Continuity mistake: When Phyllis stumbles back toward the window, both its draperies are neatly in place. Next shot, just before she crashes through the glass, the drapes are suddenly half pulled down and a broken curtain rod that wasn't there seconds before hangs down over the window. (00:23:15)
Jean G
11th Oct 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
2nd Oct 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: After Oliver hits the bicyclist, the bike's front wheel is turned upright, but is still intact, and the boy has been thrown across a lawn to the edge of a phone booth. In the next shot, however, the wheel is suddenly crumpled, and the unconscious boy has somehow moved to a completely different place on the grass, several feet away from the phone booth. (00:01:00)
2nd Oct 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: When Raymond arrives to check on Harmon, Flora is sitting at the breakfast bar opening the morning paper. She's holding it straight up in front of her, but when the shot reverses angles, the paper is suddenly lying flat on the bar. (00:16:15)
30th Sep 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Living Doll - S5-E6
Continuity mistake: After Erich takes Talky Tina back out of the trash can and pulls her from the burlap bag, the doll's left arm is pointing straight up above its head. When the shot cuts to a different angle, the arm is suddenly down at Tina's side, even though Erich didn't move it. (00:20:30)
21st Sep 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Passage on the Lady Anne - S4-E17
Continuity mistake: During their conversation over tea, Mr. McKenzie tells the Ransomes about the other people aboard ship. One elderly couple, the Whiteaways, are sitting in the background in almost complete shadow - until McKenzie introduces them. Then we see them in sudden brilliant light, and they've shifted their seating positions relative to the table. When we cut back to the master shot, they're back in shadow and back in their original positions. (00:29:55)
5th Sep 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: When we first see it, the grandfather clock is stopped at 2:33. But when Alex opens the case to adjust and restart it, the clock reads 4:40, and he moves the hands to 2:33 after checking his watch. (00:01:05 - 00:03:50)
5th Sep 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
I Sing the Body Electric - S3-E35
Continuity mistake: When Tom races into the house, the exterior shot is of a front door with six window panels. But when we cut to the interior view of him coming inside, the door has suddenly become solid, with no windows at all. (00:13:20)
30th Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: The hundreds of ropes used by the tiny people to pull down Craig's statue vanish in the next shot, when the statue hits the ground. (00:23:55)
30th Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the decrepit Mr. Holt gets his new young body (briefly necessitating a different actor in the role), his German accent mysteriously disappears. He gets it back when he returns to his old body. (00:21:00)
29th Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Showdown with Rance McGrew - S3-E20
Continuity mistake: Rance McGrew's white horse is tied up with its head just a few inches from the hitching rail, but a moment later is untied and several feet away from the rail. Next shot, it's tied up close again, though no one's touched it. Finally, it's completely loose, and at the episode's end, is wandering into the street. (00:22:00 - 00:23:30)
29th Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Showdown with Rance McGrew - S3-E20
Continuity mistake: The car Rance drives onto the set can be seen in the street from inside the saloon, but disappears when Rance, in character, comes through the swinging doors. It's visible again in the very next shot, but vanishes anew when Jesse James comes through the doors, after which it yet again reappears in the very next shot. (00:04:30 - 00:07:20)
28th Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Showdown with Rance McGrew - S3-E20
Continuity mistake: The saloon's windows are much narrower inside than they are on the outside. (00:17:20)
10th Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
The Jungle - S3-E12
Continuity mistake: Richards opens the door and finds a lion on the bed over his wife's body. When the door first opens, the corpse has dark hair and the blanket is twisted and disarrayed. But when the shot cuts to the lion leaping, the corpse's hair is a lighter color and the blanket is neatly spread across the bed. (00:23:40)
2nd Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: During the birthday party scene, as the close-ups and master shot are intercut, Anthony's hair changes back and forth from being combed straight forward to parted on the left and combed to the side. (00:15:10)
31st Jul 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the Union soldier arrives on the horse, Lavinia points a shotgun at him, holding it at chest level. But when the shot cuts, she suddenly has it up to her cheek. (00:15:00)
29th Jul 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: The laser burns on the back of the old woman's left hand disappear when the knife is slicing at her through the door. They return a few shots later, though. (00:10:30 - 00:17:30)
29th Jul 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: The flying saucer the old woman hacks to pieces with an axe is noticeably not the same one that lands in her attic in the beginning. A cruder version was built for the axing scene because the model used was a studio keepsake - the original spaceship from the classic sf film "Forbidden Planet." (00:23:00)
23rd Jul 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
The Trouble with Templeton - S2-E9
Continuity mistake: When Booth grabs her, Laura's long string of beads breaks. When she starts dancing a moment later, though, they've somehow repaired themselves. (00:18:50)
13th Jul 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the bottle falls on the shop floor, it changes positions between the time it settles and the moment it begins to smoke. (00:05:50)
10th Jul 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: The unconscious Jackie changes positions on the bed between the overhead shot and the next one, taken from ground level. (00:13:45)
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