Factual error: In season 2, they spend a lot of time at a Malibu Beach house. There are a few scenes across a few episodes when they are headed from Malibu into Los Angeles, but the scenes are shot on the coast in El Segundo, roughly 30 miles out of the way and definitely not a straight shot from Malibu.
Factual error: Mary gives Dick directions to press Command-Q to close something. As Dick is using a Compaq computer which would be running Windows, he would not have a Command key and would instead have a Control key (which he actually is pressing) as the Command key exists only on Apple Macintosh computers. Ctrl+Q on a Windows machine doesn't do anything. (00:09:10)
Factual error: The Robinsons exceeded the speed of light due to impurities in chemical rocket fuel. No chemical rocket fuel comes remotely close to the energy content needed to even approach the speed of light. That would require exotic fuels like antimatter. By Einstein's theory of Special Relativity it is impossible to exceed the speed of light with any form of rocket propulsion. Faster than light travel and time travel might be possible with the warped spacetime of Einstein's general theory of relativity and phenomena such as wormholes. For plausibility the opening scene should have been an encounter with a wormhole.
The Murder's in the Mail - S1-E6
Factual error: Dead blonde guy is sitting upright in the chair, as Dave/Maddie close in, and Maddie realises he isn't moving. David goes to him and smacks him across the shoulder, to "wake him up" and blonde dead guy, right on cue, instantly slumps over a table at his right side, when the direction that David hit his shoulder, should have sent the dead guy slumping more forward, then at the front edge of the table. Obviously staged for the actor's comfort.
Closely Watched Planes - S4-E3
Factual error: If there really was a hatch leading into mid-air in the airplane bathroom, instead of being soundless like shown, it would be incredibly loud and Max would have noticed. Also, the sudden pressure change would have sucked him out no matter what he did to stop it.
Honoria Glossop Turns Up (or, Bridegroom Wanted!) - S4-E3
Factual error: Sir Roderick has moved his psychiatric clinic to New York because the BMA wouldn't approve of his methods. Although we don't get exact dates for the episodes, since prohibition was in effect in the last episode and Puttin' On The Ritz came out in December of 1929, we can presume it's about 1930. The AMA wouldn't recognize psychiatry as legitimate medicine until 1945. Sir Roderick wouldn't have had any better luck in America.
Factual error: Aunt Petunia says that the chalice was first seen in the Stone Age, and sends Paul and Barry back to where Stonehenge is just being completed. However, the Stone Age actually ended in around 3300 BC. Stonehenge is believed to have been constructed in around 2500 BC, which was the Bronze Age.
Factual error: Roughly fifteen minutes into the episode, it shows Jackie and Dr. O'Hara eating at a restaurant. Dr. O'Hara offers Jackie a cigarette from a celadon pack of American Spirit Mediums. In the next shot, it shows O'Hara holding a cigarette with an orange filter. American Spirit Mediums have a white filter, not orange.
Factual error: Early in the episode, while Jason is at the log flume, power lines and transformers are visible to the left. (00:01:15)
Factual error: When His Divine Shadow lays on the table to have his brain removed, the machine cuts his skull open and simply reaches in with a three pronged hand and tugs on the brain pulling it out. It would not have worked this way... The brain is about the same consistency as gravy and the prongs on the hand/claw putting pressure on it to pull would have caused them to sink into the brain's tissue destroying it. Also it pulls the brain out without cutting or separating it from the spinal column and merely just pulls it out from the top. This would have caused his brain to be torn into pieces as it was tried to be pulled off the spinal column, not come out perfectly in one piece as shown. (01:09:00)
Yeah Baby! - S6-E6
Factual error: When Paul demonstrates his Portuguese, the subtitles read "My monkey needs a haircut," when the translation is actually "I feel very sick."
Stage West - S1-E6
Factual error: In the background, in the scene when Simmons is talking to the stage driver, you can see cars driving by on a road in the background. (00:12:06)
Factual error: Ben Franklin's "electricity kite" experiment and the Declaration of Independence happened 24 years apart, not at the same time.
Factual error: Tori donates three pints of her blood. There is no way that the hospital would have done this in real life seeing as it takes about eight weeks before a person can actually donate blood again.
Factual error: Backdoors of a police car can not be opened from the inside.
Factual error: Squirrels are seen woken from hibernation along with other animals, but squirrels don't hibernate.
G.I. Jessie - S2-E26
Factual error: Most of the female soldiers are shown wearing earrings while wearing their tactical uniforms, but female soldiers in the U.S. Army were only authorized to wear earrings while wearing their dress uniforms at the time this episode took place.
Factual error: Linda calls up Jen the babysitter to come watch over the Belcher kids, so she and Bob can go to Maya and Beckett's loft "party." Jen is in her room talking to Linda over the phone, however her screen still has the red (decline call) button and the green (answer call) button with Linda's name as she talks on the phone. There should only be the 'hang up' button with Linda's name and a running time of the duration of their call. (00:04:22)
Factual error: Ted is holding his phone and talking to the others with the front facing camera. When he gets hit by the car the others can still see him, for that to have happened the camera would have had to land perfectly on the bottom edge, which is an impossible thing to do. (00:07:40 - 00:09:10)
Episode #5.5 - S5-E5
Factual error: At the pool party at the end of the episode, Asa Elliott is singing Gold by Spandau Ballet. Whilst he's singing, the shots change to different couples/families at the party. When Asa finishes the song, 5 minutes and 58 seconds have passed. The actual song is only 3 minutes 55 seconds.