London's Burning (1988) - 14 mistakes in entire show

Revealing: Series 10 episode 13. Obvious CGI flames were used during the science lab fire, because when the teacher knocks over the Bunsen burner onto the flammable liquids, parts of the workbench instantly catch fire that were nowhere near the liquids.

Deliberate "mistake": Series 1 Christmas Special. When the appliance crashes into the drunk driver's car and flips over, water is seen spilling out of the top of the appliance. This appliance was specially designed to flip over by mounting the water tank at the top, to make it unstable enough to tip over.

Revealing: Series 6, episode 3: Just before the runaway car crashes through the car park wall, you can see the pre-cut area where it crashes through.

Revealing: In the episode when ACO Bulstrode is looking at the newspaper cut-out of the appliance crash (the one that Bayleaf was involved in), look closely at the cut-out. The whole article is just the same 3 or 4 lines repeating over and over again. Seemed the producers were too lazy to write a full article, hoping no-one would notice.

Revealing: In the episode when the schizo falls off the crane, the car he falls on explodes a split second before he actually lands on it.

Continuity: Series 6, episode 7: During the car chase scene, the car passes a petrol station and heads straight towards a bus. Then the next shot shows the car on a clear piece of road where the bus and petrol station have disappeared, but in the next shot the car swerves into the petrol station seen before. The car was going straight, without turning onto any side roads.

Other: Series 10, episode 14: About 9 minutes into the episode, a shot of Walt Disney pointing at a wall chart appears for a few seconds! Didn't they bother checking this before releasing it?

Continuity: Series 6 episode 7. During the petrol station fire, Hallam goes to rescue two attendants trapped in the station shop. The first external shot shows the inside of the shop on fire, but when it switches to the interior shot where Hallam tells them to run for it, there's no fire at all.

Other: Series 10 episode 4. The fire at the used cars dealership recycles several shots from the petrol station fire in Series 6 episode 7. These include shots of burning petrol on the ground and a Renault car with the registration mark B649 CLY exploding.

Other: Series 10, episode 10: During the shout at the beginning, when the workman is hanging dangerously close over the electricity transformer, Nick is informed by the electricity board that they cannot get closer than 15 feet without it arcing. So why isn't the transformer arcing when the workman is hanging just under a foot from it?

Factual error: Series 7 episode 7. In this episode Nick rides the Pump. However, being Station Officer, he should be riding the Pump Ladder. The London Fire Brigade always has the Station Officer in charge of the Pump Ladder and not the Pump (it's the Sub Officer who is in charge of it).

Continuity: Episode 4: When Station Officer Tate is driving his car in a temper after the argument with his wife, he swerves onto the pavement hitting some rubbish bags. In the next shot he is driving in a straight line down the centre of the road.

Deliberate "mistake": Series 4, episode 3: Before the gas explodes in the sewer, you can see the base of the Davy lamp glow red. Except that in real life this doesn't happen; the flame simply turns blue and grows taller in the presence of gas. This was probably done to make the scene more dramatic, though.

Factual error: In this episode Blackwall Station is shown as a London Underground tube station. Blackwall Station is a Docklands Light Rail (DLR) station.