Factual error: As Gently drives to the holiday camp at speed, he nearly collides with an MG 1100. Although the MG 1100 was introduced in 1962, this particular one is a two-door model, which wasn't added to the range until 1967, three years after this episode is set.
Inspector George Gently (2007)
1 factual error in season 2
Starring: Lee Ingleby, Martin Shaw, Simon Hubbard
Factual error: Gently and team shine a maglite torch into an underground chamber. The episode was set in 1970. Maglite torches weren't manufactured until 1979.
John Bacchus: You're under arrest.
George Gently: He's under arrest, when I say he is.