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* The Doctor advises Rose to change her clothes as to be less conspicuous in the 1860s, yet he himself did not change his clothing. Does the Doctor need to change his clothing, or does he make people perceive that his outfit is nothing out of the ordinary for the society that he visits (due to his perception filter)? Although this not an error because people ask the Doctor about his clothes several times in the episode like at the start in the TARDIS and when Charles Dickens asks about it - the writer mistakes him for a navvy. | * The Doctor advises Rose to change her clothes as to be less conspicuous in the 1860s, yet he himself did not change his clothing. Does the Doctor need to change his clothing, or does he make people perceive that his outfit is nothing out of the ordinary for the society that he visits (due to his perception filter)? Although this not an error because people ask the Doctor about his clothes several times in the episode like at the start in the TARDIS and when Charles Dickens asks about it - the writer mistakes him for a navvy. | ||
* Dickens says he is going off to catch a mail coach. Mail coaches were no longer used some 30 years earlier in 1830. ''This may however be an in-joke since Dickens himself wrote in ''Pickwick Papers'' about how mail coaches' had gone out of service, replaced by the railway.'' | * Dickens says he is going off to catch a mail coach. Mail coaches were no longer used some 30 years earlier in 1830. ''This may however be an in-joke since Dickens himself wrote in ''Pickwick Papers'' about how mail coaches' had gone out of service, replaced by the railway.'' | ||
* Of a similar but reverse nature, hexagonal pillar boxes were not painted red (as seen at | * Of a similar but reverse nature, hexagonal pillar boxes were not painted red (as seen at start and end) until 1874, some five years later - prior to this they were bronze green | ||
* Dickens uses the phrase "On with the motley..." which is anachronistically incorrect. The phrase translates from ''vesti la giubba'', a line of dialogue from the opera ''I Pagliacci''. The opera wasn't written until 1892, and wasn't translated into English until 1902 (by Enrico Caruso). | * Dickens uses the phrase "On with the motley..." which is anachronistically incorrect. The phrase translates from ''vesti la giubba'', a line of dialogue from the opera ''I Pagliacci''. The opera wasn't written until 1892, and wasn't translated into English until 1902 (by Enrico Caruso). | ||
* Historically, Dickens had abandoned his "farewell tour" and other charitable performances on doctor's orders in the spring of 1869, six months prior to the timeframe of this episode. | * Historically, Dickens had abandoned his "farewell tour" and other charitable performances on doctor's orders in the spring of 1869, six months prior to the timeframe of this episode. | ||