Visible crew/equipment: After the shots of Olivia and John singing in the truck, when Mary Ellen wishes her parents were home, in the tracking shot as the camera moves past the vehicle, we can see reflections of equipment and the camera operator wearing a hat. Also, the T-mark (plastic type) is visible on the ground where Mary Ellen stops, before she sees Verdie. (00:14:50)
Super Grover
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Olivia is on the porch with Jim-Bob, Ben, and Jason, the shadow of the boom mic is moving at the left side of the screen, just as the young men start walking away to do some chores. (00:22:10)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Parting - S7-E15
Visible crew/equipment: When Corabeth and Ike check on the Walton kids, as Corabeth gives them the stew, the black T-mark is visible on the floor near Corabeth's feet. (00:26:55)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Parting - S7-E15
Continuity mistake: When John gets back from the business trip, in the exterior shot he carries one suitcase up the steps then enters the home, but in the interior shot as he walks inside it's a different suitcase. (00:09:05)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Parting - S7-E15
Visible crew/equipment: After Elizabeth shares with Olivia some details of learning to cook with Esther, Olivia tells her daughter that she has come down from her treehouse (a poignant compliment). In the next shot, when John drives up to the home, crew reflections are visible on the vehicle's windows. (00:08:55)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Pin-Up - S7-E17
Visible crew/equipment: When John overhears Erin practicing her speech for the soldiers, as he walks into the bedroom the shadow of the boom mic is visible at the top, right corner of the screen. (00:36:45)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Attack - S7-E18
Visible crew/equipment: Despite Elizabeth's objections Jim-Bob sells old Blue to Clarence, and in the next shot as Erin and Jason walk to the vehicle, the moving boom mic is reflected on the chrome surface. Then as Jason drives away, the reflection of location lighting is visible on the vehicle's rear window. (00:09:55)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Callie throws the glass mug at John, when it cuts to John talking to Olivia on the telephone, a corner of the lighting equipment is visible at the top, right side of the screen. (00:16:40)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Callie compliments Elizabeth and leaves the store, Corabeth asks, "Who is that female," and when Ike answers the question he walks around to the back of the counter, and the shadow of the boom mic is visible on the mail room wall, at the right side of the screen. (00:14:30)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Elizabeth and Cindy are at Ike's getting decorations for the canteen, when Ike gets reacquainted with Callie and they're talking, two black tape marks on the floor where Elizabeth and Cindy are standing. (00:13:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Diploma - S8-E4
Visible crew/equipment: While Mary Ellen takes over Nora's job by visiting the people of Blue Ridge's backwoods hollows, when Mary Ellen mounts the horse we can see the bulging outline of the mic transmitter at her back, such as when she leaves Grandma Floyd after giving her the roses. (00:21:30)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: In the day room, after Jason calls Toni out on her crabbiness, he tells her that he's crazy about her and walks out. Then when Toni sits down at the piano, the shadow of the boom mic is visible on the wall. (00:29:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth walks out to the porch, she stands beside Zadok holding one apple in each hand in the wideshot, but in the medium shot both apples are in her left hand, but next shot it's back to one apple in each hand. (00:16:40)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While John-Boy is on his way to the library he drops his books just as he sees Selina, then when he picks them up and heads inside, the reflections of the camera and a crew member are visible on the left door. (00:17:15)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Selina finishes the exam she shows up late to meet John-Boy, and when she enters the cafeteria there's a T-mark on the floor where she stands. (00:29:30)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Conflict - S3-E1
Other mistake: While Martha Corinne is standing in front of the bathroom sink in the new house, we see her height compared to the mirrored medicine cabinet above the sink, and Martha Corinne is quite a bit shorter than the mirror's knob, even with her bonnet. When she reaches up to open the cabinet door, in the next closeup from behind her she is now taller than that knob. For this specific closeup The Actress was presumably standing on a stool, in order to have the perfect shot of her turning her head, then being surprised by her own reflection in the mirror. (00:54:00)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Conflict - S3-E1
Visible crew/equipment: While Esther is pointing out of the features of the new house's bathroom to Martha Corinne, two tape marks are visible on the bathroom floor in front of John and Olivia's feet. Then after Martha Corinne turns the lights on and off a few times, as they all walk toward the kitchen there are white tape marks visible on the kitchen's linoleum floor. (00:53:50)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Conflict - S3-E1
Visible crew/equipment: After Blake and the U.S. Marshals show up for the final standoff, when John-Boy runs over to stop Blake's truck, the reflection of a crew member is visible on the left side of the windshield. (01:29:50)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Conflict - S3-E1
Visible crew/equipment: Before Martha Corinne gets in the truck, when Mary Ellen tells Jim-Bob and Ben to quit eating all the berries she takes the bucket away, and as Jason turns around we can see the shadow of the moving boom mic on the seat at the back of the truck. The reflections of crew are visible on the cabin's window. (00:31:30)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Conflict - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Boone Walton's truck license plate number is T98254. When Blake and the U.S. Marshals drive up for the final standoff, Blake's truck license plate number is also T98254. When John-Boy runs up to Blake's truck to confront him, his front license plate number has changed again to T79825 (same as earlier, when Blake unloaded explosives), which is also the same plate number that was on another man's truck near the start of the episode. Finally, when the shooting starts and Blake's truck swerves to a stop, the back plate number is T37982. (01:27:55)
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