Plot hole: After Romana and the Doctor hide in the relic room, the Captain enters, then bends down to inspect the door that conceals the Shrivenzale. Unfortunately, the actor turns to his right when he does so, which make it rather odd that he doesn't see the white-clad Time Lady standing right in front of him.

Deliberate "mistake": Tom Baker has some wounds on his lip (caused by actor Paul Seed's dog) which appear in episode one and four in the TARDIS scenes and disappear for the rest of the episode.

Visible crew/equipment: When Romana brings the Tracer near the jewel cabinet in episode one, the wire powering the prop can be seen at the bottom of her hand.

Deliberate "mistake": The shot of rocks falling in episode four is used twice - once when Unstoffe is shot, once after the captain fires the cannon.

Plot hole: In 'The Ribos Operation' Romana states that her age is 'nearly 140' (presumably Earth years, although this is never confirmed). However, in the later (season 17) story 'City of Death' Romana says that she is '125 years old'.

Plot hole: Mr. Fibuli reports that the aircar the Doctor tried to steal is immobilized. Yet somehow, K-9 is able to activate it.

Revealing: The queen, suspended in the last few moments of life, can be seen to breathe rapidly and blink.

Visible crew/equipment: When the Doctor and Kimus are breaking into Xanxia's room, an ordinary telephone is visible on the right of the screen.

Revealing: There are times in this episode where the strings holding up the Captain's trophies are visible. Additionally, the "billions of tons" of planet sways back and forth slightly.

Factual error: While gravitational forces can be "balanced" between planets at very specific points, the notion of balancing them completely to cancel each other out everywhere, as depicted in the Captain's trophy room, is nonsense.

Revealing: The split screen used to make two Doctors appear simultaneously is apparent when the Captain's chair appears to blur while both are in shot.

Revealing: When the Doctor sabotages the inertia neutralizer, the wall wobbles.

Continuity: K-9 looks slightly different in the scene in which he's spinning inside the TARDIS: notice the pattern on his collar.

Revealing: The TARDIS manual Romana shows the Doctor quite obviously has a couple of hand-written pages jammed in so that they can be easily ripped out.

Revealing: When Pralix lifts the spanner in the composite shot, bits of debris lift up with the spanner.

Visible crew/equipment: When the Ogri does attack the Doctor and Rumford in the cellar, the person pushing it is quite visible as is another crew member standing to one side.

Continuity: After the Doctor helps Romana over the cliff, the stock footage of a sun setting over a calm sea does not come close to matching the total darkness and stormy seas in previous shots.

Revealing: K-9 has a bit of difficulty in the mansion in episode two. The thread pulling him is visible and Baker has to help him over a flagstone.

Revealing: Zadek claims the water door into Castle Gracht is a foot thick. But it is obvious when the Doctor crawls through that it is paper thin.

Visible crew/equipment: In episode three, when the Doctor enters the Pavilion of the Summer Winds and shuts the door, the door slowly swings open again. A hand then appears from behind the set wall and pulls the door closed.