Revealing mistake: It's obvious by his hand movements that Gunner Graham isn't actually playing the piano.
Suggested correction: If I take some random episodes, S7E5 (01:54) or S3E1 (21:51) or S7E1 (13:21), it's either real or at the very least the touch matches the notes in time. This is all on YouTube for easy check-up. S8E2, which centers on him playing something complicated, doesn't show his hands, so avoids a mistake. Glimpses during opening credits are less well-matched over the seasons, but then, that is supposed to be the score only. Claims that it's all very obviously fake just don't seem to ring true.
Suggested correction: I have recently watched the whole run of the series, every single episode, and I do not agree for two reasons. First, there are no close-up shots of hands on the keyboard. Sometimes it's bound to be a recording, for example when the monsoon breaks and the piano is full of water. But that is not a mistake. Second, the show released its own LP record, and actor John Clegg is credited for playing one musical number on that album. So I'm not so sure if he wasn't the real pianist all along. It makes sense that they'd cast someone who could actually play well enough.
If you look carefully, it obvious to any one who plays the keyboard, he's not playing. Also its as plain as the nose on his face that in shots with him playing the accordion, it's a fake.
Of course the accordion is fake - that is just the one episode where they were sent to the front line, so they needed to do something. But I'd very much like to get an episode & time where it's "plain as the nose on his face" please, apart from special situations like in the pouring rain. (I repeat, no-one else is ever credited for the piano, not even on the record album; and it would be strange casting then, since he was always the mediocre pianist from day 1).
Continuity mistake: In "Down in the Jungle" (2-2) Beaumont says that both his parents have died, but in "Twenty-One Today" (4-8) he is reading a book that his mother has just sent him. Then in "The Last Roll Call" (8-7) Beaumont again says he doesn't have a mother.
Continuity mistake: The university that gunner Graham was educated at varies from Oxford to Cambridge. He's only got a single degree, so can't have gone to both.
Continuity mistake: During the snooker game, while they are discussing the wager over the sergeant major's next shot, the maharajah has quietly flipped a cover over one pocket of the table. His servant puts the same lid on the same hole again (it is the same pocket, in between Gloria and the two officers). The chair in the background also appears to have moved a bit to the left. (00:18:30)
Continuity mistake: In this episode Gunner Parkin celebrates his 21st birthday, but in the second episode of series 1 Parkin's medical record says he was born on 2nd October 1925. This entire programme is set in 1945.
Continuity mistake: In "Down in the Jungle" (2-2), when BSM Williams asked for the married men to fall out, only Reynolds and Ashwood did and all the others stayed in line. In this episode Sugden says he is married.
Continuity mistake: In this episode captain Ashwood's first name is Tarquin, but in series 1 his first name was Jonathan.
Continuity mistake: In "Twenty-One Today" (4-8) Williams says that he grew up in an orphanage and didn't know who his parents were, but in this episode he says that his father was a coal miner in South Wales.
Continuity mistake: In "Don't Take the Micky" (3-6) Lofty says his full name is Harold Herbert Horace Sugden, but in this episode Lofty says his name is Willie Sugden.
Continuity mistake: In "Don't Take the Micky" (3-6) Sgt. Major Williams reveals that his full name is Tudor Bryn Williams, but in this episode the name on his demob paperwork is Mr. B L Williams.
