10 Doctor Who Actors Who Nearly Died While Filming
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Doctor Who is certainly a LOT safer now than it was during the classic years...
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John Barrowman almost died when he was shot by a dalek. But then Rose Tyler (Played by Terry Walsh) brought him back to life.
I think we all need to take a second to appreciate just how well McCoy dealt with that explosion. A massive blast burnt his clothes and just missed him, and he just carries on walking like nothing happened. Right in character for 7’s ‘chess-master’ persona.
Yeah, but I read he really let loose on the production team after they yelled "Cut".
If so, quite understandable.
@@ladycplum he did . It's fucking hilarious
My understanding is that the explosion was so loud that it damaged his hearing to some degree. And still he just kept walking. Magnificent.
@@NotContinuum I don't recall anyone mentioning his hearing, it's the whole "not flinching" thing that everyone talks about.
The 60s-70s safety standards were, in summary:
“Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.” - BBC execs.
The fact that (almost) all of these are from Classic Who is a testament to the safety protocols of the 21st century.
During the filming of the Second Doctor story "The Abominable Snowmen," the episode was filmed on location in North Wales, and the actor that played Professor Travers, Jack Watling said that one actor playing a Yeti apparently got drunk and fell hundreds of feet and was feared dead, but was saved by his costume which he was cushioned in by the foam rubber inside.
There was another Larger Than Expected Explosion in the McCoy Era. When the Special Weapons Dalek blows up the wooden gate to the Renegade Daleks hideout, the explosion was WAY more powerful than anyone thought it was going to be. It wound up breaking some windows and setting off alarms all around the area. Emergency Services pulled up to the scene and saw Daleks coming out of a plume of smoke and had a good panic.
Made worse by the fact that it filmed on the first aniversary of Bloody Sunday, so panicking locals heard the blast and thought the IRA were attacking.
I think Terry Walsh may be an alias used by Capt Jack in the 70's & 80's.
Yes just yes
The irony of the Whittaker incident is that they were filming 'shots' as Australia in South Africa because all the deadly critters in Australia were just 'too much' of a risk.
Yes welll, the whole deadly critters thing in Australia is greatly exaggerated.
And if you stop to consider the deadliest species, humans, and compare the two countries political climates, I know which one I would choose.
@@pauldonald4676 Now we know why Australia was a prison colony. All the critters that could kill you... ;-P
I would very much find it plausible if someone made a Doctor Who episode in the future that reveals that all the dangerous wildlife of Australia was thanks to an ancient ship saving endangered (yet EXTREMELY dangerous) alien beings that later on spawned all the fauna of Australia. Think "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" but instead of Dinosaurs, it's vaguely familiar alien animals.
Actor Bill Burridge quite literally did die because of Doctor Who. Whilst filming for Frontier in Space the green paint he was wearing for his costume as a Draconian entered his blood stream through an open cut, Burridge has an allergic reaction and suffered a brain seizure and spent the rest of his life in a care facility where he would die a few years later due the effects of the incident.
I’ve never heard of this before. Is there any link you can provide for the story? Quite tragic if this happened
Oh no, that's bloody awful! I hope they read this and give him some recognition. Maybe in a 10 more actors... list. He definitely deserves some sort of recognition by the show, if his family are up for it.
@@mrbluesky4838 It's in this book - Memories of Who: Twenty-six years of working on Doctor Who.
It honestly just goes to show the dedication that some of these actors have. And some of the things that can go wrong. Props to them
Some of the accidents were caused BY props!
@@johna5635 Props don't kill people... people kill people... ;-P
Terry Walsh: the unsung hero of this show. I recognise him whenever he replaces the doctor on-screen. Love his fight choreography in "The Monster Of Peladon"
Its interesting how only one entry on this list is from modern Who and the rest are from Classic.
Either things are done much better now (which should be the answer), or nobody talks about any nasty events (unlikely). Perhaps they're all waiting to put it in their memoirs?
@@y_fam_goeglyd Health and safety standars are higher these days, but they also film a lot less than they used to
That's because health and safety standards are much tighter now than they were during the classic years. Thankfully they're super careful these days!
Health and safety standards are much higher now and also modern who is still quite new wheras with classicv it happened a long time ago so many stories float about at cons and all the actors writing books and interviews
Sylvester explained that he had to yell at the top of his voice to get people to turn off the electricals in time and not just assume he was in character.
