10 Times Doctor Who Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren’t Meant To See

[@kieran7675]

I feel like 2 is the only one that's easily explained, because the Doctor is literally in the middle of London with a bow and arrow, I feel like even in universe you'd grab your friend and be like "hey look at this guy"

[@antney7745]

Hey, that guy with the bow and arrow looks just like the guy who saved me from a monster when I was little...

[@LiveHedgehog]

Surprised you didn't bring up the massive studio light in the TARDIS in The Doctor's Daughter.

[@gamingwithcallum6087]

Where is it?

[@LiveHedgehog]

@@gamingwithcallum6087 At the end, after the Doctor's done a little speech about the TARDIS bringing them there to create Jenny. It pans out, then there's an incredibly obvious light.

[@pagionthevoiceless3682]

@@LiveHedgehogthe thing about that is I wholly expect the doctor, that doctor specifically, to have a huge light like that for some reason he won’t explain

[@FourtyQ]

lol

[@strathruncie]

I'm greatly amused with The Day of the Doctor in this regard -- the scene in the opening of the Doctor and Clara arriving in Trafalgar Square by helicopter-borne Tardis, clearly surrounded by everyone who was watching the filming. 😉 But the inclusion in the script that the UNIT deployment would be explained to the public as a Derren Brown event was a clever way to work it into the end product rather than excise it. 🙂

[@michaelallan1338]

Any scene where crew appear is just Clara falling through the Doctors timeline.

[@raynaives9804]

I accept this as canon

[@mainmandan2000]

i think the music around the opening of unicorn and the wasp came out in 1930, when its set in 1926.

[@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio]

How could you not include the hand under Sutek's butt in Pyramids of Mars? It's the most iconic of all Doctor Who gaffes.

[@ericgjovaag7958]

No kidding! "10 MORE Times Doctor Who Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant to See", anybody?

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

I'm sure they featured that recently in a similar list. I'd not heard of it prior to then 😊😂

[@GabePuratekuta]

@@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars They have. I believe the video's titled "10 Doctor Who Moments IMPOSSIBLE To Watch The Same After This"

[@danthemeegs8751]

@@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliarsYup! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqjHc6t_ftSrhq8

[@Marcsharp82]

The splitting trousers scene is even funnier when in the reprise at the start of the next episode his trousers magically fix themselves and they are no longer split 🤣

[@raynaives9804]

I feel like the visible breath in the Fires of Pompeii could easily be the fact that they're literally in a volcano and breathing in ash and smoke. They're going to look like they're chain smoking between takes.

[@aw-ht2vs]

exactly, I used to work in a workshop where we had a forge powered by coal to work with hot iron. The room was very warm and yet I was constantly breathing little clouds

[@jeffwalker7185]

The Chaise also has another item in frame that should not be there. When The Doctor and Ian go to the basement/laboratory of the haunted house, an inanimate Dalek can be seen in the background. This scene takes place before the Daleks arrive at the haunted house. The Dalek prop must have been in place for the scene where it interacts with the Doctor later in the episode.

[@becpullen3426]

I'm amazed that the Midnight green screen didn't make the list 😂

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

It’s because she already did it

[@dexterhill5843]

surprised the massive diffuser and C stand seen in the background of the TARDIS at the end of the Doctor's Daughter didn't make it into this or the infamous floor manager in Earthshock!

[@richardmattocks]

In resurrection of the Daleks, you can see the stage hand opening Davros’ lab door. He’s wedged inside the wall scenery but he’s there!

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

Oh these were brilliant, what a thoroughly entertaining list 😊 Have to say though, my favourite was the guy who split his trousers 😂😂😂

[@byronbonsall]

How about producer John Nathan-Turner getting caught on camera in Episode 4 (?) of Arc of Infinity trying to get bystanders out of the shot?

[@hollymatton474]

Great video Ellie and Who Culture! Really enjoyed this one! Thanks! 😊😊

[@BobPsomiadis]

I am amazed how these things were picked up .Most of them ,I missed them with my own eyes .

[@danieloneal7137]

Some of them I could barely make out even with a big arrow pointing at them.

