Revealing mistake: Our heroes arrive at an RAF base. Purdey hears a loud aircraft noise and looks up to the sky - cut to shot of a fighter jet. For a few frames after the cut, a caption that reads "The Engineer in the RAF" is just visible. It would seem they 'borrowed' some material from an RAF training film. (Indeed, a later shot of shells exploding was obviously taken from a videotaped TV programme, judging by the 'lag' effect caused by the tube camera that would've been used).
Revealing mistake: The left pinball in the arcade (which later disappears) has the body of a "Star Trek TNG" machine - but the backglass is purely fictional. (00:17:45)
Revealing mistake: Paul Devildis calls the bank to discuss his restructuring plan. During the shots of the two bankers, on the desk is a notebook-sized, plain brown box. It is very distinctive as it is blank except for a single square white label on the front. Later in the episode Paul delivers his restructuring plan with the bomb inside to the bank. It is in this same box.
Water's Edge - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: The murder victim's skeleton, which Rusty finds in the attic, has a clear cut all the way around its skull. It also has metal pins holding together what turns out to be rubber bones: one of the ribs wobbles up and down when Rusty brushes against it with the cash box. (00:42:00)
Revealing mistake: It's a valiant effort, but the scenes of Sherlock & Irene in a London street are shot in New York. Not only is the architecture wrong but you can see a U.S. pedestrian crossing signal over Irene's shoulder. (00:16:15)
Heart of Ice - S1-E3
Revealing mistake: When Batman - disguised as a security guard - opens his utility belt, the belt opens and shows a configuration of buttons and a split-second later, a key card materializes out of thin air in front of the buttons. (00:11:30)
Revelations - S1-E10
Revealing mistake: When Kieran looks at his phone in the car, the image of Emma calling him is upside down. The image was added after the filming was done.
Revealing mistake: Near the end of the episode, when Dr. Ogden and Murdoch look closely at Lukas' dead body (right before the candle scene), the "corpse" takes a deep breath.
Revealing mistake: In brother Justin's padded cell, the far wall is obviously a painted backdrop. It even flutters when the orderly and doctor walk in! The only solid part is a couple of feet at the end, that Justin leans up against.
Destiny (2) - S1-E22
Revealing mistake: Throughout the scene where Max interrogates Pierce, the projector changes slides at irregular intervals with no one touching it. (00:22:50)
Revealing mistake: In the scene where the wife comes in to the morgue to view her dead husband, who she helped to euthanize, the dead man is breathing throughout the whole scene. You can see the sheet rising and falling at his stomach. (00:22:15 - 00:24:05)
Beauty Rest - S4-E5
Revealing mistake: Kathy Ireland is supposed to be dead but watch carefully and you'll see her chest move when Minnie Driver's doing CPR.
Revealing mistake: When Caitlin gets pushed down by the guy stealing her scooter, she hits her head on a rock and blacks out. The 'rock' is seen compressing from its foam design. (00:10:30)
Revealing mistake: In the arcade the killer talks to his helper while playing a pinball machine. He plays very agitated and strongly. But if you look closer at the below end of the playfield you see that there is no ball and the flippers aren't moving. (00:23:50 - 00:24:48)
Revealing mistake: In the morgue when Mike is just about to cover the first dead body, if you look closely you will see the body's eye move. (00:04:10)
Revealing mistake: Creek reads a newspaper article about Tracy, a missing schoolgirl. The first paragraph of the article is about the schoolgirl, but the rest is about John Major (who had just been ousted by Tony Blair as prime minister when the episode was first aired, but, assuming this was filmed some months earlier, would still have been in power). The first line of the article following the first paragraph starts mid-sentence, as if the first paragraph has simply been pasted over the top of the existing article. This mistake is surprising as there is a photograph of John Major alongside the article and the newspaper remains in shot long enough for it to be spotted without the need to pause the DVD or video.
The Case of the Missing - S1-E1
Revealing mistake: WPC Softly leans on a model building in Rammel's office, causing it to collapse by stages. The wire that is being pulled to make the model collapse can be seen to the right of the model. (00:21:00)
Revealing mistake: In the close-up of Frost's hand while the doctor is stitching up his wound, you can see the delineated edges of the latex make-up patch used to simulate the injury. (00:12:30)
The Royal We - S3-E2
Revealing mistake: On the RV of the guy being accused of molesting the girls, someone has written "PERVERT" in red spray paint. At a point you see Lightman next to a car, and the RV in the background, and the text is mirrored reading: "TREVREP", showing that during editing, this shot was flipped. (00:15:30)