Continuity mistake: Rockford checks out of the receipt from the liquor store. In close-up he folds it neatly and places his thumbs on top. In the medium shot that follows, his thumb is tucked in between two folds. The paper does not look the same either, with a more yellow color. (00:22:35)
Sammo
30th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
30th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
Continuity mistake: When the two officers threaten Rockford for putting them in bad light, Police Lt. Earl Furlong has the collar of his shirt perfectly tucked in during the wider shots, but parts of it overlap the right lapel of his jacket in close-ups. (00:16:05)
30th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
Continuity mistake: The nasty policemen pull Rockford over. A woman with black hair, a blue jacket and a brown bag is walking from left to right. Later in the scene, when Police Lt. Earl Furlong says Rockford tried to burn them with the Chief, the same woman is walking in the same path and place. (00:16:00)
30th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
Continuity mistake: When Rockford is checking out of the license plate at the beginning of the episode, the shadow he casts on the trunk and bumper of the car is absent in close-up. (00:02:00)
30th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Released by the police the first time, Rockford goes back to his trailer parking the car. Notice the right wheels perfectly within the parking space lines. When he realises someone broke into his trailer and messed his tape up, he gets back to his car, which is now badly parked taking two spots. (00:28:00 - 00:29:20)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Rockford mistakes his kidnappers for cops and tells them that they'd better have a warrant. While he elaborates on that, there's a cut and the pursuing cars are gone from the back window view. (00:38:30)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: At the police station, Beth Davenport dares the sexist Lieutenant to book Jim for murder. James Garner's shadow is several inches shorter than the corner of the bulletin board. The shadow is much different in that area during the single close-up that follows. (00:25:30)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Outside the police station, Rockford talks with his lawyer. Beth Davenport in close-ups is talking through the car window that is clear of any other presence, but Jim is leaning against it in the other shots. (00:27:00)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Rockford is chasing the white Porsche. In the shot right before the close-up when the police siren is heard, the pursuing Rockford passes by a teal pick-up and road work equipment. Rockford keeps driving through a mostly straight road for a while, and eventually pulls over, looking with anger at the Porsche driving off...and past the pickup and equipment from before. (00:19:40 - 00:20:20)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Rockford is on the beach trying to intimidate Carl Brego. The wind messes up Dick Gautier's hair lifting it on the left side, but only in the frontal shots. (00:17:20)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: At the party, Rockford and The Countess are inside, and she's telling him about the early boyfriends she had in Chicago. She asks him if he's following, and he says yes. James Garner projects a marked shadow on the wall next to him, but while Deborah Ryder was talking, his shadow was much more to the right, past the barometer. (00:12:30)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Rockford pours liquor to The Countess in a plastic cup; whoever is doing that in close-up is not wearing a wristwatch, James Garner in the rest of the scene does. (00:07:30)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Countess - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: In close-up, Rockford's TV set is placed against a plain yellow plaster wall, but the wide view reveals it's in front of a window in his trailer. There's a tape player on top of it too, which was entirely absent in the close-up composite shot. (00:06:50)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Dark and Bloody Ground - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Jim is back home, and is talking to his dad. Rocky says a firm "No" when Jim says that the guy in the truck was trying to kill him; he points his right index finger as he says the word. Reverse shot, and it's the left index. (00:23:30)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Dark and Bloody Ground - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: During the chase with the Mack truck, Rockford's car in the POV shots from the car tire is edging the side of the road with a ditch really close, but in the other angles the surroundings don't have such an immediate threat close by. (00:16:10)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Dark and Bloody Ground - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: At lunch, Jim asks Beth Davenport to find out everything Ann knows about her husband. She is touching her necklace, but at the cut that same hand holds a mug. (00:09:10)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
Continuity mistake: Rockford knocks out of the bad guy with a shovel in the gut. He drops the shovel in the bunker, and the tool a couple seconds later is lying down in a different place without him touching it. (00:45:00)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
Continuity mistake: Rockford tries the cigarette trick once more but the big guy knocks him down with a punch. He then searches him; his hands are on opposite corners of the wallet in close-up, on different ones in the following shot. (00:38:00)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
Continuity mistake: At the drive-in, Rockford in close-up chews into the burger holding it with both hands, but in the previous shot he was using one hand to keep the plate underneath it. In fact, his plate went on the tray outside the car. (00:34:55)
29th Apr 2020
The Rockford Files (1974)
Continuity mistake: In its close-up, the mushy pink drink has the two straws fairly close together, well separated and divergent in the side views. (00:32:00)
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