Bewitched (1964) - 56 mistakes in entire show

Revealing: The hallway that leads to the den and the back door of the kitchen has a door at the end of it, when this door is opened we see what looks like pine trees and mountains, we know that the Stevens have neighbors on that side of the house, so that when the door is opened you can blatantly tell that it is a picture.

Revealing: When looking out of the Steven's kitchen window, the view outside changes completely during different episodes of the show.

Continuity: In the early shows, the door between the dining room and kitchen is a swinging door with louvers. In later shows there is a regular sized door with partial louvers. However, after this change, there are a couple of episodes within the same season, where the regular sized louver door is a solid door with no louvers.

Continuity: In more than one episode the Steven's front door changes. In some shots the door is solid paneled but in other shots the door has a half circle window at the top. It seems the window usually appears in close up shots of people talking.

Revealing: In several episodes, the window over the kitchen sink is shown from the outside, while snoopy people look in. The window shown in these exterior shots is far too low to be the same window that is over the Steven's kitchen sink, which is shown in many shots looking out.

Continuity: When Darrin collapses after Samantha zaps him the drink, in the next shot the glass is on the table with the straw across the top.

Audio problem: When Samantha and Darrin are at his ex-girlfriend's house for dinner, Samantha is doing all kinds of things to sabotage the dinner, even making a gust of wind come through the front door thus blowing the ex's wig off. The ex girlfriend is screaming but the screams don't match up to what her mouth is doing.

Revealing: When Gladys is looking through the window, you can see part of the facade cross bracing.

Continuity: Samantha's hair goes from neat to messy and back again during the chase scene in the alley.

Continuity: When Larry tells Darrin that he is going home, the blinds behind Darrin are shut, however in the close up of Darrin, the blinds are open.

Factual error: Samantha looks out a back dormer window to see Darrin in the front yard.

Continuity: When Dave sees Darrin's ad for the community meeting, he suggests a couple of changes, one of them being to add a line saying "and bring your friends". But the ad was shown in close-up shortly before Dave's arrival, and there was already a line saying "Be sure and bring all your friends".

Continuity: Sam gets fitted for a "new" dress that she wore in earlier episodes 7,10,and 13.

Visible crew/equipment: As Harold and Samantha drive away from the traffic jam, part of the camera rig is reflected in the side window of the car.

Visible crew/equipment: As Samantha helps Aunt Clara out of the closet, as Samantha says, "Don't go 'way!" the boom mike's shadow becomes momentarily visible at the top of the screen.

Deliberate "mistake": Sam and Darrin are "trapped" in the garage; however, you can see a side door.

Continuity: The shaving cream smears on the mirror are different in the close-ups than they are on the wider shots.

Revealing: Aunt Clara levitates her doorknob collection to put it away. As they pass in front of her, the wires used to make them levitate become visible.

Revealing: When Samantha starts trashing the private detective's apartment, she causes a chandelier to fall onto a coffee table, breaking the table. However, it is easy to see that the table breaks just before the chandelier falls on it.

Other: At the end of a scene showing the dog, the scene is reversed (mirror image) for a moment.

Continuity: The doorknob on the nursery room door is on the right side of the door whether it's viewed from outside or inside the room. It should be on the left side in one of the views and the right side in the other.

Revealing: When Endora "freezes" Daphne, you can see her breathing and rocking gently from side to side showing that she is not frozen.

Plot hole: Darrin tells Samantha that Larry thinks the Stephenses are having a costume party. While Larry earlier had said that to himself when he looked through the Stephens' living room window, he never said it to Darrin.

Revealing: As Larry walks up to the Stephens' house, his shadow falls across the "house" and "street" behind him, revealing that it is a painted backdrop.

Revealing: As Serena gets hit by the pie her real blonde hair shows underneath, also, she wear minimal make-up for the only time.

Continuity: The laundry room is far too large to fit into the space it appears to occupy beside the Stephens' kitchen.

Visible crew/equipment: There's a reflection of a man in a white shirt and jeans visible in the toaster between Darrin and Samantha.

Revealing: In this episode when the Gremlin, Goblin, Jack-o-Lantern, and Sam are peeking in through the back window, the gremlin turns to look at Sam when she is speaking and his ear passes through the area where there is supposed to be glass.