[@MrMann0123]

Glad or wasn't just me

[@jesseszymcik3026]

What can be said about Love and Monsters that hasn’t already been said? Love and Monsters is my FAVORITE episode, i LOVED the absorbolaff and that ketch, at the end was funny-not creepy at all. Seriously, though, LINDA will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@drnny6705]

The insinuation of him fucking the sidewalk tile is too much tho.

[@raynaives9804]

I'm just a massive doctor who and elo fan 😂😂

[@davidharding1299]

Earthshock also catches someone on-screen who wasn't supposed to be there.

[@animelovers000]

Not sure if this one counts from the tomb of the cybermen. the doctor and Jamie holding hands as they go into the building thinking they were holding Zoe's hand. Apparently Patrick and Frazer planned that without telling anyone and it was left in

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

I read Patrick and Frazer would do that kind of thing on purpose as a female companion /doctor touching of any kind wasn't allowed but nobody had said anything about male companions.

[@theliliraptor2876]

Very interesting video. Thank you.

[@ashleyklotz3762]

The scene in the Pompeii episode can also be explained simply... yes its possible it was just an oops of not taking it out in post production but also, in real science, when the body's temperature is colder than the air, it can still show "steam"😮 coming out of the mouth

[@TakeruDavis]

8:38 well, at least that one kinda fits in... Hey, it's not everyday you see someone running around with a bow strapped to them...

[@gibbnasta]

Off topic, but is Donna going to be rich in the specials? The Doctor left her the lottery ticket

[@Croftice1]

I don't think, it's supposed to make her insanely rich, just making sure, that she'd not struggle with her new life. You remember the old couple from the "Planet of the dead"? They weren't rich, but they win the lottery every damn week. You don't have to win millions or so, just a few hundreds would still make sure, that you survive. I'm quite positive, that was what the Doctor did, he knew, how much Donna won (he's a time traveler after all), so he made sure she'd be happy, not insanely rich and potentialy spoiled.

[@tristanbedford4496]

In the power of three, during a scene where the doctor is bored and doing housework to kill time, there's a shot where he's vacuuming, Amy lifts her legs and you can clearly see her mic pack attached to the back of her jeans

[@Mrs_Banjo]

The rip in the trousers reminds me of Evil Dead 2. That happened to Ted Raimi's costume as he's floating throughout the room in the scene.

[@beardedmotu2007]

Dr Who accidentally on purpose lol that last one… cracked me up 💥💀

[@pobsdad]

A couple of these were a bit of a stretch, imo. Even with arrows pointing at them they were hard to see!

[@brushedaphid2698]

In “the Big Bang” there’s another error where you can see the Tardis outside Amelia Pond’s window as she’s running up to it (around 2 minutes 42.7ish seconds into the episode). It’s very hard to see due to it being shot at night, but you can see the glow of the “Police Box public call” signing illuminated in the dark revealing the rest of the beloved Tardis

[@legendg219]

Glad i'm not the only one who saw that, can't unsee it lol

[@olb3587]

my favourite was the hand holding Sutekh's pillow in Pyramids of Mars

[@michaeltortorice9876]

I often meticulously plan out my responses, to varying results. The Big Bang joke: I have never been more proud, ABZORBALOFF!!! Every time... The wine bar sign: Wibbley wobbley, try not to question it. Stephen Thorne's face reveal and the split trousers are part of the reason we love this show so much, and the classic adventures in particular: Great stories, masterful performances, massively over-the-top performances all against a backdrop of cardboard, papier mache, and bubble wrap. How the actors were able to keep straight faces through some of these stories is baffling, and yet we love them even more for it. This video had me cracking up, not just because the jokes were good, but also because the delivery was ON POINT. Well done all around.

[@Croftice1]

How the actors were able to keep straight faces? Well, after some time the joke will cease to be so incedibly funny anymore. I mean how many times had David shoot the scene from The Idiot's lantern, where he faces the faceless Rose? See, what I did there? XD Eventually he had it done, because so many times the situation became less and less funny to the point of successfully shooting it on camera. This particular scene took at least 8 takes, because in 7 of them, David couldn't keep a straight face when seeing all the marks on Billie's face.

