Revealing mistake: During the fiesta, Reno plays his guitar in the canteen. Each time the musical chords change, we should see his left hand shift positions on the neck of the guitar. But though his right hand is vigorously strumming the strings through several chord changes, his left hand never moves.
Jean G
25th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
21st Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: A dark brown moisture stain that forms a stripe down the back of Sam's coat disappears when he enters the church, reappears when he comes out, and vanishes again when he meets Trinidad in the graveyard.
20th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: Mano's horse is shot and killed by the Apaches. But when we see a shot of the "dead" animal, it's not Mano's, but the horse Buck was riding (with a distinctive white blaze on its forehead). Apparently, Buck's horse was better at playing dead.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Revealing mistake: The substitution of a "stunt horse" is noticeable here when Blue is thrown during an Apache attack. Before he falls off, his palomino horse has its usual blond mane and tail. But when the horse rears and he falls, it's another palomino with a grey mane and tail. The blond one is instantly back, though, when Blue gets up.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: While Buck and Mano are chasing the Apaches, Mano's mount changes from a horse with a blond mane and tail to one with an all-brown mane and tail and back again.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: Manolito leaves the ranch on a black horse that changes, mid-ride, into his regular brown sorrel, "Macadoo." In later shots of the same ride, the black horse is back, but when Mano dismounts, he's with Macadoo once again.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: Inside the hotel, Manolito is wearing a white shirt. But when he walks outside, he has on his usual yellow-gold one. It turns white again a few shots later.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Revealing mistake: Apparently, Buck getting thrown off his horse, whose name was Rebel, wasn't in the script. When it happens, a startled Cameron Mitchell shouts at the horse using its real name, Prince. Despite the blooper, the shot wasn't cut. In fact, it happens at least two more times in other episodes of the series. (00:08:00)
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
The Stallion - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: While the black stallion prances in the corral, a bridle appears on his head, even though no one's gone near him.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
The Stallion - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: Blue leaves his regular horse exhausted at the ranch and takes another one in order to pursue the young Apache. But in mid-chase, Blue is suddenly back on his regular horse again.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: Sam walks out of the saloon without his gloves on, but emerges into the street wearing them in the very next shot.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Trivia: While shooting an early episode, Mark Slade fell from his horse and suffered a painful bruise when he landed very hard on the gun at his hip. After much pleading, he convinced the producers and the prop dept. to make a replica pistol out of rubber. Replaced by the real one only when it actually had to be fired, the fake gun remained in Blue Boy's holster for the rest of the show's run.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: Two of the ten orphaned Apache children are found hiding near the house, bringing the total so far to six. But later, after Chodi sends out a signal, two more children come in from the desert, and these are again counted as five and six. But the fifth and sixth of the children were already there - so the new total should have been eight, not six.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Plot hole: Manolito suffers a peculiar memory lapse in this episode. He's fluent in Apache, yet at first speaks to the children only in Spanish and urges Vaquero to translate. Later, though, he "recovers" well enough to speak to both Geronimo and the children in Apache.
19th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scenes, the perspiration stains on Blue's shirt disappear between takes. They return a few moments later, only to vanish and reappear several more times in subsequent shots. (00:05:00)
17th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Factual error: Though they're supposed to be a Mexican cattle baron's family, the three Montoyas speak Spanish with somewhat different accents. This was because actors Frank Silvera, Linda Cristal and Henry Darrow hailed from Jamaica, Argentina and Puerto Rico, respectively.
17th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Factual error: In the final battle with the Apaches, Blue and most of the rest of the Chaparral men fire their 6-shooters dozens of times without ever reloading.
17th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Revealing mistake: When Blue rides in with Moon Fire and Kelly, there are footprints visible in the dirt behind them. Several of the prints have distinctive patterned tread from what could only be 20th Century rubber-soled shoes.
17th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
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.
16th Sep 2007
The High Chaparral (1967)
Gold Is Where You Leave It - S1-E19
Audio problem: After the Apaches rescue Blue, Buck signs to their leader and says, "Vaya con Dios to you too, brother." But his lips never move.