Return to Oz (1985) - 42 mistakes

Visible crew/equipment: After just meeting Tik-Tok, Dorothy winds him up, and then he bows, and raises his hat. As he bows a crewmember can clearly be seen crouched behind him.

Factual error: When Dorothy runs away from the hospital she is chased by a nurse, who has a torch. Earlier in this film the doctor said they two months away from the 20th century which gives the year as 1899. Such a modern torch that the nurse had was not invented yet.

Audio problem: When Tik Tok lets the Wheeler go, as the Wheeler skates off he is laughing and saying “Behave.” His mouth is clearly out of sync with the audio, however.

Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy is opening the mirrored door to Mombi’s bedroom, as she pulls the door open, a crewmember in jeans and a white tee-shirt is momentarily reflected in it.

Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy first enters the room full of ornaments, the camera pans backwards, away from her. The camera passes tables of ornaments. Watch the large blue vase to the right of the screen, and a cameraman can be seen reflected in it, walking backwards with the camera.

Continuity: When Dorothy picks up the key that she thinks was sent from Oz, she begins to rub the dirt off of it, getting her fingers dirty. In the next shot they're clean. In addition, the way she holds the key changes between shots.

Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy is strapped down to the pedestal by the doctors, they then proceed to push her down the hallway, and pass the camera on their way. As they pass, the camera casts a clear shadow on the sheet covering Dorothy.

Continuity: When Dorothy finds Tik Tok, there are cobwebs that hang from the wall beside him, and are draped on the side of Tik Tok's metal helmet. However in some shots these cobwebs that hang on his helmet vanish, then reappear again.

Continuity: When Tik Tok is just about to swing the lunch pail into Mombi, he freezes because his action winds out. In the next shot his position (his left arm, and the angle and way that he holds the lunch pail) changes between shots.

Continuity: When Tik Tok takes the lunch pail from Dorothy, to use it to attack the Wheeler's, his arm is naturally shiny. Moments later the same arm suddenly has cobwebs all over it. Then when Tik-Tok gets to the end of the corridor, the cobwebs are gone again.

Continuity: When the Doctor is setting up the machine for Dorothy, the power then goes out. Everyone leaves. If you look at the machine, it's 'tounge' is on the right side of it's 'mouth.' In the next shot it is now on the left, and it then stays there.

Continuity: When Dorothy is sent back to Kansas, she wakes up in the forest and she has a large spot of dirt on her forehead. This vanishes when Toto runs to her. It then reappears later, but now on the side of her forehead.

Visible crew/equipment: After Dorothy returns from Oz, we see her laying on the leaves in the woods. In an extreme closeup of her eyes, the camera is reflected in them.

Continuity: When the Wheelers have arrived back to Mombi's castle, in one shot you can see a broken pillar next to one Wheeler, totally bare. In the next overhead shot a long vine of ivy is laying on it.

Visible crew/equipment: When Jack’s head falls off, it is flying in the air, near the couch. Two black wires holding it up are visible.

Visible crew/equipment: When the Nome King says “I know something which will cheer you up,” it cuts to Jack Pumpkinhead and Tik Tok sliding along the ground. The track which is sliding them along is visible.

Continuity: When it shows Dorothy eating her Limestone cake with Tik Tok and Jack, in one shot her goblet of melted silver is rested, down on the table, but then suddenly in the next shot it is in her hand, off of the table.

Continuity: When Dorothy and Billina stand in the crate, after the storm, trying to figure out where they are, in overhead wideshots of them standing in the crate, Dorothy's dress rustles in a breeze, but in closeups of her, it is perfectly still.

Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy falls down into the Nome Kings lair, she falls to the floor and slides along into the scarecrow. The black sled she is sliding on is momentarily visible as she passes the camera.

Continuity: When Dorothy unties the red key from Mombi's wrist, while she is asleep, Mombi then snores and rolls over, and the red key lays on the bed. The position of the black ribbons attached to the key repeatedly changes between subsequent shots.