Continuity mistake: When Palmerdale wakes Harker up and asks him if he can use the telegraph, Harker answers him, then asks him to repeat the question, then answers again.
Continuity mistake: In episode 4, Skinsale is murdered by the Rutan on the stairs right outside the crew room but later in the episode when the Doctor and Leela runs down the same stairs, Skinsale's body is not there.
Continuity mistake: In episode three, the readout strip dangling from K-9's mouth shortens between when he shoots the infected crewman and shoot Leela.
Continuity mistake: Lowe's "frozen" makeup changes between when he emerges from the freezer and when Leela brings him a cup of coffee.
Continuity mistake: The countdown clock in Marius' lab speeds up and slows down as needed for the plot.
Continuity mistake: The TARDIS is missing its light the first time it's seen.
Continuity mistake: In the opening TARDIS scene, after the TARDIS lurches from the time scanner, the Doctor's hat rack can be seen standing upright. Then Leela picks it up in the next scene.
Continuity mistake: After shooting the two guards near the beginning of episode three, K-9's nose blaster retracts twice - one in close-up, once in medium shot.
Continuity mistake: The Gatherer gleefully states that being on the roof is a fine of 500 talmars. Later, Cordo says it is 5 talmars.
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Continuity mistake: When the Doctor races out of the R1C with the fission bombs in episode four, Leela follows, carrying a shield gun. She steps into the cave and is only holding her knife. Later, she has her shield gun back.
Continuity mistake: When the Doctor shoots Stor with the De-Mat Gun, the flash starts on Stor's left-hand side, engulfs him, then jumps substantially to the right before whiting out the frame.
Continuity mistake: The Doctor has his scarf when he first meets with the Vardans. When he returns to the TARDIS, it is on the coat rack.
Answer: It was never destroyed on-screen; it was intact at the end of the TV movie, and destroyed by the start of the 2005 series. It was destroyed in the novel "The Ancestor Cell," but in a completely different manner to what happened in the series.
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