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Patrick Macnee in The Avengers (1961)

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The Superlative Seven

The Avengers

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Continuity

With their seat belts fastened, and now taxiing, Steed and Hana are shown peering out of the aircraft windows, one seated in front of the other. The scene cuts to the aircraft interior, which shows them seated nowhere near the windows.
When the body in the suit of armor falls forward the empty helmet is seen sliding forward towards the groups's feet, but when they show the body again the helmet is back on the man's head.
Seen first during takeoff the plane has the tail number G-APWB. In flight the ID plate in the cockpit shows G-APMG. External view in flight shows G-ASVO and the picture is reversed.
Repeatedly, weapons picked up from the dining table or knocked off during fights reappear in their original places.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

The plane carrying the seven to the island is a Fokker F27 Friendship and while it is a prop driven plane and people assume that it should have the characteristic sound of a piston powered, propeller driven aircraft. The engine is, in fact, a turboprop engine. The is a propeller driven by a gas turbine power plant. In the case of the Friendship it was a Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart. It had a characteristic high pitched sound, increasing in frequency and volume as the engine got up to speed.

Revealing mistakes

External shots show the plane banking steeply, yet inside the champagne glasses stay perfectly still.
All the items on the plane's bar, glasses, ice bucket, bottles etc don't fall off or change position when the plane climbs to become airborne yet they fall off the bar when the plane does a steep dive just before nearing the island.
When Charlotte Rampling shoots the guns out of Donald Sutherland's hands, Steed and Emma are exactly behind him in the line of fire. Yet they make no attempt to relocate to safety as each shot is fired.
Despite all the running around outside, none of the characters work up a sweat or suffer damage to their costumes from the trees etc. They also have a uncanny ability to find each other and the building despite being unfamiliar with the area.

Miscellaneous

At approximately 15 minutes, there is a shot of the airplane in the air. The airplane shown is completely different from the airplane in other shots. The airplane they're in has the wings on the top. This plane, however, is a low winged plane with the wings on the bottom.

Plot holes

How was the plane controlled when the island was so far away from the airport in which it left? Steed said the fuel gauge indicated four hours of fuel and Emma said she lost track of the group of 7 an hour before she arrived on the island so the planes, the group's and Emma's, had to fly a considerable distance. The distances involved would have been to great for radio control from the secret room in the building and there was no indication that the plane was computer controlled.

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