Visible crew/equipment: Aftermath of the sting gone wrong at Rose's. Tracy Spencer runs after Magnum saying "Please, just listen!" In the bottom right corner of the frame you can spot the boom mike shadow for an instant, then the operator's, following the movement of the two (and the camera's). (00:37:00)
Visible crew/equipment: When Magnum screams to Traci to get out of his life, forever, there' s a camera cut and on the left of the screen some equipment that is not supposed to be in frame is seen for a second. (00:39:50)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum says "Murder's never private", his left hand moves from the bottom to the side of the diary. (00:42:15)
Character mistake: In the opening narration, Magnum says "Take my good friend Marcus, for example. I woke up one day and realised I was 32 and I'd never had a chance to be 22." In the second part of the very pilot of the series, Magnum says to Alice "One day I woke up age 33 and realised I'd never been 23."
Plot hole: Magnum is amazingly naive in this episode, blindly believing the story about Tracy Spencer being a cop against every possible evidence of the contrary. This buffoonery aside, Tracy saves him from the two girls identifying herself as a cop, but a couple scenes later they both go meet their boss and try to set up a sting passing off as dealers of stolen goods. That does not make any sense.
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Factual error: In his 'Nam flashback at the beginning, Magnum has (another) fun encounter with a large macaw. Green macaws (or any macaw for that matter) are not something he would have found in a Vietnam war mission, unless he inadvertently crossed the Pacific Ocean and ended up in South America. (00:02:00)
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Revealing mistake: The plane is supposed to be completely out of fuel and simply gliding when it passes over Magnum's head, but you can see its propeller is spinning. (00:09:15)
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Revealing mistake: In the shot when the plane tips over the tidal pool rocks, look at the tail of the plane to see the cables used to send the model plane crashing. (00:09:20)
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Continuity mistake: When the plane crash-lands in the tidal pool, it crashes with one wing and tumbles to the other side of the rocks, flopping on its belly. When Magnum dives in to the rescue, the plane has capsized and its tail is on Magnum's end of the rocks. (00:09:20)
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Continuity mistake: Sam Houston Hunter is ashore talking to Higgins about his Grandpa; his hair is messed up differently depending on the camera angle. (00:11:00)
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Audio problem: When Mr. Sato on the phone asks "What is going to happen to my old bird", those last two words appear to be dubbed in and not match the lips. (00:14:25)
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Continuity mistake: When Saito says to his assistant "I do not believe in accidents", the woman who was sponging his shoulder has her hands on the border of the tub. (00:14:55)
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Revealing mistake: Sam takes off from Van Nuys on his Super Stearman. We'll see him in Waco do all sort of acrobatics...but when he is first shown in the air right after talking with Richard Roundtree, you get a glimpse of another cockpit where the real pilot is, strapped with the safety belt that pokes in frame. (00:20:30)
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Revealing mistake: Higgins' spotlight gets turned off, not shattered by a bullet. (00:22:10)
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Continuity mistake: The birthday boy is skygazing and talking with his dog. When he nags him for not listening, there's a cut to a close-up of Buckshot, and his floppy ear is suddenly atop his paw. (00:22:30)
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Revealing mistake: Sam arrives back home and he's greeted by his happy son and dog that run towards him...only, you can see at the bottom of the frame that the dog swerves to avoid him, to go to his handler, and couldn't care less about him. (00:22:50)
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Continuity mistake: After landing in Waco, Samuel hugs his mom. The propeller of the plane gets in frame, and its blades are angled with the right one towards the ground. Later Sam puts his slick moves on his ex wife, and when they pass by the plane the blades are horizontal. (00:25:30 - 00:31:10)
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Continuity mistake: When Sam's reluctant ex laughs after slapping him, she has her hand in front of her mouth when she is filmed from behind, not so in the previous view. (00:31:00)
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Continuity mistake: The jet plane the bad guys are taking off in keeps changing registration number. Before Sam's heli lands, it's N94J, when Sam watches it take off it's 33BK, when it asks for authorization to change course it is N464CL. Its flag also goes from US to Mexico to US again. (00:40:40)
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Factual error: When Sam climbs on the plane to give chase to the baddies, the tail number is N64CE. When he takes off though, the control tower announces the clearance for "Sixty-four Charlie Lima." Should have been Charlie Echo. (00:41:35 - 00:42:30)
