15th Nov 2015
Continuity mistake: When Radar walks into Henry's office to tell him that there's a general there to see him, we get a good view of Henry's new desk and its beautiful ornate design, but later when Hawkeye and Trapper are carrying the desk and then it's lifted out by chopper it's a completely different desk - also note that this desk has casters.
11th Nov 2015
Trivia: The photograph of Mildred on Colonel Potter's desk is actually a photo of Harry Morgan's then real wife, Eileen Detchon, to whom he was married for 45 years and who passed away 2 years after the series wrapped.
11th Nov 2015
Visible crew/equipment: While Kilnger's guarding Soon-Lee, when Father Mulcahy walks into the tent the shadow of the boom mic dips into view at the top, left side of the screen.
11th Nov 2015
Visible crew/equipment: In the Swamp, when Houlihan shouts, "I'll be back and you better come up with something," the moving shadow of the boom mic can be seen at the top, left side of the screen.
11th Nov 2015
11th Nov 2015
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen - S11-E16
Trivia: A real wildfire occurred at the Fox Ranch M*A*S*H outdoor set, located in Malibu Creek State Park, destroying the entire set. The fire was filmed, and the producers and writers decided to incorporate the fire in the reworked script for the series finale.
11th Nov 2015
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen - S11-E16
Trivia: The M*A*S*H finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" was actually shot earlier in season 11's production schedule. "As Time Goes By" was the final episode shot.
11th Nov 2015
Trivia: The final episode of the series to be filmed was "As Time Goes By" and the very last scene shot was the scene with the time capsule. The cast of M*A*S*H buried a real time capsule to commemorate the production wrap.
2nd Nov 2015
High Noon in Mayberry - S3-E17
Deliberate mistake: While Luke and Andy are in the house, Barney, Gomer, and Otis are hiding on the porch, and Barney has the idea to turn off the lights in the house, so he goes to the circuit box located beside the windows on the front porch and switches the lights off. The problem is that this circuit box is located on the porch only for this episode as a plot point.
2nd Nov 2015
Barney and the Governor - S3-E15
Visible crew/equipment: After Barney has given the governor's chauffeur a parking ticket and the chauffeur drives off, just as Barney starts to say that he's not wearing the uniform to win friends, we can see the reflection of the moving boom mic at the top left corner of the screen.
2nd Nov 2015
Visible crew/equipment: When Barney walks into the bank dressed as a woman, we can see the two curved chalk actor's marks on the floor behind the teller.
2nd Nov 2015
Revealing mistake: During the holdup at the bank, while the bank robber's holding Asa's broken gun, when Andy motions to Asa to duck out of the way in the closeup we can see the two thin wires to the left and right pulling the gun apart.
2nd Nov 2015
Continuity mistake: After Andy and Floyd talk outside the grocery Floyd gets into his car with the convict, and when they drive away we see all the food ads taped to both of the store windows while Andy's on the sidewalk, but when it cuts to Andy's closeups the taped ads have changed.
2nd Nov 2015
Other mistake: Floyd's car has the license plate number "RD 757" which has been seen on other vehicles in previous episodes.
2nd Nov 2015
Continuity mistake: While Peggy's waiting in front of the drugstore she's splashed by a car driving through a puddle, and when she shows up at Andy's house the stains on her dress are different.
2nd Nov 2015
Floyd, the Gay Deceiver - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Floyd and Andy walk into the barbershop, in the exterior shot Floyd's white barber jacket is on a hanger hanging from the coat tree that has a finial at the top of its pole, but in the next interior shot that jacket is hanging directly on the coat tree's hook, the hanger has vanished, and that finial has disappeared as well.
2nd Nov 2015
Continuity mistake: When the mayor finally arrives for the band's marching performance he parks his white car in front of the wood bench where he'll be sitting in a moment. After the fake band's performance, when the mayor tells Andy that the band can go to the band festival, in the shot of the real band members cheering while Andy pats the mayor on the back and also when the Fleet Band drives by, we can see the entire street in front of the mayor and his car has vanished.
2nd Nov 2015
Visible crew/equipment: While the fake band members begin to practice before the mayor shows up, in Andy's closeup right before he tries to stop Phil's flamboyant playing, the reflection of filming equipment is visible on the surface of Andy's tuba.
2nd Nov 2015
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, when Andy and the rest of the band are at Floyd's, we can see the black tape mark on the floor behind the barber's chair where Floyd's standing. Watch Floyd walk away from the chair for a moment, and when he goes back he looks down twice to make sure he's standing at his mark.
2nd Nov 2015
Barney Mends a Broken Heart - S3-E6
Visible crew/equipment: While Andy and Barney are with Daphne and Skippy at the Tip-Top Cafe in Mount Pilot, when Daphne's boyfriend walks in we can see the actor's chalk T-mark on the floor.
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