10 Doctor Who Bloopers You Need To See
The very best bloopers and outtakes in all of time and space.
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00:00 There is no production that has made it to the finish line without a series of fluffs and blunders along the way.
00:07 Now Doctor Who has been on our screens for 60 years, so it definitely has its fair share of mistakes and bloopers.
00:14 Arguably more than most shows.
00:16 So we thought, considering some of them are absolutely fantastic, that we'd share some with you.
00:22 So with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, here with 10 Doctor Who bloopers you need to see.
00:29 Before we get into the main countdown, there are just two moments that I feel like need to be mentioned,
00:35 that don't technically count as bloopers, but they do prove just how much fun the cast and crew seem to have while making Doctor Who.
00:43 Firstly, the Sicaracs. Remember those skeletal masks and those glowing red eyes?
00:49 Well, maybe they won't seem quite so menacing once you've seen four of them performing a beautiful rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
00:57 *Sicarac singing*
01:00 Modern art. And the same goes for the Cybermen. They're quite terrifying, but not so much once you've seen a montage of them playing gleefully in a park,
01:09 and running around shouting "I'm free! Free as a bird! A cyberbird!"
01:14 *Cyberbird singing*
01:17 I mean, I guess the conversion process doesn't always go quite as planned.
01:22 Number 10. Shakespeare gets a phone call.
01:25 Filming any kind of period drama must be a really odd situation.
01:29 You've got people dressed head to toe in historical costumes, sat around on their mobile phones and surrounded by crew members wearing jeans and trainers.
01:37 But once the cameras start rolling, it's like you've been transported through time.
01:42 Unless one of those modern inventions interrupts the illusion.
01:45 And that is exactly what happened during the filming of Series 3's The Shakespeare Code.
01:50 The episode did a really good job of recreating this period in British history.
01:55 You had Shakespeare sat around with his pals, drinking beer and flirting with the barmaid in a 16th century British pub.
02:01 And then, Shakespeare suddenly gets a phone call.
02:05 "I'll do more than that later tonight. A call."
02:10 Now, there's something really unsettling about seeing William Shakespeare pull out a 2007 mobile phone, which to be honest seems like it should be from the 16th century by modern standards,
02:21 and claims that it's a phone call from his agent.
02:24 Now of course, in reality, it was actor Dean Lennox Kelly who was in fact receiving a phone call from his agent.
02:29 But you can be sure that if they existed during Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare most certainly would have had an agent as well.
02:36 Although I don't think they would have contacted him via a Nokia.
02:40 Number 9. The Angel is full of what now?
02:43 Matt Smith had some very large shoes to fill when he took over from David Tennant in 2010.
02:49 Although his first episode to air was The Eleventh Hour, this wasn't the first episode that he filmed.
02:55 It was actually the time of Angels and Flesh and Stone that started his and Karen Gillan's Doctor Who journey.
03:01 During a scene in Flesh and Stone, the Doctor is trying to direct Amy, who can't open her eyes, to his location.
03:07 And he warns her that the forest is full of angels.
03:10 But during one take, Matt Smith got a little bit muddled with his lines and he actually said "the angel is full of forests".
03:18 "This is important. The angel is full of forests."
03:22 Now what actually makes this even more funny is the fact that he doesn't seem to notice his mistake.
03:28 It's only when a crew member points it out to him that he realises what he's done.
03:32 Blooper aside, this actually speaks volumes to how committed and focused he was to the role right from the very beginning.
03:40 Number 8. Yahoo!
03:42 The most common types of bloopers that we see are usually actors fluffing or forgetting their lines.
03:47 But sometimes the fault lies with a misbehaving prop or set piece.
03:51 Now even modern Who, with its bigger budgets and more advanced technologies, is not immune to these issues.
03:57 You've got padlocks not opening on cue, you've got Silurian weapons not firing, you know, the usual.
04:03 But the best example of this comes from the fourth Doctor serial, The Sunmakers.
04:07 Now as Kordo rushes into the scene whooping and cheering, he's supposed to fire his gun into the air in celebration.
04:14 But at least three takes saw the actor Roy McCready run into the scene and struggle to fire his weapon.
04:25 Faulty props aside, it's actually a small miracle that his co-stars managed to keep a straight face,
04:31 considering how hilarious his repeated shouts of "Yahoo!" are.
04:36 But it's scenes like this that really highlight that point that actors have to react to situations as if they are spontaneous and unexpected,
04:46 and they've probably done them countless times already.
04:49 Number 7. Rose's missing face.
04:53 Building friendships with our colleagues can really make the difference between a great day at work and a not so great day at work.
05:00 But these friendships can also come with their limitations, namely not actually doing any work and spending the rest of the day joking and laughing with your mates.
05:09 And actors are no different, except quite often they're required to remain totally serious or react with really deep emotion,
05:15 when in reality they're standing opposite their friends wearing some sort of silly outfit or with a load of CGI markers on their face.
05:22 And sometimes the giggles get the better of them.
05:25 It's no secret that David Tennant and Billy Piper got on really well when they were filming Series 2,
05:31 and so the giggles did often strike.
05:33 One really good example of this is during the filming of The Idiot's Lantern,
05:37 when a faceless Rose is revealed to the Doctor and Detective Inspector Bishop.
05:42 In reality, Billy Piper just had a load of dots on her face that were going to be edited later in post-production,
05:48 and poor David Tennant really, really struggled to keep a straight face.
05:51 At one point you can even hear Tennant say that it's gonna be tough, and kudos to both of them for eventually getting it.
05:58 I mean, how many jobs actually require you to imagine that your friend is missing their face?
06:03 Number 6. Canine on the lash.
06:06 Though not technically a blooper in the same vein as all the other entries on this list,
06:11 this is just too glorious not to share with you.
