has anyone done this yet

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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

i distinctly recall something about the director leaving pertwee, manning, and delgado alone to run lines or w/e and coming back to find them goofing off with pertwee & delgado pretending they were an airplane flight crew & manning was the passenger?

also there’s one episode where the master is kidnapping jo in one of those good ol gravel quarries & he says, “Be careful down here. This way. Right, in there,” & it’s not entirely clear whether it’s the master being his usual weirdly polite self or delgado is just giving katy manning directions bc she can’t see

oh also. the tvm. apparently eric roberts took three weeks to realize that paul mcgann without his wig on was also paul mcgann. also, the wig glue made mcgann’s scalp flake off (ew)

idc what anybody says the most untouchable inarguable mlm ship of all time will always be those 2 tiny men jedediah and octavius from night of the living museum

"major character death"? that's not major character death that's just rory williams. he does that. dying is enrichment for him it's literally fine

the lion is concerned. like the lion is really anxious

How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

tbh people don't give zuko enough credit like wtf are you supposed to say when someone hits you with "my girlfriend turned into the moon" like. damn. that is in fact rough buddy

You know when someone goes "Oh, you're autistic? You should meet my buddy Ronathon he's autistic you'll love him he's great" and you meet him and he's the fucking worst

And I should clarify the point Im making is not "I'm *special* and *different* and *better*" it's "Autism is not a defining personality trait"

It’s like the same as “oh, you’re gay? You should meet my buddy ronathon he’s gay you’ll love him he’s great” or “oh, you’re Hispanic? You should meet my friend ronathon he’s Hispanic you’ll love him he’s great” or “oh you’re a woman? You should meet my friend ronatha she’s also a woman you’ll love her she’s great” and then they’re always totally different from you. Like, people like to go, oh I know two people with this same weird thing about them so that means they’re the same they should be friends, but that never works because your descriptors don’t define your personality and it’s super annoying that people do that.

This is a good addition but I need to add that I am Delighted you continued to use fake name I pulled from my butt. Like ah shit it’s Ronathan

congrats to Ronatha on her transition, even if she's still the worst

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I think about this a lot.

may I add also “butt dial” vs “booty call” vs “bottom text”

Hand job vs manual labor

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