After running up the stairs to meet Silva, Jim passes two black smudges on the baseboard in the hallway. When Jim leaves the room and runs back into the hallway, the smudges disappear, then reappear when the camera angle changes during the fight in the hallway. Also, the debris on the floor moves position when the camera angle changes.
Right at the beginning, when West walks into the hotel, the wall behind him (perpendicular to the doorway) is right where a window should be, based on the front of the hotel shown as he walked by before he entered.
When Jim West leaves the party, he goes to another home, knocks on the door and enters. The door from the outside is a slightly different door than the one seen from the inside.
In the final scene Arte mentions that, on the trail, Diedre was eating cherries jubilee (ice cream, cherries and brandy) with molasses.
Wagon trains didn't have refrigeration so Diedre had no way to eat ice cream.
Wagon trains didn't have refrigeration so Diedre had no way to eat ice cream.
While playing poker with Jim, Artie bangs his fist on the card table causing the tabletop to swivel, showing the brandy service on the other side. The chips and cards, however, do not slide off the tilted table, suggesting that they are fastened in place. However, when Artie returns the table to its original position, he picks some chips off his pile and throws them in the pot, when, in fact, all the chips should be in a heap under the table.
The Magic table is a running gag. They make a point of showing that glasses are easily picked up off the table after they swivel it over, and even showing the astonished reaction of characters standing next to it.
The Magic table is a running gag. They make a point of showing that glasses are easily picked up off the table after they swivel it over, and even showing the astonished reaction of characters standing next to it.
When Arte and James are playing poker at the end, the size and location of their chip stacks change a few times.
At 20:56, Bardhoom "punches" West in the face, clearly missing by about one foot.
In the beginning, in the wagon train, the man playing the squeeze box is clearly NOT. Though he is pulling it out and pushing it in, his fingers are clearly NOT on the buttons/keys, but on the wood between. For the most part, they are stationary, making it obvious that he is merely pretending to play it. It is equally obvious that that the music is being dubbed into the film to complete the impression that he is playing.
During the fight with Enzo, Enzo hits Jim and he is "thrown back" half a step. However, as the result of that "punch" Jim then, and quite obviously, takes a very little jump up and backwards so that he is "thrown" back and over the piano by that same "punch."
The Magic swivel table at the end is a running gag not a goof. They make a point in other episodes of showing that glasses are easily picked up off the table after they swivel it over, and even showing the astonished reaction of characters standing next to it.
The Apache attack the wagon train on its way to Denver. The Apache were a Southwest Indian tribe and the furthest North they travel was into Southern Colorado. Denver is in Northern Colorado.
The character played by Britt Nilsson is listed in the credits as "Joan" but she is repeatedly referred to in the show as "Joanne".
At the end of the camp fight, Bardhoom hits a huge boulder with his shoulder.it rocks slightly, showing it a prop.
At the campfire, Artie is about to eat, but interrupted for his turn for guard duty, On the plate he hands Pete is machine-sliced white bread. Machine-sliced white bread wasn't available until 1928.
Arte plays "Put the Blame on Mame" on accordion, a song written in 1946, seventy some odd years after these events take place.
The opening scene is of the St. Louis riverfront, and it shows a steamboat named "Sultana" moored on the riverfront. The river steamer "Sultana" exploded around 2:00 AM on April 27, 1865, killing 1,169 people (the worst maritime disaster in US history), long before the series is set (during the Grant Administration, 1869-1877).
Gerta gets a bumpy ride because her wagon keeps running over rocks. She complains to the driver that he hasn't missed a single bump or "pothole" along the way. A pothole is structural failure in pavement. The wagons were traveling over a dirt road, not a paved road. There were no potholes in the 1870's American West.
"Cherries jubilee" did not come into being until 1897 when a French chef invented it for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration.
Though, in the beginning the wagon train is on its way from St. Louis to Denver, the wagon master tells Miss Tyler that they had just passed through Apache territory. But the Apache Nation is NOT east of Denver (between St. Louis and Denver), but to the south and southwest of Denver (in the future states of New Mexico and Arizona). If the producer needed the wagon train to have passed through a hostile American Indian Nation, he should have chosen Commanche, Cheyenne, Kiowa, or even Arapaho, but certainly NOT Apache.
West tells one of the women that Orion is chasing the Big Bear, and is right off the tail. In fact, the Big Dipper and Orion are on opposite sides of the sky; it is Bootes that chases the Bear around the pole.