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When Doctor Who mentions his age, it seems to vary enormously between stories. In 'The Tomb of the Cybermen', the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) tells Victoria that he's 450 Earth years old (Since Gallifrey's other qualities are Earth like, and since the Doctor continually boasts of his age to humans, we might assume that there's not much difference between Gallifreyan and Earth years). However, by the time of 'Time And The Rani' (in "real time" 20 (Earth) years later) the Doctor (now Sylvester McCoy) claims that his age is '953'. [The fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) went on a midnight errand during his first story "Robot" - the results of this undocumented adventure came back to haunt him in Leela's first story "Face of Evil". Therefore the 30 year chronicle of his adventures is incomplete and his personal timeline (and age) is not tied to ours.]
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Lady Cassandra (the skin woman) is claimed to be the last remaining human, but in previous stories set at the end of the world (The Ark and Frontios) other, normal looking humans are seen. [She actually says that she is the last 'pure' human, all the 'others' were 'mongrels' in that they had bred with other species.]
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Throughout the show, the doors on the inside of the TARDIS (white with circular panels) are different from those on the outside (usually blue police box doors). Numerous shots disprove the notion of two sets of doors. The most obvious incident is the shot near the beginning of the Sensorites that tracks out through the TARDIS doors. [The TARDIS exterior is an automatic "mask" for what is inside, that changes to fit the surroundings (it broke and got stuck as a police box.) When the doors are opened, both the inside and the outside of the doors appear from the outside to match the exterior appearance otherwise opening the door would spoil the illusion.]
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100,000 BC (series 1)

Before Ian gets zapped by the console, somebody in the studio calls out a cue, which can be heard on the soundtrack of this episode. [This only happens in the unaired pilot, not in the aired episode.]
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The tribe that Doctor Who meets is definitely Caucasian in appearance, which rules out Asia and the Americas as possible locations. Modern humans didn't reach Europe until around 30,000 years ago, so the date implied by the title is wrong. Also, the tribe is definitely NOT Neanderthal, as they apparently didn't have a tribal system. [It is never explicitly stated that the location is on Earth. It could be the Stone Age of a different planet.]
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During the long continuous hand held shot of Ian and Barbara exploring the junk yard in episode one, the cameraman trips, making the image jump up and down. [This happens in the unaired pilot, not the broadcast episode.]
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth (series 2)

The Doctor suddenly gains his coat after Baker gets him off the operating table. [A significant amount of off-screen time happens before the Doctor is seen again - enough for Baker to grab the coat off the floor and put it back on the Doctor.]
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Notice at the beginning of Episode 3 Dortam is playing with only white chess pieces on the board. [It is difficult to tell, but the pieces are white and gray. Notice that there are two queens on the board, which would be impossible if the pieces were all white.]
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The Gunfighters (series 3)

The Clantons are amazingly bad shots. The Earps walk slowly down the street at the start of the climactic gunfight and don't get hit even once by the hail of gunfire. [Johny Ringo instructs them beforehand to start shooting before the Earps are within range.]
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The Web of Fear (series 5)

When talking about 'underground trains', the Doctor says that this is 'a little after your time, I think, Victoria'. As Victoria comes from 1866 he's wrong: the first underground line (between Farringdon and Edgware Road) opened in 1863, so Victoria would have been around at the time. [More of a character error. The Doctor said he "thought" they were after Victoria's time, not that he "knew" they were.]
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The Ice Warriors (series 5)

Penley says they is no way of knowing the cause of Jamie's paralysis. The cause should be fairly obvious...Jamie was shot. How could Penley miss that - or is a bullet hole not obvious enough? [Jamie was shot with a sonic gun (and a glancing blow at that) not a projectile weapon. So there would be no visible wound and Penley probably doesn't understand the Martian weapons well enough to know what damage they may have done.]
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The War Games (series 6)

In episode seven the Doctor says that he is sending Zoe and Russell back to the 1917 (World War I) zone, but instead they arrive in the American Civil War zone. [It wouldn't be the first time he's got the cordiates wrong.]
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The Krotons (series 6)

The Doctor says he isn't a Doctor of medicine, but in the earlier story 'The Moonbase' he said he was sure that he was medically qualified. [The Doctor studied medicine under Joseph Lister in 1885. While he presumably hasn't taken the exams required to officially become an MD, he does have the skills to be considered qualified.]
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The Dominators (series 6)

The chart of the radiation on the island is wrong. The dialogue says it has steadily decreased over the past 172 years then suddenly disappeared. But the chart says it initially dropped rapidly for a few years, then started to fall at a slower rate for about a hundred years, then changed again and dropped to zero over fifty years. However, the way radiation disperses is anything but steady. It will continually slow down in its dispersal, forming a curve on a graph. [Actually, radiation will decay from an atomic bomb explosion at varying rates, depending upon which radioactive elements are dominant.]
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Inferno (series 7)

When he meets the Doctor for the first time, the Alternate version of Stahlmann refers to Lethbridge-Stewart as "Brigadier", even though his rank in this universe is "Brigade Leader". [Stahlman mumbles the line somewhat, but he's definitely saying "Brigade Leader."]
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Spearhead From Space (series 7)

The Brigadier met the Doctor previously in 'The Web of Fear' and 'The Invasion', both Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) stories. In 'The Web of Fear', the TARDIS was trapped in the tunnels, not to be seen until the end of the story...and in 'The Invasion' the TARDIS was invisible. So how does the Brigdier know that the Police Box is anything but an emergency phone booth? [At the end of The Invasion, the departure of the TARDIS, now visible in its normal police box form, is seen by UNIT's Captain Turner. As the Brigadier's right hand man, I'm pretty sure that Turner would relay the information about the TARDIS's appearance back to the Brigadier.]
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Colony in Space (series 8)

The Master calls the enquiry a "tribunal". How can it be if there's only one of him? Tribunals tend to be made up of three people, hence the name..."tri" meaning "three" [The word "tribunal" originally referred to the court presided over by an ancient Roman magistrate known as a "tribune", and has nothing to do with having three people on it.]
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The reel-to-reel tape recorder seen in this story is wonderfully anachronistic. The first cassette and cartridge tape players/recorders were invented some eight years before this story was made and were already being sold in Britain. [According to others on this board, this episode takes place in the 25th Century, at which time ANY 20th Century recording device would be anachronistic. The argument of technological advancement could be used against the original War of the Worlds because we now know there aren't any Martians. (Are there?) I think this mistake should be junked.]
Edit Corrected by Bob Blumenfeld

The Claws of Axos (series 8)

In episode 1, as Filer is driving along in his car, listening to the radio, notice that through the window to his right you can see a blue CSO screen which is completely blank – the superimposed backdrop that should be there is completely missing... [It's not blue, but a washed-out gray - the same color as the cloudy sky in the location shots.]
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The Nuton power complex contains a cyclotron which, Winser explains, can accelerate atomic particles to the speed of light and beyond. There's even an instrument which measures the effect, with a scale marked in "x light". Unfortunately, relativity states that you can't accelerate particles to the speed of light (let alone beyond it), because at that point the particles would have infinite mass. [There is a theory that a cylinder of sufficient density would cause light to loop around it and accelorate. The particles wouldn't be breaking the local speed of light but would be breaking the universal one. The cylindrical nature of the chamber may generate this effect. This is science fiction so you have to assume that scientists found a way around the problem.]
Edit Corrected by Josman

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