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top stories about weird shit that happened behind the scenes of doctor who

• those anecdotes frazer hines loves to tell about patrick troughton secretly taking off his pants while in the tardis during rehearsals and then coming out and doing the whole scene in his underwear
• paul mcgann runs into the cast of the x-files in an elevator while filming the tv movie and is too intimidated to say anything to them because they are more famous than him
• “we accidentally left colin baker tied to a pole alone in the middle of the woods for half an hour, oops”
• there are probably a lot more that i’m just forgetting right now. how did they ever even get anything made
  

adding some of my personal favorites:

• the first day patrick troughton came to set to play the doctor, anneke wills (polly) and michael craze (ben) wore t-shirts that had “come back bill hartnell” in huge letters on them that they’d had specially made and ordered just to fuck with pat
• the crew so strongly believed that jon pertwee could just naturally drive any vehicle that at one point they were just like “lol drive this hovercraft, you can do that right” and didn’t give him time to practice driving it and he nearly wiped out the entire camera crew with it
• tom baker thought the drowning scene in the deadly assassin was too scary, so at the day and time that the episode with it in it aired he literally knocked on a random door, asked “do you watch doctor who here?” and then sat with the family as they watched it 
  

• “And I turned around and they were all wearing mustaches”
  
• Jean Marsh forgetting she’d put her lunch in her pocket, reaching to draw Sara Kingdom’s gun, and corpsing when she tried to draw a cold squishy tomato sandwich
• Jon Pertwee waking in a WWII morgue and scaring someone like Eight in the movie; the Master sitting on the Doctor between takes to give him back/neck massages bc he still hurt 25 years later
• Katy auditioned with contacts before they were common, and the producers made her take them out, so that’s why Three’s always taking Jo’s hand and leading her about like a seeing eye dog
• Lis Sladen getting stuck for real in the fucking air duct in Arc in Space 
• The various improbable explanations of how Tom Baker got a dog bite on his mouth right before the filming of The Pirate Planet
• The horse demolishing both the cart it was pulling and the archway it tried to pass through, trying to follow Peter Davison fresh off his stint as Tristan
• The real story of Kamelion which was basically JNT swallowing BS marketing and believing the machine could do what its inventor claimed even though it hadn’t been demonstrated, so it really WAS an impostor
• The gossip scene in the production of Fiddler on the Roof where Sophie was working the evening she got the call was actually a bunch of actors whispering “Sophie got the job!” “Sophie’s going to be in Doctor Who!” 
• Sylvester saving Sophie from drowning, being cut to ribbons by glass and/or electrocuted when the water tank she was in started to crack
• Sylvester not breaking character when his coat started smoldering due to a miscalculation by the pyrotechnics crew:

Originally posted by truestoriesaboutme

Just cause I love these things!

• Pat actually getting very upset when Anneke and Michael did the Bill Hartnell shirts and tearing up a little 
• Pat demonstrating his Salamander accent from Enemy of the World to Debbie Watling and Frazer. When they asked if that was really the accent he was going with he frowned and responded with. “You little shits!”
• When Katy and Lis Sladen jumped into the casket in the Death of the Doctor, they got sandwiched together and Katy’s hand landed, and I quote “on a very unfortunate bit of Lis’s anatomy.”
• Pat and Frazer pulling Debbie into the foam in Fury From the Deep without asking her first. Only to have it be done again because the director loved it but someone laughed off camera, meaning poor Debs was soaked and chilled to the bone. 
• “The Edge of Destruction” being written basically in two days because they were like SHIT we need more time for Marco Polo
  
• Pat and Frazer pranking Debs (this happened…a lot, bless them) by exchanging a hankercheif (that was meant to be Victoria’s so they knew they were heading along the right direction to find her) with a pair of lacy knickers, but continuing the same dialog of “oh yes this must be Victoria’s! I’d know them anywhere!” and the like before passing the knickers to the character of Prof Travers, played by Debbie’s father who exclaimed “HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?!” 

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