Continuity mistake: When an annoyed Magnum tells TC in the locker room "Well then you can play!", the coach, mentor and potential killer is holding the racket turned towards a different direction (by the flat or by the side). (00:34:05)
Sammo
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum suggests Carrie to quit; she tells him it's not that easy. Obvious discontinuity in the hair position at the transition between the two shots; big curtain of hair draped around the shoulder, clears itself back in the second. It happens again, and it is again self-evident even later when Higgins barges in and there's an overhead shot from his position. (00:30:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Seeing Higgins in the audience, TC dismounts from his big boy chair and prepares to storm across the court, pencil on the ear and clipboard in his right hand. To the other end of the net, the pencil is at a different angle and the clipboard jumps to the left hand. (00:19:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Rick collides with his double partner, the wind is still. Close-up on both of them as romance sparks, and the wind is blowing heavily. (00:16:35)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Other mistake: In the study, Phyllis Reardon retorts bitterly at Magnum that he was kissing Ginger 'yesterday'. But they are staying at Robin's nest, and it's impossible that a whole afternoon and night went by without them talking about what happened - including Magnum to Higgins. And the doctor just came to give her a sedative for the shock...or an earlier day? (00:12:45)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Discussing the hanged figurine in Higgins' study, Magnum is holding the string very close to the noose in the close-up, but definitely at large distance in the wider angles. (00:12:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is introduced to the capricious Carrie Reardon. She says that she hopes he's better than the last babysitter they gave her. Behind her, you can spot some tennis balls between courts. Kenny Phelps chases her, and the court is all clear. (00:09:35)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Carrie is having a hissy fit because she believes that Ginger tries to put strain on her ankle. The towel on her shoulder is folded differently in the different angles. (00:09:10)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Rick guesses the player Higgins managed to go against, "Tappy" Larsen. As he says the name, he puts the racket hand on the net and the ball hand behind it. Next shot and both are on it. Similar mistakes happens at the end of the reminiscing part of the convo, with Rick again suddenly changing position (hand on the racket all of a sudden) between shots. (00:04:35)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Higgins makes his way towards the net and we get the wide shot of the court, there are obvious shadows from the foliage all over the playing space, which is totally sunlit in the other angles. (00:03:35)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: Higgins butts in the innuendo-laced tennis exchange between the three friends at the beginning of the episode. Very first frame he's in, and look at the boom mike shadow on the left of the screen, on the floor. (00:03:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: Higgins says "What if it didn't?" once she is free; she touches her forehead, the camera cuts away, and she is repeating the gesture in a separate shot. (00:33:15)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Revealing mistake: In the sequence with Zeus and Apollo attacking the intruders, the padding of the jackets' arms they are sinking their teeth into is very noticeable. (00:32:15)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: Magnum has been talking with Higgins (and then with the home invaders) through the phone placed in the dashboard. When Sergei carjacks him, he's lucky enough to have his phone in the back pocket of his pants. (00:22:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: Magnum bursts into John Black's apartment;he explains to him that Katya sent him, and the man lowers his hands. They are back up in the reverse shot that follows. (00:17:05)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: The car chase opens with the 2 cars driving past a Walmart, with the sign distinctly visible. A minute later, when the police joins in and Magnum says "Maybe not", the cars speed past the same Walmart as if they drove in circle. (00:07:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: Katya meets Magnum at the beginning of the episode. She sits on the couch in the wide shot, and the couch is strongly sunlit. The natural light in the rest of the scene is much softer and barely noticeable. (00:02:15)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: The two guys who stalk Magnum take off and almost run him over. You can see them drive down a road as Magnum tumbles on the asphalt to avoid them. Then Magnum gets up, has a little exchange with Rick as they both gingerly hobble towards the car, and he finally starts it and drives off...and in the 10 seconds this takes, the car is still basically at the same spot as before. Slowest getaway ever. (00:07:20)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: Higgins shows Magnum the phone with Katya in the eye of the camera; her pinky finger is right at the angle of the phone in the frontal view, closer to the other fingers in the reverse shot. (00:01:55)
3rd Apr 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Revealing mistake: Magnum runs at the beginning of the episode on the beach. In the shots from distance the beach is immaculate and even, while in the closer angles, you can pick up in the sand in the background the tracks left by the camera following the actors. (00:00:35)
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