China Doll - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Rick is ticked off and tells TC he was not gonna stick around to play ring-around-the-rosie. Higgins at the edge of the frame moves his hand, but it's back in its original position in the next shot. (00:40:40)
China Doll - S1-E3
Revealing mistake: Magnum and TC are headed back to Kauai. Like earlier in the episode, the helicopter is piloted by someone wearing camel pants and not the blue jeans TC is wearing, but in addition to that, the passenger seat is empty, Magnum is nowhere to be seen. (00:42:40 - 00:43:20)
China Doll - S1-E3
Revealing mistake: The guy who jumps off TC's chopper to face the bad guy for the final confrontation looks more like Lou Albano than Tom Selleck. (00:44:00)
China Doll - S1-E3
Revealing mistake: Hit by the throwing star, Magnum drops the gun - actually, you can see Tom Selleck tossing it to the ground on purpose. (00:45:45)
China Doll - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Mai Ling's cousin gets kicked in the face by someone with pants soiled with mud - but Choi in the following shot shows no mudstains. (00:45:50)
China Doll - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Kicked down, Magnum is pinned at the throat by Choi's hand in close-ups, but it does not match Choi's posture when he gets easily distracted. (00:46:00)
China Doll - S1-E3
Revealing mistake: When Higgins tells Magnum that he has to get into the safe first, Tom Selleck turns around and does a cheeky eyebrow-wiggle thing so well executed that will stay as the end shot for the opening of the whole series. A minute later, Higgins commands the lads to kill (!), and the turn and waggle are shown back in an obvious mirror shot. (00:47:45 - 00:48:40)
China Doll - S1-E3
Plot hole: Choi is a single guy with no help from anyone else no superpowers (just a rather deadly fist), always shown on foot and yet he is able to follow Magnum always. He has to ask for directions at the beginning of the episode (with the store being about 3 doors away) so he's not omniscient, but somehow he is able to show up wherever Magnum goes, including where he just drove his super fast Ferrari, or when he's getting free helicopter rides.No explanation is attempted or hinted.
China Doll - S1-E3
Other mistake: Mai Ling is left in the sun for 8 hours at least, according to Magnum. She is drugged and in danger of dying. Yet her skin has no sign of any stress. They take time to show, of course, but when they meet with Higgins at the end of the episode (which is implied not being long after, with Higgins fixing the vase) she does not have anything unusual either (like a goofy sunglasses tanline).
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, when Apollo and Zeus surprise Magnum in the wine cellar it cuts to Higgins smiling at Magnum's scream, and in this shot we can see lighting equipment at the right side of the screen, which is again visible when both Higgins and Magnum return from the wine cellar. Then when Higgins walks over to answer the phone, a bit more equipment is visible at the left side of the screen. (00:02:50)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: In his covert action in the wine cellar at the beginning of the episode, Magnum reaches for a bottle that has two labels in the wide angles, a single Cabernet Sauvignon label in the close-up. (00:02:50)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Magnum sits down waiting for the mysterious client. To the left of the long shot, a woman in teal shirt and beige skirt is walking away from him. Tom Selleck close-up, and the same woman is behind Magnum. (00:05:25)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Magnum is chatting with one girl, two...they keep multiplying. During this scene when they hire him, the same extras walk back and forth randomly and without logic. (00:05:40)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When the eldest of the group (Nancy) pulls Magnum aside so the young and impressionable don't hear, her hair gets suddenly windblown between shots. Close-ups show her hair really messy, the wider angles are more forgiving. (00:06:50)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Nancy's long hair is sometimes in front of, sometimes behind her left shoulder when Leslie chimes in with the job negotiation with Magnum. (00:07:40)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: "Huggins" is checking out of the lads who seem distressed. The kid with the pigtails tells him it's the gumdrops; her arms and her lei are dangling freely off the armrest of the couch. In the next shot she's in a different position. (00:10:25)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Nancy says that Higgins is exhausted and that means he'll sleep well, she noticeably changes arm position between shots. (00:11:20)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Nancy phones Mother Goose, the hair over Leslie's shoulder moves back. (00:11:30)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Audio problem: Magnum just took TC to the bad part of town. TC says "Hey, look, don't forget you called me, I didn't call you." with the audio noticeably much lower than the rest of the conversation, and out of synch with Roger E. Mosley's lips. (00:13:00)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Magnum and TC go to the counter of the really bad bar. There's a john that is fondling a lady in black. He touches the shoulder and his hand moves down the back of her arm, but at the first cut the hand is back at the top of the shoulder. (00:13:35)
