6th Oct 2023
Web of Death - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: Kojak takes the hint that Joanna Ferro is a little on the sad drunk side and says, "I guess I'd better split. I got a big day tomorrow." Hector Elizondo puts his glass down twice in two separate shots. (00:24:50)
6th Oct 2023
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)
6th Oct 2023
Web of Death - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: Inside Pinky's dump, Ferro lights him a cigarette. Pinky then takes the cigarette with his right mouth, the left in the reverse shot. (00:12:00)
6th Oct 2023
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)
6th Oct 2023
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)
6th Oct 2023
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)
6th Oct 2023
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)
6th Oct 2023
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)
6th Oct 2023
Continuity mistake: When the dying policeman delivers the line "We're the only line between the people and them," the old man comforting him has his right hand On the Edge of the stretcher, but in the next shot, it's on his neck. (00:39:40)
6th Oct 2023
Continuity mistake: When Jerry Talaba watches Kojak walk forward for the first time and open his jacket, the gun is pointed at him, then pointed up in the close-up reverse shot. (00:13:05)
6th Oct 2023
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)
4th Oct 2023
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)
4th Oct 2023
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)
4th Oct 2023
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)
4th Oct 2023
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)
3rd Oct 2023
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.
3rd Oct 2023
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.
3rd Oct 2023
Continuity mistake: During the first case, when Mr. Sawhit has the first of the series' patented witness breakdowns, he angrily tosses his toupee at Phoenix. However, in the courtroom shot from behind, he still has a full head of hair.
2nd Oct 2023
The Chinatown Murders: Part 1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: Episode 2-1 "The Chinatown Murders; Part 1" - During Nino La Rocca's confrontation at the restaurant with his Chinese partners, Sammy Loo proclaims his true intentions about the "fat cats from Mulberry Street." He raises his right fist. In the reverse shot, the hand is still on the bowl in front of him. (00:11:45)
12th Jul 2023
Continuity mistake: At the farewell celebration for Indy's retirement, the dean calls for the gift to be presented to him, mentioning it is "a token of our gratitude." There's a cut in the middle of the sentence, and Prof. Plimpton is waving a young student in with his left hand, then the right hand.
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