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Anachronisms (7) |
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Anachronisms
The train Victoria rides during the opening credits is the Amtrak "Downeaster", which started service in the early 2000s. The cars and engines are from the 1990s, with the post-2000 Amtrak logo. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, the trains had rusty, hand-me-down streamlined passenger locomotives and cars that were near the end of their lives.
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While talking with Carolyn, Barnabas recites the lyrics to "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band, which was recorded in 1973.
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Barnabas attacks a television during a live performance of the Carpenters singing "Top of the World." The song was originally released in 1972, on the album "A Song For You," but it wasn't released as a single or performed before a television audience until 1973.
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In 1972, New Jersey license plates were tan, with black lettering. The plates were blue from 1979 to 1992.
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When Victoria first meets Carolyn, Carolyn is listening to "I'm Sick of You" by Iggy and the Stooges, which was released in 1977.
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When the workers dig up Barnabas' coffin, a backhoe sounds its "back-up beeper" as it moves away. Back-up beepers didn't exist in 1972.
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Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" was not released until 1974.
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Continuity
When Barnabas is on fire, he is doused with water, and the inside of the bucket appears dry.
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Towards the end, when Angelique and Barnabas are in her office, the door opens, and Barnabas is chained into a coffin. The lid is separate. Later, when Angelique opens and closes the coffin, the lid is on hinges.
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When Barnabas and Angelique are in the drawing room, Angelique's lipstick disappears and reappears on Barnabas' chin.
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When the police and townspeople rush to the Collins mansion, the crowd arrives seconds behind the police cars, even though they were all on foot.
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The Amtrak engines are in one order in the overhead shot, then reverse themselves in the ground shot.
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The opening scene takes place in October in Maine, yet the forest is full of ferns and the trees are in full bloom, with no dead leaves or fall colors visible.
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When Angelique visits Barnabas at his home for the first time after his return, they move to the drawing room. Angelique reclines on the sofa, and the inside lining of her right boot is visible. In the next shot, the lining has been reinserted into the boot, but it appears and disappears continuously in various shots where the top of her boot is visible.
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When Angelique goes to look at the site where the Vampire has killed the workmen, she is wearing long black pants. In the Collinwood driveway, she is wearing black tights and high heel shoes. When she enters the house, she is wearing long black boots.
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In the opening shots of the train, the number of passenger cars changes from 4 to 5 several times.
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The number of cars on the passenger train repeatedly varies between four and five.
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Factual errors
On the Amtrak train, the poster where "Victoria Winters" takes her name is for skiing in Victoria, BC. Victoria is on Vancouver Island, and with its temperate climate and lack of mountains, is not a ski destination (unlike Whistler BC, for example, which is on the mainland, and benefits from the Rockies).
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Revealing mistakes
When Barnabas is doused with water, white face paint flows down his neck line.
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Spoilers
Continuity
When the townspeople bury Barnabas in 1776, a man with very distinctive long, blonde hair with some dark patches is on Angie's left. Barnabas was buried for 196 years. The same man appears in a 1972 scene showing the restoration of Collinwood. He appears at the start of the scene, as a workman in gray overalls, walking from left to right behind the car Willie is polishing.Share this
Continuity
When the Collins family watches the mansion burn at the end, two cars are in front of it. They disappear in the next shot.Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
Maggie Evans escaped from a mental institution and created a new identity; Victoria Winters. She used that name to apply for the job at Collinwood. When she rehearses her introduction on the train, she's clearly trying to avoid introducing herself as Maggie.Share this
