15 Annoying Mistakes You Never Noticed In Doctor Who

Television is full of mistakes, plain and simple. Nothing is ever flawless and practically everything will eventually have one or two fluffs that slip past everyone and make it to the screen. But when a programme gets to a certain age or number of episodes, a wider range of mistakes start to get made. And it€™s not just something barely noticeable like a mug changing positions between shots or the boom mic dipping into the frame for a few seconds. Eventually it will come to a point where, because of the sheer amount of continuity built up over the years, the story and characterisation get hit by mistakes as well. And since Doctor Who now has 812 episodes in the can, there have been more than a couple of mistakes made. But while both Whovians and the programme€™s cast and crew make a valiant effort to provide narrative explanations for any discrepancies (it€™s almost as much a part of fandom as watching the programme itself), sometimes the fans have to just give up and pretend certain developments didn€™t happen. Because there are some mistakes that all the parallel worlds, aborted timelines, and rebooted universes in the world can€™t solve. It€™s time to delve into the less polished side of Doctor Who as we take a look 15 Mistakes You Won€™t Believe Made It To Screen...

15. In Front Or Behind?

BBCIt may be a lavishly produced human interest story but since BBC2€™s Doctor Who biopic An Adventure In Space is about the often turbulent production of the William Hartnell era, an effects slip-up here and there is surprisingly fitting. But apart from the anachronistic licence plates on William Hartnell€™s car, Adventure avoids it entirely until Matt Smith€™s cameo right before the credits. In a scene that breaks the otherwise firm reality of the film, during the filming of his Regeneration scene, an ailing William Hartnell looks across the set and sees Matt Smith smiling back at him from in front the console. No wait, behind. That€™s it. Because Matt Smith€™s cameo was filmed separately on a green screen, (which also means that Peter Capaldi and his successors can be added in years later) the scene required just a tiny bit of VFX work to add him into the shot and complete it. Which was achieved with a success rate of 50%. The shot of Smith€™s hands at the Tardis's controls makes it abundantly clear that he is supposed be positioned behind the console but in the second full body shot, he is front of it. Which as well as not matching the previous shot, makes no narrative sense. Though this is a hallucination of a man not born for another twenty-six years so maybe we€™re being a little harsh.