Continuity mistake: Number 39 is writing notes on the word association test in her notebook. When the shot cuts to a close-up, however, the notebook disappears from her hands. It's back a short time later.
Jean G
17th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
17th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: On the beach, the Queen is sitting on a large rock and conversing with Number 6. Then she's seen standing down near the water. After an abrupt cut, she's back on the rock without enough time to have moved there.
17th Jan 2008
Dark Shadows (1991)
Episode Six - S1-E6
Revealing mistake: A vampire-entranced Carolyn uses a butcher knife to push open Julia Hoffman's bedroom door. The wood is otherwise pristine, but near the knife's point, you can see scratch marks left by the knife during previous takes. (00:30:15)
17th Jan 2008
Dark Shadows (1991)
Episode Six - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: When Angelique's wailing spirit appears above the stairs, Willie is standing on the same level as Julia with his arm around her. In the very next shot, he's one step down from her with one hand on her shoulder. (00:34:05)
16th Jan 2008
Dark Shadows (1991)
Episode Five - S1-E5
Revealing mistake: The mirror over Barnabas' mantel hangs flush against the wall. Yet when he shatters it, the candlestick he throws can be seen to go through the glass instead of bouncing back as it should have done. (00:43:45)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Audio problem: In the hotel room, Leslie offers her ring as a down payment to Heyes. He reaches for it and says, "May I?" But as we hear the words, his lips aren't moving. (00:13:15)
16th Jan 2008
The Prisoner (1967)
Continuity mistake: When the command "Knight to Queen's Bishop Three" is given, it's not a knight that moves, but a pawn. In the next long shot, though, Queen's Bishop Three isn't occupied by anyone, pawn or otherwise.
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Alias Smith and Jones (90 min.) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Harker confiscates firearms from five Devil's Hole members who are playing poker in the saloon. The sixth member is down in the tunnel, and didn't turn over his gun. Yet when the outlaws go to collect their weapons, six are given back their side-arms. (00:49:00 - 00:55:50)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
The Man Who Murdered Himself - S1-E10
Revealing mistake: At the beginning of his trip with the TNT wagon, Curry is seen driving with a hill in the background and a road winding past rocks and green grass. Several miles into the trip, he's coaxing the team over a ridge, and when we cut to a close-up, the same road is behind him. It's the same shot, recycled from earlier in the episode. (00:06:15 - 00:15:45)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Alias Smith and Jones (90 min.) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Harker rouses a sleepy Heyes and drags him to the saloon, Heyes' hair is falling over his forehead. The shot cuts, and his hair is combed back. Then he steps through the curtain to talk to Wheat, and the hair is over his forehead again. (00:46:50 - 00:47:30)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Alias Smith and Jones (90 min.) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: The Devil's Hole Gang is referred to as "seven sorry lives of crime." But there are only six of them. (00:44:10)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Alias Smith and Jones (90 min.) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Heyes and Curry ride out of town wearing shirts and vests. Both turn to look behind them when they hear the posse coming. As they spur their horses into a gallop, they're suddenly wearing heavy coats. (01:12:50)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Alias Smith and Jones (90 min.) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Deputy Harker keeps checking his pocket watch while making his rounds. The first two times he looks at it, the watch face has Roman numerals. On his third check, it has regular numbers instead. The fourth time, the Roman numerals are back again. (01:05:15 - 01:06:45)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Continuity mistake: From one shot to the next, the six horses pulling the stagecoach change color from black to light brown and back again. (00:07:30)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Revealing mistake: During the stage hold-up, there are several bright white 20th Century buildings visible in the distance behind Weaver. (00:09:25)
16th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Continuity mistake: The number of bad guys in Weaver's gang keeps changing. There are ten riders waiting on the ridge. All ten ride down the hill, but only five arrive at the bottom to rob the stage. Seven ride away afterward, but when they head off again to capture Heyes and Curry, there are only six. And when they surround the way station, there are again seven of them. (00:08:00)
16th Jan 2008
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957)
Continuity mistake: After the wedding, the new bride kisses Diamond good-bye. She's standing just inches from him, but when the camera angle reverses, she has instantly jumped to a spot several feet away.
15th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Continuity mistake: Heyes is tied to a chair during the assault on the stage way station. But somehow his hair combs itself neatly back after being all over his forehead. A few shots after that, it's messy again. (00:30:40 - 00:33:05)
15th Jan 2008
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957)
Continuity mistake: During the wedding scene at the end, Diamond's hair is falling over his forehead in half the shots and combed straight back the rest of the time.
15th Jan 2008
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Continuity mistake: Having borrowed the valuable uncut stones from Soapy, Heyes and Curry don't seem able to keep a very good accounting of them. Ten are sent out for evaluation, and twenty-one more are used to salt the fake diamond field. They should be returning thirty-one nuggets to Soapy at the end of the con game. Yet there are fewer than twenty diamonds on the table when Soapy empties the cloth bag. (00:49:50)