Visible crew/equipment: After the drug runners' target practice, Magnum and his friends are assessing the damage to the chopper. During the scene, in particular when Rick tells him "You don't have a client!", the chopper's glasses reflect crewmembers.(00:35:00)
Visible crew/equipment: The Sarge and the rookie cop leave the bar, and Magnum, scorned, gets on the car to leave as well. In the left side mirror, clear as day, the reflection of a crew member's face.(00:32:15)
Audio problem: Magnum is talking with Nick, the traumatized Vietnam vet. When he says "Maybe I've seen the kill. Maybe...I've just", his lips don't move for the last words.(00:29:05)
Continuity mistake: TC elbows Rick protesting for the choice of cover-up name. Between them, the big boned waitress smiles and turns around with her tray. The bartender is on the phone with the dealer, and it cuts briefly to the duo waiting at the counter. The waitress is still there, turning and smiling.(00:20:10)
Continuity mistake: During the scene at the Kamehameha Club when Magnum enlists Rick and TC's help, the same woman with a navy and white swimsuit with a white belt walks by the surf first, then behind Rick, with a different guy each time in the span of a few seconds.(00:17:10 - 00:18:00)
Continuity mistake: Gary Something enters his own home on the beach and Magnum is on all fours with the two cops pointing the guns. The older one is holding the gun with just his right hand, but he is handling it with both in the next shot.(00:13:50)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is being searched by the young, nicer cop in the shack. His colleague is holding his gun with his arm loose, but he's got the thumb on the holster in the next shot.(00:13:05)
Continuity mistake: In the scene with Magnum approaching the two cops on the murder scene, the light difference between Selleck's close-ups (casting a marked shadow on his chest) and the rest, is quite striking.(00:08:30)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is lying on the grass with his towel before Higgins and the lads arrive. The light is different in the two main angles used, and the towel is also placed differently, as you can tell by the position of the tag, closer to his elbow, or further away.(00:05:20)
Continuity mistake: When Kacy is kissing Beardy McBeardo on the beach, her hand goes from under his arm to above it when he makes the gesture in both shots to toss her shoes in the sand.(00:04:45)
Continuity mistake: When Kacy emerges from the waves at the beginning of the episode, she is carrying on the beach a board with a red lightning bolt artwork. Both sides of the board were visible when she was surfing in the previous sequence, and the pattern matches neither.(00:01:45)
Continuity mistake: The bearded guy sits with Kacy at the surfer's bar; in the first shot with him seated, the cigarette has a noticeable rather long patch of ash, which in the rest of the scene is much shorter - with the cigarette being of the same length, too.(00:03:55)
Continuity mistake: The tied shirt at the neck of the blonde kid at the beginning of the episode changes position in between shots, in particular when he watches the girl leave.(00:02:55)
Continuity mistake: When the girl in red gives back the towel to the kid with a "Thank you", the woman sitting in the sand in the background goes from both arms behind her, to her hand in her hair.(00:02:50)
Other mistake: Magnum messes up his clothes at the gas station, all covered in oil, and uses them to clean the windshield. Still, when the snotty Brit girl arrives, he recovers them from the passenger seat. That would have royally messed up the interiors, and Higgins right there would have freaked out, but neither happens.(00:11:00)
Revealing mistake: When the bad guys show up at the main door surprising Higgins, the background (save a couple plants at the side of the door) is matte painting.(00:42:50)
Stupidity: The elaborate plan of the bad guy obviously involves driving Magnum increasingly crazy and create a rift between Higgins and him, but practically all the most damning episodes are outside the bad guy's control, and all the steps he takes are actually harmful towards him should have Magnum been in any way competent at his job. He couldn't have predicted that Magnum would paint the whole episode under the ridiculous light of "sumo wrestler and midget" instead of "big guy and small guy", he couldn't have predicted he'd stain himself, he'd try and force himself upon the girl, he wouldn't check the girl's background.
Stupidity: For the ending to happen, TC must have had his chopper sitting by if not landed directly in the estate, without Higgins saying a thing about it, wondering what was it doing there, etc. He came by van.
Stupidity: Higgins believes TC's story about leaning on the gate and causing sparks, but it's barely 20 seconds between the moment the lights go off and when he shows up; in 20 seconds he couldn't be from the gate of the five acres estate to the mansion's door if he ran to it, surely not in a casual night saunter.(00:39:00)
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