Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

412 mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

(12 votes)

All Roads Lead to Floyd - S1-E13

Revealing mistake: While Magnum is a passenger in Floyd's car, in the closeups of both of them with Floyd at the steering wheel, there is black cloth over the door beside Floyd (presumably covering the device that secures the side camera to the door), which does not exist in wide shots.

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: Rick and TC glare at Magnum when he calls them his 'associates'; Rick turns with quite a bit of delay, and in the next shot, with Adelaide still talking in continuity, he's looking at her and not him. (00:03:25)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: In the part of the prelimary conversation when Rick and TC are having a blast from the notion that Adelaide looked Magnum up on the Yellow Pages, the shadow on Magnum's body keeps changing depending on the camera angle. (00:03:45)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Revealing mistake: Magnum and Adelaide are headed to her place on TC's chopper. Throughout the sequence, the camera moves up and down but can't conceal that the fact that they are not moving at all and they are just sitting in the chopper, with set lights reflected in her glasses and even the silhouette of the rotor of the chopper, completely still, peeking through the glass. (00:04:50)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: Magnum threatens to leave, but Adelaide sulks hard enough to keep him on the case. When the camera is on her, the Detroit Tigers cap is reflected in the rear mirror, and it keeps the same position regardless of Tom Selleck's head movements in the other shots. (00:09:15)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: The quilt on Adelaide's camping bed is folded differently when she gets in bed, compared to when she began taking her boot off telling Magnum about her earlier display of "feminine wiles" (00:11:50 - 00:12:20)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Revealing mistake: When Adelaide bangs her shovel against a bandit that falls from the horse, you can see the man has extensive padding under his shirt, to take the hit and the fall. (00:13:45)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Revealing mistake: When Magnum and Uncle Charles are giving chase to the bandidos, when the camera is in front of the jeep with the vehicle coming in, the shots are mirrored - the license plate switches side from left to right and the numbers are mirrored. (00:14:10)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Revealing mistake: Adelaide's uncle is supposed to have a prosthetic hand merely cosmetic, but when he hops on the jeep, he grabs the top of the windshield to get in, his fingers flex just fine. (00:14:10)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: Magnum and Adelaide's uncle follow the baddies that kidnapped her. The jeep drives up a slope; despite the fact that it's following a horseback bandit in the grass, there are already tiremarks in the grass. (00:14:35)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Revealing mistake: When the bandit holds Adelaide and then drops her off the horse, you can get a good look at the face of the person, and it's a younger stuntwoman, not Christine Belford. That stuntwoman has to roll in the dirt and get up, but Christine Belford emerges in the next shot without a speck of dirt on her shirt's sleeves nor the back of the jeans that got all soiled earlier. (00:14:45)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: The baddie is a real sharpshooter and punctures the tire of the jeep with a single gunshot. The jeep's wheel stops its spin in a close-up, but when Magnum gets off the jeep the tire looks fine, and it stopped in a different position - as you can tell by the position of the brand logo. (00:14:50)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: When Adelaide is crying thinking the horse to be dead, her uncle in close-up is leaning agaist the side of the door with his left hand. Longshot, and he's leaning into the frontal opening. (00:15:40)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Revealing mistake: When Magnum dives on the ground to avoid fire and has trouble getting the gun to work, under the rolled up sleeve of his jacket there's a protective elbow pad poking out. (00:22:45)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Revealing mistake: In the night shootout, Magnum cocks his pistol in a close-up that is obvious performed by a trained stunt double. Whoever is doing this is wearing the same clothes Magnum has but with the T-shirt in pristine condition straight from the washing machine, while Tom Selleck just took a dive in the dirt. Moreover, he wears the team ring upside-down. (00:22:50)

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Adelaide - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: Magnum shoots at the bad guys who flee after setting on fire the stable of the rival. In close-up, Tom Selleck acts a bit, with an expression of disappointment at missing them and some energetic gesture. None of which happens in the longshot, where he repeats the same action but with no such flair. (00:23:00)

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Almost Home - S3-E10

Magnum: I could appeal to his heart.
Lieutenant Maggie Poole: Yeah. And his stomach.
Magnum: Oh, come on! That food stuff, that was just an excuse. Listen, underneath that stomach was a heart as big as...that stomach.
(00:38:20)

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A.A.P.I. - S7-E5

Trivia: At the awards ceremony, three men seated at a table together resemble three detectives from 1970s TV shows. Detective Mike Stone (played by Karl Malden) from ABC's Streets of San Francisco; Detective Frank Columbo (played by Peter Falk) from NBC's Columbo; and Detective Theo Kojak (played by Telly Savalas) from CBS's Kojak. (00:07:20)

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