Continuity mistake: While he's making his graduation speech and demanding to know why Number 6 resigned, Number 2 has a mortarboard tassel wardrobe malfunction: it keeps changing sides between shots.
Jean G
20th Feb 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
20th Feb 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
The Girl Who Was Death - S1-E15
Continuity mistake: When Number 6 is trying to stop the rocket launch, the computer console in the center is emitting smoke in close-ups, but not in long shots.
20th Feb 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: During the interview, the Butler puts a coffee pitcher down beside Number 6. In the next shot, it has disappeared.
1st Feb 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: Between shots, the bodies of both Kathy and the Kid change positions on the floor. Kathy's has moved away from the stairs, and the Kid's reverses directions.
31st Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: In full shots, the judge's cigar is in his mouth. Every time a close-up is intercut, the cigar is in his hand.
31st Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The judge has two glasses in front of him on the bar. When the shot changes, there's just one glass.
31st Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The drink Kathy brings the Kid changes positions on the table between takes. She places it on top of the small book, but it moves itself to the larger book, then back to the small one again, and so on.
30th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: When Seltzman is talking to Number 2, there's a chair beside the tea cart with a foot rest, visible in the shots from behind Number 2. But when the camera angle changes to Seltzman's POV, the same chair appears in the shot - without its foot rest.
30th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: Number 6 pulls up to his London flat and there are six cars parked across the street. When he gets out just seconds later, there are only two cars parked across the street.
30th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: The configuration of the photos on display in the camera shop changes completely from one angle to the next, depending on whether the camera view is from the outside looking through the window, or from the inside looking out.
28th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The cape Monique is wearing disappears when she's in the watch shop, then reappears a few shots later.
28th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The towel in Number 6's locker changes colors. When we first see the locker opened, the towel is white. A few shots later, when it's opened again, the folded towel has turned blue.
24th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: Watch the Butler standing in the background after the committee exits the meeting room. A very bad edit causes him to jump to a different position (a foot further away than he was before) between shots.
19th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The new supervisor holds a clipboard in both hands up near his chest. When the shot cuts, he's abruptly holding it in one hand down at his thigh.
19th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: During their kosho match, Number 6 ends up dangling Number 14 over the water. In the first shot, he's holding the man with his left hand. In the next, he's using his right hand.
19th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: When he's standing against the wall of the kosho chamber, Number 6 is holding onto the rail, but when the camera reverses angles, he isn't. This goes back and forth several times.
19th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: Number 6 points the mirror out to sea and tries to send a signal. But when we see him from the POV of the security camera, he's pointing the signal mirror toward the Village instead. When the shot cuts back to him on the beach, the buildings are again behind him and he's facing seaward again.
19th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: When Number 2 is shouting at Number 14, calling him a traitor, Number 2's long strands of hair are flying all over his head. In the very next shot, though, his hair has nicely combed itself and he's well-groomed again.
18th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: One of the bad guys prepares a tea tray in the boat's galley and carries it up to the bridge. Throughout his preparations and his trip up the stairs to the upper deck, the contents of the tray keeps changing. The items rearrange themselves, and the size and shape of the bread loaf alternates several times.
18th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: The windows in Number 6's flat are curved on the inside (as is the wall). But on the outside, the windows are flush against a flat wall.
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