[@RyanHaney55]

The wine bar poster is probably the worst one of this bunch, because it wasn't a simple mistake, misstep, or ripped fabric.

[@jamesmontgomery7074]

My favorite is a scene in the last episode of series nine. Where a woman is entirely too happy to be being shot at by a dalek.

[@trainsandscifi]

.. and the Delaware theme on Carnival of Monsters - Ep 2, and Fronier in Space - Ep 5. That also happend accidently.

[@cloudsparrow7729]

Why does everyone hate Love and Monsters? (Don't give me a list of things bad. You're wasting your time. I'll still love it)

[@johnpaines2063]

Peter Kay in his y-fronts is pretty hard to take. Other than that I love it.

[@Jamesalec63]

Think there is something wonderful about mistakes and bloopers they add a simple way of letting everyone know this is TV and mistakes happen whether they are meant or not. You see it, maybe deliberate or not. It give classic doctors who more fondness to fans, and it still means that today is the current series a wobbly set and a person in shots that shouldn't be there is possibly something done by accidental misfortune or something else? Ask yourself this question: Are mistakes more pleasing than brushing them off as a plan mistake? It's made out of bloopers and sticky back plastic on the BBC and it works roughly or not, and it's been going for decades on a few minor mistakes and lines forgotten or made up on the spot, and possibly that's why is fantastic and bizarre and a wonderful story about a crazy old man in a blue box with bloopers attached a hug fantastic blooper everyone over looks is the very beginning is the best is Williams first episode? 60 years ago?

[@johnpaines2063]

In The Five Doctors the Fifth is talking to the Master while Tegan and Susan watch. The Cybermen approach from the background. Tegan shouts to the Doctor to look out, and the girls start running. Inexplicably after Tegan moves there is a Cyberman between the Master and her for a few moments. How did it get there without any of them noticing?

[@Sunprism]

You thought those were crew members....Turns out the Doctor was right about the monster in Listen the whole time

[@yipflaptheexecutioner6519]

I like to pretend that these little moments are "ghosts" in-universe

[@Wolf359inc]

I know I am in the minority, but I actually love “Love and Monsters”. It brings back memories of Classic Who, and some of the “sillier” episodes from that era. I wish they would revisit the remaining characters, and find a way to restore Ursula’s body. Cheers,

[@davidquatermass789]

I remember the split trousers when it was broadcast

[@Arjalineck]

who actively goes out of their way to look for these

[@someonewhoexists3892]

Number 6 can be very different out of context.

[@StarvedForTime]

Pronouncing Omega like that suggests you haven't seen the three doctors. You should. It's good.

[@timrob12]

I don't know if it is on the list, but recently I was watching the commentary on The Stones of Blood and by re-watching the footage, I briefly noticed an hand in one of the scenes featuring the evil moving rock. Probably a crew member that accidently moved into shot.

[@KvaGram]

As a Norwegian, it is hard to get over the poor translation of "Bad wolf bay" whenever that comes up. I still ask. Did they just use google translate, or just a dictionary? Did they not bother asking anyone who knew the language, at all? The word "Dårlig" translates to "bad", as in incompetent or poor of quality. However, "bad" has multiple meanings, I'm sure the intended meaning was bad as in mean or cruel? In which case, the correct translation is "slem" Yes, doing it right, you lose the "dalek" gag, but you'd lose that anyway if you pronounced the 'å' (letter a with a ring) correctly. It's not an 'a', far from it. Here's a tip, just substitute the 'å ' with an 'o'. It's still not correct, but much closer. As for the name of this fictional place, I'd name it Slemulfstanden. Slem - bad Ulf - common name meaning ulv, wolf strand - beach en - the The bad wolf beach Or if you wanted to keep the word "bay", an alternative would be Slemulfvika vik - bay a - the The bad wolf bay

[@zuzukris4952]

I like Love and Monsters. I love all of Doctor Who!

[@movingforwardz]

DeRossi was fictional for the story. The exterior was bar icon and the interior fat cats cafe. Which makes the blunder even stranger.

[@davidng7645]

And that people is how the crack in time started in co pilots pants. Lol

[@StudioGhibliFan494]

Rose & the Doctor seperating was needed. Rose is selfish. She asks the Doctor if he can come through properly & he says he would have to burn up a planet to do so & she says 'so?'

