Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Kojak is looking puzzled at the crime scene picture, using a magnifying lens. He lowers both hands when Ferro walks into the room, but he's holding them in the same position as before when the camera angle switches to a previously used one. (00:29:05)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When the sergeant tells Kojak that the wife of the victim took it "like a Spartan", the person behind him outside Kojak's office changes position between shots. (00:28:20)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Ferro tosses the incriminating piece of jewelry to his wife, her hands change position in her lap depending on the shot, and her hair is also parted over her shoulders in a radically different way. (00:25:30)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Kojak is speaking with Ferro after putting his partner in doctor's care. He sits down and pulls out his notepad. In the next shot, he whips it out of his pocket again. (00:19:20)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: If you look at the victim lying on the floor when Ferro just killed him, you can spot a rather noticeable hem of his nightrobe sticking out from under his leg. When later, Kojak gets on the crime scene, nobody has touched the corpse yet but the clothing has been tucked in. (00:06:10 - 00:13:40)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the fake drug bust at the beginning of the episode, when Pinky is sobbing during the arrest, a man in a plaid ovdercoat makes his appearance at least thrice, once in the background of the close-up of each junkie, and then when in the wider shot, seconds apart. (00:02:20)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Ferro is arresting the two junkies. Strats searching the first one, and a man in a yellow-ish coat and a fedora walks behind them in the background. In close-up once Ferro asks "You call that dealing?" the same man walks the same path again. He will reappear again doing the same walk when Pinky says he swallowed the drugs at the end of the scene. (00:02:10)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, the elderly hostage leans on Kojak's car window to thank him. His right hand is in a noticeably different spot depending on the camera angle. (00:48:40)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, Kojak looks at Talaba and Murzie against the police car, then turns around. In the next shot, he walks away, but the people around him changed position. For instance, George Savalas moved around to give Telly his hat. (00:47:30)

Sammo

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

6th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Having just seized control of the store, Jerry Talaba asks the owner about other exits or access to the roof. He then asks, "What's that?" He and his accomplice move towards the position of two hostages (most notably the girl's). The man holding the assault rifle has his left hand on/off it at the cut. (00:11:20)

Sammo

4th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: In the first scene, where Kojak manages to get inside the store to parlay with the criminals, he asks to talk to the wounded officer. Harvey Keitel says, "Go ahead." In the next shot, Jerry Talaba and Jack Murzie hold their guns in a different way. (00:15:15)

Sammo

4th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: In the sequence, with the policeman getting shot outside the store, with all the other cops trying to get to him, he lies alternatively with his arm on the ground, unmoving, or rolled on the other side, pressing his wound. (00:08:30)

Sammo

4th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the shootout with the criminals that just holed up inside the store, one policeman tries to make a forward run but is gunned down. In the closer angle, he performs a stunt on a uniformly dimly lit road, but in Harvey Keitel's POV, there is a clear divide between sunlight and shade. (00:08:20)

Sammo

4th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the credits at the beginning of the episode, watch the camera car view of the street where the armoured van is parked ("Created by Abby Mann"). It's dawn and the van casts a very distinct shadow on the asphalt. Mere seconds later, the getaway car of the robbers gets in the intersection, and the lighting of the scene is flat, shot during a different part of the day. (00:01:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: During the conversation between Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver on the bench, the same people keep passing by them over and over. Watch when Tina Fey says "I'm the smartest person"; behind her, there's a woman in a red coat, carrying a dark handbag. She walks behind them in the next shot; seconds later, she says "Then afterwards" in another close-up, and the woman reappears in the same position as the first time.

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Sitting on a bench in Campiello dei Miracoli, Ariadne Oliver shows Poirot a series of newspaper clippings about the mysterious medium Mrs. Reynolds. Tina Fey's thumb is placed in a different position on the page in the various shots.

Sammo

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