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Apollo rewinds a reel-to-reel tape recorder that has just recorded him admitting to illegal activities. As he does, it makes the expected chipmunk noise. When slowed and reversed, the tape is of a speech given in episode #4 from the 3rd season. You can hear these recordings at: http://www.litb.com/recording1.mp3 and http://www.litb.com/recording2.mp3. See more...

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Mission: Impossible (1966) - 61 mistakes in entire show

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The System (season 3, episode 15)

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Continuity: Phelps takes the tape from the recorder's right-hand spindle. When he opens the acid vat, we can see the tape he just removed back on the recorder - but on the left spindle. The tape he then drops into the acid doesn't remotely resemble the one he pulled, and when he drops it, the recorder's left spindle, where the full tape was in the last shot and where the empty reel should be, now has nothing on it at all.

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The Carriers (season 1, episode 10)

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Continuity: While the team discusses whether they might already be infected with the plague, the items on the desk change positions between takes.

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A Spool There Was (season 1, episode 9)

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Revealing: During the warehouse fight scene, Rollin's stunt double's face is visible in several shots.

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Operation Rogosh (season 1, episode 3)

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Revealing: When Briggs disguises himself as Rogosh's defense attorney, the glasses he puts on very obviously have no lenses in them.

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The Seal (season 2, episode 9)

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Continuity: When Cinammon is in the gallery and turns around after seeing the seal to follow Taggart, we can see that her jacket is different from behind.

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Continuity: When Mr Phelps finishes choosing the mission candidates he closes the bag and puts it on the table. When they show us the bag with the IMF typing on it, it is now open again.

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The Ransom (season 1, episode 8)

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Continuity: When the doctor tells the agent he has to step behind the shield while they take the pictures, you can see that Augie's chest strap has already been secured. The very next camera shot shows Cinnamin (as a nurse) just starting to secure his ankle area with the straps, and you can see the chest has not been secured yet. A second mistake in the same timeframe shows Augie's unconscious head turned to his left. When she starts to secure his ankles, you can see his chin pointing straight up.

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Snowball in Hell (season 1, episode 21)

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Continuity: When Dan comes from the tunnel and through the rope to the prison room door, first we see that the door lock is on the left, but then when Dan tries to open it, it is on the right.

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Continuity: When the prison commander sees that Barney has been flogged from marks on his back, after he leaves, Barney and Rollin move and we can see that there is nothing on Barney's back.

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The Hostage (season 5, episode 13)

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Revealing: While Robert Siomney and Jorge Cabal are watching the news, the pictures on the screen, behind the news commentator, extend past the outside of the TV set and so can be seen against the wall in the room where Siomney & Cabal are standing.

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Nicole (season 3, episode 22)

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Continuity: The shots of the tape recorder giving Phelps his assignment don't match. Each time the camera angle changes, the tape reels are spinning at different speeds and in opposite directions.

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Doomsday (season 3, episode 17)

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Continuity: During Phelps' mission briefing, the amount of tape on the left-hand reel, which should be diminishing as the assignment is read to him, increases instead.

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The Glass Cage (season 3, episode 16)

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Continuity: When the Major checks the prison log book, the box next to 27 where the time entry should be is blank. He closes the book and holds it under his arm while conversing with a subordinate, and when he opens it again to show it to the other man, the time box has, impossibly, been filled in.

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The Execution (season 3, episode 5)

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Continuity: As Phelps listens to his assignment in the opening sequence, the distinctively different tape reels on the recorder switch positions twice.

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The Contenders (2) (season 3, episode 3)

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Continuity: When Rollin confronts Wesley about the supposedly shaved dice, the two are inches from each other. When the shot cuts to a wider angle, they're several feet apart.

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Continuity: Barney is on the floor unconscious when the scene fades out for a commercial break. When we fade back in, he's still unconscious, but his head is in a different position.

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Recovery (season 2, episode 25)

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Continuity: As Phelps receives his assignment, the amount of tape on the recorder changes several times between shots. So does the style/design of the plastic reels.

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A Game of Chess (season 2, episode 17)

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Visible crew/equipment: When Phelps is in the phone booth getting his assignment, the camera can be seen reflected in the booth's glass door.

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The Photographer (season 2, episode 15)

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Continuity: In the opening sequence, the tape giving Phelps his assignment is running backwards in some shots, isn't threaded properly in others, and in reverse angles, it's running twice as fast as it is in the previous shots.

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The Astrologer (season 2, episode 13)

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Revealing: The "microfilm" that Rollin and Barney steal from the safe isn't micro at all. It's a conventional single frame of 35mm movie film, not coincidentally the same film stock on which Mission: Impossible was shot.

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