The Avengers

The Avengers (1961)

31 mistakes - chronological order

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The 50,000 Pound Breakfast - S5-E19

Continuity mistake: The clock showing London time is 12.15 when Emma is captured. Shortly after, the ticker timer goes off, it looks like almost 5 or 6 o'clock. But the ticker message is timed at 12.15. A short time later, after the escape, it shows 10.40.

PeterNZ

You Have Just Been Murdered - S5-E21

Continuity mistake: The money boxes Steed is stacking at the end keep changing positions between shots. And though they're supposed to be full of half-penny coins, the ease with which he lifts and carries them makes it obvious that they're empty. (00:49:00)

Jean G

The Positive Negative Man - S5-E22

Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, Dr. Gray works at his drawing board while smoking a cigarette. From one shot to the next, as he looks up at the intruder, the cigarette disappears and he's smoking a pipe instead. (00:01:30)

Jean G

Murdersville - S5-E23

Continuity mistake: When Mrs Peel is driving her friend the Major to Storping in the Swuff her top changes from a light purple colour to red a few times depending on the camera angle. (00:09:00)

The Forget-Me-Knot - S6-E1

Continuity mistake: After being hit by the amnesia dart, Steed falls unconscious with his bowler hat still on his head. But when the enemy agent approaches and shoots him again, his hat is off and he's lying in a completely different position. (00:21:00)

Jean G

Game - S6-E2

Continuity mistake: When the butler shows up at Steed's apartment to kidnap Tara, they fight and her culottes are unfolded at the knee. After he has knocked her out and put the last jigsaw pieces in the puzzle, he goes to pick her up to carry her out, and her culottes have been folded up at the knees with no way for that to have happened.

False Witness - S6-E7

Continuity mistake: When Steed is waiting to catch Mother's special bus. Steed has parked his car fully in the road and by a bus stop sign. As the bus arrives and parks at the kerb, Steed's car has vanished - the bus would otherwise have collided with it.

mr perry

Trivia: Was the first British television show sold to an American network.

hifijohn

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