Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote (1984)

108 mistakes - chronological order

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Death Casts a Spell - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: Before Joan leaves the restaurant, she has a glass of wine on her right, but from Jessica's POV, the glass has moved to Joan's left side. Also, Jessica's glass is in front of her, but moves to the right side of the table after Joan leaves.

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Death Casts a Spell - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Bud and Andy arrive at Cagliostro's table, Jessica stares with her glasses on, while Joan turns her head around. An instant cut later, Jessica's glasses are off and Joan is turning her head again.

Sacha

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Capitol Offense - S1-E11

Revealing mistake: When Jessica is meeting with Congressman Dan Keppner, there are two windows with the Capitol building behind. One can see it's a painted backdrop, most noticeably the window on the left with the garden view.

Sacha

Broadway Malady - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: When Patti is shot, Barry kneels down, places his face against hers, and lies on top of her. A shot later, from a different angle, he is away from her, repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

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Paint Me a Murder - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: When Ron Moody runs into the sea in pursuit of a suspect trying to escape, he shouts at Jessica to "Get the package!" In the next shot we see Jessica reluctantly follow him in, with a clear waterline from a previous take showing on her dark overcoat/cloak.

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Suggested correction: This is listed for the wrong episode; it belongs to "Funeral at Fifty-Mile" S1-E22. But it's also a duplicate of a mistake that's been listed since 2017, here: https://www.moviemistakes.com/entry235059.

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Suggested correction: 1) The text is barely readable even in high definition. (As shown by the fact that you had to blow the image up.) It would definitely be unreadable in the standard definition it was originally broadcast in. 2) The shot is on screen for about three seconds. Not enough time to get through even the first paragraph, even if one was inclined to read it. Freeze framing and zooming in invalidates the error per the rules of this site.

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Murder Among Friends - S12-E16

Question: I think most MSW episodes are wrapped up pretty nicely, however, there is a loose end in "Murder Among Friends" that is bothering me - why didn't Dyan take the script from Ricki's safe after she killed her? We know that safe was open when she killed Ricki and that the script inside named Carly as the one being written-off the show (not herself like Dyan wanted). She had no way of knowing that Gene would switch out the script (a good red herring) or that Leo would opt for a re-write anyway, so why leave it? We also know that Leo didn't want to let Dyan do the movie either, so killing Ricki alone wouldn't necessarily solve Dyan's problem. It doesn't seem plausible that she killed Ricki out of pure rage without caring whether or not it would even help her cause. Is there any explanation? It just bothers me that they never addressed why Dyan didn't take the script...after all, it WAS the McGuffin!

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