TV cock ups

[lancashireclamper]

Closing scene of 'Ice cold in Alex' a series one Land Rover is parked in shot, quite an achievement for 1942.

'Let him have it' the film about Craig and Bentley opens with the two main characters breaking into a warehouse in Croydon set in November 1952, look out for the Allegro parked at the far end of the street!

[stormee]

...and all other cars are NEVER locked after being left. Did anybody notice that? No actor ever uses a key to lock their vehicle! Every car in each movie is ready to use and unlocked all the time. If not, hotwiring does the job despite steering locks enable after attempt to turn the wheel in real life. Good luck to a thief who really manages to hotwire even an 80s car (BMW, Audi etc. which is almost impossible), set off and being faced with a locked steering column!

[trigger]

Oh and the drivers side window is always open!

[Cavcraft]

Slightly o/t but it bugs the hell out of me when people are seen jumping on motorbikes and not doing their helmet up and also when people drive along and contantly look at the camera or passenger in the other front seat. WATCH THE FRICKING ROAD!

[scaryoldcortina]

I was watching "Near, far away" on C4 the other day, it's a documentary about Father Ted and the writers do a bit of a location tour and meet some people IN A FECKING MK2 GRANADA! They even intercut shots of them driving with bits of the show and no-one notices or comments at all that they are in the wrong car.

[gtd2000]

I watched the original 1970's Gone in 60 Seconds last week.

 

There is a treasure trove of old shite in there that I didn't know was even sold in the USA!

 

Including a MK1 Cortina and one of those Austin/Morris 1100/1300 things - you know like in Clockwise

 

Worth a watch indeed

[Father Ted]

Life on Mars

 

Ashes to Ashes....

 

HOW MANY wrong modern cars and vans pitched up in these? Rover 400 anyone? VW Luton van? LDV pick up? Mk4 Ezzy, Talbot Alpine Mk2 appearing too early, 1985 Transit appearing in 1981! Sheeesh

[Felly Magic]

That's a Rover 600 by the looks. Also the Ashes Toi Ashes series featured a sloping front mk2 Audi Quattro on old plates. I think the car was about a D-reg they used, plus the Cortina was a 1600E with a GXL front grille

[dollywobbler]

Another entire series of TV cock-ups - did anyone see that series where Richard 'I don't believe it' Wilson attempted to drive around nice bits of Britain in classic cars? I say attempts because he clearly had not got a clue how to drive these old cars and just made a complete meal of it. A great idea in theory, but perhaps it would have been nice to allow Mr Wilson some more familiarisation time with these old cars? If you don't spend much time driving them, they really do not behave like moderns! I'm not sure he'd ever used a column gearchange in his life...

[Richard]

That series was deeply disappointing, I don't think I even managed to watch it all. Even when he wasn't driving he never seemed at ease.

 

As far as I know Richard Wilson learned to drive at a fairly advanced age, and only because he had to. I think he stated early on in that series that he hadn't even got to grips with manual gearboxes (which is possibly why his Avenger needed a new one in one Foot in the Grave). There must be countless celebrities who are into cars. Robbie Coltrane is probably too obvious but there must be others.

[pbottomley]

That series was deeply disappointing, I don't think I even managed to watch it all. Even when he wasn't driving he never seemed at ease.

 

As far as I know Richard Wilson learned to drive at a fairly advanced age, and only because he had to. I think he stated early on in that series that he hadn't even got to grips with manual gearboxes (which is possibly why his Avenger needed a new one in one Foot in the Grave). There must be countless celebrities who are into cars. Robbie Coltrane is probably too obvious but there must be others.

 

yea good thinking remake the series ... i vote for both the cheeky girls in bikinis washing the cars to start with followed by Kylie driving them as she is older and would appease the older watchers I think it sounds like a hit to me???

[ashmicro]

The Day of The Jackal movie featured a mark 1 Escort, but was supposed to be 1966, and I think it was The Odessa File where the book featured Peter Miller's Jaguar, but he had some old pintail Merc in the movie.

 

*PFAKKT: my Mum's friend Betty is Freddie Forsyth's cousin.

 

Another thing that annoys my geek radar is inaccurate ringtones. EastEnder's Jack Branning has an HTC Desire, yet it makes the ringing sound of an old Motorola 3788e. And computers that take 3 seconds to boot in movies - my computer has dual EFI BIOS, 32 gigs of RAM and solid state hard drives, and it can't do that.

[KruJoe]

...it bugs the hell out of me when people are seen jumping on motorbikes and not doing their helmet up...

You've never been to Thailand then Billy?

 

About the computer thing, I HATE the way ALL computers in films etc bleep and chirrup and whizz with EVERY little function. WTF is that all about?

[Guest]

Ah the amount of times I have been told off when watching heartbeat etc and pointing out car / model errors. The one I hate the most is when a car drives over a cliff or is blown up by a bomb - and you can see the engine and gearbox are missing Or a roll cage in an accident scene.

[Wilko220]

Ah the amount of times I have been told off when watching heartbeat etc and pointing out car / model errors. The one I hate the most is when a car drives over a cliff or is blown up by a bomb - and you can see the engine and gearbox are missing Or a roll cage in an accident scene.

 

If they really do have to destroy classic cars for the sake of crap TV programmed, then I'd say that's a good thing really. At least something's been salvaged.

