The Sweeney

The Sweeney (1975)

22 mistakes in season 1

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The Placer - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: When Carter gets a puncture while driving the red van, as he gets out of the van there is a house on the opposite side of the road, but when the angle changes as Carter looks at the punctured wheel, the house is not there.

Cover Story - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: In the final scene when Regan and Carter are being chased by the police car they take a left hand corner past a building with two red doors. There are no cars parked outside, but when the police car passes there is a blue Datsun parked there.

Stoppo Driver - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: 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.

Abduction - S1-E13

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.

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Suggested correction: He is being metaphorical. Reagan is known for his florid turn of phrase.

Contact Breaker - S1-E12

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.

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Stoppo Driver - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: In the final car chase when Cooney jumps out of the car and it crashes into the barrels and explodes there is no-one on the back seat when the Princes should be there. (00:48:00)

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Stoppo Driver - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: During the first car chase it's obvious two different cars are used as the squad car reg no NHK295M. On one car the front right hand wing has a broken indicator and damage around it and a radio aerial, the other one has none of this.

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Season 1 generally

Audio problem: In some scenes the sound effect for the Ford Consul GT squad car is wrong - this car is fitted with a V6 engine but the sound is for a four cylinder engine.

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Cover Story - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: At the end Regan is driving the green ford escort at speed causing a police car to chase him, Carter is a passenger the two stunt doubles in the green escort do not look like Regan and Carter.

eric 64

Trivia: The blue Ford Cortina squad car seen in series 1 and 2 has the reg number NHK 296M. Sometimes it is fitted with a false number DLO 97M on the front (as has been noted as a mistake). The programme makers had been supplied with two cars from Ford, this Cortina and a Consul GT. The Cortina was fitted with this false plate to make the squad look like it had more cars, and only one number plate (the white front one) was made up to keep costs down, as the Sweeney had a small budget. In the series 3 episode "Pay Off" DLO 97M is on a white Cortina, in series three the same Triumph 2000 is seen with number plates TPA 931N and UUV 931N - again it is the same car with different number plates.

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Hit and Run - S2-E5

Question: Towards the end of this episode the squad car has to double park so Regan can use a phone box, as Regan gets out of the car a van has to drive round the squad car and the driver sounds the horn, Regan gesticulates and shouts "up yours" at the van driver. I wonder if this was scripted or was a random moment and John Thaw was ad-libbing?

eric 64

Answer: Scripted.

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