Continuity mistake: The rosary in Father Paddy's hand changes position - look at the metal tag - before and after Higgins' exits his room. (00:32:00)
Sammo
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Right after the scene at the rooftop bar is a wrap, there's a shot of TC's helicopter that features a different serial number from the normal one, and padded skids. Next shot and the skids slimmed down. They go back to the padding for other shots after Magnum photographs the cetacea. (00:27:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Higgins raises his glass for a doomed to fail toast to the Queen, the level of so called scotch in his plastic cup changes between shots. (00:25:35)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The bartender at the Beach Bar serves Higgins the authentic Hawaiian scotch. It looks bad enough in close-up, but when Higgins holds it in hand the colour is even paler and the straw has even messier and more disgusting hair on top of the hula dancer doll. (00:24:35)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Father Paddy spots Higgins staring at him at the 'Beach Bar' and exclaims the title of the episode. The glass of watered down drink next to him is full. Next shot and it's almost empty, change and it's full again, etc. (00:23:30)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Higgins approaches the concierge of the Low Surf Motel, manned by none other than Donald P. Bellisario, the producer. There's a drunk man leaning to the desk and clinging to his bottle of booze; in the first shot, to the very left of the frame you can spot his right hand moves away from the bottle's neck and goes on the counter. Change of angle, and the guy is back holding the bottle with both hands. (00:21:15)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum walks out of the bar with 'Uncle Paddy'. As they take position and he takes the photo, extras are recycled - for instance the woman in long purple dress walks in the same direction in different shots. (00:11:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Father Paddy McGuinness toasts saying "Erin go Bragh", the cigarette in his hand gained length compared to the butt he lit just a moment before. (00:09:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum is tailing Legs at the beginning of the episode, extras are recycled continuously walking left and right in the crowd. In particular, a guy with a pink shirt and light beige pants and suitcase is on both sides of the stream of Japanese tourists (behind Magnum when he stops the first time, and behind Legs when she smiles after Magnum takes a picture). (00:07:35)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Wanda Martine, Princess of Turbia has a giggling fit at the expense of Candice Wingate's dead husband, she holds no glass, but was holding one in the previous shot. (00:24:40)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Prince Roland calls the bandit "Impressive, but foolish", his wife's hand is on the table holding a cocktail umbrella all of a sudden at the cut. Later in the same scene her other hand holding a glass peeks in view showing she is drinking, but in an intermediate shot she is actually pouring the drink in another glass, moving the hand in another direction. (00:23:20)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The wine stain on Higgins' chest changes shape and size throughout the episode; in particular you can notice from the wine cellar to the sequence upstairs when Magnum spills the drink the stain gets longer and thicker on the button line. (00:18:30 - 00:19:10)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The criminal at first has his shirt wet in the shoulders area and down his collar and buttoned center. In the wine cellar scene, the center is dry, and returns wet when they return in the dining room after shooting Higgins' radio (and Robin's immature wine). (00:16:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum in his fangirly reaction to the Tigers' ace player is barely able to point him towards the dining room. In the shot from behind he at least brings the umbrella back in its original position, but it's still across his chest and in front of the opposite shoulder in the front view. (00:10:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Duke Davis hands Magnum his umbrella, hook of the handle facing his left. It faces his right in the close-up of an ecstatic Magnum. (00:09:25)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Stuart Margolin shows Magnum a photo of his kid, the photo in close-up is entirely different from the one that Magnum was supposedly looking at. (00:06:35)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: During the chaotic fight at the end of the episode, the guns are all very close together in a close-up view used a few times, but in wider angles they are spread around much more, from the beginning. (00:45:05)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Rod's tackle on the baddie happens twice in two separate shots, and his left hand clings to different spots - the arm in the first, the torso in the next. (00:45:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: After Magnum's adventure with the change at the coffee pot, he comes back to Rod and the parole officer. When Rod puts his hand on the phone to prevent her from calling the narcs, Ms. Gordon has the receiver in her lap. New shot and it's up and she lowers it only then. (00:29:50)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum and Rod are talking about what happened; Rod is having a smoke and denies growing pot again. In close-ups, Tom Selleck's head casts a shadow to his right, but in the wide angles the shadow is on the opposite shoulder. (00:25:40)
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