10 Doctor Who Mistakes You Won’t Believe You Missed

7. Don’t Lose Your Headphones (School Reunion)

Doctor Who Midnight Donna Noble
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School Reunion is a nice little episode.

Not only does it have Anthony Head hamming it up as an evil Krillitane disguised as an even more evil creature (a headmaster), but it also saw the return of Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, for the first time in over 20 years.

We don't count Dimensions in Time around here.

But one thing it definitely doesn't do well is this absolute whopper of an error during its dramatic climax.

The Krillitanes are using the minds of schoolchildren to try and crack a universal code that will essentially make them gods, until Mickey literally pulls the plug on this plan, and gets the kids out of the school before it blows up.

Firstly, there's no way that a British school would have that many computers in 2006. And secondly... weren't those kids wearing headphones a second ago?

Doctor Who School Reunion
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Literally in the blink of an eye, every single pair of headphones magically disappears from their heads.

It's obvious they tried to hide this mistake by editing the scene so quickly, but you can't fool us, Mr Doctor Who editor!

Blimey, there's a lot of teleporting props in this list, isn't there? And speaking of which...

 
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