M*A*S*H (1972) - 30 mistakes in series 1

Continuity: When Col. Blake introduces Hawkeye at the cease-fire party, Blake raises the spoon in his hand up to chest level. In the next shot, the spoon is down near his waist.

Continuity: When Nurse Griffin talks to Hawkeye about the cease-fire, both of her arms are wrapped around Hawkeye's neck. In the next shot, her left hand is resting on his shoulder.

Continuity: When Kaplan shows Hawkeye his travel orders about going home, Hawkeye holds the paper between his index and middle fingers, but in the next shot, he's holding them between his index finger and thumb.

Factual error: Hawkeye and Trapper are concerned about the theft of a stock of hydrocortisone, but that drug wasn't introduced by the FDA until 1952.

Continuity: After Hawkeye and Trapper cut the bomb wires, Trapper kneels down to see if it's still ticking, and his hand disappears from his helmet.

Continuity: When you see the shadow of the helicopter on the ground, there is no shadow of Hawkeye who is supposedly standing in the door getting ready to be lowered to the ground.

Continuity: Radar hangs the hammer on the "Out of Order" sign and it is covering the 'of'. When he and Frank walk away the hammer has moved and is covering the 't'

Other: Near the end of the episode Hawkeye is finishing his letter to his father. He writes "kiss mom and sis", but later in the series we find out that his mother died when he was a kid and he doesn't have any siblings.

Continuity: In some shots, Radar's exam questions are in his hand, in others they are tucked under his arm.

Continuity: As Henry is receiving his medal, Hawkeye walks up and stands close behind a man who is standing up and two women who are sitting down. The camera angle switches to show Hawkeye talking to Trapper and now they are standing behind two standing women.

Continuity: When Radar is slipping the glass of milk into Buzz's tent, we see the outside of the tent and there are no windows. From the inside, the milk is placed on a table that is right under a window.

Continuity: In this episode we see Radar outside Col. Brighton's tent with a glass of milk to slip into the tent. Before he does, the camera switches to inside the tent and if you look at the bottom left corner of the screen you'll see the milk is already there before Radar slips it in.

Revealing: When Frank is digging for gold, he has 2 shadows.

Continuity: After doing his pushups, Colonel Brighton puts on a red robe and talks with Trapper and Hawkeye. In some shots the cord from the robe's hood is hanging down and in others it is tucked in.

Plot hole: After the propaganda bomb goes off and they read the pamphlets, the propaganda is written in English and not Korean, even though it's supposed to be aimed at the North Koreans.

Audio problem: At the end, while Radar is playing drums, he is using drumsticks but drum brushes are heard.

Continuity: The bag used by Trapper for training is marked "Property of MAJ. Frank W. Burns". However, later in the series Frank's middle name is revealed to be Marion.

Continuity: When Hawkeye and Trapper are arrested by Hammond at the party there is a large crowd of people behind the General and Henry. When we cut to the shot of Margaret and Frank approaching, there is no-one in sight.

Continuity: When Frank is trying to examine the Colonel, in some shots Buzz's robe is open and in others it is tied at the waist.

Other: During the game when the second bomb goes off. While the whole building is shaking and things are falling all around. The drinks on the table does not move at all.