Corrected entry: At the end, Batman mentions "Aunt Harriet's home-cooked meals" to Robin while they're well within earshot of Riddler and his henchmen, who are all restrained, but not unconscious. That's dropping a pretty big clue to their secret identities - a mistake Batman would be much too smart to make. (00:22:00)
Jean G
13th Jul 2008
Batman (1966)
14th Jun 2010
These Wilder Years (1956)
Corrected entry: Bradford, who has never met Ann before, accepts her invitation to dinner at her home, but leaves without asking where her house is. He nevertheless arrives there without difficulty in the next scene. (00:15:00)
Correction: There's no reason to assume he doesn't ask or find out where she lives off screen. Just because we don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen, especially since the next scene doesn't happen immediately after he accepts the invitation.
5th Jul 2012
Columbo (1971)
Corrected entry: Riley pays hired killer Eddie off with a wad of bills which he says totals a thousand dollars. But just the top note in the cash roll he hands Eddie is a $1000 bill - so obviously, it's more than a thousand dollars. (00:05:00)
Correction: It is not a $1,000 bill, but a $100 bill. The $1,000 bill (last printed in 1945) has either a large portrait of the bald eagle or the words United States of America (depending on the year). The bill seen has neither of these, and in fact you can see part of the Independence Hall portrait that's on the $100 bill. Additional evidence it is a $100 is the way 100 is printed, curving around the border, the $1,000 bill has the numbers flat or curving in the opposite direction.
2nd May 2013
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
The Foxes and Hounds Affair - S2-E4
Corrected entry: Professor Stemmler tells Solo that the hypodermic he's just been injected with contained water rather than the Minus-X drug. He'd have been better off with the drug, or at least a nice, blood-friendly saline solution. An injection of plain water can cause haemolysis (cell membrane rupture), which could be lethal. Absolutely not an urban myth. Professor Stemmler should know better.
Correction: There's nothing in the scene to infer Stemmler was talking about "plain" water. Given Solo's lack of medical expertise, it would be easier to say "water" than "saline solution" (which is still water).
21st Oct 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Mr. Garrity and the Graves - S5-E32
Corrected entry: Garrity is a con artist with an accomplice who pretends to be a resurrected dead man. Yet the accomplice somehow achieves the unachievable by vanishing, via fade-out special effect, in front of several townspeople. Since he's a fraud, he couldn't possibly do this.
Correction: At the end of the episode, we learn that Garrity is not a fraud and can really bring back the dead. Therefore, if he can do that, we can safely assume he can also make his partner disappear.
Correction: Serling's script called for Garrity to say "Lookee there!" or something like that, to distract the townspeople's attention in a different direction. During this time, the accomplice could quickly move off the street. The director decided to do the fade-out instead for effect, even though it makes no sense in the context of Garrity being a simple con man.
20th Mar 2013
Star Trek (1966)
Is There in Truth No Beauty? - S3-E5
Corrected entry: In the sickbay near the end, Diana Muldaur got her line wrong, resulting in this contradictory dialogue: Kirk: "He'll die. But that's what you want, isn't it?" Miranda: "That's a lie!" Kirk: "Oh yes it is - you want him to die." Miranda's line was supposed to be, "That's not true," with Kirk's "Yes it is" contradicting her. As it stands, she claims it's a lie, and Kirk replies "Yes it is."
31st Jul 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
The Arrival - S3-E2
Corrected entry: Sheckly is revealed, at the end, to have hallucinated the plane and the entire investigation. How did his hallucination correctly presage the names and faces of the real airline employees, Malloy and Bengston, neither of whom he'd ever met? The Twilight Zone it may be, but unbelievably, Sheckly doesn't even seem surprised at this impossible occurrence. (00:20:00)
Correction: The final scene of the episode shows all the various investigators in an office. It is revealed that Sheckly has been hallucinating the entire investigation of (and this is very important) a plane that had disappeared 19 years ago! Sheckly was accurately able to recreate the plane, situation, and persons involved because they make it very clear that they had all worked with him on the investigation (of the plane he's hallucinating about) but that that occurred "some 17 or 18 years ago..." He isn't hallucinating the people, but subconsciously remembering them. Since it has been almost 20 years since they'd all been together, Malloy doesn't remember who Sheckly is and is reminded by the other investigator. It is never insinuated that Sheckly is a stranger.
11th Aug 2006
UFO (1970)
Corrected entry: When Alec and Foster drive away from the girlfriend's apartment building at the end, they drive down the 2-way English road on the wrong side. (00:44:50)
Correction: All car driving in UFO is on the right side. The back story from Gerry Anderson was it is set in the future and Britain now drives on the right.
10th Aug 2007
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Corrected entry: Because Earth is moving closer to the sun, Serling says here that there is no longer night anywhere on the planet. For this to occur, Earth would have to stop rotating and/or be close enough to the sun to be engulfed in its corona, both cataclysmic events that would annihilate all life on the planet. (00:21:00)
Correction: SPOILER ALERT: The events described were merely a fever induced dream of Norma's and thus never actually occurred, therefore, there is no mistake. The Earth was moving away from the sun the whole time.
