10 Terrible Doctor Who Extras Who Completely Ruined Their Scenes
From olive ladies to naked hippies.
People always underestimate the importance of extras. While Tom Baker probably thought that he could be digitally (or literally) cloned to fill up an entire scene with just his mere presence alone, the fact of the matter is that hundreds of people are needed to make a planet seem alive, and not like an extension of the deserted wastelands of space. Furthermore, they all need to be good. An Earth based story would soon seem like an alien planet if everybody started dancing in place or swap their jeans and a t-shirt for a toga in a 21st century supermarket. At least, that's usually the plan, anyway. However, Doctor Who is known and loved for having bizarrely awful performances. This very often spills over into the realms of its supporting artists, too, who can sometimes completely botch the task of just standing there and doing nothing. In fact, over 50 years of time and space has included a shocking amount of people who couldnt even do that. As such, these are the extras who managed to stand in place in such a way that they drew all of your attention during a scene straight over to them and away from the ensuing extra terrestrial excursion. If they didn't, they will now. You'll never be able to watch these scenes in quite the same way again. Yeah, sorry about that.