Continuity mistake: Magnum and TC hi-5 at the beginning of the episode. The football bounces at distance from TC in the first shot, but it's right at his feet after their hands clapped. (00:02:00)
Sammo
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is bullied into going with Carol's lame plan. The very first shot of him and TC on the Ferrari on their way to block the drug lord shows TC wearing a white sweatband on his head he does not have in the rest of the episode; it's recycled from 1-13, All Roads Lead to Floyd, and you can even spot the car typical of that episode. (00:29:10)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: When Carol and Magnum jump from the terrace, you can see her land way too close to the edge of the garbage truck container; the stuntwoman's foot hits it in fact, and one of her shoes ricochets in the air. The stuntwoman picked up an injury, obviously, but Carol is unscathed and complains just about the suit getting dirty - when at the very least she lost one shoe. (00:25:30)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum begins to open the safe; the sensor with the red wire is in left position, black wire in right position. When he removes the sensors, it's the other way around. (00:23:00)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Drunk Carol is telling Magnum why she was fired. As she says "They took it away from me", her hand is in front of Magnum's, and yet it is on top of it at the cut. (00:06:00)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: TC runs into Higgins avoiding him in the front view with John Hillerman, and hitting him when he's replaced by a stuntman. He also is sprawled face down on the lawn with one or both arms up. (00:02:45)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Revealing mistake: When Magnum and friends are trying to figure out of the invitations mystery, the telephones on Higgins' desk are unplugged. (00:36:00)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Plot hole: The plot of the episode has a big reveal that tricks the viewer making zero sense; the victim is alive and well, but there's an ambulance, they bring the victim away, and Magnum spends most of the episode in the noble effort of saving Higgins from a murder accusation. Magnum mentions "I figured I still had about a half an hour before Tanaka returned with a warrant for Higgins' arrest." even in his internal monologue, so it's not that he was trying to hide the fact from other characters.
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Plot hole: Magnum mentions that he spoke "one hour ago" to Robin, getting the description of Lowell Xavier Jameson. All the suspects are at the estate, and Tanaka arrived, apparently with an arrest warrant for Higgins, when Magnum still hadn't spoken with Robin. Magnum did have to bargain for Tanaka to put off the operations by two hours; it does not make sense that he'd be around at the estate one 1 full hour more for unexplained reasons.
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Revealing mistake: In the climax of the episode, Magnum tackles Higgins to the ground - but it's an obvious stunt double. (00:45:10)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Other mistake: As said in the ending, Lady Cynthia Warrington-Stout was on Higgins' bed when she was found; the room looks nothing like Higgins' room as shown in Foiled Again (3-8).
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Continuity mistake: Magnum puts the register on the armchair while Higgins is looking at the invitations. He pulls away, but in the next shot he's still hunched over the armchair. (00:36:40)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Continuity mistake: Higgins, back in his wits, walks into the studio while Magnum is brainstorming with TC and Rick. He spots the invitations and examines them; as he approaches them you can see they are spread out in a fan, while at the beginning of the scene they were stacked in a neat pile. (00:36:15)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Character mistake: Magnum quotes in his mind (right after the $20,000 turns up in Higgins' room) and then out loud (during the denouement) that "Old wounds heal slowly." The quote is from a movie he watched earlier...but it said "DEEP wounds heal better slowly." (00:30:55 - 00:35:40)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Continuity mistake: When Valerie says "You can't keep me here!" sitting on the armchair, her shadow is in a completely different spot of the seat compared to the wider angle. (00:34:50)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Continuity mistake: Magnum asks Valerie Kane to show him her legs. Much to the viewer's enjoyment, she does; she also does it putting her right arm parallel to the edge of the desk, but in the following shot it's just like in the one before, across the desk, on the papers. (00:32:50)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Revealing mistake: During the attempt to Higgins' life, a knife gets stuck into a tree. It hits exactly the spot where a notch was visible already. After a cut to people running scared in every direction, the tree is again shown, and the knife is now stuck in another spot. (00:31:50)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Continuity mistake: Sir Fearing Pangborn announces the "encore selection" with a hand on the sheet/tunic, but he had that hand low in the previous shot. (00:31:50)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian - S4-E12
Continuity mistake: In the midst of the 'murder investigation', Magnum decides to just chill and watch a movie. He sits on the couch reciting the lines off the top of his head and with a falsetto. Notice that at the left edge of the frame there's a book popping in, roughly positioned between two pillows. You see the book again in the reaction overhead shot when TC calls Magnum to help out of the predicament Higgins is in, but it's more to the left. (00:30:25)
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