Continuity mistake: At the retirement party when the carriage clock is first seen on the table it is showing the time as 10.10 but when it is being presented to the officer the time on the clock is now 10.05.
Other mistake: Early on in this episode Regan is moaning about lawyers earning £30,000 a year and that he himself can just about afford a secondhand car, but later on in this episode he is driving a M registration ford Capri, which would have been brand new when this episode was made.
Suggested correction: He is being metaphorical. Reagan is known for his florid turn of phrase.
Revealing mistake: After robbing the DeCourceys Tommy Garret takes the keys from their Rolls Royce and throws them into the trees, but he actually doesn't throw anything at all.
Visible crew/equipment: After Garret and Nunn have robbed the DeCourceys the crew and lighting equipment are reflected in the side of the orange Porsche just before they drive off.
Continuity mistake: In the pre-title sequence when De Courcey's Rolls-Royce is being followed by the robbers' orange Porsche, the road starts off as a dual carriage way, then as soon as the Porsche overtakes the Rolls the road changes to a single carriage way, and then to a country lane .
Continuity mistake: During the last hold up, the shots inside and outside the blue Jag do not match up.
Continuity mistake: In the first scene of part three, the outside shots show the squad car driving over a bridge over the river Thames. As soon as the shots are inside the car they are driving past a sports ground.
Continuity mistake: During the car chase the Jag spins round, the Sweeney's Ford Granada is behind it, then next shot the squad's blue Ford Cortina is behind it. Then at the crossroads the blue Cortina is driving towards the Jag from the other direction.
Continuity mistake: When Ingram is driving the blue Ford Cortina squad car the registration number on the front is DLO97M, and on the rear of the car it is NHK296M.
Visible crew/equipment: Camera lights are visible on the white van used by the gang in the getaway for the first robbery.
Continuity mistake: Carter is in the betting shop watching Albert Milligan, when Milligan goes out of the shop you can see through the doorway a red Fiat coupé parked outside the shop which is still there when Carter leaves the shop, but when the scene changes to outside the shop the red Fiat is parked outside the shop next door.
Visible crew/equipment: Camera lights are reflected on the black Humber parked outside the junk shop.
Continuity mistake: Brake lights are reflected in the front of the security van in the close up of when it pulls up outside the factory, but in the wide shot there is no vehicle in front of the van.
Supersnout - S2-E3
Character mistake: When Stickley is on the phone to Regan he tells him that the robbers will be in a Bedford van but they are in a Ford Transit van.
Big Brother - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: In the pre-titles sequence at the start, as the blue van is driving along following the two men, the shots inside the van show a grey Mercedes parked to the van's right. When the shot changes to outside the van, there is a blue Ford Zodiac parked in front of the Mercedes that wasn't there in the inside shots.
Hit and Run - S2-E5
Visible crew/equipment: As the car drives away after hitting Alison you can see the crew reflected in the side.
Hit and Run - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Regan sounds the horn and shouts at the driver of the yellow car when it undertakes them, then cuts in front of them, the car was not visible through the side window when the camera was on Regan.
Visible crew/equipment: In the final scene when Regan is forcing open the boot on the villain's jag, camera lights are reflected in the police car parked behind it.
Continuity mistake: In the final scene when the three squad cars, a Granada, a Triumph and a Cortina, are chasing the villain's Jaguar across the field, the angle changes and the Cortina has disappeared. When the chase changes to a lane the Cortina reappears. (00:46:36 - 00:47:22)
Visible crew/equipment: When the squad cars are chasing the Jaguar across the muddy field you can see the camera vehicle in front of them is spraying up water from the wet grass. (00:46:36 - 00:47:14)
