Audio problem: The lawyer and Magnum join the others in the room for the reading (rather, play) of the will. One of the prospect heirs says "It's about time then", but their lips are not moving and the muffled and unnatural ambience makes it even further clear that it is dubbed in. (00:08:55)
Sammo
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: After a breathtaking rendition of "Silent Night", Marina sits down. Next to her Simon is on the couch, who stretches his left arm placing it along the back of the couch, and the right arm goes on the armrest. Yet in the next shot he has both hands in his lap. (00:08:45)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The first time we see the blonde cousin, she is holding in her arms the picture of dear departed. Cut to a view of the room, and her right hand is at the top of the frame, completely different position from before. (00:08:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: During the scene when Higgins comically 'abuses' Magnum and his sax skills, the shadow of the instrument on Magnum's chest changes position depending on the angle of the camera. Moreover, when Higgins mentions he came "on two accounts", Magnum tilts the sax back two times in two separate movements. (00:05:50)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Mr. MacLeish is in his plane, and before taking off he presses Play on the cassette player. He is holding it in a different way (fingers on opposite sides of the tape lid) between shots. (00:03:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Audio problem: Not getting much sympathy from his buddies, Magnum just hands his coffee mug to Higgins and bolts off to go meet Karen. If you look at Roger E. Mosley face when he says "Hey Thomas, Higgins said we don't have t...", the audio is dubbed and does not match his lips' movements. (00:07:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: After his first encounter with the annoying reporter, Magnum is swimming. He is wearing blue swim trunks. The he emerges from water to get his towel and chat with Higgins...but his swim trunks are now light brown. (00:14:10)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: To get to the pool area, Magnum slides a door open to the left (of the screen). When he finds the body floating in the water, the underwater camera shows the background, and the door opens towards the right. (00:39:20)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Factual error: Magnum shows the news of Dr. Karen Harmon on the newspaper to TC and Rick and tells them "She was with the 71st Evac Hospital at Binh Thuy, remember?", but the 71st Evac was at Pleiku, over 600km up north. (00:07:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: During the flight towards Karen's location at the end of the episode, TC's chopper suddenly has emergency floats equipped on the skids in the shots when it flies over the coast. (00:43:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Poolside, Magnum asks Daniels "Why change now?" His notepad suddenly switches side going from the left hand to the right. (00:39:55)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: Magnum confronts on the beach the slimy journalist and he 'threatens' him. He then turns around to leave. Close-up on Reporter Eric Daniels and after a second you can see in the left corner of the screen a tiny bit of Magnum's maroon hawaiian shirt pop in view. He never left. (00:18:50)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: When Higgins shows Magnum the article that (allegedly) manipulates his words to support the thesis that Karen was driven mad by 'Nam, the paper uses the famed recurring filler text that many Earl Hays Press papers use ("An immediate investigation is assured") that appears in dozens of movies. (00:15:50)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: After denying any rumor about any more Iron Man competitions, Magnum asks Higgins about Dr. Jorgenson. His left hand is wrapped in the bath towel whenever Tom Selleck is filmed from the front, but it's bare in the views from the back. (00:15:05)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is talking with the administrator of the hospital, Phillip Harriman. He asks him about Dr. Jorgenson. When Harriman answers, a rather conspicuous fella with a big head of curly hair walks into the building. When Magnum walks off at the end of the scene, he comes across that same guy, who again is entering the building. (00:11:35)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Thomas hands the newspaper to Rick, the paper is perfectly straight in close-up, then folded with the middle pointed down, then folded with the middle being raised. (00:07:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: In the close-up of the newspaper with the headline about Karen being the suspect in the serial killings, the same 3 paragraphs are plastered randomly all over the page. (00:06:50)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Karen and Magnum have their chat in 'Nam about Thomas' gambling debt. During the scene, in one recurring angle Karen has hair down her temple, in front of her ear, which is gone in other views. (00:03:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Almost Home - S3-E10
Continuity mistake: During the funeral at the end of the episode, Mrs. Iko Tamura's hands are on the top of the urn in close-up, the side in the wide shot of the Coast Guard boat. (00:46:45)
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