The Campout - S2-E5
Factual error: This episode takes place almost entirely in the mountains. In Minnesota where the show is set, there are no mountains as tall as shown, particularly those that are snow-capped and rocky. The show was shot in California.
Continuity mistake: When Mary falls down the hill, her glasses land in the grass flat against the ground. In later scenes, the glasses are standing up with the arms of the glasses stuck in the grass so that the sun can shine through them to light the grass on fire. (00:49:00 - 00:55:00)
Come, Let Us Reason Together - S7-E13
Continuity mistake: By this episode, the restaurant windows have been displayed as Caroline's restaurant (replacing Nellie's). Although most scenes here correctly display Caroline's, one scene that starts from the outside with the horses riding by, the windows still display Nellie's (happens about 3 times this episode - the last time is shown just before Nellie and Percival are laughing on the bed).
The Raccoon - S1-E10
Character mistake: Charles takes a bowl of water to Jack. Jack steps away from the water, and doesn't drink. Then a couple of scenes later, when Caroline and Charles are in the barn, Mary comes out and says Laura is thirsty. Caroline starts crying and says that Dr. Baker says that it's a sign, but a sign of rabies is actually when the person or animal doesn't want water. At one point, it was called hydrophobia because of the fear of water. (00:38:26)
The Raccoon - S1-E10
Factual error: Laura and Caroline are playing a word association game about beverages and Laura says "orange juice, " which wasn't used by Americans until the 1920s. Any earlier than that, oranges were a luxury not available to farmers in Minnesota.
Christmas At Plum Creek - S1-E14
Character mistake: When Charles explains to Carrie about Christmas, he mentions 3 kings and 3 wise men. The bible refers to them as Magi or Wise Men and no clear evidence on whether there were just 3, or if they were even kings. Putting aside the number of visitors and what they were called, it's either kings or wise men, but not both.
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2) - S6-E26
Other mistake: Charles has just brought Adam a letter to the site of the blind school rebuild. When Adam is told that his father died, he and Mary walk away from Charles. The terrain was very uneven. Being blind they realistically wouldn't be able to navigate it without stumbling.
A Christmas They Never Forgot - S8-E11
Continuity mistake: Every time they go outside during the blizzard, the keep talking about taking in wood, but yet the wood pile never changes throughout the whole show.
Revealing mistake: The guys get the pregnant girl and her kids 50 lbs pounds of flour. She goes outside, people are talking about her and she runs. You can see tire tracks in the dirt road.
Character mistake: In one scene during a rescue attempt for Carrie, Mr. Loudy says to Charles, "It will be dark soon." However, after an immediate camera angle change, it's revealed to be not just broad daylight but, looking at everyone's shadows, it's mid-day (around noon). There will be many hours of daylight left, so Loudy was way off with this comment.
Deliberate mistake: The house is in a field with no lights around it and should be dark at night, but during exterior shots at night, the house is always lit up on the outside and the interior shots always show very bright lights coming into every window (much brighter than when shown from the outside). There would not be lights that bright shining into the house during that time period. Obviously, just an effect so viewers can physically see the house and characters talking.
Factual error: For comedic effect, an unknown Colonel Sanders walks up to the restaurant to talk about making it a chicken restaurant. This episode takes place in the mid-1880s. In real life, Colonel Sanders wasn't born until 1890 (a few years later).
I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away (1) - S4-E21
Factual error: This episode takes place just after Grace was born (1877). Mary would have been 12 during this time frame, but she is portraying a 15-year-old.
As Long As We're Together (1) - S5-E1
Factual error: The start of season 5 took place in 1881 (the year Mary first went to the blind school). In 1881, Grace (born in 1877) would have been around 4 years old by then, but she is shown as a baby in the series.
Continuity mistake: In the scene showing the kids on the caboose as Charles tries talking to them from the train, the sun is on one side of the kids; then, a short time later in the same scene, it's on the opposite side of the kids (the caboose never made any turns in this scene).
Visible crew/equipment: When Charles takes off in the wagon after talking to Garvey, you can see the shadow of a boom mic on the ground amongst the other shadows for several seconds.
Continuity mistake: After the stagecoach falls and eventually lands, we first see the side of it (where Adam is) and it's fully in the shade. Then, in a later scene, the same side is fully in the sun, and then eventually in the shade again.
Other mistake: They mention baby Rose is about a year old when baby boy Wilder is born and his headstone reads, born August 12, died August 24, 1889. Then when Rose is taken, Charles announces it's the year 1896 in the introduction. She would have to be almost seven years old and not a toddler when she was snatched.
Suggested correction: If this timeframe of the kidnapping Rose was in 1896, she would have been even older. She would be 9 (or 10 if after Dec 5th of that year), not 7. She was born Dec 5, 1886.
Revealing mistake: In the episode where Baby Rose is sick with smallpox, you can see part of a modern disposable diaper under her cloth diaper when Doc Baker is checking for blisters.
Other mistake: When Charles takes a horse to chase after Carrie in the hot air balloon, they use a stunt double. He's not even dressed like Charles. Then a few minutes later, they use the exact same stunt man to jump on the hot air balloon. Just looks silly.
Suggested correction: Charles was riding with the firefighters. It wasn't Charles that took the horse - it was Patrick (Mary's friend) who took it. However, yes, there easily appeared a stunt double who looked much older and heavier than Patrick trying to actually pull the balloon down (who easily could have been mistaken for Charles).
