10 Doctor Who Background Actors Who Got Themselves Noticed

Terry Walsh was Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker's stuntman for some of the more involved sequences in their Doctor Who eras.

As well as blending into the background as a stunt performer and fight arranger, Walsh also played a handful of (usually ill-fated) characters, like the tumbling Auton from Terror of the Autons, or Mensch, who was ultimately fed to a giant squid in The Power of Kroll.

However, it's not these roles that got Terry Walsh noticed during his time on Doctor Who, nor was it the time he had to step in for Tom Baker, when the star broke his collar bone on The Sontaran Experiment.

It was during the climactic fight scene of The Monster of Peladon Part Four, in which Walsh's full face and unconvincing Jon Pertwee wig can clearly be seen on camera. It's so glaringly obvious, that director Lennie Mayne had to get Pertwee to record a couple of lines of dialogue to try and distract viewers.

In an age of high definition Blu-rays and giant TVs, Pertwee's dubbed "Come on Ettis, this is pointless!" doesn't quite distract from the glaring error.