24th Mar 2020
Past Tense - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Magnum and the driver are diving away from the explosion, they fall in the grass almost in north-south position, with the hands of Tom Selleck' stunt double on the shoulders of the other guy. In the next shot they are closer and Selleck's face is just above the driver's butt. (00:03:00)
24th Mar 2020
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)
24th Mar 2020
Past Tense - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: One of the skyjackers is about to kill Higgins, saying that one hostage is plenty already. His boss though rushes in and stops him. In the first shot the man with the gun has his arm bent and the boss is standing with his arms folded. In the second, Gun Guy has his arm fully straight and Boss Guy starts by leaning on the palm with his arm up on the trunk. (00:13:20)
24th Mar 2020
The Eighth Part of the Village - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: In the final climax, Higgins says "Don't" to Sano, pointing a gun. Kim Miyori's head is turned differently (very noticeably) in the different shots. (00:44:10)
24th Mar 2020
The Eighth Part of the Village - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: Magnum and his buddies have gotten all the information they needed from Jansen and Harms, and he begins to fast-talk his way out of the reinforcements. He points a stick at one of them, using his left hand, saying "You owe me 30 bucks." In a cut, the stick switches to the right hand. (00:33:10)
21st Mar 2020
The Eighth Part of the Village - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: At Rick's place, Magnum reminds him about searching for the yo-yos that hit him at the dock. Meanwhile, he is holding the bar bills in a different way between shots (vertical first, horizontal next). (00:17:55)
21st Mar 2020
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)
21st Mar 2020
The Eighth Part of the Village - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Magnum shows the week-old fortune cookie to a disgusted Higgins, the cookie changes position in his palm in John Hillerman's close-up and when he grabs it - prying the fortune slip from the right side instead of the left where it was in the previous shot. (00:05:25)
21st Mar 2020
The Eighth Part of the Village - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: Magnum follows Higgins carrying a wheelbarrow with 3 tool handles sticking out in the front from the sacks. At least at the beginning, because when they emerge from the passageway it's suddenly 4 handles. (00:04:15)
21st Mar 2020
The Eighth Part of the Village - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: Higgins stops Magnum's work telling him that the very special lawn of the estate can't be just mowed. Magnum leans against the mower, held it straight by the left bar, and goes "Gee, Higgins..." In the next shot he is still holding by the left bar, but sideways. (00:04:10)
21st Mar 2020
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)
21st Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: In the diversion at the beach, AJ removes his shirt in the wide shot with TC and Magnum telling him "You're not surfing", but he still has it up to the elbow in the frontal. (00:26:35)
21st Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: In the lengthy scene with the suave Simon brother at the gate, he is always holding the second bar to the left in the wider angles, the third in closer shots. (00:19:25)
21st Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: When Higgins reminisces with A.J. Simon about his run-in in chemin de fer with Ferdinand II, he is holding his flashlight horizontal, pointed at Jameson Parker, but at the cut he is pointing downwards at the map. Jameson Parker is also holding the map differently, with his 3 last fingers joined together at first, spread wider apart in the other shot. (00:20:25)
21st Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: When Higgins calls Magnum's grasp of human nature "preadolescent" there's a cut where Magnum's hands are positioned differently on the top of the paddle shaft. Throughout the whole scene there are other position shifts which are if not impossible (Magnum's hands remain off frame at least for a moment), unlikely and consistent within angle taken separately. (00:08:40)
21st Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: When Catherine hands the statue to Higgins, he has his hand below her hand in the first shot, over hers in the next one. (00:06:05)
21st Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: When the Hawaiian approaches the antiquarian at the beginning of the episode, which tells him that indeed had the statue of the Poison God, the handkerchief in his hand is held differently between shots; at the cut the hankie sticks out from the bottom of the fist, did not at the beginning. (00:03:00)
21st Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: Magnum dumps the paddle on Higgins as he turns to speak with Mrs. Catherine Hailey. Higgins holds it with his hand positioned at different heights between shots. (00:09:55)
21st Mar 2020
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Rick reminds Magnum the codes for their last 'Nam mission, he's on Magnum's right and Magnum's microphone is on the left side of his jaw. When Magnum talks to TC convincing him not to fire, Rick is on Magnum's left and their microphones are on the right side. (01:27:00)
21st Mar 2020
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When TC looks at the picture the psychologist assigns him as target, the thumb of his right hand is visible in close-up, but the reverse shot shows that he's holding it with the left hand only. (01:21:00)
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