27th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Jailbreak at Junction City - S2-E3
Corrected entry: All four bank robbers are herded into a cell with their hands tied behind them. When the door is locked, they're still tied. But a few shots later, without enough time for them to have untied each other, all their hands are free. (00:25:00)
Correction: Right after being locked in, one of the men approaches the cell door to ask the deputy to free his hands, indicating that that process continued until all four had their hands free. The camera shifts away to another shot, indicating that it was not necessary to show all four being freed, only to indicate that it was being done.
11th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Return to Devil's Hole - S1-E7
Corrected entry: After their fight outside, Heyes and Big Jim go into the house and both pour glasses of whiskey. Heyes then places his glass on the table and surprise-punches Big Jim, who was still holding his glass. But in the next shot, Jim's glass is no longer in his hand - Heyes somehow has it and is giving it back to him. (00:20:45)
Correction: This is not a continuity error. Just as Heyes begins his left hook into Jim's midriff, you can see a move of his right shoulder, indicating that he considerately lifted the glass out of Jim's hand as Jim doubled over, thus having the glass available to offer Jim after Jim hits the floor.
26th May 2006
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Just how the Troglyte spy manages to leap over one of the cloud city's balconies to his death is a bit puzzling. Stratos City is held aloft by huge anti-gravity generators. An anti-grav field should, sensibly, extend far enough past the balcony railings to keep people from falling off. Surely the self-obsessed Stratos dwellers would extend that field, since they want to protect their own skins above all else. (00:07:05 - 00:11:30)
Correction: This is not a plot hole. It is your judgment that the technology should work this way.
25th Sep 2006
The Wild Wild West (1965)
Corrected entry: Throughout Series: No one ever explained just how West and Gordon were able, in the 1870s, to send and receive telegraph signals from a moving train, without any wire connection.
Correction: Wireless telegraphs were possible and designed in a number of ways in the early 19th century. Radio waves could be used. In 1832 James Lindsay demonstrated the idea of wireless telegraphy and showed it worked over a 2 mile distance in 1854. Thomas Edison patented his "grasshopper telegraphy", which allowed signals to jump the short distance between a running train and telegraph wires running parallel to the tracks. While this wasn't until the mid-1880's, Wild Wild West relied on advanced technologies and Gordon could have easily been able to come up with this same invention for personal use.
27th Dec 2007
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Corrected entry: How Heyes and Curry manage to be riding the same horses they started out with after a 50-mile train ride is a mystery. The train didn't have a livestock car. Flying equines, perhaps? (00:24:30 - 00:28:15)
Correction: Because they weren't riding the same horses. Heyes is seen riding a black horse with no white markings on the nose towards the train station. Afterwards he's riding a lighter color horse with white nose markings. The other two horses have different, though similar, white nose markings as well.
29th Apr 2009
The Twilight Zone (1985)
Corrected entry: Twice during shots of the tournament in progress, we see the 8-ball going into a corner pocket - a mistake that should have ended the game. (00:13:05)
Correction: They weren't playing 8-ball, where hitting the 8-ball in out of turn ends the game. Before the game started he was asked what pool game he wanted to play, 9-ball, 8-ball, Rotation? They decided to play rotation, where the 8-ball must go in after the 7-ball is made.
10th Jul 2009
Night Gallery (1970)
Deliveries in the Rear - S2-E53
Corrected entry: Dr. Fletcher's "suppliers" are robbing graves to provide him with cadavers. Yet the corpse he uncovers for his class of surgeons is supple enough for him to easily lift its right arm. Rigor mortis starts setting in within 10 minutes of death. The arm should have been difficult - if not impossible - for him to lift. (00:05:25)
Correction: Several reasons this statement is wrong. Mainly, rigor mortis dissipates from the human body after 24-hours, depending on temperature. Therefore, the body can be moved, especial the raising of a limb (which is why morticians can do their job) Also, rigor mortis takes about 4-6 hours to set in and about 12-hours to be fully set.
25th Mar 2013
The Virginian (1962)
Corrected entry: In court, the lawyer berates Sarah for never having voted - an odd criticism, since the series is set in the late 1800s. Women in the U.S. weren't granted voting rights until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920.
Correction: The 19th amendment didn't give women the right to vote per se, it stated no citizen can be denied the right to vote. Wyoming had already granted women the right to vote in 1869, when it was still a territory.
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Correction: Mentioning Aunt Harriet's name would hardly be a clue to Batman's secret identity. First, she isn't even Batman/Bruce Wayne's aunt. Additionally, other non-relatives (like the Commissioner) call her Aunt Harriet. And, even though the audience can hear Batman, there's no reason to think the goons are in "ear-shot".
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