10th Oct 2019
Gakkou wa senjouda! Taiketsu Ryouma vs Ryouga - S1-E8
Plot hole: In his flashback, Ryoga emerges from the sea and faints on the beach of Okinawa. That's quite the big oversight in plot, since Ryoga, as revealed in the following episode, has a curse similar to Ranma's and he would have emerged from the sea in his animal form and not as 'himself'. (00:07:20)
10th Oct 2019
Other mistake: In this series (the first season of Ranma ½, as it is known in western adaptations), the voice actress for female Ranma in the first 6 episodes of the English version (Viz Media) is played by Brigitta Dau, whose name is misspelled as Brigetta Dau in the credits. The ending credits were remade only in episode 11, so she is still credited for 3 episode where she did not appear and Venus Terzo, who took over after her, is uncredited for episodes 7-10.
10th Oct 2019
Akane no shitsuren datte shouganai janai - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: When Akane pulls out of the "cheaseburger" (that's what it looks like the wrapping says) from the WcDonald's bag, the schoolbag next to her is across the seat intersection In the aerial shot later when she is chugging from the straw, the bag is closer, turning at the same distance as the first time when the same camera angle as before is used. (00:11:45)
10th Oct 2019
Akane no shitsuren datte shouganai janai - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: This episode and the previous do not really match well, overalapping in incoherent fashion; in the previous, Tofu was having tea with the kids and had a look at Ranma's wound, and then Akane got upset and was about to leave. In this one, Ranma and Tofu make her stay...by having tea together ("just made tea") and Tofu rips the bandage off Ranma and has a look at his wound.
10th Oct 2019
Ranma to Ranma? Gokai ga tomaranai - S1-E4
Other mistake: Nabiki pours a bucket of cold water and then a teapot of hot water over Ranma as he sleeps, but he does not wake up. Some heavy sleeper. Also, all of this somehow leaves just a warm patch under her groin area, leading to the obvious misunderstanding. But her pillow and other half of the futon should be drenched too. (00:09:05)
10th Oct 2019
Ikinari ai no arashi chotto matteyo - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Ranma stops by the sumo dude Akane just smashed, and ponders about the craziness of the morning ritual. What follows is a wide shot of the schoolyard with a trail of bodies left behind by Akane distancing her from Ranma, one of the latest being the sumo guy Ranma just stopped by. (00:16:50)
10th Oct 2019
Chûgoku kara kita aitsu! Chotto hen!! - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Panda Genma KOs Ranma with the street sign, the guy with the green sweater in the background is behind the blue shirted guy in the close-up, but in front of him in the wider shot. The girl next to him has her hand raised in the first, and it's down in the second. (00:03:10)
10th Oct 2019
Chûgoku kara kita aitsu! Chotto hen!! - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: At the very beginning, Ranma is in an alley with his/her panda dad. She tosses aside the backpack, and they begin to fight. The fight brings them to the main street. After knocking out her dad, Ranma simply reaches on the ground and grabs the backpack she took off several meters away in a completely different street. (00:02:05 - 00:03:00)
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Plot hole: The killer has a perfect (in movie logic at least) plan but he amplifies its risks to 1000000% getting caught on purpose with an incriminating item that links him to his secret identity and that is amazingly likely to have him questioned and face the wife of the deceased (who recognizes him in 0.5 seconds) and other witnesses. Even without Poirot it is impossible to imagine a trial happening without him having to appear in some capacity. And in this TV dramatization, the motive of Lowen to hate Davenheim is obvious, but not the other way around, so it appears even more baffling that he'd utterly ruin his perfect escape just to mess with a rival apparently he had a upper hand on. Moreover, the dramatization makes his plan even more absurd, as instead of pawning the valuable ring like in the original and being only marginally involved, here he has it days after the murder, and robs the Inspector chief! Any bobby would do. Finally, here he also wears prosthetics, again drawing attention.
