Peaky Blinders

Episode #2.3 - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: The bullets on the table change positions during the scene after they stopped moving. For example, when Arthur moves the glass, you see 5 between him and the glass. In the next shot, you can't see any of the bullets, even though you see the same area. They're back when she flips the table.

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Dangerous - S4-E4

Visible crew/equipment: An iPhone being held by someone is visible through a window in the top left of the screen during the decoy vehicle scene near the beginning of the episode.

The Company - S4-E6

Factual error: Tommy makes a call during the episode to the USA, there was no system for international calls in 1926 for the general public, that was only introduced in 1927. (00:33:30)

Show generally

Factual error: Filter cigarettes weren't conceived until 1925 and not in common use until decades later. No self-respecting gangster would have smoked them.

Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Factual error: Tommy says that the Chief Constable of Birmingham has issued a warrant for the arrest of Arthur, John, Polly and Michael. Only a magistrate or judge can issue an arrest warrant. The senior officers of the Metropolitan Police were sworn in as magistrates, but not those of other forces.

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Blackbird - S4-E3

Factual error: Arthur is "deputy vice-president" of the Shelby Company Ltd. This is an American position title that would never, ever have been used in 1920s Britain.

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Strategy - S5-E3

Factual error: The on-screen caption when Aberama Gold is in Scotland reads "Glasgow." All we see is rolling countryside, without a city in sight.

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Episode #2.5 - S2-E5

Factual error: The Metropolitan Police officers who arrest Arthur in Camden Town are wearing the spiked helmets of the Birmingham City Police, not the boss-topped helmets of the Metropolitan Police, which we do see at other times.

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Black Tuesday - S5-E1

Factual error: Polly refers to Ada's soon to be born child as "the colour of a Hollywood Oscar." The first time that the statue was referred to as an Oscar was in 1939, so Polly saying that was 10 years too early.

Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Factual error: Tommy refers to London at the south end of the Grand Union canal. However, the Grand Union in 1921/22 was what is now the Leicester branch. The Grand Union as it is known now was an amalgamation of 7 canals in 1929.

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Show generally

Factual error: Throughout the show bottles of liquor have sprout dispensers attached to them. Sprout dispensers were not invented until the 1960s.

Episode #2.2 - S2-E2

Factual error: Tommy tells Churchill that he served at Verdun and several of Churchill's assistants say that they did too. There were no British troops at Verdun. It was a battle between the French and the Germans.

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Factual error: The locomotive used to pull the train is a LMS Black 5. This class of locomotive was not built until 1934, 10 years after the year this episode is set in. (00:32:25 - 00:32:55)

Grace Burgess: You think I am a whore?
Tommy Shelby: Everyone's a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves.

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Episode #2.1 - S2-E1

Question: In the street scene with the three brothers leaving in a car for London, the car has 'Fiat' the grille. In the next scene with the car, there is nothing on the grille. Could they have had this car, at that time? After all there was mention of 'Bugatti' at least he beginning of the same episode. Would a Lanchester made in Sparkbrook be more likely?

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