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
00:05and blunders along the way. Now, Doctor Who has been on our screens for 60 years,
00:10so it definitely has its fair share of mistakes and bloopers, arguably more than most shows.
00:16So we thought, considering some of them are absolutely fantastic, that we'd share some with
00:22you. So with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, here with 10 Doctor Who bloopers
00:27you need to see. Before we get into the main countdown, there are just two moments
00:33that I feel like need to be mentioned, that don't technically count as bloopers,
00:38but they do prove just how much fun the cast and crew seem to have while making Doctor Who.
00:44Firstly, the Sycorax. Remember those skeletal masks and those glowing red eyes? Well,
00:49maybe they won't seem quite so menacing once you've seen four of them performing a beautiful
00:54rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Modern art. And the same goes for the Cybermen. They're
01:04quite terrifying, but not so much once you've seen a montage of them playing gleefully in a park
01:09and running around shouting, I'm free! Free as a bird! A cyberbird! Free as a bird! A cyberbird!
01:17I mean, I guess the conversion process doesn't always go quite as planned.
01:22Number 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
01:33their mobile phones and surrounded by crew members wearing jeans and trainers. But once
01:37the cameras start rolling, it's like you've been transported through time. Unless one of
01:42those modern inventions interrupts the illusion. And that is exactly what happened during the
01:47filming of Series 3's The Shakespeare Code. Now, the episode did a really good job of recreating
01:53this period in British history. You had Shakespeare sat around with his pals, drinking beer and
01:58flirting with the barmaid in a 16th century British pub. And then, Shakespeare suddenly
02:04gets a phone call. I'll do more than that later tonight. A call? Now, there's something really
02:11unsettling about seeing William Shakespeare pull out a 2007 mobile phone, which to be honest
02:17seems like it should be from the 16th century by modern standards, and claims that it's a phone
02:22call from his agent. Now of course, in reality, it was actor Dean Lennox Kelly who was in fact
02:28receiving a phone call from his agent. But you can be sure that if they existed during Shakespeare's
02:33time, Shakespeare most certainly would have had an agent as well. Although I don't think they
02:37would have contacted him via a Nokia. Number 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 Eleventh Hour, this wasn't the first episode that he
02:55filmed. It 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 Amy, who
03:05can'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. 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
03:27mistake. It'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. Number 8. Yahoo!
03:42The most common types of bloopers that we see are usually actors fluffing or forgetting
03:47their lines. But sometimes the fault lies with a misbehaving prop or set piece.
03:51Now even modern Who, with its bigger budgets and more advanced technologies,
03:56is not immune to these issues. You've got padlocks not opening on cue, you've got
04:00Silurian weapons not firing, you know, the usual. But the best example of this comes from the
04:05fourth Doctor Serial, The Sunmakers. Now as Kordo rushes into the scene whooping and cheering,
04:12he's supposed to fire his gun into the air in celebration. But at least three takes
04:17saw the actor Roy 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,
04:29considering how hilarious his repeated shouts of YAHOO! are.
04:35But it's scenes like this that really highlight that point that actors have to react to situations
04:41as if they are spontaneous and unexpected, and they've probably done them countless times already.
04:47Building friendships with our colleagues can really make the difference between a great day
04:52at work and a not-so-great day at work. But these friendships can also come with their limitations,
04:57namely not actually doing any work and spending the rest of the day joking and laughing with your
05:02mates. And actors are no different, except quite often they're required to remain totally serious
05:07or react with really deep emotion when it comes to a situation.
05:11Quite often they're required to remain totally serious or react with really deep emotion when
05:16in reality they're standing opposite their friends wearing some sort of silly outfit
05:20or with a load of CGI markers on their face. And 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
05:30Series 2, and so the giggles did often strike. And one really good example of this is during
05:35the filming of The Idiot's Lantern, when a faceless rose is revealed to the Doctor and
05:40Detective 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
05:50to keep a straight face. At one point you can even hear Tennant say that it's gonna be tough,
05:55and kudos to both of them for eventually getting it. I mean, how many jobs actually require you
06:00to imagine that your friend is missing their face?
06:04Number six, K-9 on the Lash. Though not technically a blooper in the same vein as
06:10all the other entries on this list, this is just too glorious not to share with you.