Visible crew/equipment: When Samantha and Aunt Clara are on the roof of the house, the shadow of what appears to be someone's arm appears against the "sky" backdrop on the left side.

Factual error: When Abner opens the carton in their garage, Gladys asks what it is, Abner replies that it is a table saw, however, it is a radial arm saw.

Continuity: Before this episode (and after as well) Darrin and Samantha give their address as 1164 Morning Glory Circle, however in this episode, when Darrin slams the door, the '9' in 192 on their address spins around to make 162, hence the angry neighbor at 162 saying that his grass was installed at the Stevens' by mistake.

Continuity: The amount of toys on the floor suddenly increases as Michael's mother heads to the front door.

Audio problem: Tabitha is heard saying "Okay," but her lips don't move.

Visible crew/equipment: Right after Samantha, Darrin and Tabitha pop out of the living room, the shadow of what looks like a camera rolling backwards can be seen on the floor.

Continuity: When Darrin is on the table and growing he is wearing a green suit, when he is full size, he is wearing a blue suit.

Continuity: The same kitchen door that led to a rather spacious laundry room in "Double, Double, Toil And Trouble" (season 4) now leads to an ordinary utility closet.

Continuity: The minute hand on the teakettle clock is between the 6 and the 7 when it's shown behind Samantha. When she goes to the closet, the clock reads 8:15 (minute hand on the 3). When she returns, the minute hand is between the 6 and the 7 again.

Plot hole: Darrin tells Serena that it was a good idea to have Endora babysit Tabitha. However, he wasn't even home when Endora left with Tabitha; he was unaware that a sitter was even needed. How could he have known?

Continuity: After Samantha sees the statue talking to her, her expression goes from shocked to annoyed and back to shocked in consecutive shots. Also, her hair is over both shoulders in each of the "shocked" shots but over one shoulder in the "annoyed" shot.

Other: Samantha is reading a 4-line note from Endora. The paper is semi-transparent and in a shot from the front, we can easily see the writing through the paper. However, after the note is "twitched" into a second, shorter note, there's another shot from the front - and the lettering looks exactly the same as it did before.

Revealing: The wires holding the cake knife are visible as it's cutting a slice.

Revealing: In addition to Samantha, Elizabeth Montgomery also played Serena. In scenes where both characters appeared, Elizabeth would face the camera and play one character and another actress, Melody McCord, would play the other with her back to the camera. But in this scene, Melody (portraying Samantha), with her back to the camera, inadvertently turns her head, revealing her face.

Continuity: After Tabitha spills her milk, the size and positioning of the spill changes significantly between shots.

Revealing: The wire used to control the flaming arrow's flight is visible in the closeup.

Other: Although Diane Murphy played "Annabelle", she is listed in the closing credits as having played "Diane".

Plot hole: Mrs. Kravitz, while standing in the Stephenses' front doorway, sees Santa Claus and assumes that it's Darrin in costume. However, the very next shot shows Santa exiting the kitchen (around the corner from the front door) and starting up the hallway toward the living room. There is no possible way Mrs. Kravitz could have seen him when she said she did.

Continuity: Tabitha's scarf jumps from one side of Samantha's lap to the other in consecutive shots.

Other: The Ferris wheel starts turning before the operator pulls the handle to start it.

Revealing: Paul Lynde is supposedly "in" the mirror near the front door, but as he waves his arm to cast a spell, the shadow of his arm waving is visible at the far left, revealing he is actually standing off camera at a spot where his reflection is visible. Elizabeth Montgomery also briefly glances at him.

Revealing: The shadow of one of the cameras - complete with protruding lens - is visible on Jack Cassidy's coat as he walks toward the living room.

Revealing: When Sam and Endora are sitting on the wing of the airplane, you can see folds in the blue backdrop for the sky.

Deliberate "mistake": The drunk that is always in the bar in New York is the same drunk in Salem that sees Sam twitch the witch on the signs from an old hag to a young witch resembling her.

Revealing: The wires helping the Good Fairy fly are visible as she flies around the living room. They also are visible when Samantha flies outside a couple of minutes later.

Continuity: The tomato juice stains on the Good Fairy's dress alternate between very dark and faded from shot to shot.

Revealing: The wires used to help Adam's cup of milk float around are plainly visible.

Continuity: When Endora drops out of the painting with the trapped warlock the color tint shifts.