Apparently he swore to show he was being serious and wasn't acting
Sophie and Sylvester have often joked over the years that they were convinced the BBC were trying to kill them other than Battlefield and the water tank incident Sophie also had to take medication. The scene where she rises out the water with Excalibur was filmed in water infested with rat’s more worrying is that it was the local area’s water supply. When filming Silver
Nemesis the scene where they fall in the river Sophie almost drowned you can see her arguing with the stunt man as he tries to pull her out. Overall though John Nathan Turner was trying to save a sinking ship the best he could and he cut corners on safety in doing so. Thanks Ellie as always for a great list to brighten up our day during the long wait for the next series.
As much as I respect JNT for attempting to save Doctor Who, I'd personally sacrifice anything other than Safety Measures. Better to live and be a part of a bad production than to perish and be part of a good production.
Lets be honest, that walk away from the explosion in Greatest Show in the Galaxy is bad ass. The singed backside was totally worth it
Bad-ass? More like burned-ass!
I love that "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" set up a circus tent in a BBC car park and shot all the interiors there. It is fortunate that that story was set at a circus. I don't think they could have pulled that kind of solution off with any other story. (Similarly, when Frazer Hines came down with chicken pox, it's a good thing that the story he was making at the time was "The Mind Robber", because that's about the only story he made where they could have an in-story reason for him to be played by a different actor!)
It's also ghoulishly thematic to have a serial about cruel TV be filmed in front of the studio office block. :D
Great list but slightly worrying! 😂 Not really a near death situation, but whilst filming scenes for the series 2 episode Rise of the Cybermen billie piper went to turn around to try and get out a doorway with david tennant behind her but she turned too quickly without looking and nearly broke her arm on the chest of a cyberman! David tennant just managed to pull her back in time and she was more concerned about the poor cyberman! 😂😂😊
This video should be called 10 Doctor Who actors who were near Terry Walsh
Not really a good thing that they can even make a list of 10
I clicked on the video for this comment
There must be more which is even scarier
Terry walsh actually came up with the idea to be hit by the car and fall down the hill, the producers said they couldnt pay him extra for the stunt but he wanted to do it anyway
I am beginning to think that they should've chosen Terry Walsh to play the fictional character "The Doctor" since he was such a hero in real life.
Thank you Who Culture ! Another brilliant video! Thanks for all of the amazing content! Terry Walsh is either an alias of Captain Jack or a time Lord that nobody knows about! Maybe he stowed away in the TARDIS with The Doctor whilst he was escaping the Time War!
Terry Walsh the absolute legend
I don’t care about the dangers I would love to work on doctor who
It's quite interesting in that the incredibly iconic Sevens walk away from the explosion would be CGI today (with good reason obviously!) and a certain modern swagger to the walk. McCoys is just awesome! Wonderful scary video here, thank you guys, I didn't know any of these except for the Jodi Whitaker one on Graham Norton when the guys on the sofa with her couldn't understand a word of her accent 😂😂
The take home lesson is: Terry Walsh is a legend!
7:25 Family of Blood's coda had this exact event happen to a side character. He fights in the trenches after his encounter... realizes this is the moment he's destined to die by artillery barrage, and dodges it.
Definitely inspired by this.
A lot of good content recently this Easter time! Thanks guys!
Thank you for watching!
Sophie was in some real trouble for a sec. Sylvester really was extremely concerned for her. I hope now they do stunt doubles for every scene like that...wait Jodie really did do the leap between the cranes in The Woman Who Fell to Earth....so, I guess presumably not.
Yeah, Jodie REALLY wanted to do that stunt herself
If a stunt double was used, then it would have been the stunt double who nearly died. This is not better.
"Sarah Jane ! My , Sarah Jane !" ❤
i love that all the health and saftey issues were old Who, before health and saftey were a big thing. as for Jodie, spiders just are in hot locations
The making of "Greatest Show" was a miracle in itself, and it wouldn't be the first time that Sylvester (or Sophie) would have to deal with troublesome explosions or dodgy setups. In Curse of Fenric, Sophie + Sylvester wanted to do the 'run from the explosion' stunt themselves, and you can visibly see debris from the exploded building hitting the camera right next to them in the finalized version. Sylvester also wanted to do the umbrella zip-wire stunt in Remembrance, but was denied. Despite being mid-40's, Sylvester (and Sophie) were always up for the risky shenanigans -- at a time when the production team were already cutting safety corners due to the insanely low budget. Just another reason why I love them both
How is there a list of 10
Richard Evans was a set builder for the show between 1965-1988 and worked with the asbestos containing artex in his work. He died from mesothelioma in 2019.
Whittaker’s one definitely frightens me. She must’ve been super cautious from there on out.
