From: mrmuon@next04csc.wam.umd.edu (Eli John Hawkins)
Subject: Re: Wanted: DW bloopers...
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:51:50 GMT

In article <21JAN199312534171@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>  
doctor8@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason Abner Miller) writes:
> In article <domalley.727539081@unix1.tcd.ie>, domalley@unix1.tcd.ie  
(Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley)) writes...
> >I'd like to compile a list of various types of production errors from
> >all the 26 seasons of Doctor Who. I'm looking for things like: 
> > 
> >Actors messing up their lines,
> >Actors/monsters tripping or stumbling,
> >Strings clearly visible on models,
> >Sets wobbling,
> >Boom microphones/shadows of same visible in shot,
> >Members of production team accidentally visible in shot,
> >etc., etc....
> 
> 	Bill Hartnell was forever stumbling over his lines, especially  
whenever
> he had to deliver an impassioned speech.  I don't know if this  
spluttering
> was part of his character or not, but it's fun to watch.  According to
> Carole Anne Ford (Susan), he also made several hilarious gaffes while
> reading his lines, although the best ones have been edited out of the
> episodes (such as "Susan, go check the Fornicator").
> 	I'm sure everyone who's seen "Meglos" has noted that thick, black
> sexy piano wire holding one of the planets up in place as General  
Grugger
> and Meglos travel in one of those funky Gaztak spaceships.
> 	The most famous blooper of all was in "The Mind of Evil", as 
> the Doctor and the Master have a fistfight in the prison governor's  
office,
> and knock over a water carafe, and slip and slide all over the ensuing  
puddle.
> This scene was kept in the finished episode, just cause it looked great  
(so
> they said)
> 	In Episode 4 of "The Chase" ("Journey Into Terror"), the Doctor
> and Ian enter Frankenstein's lab in the haunted house.  They see the  
Monster
> lying unanimated on a table.  Behind the table is a large ventilation  
screen.
> Behind this screen is an empty Dalek - note that at this point in the
> story, the Daleks weren't supposed to have arrived yet.  A later scene  
in
> this same room shows that Dalek in action, "exterminating" the Monster.
> 	In Episode 1 of "The Chase", as the Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and  
Vicki
> are watching that Space/Time Visualizer, Ian is seen singing along to
> the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride".  Coming from Earth in 1963, Ian has never
> heard this song before - yet he knows the words.
> 	During the action of "The Keys of Marinus", Captain Maitland has
> to cut out the lock of one of the spaceship doors, using a noisy drill.
> He leaves several large white cut marks on the door.  You can see these
> marks on those doors, even before the scene in which they were made.
> 
> 
> >Daniel.
> 
> 
> 							Jason A. Miller
> 							"some doctor guy"
> 
> >--
> >|       //              |------Daniel  
O'Malley--domalley@unix1.tcd.ie------|
> >|   ===//  ===    ===   |---"In the beginning, the universe was  
created.---|
> >| //  // //  // //  //  |-This has made a lot of people angry and has  
been-|
> >|  ==//   ==// //  //   |--widely regarded as a bad move.":Douglas  
Adams.--|

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