Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003) - 34 mistakes in entire show

Continuity: In one scene, McGee asks DiNozzo what Abby looks like. But jut a few minutes earlier, McGee saw her when Gibbs and his team videoconferenced with her.

Continuity: "Stakeout": When he hands Tony the autopsy report, Ducky has hair falling over his forehead, then combed back, then over his forehead again repeatedly from shot to shot.

Factual error: The season 5 episode "Designated Target" deals with the murder of a Navy admiral and the cab driver transporting him through Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. Late in the episode, the investigators try to get a lead on another cab driver by tapping into the records from taxi meters. The problem is, DC cabs don't yet have meters. Congress banned them in 1933, but legislation passed this year now gives the DC government authority to install meters. And in fact, just days before this episode aired in Nov 2007, DC's mayor announced plans to switch from the zone system to meters by April 2008.

Continuity: In the episode "Untouchable" (Season 3, episode 20), the camera pans across a line of several anime plushies. When the shot then goes wide, several of the plushies have either been re-arranged or removed completely, including a pink plush and the Kyogre plush. It also seems as though there are two Miroku plushies in the scene as well, one near the middle and one off to the side of the left pillow.

Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Tony approaches the Mallard residence by car for the first time, there is a stage light, complete with filter(?) on the balcony.

Factual error: The episode takes place on the Destroyer DD 964 U.S.S. Paul F. Foster, but every time the ship is shown sailing past the camera you see the number 51 on the side. This is the number of the U.S.S. Arleigh Burke, a DDG not even the same class of ship.

Continuity: 5-4: Identity Crisis. When Ziva is speaking with McGee her lapel changes from being turned up and laying down.

Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Gibbs and Ziva are in the "safehouse" Ziva set up for Ari, a crew member and his camera are seen on the left of the screen, right before Gibbs climbs the ladder to remove the hidden camera spying on them.

Continuity: When Gibbs and the team meet the sheriff and ask to be shown the crime scene, he states that it was in the Edenvale motel room 8. In the opening scene the door that the gentleman knocked on and subsequently got his feet covered in blood from the body bleeding out was room 1.

Character mistake: When Kate mentions James Bond, and DiNozzo lists the actors who have played him, he forgets Timothy Dalton. As a self-proclaimed film buff, that's not a mistake he would make.

Plot hole: Season 6, episode 8 ("Cloak"). Ziva and Tony enter the secure facility by entering a pass code they obtained by watching the guards enter it previously. Once inside, they open another door using a pass code. How did they know that code? It would make no sense to have both locks use the same code, rendering the second door useless.

Plot hole: Season 6, episode 8 ("Cloak"). When Ziva and Tony take the elevator two floors down this takes a full minute. When in a hurry for a call it speeds down, yet for this conversation it (conveniently) took a minute.

Continuity: When McGee shows Abby the video, the first time it starts at 0:38, and when he shows it again it starts from 0:50.

Revealing: When Ducky and Gibbs are in the morgue examining the body of the girl found in the hotel, the camera cuts for a few seconds to the girl lying on the slab. During that shot, you can see her neck moving to her pulse (just after Ducky says, "There's some bruising on the sternum").

Plot hole: Towards the end of the episode, whilst agents Gibbs and Todd are in a toilet cubicle talking, a reporter convulses. People, including the Secret Service, rush to his side. In view of the previous death of the ball carrier, there is no way the Secret Service would leave the President unprotected.

Continuity: Agent Todd is standing there coat open, hands in her pockets on Air Force One watching Gibbs walk away when the bad guy who is a reporter (Leonard) comes up to her and comments "Loosening your dress code Kate". When she turns around to indicate that he should return to the press section her coat is now seen to be buttoned up.

Deliberate "mistake": After the bad guy obtains a weapon from the armory on Air Force One, he pushes the door shut. It is heard to latch correctly, but a few seconds later when Special Agent Gibbs comes, the door is now seen to be slightly ajar.

Continuity: While Franks and Gibbs are talking in the diner, Franks' hair goes from being swept back to hanging over his forehead throughout the scene.

Continuity: When Abby is talking to Gibbs about getting a tattoo, he goes from looking at her computer screen to her in between shots. There's a straight cut, so there was no time for him to turn his head.

Continuity: In the scene where Gibbs' phone breaks, and he tells McGee to "reboot" it, Tony is in the back, getting a phone out of the cabinet. He starts to give the phone to McGee. The next shot, the cabinet opens again, and Tony pulls out the phone again and gives it to McGee.