Magnum, P.I.
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Ki'is Don't Lie - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: When Magnum jumps over the garden wall, he bumps into rolled up rugs, unfurling one. Which looks the same way at the end of the scene when the same camera angle is used. But the middle part of the scene is shot in a different angle, closer to Tom Selleck's face as he crawls to Higgins and gets up, and in that angle the rugs are piled together in a different way, with the unrolled rug draped over the others. (00:41:35)

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Ki'is Don't Lie - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: In the lengthy scene with the suave Simon brother at the gate, he is always holding the second bar to the left in the wider angles, the third in closer shots. (00:19:25)

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Ki'is Don't Lie - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: When Higgins reminisces with A.J. Simon about his run-in in chemin de fer with Ferdinand II, he is holding his flashlight horizontal, pointed at Jameson Parker, but at the cut he is pointing downwards at the map. Jameson Parker is also holding the map differently, with his 3 last fingers joined together at first, spread wider apart in the other shot. (00:20:25)

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Ki'is Don't Lie - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: When Higgins calls Magnum's grasp of human nature "preadolescent" there's a cut where Magnum's hands are positioned differently on the top of the paddle shaft. Throughout the whole scene there are other position shifts which are if not impossible (Magnum's hands remain off frame at least for a moment), unlikely and consistent within angle taken separately. (00:08:40)

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Ki'is Don't Lie - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: When the Hawaiian approaches the antiquarian at the beginning of the episode, which tells him that indeed had the statue of the Poison God, the handkerchief in his hand is held differently between shots; at the cut the hankie sticks out from the bottom of the fist, did not at the beginning. (00:03:00)

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Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: When Rick reminds Magnum the codes for their last 'Nam mission, he's on Magnum's right and Magnum's microphone is on the left side of his jaw. When Magnum talks to TC convincing him not to fire, Rick is on Magnum's left and their microphones are on the right side. (01:27:00)

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Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: Nuzo is at TC's arming himself like in 'Nam. There's a beer cooler on the table; he does not touch it but when the other two 'Nam buddies arrive the cooler moved. Also, there's a cassette player by him implying that he is listening to "Satisfaction", which he hums some verses to. However, there is no further showing of the tape player later and the song eventually fades without anyone removing the object. (00:55:50)

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Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: At the airbase, Greene is reporting to his superior, who suggests him to let Magnum in on the danger. The actors were positioned differently on the location and/or time elapsed during the scene, because the Admiral's head casts a shadow right on his collar and behind his neck in the close-ups, while his back and collar are fully in the sun in the wider views. (00:51:00)

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Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: Magnum walks in on Greene checking out Mac's corpse in Trauma. During the scene Magnum' sling looks different in different angles; in the close-ups bandage going down the left side of his neck and shoulders are visible, but absent in the other shots before and after. (00:43:40)

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Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: At the Boom Boom Room (at least that's how Higgins christens it) the waitress serves drinks to Magnum, his date and the third candle. The woman plucks away all the straws and decorations while Thomas takes one of those fake tiny sips from his bottle. At the cut, the stick the pineapple is on switched side of the glass, and her hand clawed around the glass has the fingers spread in different fashion. (00:35:40)

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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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A.A.P.I. - S7-E5

Trivia: At the awards ceremony, three men seated at a table together resemble three detectives from 1970s TV shows. Detective Mike Stone (played by Karl Malden) from ABC's Streets of San Francisco; Detective Frank Columbo (played by Peter Falk) from NBC's Columbo; and Detective Theo Kojak (played by Telly Savalas) from CBS's Kojak. (00:07:20)

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