[@darrenlee4455]

Number 2, look in the doorway under the sign for Shapes Hair, there's someone there with what looks like some sort of tablet maybe taking a pic or 2.

[@danthemeegs8751]

I think you’re right, great catch!

[@darrenlee4455]

@@danthemeegs8751 Thanks lol

[@Tardisius]

Vesuvius....I remember it well....=))

[@lewischudley2621]

I’ve got a few and there all from the power of the doctor like: ~ when Ashad confronts Kate in unit on his right the cyber-man’s arc-reactor is turned off ~when the doctor notices that she is begging to regenerate every time it cuts to a wide shot there is an obvious boom mic over the doctor’s head ~when ace and Grahame are running to the tardis you can clearly see a power generators and even a projector ~when the doctor enter the hotel in Naples, when the doctor comes through the door to her right you can see that they took down a sign that’s above fire alarm But that all I can remember at the moment, by the way I’m not slamming the episode because I no how hard the job is and they did such a good job with the episode these little details are just so obvious I just had to say something. 😅😊

[@friendlyotaku9525]

Oh wow I never noticed any of these things Huh

[@lewischudley2621]

@@friendlyotaku9525 most of them are quick like for a split frame and I’ve beaten every where’s Wally book

[@nigelturner2356]

Ohmegga? Do you even watch the programme?

[@mizstories9646]

I actually loved Love and Monsters...... until the end...

[@timothyweers8054]

There was an instance in the Peter Davison era, I believe it was the story Warriors of the Deep, where he falls into water and until he gets into the officer's oversuit, you can clearly see between several scenes where he had his fly open.

[@JoeSiegler]

I legit figured you guys for #1 was going to mention Louise Jamison's nipples in the resolution to the cliffhanger from Episode 3 of Talons of Weng-Chiang. I mean they don't even try to hide it, and with that series on Blu-Ray. it's even more noticeable.

[@MrCuddy2977]

It’s O-mega! Not o-MEG-ga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@willadeefriesland5107]

The 'random' woman at L.I.'n'D.A. was a character in a story I subsequently wrote, involving an Alternate Doctor and the erasure of Love and Monsters from ever having existed... What? You never heard of Love and Monsters?! Lucky you!

[@FrenkTheJoy]

For the Dalek camera - the other thing is that at the time, tv screen were also small. Black and white + low definition + small screen = nearly unnoticeable issue. Case in point, I could barely see the camera on my computer with the youtube window being like 5 inches wide and that was WITH a indicator pointing it out.

[@cometbook]

Omega! Not ‘Oh Mega’ ffs! 🤬🤬🤬

[@bloodorigin]

Accidents happen

[@EccentricGrump]

It feels illegal to be this early to a Who Culture video. 😳

[@maschii6851]

Its a Crime that you didnt mention the doctor who Poster in torchwood

[@danthemeegs8751]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3urZnevr62to8k

[@BeeWhistler]

Time travel-ee?!? Wouldn’t that make Donna the TARDIS or something? Or the thing he taveled to, which happened before, not in that episode? What do you mean by this nonsense?

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

LINDA, it was just an old shop dress dummy, in the end, A love life with a brick? ........... ouch

[@jonathan.palfrey]

I find these rather underwhelming because there’s hardly anything to see even when our attention is drawn to them. Sure, you deserve some kind of prize for your diligence in spotting them, but for me these are not errors that matter. If the director at the time had spotted them and insisted on reshooting the scene, I’d call him a perfectionist.

[@wendyheatherwood]

Some of the older ones probably weren't even visible in the original broadcasts. Who cares if a crew member holding part of the set up is in frame if they're going to be indistinguishable from a blurry sack of potatoes on your average TV?

[@Torby4096]

I love how the priest oh the Nimon was afraid of the thing! "Lord Nimon?"

[@GentlyUsedFrog]

hell no, I disliked Rose so I was quite happy she'd be gone

[@derekhart3308]

Forgot one in Warriors of the Deap one of the Surlians rid his costume at the butt.

