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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - S1-E1

Factual error: The police sergeant who visits Ann after she reports her daughter missing is wearing rank chevrons on his tunic sleeves and his epaulettes. When wearing a tunic, British police sergeants only wear chevrons on the sleeves.

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Factual error: Air Commodore Cyril Cooke is referred to as Sir Cyril. This is during the war, but he wasn't actually knighted until 1947.

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Factual error: The RUC officers are wearing blue uniforms. The RUC actually wore dark green uniforms.

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Factual error: The Third Crusade is continually referred to as being in Arabia against the Arabs. In fact, it was in Palestine (then generally known in Europe as the Holy Land or Outremer) against the Ayyubids, who were mostly of Egyptian, North African and Syrian extraction. Although many would have been what we would today call Arabs, the term was not used for them then - they were generally known in the West as Saracens.

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Factual error: Originally described as a subaltern (the correct equivalent rank to lieutenant in the ATS), Sandra Wesgate is later promoted to captain, which is incorrect as the ATS equivalent was junior commander.

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Factual error: Apart from the colonel, none of the characters wear medal ribbons until about halfway through, when they all suddenly show up wearing several. In fact, most of them should have been wearing at least one or two from the beginning.

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Factual error: Two of the gunners are Privates. The minimum rank for aircrew was Sergeant.

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Factual error: Both Flight Officer Garrett and Flight Lieutenant Williams address Captain Reeves as "Sir," despite holding the same equivalent rank. Garrett may not be aware of this (as she is actually only pretending to be a WAAF officer), but Williams certainly would be.

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Factual error: The American flag shown in the animated sequence at the beginning is the modern 50-star version rather than the WWII 48-star version.

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Factual error: The crew chief is originally said to be a corporal. However, he wears master sergeant's chevrons throughout the series.

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Season 2 generally

Factual error: Three inspectors are candidates for the 'job' of chief superintendent and one is appointed. But British police promotion doesn't work like this. Chief superintendent is a rank, not a job, and inspector is three ranks below it. Officers do not skip ranks. The only possible candidates for a post carrying the rank of chief superintendent would be an existing chief superintendent making a sideways move or a superintendent who could be promoted to the next higher rank.

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Factual error: It is stated that Christopher and Corinne settle in Pittsburgh. However, when Christopher is killed in a car accident, the police officers who come to inform Corinne are in a Virginia State Police car. Most of the rest of the series is set in Virginia, probably leading to the mistake, but this scene is not.

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Factual error: The Six Triple Eight depicted has officers and privates but no NCOs whatsoever. In reality, the battalion had the same complement of corporals and sergeants as any other battalion.

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Factual error: At the end, Hunt emerges from a London Underground station called Trafalgar Square. The station that serves Trafalgar Square is Charing Cross. The spot used for filming is, in reality, a public toilet.

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Crossroads - S1-E5

Factual error: The British Lieutenant-Colonel Dobie (his rank is given both in the script and in the credits) is wearing the cap badge only worn by full colonels and brigadiers. Lieutenant-colonels wear regimental cap badges.

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Factual error: The chief of police holds the rank of captain. But the Ontario Provincial Police, to which she belongs, uses the standard Commonwealth police ranks of inspector and superintendent instead of army ranks.

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Factual error: The Chief Constable authorises Max's attachment to the New South Wales Police. Max is a Metropolitan Police officer. The Met is headed by a commissioner, not a Chief Constable.

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Factual error: The Torre delle Milizie is visible from the courtyard in the Vatican and looks fairly close. You can't even see the tower from the Vatican. It's quite a long way away.

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Factual error: The RAF Dakota that flies Robin and Diana back from Kenya in 1959 has American markings and D-Day invasion stripes, marking it as a heritage aircraft rather than a service aircraft of the era.

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Factual error: The film describes the British headquarters in Kenya as the "British Embassy." Kenya was still a colony, so there was no British embassy; it was Government House.

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