10 Doctor Who Scenes Even More Impressive When You Know The Truth
1. A Bizarre Interruption
Like Planet of the Dead, 1984's Fifth Doctor serial Planet of Fire was shot in an exotic location. In this case, Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.
With less control over this location than there would be in a studio, one particular moment was interrupted in the most bizarre of circumstances.
In one scene, Peri Brown (played by Nicola Bryant) nearly drowns. Bryant must have given a stellar performance, because a passer-by thought she was actually in trouble, and tried to save her while the scene was being filmed.
The man - who just so happened to be a German nudist - was kindly told that he'd ruined the shot for a very popular BBC show. Said man then decided to get some revenge by purposefully ruining more shots, and so he ran through the back of a scene set on the beach.
Watching Peri almost drown is a very different experience when you know that a man with his tackle out very nearly ruined the whole thing.
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