[@OscarOSullivan]

Truck that is a jeep

[@slumdogjay]

Eric Saward wrote Attack Of The Cybermen.

[@Byle1990s]

I love disrespecting the name ow mu ga

[@heathbaum]

It’s Ome not Omay for Omega

[@johnnimbus8761]

As a suggestion for a future video...I would nominate Lalla Ward's Romana as best dressed companion.

[@theheirophant7113]

Wow. Some serious barrel scraping going on. Who cares? Do you not think that by checking every frame for mistakes means you loose sight of why you watched the program in the first place? Grow up.

[@maxellpow123]

im early

[@pw274uk7]

Omega’s name is bizarrely pronounced O-MEGGER by this presenter, when the correct pronunciation, as anyone knows, is of course OHMIGGA!

[@martinwood744]

The "Hand of Sutekh" is probably too well known to dwell on, but shows a hand holding down the cushion as Sutekh rises from his chair in "The Pyramids of Mars", and there's a scene in Earthshock where member of the production crew is visible behind a somehow semi transparent wall.

[@daveolson6001]

I'm not sure, since I haven't seen it for nearly 30 years, and back then it was on a 19-inch low-def RCA TV from the early 80s, but I seem to recall at the end of Part 2 of "Nightmare of Eden", when the space thingy pops out of the projector and knocks Romana to the deck, there was a brief flash of her undercarriage...without knickers. All in all, I'm just astonished that Leela never had any "wardrobe malfunctions".

[@lucifersdevilishdetails.]

The blink one at lest make some scents as if I saw so skinny bloke with a bow and arrow on his back i stand there staring for awhile

[@willadeefriesland5107]

The Watcher. While waiting around for the Fourth Doctor's fall, the Watcher was visting around time and space getting in camera shots... Watching.

[@B-MC]

They should canonised that foot thing by somehow having New Tennant revisit that scene somehow. Maybe he got stuck behind the truck, and is waiting for everyone to leave. Or it's a crack timestream thing where he popped in there for a second

[@Ciaothecat]

One episode had a light switch showing in the footage that was meant to be in Victorian Times.

[@grahamsmith8648]

There's the mistake in The Idiot's Lantern when David Tennant's Doctor, climbs the TV transmitter ariel. He's green screened onto the ariel tower, and his foot disapears out of shot.

[@randybaumery5090]

04:16--- glasses girl is also Moaning Girl in the bathrooms in Hairy Potter.

[@tacogaming8456]

Apple Yay

[@tacogaming8456]

Are you first

[@tacogaming8456]

No one will care

[@lauren3359]

First

[@bazzer124]

Probably not meant to be seen, after the Minotaur kills co-pilot the next shot shows Romana sporting what appears to be certain part of the physiology of a dromedary. Can't unsee that. Cheers....

[@timecontroller8800]

Shouldn’t the chase have a hole entry on this list as so many things u weren’t meant to see get filmed in this episode multiple shots with crew members and a camera shadow in a haunted house

[@thomaswilliams2780]

Omega is pronounced Om-ee-ga, not oh-meg-a. Also, i'd have put the wayward hand from The Pyramids of Mars after Sutekh gets up from his multi-millenia imprisonment

[@FrenkTheJoy]

Abbott and Costello routine? Doctor Who's on first?

[@jonarse]

Space Bull, not Space Cow.

[@CallumLatchford]

Earlyyyy

[@corvo6842]

393rd

[@geraldstiling3735]

Tom Baker 🧣and Louisa Jameson.👙 In Victorian England 🇬🇧with a 1960s car 🚘 in the background!!!

[@retnavybrat]

Was that in "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"? If so, I wonder how I missed it? It's one of my favorite stories.

[@mattthesilent777RED]

10 Times Doctor Who Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren’t Meant To See - Pretty sure everything after Peter Capaldi's regeneration was an accident

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Nope. Not in the real world. You already know no-one with a brain will believe any of your nonsensical ramblings, so why not just cut your losses and go rather than wasting everyone’s time here?

[@FrondomeCast]

Hot take: Love and monsters isn't even the worst series 2 episode.

[@coyoteartist]

A British person who doesn't say Omagar? Weird.