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The very best bloopers and outtakes in all of time and space.
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00:00There is no production that has made it to the finish line without a series of fluffs and blunders
00:06along the way. Now Doctor Who has been on our screens for 60 years, so it definitely has its
00:12fair share of mistakes and bloopers, arguably more than most shows. So we thought, considering some
00:18of them are absolutely fantastic, that we'd share some with you. So with that in mind, I'm Ellie
00:24with Who Culture, here with 10 Doctor Who bloopers you need to see. Before we get into the main
00:31countdown, there are just two moments that I feel like need to be mentioned, that don't
00:36technically count as bloopers, but they do prove just how much fun the cast and crew seem to have
00:42while making Doctor Who. Firstly, the Sycorax. Remember those skeletal masks and those glowing
00:48red eyes? Well, maybe they won't seem quite so menacing once you've seen four of them performing
00:53a beautiful rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
01:00Modern art. And the same goes for the Cybermen. They're quite terrifying, but not so much once
01:05you've seen a montage of them playing gleefully in a park and running around shouting, I'm free,
01:11free as a bird, a cyber bird. Free as a bird, a cyber bird. I mean, I guess the conversion process
01:19doesn't always go quite as planned. Number 10. Shakespeare gets a phone call.
01:25Filming any kind of period drama must be a really odd situation. You've got people dressed head to
01:31toe in historical costumes, sat around on their mobile phones and surrounded by crew members
01:35wearing jeans and trainers. But once the cameras start rolling, it's like you've been transported
01:40through time. Unless one of those modern inventions interrupts the illusion. And that is exactly what
01:46happened during the filming of Series 3's The Shakespeare Code. Now, the episode did a really
01:51good job of recreating this period in British history. You had Shakespeare sat around with his
01:56pals, drinking beer and flirting with the barmaid in a 16th century British pub. And then, Shakespeare
02:03suddenly gets a phone call.
02:05Now, there's something really unsettling about seeing William Shakespeare pull out a 2007 mobile
02:16phone, which, to be honest, seems like it should be from the 16th century by modern standards,
02:21and claims that it's a phone call from his agent. Now, of course, in reality, it was actor Dean Lennox
02:26Kelly who was in fact receiving a phone call from his agent. But you can be sure that if they existed
02:32during Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare most certainly would have had an agent as well.
02:36Although I don't think they would have contacted him via a Nokia.
02:41Number 9. The Angel is full of what now?
02:43Matt Smith had some very large shoes to fill when he took over from David Tennant in 2010.
02:49Although his first episode to air was the 11th hour, this wasn't the first episode that he filmed.
02:55It was actually the time of Angels and Flesh and Stone that started his and Karen Gillan's
03:00Doctor Who journey. During a scene in Flesh and Stone, the Doctor is trying to direct
03:05Amy, who can't open her eyes, to his location. And he warns her that the forest is full of angels.
03:11But during one take, Matt Smith got a little bit muddled with his lines and he actually said,
03:16the angel is full of forests.
03:18This is important. The angel is full of forests.
03:23Now, what actually makes this even more funny is the fact that he doesn't seem to notice his mistake.
03:28It's only when a crew member points it out to him that he realises what he's done.
03:32Blooper aside, this actually speaks volumes to how committed and focused he was to the role
03:38right from the very beginning.
03:40Number 8. Yahoo!
03:42The most common types of bloopers that we see are usually actors fluffing or forgetting their lines.
03:48But sometimes the fault lies with a misbehaving prop or set piece.
03:52Now, even Modern Who, with its bigger budgets and more advanced technologies,
03:55is not immune to these issues. You've got padlocks not opening on cue.
04:00You've got Silurian weapons not firing. You know, the usual.
04:03But the best example of this comes from the fourth Doctor serial, The Sunmakers.
04:08Now, as Kordo rushes into the scene, whooping and cheering,
04:12he's supposed to fire his gun into the air in celebration.
