Continuity mistake: The meteors are shown approaching and hitting the ship on the starboard (right) side. Twice, however, they are erroneously described as being to port (left): When the meteors are first seen on the scanner by Frame, and later when Frame tells the survivors in Kitchen 5 to go starboard because the port side of the ship is impassable.
skater49th
1st Oct 2023
Doctor Who (2005)
20th Jul 2023
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah Jane is talking to Rose while she's trying to access a computer in the lab, half-sitting on the desk, the right side of Sarah's jacket is bunched up beneath her arm in shots facing her and lying down in shots facing Rose.
3rd Jul 2023
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: During the opening montage, showing the Slitheen incapacitated by electrocution, when Margaret drops Indra's body and stumbles back, a close-up of the body on the floor shows her legs without the pulsing electricity covering her entire body, which is visible in other shots.
3rd Jul 2023
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Harriet Jones is hiding in the closet and spying on the Slitheen attacking General Asquith, wide shots of the closet door have it in shadow, but close-ups of Harriet have the part of her face that is visible illuminated.
4th Nov 2021
Doctor Who (2005)
Flux: Chapter One - The Halloween Apocalypse - S13-E1
Continuity mistake: Karvanista smashes his way into Dan's house by breaking down his door with an axe. When the Doctor and Yaz arrive after Dan's abduction, the hole in the damaged door is smaller than it was originally. (00:17:30)
5th Jan 2020
Doctor Who (2005)
The Magician's Apprentice - S9-E2
Continuity mistake: During the exchange where the Doctor says "You flatter me" and Davros responds "A pity. I intended to accuse", Davros' hand goes from just under his chin to resting on his chair's control panel. (00:40:15)
4th Jan 2020
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the Doctor hands out of the base manuals to the expedition crew for the dream test, Albert Smith is shown with his manual open in shots from behind him several shots before he's shown opening it in a shot facing him. (00:35:56)
4th Jan 2020
Doctor Who (2005)
Factual error: At the end, when the Doctor shows her companions the asteroid named for Rosa Parks, it's depicted in a dense asteroid field which looks absolutely nothing like the (very sparse) asteroid belt does in real life.
4th Jan 2020
Doctor Who (2005)
Dark Water - S8-E11
Continuity mistake: When it's revealed that the dream patch is on Clara's hand, it's in her right palm. But in the wide shot when she's getting up as the Doctor explains the true nature of the patches, it's on her left hand instead. (00:13:21)
30th Dec 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
The Magician's Apprentice - S9-E2
Continuity mistake: When Colony Sarff arrives at the arena, he's seen unclasping his hands twice, in the close-up and following wide shot. (00:28:38)
21st Dec 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Mummy on the Orient Express - S8-E8
Continuity mistake: When Clara tells Maisie that "Difficult people can make you feel all sorts of things", as she finishes the sentence the view cuts from a close-up of her to a wide shot, and the light and shadows cast onto her face change with it. (00:17:20)
19th Dec 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Dark Water - S8-E11
Continuity mistake: As Clara nods and says "Fair enough" when she thinks the Doctor has told her to leave, her arms go from crossed to by her sides between the closeup and the wide shot. (00:14:29)
18th Dec 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the Cyberman in the office locates Clara hiding behind the desk, its gun arm goes from stretched out to bent between shots. (00:00:46)
25th Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
The Time of the Doctor - S7-E17
Continuity mistake: When the Doctor teleports onto the Dalek ship and announces himself, he's holding up a broken Dalek eyestalk in the wide shot as he throws off his hood, but then in the close-up he throws the hood off again, with his arm lowered. Then he raises his arm again, with his arm bent at the elbow, only for a wide shot to have his arm sticking straight up, with his elbow straight. (00:00:55)
24th Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
The Day of the Doctor - S7-E16
Deliberate mistake: Looking closely at the floor of Eleven's console room reveals that the part of the floor around the console facing the door has been discreetly raised up, which it isn't in any other appearance of this console room, so that Clara can ride her motorcyle inside it without going down two steps. This wasn't in any previous episode and is gone in the next one.
Suggested correction: The Tardis has constantly shown it can change its internal structure to fit its needs or desires.
23rd Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: During the sepia-toned explanation of the Doctor and Clara's initial investigation into Sweetville, when they pose as a married couple to infiltrate the place, are accepted, and the Doctor says "The missus and I couldn't be more chuffed, could we love?" in a bad Northern accent, Clara's fake smile goes from closed-mouth to open-mouth between shots. (00:19:57)
23rd Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS - S7-E12
Continuity mistake: When Clara asks the Doctor if he's putting the TARDIS on basic mode because she's a girl and he responds "No!", his hand moves from raised to resting on the console between shots. (00:01:39)
16th Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Skaldak grabs Professor Grisenko's head and announces that Martian law decrees the destruction of the Earth, his hands change position on Grisenko's head between shots. (00:31:47)
16th Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the Doctor, being held by two of the crewmen, explains that there's a geographical anomaly the sub can land on to halt its descent, the hand of the crewman holding his right arm disappears in a close-up, followed by the crewman himself disappearing in the next shot. (00:04:57)
15th Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: After the Doctor gets hit in the head by a football, when he raises his arms defensively when Ellie Oswald comes over to see if he's all right, his arms switch positions between the wide shot and the close-up. (00:02:02)
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