Ok I'm sure there are mistakes on this show.
I want to know if anyone caught some (obvious or maybe not so obvious)
I'll start.
In the show Dr. Quinn was known as Mr. Quinn M.D. This isn't right for the time period. Before 1900 all Doctors had a Ph.D. It wasn't until later that they made a new classification for Medical Doctors.
I heard that they consulted with real Doctors and history books to make sure everything was accurate.
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My sister and I have watched the eps so many times that we've caught multiple errors, but none come to mind. I'm going to start re-watching them, so when I find them, I'll post them here.
shareOkay, so I found the following foibles in the Pilot episode:
After Dr. Mike stops Chivington and his soldiers from attacking the Indians while they're searching for Brian, Matthew rides up and asks about Brian. Dr. Mike's mouth says "he's okay" but she voices over saying "he's alright."
Dr. Mike receives a letter from her mother which states that her letter from Nov. 10 takes nearly a month to reach her in Boston. Assuming that her mother writes back immediately, that means that it must be a week or so (less?) until Christmas, but while narrating a few minutes later, Dr. Mike says that they didn't see Sully again (assumedly this is a considerable period of time). She talks about winter coming and then it's Christmas. Misappropriation of time passed? I think so.
Cloud Dancing doesn't speak English in the Pilot. (Maybe he just pretends not to?)
When the Army comes to search the homestead for "renegade Indians," the kids are sitting around the table trying to look normal, which they don't because there isn't any food! It's not on the table and there isn't any cooking, yet the soldiers don't seem to notice. (This one cracks my sister and I up.)
When Sully is telling Brian that he's always been afraid of riding horses, he voices over as well, but I can't tell what he originally said.
The time passage in the second season bothers me, too. First, Halloween comes and then there are 2 more episodes, then Dr. Mike gets the letter about her mother being ill. Her mother stated earlier it took almost 2 weeks to travel from Boston to Colorado, so that would put Dr. Mike and the kids arriving in Boston mid-November. Then, Matthew states later in the episode that they have been there nearly a month, which puts it around early December. But when the family returns home to Colorado, it is a few days until Thanksgiving!
That bit of continuity bugs me more than anything else, truth be told.
The drought when they return from Boston is a major theme of that particular episode, but judging from the all the pumpkins in the Halloween episode, there appeared to be a bountiful harvest that year.
Also in the Season 2 Thanksgiving episode, Sully accompanies Michaela to a town meeting for I think the first time. The Reverend says a prayer and everyone bows their heads. Michaela stares at Sully with a perplexed look because he does not pray. I got the impression that Sully was angry with or did not believe in the God who allowed Abigail to die... It just seemed like something that was meant to be addressed at some point but never was.
i feel like an idiot for not noticing that... of course the writers forget how long it takes to get to Boston when they're writing!... they're thinking of a plane ride!
shareAlso with the Pilot episode when Dr. Mike reads the letter her mother states Mary, her eldest sister is with child... In the second season Rebecca is introduced as her older... Not to mention none of her sisters are named Mary.
Ignorance has no excuses and yet it also has no end.
A lot changed after the pilot. Her mom, Loren, Jake and Robert E. were played by different people. It was filmed nearly a year before it was shown. I think they sort of disregarded most of it.
Shoot, I thought of another change they made after the pilot, but I forgot.
Edit: Cloud Dancing had a different name: Black Hawk
In regards to the comment about Dr. Mike getting a letter from her mom in the pilot and she states about Mary, she does not say Oldest she says "my older sister" and yes she was not brought up again only Marjory and Rebecca are mentioned, maybe Mary was one of the other that were not mentioned.
shareIn regards to the comment about Dr. Mike getting a letter from her mom in the pilot and she states about Mary, she does not say Oldest she says "my older sister" and yes she was not brought up again only Marjory and Rebecca are mentioned, maybe Mary was one of the other that were not mentioned.
shareGood point about Dr. Mike not saying it was her oldest sister. Did she mention Marjorie, Maureen and Claudette in that episode? I always took Mary to have been renamed Rebecca. But I found it odd that she was having a baby since she was 15 years older than Dr. Mike (I think she mentioned the age difference between them being that many years). That would make her in her late 40's. Not impossible to have a baby at that age, but not common.
sharemaybe Maureen was Mary?
Actually if Mary was 15 yrs older than Dr. Mike, it would make Mary older because Dr. Mike was 35 in the 2nd or 3rd episode, Mary would have been near or 50.
