Continuity mistake: After Cynthia's mother drinks some of Granny's white-lightning tea, the teacup disappears from her hand between shots.
Jean G
23rd Jul 2014
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
24th Jun 2014
Hawaiian Eye (1959)
Continuity mistake: After he's dragged behind the horse, MacKenzie's facial abrasions keep changing completely from one scene to the next. And one day later, they've miraculously healed enough to be covered by one little bandage.
17th Jun 2014
Barbary Coast (1975)
Continuity mistake: When Cash uncovers the gold, the bricks change configuration several times between takes. (00:47:15)
17th Jun 2014
Barbary Coast (1975)
Continuity mistake: The window Cable is peeking through closes itself between shots. (00:45:00)
17th Jun 2014
Barbary Coast (1975)
Continuity mistake: Garrison begins destroying the schoolhouse/saloon walls with an axe, knocking over a whiskey bottle on the bar. When he overturns the bookshelf, the bottle has disappeared. (00:42:30)
17th Jun 2014
Barbary Coast (1975)
Continuity mistake: The drawings on the chalk boards in the old schoolhouse keep changing between shots. (00:41:00)
17th Jun 2014
Barbary Coast (1975)
Continuity mistake: When Cash joins Sarah in the carriage, she's holding her suitcase and a kerchief in her lap. She removes the cloth and lets him take the bag. But when the shot cuts to a wider angle, she does this again and he takes the bag from her a second time. (00:34:00)
17th Jun 2014
Barbary Coast (1975)
Continuity mistake: Conchita slaps Cash across the left cheek, which he's rubbing as he returns to his office. In the next shot, as he comes through the door, he's rubbing his right cheek instead.
8th Jun 2014
The Avengers (1961)
Continuity mistake: After being hit by the amnesia dart, Steed falls unconscious with his bowler hat still on his head. But when the enemy agent approaches and shoots him again, his hat is off and he's lying in a completely different position. (00:21:00)
5th Jun 2014
The Avengers (1961)
The Positive Negative Man - S5-E22
Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, Dr. Gray works at his drawing board while smoking a cigarette. From one shot to the next, as he looks up at the intruder, the cigarette disappears and he's smoking a pipe instead. (00:01:30)
3rd Jun 2014
The Avengers (1961)
You Have Just Been Murdered - S5-E21
Continuity mistake: The money boxes Steed is stacking at the end keep changing positions between shots. And though they're supposed to be full of half-penny coins, the ease with which he lifts and carries them makes it obvious that they're empty. (00:49:00)
3rd Jun 2014
The Avengers (1961)
You Have Just Been Murdered - S5-E21
Continuity mistake: When Steed first spies the satchel full of money in Unwen's flat, the bills are stacked flat in horizontal piles. But in the next shot, the currency bundles are vertical and tilted at an angle. (00:36:50)
29th Apr 2014
Doc Martin (2004)
On The Edge - S2-E9
Continuity mistake: The ice cream Louisa smacks Martin with moves between shots from the center of his forehead to the right side and back again, changing consistency each time.
17th Apr 2014
The Avengers (1961)
Continuity mistake: The cigarette lighter Robinson uses to set the incriminating papers alight disappears from the desk as he makes his phone call. (00:21:30)
17th Apr 2014
The Virginian (1962)
Continuity mistake: After the fight at the train depot, Colonel MacKenzie's rumpled ascot straightens and reties itself between shots.
17th Apr 2014
The Virginian (1962)
Continuity mistake: The red draperies framing Hannah's train-window flashback do not even vaguely resemble the drapes seen on the same window in every other shot aboard the train.
17th Apr 2014
The Avengers (1961)
Continuity mistake: Jackson plants an explosive device in the 12th green cup while Mrs. Peel is watching through the periscope. He doesn't pick it up again, but when Reed looks, Jackson is still holding the bomb. (00:44:00)
17th Apr 2014
The Avengers (1961)
Continuity mistake: Georgie's wig, which she'd pulled off and placed over the flowers on the mirrored stand, either changes position or disappears altogether during Steed's fight with Ivanov. (00:40:55)
15th Apr 2014
Min and Bill (1930)
Continuity mistake: When she's confronting Bill, the maniacal look on Min's face disappears and reappears between full shots and close-ups.
9th Apr 2014
Blackmail (1929)
Continuity mistake: When the artist speaks to his landlady, his walking cane is tucked horizontally under his arm. In the very next shot, however, the cane jumps to a vertical position and is now in his hand. (00:21:00)
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