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No Need to Know - S1-E5

Audio problem: The episode opens with a news report, which itself opens with the words; "In Belfast, Northern Ireland, where a bomb blast destroyed an office building last Tuesday, a special task force under the command of Brigadier General Alistair Folkes", etc. The report runs for a minute, then the phone rings and Higgins, off-camera, answers. The audio of the TV fades in and out to leave room to the relevant conversation, but you can still hear that it's going in a loop, repeating the exact sentence it started with and moving on from there word by word. (00:02:00)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Character mistake: Higgins is extremely protective of any little trinket and bric-à-brac at the Estate, but in this episode he barely bats an eyelid at a post-impressionist masterpiece being handled casually, rolled up and passed around. He handles it pretty badly himself.

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Other mistake: Magnum gets inside the Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial climbing athletically over the closed gate. The bad guy comes roughly from the same direction, but given his physical state, one wonders how could he accomplish such a feat - it is conveniently kept off camera, but he comes from a direction with no gates. To beat him to the finish, Rick picks another direction entirely just walking around the bleachers! And they all end up at the same location.

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: The bad guy is supposed to retrieve the painting just a few minutes after Magnum made the drop, but the light is very much different between the two scenes, and the sky seems to change even between the moment the obese villain goes up the stairs and the time he somehow makes his way down them without dying.

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: On one side of the metal detectors, the bad guy has sweat soaking his shirt from shoulders to pits. When he retrieves the painting, he has just a stain at the middle of his back. (00:46:00)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: Rick is lurking in the pool; once the evil greenshirt Orson Welles-lookalike is hopping down the stairs, the cement in front of his hiding place has a big wet spot, no doubt from previous takes when the actor had to come out of the water dripping all over the deck. (00:41:00)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Visible crew/equipment: The art collecting felon spies Robin-2 leaving the premises and hops in his own car to go retrieve the painting. As he drives off, in one of the back windows a crew member is reflected in perfect detail. (00:40:10)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: In front of The War Memorial Linda Booton is about to get out of the car; her hand on top of the window is in direct sunlight in one camera angle, shadow before and after. (00:38:05)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When the boxer guy is defending himself from Magnum's stroke of genius, he is gesturing with his right hand, or not, depending on the camera angle. (00:37:10)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Magnum and co. Are taken to the Hawaiian gangster's place. Mano's hand in the very first shot (when Higgins' asks who's in charge) is on his own leg, but in the reverse shot he's toughing the blonde chick's thigh. (00:34:35)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: In the first shot of the girls in their cellar that is heating up, the girl with the lei has her hands on her thighs, but at the cut ("Darlene") her right arm is folded. (00:32:00)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Plot hole: "Three Tahitians", one of the masterpieces from one of the most famous post-impressionist painters in the world, is authenticated by an ordinary school teacher. Because that's the person for this multimillionaire job, obviously. (00:25:20)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Stupidity: It is stated that the security has been "really tightened" because of the Gauguin, and "the place is harder to break in than a safe." So, what's the security for this multimillionaire picture? An alarm that goes off if someone touches the painting, but it switched off completely if just someone flips an unprotected switch positioned less than 10 feet away. Even a kid could dispose of that - which is what happens - but it's not like a siren going off in the middle of a remote estate would discourage a thief that can simply run away with it. (00:23:25)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: Throughout the whole episode, every street scene downtown shows moisture and light reflections on the camera lens.

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Magnum and TC go to the counter of the really bad bar. There's a john that is fondling a lady in black. He touches the shoulder and his hand moves down the back of her arm, but at the first cut the hand is back at the top of the shoulder. (00:13:35)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Audio problem: Magnum just took TC to the bad part of town. TC says "Hey, look, don't forget you called me, I didn't call you." with the audio noticeably much lower than the rest of the conversation, and out of synch with Roger E. Mosley's lips. (00:13:00)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Nancy says that Higgins is exhausted and that means he'll sleep well, she noticeably changes arm position between shots. (00:11:20)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: "Huggins" is checking out of the lads who seem distressed. The kid with the pigtails tells him it's the gumdrops; her arms and her lei are dangling freely off the armrest of the couch. In the next shot she's in a different position. (00:10:25)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Nancy's long hair is sometimes in front of, sometimes behind her left shoulder when Leslie chimes in with the job negotiation with Magnum. (00:07:40)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When the eldest of the group (Nancy) pulls Magnum aside so the young and impressionable don't hear, her hair gets suddenly windblown between shots. Close-ups show her hair really messy, the wider angles are more forgiving. (00:06:50)

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