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20 things we learnt from the Series 5 DVD box-set extras
The DVD box set will be r⛄eleased on 8 November, and here are some intriguing titbits to be learnt from the extras…
1. There will be a speech in the Christmas special about the Doctor noꦬt having a hat.
2. Matt Smith calls Karen Gillen “Plumpy sparrow” because she likes tওo eat but doesn’t put on weight.
3. The “Jeff c🐠o-ordinates the experts via his laptop” scene in “The Eleventh Hour” was originally going to take place in a clas⛦sroom full of kids (without the porn references)...
4. Also in “The Eleventh Hour”, during the video confe꧑rence, the guy above Patrick Moore is the director’s brother.
5. The cave corridors in the Silurian two-parter were redressed corridors from the Byzantium in the Weeping Angels two-parter (that’s why they’re both ciౠrcular).
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6. Kaꦦren calls her chin her “plural” because she th✤inks she has a double chin.
7. The Tennant-era TARDIS makes an unscheduled cameo appearance in “The Time Of Angels” – thꦆey used the wrong CGI version in the scene where River flies thr🥂ough space.
8. Matt Smith eats egg and cress sandwic𒀰hes onᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ set nearly every day.
9. In “The Time Of Angels” Matt Smith reܫally did bite Karen♒’s hand. Her scream was for real.
10. The gondolas in ꧋“The Vampires Of Venice” were filmed in Caerphilly Castle moat and CGIed in later.
11. The Pandorica Chamber was the biggest set ever built for Doctor Who to date.
12. Matt bought a copy of football mag Match as a Secret Santa present.
13. Karen bought Matt a Katherine Jenkins calendaಞr.
14. The line about th🎐e “final resting place of the Headless Monks” in “The Time Of Angels” was texted by Moffat to the crew when producer Piers Wenger felt that the ecclesiastical location needed some explanation.
15. Amy learnt about🔜 all the Doctor’s previous companions in-between “Flesh And Stone” and “The V💙ampires Of Venice”.
✱16. Mark Gatiss’s favourite colour is orange.
17. The Silurian voiceover during “Cold Blood” w🐼as a post-f🐻ilming addition, scripted by Steven Moffat.
18. Mark Gatiss has been trying to sneak thꦛe phrase “arrows of the half-light” into a script for years (he failed again with “Victory Of The Daleks” – it was cut).
19. Alex Kingston was worried she would look like mutton dresse🎀d as lamb as Cleoptra.
20. Oriﷺginally the book the Doctor finds in “The Time Of Angels” was going to have been written by one of the warrior clerics whom the Angels had sent back in t🍬ime.

Dave is a TV and film journalist who specializes in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He's written books about film posters and post-apocalypses, alongside writing for S🧜FX Magazine for many yearꦉs.