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The Judge - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Ben joins Judge Carter Addison in his room in the first part of the episode. Addison is on the phone. Before he finally hangs up, he says, "Okay, I'll see you then." Before it cuts away, you can see Dick Van Dyke putting down the smoking pipe that is firmly between his teeth in the following close-up. (00:10:05)

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Diary of a Perfect Murder - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Ben Matlock is in his office, angrily polishing his boots while he listens to the interview of the brash prosecutor on TV. The leg of the boot is under, then above, then under his forearm again in the span of three shots. (00:43:30)

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The Angel - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Matlock compliments Angel for her Nancy Reagan dress, he is still holding, with his left hand, the paper he previously let go. (00:34:50)

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The Judge - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Ben delays The Judge at the club ordering cognacs, he is giving him a thumbs up in the first shot and a raised index finger in the next. (00:22:20)

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The Judge - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke shake hands at the club, The Judge is holding his pipe at a different height in the separate shots. (00:24:00)

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The Professor - S1-E11

Plot hole: The forensics for this case have been quite shoddy at best, considering that Tate was drugged and not simply intoxicated (yet no toxicology test was performed) and the dog wasn't run over but repeatedly beaten with a tyre iron (which is a wildly different kind of injury). Nobody brings this sort of objection forward - the dog one would have easily destroyed the prosecution's case right away since The Professor was asleep at the wheel and not in shape to beat assault dogs up.

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The Professor - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: When Billings offers Prof. Erskine Tate a nightcap, the confetti on his shoulder changes position and quantity in the close-up on Daniel Davis. (00:03:15)

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The Professor - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: When Professor Tate congratulates Eric Lane for the improved grades, the two have a playful banter, and Tate says he's "happy to be proven wrong." Christopher McDonald has to wipe off some streamers that got in his hair. In the next close-up, he still has streamers on his shoulder despite the fact he brushed them away entirely. A similar mistake happens later on when he is carrying the unconscious professor out of the room; streamers suddenly are all over him from one shot to the next. (00:02:40)

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The Professor - S1-E11

Stupidity: The gas station attendant can (at least hypothetically, he turns out to be wrong) recognise someone who did a hit-and-run a long distance away at night, but somehow he does not recognise in court the client of the station who was with him at the same time and interacted with him for a few minutes.

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The Professor - S1-E11

Plot hole: Matlock figures out that The Professor wouldn't have been able to see the security guard from 50 yards without glasses, and that's what tips him off about The Conspiracy: the guard testifying that the man wasn't wearing any. However, when we see the scene happen at the beginning of the episode, the person posing as Prof. Erskine Tate is, in fact, wearing glasses. (00:04:15 - 00:22:15)

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The Professor - S1-E11

Stupidity: As far-fetched as Matlock's stunts can be in most episodes, in this one you have one of the most egregious examples of something that would never stand. Here, The Witness confesses to murder under the direct threat of an attack dog that Matlock practically sic[s] on him, and nobody bats an eyelid about it. On top of that, the culprit and his associates are all legal scholars, as the episode itself more than once reminds the viewer.

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The Angel - S1-E10

Visible crew/equipment: On the last day of the trial, Matlock, his daughter and Angel all rise at the arrival of Judge Richard Cooksey. The boom mic pops up at the top of the screen (spotted in the DVD version). (00:35:05)

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The Angel - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: During the deposition of Danny Blaster, Matlock asks him if he trusted his manager. He pauses in a specific pose that is only approximately replicated after the cut, same as Mr. Blaster's hand position. (00:35:30)

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The Affair - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Matlock talks to Sonia after the attempt on Rodriguez's life, Theresa Saldana plays with the wedding ring in different ways as the different angles alternate. (00:33:20)

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The Affair - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: The attempt on Rodriguez's life is quite phony looking; leaving aside the trope of a person who wants to avoid being murdered by a car by trying to outrun it instead of getting out of the way (the first semi-POV of the car does a terrible job at that, since the car looks much closer to The Victim and slower than it should be, and wide room for Rodriguez to escape sideways), the impact does not happen and the stuntman jumps into a pile of garbage without anything remotely close to connecting. (00:32:00)

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The Affair - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: At the Latino bar, Matlock begins playing pool to look cool with the local gang crowd - it is just as believable as it sounds. The positions of the billiard balls keep changing between shots. (00:30:00)

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The Affair - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Tyler makes his exit from the bar, switching the power off; Kene Holiday pulls the lever down, and you can see him in the darkness go past the man by him and push the door open with a clean way out. In the shot from the exterior, though, he still has to push the man out of the door and goes around him, coming out by the side of the lock instead of the hinges. (00:20:40)

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The Affair - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Matlock is talking to Harriet and Christina Harrison Ward after his attempt at re-enacting an alternative route for the murderer, Christina defends herself, saying, "But I was asleep." Matlock answers in the reverse shot, and you can see her pose with a hand in front of her chest that wasn't raised a moment before. (00:18:30)

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The Affair - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Matlock is interviewing the kid poolside, she just came out of the water and wraps a towel around herself without as much as touching her own head. Still, in close-ups, her hair is somewhat dry. (00:14:30)

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The Affair - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Ben Matlock rings the doorbell of the Harrison residence, he is standing with his hands behind his back while the door is opening. In the next shot, the door is still opening, but Andy Griffith is standing with his hands by his sides. (00:08:30)

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