04:15But at least three takes saw the actor,
04:18Roy McCready, run into the scene and struggle to fire his weapon.
04:22Faulty props aside, it's actually a small miracle that his co-stars managed to keep a straight face,
04:32considering how hilarious his repeated shouts of Yahoo! are.
04:36Yahoo!
04:37What's wrong?
04:38But it's scenes like this that really highlight that point,
04:41that actors have to react to situations as if they are spontaneous and unexpected,
04:46and they've probably done them countless times already.
04:50Yahoo!
04:50Number 7. Rose's Missing Face
04:53Building friendships with our colleagues can really make the difference between a great day at work
04:59and a not-so-great day at work.
05:01But these friendships can also come with their limitations,
05:04namely, not actually doing any work and spending the rest of the day joking and laughing with your mates.
05:09And actors are no different, except quite often they're required to remain totally serious,
05:14or react with really deep emotion,
05:16when in reality, they're standing opposite their friends wearing some sort of silly outfit,
05:20or with a load of CGI markers on their face.
05:23And sometimes the giggles get the better of them.
05:25Now it's no secret that David Tennant and Billy Piper got on really well when they were filming Series 2.
05:31And so the giggles did often strike.
05:33And one really good example of this is during the filming of The Idiot's Lantern,
05:37when a faceless rose is revealed to the doctor and detective inspector Bishop.
05:42Now in reality, Billy Piper just had a load of dots on her face that were going to be edited later in post-production,
05:48and poor David Tennant really, really struggled to keep a straight face.
05:52At one point, you can even hear Tennant say that it's going to be tough,
05:55and kudos to both of them for eventually getting it.
05:58I mean, how many jobs actually require you to imagine that your friend is missing their face?
06:03Number 6. Canine on the Lash
06:06Though not technically a blooper in the same vein as all the other entries on this list,
06:12this is just too glorious not to share with you.
06:15Included as an extra on the DVD release of The Armageddon Factor,
06:19this moment, reportedly a part of the BBC's 1978 Christmas tape White Powder Christmas,
06:25features the Force Doctor and Romana sat on the floor of the TARDIS getting rather close
06:30and drinking gin before offering some to Canine.
06:33Now witnessing the robot dog chugging gin through his straw,
06:37and then singing a squiffy rendition of We Wish You a Merry Christmas,
06:41has certainly never been on any Whovian's bingo card.
06:46And yet, it's a sight to behold.
06:48We all like kick-booting, we all like kick-booting.
06:52Now whatever this actually is, it's clear that everyone was having a lot of fun,
06:56including the crew, who can be heard laughing just out of shot.
07:01Number 5, Contagious Corpsing.
07:03Now although the last few years of Doctor Who have been disappointingly light on deleted scenes
07:08and bloopers, there have been a few released, which includes this one during the filming of
07:14Series 12's Praxeus.
07:16The problem was one of those sounds that even the most experienced thespians would struggle
07:21not to laugh at.
07:22A fart noise.
07:23The costume of one of the actors in the scene would make the farting noise every time they
07:28breathed, and so the giggles started to ensue.
07:32The problem was, the more the actor laughed, the louder the noise got, which caused even
07:37more laughter amongst Mandip Gill, Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker, and pretty much everybody
07:41involved in the scene.
07:42Jodie Whittaker also noted that Bradley Walsh was a notorious corpser, which meant that it
07:52was even harder to regain any sort of composure once the chaos began.
07:57Number 4, Potty Mouse Dalek.
08:04As a family show, Doctor Who is very careful with its use of language.
08:08In fact, the modern era especially, the Doctor is very vocal about bad language and has been
08:13known to call out their companions on occasion.
08:16But of course, the show is made by adults who frequently drop swear bombs behind the camera.
08:21Now while you're watching behind the scenes reels of Doctor Who for the last 60 years,
08:26it can be really odd to see the show's stars out of character and hear them using that bad
08:31language.
