10 Hilarious Doctor Who Mistakes You Definitely Didn't Notice
9. The Suspicious Truck (Human Nature)
One of the most famous movie mistakes of all time is the sight of a car cruising through the background in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, technology that obviously shouldn't exist in the comparatively primitive Middle Earth.
A similar mistake occurred in Series 3 of Doctor Who, but instead of a car, it was a truck, and instead of Middle Earth, it was 1913 England.
In the episode Human Nature, there's a scene where the Farringham schoolboys are outside at shooting practice, and Timothy Latimer is reprimanded for his half-hearted efforts. This scene opens with a shot of the boys' targets, and at the top of the frame, a suspiciously modern-looking white truck drives across the screen in the distant background, visible for a good few seconds before the shot cuts away.
It's nothing that will take you out of the episode because it's quite hard to spot on a normal viewing, but it's a clear anachronism considering that heavy vehicles wouldn't have looked anything like this a century ago.