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| - Over the years that EastEnders has been running the show often changes writers every few episodes meaning that there is a greater chance of Continuity errors occurring.
- There were quite a few continuity errors, when facts are stated then contradicted later, which occurred in Red Dwarf. Not all of these errors are important but they are errors nonetheless. Red Dwarf actually became quite well known for its errors.
- The long-running show Boy Meets World is filled with various continuity errors. Here we attempt to list them.
- A continuity error is a difference between different frames of the same scene on a film, occurring as result of editing multiple takes of the scene together. The phrase can also refer to inconsistencies in the plot of a film, although this is usually avoided by the employment of a script editor. Nancy B. Hansen was in charge of script continuity in Part I, and Marion Tumen was the script supervisor for Part II and Part III. Continuity errors that result from the editing process are among the details that fans of the film series enjoy looking for. In imdb.com, these are listed under the heading "goofs". Some of the more famous oddities in Back to the Future are:
* The candy jar in the McFly home when Biff is confronting George in 1985.
* The mileage reading on the DeLorean's odometer as Marty drives through the Twin Pines Mall parking lot.
* The flaps on Marty's shirt pockets when he and George are hanging laundry on the clothesline in the backyard of the McFly residence in 1955.
* When Marty and Biff grab each other's shirts, clenching their fists in the Hill Valley High School cafeteria scene in the first film, we first see the camera from behind Biff, facing Marty, Mr. Strickland then intervenes and the camera angle faces Biff, from behind Marty. You will see that Marty's hand is no longer grabbing Biff's shirt.
- A continuity error is a phenomenon that is common in long-running fiction series. A continuity error occurs when a piece of information conflicts with a previously established piece of information. Chester Gould rarely planned his storylines far in advance. As a result, several errors in continuity have appeared in the history of the strip, from both Gould and subsequent creative teams.
* Chief Brandon's first name has been given at different times as being "John" or "Jim" or "George". At one point, he signed a document as "G. R. Brandon". The G could stand for George, but there's no J initial to stand for John or Jim, and nothing to indicate what the R is supposed to stand for.
* Duke the Dip is shown in several panels with a automatic pistol which changes in succeeding panels it is a revolver.
* Agent 20 is shown in one panel with a automatic pistol, and in the next panel it is a revolver. Likewise, his escape hatch is shown to be padlocked on the inside after failed escape attempt, yet the Police are able to break the lock from the outside.
* In the Sunday after Tracy's fight with Flattop Jones Sr. and his gang, Tracy claimed to be wounded in the side, explaining that when he was first struggling with Flattop the latter's gun went off, the bullet going through Tracy's side and ending in the skull of Flattop's main henchman, Ed. But in the Dailies, not only is the bullet not shown going through Tracy's side, but from the angle Flattop was aiming his gun and from the angle Tracy was grabbing Flattop's gun hand, there's no way the bullet could have wounded Tracy in the side.
* The name "Shorty" is used for 2 of Measles' henchmen, one Tracy recognizes and identifies as "Shorty the Dip", the other is the driver of Measles' car, whom Measles had previously called, "Barny".
* When Itchy fatally shot Elia Mahoney in the Dailies, it's said she was "killed instantly", but in the next Sunday strip, it's said she survived being shot long enough to tell Tracy that Itchy was holding B.O. Plenty captive and give Tracy Itchy's address before she died. The idea that Mahoney told Tracy Itchy's address is the only explanation given for how Tracy was able to track Itchy back to his apartment.
* When Pruneface was brought back from the dead in 1983, it was claimed that he had frozen to "death" only to be revived by Dr. Kryos Freezedrei by unthawing him. Upon being revived, Pruneface claimed his last memory was of aiming his gun at Tracy from a second story window, implying that was when he was frozen. But in the original story, while Pruneface had aimed his gun at Tracy from a second story window until it got so cold for him he dropped his gun, he was still conscious and even talking when Tracy arrested him. His death was mentioned a few months later without specifying how he died.
* During the "Death of Mary Steele" storyline, Dick Tracy specifically states that Steve the Tramp had passed away. During a later storyline, Steve was shown to be alive and working at a local soup kitchen.
* The 1994 "Death of Mumbles" storyline by Mike Kilian includes several continuity errors. It disregards Mumbles' previous 3 appearances in the strip, and presents Bonnie Tracy as high-school aged, when she had previously been shown living on her own and working as a teacher.
* Mumbles' death has since been ignored by the later creative team of Mike Curtis and Joe Staton. They have also undone the aging of Joe Tracy, who is now shown to be pre-adolescent when he had previously been presented as being in his early teens.
* Prunella has been identified as being Pruneface's daughter AND his granddaughter (with subsequent confusion about Prune Hilda's relationship as well).
* In 2014, Dick Tracy's father's name was given as "Chet", when it had previously been established as "Richard".
- Steven Moffat's very first Doctor Who story, originally published in 1996 in the short story anthology Decalog 3. Available online. Notable for displaying a number of themes that have since popped up in Moffat's tenure as head writer and show runner of Doctor Who, including a Deconstruction of the Doctor's methods. A little man on a podium is preparing to give a lecture at Lunar University. As the holograms of his audience appear one by one, he goes over the lecture one last time. It's about the Doctor, a "Complex Space-Time Event" (CSTE) and an incredible danger to society. In the Library -- so large that it doesn't need a name -- a bored and grumpy Librarian named Andrea Talwinning meets the Seventh Doctor. He needs a specific book about a specific war that's taking place right now in the past. It contains crucial details that he needs to know about, in order to save thousands of lives. The book is off-limits, so Andrea tells him to get lost. Weird, her co-worker notes, because the previous Librarians were all the Doctor's best friends for some reason. The Doctor's companion (Bernice Summerfield, nicknamed "Bad Earrings" by Andrea) saunters off towards the shelves to go read the finished version of her own published diary, ignoring the Doctor's warnings about that sort of thing. Professor Candy's lecture notes elaborate on the Doctor's danger. He takes young women -- such as Jo Grant -- out of their own timelines, manipulates them, influences them, and leaves them behind again. The women are obviously brainwashed, never questioning why all aliens can just naturally speak English and never realizing that the Doctor's telepathic translation field extends into their own minds. In many cases, they never return home. The Seventh Doctor decides to take matters into his own hands, and starts manipulating Andrea's past to make her a much friendlier person in the present. But the process of tinkering with Andrea's past means that her life in the present quickly stops making sense. Andrea notices the increasing continuity errors in her own life story with a feeling of dread. She goes to talk to "Nice Earrings" to ask her why she suddenly has a lover at work -- then a husband -- then a daughter who was supposed to have died years ago. She remembers a whole new life, but she feels, deep down, that her life was very different just a few moments ago. Because she knows the Doctor is behind it all, she tries her best to resist. Meanwhile, the narration is interspersed with more notes from the lecture about the Doctor's methods. In the end, Andrea tells the Doctor and "Super Earrings" that she will not succumb to their plot. Yes, she's incredibly grateful to him for making her life worth living again, and for saving her daughter, and for everything. But she's been trained, as part of her Librarian studies, to resist him. She won't give him the book. The Doctor leaves her alone, seemingly defeated. At the lecture hall, the little man on the podium looks at his audience and sees a young Andrea there. In the middle of her Librarian studies, she's going through a phase of priming, and everything said to her in this period will stay imprinted in her mind forever. The little man throws out Professor Candy's lecture, tells the class that Professor Candy is sick, and instead gives a nice talk on the importance of lending library books to your friends.
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