Continuity mistake: Pilot Episode: The Angels have gathered and the slideshow with the mission briefing is starting. Kate Jackson turns around and puts her glass next to the ink stamp, but when the desk is shown at an angle from the front displaying projector, Bosley and the guy with the horrible 'do that won't be in the rest of the series, then the glass is not present. (00:04:00)
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, when Kale approaches Suzy the reflection of the moving boom pole/mic is visible on the car's windshield. (00:02:00)
Visible crew/equipment: After Jill tells Kelly that she'll lend her a T-shirt to help zero in on Dirko, when it cuts to Kelly having car trouble with the VW, the reflection of the boom pole/mic is visible on the rear glass. Then, both Kelly and Dirko go to the Beetle's rear engine, and three chalk T-marks are visible on the ground.
Night of the Strangler - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Heinz Brandon gives Jill a medal. Jill's nails are rather long and shining. In the next shot, we see Jill's hands holding the medal: now her nails are very short and not shining. (00:40:05)
Visible crew/equipment: During the scene in the Sheriff's car, after the Angels choke the Sheriff and Deputy, they lose control of the car. It goes off the road and a ramp is seen, hidden by some trees, that the car goes off to end up in the swamp.
Continuity mistake: After the chase in the potato truck, the Angels are missing the handcuffs around their wrists. But they can't have removed them: they didn't have a key, they only removed the cuffs from the connecting chains, and after they cut off the chains, they were in the truck until they pulled over.
Continuity mistake: After the Angels escape the Sheriff's car, they run to a barn. They spot a truck with the back loaded above the cab, with potato boxes. They steal the truck and when they pull out from beside the barn, the truck only has half the amount of boxes. No boxes can be seen higher than the sides of the truck. They don't pull out quick enough for the boxes to fall off.
Continuity mistake: During the scene where the Angels are being driven out into the desert to be killed, they are chained together. They reach over the front seat and choke the Sheriff and Deputy. In the close up shot, they pull their heads back with the chains. The Sheriff's hands go up in the air. In the long shot, the person driving and passenger are sitting normally and steering the vehicle.
Visible crew/equipment: The Killer follows Jill, Kelly and Bosley to Charlie's Mansion. There's a shot of him getting out of his car and the film crew is reflected in his door.
Visible crew/equipment: The Angels are being stalked by a hired killer. He tries to shot Jill in the boys' locker room where shes teaching basketball. He shoots at her and hits a fire extinguisher. You can see the "plug" for the charge on the extinguisher before he shoots and hits it.
Continuity mistake: Jill and Kelly hijack a cab to stop the killer from bombing Charlie's cab. On the way back to the mansion they pass Charlie's cab and almost run into a large truck. They miss the truck, but Charlie's cab hits it head on, doing some serious damage to the cab's front end. After they stop the killer, Charlie's cab arrives and now has no damage.
Continuity mistake: Bosley is speaking to Sabrina from the agency. He is using a white phone receiver. Sabrina asks him to run the plates for a vehicle. Bosley picks up a red phone receiver. He then speaks to Sabrina using the white phone. She tells him to call the highway patrol and hangs up. Bosley then picks up the red phone, but proceeds to use the white phone's keypad to make the call to the highway patrol. (00:32:55)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, Inga is wearing a purge mask. When she goes underwater, she is wearing a completely different mask that has no purge valve.
Continuity mistake: In a close up shot, we see Ernesto's hands holding a nutcracker. In the following long shot, he holds a different nutcracker. (00:11:50)
Continuity mistake: Ernesto is wearing a red shirt and a brown jacket. The sleeves of the jacket are quite high up the arm, so that the sleeves of the shirt are visible. In the following close up shot, the sleeves of the jacket are not reversed, so the sleeves of the shirt are completely covered. (00:37:05)
Other mistake: Jill is riding a skateboard and she holds a little black bag in her left hand. In one shot, Jill's hand is empty and the next she is holding it again before throwing it at Kelly. (00:45:00)
Continuity mistake: After the accident, Kelly has a telephone call in her car where she sits on the driver seat. However, in a close up shot of the hand, it appears that she is sitting on the passenger seat. (00:43:55)
Audio problem: Bosley is talking to Charlie on the phone. Charlie says "fine", but that's not John Forsythe's voice. (00:48:30)
Continuity mistake: Sabrina is sharpening a pencil in her office at the police department. She wears two rings: one on her left little finger and one on her left ring finger (long shot). In a subsequent long shot, the ring on the ring finger has disappeared. (00:05:35 - 00:06:50)
Answer: After going through a number of cast changes that failed to improve the show's slumping ratings, Tanya Roberts' character was added as "street-wise" former model. This was probably an effort to give a different and edgier character dimension to the show.
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