Magnum, P.I.

Ghost Writer - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: When Magnum grabs Virginia for the 'exercise' meant to fool the camera, she trips on Farber's flipflops. When the security guy is checking the room out from the camera, the shoes and Virginia's handbag are in different positions. (00:39:10)

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Ghost Writer - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: As Magnum and the unlikely bunch of characters he picked up along the way reach the roof and move up a flight of stairs, the shadows on the cement change drastically in the aerial shot. (00:44:50)

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The Jororo Kill - S2-E12

Continuity mistake: Magnum checks out of the photo Kate Sullivan gave him. First shot and close-up, he's looking at it holding it between his fingers, placed on the side. Next, he's holding it in one hand by the bottom. (00:10:50)

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The Jororo Kill - S2-E12

Continuity mistake: In the scene with Mac and Rick fishing at the marina, continuity is all over the place as far as their hand movements is concerned; they move the fishing line with one hand that becomes the other in the next shot, several times. (00:13:00)

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The Jororo Kill - S2-E12

Continuity mistake: Kate Sullivan is interviewing the Prime Minister. Notice the position of the cane next to the end of the armrest at the beginning, and then when she is called to the phone; the cane is now at a different angle on the opposite end. (00:20:00)

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The Jororo Kill - S2-E12

Continuity mistake: Magnum drops by at the hotel where he expect to find Kate and the Jororo delegation. As he pulls over in front of it, there are two elder ladies walking by, away from the hotel. One of them is wearing bright yellow pants and a very colourful top with horizontal stripes. Magnum gets into the hotel, and one of the extras he walks past right as he approaches the concierge, is that lady. And the other lady she was walking with, in a blue dress with white and red palms, is at the same desk. (00:21:45)

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Computer Date - S2-E13

Continuity mistake: Magnum and the corporate executive are having a chat after the board meeting. Throughout the scene, the same extras (starting with a man in a blue shirt and camel shorts, a man with a brown pattern shirt, a woman with a baggy sand dress) walk back and forth over and over in the mall or behind them at the tables. (00:08:00)

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Computer Date - S2-E13

Continuity mistake: In the very brief dinner when Claudia tells Rick that it's over between them, she casts a shadow behind her in close-ups, all the way to the left in the other shots. The difference in ambient lighting of the whole table spot is significant too. (00:18:20)

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Computer Date - S2-E13

Continuity mistake: Magnum is in James Randolph's office and 'the new guy' is talking to him. He says he disagrees on Magnum's hypothesis; in the transition both him and Randolph have very different positions, with Randolph's hand on the glass and arm raised differently, and J. Weston Reese's arms from crossed in front, to his pockets. (00:26:45)

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Computer Date - S2-E13

Continuity mistake: Higgins hobbles towards the club's beach bar in his horrid state (you'd think he wouldn't be caught dead looking so ridiculous) and starts reminiscing about the war and trying to mooch a cigarette. In the background, the same blonde with a black bikini hops over the wall twice, and same for the Asian with a blue/black swimsuit. Moreover, a girl in a red bikini and yellow towel keeps making back and forth walks by the surf on the beach. (00:29:30)

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Almost Home - S3-E10

Magnum: I could appeal to his heart.
Lieutenant Maggie Poole: Yeah. And his stomach.
Magnum: Oh, come on! That food stuff, that was just an excuse. Listen, underneath that stomach was a heart as big as...that stomach.
(00:38:20)

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