Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: The unsuspecting group is on their way to the mansion. The ferryman goes back to his boat leaving the luggage he was carrying in the middle of the meadow. Judge Lawrence Wargrave asks "Davis" to take his suitcase. Davis picks up the judge's black suitcase in his right hand, switching his brown one to the left hand. Next shot and it's the other way around; he carries the judge's in his left and his own with his right. (00:12:20)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: As the guests enter the house for the first time, Doctor Edward Armstrong in his white suit is amongst the first ones to go through the door. Philip Lombard is right behind him, and he walks past the door when the doctor reaches for his hat - but in the next shot, the doctor already has his hat in hand when Lombard hasn't gone past the door yet. (00:12:45)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Sam Neil flinches looking at the rhyme in his room, the shadow he casts on the door is obviously different from shot to shot. (00:16:25)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Dinnertime; the door opens, and some guests (the doctor and Davis) have different positions (elbows / hands on/off the table) they switch back and forth on matching under specific camera angles. (00:25:40)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the dinner, Dr. Armstrong tells Judge Wargrave "We met before, you know?" Vera Claythorne picks up her glass twice in two separate shots. (00:26:05)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: General John MacArthur starts commenting, off-camera, that he knows the poem by heart. Notice his hand and how the index is on the rim of the glass. He is not even holding it in the next shot, and Marston's and Brent's hands are lower. The mistake repeats itself seconds later when Emily Brent gets in Vera's face with the comment about the 'poem'; McArthur is drinking from the glass if we believe what we see at the edge of the frame when she speaks, but he's not doing that in the other shots. (00:26:30)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: While Mrs. Rogers is cutting the roast, Wargrave is entertaining Miss Claythorne with his jokes. She takes a sip, lowers the glass, but in the next shot she's doing it again. (00:27:30)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Marston asks the doctor if the Owens are "the fun-loving type", his hand is off the glass, but he's playing with it in the next shot. The mistake is confirmed by subsequent shots; he always has his glass when the camera is to his left, never when the camera is to his right. (00:30:00)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: During the seething confrontation between Armstrong and Marston, several small continuity issues happen; Marston is looking or not looking towards Sam Neil, and when he mockingly extends his hand over the table, Toby Stephens' is on or off the table. (00:31:00)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Marston asks the General which battles has seen his involvement. Lombard's cigarette loses an inch in the space of a cut. (00:32:15)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Vera and Emily are having coffee after dinner. When Miss Blake tells Vera that her school must not be a particularly good one, Vera is picking up or putting down the cup depending on the shot. (00:33:30)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: The fateful "Swan song" record begins to play, and the doctor is the first to be called out. He is smoking with the cigarette in his left hand, but when he bolts up, the cigarette in foreground is held by a right hand. (00:34:00)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: The doctor offers a glass containing a mild narcotic to Mrs. Rogers. She looks at her husband, who nods to indicate that she may take it. Without anyone near, the bottle of sleeping powder changed spot on the drawer. (00:37:20)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Miss Brent excuses Rogers saying "We'll ring if we require anything further." She says the phrase between two shots, during which the doctor is drinking at first, then he isn't. A similar event happens seconds later when the General speaks; Armstrong brings the arm up to drink, already brings it down at the cut. (00:39:30)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Marston vomits blood which goes on Vera's cheek - it appears suddenly from one shot to the next, though. (00:44:20)
Episode #1.1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Inside Marston's room, Lombard opens the cocaine box picking the lid with the right hand, which turns into the left in close-up. (00:45:20)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: During breakfast, Vera asks Armstrong "Was it you, doctor?" The Judge next to her is buttering the toast, which is an action he stopped doing, putting the knife down, in the previous shot. (00:02:00)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When the doctor during breakfast has to defend himself from Vera's inquiries, Charles Dance has both hands on the table when filmed from his left, just the right hand when filmed from his right. (00:04:10)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: By the sinister pit in the middle of the island, Lombard asks Blore; "Ever had a feeling you've been hunted?" Blore with the camera at a certain distance listens with his hand on the hip, in close-up he has both arms loose along his sides. (00:12:00)
Episode #1.2 - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: Vera sits down with the General as he is looking out. An end of her scarf flips over her shoulder, and is or isn't there for the rest of the scene. (00:13:25)