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Other mistake: When Japp and the bobby arrest the pickpocketer, the dialogue says "It was only last week that we put him inside for three months" which obviously does not make sense. In the original story he did the 3 months of jail the year before, and this has to be a flub in the lines of this TV version (it is specified also that he did those in the winter, so the Sergeant can't possibly mean that he was released last week). (00:35:00)
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Factual error: At Poirot's, Hastings browses a copy of Speed magazine - but it's the August 1936 issue. The story is set in mid-October 1935 (not just for consistency with the rest of the season, but also because the newspaper brought by Hastings towards the end mentions Duff Cooper as Financial Secretary for the treasury, which is a position held in that year before the elections - which are also mentioned). (00:18:30 - 00:43:40)
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Plot hole: The safe is behind a painting that acts like a real door. When Mrs Davenheim spots it, it's wide open. But Japp questioned her in the same room and the painting was in place back then. It really makes no sense that with a story depicted as being so big (it makes the first page of the national newspapers) and with an investigation in place, nobody in a week has checked the safe at all. (00:27:50)
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: During the conversation between Lowen, Hastings and Japp through the car window, in his close-ups Tony Mathews moves his torso closer to the window and then back towards the wheel, several times. That is not always reflected accurately in the reverse shot with just the shoulder visible. For instance, right at the end of the scene, he leans in saying "Good God, you don't think you can keep a thing like that secret, surely", but his body is exactly in the same spot in the shots before and after. (00:24:20 - 00:25:10)
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Other mistake: Lowen allows Hastings inside his Bugatti, but then leaves to join a member of his staff who beckoned him. We actually see him in front of the staffer and the person with him. Cue Japp, who has then a little comical interlude with Hastings for about 20 seconds. Cut then to Lowen who.is just now being introduced to the guy he came over to greet. Surely he has not been standing in awkward silence all that time. And even if we assume that this conversation is supposed to happen simultaneously to the Hastings and Japp show, it is half as short, meaning it would have cut into their antics when he ends it by yelling at them. (00:23:15)
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Factual error: Poirot reads a fake copy of the Daily Express with a big article about the mystery disappearance. What makes it a not so believable fake, besides the odd artwork instead of a picture (a clash of style with the real Express first pages), is that you can make out of the words of the article closest to the camera, and like it happens to other props used this season, it mentions the Abyssinian crisis...but saying that "Mr. Churchill himself made the only speech." Churchill was not in office in the 30s. (00:17:05)
10th Oct 2019
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - S2-E5
Factual error: It is shown explicitly that The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim includes the fact that before going to his study at 4:30 PM, he starts the record player, with Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture", and that the record stops at 4:45 PM. The problem with it is that Mrs. Davenheim during the whole 15 minutes stayed in the same spot, absent-minded, and in 1935 a recording of that song would have been on a three sided 72 rpm record, since 33 rpm LPs were introduced in 1948. (00:03:15)
10th Oct 2019
Continuity mistake: Mrs Pengelley is outraged by Hastings' question about the niece. Poirot opens his umbrella and begins to move forward to ask a different question. The left side of his coat is mostly spotless, but in the next close-up that side is instead covered in water stains, including a quite visible streak on the chest. (00:05:40)
10th Oct 2019
Audio problem: There's a bit of a mix-up in the codenames of the cars who chase Reggie Dyer. Unit 7 is the first to give chase and it is identified by its crew with the photographer. Then Unit 8 intercepts at the rendez-vous point. Check the license plate; FVW 49. Japp mentions a "unit 10" that is not shown. Later in Chinatown, Japp calls for the other cars, and "Car 8" responds, but its license plate is now YD 8501 and it's another car model. Unit 10 is again not shown. They dubbed in the wrong voiceover, they should have kept offscreen the second response by Unit 8 and made it Unit 10's.
10th Oct 2019
Factual error: One of the two police cars identified as Unit 10, is appropriately enough, a Sunbeam-Talbot Ten. The episode is set in 1935 though (with amazing accuracy for some details, including the poster for the movie "George White's Scandals 1935" shown before the car tailing starts), and that car was manufactured only after 1937. (00:19:55 - 00:22:00)
10th Oct 2019
Other mistake: Japp manages to coordinate the pincer action of the 3 police cars using a very broad map and no real information about the whereabouts of the suspect. The whole scene is rather silly, it would work in a modern thriller with a GPS, perhaps, not with toy cars and a street map of London.
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