Continuity mistake: Barbara Terranova is biking behind Magnum when the golden teeth man and his buddy stop her. She screams "Magnum!"; look at the sweatstain on his back. When a few moments later he runs in to beat up the aggressors, the stain got smaller, or rather, oddly narrower, not being as wide on the neck of the shirt as before. (00:23:00)
Sammo
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: TC is trying to convince Magnum at the beginning of the episode, and tells him "Bet you can do it." Ten seconds pass and there's a new reaction shot on him laughing at Rick's little Higgins impression. Thing is, those few seconds a large ship that was present in all the other previous shots disappeared at the horizon all of a sudden, and there are fresh slipstreams showing that it is a much earlier or later take. (00:03:05)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Babs tells Roger "He's a private investigator" pointing at him with the same hand she had on his shoulder, and that is still there in the reverse shot. (00:31:40)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Babs finally produces a picture with Roger. In close-up, Magnum is holding it by the corner, while he had his hand at the bottom in the first shot. (00:25:20)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The morning after TC and Babs sealed the deal involving him, Magnum goes out for a swim. In the first shot, when he turns around to tell Babs that he's not doing her ridiculous knee to chest routine, the towel around his neck shows no half-squares. In the rest of the scene, the towel is folded so that there's half a square easily recognizable. (00:20:00)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum tells Barbara to go to the bathroom leaning against the windshield; his hands is turned in different directions depending on the camera angle. (00:13:30)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The scene when Barbara Terranova murders Magnum at billiards is shot with zero regards for continuity, just filming shot after shot even when the balls' positions do not match at all. Just look at the opening shot botched by Magnum; most balls are cluttering the middle of the table, but Babs takes her first shot shocking Magnum on a largely clean green rug. (00:09:30)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum and Babs walk away from the phone he greatly amused Higgins with. In the background, the bar clock shows 5 o'clock, when it was 4:31 merely seconds before. (00:08:40)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: TC tells Magnum "bet you could do it" when Magnum puts down his beer. Next shot and Magnum's hand is suddenly around the beer bottle again. (00:03:05)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is stretching after his morning jog in front of a bottle of Coops that turns between shots. (00:02:35)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The titular brunette easily overtakes Magnum during his jog. The sweat patch on his shirt becomes much larger through the span of a brief cutaway, and when he joins Rick after the jog, his shirt is completely dry. (00:03:10)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Higgins starts yapping about the fascinating case of the homosexual corporals in Wales, Magnum sighs with an arm over the couch's back, changing from the earlier pose between cuts. (00:48:20)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, Joy is laughing when Higgins mentions the various bands; her position on the couch changes rather obviously between shots. (00:48:00)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The bike falls down diagonal to the road lines, but it's practically parallel in the rest of the scene. (00:27:00)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Rick's hand with the remote turns at every cut when he makes the password joke on a depressed Higgins. (00:26:20)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum does his puking act to make his best friend lose a lucrative job, the lady's hair is in front of her shoulder hen the camera is in front of her, windblown away from it when the camera is behind. (00:21:10)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The valet brings the Ferrari in front of the club. Digger leans on it with her right hand, dollars in her left hand, but in the next shot the money is on the same hand she is leaning on. (00:07:00)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the club, Rick teases Magnum about not being able to break the ice with Joy Doyle. He has his hand on the fruit juice glass, off it, and on it again. (00:05:05)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Higgins is telling Magnum about the poison. Magnum asks, camera on him " Are you sayin' she wasn't kidding." A babe in a light blue bikini walks in the background, right to left. Cut to Higgins responding, which lasts 8 seconds, and the same woman is exactly where we left her walking behind Tom Selleck. (00:36:10)
14th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Louise pours coffee from the thermos - still hot overnight. The cup in her right hand has the handle pointed to the left (approx at 11 o'clock). Her sister and Higgins pop up from the door, and now the cup is pointed at 5 o'clock. (00:28:10)
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