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The Sweeney (1975) - 37 mistakes in entire show

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Golden Boy (season 1, episode 9)

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Visible crew/equipment: At the airport when Regan drives off to chase after Deller you can see the camera crew and lights reflected in the side of the car.

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Continuity: When Carter is running after Deller and Fuller the weather suddenly changes from dry to raining.

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Stoppo Driver (season 1, episode 10)

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Continuity: When Regan and Carter are waiting for Cooney to pick them up in the car, look at the row of parked cars behind them when a truck passes between them and the camera. A Ford Capri suddenly appears parked behind the white Ford Anglia.

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Abduction (season 1, episode 13)

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Plot hole: Early on in this episode Regan is moaning about lawyers earning £30,000 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.

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Chalk and Cheese (season 2, episode 1)

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Continuity: During the last hold up, the shots inside and outside the blue Jag do not match up.

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Continuity: 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 .

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Faces (season 2, episode 2)

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Continuity: 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.

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Continuity: 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.

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Big Brother (season 2, episode 4)

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Continuity: 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.

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Hit and Run (season 2, episode 5)

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Continuity: 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.

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Visible crew/equipment: As the car drives away after hitting Alison you can see the crew reflected in the side.

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Poppy (season 2, episode 8)

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Continuity: During the car chase at the airfield, after the Triumph crashes into the villain's Jaguar, spinning it round, the chase suddenly changes from the airfield to a lane.

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Trojan Bus (season 2, episode 10)

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Visible crew/equipment: When Regan, Carter and Haskins are in the living room, the camera lights are reflected on the door.

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Country Boy (season 2, episode 12)

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Visible crew/equipment: When the blue Ford Cortina squad car arrives at the power station you can see the camera lights and crew reflected in the side of the car.

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Thou Shalt Not Kill (season 2, episode 13)

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Visible crew/equipment: The camera lights and crew are reflected in the side of the blue Hillman Estate, first when it pulls away after the villains have first hi-jacked it, and again when they are driving through the farm.

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Selected Target (season 3, episode 1)

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Continuity: When Kibber, Oates and Finch are riding in the Ford Zephyr after swapping cars after walking over the railway bridge, they pass the same blue and red parked van twice, and also the same rubbish skip with the same cars parked behind it twice.

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In from the Cold (season 3, episode 2)

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Other: During the hold up when Medhurst is sprung from the police van, the breakdown truck used to pull the doors of the van reverses towards the police van twice after releasing the chains off the doors before driving away, and the camera lights are reflected in the side of the white getaway car.

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Tomorrow Man (season 3, episode 4)

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Continuity: When the robber drives off in the grey Vauxhall the offside hubcaps suddenly disappear just before it is hit by the security van.

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Continuity: At the end of this episode, when one of the robbers drives off in the grey Vauxhall, Carter drives off after him in the security van. But in the following scenes, when the Sweeney are fighting with the rest of the gang, the security van is still parked where it was before Carter drove off in it.

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May (season 3, episode 7)

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Continuity: When the Jaguar is driving across the wasteland some accident damage to the front offside wing and rear door appears that wasn't in previous shots.

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