Continuity mistake: Catwoman tosses her black cat onto the table, where it lands on an empty expanse of red carpet with nothing nearby. But in the next shot, there's a gold statue sitting within inches of the cat. (00:15:30)
Jean G
29th Aug 2010
Batman (1966)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: While the team discusses whether they might already be infected with the plague, the items on the desk change positions between takes. (00:25:30)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: The 8-track tape Briggs listens to is in shadow when he inserts it in the car's player. A few shots later, though, it's brightly illuminated so that we can see the tape spinning inside. (00:02:00)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: During the mission briefing, Cinnamon's hair alternates from messy to neatly combed several times. In fact, her hairdo changes combing styles throughout the episode. (00:05:00)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: Throughout the car chase and the scenes leading up to it, Poltroni's rear-view mirror disappears and reappears repeatedly. (00:35:30 - 00:43:00)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: All of the lighting and sound equipment Barney loads into the back seat of the police cruiser disappears during the car chase. (00:43:45)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
The Diamond - S1-E19
Continuity mistake: Rollin strikes the duplicate diamond with a hammer and chisel, and it breaks cleanly into several pieces that fly out of the dish entirely. In the next shot, however, all the pieces are not only back in the dish, they're crushed into a fine powder. (00:35:30)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: After the gun goes off during his fight with Yankovski, blood appears on the right side of Rollin's mouth: it wasn't there a moment before. And a few shots later, the blood is on the left, then changes back to the right. (One shot in the sequence was, for some reason, flipped.) (00:48:00)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: At the restaurant bar, two beer mugs that were in front of Rollin on the table disappear when he gets up to leave. (00:11:10)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: When Briggs finishes listening to his assignment tape and gets up, the tape recorder is on the very front edge of the seat. Next shot, as he walks away, it's moved itself to the back of the seat. (00:03:00)
24th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
The Legacy - S1-E15
Continuity mistake: When Rollin is struck and falls onto the bed, he knocks over the table lamp and crushes the shade. When the shot cuts, not only is the lampshade in a different position, it's completely undamaged. (00:34:30)
17th Aug 2010
Bullitt (1968)
Continuity mistake: During the chase, Bullitt's Mustang skids off the road and kicks up a huge cloud of brown dust that engulfs the car. It should now be coated with dust, but in the next shot of it speeding away, the Mustang is sparkling clean again. (01:14:05)
10th Aug 2010
Bullitt (1968)
Continuity mistake: When Bullitt leans over to read the piping chart, the coat he has draped over his shoulder changes from neatly pressed and folded to wrinkled (and folded differently) between full shots and close-ups. (00:18:30)
10th Aug 2010
The Name of the Game (1968)
Continuity mistake: Season 2, "Good-bye, Harry": In Vancouver, while Greg and Sam stand on the street talking, Greg puts a coin into a gumball machine. He's still touching the dispenser when the shot cuts, but then he's abruptly several feet away from it. (00:47:50)
9th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: When Briggs listens to the recording giving him his assignment, the tape isn't even threaded, so the machine shouldn't be playing anything. When he stops it, the tape is now threaded - but it's now a completely different tape reel on a completely different machine. (00:02:05)
9th Aug 2010
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Odds on Evil - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: When he's talking to the arms dealer, Barney's right hand is free and gesturing until the shot cuts: then he's suddenly holding his drink in that hand. (00:12:20)
7th Aug 2010
West Point Story (1950)
Continuity mistake: During the rehearsal, Bixby throws a temper tantrum and kicks the piano. It slides straight toward the curtain, but in the next shot, it's spinning around. In the shot after that, it disappears altogether. (00:26:10)
25th Jul 2010
The Virginian (1962)
The Wolves Up Front, the Jackals Behind - S4-E26
Continuity mistake: Randy walks into the blacksmith's barn with a guitar strapped to his back. When he steps inside in the very next shot, the guitar has disappeared. (00:03:20)
30th Jun 2010
Burke's Law (1963)
Continuity mistake: When Burke's partners arrive to question Mimsy Grove, she's facing away from them, bending over to untangle her boat's mooring line. But in the very next shot, she's immediately standing up straight and has turned around to face them. (00:38:15)
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