Character mistake: At the Life Guard Trials, Kelly is the first Angel to arrive. She finishes 20th. Then, four other competitors arrive (21st / 22nd / 23rd / 24th). Then, Kris arrives. The judge says to her "You're 23." (00:11:15)
Continuity mistake: During the scene where the Angels are being driven out into the desert to be killed, they are chained together. They reach over the front seat and choke the Sheriff and Deputy. In the close up shot, they pull their heads back with the chains. The Sheriff's hands go up in the air. In the long shot, the person driving and passenger are sitting normally and steering the vehicle.
Character mistake: The German dialogue between the ringmaster and the knife-thrower makes sense, but the words are spoken in a very awful way - hardly learned by heart and so wrongly pronounced, No German talks like that. (00:20:47 - 00:21:09)
Continuity mistake: The Angels are talking about Seth, a man who has just disappeared. They watch a picture of him. In the long shots, the picture is always held horizontally. But in a close shot it is held vertically. (00:06:20)
Magic Fire - S2-E13
Character mistake: Bosley and the Angels are in the office and they discuss the case they have just solved. Bosley calls Charlie "Charles", which despite being correct is definitely odd. Nobody has ever called Charlie by his given name. (00:45:50)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, Inga is wearing a purge mask. When she goes underwater, she is wearing a completely different mask that has no purge valve.
Visible crew/equipment: After Jill tells Kelly that she'll lend her a T-shirt to help zero in on Dirko, when it cuts to Kelly having car trouble with the VW, the reflection of the boom pole/mic is visible on the rear glass. Then, both Kelly and Dirko go to the Beetle's rear engine, and three chalk T-marks are visible on the ground.
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, when Kale approaches Suzy the reflection of the moving boom pole/mic is visible on the car's windshield. (00:02:00)
Angels Ahoy - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: Kris holds a piece of paper with her left hand and a bag with her right hand. In the following shot, she holds the piece of paper with both hands. (00:23:50)
Continuity mistake: When you see Julie's backside as she's choking their client her hair's different. Clearly this is actress Tanya Robert's stunt double.
Revealing mistake: When Julie's attacking their client and choking him with her arms locked, they're nowhere near his throat.
Angels in Paradise (2) - S2-E2
Revealing mistake: When the naked Kris runs out of the nudist colony, you can see the white towel she is wearing. (00:18:47)
Continuity mistake: Pilot Episode: The Angels have gathered and the slideshow with the mission briefing is starting. Kate Jackson turns around and puts her glass next to the ink stamp, but when the desk is shown at an angle from the front displaying projector, Bosley and the guy with the horrible 'do that won't be in the rest of the series, then the glass is not present. (00:04:00)
Continuity mistake: Bosley is speaking to Sabrina from the agency. He is using a white phone receiver. Sabrina asks him to run the plates for a vehicle. Bosley picks up a red phone receiver. He then speaks to Sabrina using the white phone. She tells him to call the highway patrol and hangs up. Bosley then picks up the red phone, but proceeds to use the white phone's keypad to make the call to the highway patrol. (00:32:55)
Visible crew/equipment: Nearing the end of the show, the angels and Bosley are in the office and Bosley turns left out of the door. A second after he turns, a shadow that is shorter, wider, and very different, comes from the right in the hallway outside the door and walks towards Bosley heading left. Clearly not his shadow.
Continuity mistake: After Sabrina gets off the phone with Faylon, when she leaves her hotel room we see the exterior side of the door and its door knob. Later, when Sabrina returns to her room the doorjamb/casing, wall, and door knob are not the same in the closeup as she fiddles with the lock. Sabrina's ring vanishes in the closeup as well. (00:15:20 - 00:21:15)
Continuity mistake: In some shots, Jaclyn Smith wears earrings. In other shots, she doesn't. (00:24:00 - 00:38:25)
Continuity mistake: In some shots, Jody Miller's nails are painted. In other shots, her nails are not painted. (00:10:45)
Continuity mistake: Look at Bosley's jacket. In some shots, the sleeve of the shirt comes out of the jacket. In others, it doesn't. (00:20:50)
Continuity mistake: Tiffany and Kelly have a car accident (orange Pinto). Back in the office, Kelly says, "I'm afraid the car is a bit of a mess", underlining the fact that it is not in good condition. However, the previous shot has shown the orange Pinto in perfect condition, parked in front of the office. (00:28:55)
Answer: After going through a number of cast changes that failed to improve the show's slumping ratings, Tanya Roberts' character was added as "street-wise" former model. This was probably an effort to give a different and edgier character dimension to the show.
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