Major Errors

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Okay, I have pointed out the timeline not being linear (skipping from 1874 back to 1872), anachronisms, even hair continuity, but the single hugest blooper I have seen yet was in Season 3, episode 13 (overall episode 69), "The Night of the Turncoat." Jim goes alone on a highly dangerous mission involving diving into an underwater tank. Visible for at least several seconds in one shot is a man in a very modern diving outfit. It is black in dark water but still obviously visible. I'm pretty sure this wasn't part of the camera crew but someone sent down to ensure Robert Conrad's safety underwater who didn't realize he was in the shot. I can't believe they left in such a glaring error. There were also hair continuity issues in this one, for instance, his hair being flat and wet in one shot and fluffy and dry in the next one, but I think the scuba diver is the hugest mistake I've seen.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

In "The Night of the Death Maker," they were at least twenty years early on the paved asphalt road and thirty years early on the cement sidewalks. These also appear in a number of other episodes.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

In "The Night of the Raven," Antionette makes tiny clothes for Jim anticipating shrinking him to six inches in size. His regular clothing, now huge to him, is shown hanging up, yet when he is restored to his full size his clothing grows along with him--he doesn't have to go through the place naked to find his clothes.

Nevertheless this is my second favorite episode right after "The Night of the Big Blast."

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

This one I am putting both under "Major Errors" and "Things I Am Noticing on a Repeat Viewing" because it went by pretty fast and I didn't notice it until a second viewing. In "The Night of the Gypsy Peril," Artie, in the guise of a peddler, makes a reference to the treasures of Tutankhamun. These were absolutely not known or dreamed of in the 19th Century. The name was known due to the discovery of some jars bearing the name of Tutankhamun while excavating a bull burial at the Serapaeum of Saqqara in 1852, but this would probably not be general knowledge among the public, only among archaeologists or historians. As far as Tutankhamun possessing any treasures, let alone exceptional treasures beyond those known of any other Egyptian Pharaoh, that was absolutely undreamed of until his tomb was opened by Howard Carter in 1922. Nothing approaching it has been discovered before or since. I don't know whether to count this as a more major error than featuring the Statue of Liberty 12 years too early in "The Night of the Infernal Machine," but at least Tutankhamun was known of then, no matter how obscurely, whereas the Statue of Liberty was not known yet and was featured much more prominently so take your pick as to which was the more major screwup.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

In "The Night of the Pistoleros," where Artie is said to have been killed, he can be seen breathing heavily as Jim declares him dead.