[Guest]

Totally agree there Wilko - just one of those hold on thats not right spots

[warren t claim]

The Day of The Jackal movie featured a mark 1 Escort, but was supposed to be 1966,

 

The soundtrack for the Alfa in The Day of The Jackal was actually an Escort BDA overdubbed afterwards.

[outlaw118]

Ronin.

 

M5 in chase scene, lesser model rolled/smashed up......alloy wheels are RONG.

 

I'm so sad, i was going to kill myself, but after reading the preceding 4 pages, you're all as bad as me.

[M'coli]

The Day of The Jackal movie featured a mark 1 Escort, but was supposed to be 1966,

 

The soundtrack for the Alfa in The Day of The Jackal was actually an Escort BDA overdubbed afterwards.

Chris Sclater's to be exact!

[RoadworkUK]

Ronin.

 

M5 in chase scene, lesser model rolled/smashed up......alloy wheels are RONG.

 

I'm so sad, i was going to kill myself, but after reading the preceding 4 pages, you're all as bad as me.

 

Yep. Nice chase, shame about all the pillocks flashing their headlights miles before they can possibly see that anything's amiss.

[Lankytim]

I think its weird how people on the TV don't say hello or goodbye when they use their phone.

 

I spotted an automotive MISTAKE on Gavin and Stacey the other day, they were all in that Citroen Picasso and you could see part of the trailer it was sat on through the drivers window.

[Split_Pin]

I remember on The Bill that for every car horn sound, they used an old single tone Austin/Morris item, even if it was a big Audi or BMW that someone had stepped out in front of.

[eddyramrod]

Diamonds Are Forever. Yes, even in a Bond they can get it wrong: when Bond takes over Peter Franks' Triumph Stag at the hovercraft terminal, listen to the car pulling away. No way is that a V8.

[gtd2000]

And computers that take 3 seconds to boot in movies - my computer has dual EFI BIOS, 32 gigs of RAM and solid state hard drives, and it can't do that.

 

The fastest booting (computer) device that I have is my HTC Flyer running on Gingerbread - it's more like it's been in standby mode rather than booting up - quite an impressive device overall.

[Albert Ross]

^^^ wrong thread cock up?

[Albert Ross]

Anyone remember "Forever Green"? There was an episode where a Series Land Rover was in it's normal "bonnet up" mode, where John Alderton asked the driver what the problem was.... the reply was "injectors"...... he then said that was rubbish, as Land Rovers didn't have injectors.... Erm.... John. The diesels rely on them.

[CreepingJesus]

Sound overdubs often get my goat. Whether it be Magnum PI's Porsche engined Ferrari, or the sound of a Harley being applied to any old motorbike (the Zovirax ad with the lass on the Honda Blackbird a few years back being a case in point). Bond's Aston squealing its' tyres on sand (never mind the selectivity of the amount of noise his smart shoes make on hard floors) and many others.

Then there's self-healing motors. I want one, 'cos last time I jumped an orange Dodge across a dry river bed, escaping J.D.Hogg, it near enough folded in half on impact, and it stayed fucked*. Ditto for the A-Team; altho' it may be nit-picking, but when they launched the van in clouds of tyre smoke, the axle would be tramping like mad, but it would sound like a nice smooth takeoff. Always did sound quite dragstrip-ish to me.

I'm sure I read in a copy of Rod + Custom years ago, that the crash of the '55 Chevy at the end of American Graffiti wasn't intended. If so, that was a monster cock-up!

I've tried not to watch Heartbeat at all over the years, but I was bored one night, and sat down to look for errors. They duly obliged in a matter of minutes. There was some reference to it being 1964 (iirc), but a few minutes later Black Sabbath's Paranoid is on the radio. Better record that chaps, Ozzy and chums won't want it for another 6 years...

 

 

*Caution: may contain lies, half-truths or outright bollocks.

[oman5]

Life on Mars

 

Ashes to Ashes....

 

HOW MANY wrong modern cars and vans pitched up in these? Rover 400 anyone? VW Luton van? LDV pick up? Mk4 Ezzy, Talbot Alpine Mk2 appearing too early, 1985 Transit appearing in 1981! Sheeesh

 

Yes. I noticed that, theres also a bit where Gene Hunt dumps a criminal into the back of a supposedly French Lorry which is actually an early '90s Leyland roadrunner/daf 45 with a renault badge crudely nailed to the front grill

[oman5]

Closing scene of 'Ice cold in Alex' a series one Land Rover is parked in shot, quite an achievement for 1942.

'Let him have it' the film about Craig and Bentley opens with the two main characters breaking into a warehouse in Croydon set in November 1952, look out for the Allegro parked at the far end of the street!

 

The closing scene of Ice cold in Alex also featured a '50s Morris minor

[Split_Pin]

I remember reading somewhere that there were a large number of Dodge Chargers used up in the making of the Dukes of Hazzard. As said, after every jump, the cars structure was shattered and a fresh example was needed.

 

Continuing in that vein, there were several scenes in Knight Rider when a model ( and not a very good one) of the pontiac wad used when the scene involved a particularly large jump. I suppose those cars were brand new at the time though.

 

I to laughed at the use of a blue Granada in the Father Ted documentary. I was looking at pictures of mk 4 and 5 Cortinas on the web earlier on and my brother who knows almost nothing about cars asked why I was looking at Father Ted motors. Think they could have tried a bit there as the rest of the programme was funny