06:14 Included as an extra on the DVD release of The Armageddon Factor this moment,
06:19 reportedly a part of the BBC's 1978 Christmas tape White Powder Christmas,
06:24 features the Force Doctor and Romana sat on the floor of the TARDIS getting rather close
06:29 and drinking gin before offering some to K-9.
06:33 Now, witnessing the robot dog chugging gin through his straw and then singing a squiffy rendition of
06:39 "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" has certainly never been on any Whovian's bingo card.
06:45 And yet, it's a sight to behold.
06:48 "We all like pudding, we all like pudding."
06:51 Now, whatever this actually is, it's clear that everyone was having a lot of fun,
06:56 including the crew, who can be heard laughing just out of shot.
07:00 Number 5. Contagious corpsing.
07:03 Although the last few years of Doctor Who have been disappointingly light on deleted scenes and bloopers,
07:09 there have been a few released, which includes this one during the filming of Series 12's Praxeos.
07:15 The problem was one of those sounds that even the most experienced thespians would struggle not to laugh at.
07:22 A fart noise.
07:23 The costume of one of the actors in this scene would make the farting noise every time they breathed,
07:29 and so the giggles started to ensue.
07:32 The problem was, the more the actor laughed, the louder the noise got,
07:36 which caused even more laughter amongst Mandip Gill, Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker,
07:40 and pretty much everybody involved in the scene.
07:43 "Just check whether it's..."
07:45 Jodie Whittaker also noted that Bradley Walsh was a notorious corpser,
07:51 which meant that it was even harder to regain any sort of composure once the chaos began.
07:57 "See their faces."
08:01 Number 4. Potty Mouse Dalek
08:04 As a family show, Doctor Who is very careful with its use of language.
08:08 In fact, the modern era especially, the Doctor is very vocal about bad language
08:13 and has been known to call out their companions on occasion.
08:16 But of course, the show is made by adults, who frequently drop swear bombs behind the camera.
08:22 Now, while you're watching behind-the-scenes reels of Doctor Who for the last 60 years,
08:26 it can be really odd to see the show's stars out of character and hear them using that bad language.
08:31 But what's even more unexpected is hearing the monsters swear.
08:35 A good example of this is this blooper where we see a Dalek,
08:39 who takes a wrong turn and realises that they've lost their would-be victims,
08:43 and then they let out a little "Bugger, I've lost them."
08:47 "Bugger, I've lost them."
08:49 Now, kudos to voice actor Roy Skelton here,
08:52 who took a little on-set mishap and turned it into comedy gold.
08:57 Number 3. Clara forgets to die
09:00 Now, as previously mentioned, the last few years of Doctor Who have been very light on bloopers,
09:06 but a few have been released, which also includes this one from Series 9's Face the Raven,
09:11 which involves a living, breathing raven and Jenna Coleman forgetting what to do.
09:16 As explained by Coleman, Doctor Who actors quite often have to react to events and monsters
09:22 that aren't actually there during filming.
09:24 But in this case, there was a real bird to perform the stunt where Clara is killed and falls to the floor.
09:30 But Coleman was so focused on hitting her mark for the bird to fly towards,
09:34 that she completely forgot to react. In her own words, "She forgot to die."
09:39 Now, one can imagine that it must be quite difficult to focus on your performance
09:43 when there's a real-life bird flying straight towards you.
09:46 But on the plus side, this did give us a glorious clip of Peter Capaldi
09:50 flapping like a bird behind his co-star.
09:52 I mean, it's pretty impressive. Maybe they should have cast him as the raven.
09:56 Number 2. Need in the knackers
09:59 One of the reasons that the aforementioned Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
10:03 were the first episodes that Matt Smith and Karen Gillan filmed
10:06 was so that Alex Kingston could be there as a supportive figure for the pair,
10:10 as someone who already had experience of working on the show.
10:13 One of the first scenes that Matt Smith and Alex Kingston filmed together
10:18 was the opening scene where River flies through space and lands on top of the Doctor in the TARDIS.
10:23 But according to an interview on Doctor Who Confidential,
10:26 the landing on top of him wasn't actually scripted.
10:29 It was in fact Matt Smith's idea.
10:31 An idea that he probably came to regret once filming actually began.
10:36 That's because the stunt wasn't as easy to pull off as they originally thought
10:40 and resulted in multiple takes where Alex Kingston's knee would land
10:44 in some pretty uncomfortable places for poor Matt Smith.
10:48 And this resulted in the pair of them bursting into fits of giggles.
10:52 Nearly. We're nearly on my knackers.
10:56 Now let it just be remembered that at this point in time,
11:00 these two actors barely knew each other.
11:02 But it's probably safe to assume that after all the fun and pain of filming this scene,
11:07 they developed a much closer bond.
11:10 Number 1. Will you effing stay still?
11:14 It must be very frustrating for the Doctor to so often be ignored
11:18 when giving out serious life-saving instructions.
11:22 Just ask Sylvester McCoy.
11:24 During a scene in his final serial, Survival,
11:27 the Seventh Doctor tells Ace and everyone with them to stay still
11:32 so as not to provoke an attack by the Cheetah People.
11:35 Of course, nobody listens and they all start to run away.
11:38 During one take of this sequence,
11:40 Sylvester McCoy can be seen rather humorously losing his temper
11:44 at the fact that nobody is listening to him.
11:46 And then he starts to ad-lib his lines, adding some rather fruitful language,
11:50 and then throws his jacket and himself onto the floor.
11:54 I don't have any time, I gotta tell ya, not to move! You move!
11:59 This goes on for a good 20 seconds or so,
12:01 and his commitment to the bit is admirable.
12:04 He even earns himself some applause from the cast and crew by the end of it.
12:08 [applause]
12:12 [Bloopers]