Plot hole: 4-3 "Only the Bad Come to Sonora": Manolito trades clothes with the poor peon he meets on the road. But at the end of the episode, he has the same clothes that he gave away earlier (his usual outfit) back on again.

Revealing: 3-20 "The Lieutenant": When John runs out of the Simmons' house, a jet contrail is faintly visible in the sky at the far right of the screen.

Revealing: 3-22 "New Hostess in Town": After Buck knocks Bates out, Victoria takes the outlaw's clothes as a disguise in order to escape. Miraculously, Bates' clothes, despite his being a foot taller and considerably heavier than Victoria, fit her perfectly. She doesn't even have to roll up the shirt sleeves or the trouser legs.

Continuity: 3-16 "Friends and Partners": When Mano wakes Buck up, Buck's hat strings are hanging down over his face. When the shot cuts, though, the strings are immediately tucked back over his ears.

Continuity: 3-12 "Alliance": One of the Apaches throws his lance at Manolito's feet, and it lands beside him at a 30 degree angle. In the next shot, though, as Mano walks away, the lance is sticking straight up out of the ground.

Continuity: 3-12 "Alliance": During the climactic gun battle, several Apaches are shot off their horses. But in subsequent shots of the same area, all the bodies have vanished.

Factual error: 3-7 "Trail to Nevermore": Despite taking a three-day trek across the blazing Arizona desert with no food, water or provisions (and definitely no knives or razors), neither John nor Manolito grows a beard, or even any stubble. They both arrive in Nevermore perfectly clean shaven.

Plot hole: 3-7 "Trail to Nevermore": At the end, despite an earlier emphasis on the necessity of wearing one's hat in the desert, John rides out of town without his. Victoria, who wore John's hat when they crossed the desert, isn't wearing it either. And of course, the "lost" hat reappears on John's head in the next episode.

Factual error: Though they're supposed to be a Mexican cattle baron's family, all three of the Montoyas have very disparate accents - none of them Mexican. This was because actors Frank Silvera, Linda Cristal and Henry Darrow hailed from Spain, Argentina and Puerto Rico, respectively.

Deliberate "mistake": Though it was, overall, far more historically accurate than most TV westerns, "High Chaparral" retained one anachronism throughout its run. For safety reasons, all the coal-oil lamps and lanterns on the set contained obvious electric light bulbs rather than burning wicks.

Factual error: 4-15 "The New Lion of Sonora" Pt. 2: In the 1870s, poker chips were made of wood and either branded or painted with denominational values. But the brightly colored chips on General Casados' table in this episode are very obviously made of plastic.

Continuity: 3-17 "Jelks": When John confronts Joe about firing Jelks, Joe's hands change positions, from down at his sides to up at chest level adjusting his gloves, every time the camera angle changes.

Continuity: 3-6 "To Stand for Something More": When he falls into the water, Blue's hat flies off and floats to the middle of the pond. He never wades out after it, but somehow it reappears beside him just in time for him to put it on and climb ashore.

Plot hole: 4-16 "Sangre": The scriptwriter here apparently never saw earlier episodes in which it was well-established that Manolito spoke fluent Apache. In a scene where he attempts to sneak past two braves while disguised as an Apache, he suddenly can't speak the language when they challenge him.

Revealing: 3-24 "Auld Lang Syne": When Buck comes across the first of two bodies in the desert, we see only the dead man's booted legs protruding from the bushes. When he finds the second body, the exact same shot of legs and boots (with the same bushes and rocks) is used over again with the film reversed.

Continuity: 3-9 "Lady Fair": Just after Buck jumps in to break Charly's fall, his right hand is high on her shoulder in full shots. But in close-ups, his hand and arm are around her waist instead.

Plot hole: 3-7 "Trail to Nevermore": When Manolito and Victoria jump from the wagon, her hat flies off and falls to the ground. The bandits ride on by, chasing the wagon, after which Mano and Victoria get up and start walking. She later laments losing her hat when they leaped, which makes no sense. Since the bandits and therefore the urgency had passed, there was no reason not to retrieve her hat before they left the area.

Revealing: 3-7 "Trail to Nevermore": During the cart-pulling scenes in the desert, the use of a stunt double becomes apparent when the usually reed-thin Victoria suddenly gains several pounds and some new muscles in the posterior region.

Continuity: 4-3 "Only the Bad Come to Sonora": One of the bad guys rides the stolen black stallion throughout the episode - except when the gang rides away from the cantina. Then, all their horses are brown. Once they're out in the desert, the black horse reappears.

Continuity: 3-16 "Friends & Partners": Victoria is cleaning a lamp and has removed the globe and placed it on the table. After Buck and Mano enter, her blue cleaning rag jumps from hanging on the lamp to being in her hands and back several times between takes. And the lamp globe mysteriously replaces itself by the end of the scene, even though she hasn't touched it again.