Just had an idea for a cheerier topic (inspired by the late great Bernard Cribbins who died so shortly after filming Doctor Who)... how about a video on the actors who appeared in both Doctor Who and that other great British institution; the "Carry On" films!? I know Bernard Breslaw played an Ice Warrior - and Peter Butterworth played the Meddling Monk (...and Barbara Windsor had a cameo in "Army of Ghosts"!). I'm sure there must be quite a few more.
William Hartnell was in the first Carry On film, and the first episode of Dr Who. Angela Douglas who played the Brigadier's wife was in a couple (Carry on Cowboy for one). Joan Sims was in The Mysterious Planet. Jon Pertwee was in a few small roles in Carry Ons.
Im sure there's a scene where Jamie gets zapped or burnt by touching something on the tardis console.. could've electrocuted him
There is. It's in the first episode of Web Of Fear.
Lis Sladen tells a slightly different version in her autobio book: she was told to turn off the skimmer "boat" as she approached the shore, so it would gently coast to a stop, but then the strong natural water current (it was a real cave!) took the boat and started pulling it into the deep depths of the cave. There was either a drop off to nowhere or some such that if it had drifted any further, Lis never would have never been seen again. 😬 Lis panicked and froze on the skimmer and didn't try and swim off and away. Terry Walsh (!) had been nervous about this stunt and stayed in his "frog" outfit, jumped in the water and got to Lis in time. Horrifying!
Conclusion Terry Walsh is actually a Time Lord
The boys over in WC Wrestling would be sad at how you said War games xD
Dang, Classic Who sure had a bunch of accidents happen. Hopefully the "curse" doesn't continue on.
While filming The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ian Reddington - the Chief Clown had a metal fall on his head, the blow crushed some of teeth.
The only incidents I read about was Tom suffering an injury in a episode which I always thought was the Cyberman story. The Sophie Battlefield one's infamous
I’d love to know which of those incidents actually made it to the final cut.
This list, is going to be all classic dr who ,
If I can borrow from "Are you being served" Assasinations attempts are a sackable offense.
Thank God for Terry Walsh!
Memories.
The scene with Ace in the water airlock scarred me
Similar to Sylvester McCoy, didn't David Tennant's clothes almost (or, did, I can't really remember) catch on fire during the recording for the scene in Voyage of the Damned where the Tenth Doctor runs and leaps away from an explosion?
No need for curses on a long enough timeline things that seam unlikely become inevitable.
That third Doctor episode has been colourised, from a black and white print, which is a pity, because those of us are old enough to remember it the first time, there was a technicians'strike and the parts set in the parallel universe, were originally shown in black and white, making them more scary. But if they've colourised the whole thing, so be it. It's not a false memory, because the uncolourised version, was repeated long before it was colourised. My family had a colour televisions by that time.
But going back to the actual subject of the video, that scene where Sophie Aldred, playing Ace, nearly drowned terrified me, because I can't swim.
No, it really wasn’t. You’ve made this claim many times before, and it is still not true. The colour information is taken directly from a video recording of the Canadian broadcast (which included a scene not shown in the UK owing to Jon Pertwee’s voice being insufficiently disguised to not be clearly still him).
@@DrWhoFanJ Get lost you troll I was there, I'm older than you, I've been watching Dr Who since it began, and I know colourised footage when I see it. Go away!!!
It's colourised footage because when you compare it to episodes that weren't lost from that era of Dr Who, it's a fuzzy picture.
That is not BBC standard colour footage originally broadcast in 625 line video; it's colourised b/w 625 line footage, regardless of it being in studio video or film footage transferred to video, which sometimes happened in the seventies.
You're a very unpleasant obsessive, who wasn't alive in the seventies, let alone a Brit, like me who was and watch this footage, both originally and when it was repeated later, and before it was colourised.
Stop arguing with me, I didn't say anything out of order, but you are because you're obsessed with something you know nothing about.
If you remember other people, no doubt the same age and Brits, agreed with me last time. Don't try to answer me, because I've had enough of your obsessively rude and childish and I suspect sexist attack on me.
I saw this program twice long before you were probably born. The BBC has always repeated programs, and once showed this one in its original form in a Dr Who celebration years before, it was colourised.
