Continuity mistake: Magnum and TC are looking closely at Magnum's client punching the lights out of his sparring partner. After a brief cut to the boxer finishing the guy off, TC suddenly has a baseball hat on. (00:33:40)
Sammo
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: After the introductory scene in Ulster, Father Paddy McGuinness flies to Hawaii. The United airlines plane shown approaching the islands though is two different planes; the colors are different. In flight it has a horizontal gradient red and blue stripe, the second plane, shot during its landing, has a blue horizontal stripe with a red wave-like strip underneath. (00:06:45)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: During the farewell to Brigadier Faulkes and Father McGuinness, the people in the background never transition from one shot to the reverse, effectively disappearing. (00:42:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: As everyone marches towards the happy ending of the episode, the Higgins lookalike that walks by Magnum at the airport looks in fact nothing like Higgins. (00:41:50)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
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)
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
The King of Fighters All Star
Character mistake: In "Even if you sigh", part of chapter 7 of KoF97, Choi Bounge says "we really tried to take Master Kim proud", instead of Make.
28th Apr 2020
The King of Fighters All Star
Other mistake: In "Failing defense" (Chapter 6 of Kof97), the protagonist, grateful for the fight that gives him the excuse to stop carrying the surprisingly heavy sidekick, says that he should "be" lunch to them. (instead of course, of "buy").
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)
Other mistake: The killer is finally in action; they get a semiautomatic with a silencer from a case, then they do an ominous gun-in-hand walk bit (filmic stereotype where someone just walks with a gun out for no reason instead of concealing it). The shadow of the gun there though shows no sign of a silencer. The killer shoots indeed with a silencer - the audio implies that - but in the shadow you can see it is now a revolver. (00:44:20)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Character mistake: The party is supposed to be "One of the premiere social events of the season", but the only people invited (Higgins knows for sure who is gonna come, so it's not like there's low attendance because of the weather) are a Prince from a fictional European state nobody knows about with his commoner wife, the editor of a poetry magazine that needs Robin's funds to survive, a sports star and Robin's accountant. 5 people in total, already all in Robin's pocket, and nobody else in attendance. While you could say that having royalty and a golden glove winner is certainly noteworthy, those people don't meet anyone else. Hardly a 'social event'. (00:04:00)
28th Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Factual error: This episode is set during a party happening on the weekend of Spring equinox, which means end of March. but it's also happening during a devastating hurricane. No hurricane (not tropical storm) has ever occurred in Hawaii in that month or anytime close to that; hurricane season in the Pacific starts at its earliest in May, and used to begin towards July in the 1980s climate.
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)
Revealing mistake: The criminals have to get back inside the house because the cars for their getaway are "waist deep in mud", but they show no sign of having been anywhere near them; their shoes and bell bottom jeans are spotless. (00:22:35)
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