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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. I mean, I guess the conversion process doesn't always go quite as
01:21planned. Number 10. Shakespeare gets a phone call. Filming any kind of period drama must be a really
01:28odd situation. You've got people dressed head to toe in historical costumes, sat around on their
01:33mobile phones and surrounded by crew members wearing jeans and trainers. But once the cameras
01:38start rolling, it's like you've been transported through time. Unless one of those modern inventions
01:44interrupts the illusion. And that is exactly what happened during the filming of series three's
01:49The Shakespeare Code. Now, the episode did a really good job of recreating this period in British
01:54history. You had Shakespeare sat around with his pals, drinking beer and flirting with the barmaid
01:59in a 16th century British pub. And then Shakespeare suddenly gets a phone call.
02:05I'll do more than that later tonight. Cool. Now, there's something really unsettling about seeing
02:13William Shakespeare pull out a 2007 mobile phone, which to be honest seems like it should be from
02:19the 16th century by modern standards, and claims that it's a phone call from his agent. Now, of course,
02:24in reality, it was actor Dean Lennox Kelly who was in fact receiving a phone call from his agent. But
02:30you can be sure that if they existed during Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare most certainly would have
02:35had an agent as well. Although I don't think they would have contacted him via a Nokia.
02:41Number nine. The Angel is full of what now? Matt Smith had some very large shoes to fill when he
02:47took over from David Tennant in 2010. Although his first episode to air was the 11th hour, this wasn't
02:54the first episode that he filmed. It was actually the time of Angels and Flesh and Stone that started
02:59his and Karen Gillan's Doctor Who journey. During a scene in Flesh and Stone, the Doctor is trying to
03:04direct Amy, who can't open her eyes, to his location. And he warns her that the forest is
03:10full of angels. But during one take, Matt Smith got a little bit muddled with his lines and he
03:15actually said, the angel is full of forests. This 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. Blooper aside,
03:33this actually speaks volumes to how committed and focused he was to the role right from the very
03:39beginning. Number eight. Yahoo! The most common types of bloopers that we see are usually actors
03:46fluffing or forgetting their lines. But sometimes the fault lies with a misbehaving prop or set piece.
03:52Now even modern Who, with its bigger budgets and more advanced technologies, is not immune to these
03:57issues. You've got padlocks not opening on cue. You've got Silurian weapons not firing. You know,
04:03the usual. But the best example of this comes from the fourth Doctor serial, The Sunmakers.
04:08Now as Kordo rushes into the scene whooping and cheering, he's supposed to fire his gun
04:13into the air in celebration. But at least three takes saw the actor Roy McCready run into the scene
04:20and struggle to fire his weapon. Faulty props aside, it's actually a small miracle that his co-stars
04:30managed to keep a straight face, considering how hilarious his repeated shouts of Yahoo! are.
04:36Yahoo!
04:38But it's scenes like this that really highlight that point that actors have to react to situations
04:43as if they are spontaneous and unexpected, and they've probably done them countless times already.
04:51Number 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. But 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 or react
05:14with really deep emotion, when in reality they're standing opposite their friends wearing some sort
05:19of silly outfit, or with a load of CGI markers on their face. And sometimes the giggles get the
05:25better of them. Now it's no secret that David Tennant and Billy Piper got on really well when they
05:30were filming Series 2, and so the giggles did often strike. And one really good example of this is
05:35during the filming of The Idiot's Lantern, when a faceless rose is revealed to the doctor and
05:41Detective Inspector Bishop. Now in reality, Billy Piper just had a load of dots on her face that
05:46were going to be edited later in post-production, and poor David Tennant really, really struggled to
05:50keep a straight face. At 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. I mean, how many jobs actually require you
06:01to imagine that your friend is missing their face? Number 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. Included as an extra on the DVD release of
06:17The Armageddon Factor, this moment, reportedly a part of the BBC's 1978 Christmas tape White Powder
06:24Christmas, features the Force Doctor and Romana sat on the floor of the TARDIS getting rather close,
06:30and drinking gin before offering some to K-9. Now witnessing the robot dog chugging gin through
06:36his straw and then singing a squiffy rendition of We Wish You a Merry Christmas has certainly
06:42never been on any Whovian's bingo card, and 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, including the
06:57crew who can be heard laughing just out of shot. Number 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. The problem was one of those sounds that even the most experienced
07:20thespians would struggle not to laugh at. A fart noise. The costume of one of the actors
07:25in the scene would make the farting noise every time they breathed, and so the giggles started
07:31to ensue. The problem was, the more the actor laughed, the louder the noise got, which caused
07:36even more laughter amongst Mandip Gill, Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker and pretty much everybody
07:41involved in the scene. Jodie Whittaker also noted that Bradley Walsh was a notorious corpser,
07:51which meant that it was even harder to regain any sort of composure once the chaos began.
