Revealing mistake: The newspaper where Jessica is featured has the same paragraphs repeated all the time.
Sacha
15th Dec 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Suggested correction: 1) The text is barely readable even in high definition. (As shown by the fact that you had to blow the image up.) It would definitely be unreadable in the standard definition it was originally broadcast in. 2) The shot is on screen for about three seconds. Not enough time to get through even the first paragraph, even if one was inclined to read it. Freeze framing and zooming in invalidates the error per the rules of this site.
15th Dec 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Jessica is knocked down by the kids, she is replaced with a younger stunt double.
15th Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Miguel tries to sail away, Jessica runs towards the shore. When she enters the water, Angela Lansbury is replaced with a thinner and younger double.
15th Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Santana is killed, a rectangular pad where the arrow was stabbed protrudes under his shirt.
9th Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Jessica is meeting with Congressman Dan Keppner, there are two windows with the Capitol building behind. One can see it's a painted backdrop, most noticeably the window on the left with the garden view.
9th Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: All of the exterior shots of Jessica and Hagarty are wide shots with very obvious stand-ins. Jessica is thinner and younger, while short-haired Hagarty's double is younger, chubbier, and has long hair around the nape.
9th Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
The Murder of Sherlock Holmes - S1-E1
Revealing mistake: In part 2 of the episode, when Jessica is mugged, Angela Lansbury is replaced with a younger and thinner stunt double twice: when she runs away and when she protects herself against the wall.
7th Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Cagliostro is stabbed, there's a protruding rectangular pad under his shirt where the knife is stuck.
7th Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Jessica rides on the motorcycle, one can see it's a much younger and thinner stunt double who doesn't resemble Angela Lansbury.
2nd Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: After Denton falls off his horse, Jessica arrives and jumps off hers. Her stand-in is a much younger and thinner woman who looks nothing like Angela Lansbury.
1st Nov 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Death Takes a Curtain Call - S1-E9
Revealing mistake: When the cops arrive at supper time at Jessica's door, the background is a blatant painted backdrop. (00:31:45)
4th Sep 2024
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: When the episode ends and Jessica drives the buggy, she is replaced by a very obvious stunt double with a wig that not only does not resemble her hairstyle, but it's grey as opposed to her light blonde colour.
22nd Feb 2023
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Revealing mistake: All the shots of snow falling, mainly when Gunnar is about to be killed, are a very obvious crappy footage of flakes falling projected over the footage of the show. Not a single flake falls on the objects nor the people.
8th Jan 2023
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue - S5-E9
Revealing mistake: When the corpse lies on the bed the pad under the clothes where the thermometer is stuck protrudes.
5th Jul 2022
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Trevor Hudson's Legacy - S5-E18
Revealing mistake: There are 2 scenes involving Jessica inside a car. In the first one the car drives calmly as seen from the outside shots, but from the shots inside the car is speeding. When the episode is about to end the car speeds to the police station and now the exact same projection is played, though this time it makes sense.
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