10 Doctor Who Scenes Actors Hated Shooting

The Series 11 cast and crew had to contend with some of the wildest weather in Doctor Who history.

The first two episodes to go before the cameras, The Woman Who Fell To Earth and It Takes You Away, were shot over November and December 2017 – one of the coldest times of the year.

At the other end of the scale, The Ghost Monument and Rosa featured extensive location filming in South Africa in the middle of a drought. “We’d all agreed that, because we were so cold filming the first episode, we wouldn’t moan when we got to South Africa”, Mandip Gill recalled at the Series 11 premiere.

But the most challenging shoot of the series was, by far, The Witchfinders.

By sheer coincidence, the episode’s filming dates (late February/early March 2018) coincided almost exactly with the dreaded ‘Beast from the East’ – one of the worst storms to hit the UK in recent years.

Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, Tosin Cole described the episode as “the hardest thing I’ve ever filmed in my life”. Meanwhile, Jodie Whittaker – who had been thankful for her relatively light Doctor costume in South Africa – found herself shooting the ducking sequences jacket-less, and at sub-zero temperatures.

On the plus side, this windy, rainy aesthetic neatly complemented The Witchfinders' bleak subject matter. Not that the actors would care!