08:32But what's even more unexpected is hearing the monsters swear.
08:36A good example of this is this blooper where we see a Dalek who takes a wrong turn and realises
08:41that they've lost their would-be victims, and then they let out a little,
08:45Bugger, I've lost them.
08:47Bugger, I've lost them.
08:50Now kudos to voice actor Roy Skelton here, who took a little on-set mishap
08:56and turned it into comedy gold.
08:58Number 3.
08:59Clara forgets to die.
09:01Now as previously mentioned, the last few years of Doctor Who have been very light on bloopers,
09:06but a few have been released which also includes this one from Series 9's Face the Raven,
09:11which involves a living, breathing raven, and Jenna Coleman forgetting what to do.
09:16As explained by Coleman, Doctor Who actors quite often have to react to events and monsters
09:22that aren't actually there during filming.
09:25But in this case, there was a real bird to perform the stunt where Clara is killed and
09:30falls to the floor.
09:31But Coleman was so focused on hitting her mark for the bird to fly towards that she completely
09:36forgot to react.
09:37In her own words,
09:38Now one can imagine that it must be quite difficult to focus on your performance when
09:43there's a real-life bird flying straight towards you.
09:46But on the plus side, this did give us a glorious clip of Peter Capaldi flapping like a bird behind
09:52his co-star.
09:53I mean, it's pretty impressive.
09:54Maybe they should have cast him as the raven.
09:57Number 2.
09:58Kneed in the knackers.
09:59One of the reasons that the aforementioned Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone were the first
10:04episodes that Matt Smith and Karen Gillan filmed was so that Alex Kingston could be there as
10:09a supportive figure for the pair, as someone who already had experience of working on the show.
10:14Now one of the first scenes that Matt Smith and Alex Kingston filmed together was the opening
10:19scene where River flies through space and lands on top of the Doctor in the TARDIS.
10:24But according to an interview on Doctor Who Confidential, the landing on top of him wasn't
10:29actually scripted.
10:30It was in fact Matt Smith's idea.
10:32An idea that he probably came to regret once filming actually began.
10:36That's because the stunt wasn't as easy to pull off as they originally thought and
10:41resulted in multiple takes where Alex Kingston's knee would land in some pretty uncomfortable
10:46places for poor Matt Smith.
10:48And this resulted in the pair of them bursting into fits of giggles.
10:53Nearly.
10:54Nearly.
10:54Nearly.
10:55I'm in knackers.
10:55Now let it just be remembered that at this point in time, these two actors barely knew
11:02each other.
11:02But it's probably safe to assume that after all the fun and pain of filming this scene,
11:08they developed a much closer bond.
11:11Number one.
11:12Will you effing stay still?
11:14It must be very frustrating for the Doctor to so often be ignored when giving out serious
11:20life-saving instructions.
11:22Just ask Sylvester McCoy.
11:24During a scene in his final serial Survival, the seventh Doctor tells Ace and everyone with
11:31them to stay still so as not to provoke an attack by the cheater people.
11:35Of course, nobody listens and they all start to run away.
11:38During one take of this sequence, Sylvester McCoy can be seen rather humorously losing his
11:44temper at the fact that nobody is listening to him.
11:46And then he starts to ad-lib his lines, adding some rather fruitful language, and then throws
11:51his jacket and himself onto the floor.
11:54I don't have any times, I've got to tell you, not to move!
11:58You move!
11:59Now this goes on for a good 20 seconds or so, and his commitment to the bit is admirable.
12:04He even earns himself some applause from the cast and crew by the end of it.
12:10Wonderful.
12:10And claims to have be the- during a scene in- and he even- now witnessing the robot dog
12:23chucking- chucking in- it's gone.
12:27I don't know what I need to say next.
12:28He even earns himself some applause from the cast and crew when he-
12:32Blah!
12:32Blah!
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