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Barry's Christmas - S12-E11

Trivia: The Ford Zephyr hearse used in this episode ended up being wrecked in a banger race at Millom Raceway in Cumbria in 2002.

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Season 3 generally

Trivia: Tony Barton, who portrays Alan Humphries' father Albert, is only twelve years older than George Armstrong, who plays Alan.

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Trivia: Adam Faith limps in stardust as he was injured in a car accident shortly before filming, but this fitted his character Mike, as Mike exited the prequel "that'll be the day" when he was beaten up by thugs although Mike was played by Ringo Starr in that film.

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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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Kung Fu Kapers AKA Ecky-Thump - S5-E7

Trivia: In the previous episode on the wall of the Goodies' office was some graffiti reading "it's gibbon time". In this episode the graffiti now says "it is still gibbon time". This was to promote their single "Funky Gibbon" which was released when this episode was first broadcast, the Goodies released five novelty songs in 1974 and '75 - Funky Gibbon was the most successful, reaching number 4 in the charts, the opening line of Funky Gibbon is "Come on everybody, it's gibbon time".

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Trivia: Croker has just come out of prison and is met by Lorna who has stolen a Daimler to drive him home in. Croker finds a flag in the car and says "this car belongs to the Pakistani ambassador" which was true, in real life that car did belong to the Pakistani High Commission in London and was hired by the film company.

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