Doctor Who: 17 Cool Details Steven Moffat Just Revealed About The Eleventh Hour

2. Matt Smith's Hand-Double Appears During The TARDIS Scene

Doctor Who The Eleventh Hour Steven Moffat Matt Smith TARDIS
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Once the Doctor's brand-new TARDIS design has been unveiled, he and Amy circle around the main room for a few minutes and have a conversation.

During this scene, the Doctor fiddles with all the new bits and bobs on the central console - such as a typewriter and a miniature gear stick - and if you look closely at his hands while he does this, you might be able to spot a small continuity error.

Those hands, very clearly, do not belong to Matt Smith, and furthermore, the jacket that's used in the hand-shots doesn't match the jacket that the Doctor wears in the rest of the scene. The image below shows Smith's hands, and what his costume should look like - now compare it to the image above. Even his gold watch strap is missing!

Doctor Who The Eleventh Hour Matt Smith hands TARDIS
BBC

It looks as though these small moments were filmed as pick-up shots when Smith (and the right jacket) wasn't available. Or, the crew didn't feel the need to call in their main star just to record a few seconds of footage.

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