The Waltons

The Waltons (1972)

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The Foundling - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: After Elizabeth tells her mother that nobody cares about her, while she sulks on the porch there's a wideshot of the girls playing catch with Holly, then as the camera is dollying out Holly's mother comes into view at the left and she's wearing a sweater, but in the next closeup the sweater has vanished. (00:32:40)

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The Hostage - S9-E21

Continuity mistake: In this episode the hidden door to the "secret recipe room" is controlled by pressing the top right panel on the wall. But pressing that top panel should not open or close the door. In 9x12 "The Hot Rod," when they first discover the "ingenius" panel, it is only the panel second from the top that works, none of the other panels control the "secret" door when Ike and Miss Emily press them. (00:20:05)

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The Hostage - S9-E21

Continuity mistake: After the explosion in the Recipe room, when Octavia opens the hidden door there is no molding at the top of the door in the shot from the foyer, but in the next shot from inside the "secret" room, as Octavia enters the room, there is molding along the top of that door. (00:20:45)

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The Parting - S7-E15

Visible crew/equipment: After Olivia lays down on the beach while John continues to fish, when it cuts to Ike and Corabeth on the motorcycle and sidecar, a director's chair (beside the normal Walton lawn chair) is visible at the left side of the screen, just as they turn toward the home. (00:25:50)

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The Home Front: Part 2 - S8-E2

Visible crew/equipment: After Calvin makes more threatening remarks to John in front of Godsey's store, when Ike asks John if Calvin threatened him again, Ike turns to watch John walk away, and the tip of the hidden microphone is visible inside Ike's shirt, under his bow tie.

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The Home Front: Part 2 - S8-E2

Visible crew/equipment: When Ike removes the gas pump from John's truck he turns to put it away, and the black wire as well as the bulging outline of the mic transmitter are visible at the back of his waist. Then after John pays Ike for the gas, Calvin pulls alongside John just as he reaches up to wipe his truck's windshield, and we can see the bulging outline of the mic transmitter and its wire on John's back.

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The Innocents - S8-E5

Visible crew/equipment: After Olivia nearly hits the boys who ran in front of the vehicle, she gives the children a lift back to Pickett, and as Olivia and Cindy drive away from Godsey's, the reflections of a few crew members are visible on the vehicle's windows. (00:05:10)

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The Innocents - S8-E5

Revealing mistake: When Anna Mae appears at the bedroom doorway John sees the cute quiet girl, then as John walks toward her he passes the dresser's mirror, and we can see in the reflection the end of the set wall behind him. (00:14:30)

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The Innocents - S8-E5

Continuity mistake: When Olivia tells Erin that she will handle J.D., in the exterior shot Olivia walks into Pickett's Tavern empty handed, but in the next interior shot Olivia suddenly has a black purse in her hand as she walks in. (00:34:50)

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The Starlet - S8-E6

Visible crew/equipment: While the Hollywood camera crew are at the Pickett plant filming their heavy box scene, when Larry, their cameraman, is walking backwards the bulge of the hidden mic transmitter is visible at the right side of the actor's waist, along with its wire running up his back to his shoulder. (00:06:35)

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The Journal - S8-E7

Visible crew/equipment: When Ben parks the truck in front of The House Jeffrey rushes over, and as Ben lifts Reckless from the truck's flatbed we can see the T-mark drawn onto the dirt ground, which is precisely where Mary Ellen stands while they talk about Reckless. (00:25:45)

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The Violated - S8-E9

Visible crew/equipment: At the Thatcher farm, when Mary Ellen introduces her mother to Darcy the tip of the microphone is visible under Olivia's blouse, near the collar. Then when Darcy opens her door, that mic is visible again as Mary Ellen asks if she and Olivia could come in. (00:12:05)

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John Walton: I hate this draft job, Liv. I can't stand playing God to my neighbors' sons.

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The Outrage: Part 1 - S9-E1

Trivia: While everyone is at the table eating supper and talking, little John Curtis taps on John's shoulder, then John turns and asks "What?" John Curtis points to his pants and excitedly says, "I got new pants," and John says, "I see that. Who got you those? Your mommy?" Then John Curtis looks offscreen, away from the other actors on set, and replies, "No, from Pat," (no characters named Pat are on the show) and without missing a beat, John responds, "From Pat? Where does she live? On the next farm?" And John Curtis answers, "Yeah," amidst all the giggles we can hear, so John answers with a smirk, "Okay, good!" This is such a hilariously precious unscripted moment, and great they decided to leave it in the episode. (00:26:15)

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