Revealing mistake: When Ralph blocks Hydra's rocket from its target, in the closeup as the rocket hits Ralph's abdomen the thin stunt wire is visible at the rocket tail. Then while Bill is fighting with Hydra, when Ralph is in mid-air heading to Bill the stunt apparatus is visible at Ralph's waist. (00:40:00)
Super Grover
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: Preacher forces Ralph to stop the sheriff, so when Ralph flies over and pulls the driver's door off the squad car, we see the Sheriff behind the steering wheel wearing his uniform shirt and dark colored pants of some sort, but when the Sheriff stands up his uniform shirt is properly tucked into his normal tan pants, same as earlier. (00:39:05)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Other mistake: Preacher has a large bold tattoo at the center of his chest below his neck that changes repeatedly. For example, it's dark and clear when they capture the deputy, but it's smudged and partially gone when Preacher forces Stella, the deputy, and Ralph into the 18-wheeler. (00:29:10 - 00:36:50)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Hit Car - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: After Bill is shot in the hand at the beachhouse one of the hitmen takes off in a van with no side windows, but as Ralph begins to run after it the speeding van is different and has windows on the side, then it's back to the original van. (00:27:35)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: At the end, when the aliens appear in the desert again, Ralph is in the front seat of Pam's car as the aliens suggest Ralph try invisibility, but after Ralph shouts that he lost the instruction book, when it cuts to a long shot Ralph is standing in front of Pam's car, then he's back in the front seat. (00:44:00)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: At the hospital, when Ralph is sitting in the wheelchair the nurse calls for the orderly to help subdue Ralph. Two orderlies appear, and the black orderly's tunic has short sleeves well above his elbows, but as they all enter room six that orderly's tunic now has sleeves considerably longer and baggier than the previous shot. (00:02:45)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When the police take Ralph to the hospital he's wearing his red suit that has slim fitted sleeves without cuffs, but as Ralph's right wrist is being forcibly restrained to the gurney, in the closeup Ralph's right sleeve appears to be the long sleeve of a red fleece shirt instead of his red suit. Additionally, in this closeup the white orderly's arms are much hairier and his watch vanished as well. (00:02:50)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Ralph is taken to the hospital and forcibly restrained to the gurney in room six, the black orderly is wearing a watch on his left wrist, but as he closes the restraint strap around Ralph's left wrist in the closeup that orderly's watch has vanished. (00:03:10)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: After the trio escape from the locked room, Bill tells Captain Crash to stop the President's helicopter, and when it cuts to the long shot of the approaching chopper, a different type of helicopter is in following shots. (00:32:45)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Visible crew/equipment: When Ralph flies up to the President's helicopter to warn the pilot, Ralph circles the aircraft and shouts "Get out of here, dummy," and as the pilot turns his head during this stunt while he's in mid-air, we can see the appearance of filming equipment right outside the cockpit's other open window. (00:33:35)
24th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - S2-E15
Visible crew/equipment: While Bill, Ralph, and Pam are on the Contrail deliberately steering the boat to bait Devereaux's men, the shadows of the cameraman, camera, and equipment are being cast onto Bill and the helm seat in front of Pam. (00:35:30)
24th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Reseda Rose - S1-E6
Visible crew/equipment: While Rose gets ready to leave for work and puts on her jacket she asks Rhonda about her plans for the evening, and the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible at the top, right side of the screen. (00:05:25)
24th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: When everybody returns to the bus, in the closeups of Bill turning the ignition key to no effect, the sleeve we see has navy blue and white stripes, but Bill is wearing a light color blue striped shirt. (00:33:20)
24th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Deliberate mistake: After Ralph puts the suit into the trash can, when it cuts to Stovington Siding with the hijacked trains one of the shots is flipped, note the "102" is backwards. (00:24:40)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Revealing mistake: While they're on Beck's jet Ralph uses the suit's telekinetic powers on the ice-filled cup, and Ralph tells Bill he'll do it again with a magazine, then when it cuts to the first closeup of the magazines the stunt wire attached to the book is visible. (00:15:45)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Bill tells Beck that he's thinking with his "mediocre, uninspired, middle-level mind," it cuts to an exterior shot of Beck's private jet heading to Vegas, but when the jet lands at the airport in the exterior shot it's a different type of jet. Then when Ralph gets the vision he sees Dunn running back toward Beck's jet, and again it's a different type jet. (00:13:40 - 00:16:15)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: While Ralph and Bill are on Beck's private jet, after Dunn tells Ralph how to use the telekinesis powers of the suit, Dunn takes something to read from the clear acrylic magazine holder, but in the following closeups the magazine holder is now black and an entirely different style. (00:15:15)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Beck uses the remote to open the hangar door, as Dunn drives the car into the hangar Bill is sitting in the front passenger seat and Ralph is alone in the back, with the hoods still in place over Ralph's and Bill's heads, but when it cuts to a closeup both hoods have vanished. (00:08:00)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Visible crew/equipment: After Ralph and his students talk about Beck's will being missing the class bell rings. When Ralph says, "Tony, you got a minute," just as he walks over to Tony the microphone pops up into view at the bottom of the screen, and it continues to be seen during their conversation. (00:05:30)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball - S2-E1
Audio problem: When Deborah gets off the phone, she tells Ralph that if they make the deal they can announce it on the Mike Douglas Show, but the problem is each time we hear Ralph say the name "Mike Douglas" we see his mouth actually say "Merv Griffin." (00:13:30)
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