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3rd Apr 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

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Mixed Doubles - S3-E9

Visible crew/equipment: Higgins butts in the innuendo-laced tennis exchange between the three friends at the beginning of the episode. Very first frame he's in, and look at the boom mike shadow on the left of the screen, on the floor. (00:03:30)

Sammo

3rd Apr 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I. mistake picture

Mr. White Death - S3-E8

Revealing mistake: In one of the many cartoonish scenes involving Rick, he gets utterly stunned by the weak silly airplane-spin like movie Borgnine performs on him and after a chirping birds sound effect is played, he - or rather, his stuntman - does a Ric Flair faceflop. The stuntman is wearing tennis shoes with clean rubber soles. After his scene with Higgins, Magnum arrives with TC and Rick in a headlock - Rick falls in that shot, and he is wearing patent dress shoes with black soles. (00:27:20 - 00:29:40)

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Megan grabs DI Richard Poole's hand sobbing "I'm scared." We're talking about her left hand, because in the right hand she's holding the handkerchief he gave her. When DS Camille Bordey butts in, she is clinging to his hand with her right, and holds the hankie in her left. It keeps happening even during the conversation. (00:03:55)

Sammo

3rd Apr 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

3rd Apr 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I. mistake picture

Mr. White Death - S3-E8

Other mistake: During the airport reunion with father and son, there are several boxes of "Cole" brand pineapples...which are just Dole brand pineapples with masking tape put on to alter the letter D to a C. The tape came off one box revealing the original unaltered letter - you can also see it on the side of a box carried by an extra, Cole on the front, but Dole on the side. (00:43:05)

Sammo

3rd Apr 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I. mistake picture

Mr. White Death - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: Magnum walks back to the car after spending 4 hours at the archives. A woman with a brown dress with a red belt crosses his path and walks away. Magnum then stands in front of the parkometer (and the parking tickets), but the woman is just then passing him by. (00:23:00)

Sammo

3rd Apr 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I. mistake picture

Of Sound Mind - S3-E12

Continuity mistake: In the hilarious stretched out comedy scene with Magnum trying to chase the suspect in his armor, whenever he is shown charging at the door and eventually breaking in, he is wearing the sword that he never retrieved - and in the moments when it's Tom Selleck in the armor and not a stuntman, he is not wearing it. (00:37:00)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I. mistake picture

The Eighth Part of the Village - S3-E3

Continuity mistake: Magnum is struggling to load the big heavy crate in the van, or make it budge at all. Over half of the crate is in the shadow of the building, but in the rest of the scene when Magnum has to fight the two muscleheads off, it's suddenly fully in the sun. (00:09:30)

Sammo

24th Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

24th Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

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The Cat Who Cried Wolf - S1-E7

Visible crew/equipment: Magnum gives chase to the person who escaped from the house with the dead body. The guy throws behind him an ironing board; when we get the following shot with the camera following Jay Hernandez, we can also spot the cameraman following Jay Hernandez, reflected in the mirror on the left side of the frame. (00:14:30)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I. mistake picture

Ki'is Don't Lie - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: When Magnum jumps over the garden wall, he bumps into rolled up rugs, unfurling one. Which looks the same way at the end of the scene when the same camera angle is used. But the middle part of the scene is shot in a different angle, closer to Tom Selleck's face as he crawls to Higgins and gets up, and in that angle the rugs are piled together in a different way, with the unrolled rug draped over the others. (00:41:35)

Sammo

24th Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I. mistake picture

Past Tense - S3-E4

Continuity mistake: When TC's chopper lands in the prison courtyard, its registration mark is N1095A, while when it is shown on the open ocean it is N58243 and it has emergency floats equipped on its skids. (00:07:45 - 00:10:20)

Sammo

24th Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

21st Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

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From the Head Down - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: During the conversation with Magnum about going to dinner to investigate, in particular after her refusal, the bottle of glue stays firmly in Higgins' hand during the close-ups, but when it cuts to wider shots it pops at distance on the table. (00:27:00)

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20th Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

21st Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

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The Woman Who Never Died - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When the culprit backs off from the door because of detective Katsumoto and drags Emily with him, she has her left shoulder covered with hair, a little hair, then no hair at all. Even more noticeably, when Higgins tells him that he does not have to do this etc, he is pulling her with him using his hand encumbered with the trinkets bag, but at the cut his hand is empty and directly on her bare shoulder. (00:36:20)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Hotel Artemis (2018)

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Continuity mistake: Nice draws a line in the asphalt of the secret passage (cool idea, although there's no way that the bad guys can actually see that especially at a distance!). In the first overhead shot, there's a gap in the line. When the line is shown again next with the first baddie croaking before it, the line has already changed. (01:15:45)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

A Simple Favor mistake picture

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene inside the Dennis Nylon mansion, Emily is wearing her bag on the left shoulder. She sneaks her way inside the "employees only" area, loses her cover (the guy bringing clothes upstairs), still with the bag looking the same, but the moment she enters Emily's office in a rush, she is wearing her bag across the chest, right shoulder strap, bag on the left side. (00:34:00)

Sammo

24th Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Flirting with Flamenco mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Syvia ignominiously trips at the beginning the flamenco lesson, she stays on the floor with her hand on her thigh in the close-ups, on the floor in the intermediate wider angle. (00:17:45)

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