Magnum P.I.

Sudden Death - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: A mysterious woman gets in the flat the doctor rented. From the moment she puts the pink cardigan on, the hair on her shoulders is inconsistently in front or behind, and while it's obviously well adjusted when she notices the missing tape and the balcony door, it's in disarray over her shoulder when she walks back from the window. (00:21:40)

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Sudden Death - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: When Magnum walks in on Daisy being tied to the chair, the duct tape roll is on the outer side of the armrest in the first shot, on the inside in the reaction shot. (00:31:15)

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Sudden Death - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: After dodging a couple golf club swings, Magnum speaks to Daisy by the door. Tru Collins' hair is positioned over her right shoulder with wild inconsistency between shots. (00:33:00)

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Sudden Death - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, Magnum's bruise extends below the eyebrow, while in the rest of the episode the part below the arc of hairs was not involved. (00:41:10)

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Death Is Only Temporary - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: Thomas puts the first pancakes in the dish and asks the kids about his own job. The kid answers "Hella cool things", and the girl next to him has her arm raised. New shot, and her arm is lowered - Magnum also is holding the plate higher than earlier. (00:03:45)

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Death Is Only Temporary - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: Magnum's client puts on the small table the e-mail with the picture on top, in a close-up. New shot and the picture has shifted to the right, and in the one that follows, Magnum grabs the mail without anything on top of it. (00:10:00)

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Death Is Only Temporary - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: TC and Rick are having "breakfast" with the veteran. When he sarcastically answers "Couldn't be better", TC' s has both hands around the bottle, while he just had one on top in the first shot. Rick has both hands around the can, and in the next shot he's got just one, the other being behind it. It goes back and forth as the two different angles alternate in editing. (00:10:55)

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Death Is Only Temporary - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: Magnum asks his client about Lizzie's debt. As he says "it was such a long time ago", the man in foreground is rubbing his eyes, but lowers his hand before the cut. In the next shot, he's shown as if his problems just started to manifest. (00:16:55)

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The Cat Who Cried Wolf - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: Magnum is meeting the new client. He holds at first the picture of the missing feline with both hands, then in the reverse you can see his arms are folded, and then he's holding the picture again. (00:02:25)

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The Cat Who Cried Wolf - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: After he accepted the case, Magnum walks out of the house of his client holding the picture; in close-up his left hand is on the bottom side of the photo, but he holds it by the corners in the previous and following shot. (00:04:00)

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The Cat Who Cried Wolf - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: The kid brings cookies to Magnum. He takes the plate and starts plucking one when he says "thank you", with his right hand. In the next shot the hand holding the plate is the right, and the left one is the one that picks the cookie. (00:06:15)

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Die He Said - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: In the water at the beginning of the episode, Higgins mentions "the repeated use" of the laptop, and as she says that she pulls the snorkel behind her shoulder. When she is shown next, the snorkel is again in the front, and it appears on the back only a couple cuts later. (00:01:25)

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Die He Said - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: When Magnum says "Let's get after it" only to be interrupted by Kumu shouting at him about the phone call, Higgins reaches for the goggles on top of her head; Thomas in another shot says "I'm sorry" and her hands are off the goggles, but in the following close-up on Perdita Weeks she has exactly a pose with hands on them. (00:01:35)

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Die He Said - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Outside the hospital, in the first shot (the nurse directs Magnum to Mr. Malua) the sun is noticeably higher on the pillar than in the rest of the scene. (00:02:00)

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Die He Said - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Magnum is getting the case from his new client. The man puts down his cup of shave ice which is full and puffy, raised about a inch above the brim of the cup. Less than 30 seconds later, he has not eaten a single scoop but the ice is well below the brim. (00:02:50)

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Die He Said - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Magnum told Bobby Malua about his brother and that he can't leave the island without first saving him. There's a close-up of him saying "Look..."; do look, and you can't Miss a big lock of hair across his bloodied eye. But in the next shot, it's gone. (00:14:50)

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Dark Skies - S5-E8

Character mistake: Higgins and TC are investigating a drug smuggler camp in Maui. TC sees a box of cigarettes and says the people in the camp must be Latino because the cigarette box is in Spanish. Wrong. The box says Cigarillos, which are small, short cigars. If the box was in Spanish it would say Cigarrillos, which is cigarettes in Spanish.

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