06:15Included as an extra on the DVD release of The Armageddon Factor this moment,
06:19reportedly 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 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.
06:52Now 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 five, Contagious Corpsing. Now although the last few years of Doctor Who have been
07:06disappointingly light on deleted scenes and bloopers, there have been a few released,
07:11which includes this one during the filming of Series 12's Praxeus. The problem was one of
07:17those sounds that even the most experienced thespians would struggle not to laugh at,
07:22a fart noise. The costume of one of the actors in the scene would make the farting noise every
07:28time they breathed, and so the giggles started to ensue. The problem was the more the actor laughed,
07:34the louder the noise got, which caused even more laughter amongst Mandip Gill,
07:39Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker and pretty much everybody involved in the scene.
07:47Jodie 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.
08:01Number four, Potty Mouthed Dalek. As a family show, Doctor Who is very careful with its use
08:07of language. In fact, the modern era especially, the Doctor is very vocal about bad language,
08:13and has been known to call out their companions on occasion. But of course,
08:17the show is made by adults, who frequently drop swear bombs behind the camera. Now,
08:22while 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 language.
08:32But what's even more unexpected is hearing the monsters swear. A good example of this is this
08:37blooper where we see a Dalek who takes a wrong turn and realises that they've lost their would
08:42be victims. And then they let out a little, bugger, I've lost them. Now, kudos to voice actor
08:51Roy Skelton here, who took a little on-set mishap and turned it into comedy gold.
08:58Number three, Clara Forgets to Die. Now, as previously mentioned, the last few years of
09:04Doctor Who have been very light on bloopers. But a few have been released, which also includes
09:09this one from Series 9's Face the Raven, which involves a living, breathing raven and Jenna
09:15Coleman forgetting what to do. As explained by Coleman, Doctor Who actors quite often have to
09:20react to events and monsters that aren't actually there during filming. But in this case, there was
09:26a real bird to perform the stunt where Clara is killed and falls to the floor. But Coleman was so
09:32focused on hitting her mark for the bird to fly towards that she completely forgot to react.
09:37In her own words, she forgot to die. Now, one can imagine that it must be quite difficult to
09:42focus on your performance when there's a real-life bird flying straight towards you. But on the plus
09:46side, this did give us a glorious clip of Peter Capaldi flapping like a bird behind his co-star.
09:53I mean, it's pretty impressive. Maybe they should have cast him as the raven.
09:57Number two, Need in the Knackers. One of the reasons that the aforementioned
10:02Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone were the first episodes that Matt Smith and Karen Gillan filmed
10:07was so that Alex Kingston could be there as a supportive figure for the pair as someone who
10:12already had experience of working on the show. One of the first scenes that Matt Smith and Alex
10:17Kingston filmed together was the opening scene where River flies through space and lands on
10:22top of the Doctor in the TARDIS. But according to an interview on Doctor Who Confidential,
10:27the landing on top of him wasn't actually scripted. It was, in fact,
10:30Matt Smith's idea. An 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,
10:40and resulted in multiple takes where Alex Kingston's knee would land in some pretty
10:45uncomfortable places for poor Matt Smith. And this resulted in the pair of them bursting
10:50into fits of giggles. Now let it just be remembered that at this point in time,
11:00these two actors barely knew each other. But it's probably safe to assume that after all the fun
11:05and pain of filming this scene, they developed a much closer bond.
11:11Number one, Will You Effing Stay Still? It must be very frustrating for the Doctor to so
11:17often be ignored when giving out serious life-saving instructions. Just ask Sylvester
11:24McCoy. During a scene in his final serial Survival, the Seventh Doctor tells Ace and
11:30everyone with them to stay still so as not to provoke an attack by the cheetah people.
11:35Of course, nobody listens and they all start to run away. During one take of this sequence,
11:40Sylvester McCoy can be seen rather humorously losing his temper at the fact that nobody is
11:46listening to him. And then he starts to ad-lib his lines, adding some rather fruitful language,
11:51and then throws his jacket and himself onto the floor.
11:59Now this goes on for a good 20 seconds or so. And his commitment to the bit
12:03is admirable. He even earns himself some applause from the cast and crew by the end of it.
12:08He even earns himself some applause from the cast and crew when he f-