07:57See their faces.
08:00Number 4. Potty Mouth Dalek
08:04As a family show, Doctor Who is very careful with its use of language. In fact, the modern era
08:09especially, the Doctor is very vocal about bad language and has been known to call out their
08:14companions on occasion. But of course, the show is made by adults who frequently drop swear bombs
08:20behind the camera. While you're watching behind the scenes reels of Doctor Who for the last 60
08:25years, it can be really odd to see the show's stars out of character and hear them using that bad
08:31language. But what's even more unexpected is hearing the monsters swear. A good example of this
08:37is this blooper where we see a Dalek who takes a wrong turn and realises that they've lost their
08:42would-be victims. And then they let out a little, bugger, I've lost them.
08:47Bugger, I've lost them.
08:49Now, kudos to voice actor Roy Skelton here, who took a little on-set mishap and turned it into comedy gold.
08:58Number 3. Clara 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, which
09:12involves a living, breathing raven, and Jenna Coleman forgetting what to do. As explained by Coleman,
09:18Doctor Who actors quite often have to react to events and monsters that aren't actually there during
09:24filming. But in this case, there was a real bird to perform the stunt where Clara is killed and falls
09:30to the floor. But Coleman was so focused on hitting her mark for the bird to fly towards that she
09:35completely forgot to react. In her own words, she forgot to die. Now, one can imagine that it must be
09:41quite difficult to focus on your performance when there's a real-life bird flying straight towards
09:46you. But on the plus side, this did give us a glorious clip of Peter Capaldi flapping like a bird
09:51behind his co-star. I mean, it's pretty impressive. Maybe they should have cast him as the raven.
09:57Number 2. Need in the knackers
09:59One of the reasons that the aforementioned Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone were the first episodes
10:05that Matt Smith and Karen Gillum filmed was so that Alex Kingston could be there as a supportive
10:10figure for the pair, as someone who already had experience of working on the show. One of the first
10:15scenes that Matt Smith and Alex Kingston filmed together was the opening scene where River flies
10:21through space and lands on top of the Doctor in the TARDIS. But according to an interview on Doctor
10:26Who Confidential, the landing on top of him wasn't actually scripted. It was, in fact, Matt Smith's
10:31idea. An idea that he probably came to regret once filming actually began. That's because the stunt
10:37wasn't as easy to pull off as they originally thought and resulted in multiple takes where Alex
10:43Kingston's knee would land in some pretty uncomfortable places for poor Matt Smith. And this resulted in the
10:49pair of them bursting into fits of giggles.
10:56Now let it just be remembered that at this point in time, these two actors barely knew each other.
11:02But it's probably safe to assume that after all the fun and pain of filming this scene,
11:07they developed a much closer bond.
11:11Number 1. Will you effing stay still
11:13It must be very frustrating for the Doctor to so often be ignored when giving out serious
11:20life-saving instructions. Just ask Sylvester McCoy. During a scene in his final serial survival,
11:28the seventh Doctor tells Ace and everyone with them to stay still so as not to provoke an attack by the
11:34Cheetah people. Of course, nobody listens and they all start to run away. During one take of this
11:40sequence, Sylvester McCoy can be seen rather humorously losing his temper at the fact that
11:45nobody is listening to him. And then he starts to ad-lib his lines, adding some rather fruitful
11:50language, and then throws his jacket and himself onto the floor.
11:54Now 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.
12:14And claims to have be the during a scene in
12:19It's okay. And he even ends- Now, witnessing the robot dog chucking- chucking in-
12:26It's gone. I don't know what I need to say next.
12:28He even earns himself some applause from the cast and crew when he f-
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