Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Visible crew/equipment: When Colonel Greene is told that Mac is in Trauma, he walks into the room alone and in a moment Magnum joins him. There's a ceiling mounted domed light above Mac, and it shows the upside-down reflection of a crew member wearing a short sleeved red shirt. (00:37:15)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Revealing mistake: The actress playing Julie Barbara has short dark hair as is abundantly clear during the lengthy scenes involving her. But for the shot of the explosion, the stuntperson wears a long blonde wig. (00:41:40)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Revealing mistake: Mac suggest to drive Magnum and Julie to watch the sun rise at the Pali lookout. When Magnum collapses, his watch is at 10 minutes to 2. In April (Queen's birthday), the sun rises in Hawaii around 6, surely Mac did not plan to drive them around for 4 hours. (00:42:00)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Magnum walks in on Greene checking out Mac's corpse in Trauma. During the scene Magnum' sling looks different in different angles; in the close-ups bandage going down the left side of his neck and shoulders are visible, but absent in the other shots before and after. (00:43:40)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Magnum's sling looks different before the flashback and after it when he speaks with Higgins. (00:48:50)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: At the airbase, Greene is reporting to his superior, who suggests him to let Magnum in on the danger. The actors were positioned differently on the location and/or time elapsed during the scene, because the Admiral's head casts a shadow right on his collar and behind his neck in the close-ups, while his back and collar are fully in the sun in the wider views. (00:51:00)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Nuzo is at TC's arming himself like in 'Nam. There's a beer cooler on the table; he does not touch it but when the other two 'Nam buddies arrive the cooler moved. Also, there's a cassette player by him implying that he is listening to "Satisfaction", which he hums some verses to. However, there is no further showing of the tape player later and the song eventually fades without anyone removing the object. (00:55:50)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Revealing mistake: Going through the database with Lieutenant Maggie Poole, Magnum spots finally Ivan's picture. This involuntary puts a rather hilarious twist to one of the most famous and dramatic endings of a TV episode, since that picture from the military intelligence database is exactly from the 'future', aka the ending of the episode; Ivan is wearing the same black suit and tie (pretty weird already with the setting) that he will wear in the ending, and is even in front of the same tree leaf by leaf. (01:13:30 - 01:34:20)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When TC looks at the picture the psychologist assigns him as target, the thumb of his right hand is visible in close-up, but the reverse shot shows that he's holding it with the left hand only. (01:21:00)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Rick reminds Magnum the codes for their last 'Nam mission, he's on Magnum's right and Magnum's microphone is on the left side of his jaw. When Magnum talks to TC convincing him not to fire, Rick is on Magnum's left and their microphones are on the right side. (01:27:00)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Greene shows Magnum the photograph of Nuzo, in this closeup Nuzo is wearing a black shirt and a black band around his forehead, but when Greene places the photo on the desk it's completely different, with the subject wearing white and no headband.
Continuity mistake: When the Hawaiian approaches the antiquarian at the beginning of the episode, which tells him that indeed had the statue of the Poison God, the handkerchief in his hand is held differently between shots; at the cut the hankie sticks out from the bottom of the fist, did not at the beginning. (00:03:00)
Continuity mistake: When Catherine hands the statue to Higgins, he has his hand below her hand in the first shot, over hers in the next one. (00:06:05)
Continuity mistake: When Higgins calls Magnum's grasp of human nature "preadolescent" there's a cut where Magnum's hands are positioned differently on the top of the paddle shaft. Throughout the whole scene there are other position shifts which are if not impossible (Magnum's hands remain off frame at least for a moment), unlikely and consistent within angle taken separately. (00:08:40)
Continuity mistake: Magnum dumps the paddle on Higgins as he turns to speak with Mrs. Catherine Hailey. Higgins holds it with his hand positioned at different heights between shots. (00:09:55)
Deliberate mistake: When the Simon brothers are parked across the street from the entrance to Robin's Nest, with Harold Sands in the back seat, Rick uses binoculars to have a closer look at the estate. In the POV shot from within the binoculars, the estate's entrance gate with a sign on the bricks is backwards, revealing it as a flipped shot. (00:12:40)
Continuity mistake: In the lengthy scene with the suave Simon brother at the gate, he is always holding the second bar to the left in the wider angles, the third in closer shots. (00:19:25)
Continuity mistake: When Higgins reminisces with A.J. Simon about his run-in in chemin de fer with Ferdinand II, he is holding his flashlight horizontal, pointed at Jameson Parker, but at the cut he is pointing downwards at the map. Jameson Parker is also holding the map differently, with his 3 last fingers joined together at first, spread wider apart in the other shot. (00:20:25)
Character mistake: Higgins boasts about playing chemin de fer with Ferdinand II at the resort, but there has not been any sovereign by that name in the 20th century. (00:20:40)
Continuity mistake: In the diversion at the beach, AJ removes his shirt in the wide shot with TC and Magnum telling him "You're not surfing", but he still has it up to the elbow in the frontal. (00:26:35)
