Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds (1964)

5 mistakes in The Duchess Assignment - chronological order

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The Duchess Assignment - S1-E21

Continuity mistake: After the Duchess has been rescued by "those romantic young men from International Rescue," when the Duchess removes the canvas from her umbrella, in the closeup (with human hands) she's wearing a pink button-down, but in all other shots there are no buttons whatsoever. (00:45:20)

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The Duchess Assignment - S1-E21

Continuity mistake: The pod chosen for Thunderbird 2 in order to rescue the Duchess from the burning house is Pod 3, but if you look carefully when the Mole is coming out of the pod, you can see "Thunderbird 2 Pod 4".

The Duchess Assignment - S1-E21

Audio problem: In the opening scene at the casino, the rogue croupier at the Duchess' table is voiced by Matt Zimmerman, but when the same croupier calls out "18 red", he has a completely different voice provided by Peter Dyneley.

The Duchess Assignment - S1-E21

Character mistake: When the croupier at the Duchess' table calls out the phrase "Rien ne va plus" (French for "no more bets"), he pronounces "Rien" incorrectly - he pronounces it "RINE ne va plus" instead of "REE-en ne va plus".

Trivia: Jeff Tracy's five sons were named after Mercury astronauts - Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shephard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn.

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