I just watched the scene from the pilot where Dr. Mike reads the letter from her mother that tells of Mary's pregnancy. Michaela tells the children that Mary is her oldest sister. I even put on the closed captioning to double check and it says "oldest." I guess once the series was picked up, they decided to make some changes.
shareJust watched "Runaway Train" I believe it was called. When Michaela arrives at the scene Sully is cradling his left arm, tells her it is broken. But later on he is driving the wagon and helps her off without any cast or obvious pain in his "broken" arm.
share"Cloud Dancing doesn't speak English in the Pilot. (Maybe he just pretends not to?) "
Cloud Dancing isn't actually Cloud Dancing in the pilot. It *IS* the same actor (Larry Sellers), but his character in the pilot is just an unnamed, random Indian. The Cloud Dancing character wasn't created until the series picked up, and he just happened to be the person cast. :)
That's not Cloud Dancing in the pilot episode...it's the same actor playing someone else. Can't remember his name, but I'll go check.
ETA: His name is Black Hawk in the pilot...not Cloud Dancing.
Clarification regarding the letter, Dr. Quinn's mother says it took two weeks to get Dr. Quinn's letter meaning they are a month apart, not that it took a month to get her letter. Two weeks each way for their letters to get to one another = a month apart.
shareI just got done watching "Law of the Land." When Sully takes Brian hunting, and they're about to kill the deer, they notice that she's been shot. But when they approach the deer, the wound is on the opposite side. They wouldn't have been able to see it from where they were standing.
shareYes...
Many changes were made, following the Pilot. Most of the leads were recast, and some continuity was dubbed or just re-edited, not necessarily for clarity, probably as the new casting was all different.
In previous comment, there were many periods where shooting was months apart, due to crew issues, casting issues, TV special inter-caps, etc. So some mistakes are probably going to be apparent, though not deliberate as to cause of ignorance. In fact, when the '96 winter games interrupted the show mid-season -- many areas got thrown out of whack, including Sully's return, and some character/story changes that were contracted for the kick-off of season seven (which never made it.)
Also... goofs/errors really should be posted at www.moviemistakes.com, for those of you who aren't familiar. Only a suggestion. I've added a few there myself.
after the war, "general" custer was no longer the rank of general. he was promoted for the war.
sgt. mckay would not be incharge of the platoon of men to watch over the indians, the person would be a lt.
my dad is a historian, and those were the two big flaws that he saw.
I agree about Sully not smelling the greatest, as well as the fact that he always, and I mean, always wore the same clothes. I like to think, so as not to lose the fantasy that I have in my head of that beautiful man, is that since he lived outdoors he bathed everyday in the stream, pond, or river. I don't know what to say about the clothes, though.
shareyes... ladies... let us pause and join movielover1030 in that fantasy of Sully... bathing....
oh.. sorry... back to reality... but yah, that was a nice daydream... I have to go take a cold shower now!
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I'm not 100% sure on this, but ... when Dr. Quinn first wants to buy the boarding house to use as a clinic, the banker refuses to give her a loan because she's a woman. She is finally able to buy the clinic because her mother gives her the money.
Then, in season 2, the banker comes back in town when Robert E. buys his home, and he (the banker) threatens to call in Dr. Quinn's loan. But she didn't have a loan!
(please let me know if I'm mis-remembering)
I think the money her mother gave her was to complete the downpayment of the loan. She had $1000 and she needed another $500 which her mother gave her at the end. If this isn't the case, then there was a goof in the continuity.
shareShe had the $1,000 from her dowery.
shareThe banker gave in to Dr Mike's 'loan' simply because she was persistent and he was greedy. Yes, he outright refused at first - barking propriety and manner. However, money in the hands of a shady banker served no boundaries with him, apparently.
shareFrom her father's bequest I think she called it.
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I'm just rewatching Season 1 after not seeing the show since it aired. The one consistent goof that really cracked me up was in the episode where John Schneider guest stars as the cowboy-turned-thief who leaves his infant son with Dr. Mike. Practically every time the baby is onscreen, he's supposed to be crying his head off. But, if you actually LOOK at the baby, you can see that he's perfectly calm, and that the crying noise was just dubbed in during editing. In several shots you can see the baby's face, and he looks like he's dead asleep, despite the screaming sounds in the background!
I just thought this "goof" was funny because it was pretty poorly done. At least keep the kid's face offscreen if he's supposed to be crying but really isn't! :)
I remember seeing that and thinking the same thing. All I kept thinking was, "Quit showin the baby". Cute baby, though.