I repeat the standard of the picture is not that of the episodes that didn't have to be colourised. Another example is Day Of The Daemons that was all in colour unlike Inferno, when first shown, but had to be colourised when the original colour version was lost. I can tell it's not quite the same picture quality, as for example Planet Of The Daleks which is intact. 🙄
@@julianaylor4351 Maybe you have, but your “memory” is still wrong. Inferno’s recolourisation followed the same basic procedure as _The Sea Devils’_ first three episodes: combining the B&W PAL film copies with the colour NTSC videotape recordings from overseas (in this case, Canada). The reason it’s so low-quality is the same reason as the previous two stories that same season: the Canadian colour information comes from domestic tape recordings of omnibus broadcasts of what were already 20-year-old tape transfers. They absolutely did the best they possibly could, but you can’t invent detail that was never there in the available pictures!
(Even if that doesn’t somehow convince you, how would you explain the surviving scene from the Canadian broadcast removed in the UK being in colour‽)
I’m sorry you seem so stuck on this Mandela effect, but it was never actually true at all.
In the interests of impartiality, I raised this matter with the Restoration Team themselves (the people responsible for getting all DW material to the highest possible standard for release), and they all independently confirmed that what you are alleging is not supported by any factual evidence at all.
Peter Crocker (the primary visuals person on the team) suggested you might’ve gotten it confused with _Timeslip_ from that same year, where a few episodes reverted to B&W owing to industrial action.
What an Easter Treat, as #WhoCulture and Ellie Littlechild 😊 entertaining our socks off
In The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ian Reddington (Chief Clown) had a nasty accident during one take when the metal cage door slammed onto his head (it was meant to slam down in front of him but had be mistimed by the person shutting it) - He was lucky that he only broke two teeth and nothing else happened
I noticed most of them were in the classic era,… health & safety, what health & safety?
Thanks goodness for the Walsh.
Yeah, that's a lot of danger. Spread over a long period of time though.
Jesus wept! That was disturbing
Hartnell
I think if a TV show is 60 years old it's normal that some accidents happend
Terry Walsh built up his tolerance to physical trauma by having ion pertwee run him over with a car for two weeks straight.
0:12 the doctor has died around 45 billion times I believe
I met John Levine once. He wasn't nice to me and was a total dick. Sophie Aldred is lucky to be alive. She would have been dead now if not for Sylvester McCoy. Dartmoor was such a dangerous location to film The Sontaran Experiment. Not only Tom Baker broke his collarbone, but he could also have broken his neck.
What do you mean everyone? Everyone in the whole entire world or everyone in the cast and crew of dr who?
So basically old who wasn't very good at health and safety
It shows a lot of the excitement and action of Dr Who actually is a genuiine, unscripted reaction
I think you are exaggerating the danger of asbestos. Of course it's not healthy to be around, but most people who are older than 30 has been near asbestos for shorter or longer time and we were not dying like flies back then. As long as asbestos is not broken in pieces it's not that harmfull. It's the dust that comes from breaking for instance a ceiling tile containing the material that is dangerous to inhale.
11 deaths have been directly tired to asbestos exposure at Television Centre.
@@SuperFunkmachine Was that people who worked with asbestos or people who were just in a room with asbestos?
@@organfairy Mostly worked with i think.
Some misinformation in the list.
Sorry, but none of these people 'nearly died'. You may wish to consider what 'nearly died' actually means.
This is so dramatic and lame. Hurt his leg is not almost dying. All of these are a stretch bull. All of them are a huge stretch. Great for click bait.
Death.. .. ...Highly Overrated😋
You're forgetting about the latest one actually caused by Jodie, she actually almost killed the show
She could only say the words given to her. It's not her fault that the writing is the weakest in her time. She did the best she could with what she got, and frankly, I think she wrung an awesome amount of good characterisation out of some dire scripts. She was on a hiding to nothing with the sexism found in the "fandom" (some fans they are...)
Heaven only knows how bad the next one would be if RTD wasn't coming back. Then we'd have the racist brigade coming out and... Oh yes, that'll probably happen anyway 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
@@y_fam_goeglyd surprisingly I haven't seen one racist thing about him, I know it's coming sadly
*Chibnall
@@y_fam_goeglyd The racist brigade was out in force during the Bill Potts season. I thought Pearl Mackie was wonderful. Bill, Nardole, and the Doctor were a formidable comedy team. But you go to IMDb, and what do you find? Accusations of "blackwashing" for S10E3 "Thin Ice," in which Bill and the Doctor visit a Regency era Frost Fair, when a reality check quickly shows the reverse to be true -- massive whitewashing had deleted black people from London's history for decades. And people were reviewing Mackie's hair, for pity's sake! My goodness. Mackie is a black woman. Black people often have poofy hair. Evidently, some people thought her hair should have been processed or she should have worn a wig.
Sheesh.
And yet she didn’t. At all. No-one did.
I wish the black doctor actually did