Continuity mistake: Magnum is carrying the box to Virginia's new bungalow. From the door, they look inside and find it all messed up like the old one. Magnum is then consoling Virginia without having time to put down the box. (00:20:10)
Sammo
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is talking with Mr. White, hands raised, for some reason. When the camera is behind Tom Selleck, his two forefingers of the right hand are close together, while filmed from the front they distant enough to keep the index out of frame entirely. (00:15:30)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: The security guy is checking Magnum as he appraises the cutlery and waits with his client for the rich man. And at the top of the frame of the security camera feed...the security camera that is supposedly filming. (00:14:40)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The chauffeur gets a phone call while Magnum and his client is in the elevator. In wide shot he's holding the wheel with the hand at the top, but he's waiting with the hand on 9 o' clock in the closer view, and back on top as it switches to the same angle as before. (00:13:20)
20th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The guy on top of the building passes TC an envelope with his fee. The envelop is facing a different direction between shots - it opens with the flap towards him in the first one, towards TC in the next. (00:02:40)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: When Higgins rolls over the man that got shot in the struggle, the 'dead' person raises his evidently not-so-dead-yet right leg to avoid rolling back to the side. (00:25:00)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Stupidity: Magnum is well aware that the person who randomly dropped from the tree to get his attention (!) is all a ruse, but he just leaves Kendall alone to go check him out, thinking to himself through interior monologue that "walking into the trap may keep Kendall out of it." The guy is playing possum face down on the lawn, far off in the distance. How would THAT guy be a more immediate threat to the woman you are bodyguarding, than just telling her "go ahead on your own through the trees"? Who reasons like that, with obviously more people lurking, since the first is merely a diversion? How do the bad guys even think that this could work? And yet, it does. (00:23:20)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: At the beginning of the episode, Magnum hangs up the phone and runs out of the guest house to heed Higgins' call and find the lawn swarming with ballerinas. As he comes out of the door, you can get a glimpse of the actual interior, which does not match the set used throughout the series. (00:06:00)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: A very sweaty Kendall is about to tell Magnum about the correspondent. She goes to the barre to fetch her robe; the robe is folded over it in a different position compared to how it looked in the previous part of the scene; the sleeves hang down by a completely different length. (00:30:55)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: Characteristic set lights are reflected on the car windows when Kendall drives off in the last minutes of the episode. (00:46:15)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, Kendall gets in the car. Left hand on top of the steering wheel, she lowers the hand, and...it's back on top of the wheel in the next shot. (00:46:15)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum carries off stage the ballerina while the two CIA agents look at him. The white haired one has his hands on his pockets, but the jacket is closed in one shot and unbuttoned in the next. (00:44:30)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum moves over her to console her after the brutal handling of the Ruskies, Kendall is lying on her side with the left knee touching the floor at first, then raised. (00:44:00)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is listening to the story about the correspondent, leaning over the piano. Depending on the camera angle he has crossed arms, or both forward with the hands joined. (00:31:45)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is back to the ballet rehearsal after his bribing routine with Mac. Kendall uses the line "I really appreciate everything you did last night" and you can spot she is touching the side of her head with her hand. Close-up and the hand is gone. (00:30:35)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Audio problem: In jail, the phrase Magnum mutters under his breath, "Like a spook", is dubbed in with a second of delay on Tom Selleck's lip movements. (00:26:00)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: The romantic wrestling after dinner scene is shot day-for-night, with unnatural brightness and very pronounced shadows. (00:23:20)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the forceful kiss scene on the lawn, Andrea Marcovicci's hand changes position (on the grass/on Magnum's shoulder) between shots. (00:21:25)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum looks at the client Rick is forcing upon him, the man at the table behind her changes position at the cut, and and people on the beach just disappear. (00:16:20)
19th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is telling Kendall while she is torturing some ballet shoes "You have to stick by me." Between shots, she's holding the ballerina turned in the opposite direction. (00:12:55)
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