Visible crew/equipment: When John-Boy asks Esther to help him with his story she replies that she'll tell him about it later, and in the next shot of Liv and John, filming equipment is visible at the right side of the screen. (00:04:15)
Super Grover
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After John-Boy quietly leaves his home to search for his sister it cuts to a long shot of Jamie and Mary Ellen, and at the lower right side of the screen we can see a crew member wearing eyeglasses moving around, with equipment in front of him. (00:34:50)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the Charlottesville taxi parks in front of Godsey's store the taxi door opens, and the reflection of a crew member is visible on the door's window. (00:02:40)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Sinner - S1-E8
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, while Miss Prissom and Matthew Fordwick are driving to the Waltons they are alone in the vehicle, but when Miss Prissom tells Matthew about the Buddhists from her village, we can see the hand of a crew member moving around behind Miss Prissom. (00:02:25)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the Colonel tastes the Recipe and asks about it, when Polonius tells his friend that the "secret" is the Recipe machine, the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible over Polonius. (00:31:10)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Miss Hunter tells the class that the spell down between the finalists will continue the next day, when it cuts to the long shot of the kids coming home, we can see the crew's production truck at the top, right side of the screen. (00:17:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Carnival - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Esther breaks her eyeglasses, in the closeup as John-Boy picks it up half of its right lens is gone, but in the wideshot as he hands the glasses to Olivia that lens is still intact. (00:03:20)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Carnival - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: While John and Zeb are making the train arrangements with Sam, just as Zeb calls Homer an old priss Sam opens the clock dial's top hinged glass door in the wideshot, but in his next closeup that door is suddenly shut and it's the pendulum's bottom glass door which is now wide open. (00:29:55)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
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)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Ep comes to take Holly away John changes his mind, and when he invites Ep for coffee we can see the T-mark (plastic type) on the ground, where Esther and Zeb will stand in a moment. (00:14:45)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story - S1-E1
Visible crew/equipment: When Olivia calls for John-Boy he jumps from his bed and hides his journal, then as he heads to the door the shadow of the boom mic dips way down into view. (00:27:25)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story - S1-E1
Visible crew/equipment: While John-Boy is upstairs writing in his journal about growing taller, when it cuts to Esther and Zeb downstairs, the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible just as Olivia wonders about John-Boy's whereabouts. (00:48:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
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)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
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)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth and Corabeth are up late because they can't sleep, Corabeth prepares two glasses of milk and walks toward Elizabeth, but the amount of milk in both glasses increases significantly between shots. (00:34:50)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
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)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After John says grace at supper, in all the wideshots facing the entire family, a crew member is visible just sitting on one of the armchairs in the living room, at the left side of the screen. (00:26:45)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Kinfolk - S8-E3
Visible crew/equipment: When Jeffrey begrudgingly mows the grass, the bulging outline of the mic transmitter is visible at his lower back. (00:36:20)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Home Front: Part 1 - S8-E1
Visible crew/equipment: When Cindy snaps at Jim-Bob as he and Elizabeth walk out of the door, the shadow of the boom mic is visible on the door, at the right side of the screen, just as Ben greets Cindy. Then when the couple enter the kitchen, the shadow of the boom mic appears over the sink. (00:36:45)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Home Front: Part 1 - S8-E1
Revealing mistake: At the start, while John and Olivia are in the vehicle driving home, the edge of the rear projection screen is visible at both the left and right sides of the screen. (00:02:45)
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