10 Dumbest Things In Doctor Who: The Movie

7. The Inverted Sonic Screwdriver

Doctor Who the TV Movie Paul McGann Eric Roberts
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While Paul McGann does most of the heavy lifting in the movie, Sylvester McCoy does get a bit of time as the Seventh Doctor - and in one of the few scenes he has in the film, he gets something totally wrong.

There's a scene early on where the Doctor uses his trusty sonic screwdriver to lock the lid shut on a casket. It's a seemingly innocuous act, but one that had to be addressed in post-production, because McCoy was holding his tool the wrong way round. No, that's not an innuendo.

As a result of this mishap, someone working on the film had to blur the screwdriver when it appears onscreen, so nobody would notice.

Not only did McCoy not notice he was holding the prop back to front, but nobody on set that day did either. The lack of love for Doctor Who across the entire picture is evident in this moment alone.

 
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