NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
139 mistakes
Starring: David McCallum, Lauren Holly, Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette
New this month Factual error: When Tim is tracing the British agent's mobile phone it shows that the number traced is a British land line number (01632) not a mobile number (starting 07...). The number is also seven digits long, not six as is the format in the UK.
Continuity mistake: 5-4: Identity Crisis. When Ziva is speaking with McGee her lapel changes from being turned up and laying down.
Continuity mistake: In one scene, McGee asks DiNozzo what Abby looks like. But jut a few minutes earlier, McGee saw her when Gibbs and his team videoconferenced with her.
The Truth Is Out There - S1-E17
Revealing mistake: Gibbs finds a bunch of cash hidden in the victim's speaker. "For Motion Picture Use Only" is printed on them.
Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Tony approaches the Mallard residence by car for the first time, there is a stage light, complete with filter(?) on the balcony.
Continuity mistake: "Stakeout": When he hands Tony the autopsy report, Ducky has hair falling over his forehead, then combed back, then over his forehead again repeatedly from shot to shot.
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs is on the phone with Stan Burley, Gibbs' phone jumps from his right hand to his left.
Continuity mistake: Episode 6x21, "Legend (Part 1)": when Tony shows Chandler's boarding pass to McGee for photo evidence, Tony's hand moves from holding the upper edge to the lower edge.
Continuity mistake: When Tony enters the NCIS interrogation room with Fornell, he sits down and places his bag of potato chips on the table. In the next shot, the bag has disappeared, he removes it from his jacket pocket, and places it on the table again.
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs stops Sgt. Roberts from killing his neighbor, he holds out his ID badge. His hand jumps from the top of the wallet to the bottom, then back to the top.
Continuity mistake: When Tony receives a phone call while talking to the two teenagers, he holds the receiver to his ear with his hand. In the next shot, his hand has disappeared, and he's cradling the receiver with his shoulder.
Continuity mistake: When McGee and Ziva are headed toward the sensitivity training seminar, and they notice Tony hitting on a woman at the top of the stairwell, Tony has a document in his right hand, which then jumps to his left, and then back to his right.
Continuity mistake: 7.05 - Code of Conduct. Gibbs and Tony go to question a marine who is exercising. The sweat stains on his shirt get much bigger and smaller, as well as change shapes, throughout the interview.
Plot hole: Near the end of the episode when Tony and Ziva are fleeing from the building where they were held captive, Gibbs appears from nowhere to save their lives. But just moments before, Gibbs was more than a mile away, acting as a sniper.
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs is comparing McGee to the FBI agent's ID badge, Gibbs' left hand disappears from the bottom of the badge.
Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Gibbs and Ziva are in the "safehouse" Ziva set up for Ari, a crew member and his camera are seen on the left of the screen, right before Gibbs climbs the ladder to remove the hidden camera spying on them.
Yankee White - S1-E1
Factual error: Air Force One landed in Wichita, Kansas. The local coroner claimed jurisdiction for Wichita County. The city of Wichita, Kansas is in Sedgwick County, in southern Kansas. Wichita County, Kansas is in western Kansas, about 250 miles from the city of Wichita.
Factual error: The season 5 episode "Designated Target" deals with the murder of a Navy admiral and the cab driver transporting him through Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. Late in the episode, the investigators try to get a lead on another cab driver by tapping into the records from taxi meters. The problem is, DC cabs don't yet have meters. Congress banned them in 1933, but legislation passed this year now gives the DC government authority to install meters. And in fact, just days before this episode aired in Nov 2007, DC's mayor announced plans to switch from the zone system to meters by April 2008.
Anonymous Was a Woman - S11-E4
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Tony and Gibbs are riding together and Tony is eating a sandwich, it starts about half gone, the angle changes and there is only a bite gone, the angle changes again and it is about half gone again.
Lost at Sea - S10-E4
Character mistake: During the interrogation of Petty Officer Sparks, JAG Officer Lieutenant Nora Patel says "Lieutenant Sparks has a right to legal counsel."
