Kojak

Kojak (1973)

29 mistakes in season 1

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Other mistake: Ferro shoots the victim from the front with precision "between the eyes," as stated, killing him instantaneously. However, the body is face down, totally straight, and facing completely away from the door. (00:06:00)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Kojak is looking puzzled at the crime scene picture, using a magnifying lens. He lowers both hands when Ferro walks into the room, but he's holding them in the same position as before when the camera angle switches to a previously used one. (00:29:05)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When the sergeant tells Kojak that the wife of the victim took it "like a Spartan", the person behind him outside Kojak's office changes position between shots. (00:28:20)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Ferro tosses the incriminating piece of jewelry to his wife, her hands change position in her lap depending on the shot, and her hair is also parted over her shoulders in a radically different way. (00:25:30)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Audio problem: Joanna has been drinking on her own in front of the TV. The actress looks towards the door a second before the sound effect of the lock being tried is added. (00:23:00)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Kojak is speaking with Ferro after putting his partner in doctor's care. He sits down and pulls out his notepad. In the next shot, he whips it out of his pocket again. (00:19:20)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Revealing mistake: The first time we see Ferro's hot wife is through the photos he keeps in his locker at the station. In the scene in front of the locker, you can see his wristwatch. It's about 5 past 10. Later, we learn that the murder happened at half past 10. The locker scene is supposed to happen well after Ferro committed the murder. (00:09:15)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: If you look at the victim lying on the floor when Ferro just killed him, you can spot a rather noticeable hem of his nightrobe sticking out from under his leg. When later, Kojak gets on the crime scene, nobody has touched the corpse yet but the clothing has been tucked in. (00:06:10 - 00:13:40)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the fake drug bust at the beginning of the episode, when Pinky is sobbing during the arrest, a man in a plaid ovdercoat makes his appearance at least thrice, once in the background of the close-up of each junkie, and then when in the wider shot, seconds apart. (00:02:20)

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Web of Death - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Ferro is arresting the two junkies. Strats searching the first one, and a man in a yellow-ish coat and a fedora walks behind them in the background. In close-up once Ferro asks "You call that dealing?" the same man walks the same path again. He will reappear again doing the same walk when Pinky says he swallowed the drugs at the end of the scene. (00:02:10)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, the elderly hostage leans on Kojak's car window to thank him. His right hand is in a noticeably different spot depending on the camera angle. (00:48:40)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, Kojak looks at Talaba and Murzie against the police car, then turns around. In the next shot, he walks away, but the people around him changed position. For instance, George Savalas moved around to give Telly his hat. (00:47:30)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Audio problem: When the cops are grilling the owner of the parking lot, Crocker shouts, "Come on, George, start making sense!" and the guy interjects, "No, honest, I..." His lips are not moving, and he can't be articulating those words. (00:27:50)

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Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Having just seized control of the store, Jerry Talaba asks the owner about other exits or access to the roof. He then asks, "What's that?" He and his accomplice move towards the position of two hostages (most notably the girl's). The man holding the assault rifle has his left hand on/off it at the cut. (00:11:20)

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Kojak: You can't corrupt it. And you know why? Because to corrupt it, you've got to show how corrupt you really are.

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