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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: When Valerie says "You can't keep me here!" sitting on the armchair, her shadow is in a completely different spot of the seat compared to the wider angle. (00:34:50)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Magnum asks Valerie Kane to show him her legs. Much to the viewer's enjoyment, she does; she also does it putting her right arm parallel to the edge of the desk, but in the following shot it's just like in the one before, across the desk, on the papers. (00:32:50)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Revealing mistake: During the attempt to Higgins' life, a knife gets stuck into a tree. It hits exactly the spot where a notch was visible already. After a cut to people running scared in every direction, the tree is again shown, and the knife is now stuck in another spot. (00:31:50)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Sir Fearing Pangborn announces the "encore selection" with a hand on the sheet/tunic, but he had that hand low in the previous shot. (00:31:50)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: In the midst of the 'murder investigation', Magnum decides to just chill and watch a movie. He sits on the couch reciting the lines off the top of his head and with a falsetto. Notice that at the left edge of the frame there's a book popping in, roughly positioned between two pillows. You see the book again in the reaction overhead shot when TC calls Magnum to help out of the predicament Higgins is in, but it's more to the left. (00:30:25)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Lady Cynthia Warrington-Stout gets up with Rick after the swim. She has her towel and shoes in her left hand, which becomes the right when Archer Hayes is spying on them. (00:21:00)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Inez Stuart signs up the program for TC; a program that is rolled up, opened, closed, rolled up again. (00:17:40)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Revealing mistake: After the first performance of "Sir Fearing Pangborn", the Douglas Fairbanks and John Barrymore impersonators do another spot of dueling. The railing to the right of the stairs wobbles significantly when touched, certainly not the kind of build for a luxury home like Robin Masters', but rather a stage's. (00:12:30)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: The close-up of Robin's door with the "WRITING" sign on the handle features a shadow completely different from the one Magnum's body casts in the previous and following shot. (00:09:45)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Plot hole: Magnum is incredibly slow to unveil the charade at the base of the episode; he does it based on something marginal (Robin Masters does not do "research" for his novels), but he completely overlooks the key plot point of 1-17 "J. Digger Doyle" was that he does not use a typewriter, but he dictates the novels.

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Magnum just met the Athertons. The secretary asks him to speak in private, and Mrs. Atherton gives him a knowing look. She holds her foulard in hand differently between the two shots. (00:09:10)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: When Magnum asks Hayes what's the secretary doing at the estate and not in Greece, he has both hands on the card. Next shot and, like in previous ones by the same angle, his right hand is on the piano. (00:07:55)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Archer Hayes shows Magnum the invite with the wrong time. He hands it with his right, which turns into the left in the reverse shot. (00:07:40)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Revealing mistake: Magnum arrives at the Nest. He opens the door and moves past two swashbucklers to talk with the person playing the piano. Is he really playing the piano, though? Apparently not, because the instrument is open and you can see that the inside does not move at all. (00:07:00)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Stupidity: The croquet ball inside the hole is bright orange and easy to spot from Higgins' position. It's impossible he didn't see it as he was dropping the explosives. (00:03:50)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Other mistake: In the opening credits, the title of the episode appears without hyphen. (00:01:35)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Trying to exterminate the mongooses with extreme prejudice, Higgins lights up the bombs twice in two separate shots. (00:03:35)

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The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: Higgins mentions Robin's project to finance "a home for incorrigible boys." He already has in hand the two bombs he reaches for in the bag during the next shot. (00:03:10)

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Jororo Farewell - S4-E11

Other mistake: When Magnum is watching the game on TV, it is also the game TC is watching, which makes sense. What makes less sense is that it is also the same game, same action, that was shown just 3 episodes earlier in 4-8, when Rick and Higgins called him as he was supposedly in the Tiger Stadium with an invite for the locker rooms after. (00:17:35 - 00:34:40)

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Jororo Farewell - S4-E11

Other mistake: Rick is telling Magnum about the time he was playing stickball in Chicago. His tale is interrupted by a ball flying high for the home run. The shot, with the ball ending over the outfield fence as it falls, is a blatant recycle from the very opening of the episode; the ball that Danny was pretending to try and catch as he ran to the fence dropped from the sky with those exact same 3 utility poles, in "Taiwan." It's also a clear sky that does not match the overcast sky of the practice match. (00:02:20 - 00:24:20)

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