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Episode #1.7 - S1-E7

Factual error: Mrs. Patmore has cataract surgery, which corrects her vision. Cataract surgery was performed in those days, but intraocular lenses did not exist until 1949, so the surgery simply removed the lens of the eye without replacement, leaving the patient with unfocused vision. As a result, the person had to wear thick "coke bottle" glasses to see.

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Continuity mistake: In several episodes of the early seasons, Carson is said to have once been part of a music hall song-and-dance team with Charlie Grigg, who comes to Downton to blackmail Carson. But in later seasons, Carson is said to have come to Downton at a young age, serving as a hall boy.

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