Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Factual error: At the end of the episode, Rockford regains consciousness while the doctor tells the nurse; "500 cc of adrenaline, stat." Five hundred cc means half a litre. It would kill a whale. (00:43:45)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: At the hospital, Charlotte Duskey takes a dramatic pause before saying "The money was mine." First shot; hands on her chest. Second, no hands. (00:40:20)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Revealing mistake: Harry Stoner is unconscious when Rockford and Sandra push him into the overhead couchette, but you can see his head raise independently from Rockford's sideways push shortly after he lands in it. (00:35:50)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Revealing mistake: Rockford and Sandra have conned the conductor into going back to Agent Stoner. An outside shot of the train shows the wagons with mirrored numbers. (00:34:05)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Rockford asks his client if she ever played doctor. What follows is a shot of the train during the night, but it's reversed - the train number is mirrored. It was not when the train was getting into the station. (00:31:50)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Stoner is getting his train ticket. Two guys get theirs before he does and take a seat. One has dark shades and a dark green pattern shirt, the other a hat and a yellow shirt. Those guys make their exit in the background when Rockford is on the phone with Joe Baron Jr, two times several seconds apart. A girl with a teal dress was also in their first shot and she as well leaves at least two times. (00:27:40)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: When Rockford gets "damn tired" of the pursuer and builds speed in reverse, the guy in the car reacts right before the cut moving the right hand away from the wheel to switch gear. In following shots though, he is still being slow, frozen with both hands on the wheel and only after another while coming to his senses and attempting to put the vehicle in reverse as well. (00:23:50)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Rockford and his client are having lunch with Harry Stoner. When Sandra says "I've known Charlie Duskey..." her hand is at the bottom of the cup, while in the previous and following angle her finger is at the top. (00:25:35)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Factual error: This episode takes place in Elmira, California. Sandra tells Rockford that it is about 150 miles south. Rockford is in Los Angeles (it is later confirmed that so is Sandra, Longview to be precise) and Elmira is in Solano County, about 400 miles north.
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Sandra eats a pickle teasing Rockford about his lack of printed fee card. The pickle is lowered or raised depending on the camera angle, first showing the end she chewed on, then the opposite. (00:06:25)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Sandra is explaining to Rockford pyramid as a "copywriting word." She puts on the table the glass, but she repeats the same gesture at the cut. Similar mistake later, when he explains his need for a "professional arrangement." Her hand is limp in midair by the glass, firmly around the glass at the cut. (00:05:25)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Audio problem: When Rockford is having his no dill lunch with Sandra Turkel, the audio, in particular at the beginning of the scene, changes ambience noticeably when the camera angle changes - not quite justified, they are sitting at the same cafe table. (00:05:20)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: When Rockford is eating with Sandra, extras appear with wild inconsistencies - for instance, the woman at the table behind her, is one of the extras walking behind Rockford in a reverse shot. (00:05:30)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Rockford gets a grazing bullet wound to the right of his skull; he puts his hand to his right temple and had it been the left side, he would have been dead, looking at the angle. But in the rest of the episode turns out that he was shot in the left temple after all. (00:03:30)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: When Rockford lifts the coffin from the ground, the rope is tied in different ways between shots (in the wider angle there are loose ends not present in close-up). (00:03:10)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Deliberate mistake: When the workers hit the coffin lid with the shovel, it is (obviously) fully buried and they moved just a little bit of soil off it. Rockford moves closer, and instantly the inside of the coffin is covered by the thinnest layer of dust, uniformly. (00:02:30)
Tall Woman in Red Wagon - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: The two workers inside the grave place their shovel parallel to the hole, but when Rockford sets up the contraption around it, the shovel is at 90°. (00:02:40)
Continuity mistake: In the hotel room, Jim spots the gun under the curtain. The gun is underneath a concave pleat of the curtain in the wide angle, convex in the close-ups. (00:04:25)
Continuity mistake: Escaping the bare-bellied killer in his truck, Rockford drives through an industrial site (lumber yard, turns out). A worker dives out of the way. Then there's a close-up of James Garner vigorously turning the wheel, but in the shot showing the road, the truck actually goes ahead a few meters still, perfectly straight, before the turn occurs. (00:41:40)
Audio problem: Driving his dad's pickup, Rockford gets flanked by one of the worst dressed killers in history. The guy shoots him about 3 times, but the audio is at really low level for a revolver shot from a couple of meters of distance and there's no flash or smoke indicating that any shot in fact is fired. Combined with the fact that it's preposterous that the guy could miss from such a short range and no arm/body movement is present, it's an adequate guess to imagine that the sounds have been added in post to add some sense of danger and were not planned when shooting the actual scene. (00:41:20)
