Continuity mistake: In the very brief dinner when Claudia tells Rick that it's over between them, she casts a shadow behind her in close-ups, all the way to the left in the other shots. The difference in ambient lighting of the whole table spot is significant too. (00:18:20)
Sammo
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum and the corporate executive are having a chat after the board meeting. Throughout the scene, the same extras (starting with a man in a blue shirt and camel shorts, a man with a brown pattern shirt, a woman with a baggy sand dress) walk back and forth over and over in the mall or behind them at the tables. (00:08:00)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum reports that he narrowed the possible spy candidates to those in marketing, his hands are crossed over - but in the next shot, he is crossing them again. (00:06:40)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Higgins' hand motion when he whips out of the cigarette case is incoherent between the various shots. (00:05:40)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, Tanaka approaches Magnum on the hammock and they have a chat. Sticking out from Tanaka's pocket, first his pair of glasses, then a packet of cigarettes for most close-ups, then the glasses again. (00:46:20)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Dave drinks his glass almost reaching the end, but when Magnum pulls out of the gun, the glass at the edge of the table is half full. (00:43:00)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The husband of Magnum's client shakes hands with everybody; in the first shot his other hand is at his belt, it's in his pocket in the following. (00:08:40)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum and Kate have the "I am mad at you" "And I'm mad at you!" exchange. When the camera angle changes, the sheets in front of Magnum slid past the edge of the table a bit. (00:36:55)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Inside Rick's room with both him and Mac waiting, Magnum pours his drink from the decanter in his right hand, and then left hand. (00:28:55)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum drops by at the hotel where he expect to find Kate and the Jororo delegation. As he pulls over in front of it, there are two elder ladies walking by, away from the hotel. One of them is wearing bright yellow pants and a very colourful top with horizontal stripes. Magnum gets into the hotel, and one of the extras he walks past right as he approaches the concierge, is that lady. And the other lady she was walking with, in a blue dress with white and red palms, is at the same desk. (00:21:45)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Kate Sullivan is interviewing the Prime Minister. Notice the position of the cane next to the end of the armrest at the beginning, and then when she is called to the phone; the cane is now at a different angle on the opposite end. (00:20:00)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum buys wine from Higgins using his potpourri of crumpled cash. He then walks past him dropping the casual line about MI6: from one shot to the next, his left hand moves from the neck of the bottle to the belly. (00:16:55)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the scene with Mac and Rick fishing at the marina, continuity is all over the place as far as their hand movements is concerned; they move the fishing line with one hand that becomes the other in the next shot, several times. (00:13:00)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum checks out of the photo Kate Sullivan gave him. First shot and close-up, he's looking at it holding it between his fingers, placed on the side. Next, he's holding it in one hand by the bottom. (00:10:50)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Under the threat of nerve gas, Magnum relinquishes the bottle of wine to Higgins. Higgins grabs it at a different height in the different shots (high, low, high). (00:06:00)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The very first shot of the episode after the opening shows TC's chopper with the flotation skids and serial number N58243, but when it lands on the roof it's the more familiar N1095A with no such pads. (00:01:30)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Rick throws himself at the bad guys realizing the pistol is empty, the light of the scene changes entirely. (00:46:15)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: As Magnum and the unlikely bunch of characters he picked up along the way reach the roof and move up a flight of stairs, the shadows on the cement change drastically in the aerial shot. (00:44:50)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum and the girls begin their tiptap behind the camera, the Bic pen by the security guy moves between cuts without being touched. (00:39:35)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum grabs Virginia for the 'exercise' meant to fool the camera, she trips on Farber's flipflops. When the security guy is checking the room out from the camera, the shoes and Virginia's handbag are in different positions. (00:39:10)
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