3) When Ace is being attacked by the Haemovores, she bops one of 
them on the head, causing its mask to go up and revealing part of the 
actor's neck...
-- (ep 4) At the end, when Ace and the Doctor run out of the exploding bunker,
the Doctor stumbles in the mud and puts his hand out to stop himself falling,
getting mud all over it, which he even stops to look at in an almost symbolic
gesture...  Then they go in for the close-ups with him and Ace and when he
puts his hand up to rub her nose (same hand), it's perfectly clean.  
-- (ep ?) Somebody's finger is holding the door open for the Haemovores.

The Airzone Solution:
-- There is a scene where Peter Davison's ghost appears intermittently
behind Colin Baker, while the latter is fumbling trying to put on a
necktie. Whenever Colin is shown alone, the necktie is *over* his shirt
collar. Whenever both actors are shown, the necktie is under the
collar, as neckties should, probably because someone tied Colin's
necktie for him when the scenes with both actors were shot...
-- At one point, Nick Briggs says something like: "You only know who we've
had on the phone? Only the NCVA! The National Viewers Complaints Authority!".
(Maybe the acronym is a different one, but the point is that it's the
*wrong* one...)



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