Goofs

When Cora sits down with Violet for tea, Cora takes off her left glove twice.

The letter addressed to Mary that Sybil reads is signed: 'Evelyn'. But in a later scene, Edith says that Sybil told her she had found a letter signed "E.N.", and Mary has to reveal that the letter writer's name is Evelyn.

The candle is extinguished after the body has been returned to its room, but it's seen burning again while Lady Cora expresses her feelings to her daughter. Anna blows it out again when they leave the room.

When the Cheerful Charlies flyer is passed to Sybil from Robert, every time we see it after that it's in a different stage of being folded or unfolded. One second it's completely folded and the next it's unfolded, back and forth.

Granny delivers the most famous line in the whole series: 'What is a week-end'? Weekend has been a common expression in Britain since the early 1600's. There's no reason to think the well-read and well-traveled Lady Violet wouldn't have heard it before.

In the opening scene as the car goes by, a home a TV antenna is clearly visible on the roof.

When she first walks into her new parlor at Crawley House, Isobel thanks her maid Ellen, who replies "thank you, ma'am," but her mouth remains closed.

When Charlie comes to pay a visit to Lord Grantham to extort money because of Mr. Carson's past, Mr. Bates sends Anna to find Mr. Carson after Charlie forces his way into the hall. She leaves via the front door while Bates is trying to usher Charlie towards the gallery. Charlie darts into the library, saying that he won't be hidden away. When Anna finds Mr. Carson, she tells him that he is wanted in the library. There is no way she could have known Charlie was in the library because she left before he went in there.

Carson was part of a Vaudeville act called the Cheerful Charlies. There is a flier for the act dated 1897. Carson is obviously a man of advancing years, Jim Carter who plays him was 62 at the time. The setting for this story is 1912. That would make Carson in his 40's when he was singing and dancing just 15 years earlier. It is stated toward the end of the series that Carson has given his whole life to Downton, he started as a lowly hall boy. So the flier dated 1897 was off by decades. And if he was at Downton since he was a boy, when would he have had time to appear in vaudeville?