Back to the Future

Marty McFly goes back in time to visit his mum-to-be and finds her watching an episode of The Honeymooners. The date is given as November 5, 1955 and yet the episode of the show - The Man From Space - was not screened until December 31, 1955.

Doc sends Einstein (the dog) one minute into the future. The clock around his neck and the one that Doc has match up exactly. So Einstein should be gone 60 seconds, but he is actually gone for one minute and 28 seconds.

In the scene where Marty is being chased by the Libyans, a couple of times they cut away to show the instrumentation in the car. They actually cut away twice, I believe. But if you look at the reading of the first and second times, you'll notice that the first shot of it is actually more miles than the second time they show it.

When Doc sends Einstein into the future, he never sets the time circuits.

Doc Brown is explaining to Marty that you can go to any time you want by entering in the date in the console. Doc says you could go back and see the birth of Christ and types in Dec 25, 0000. Christ's birth is only celebrated on the 25th of December. No one knows the exact date (but it's believed to be around June). Also, the year 0AD did not exist. The Gregorian calendar started with 1 and not zero. The year before Christ's birth was 1BC and the next year was 1AD.

the electric guitar Marty plays at the "Enchantment Under the Sea Dance" is a Gibson ES335. This guitar model debuted between 1957 and 1958 yet he's supposedly playing it in 1955. It would have been more accurate to have him using
a Fender Telecaster (1950) or Stratocaster (1954).

When Marty encounters Doc Brown for the first time in '55, after he tells Brown that Ronald Reagan is the president in the future, Brown makes a snide comment about Jane Wyman being First Lady. In fact, Ronald Reagan married Nancy Davis in '52.

In an early scene featuring Marty and his girlfriend they are sitting on a bench when a car with two loudspeakers passes in the background, one pointing forward and one pointing backward. Another angle appears of them sitting on the bench but the speaker pointing backwards mysteriously has disappeared.

Back to the Future II

Doc uses a bike in 1955, and finds his other self and covered Delorean. If you look at the same scene in the 'Back to the Future' carefully, you actually find Doc on the bike passing behind the Delorean while Marty and Doc of '55 was talking.

In the scene where Marty avoids Griff and his thugs by jumping in the water off his hover board, his hair gets wet. After his coat dries his hair he rubs his hand through it. It gets all messy and crazy and uncombed. The very next shot shows him talking to the girls with perfectly combed hair.

Why did Doc take Marty ahead into the future to change future events? When they return to 1985, conceivably the events could still happen. All Doc needed to do was warn Marty what would happen while they were in 1985. No need to go there.

Marty has a newspaper that says Florida wins World Series. The film was produced years before they even had a team

Back to the Future III

If Doc saw his tomb and sent Marty to 1885 he shouldn't be surprised to see him.

Doc checks his watch and shoots his gun at the drive-in theatre. What for? They've got a time machine!

The man who is speaking dedicates the clock to the people of "Hill Calley". I thought it was Hill Valley.

Why couldn't they just siphon the gas out of the other Delorean that Doc came back in?? There is the one that 1985 Marty came in from 1955, and there is the one that 1985 Doc came in from 1955. The one Doc came in, the gas line was probably intact and could be used to siphon the gas.

While at the dance Marty is showing off at the shooting gallery. After shooting all the targets he twirls the gun and hands it back to the booth operator with the barrel in his right hand. Very clearly the next frame shows the gun in his left hand.

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES