When the bearded suspect crashes the Ford Bronco and is ejected the stunt man rolling onto the ground has no beard.
After the briefing when Ponch returns to duty, Jon and Ponch are seen riding around a curve at a high speed and both motorcycles have their red lights flashing. In the subsequent shot, the lights are not flashing and they are riding at a normal speed.
Ponch while seeing double passes the same brown Datsun Z-car he had passed earlier.
When Jon and Ponch ride in to the gas station, the sign says regular is 57.9 cents, but when Ponch gets water from the hose at the second set of pumps, the sign on the pump says 60.9 cents. Additionally, the pumps where he obtains water have a diamond logo on them while the ones where he parked his bike had no logo.
During the second pursuit of the tow truck, it passes the same Chevrolet pickup twice.
Nitrous oxide has an immediate affect upon humans, not the delayed effects shown. Additionally, nitrous oxide has a very short half life, therefor Ponch would not have remained intoxicated for a long period of time, especially when only breathing fresh air.
Ponch is clearly impaired by the gas, to include double vision, yet he is able to ride his motorcycle, a task requiring great attention, with no problems for some time after the exposure. Even though the effects would diminish over time, they are instead shown to worsen.
If the CHP knew a tow truck driver were preying on disabled female motorists, they would cease using gender in the calls to their officers. They would simply dispatch it as a disabled motorist.
After the crash, Ponch exhibits classic signs of impairment, yet none of the CHP officers or the supervisor- all that had been trained to detect impaired motorists- do anything about it. A supervisor would act upon this as it is unsafe (liability) as well as illegal to have an armed and impaired person walking around or worse yet operating a state vehicle.
The footage where Jon and Ponch are pursuing the VW van and pass a brown Chevy pickup was reused from the initial pursuit in Pilot (1977).
The first robbery takes place at call box GS 402, indicating the Golden State freeway, which is consistent for the dispatch location. When Jon and Ponch ride away from the crash site which was further down the road, they pass the same call box again, indicating the same location was used for both scenes.
While coaching the first game, Getraer's image is reversed in some scenes.
When the bird dropping hits Ponch's windshield, a white wrapper can be seen flying away to the right side of the screen, indicating the material was delivered by the crew.
In their opening scene, Jon and Ponch are riding on the freeway in open traffic, presumably at the 55 MPH speed limit. When the call for the disabled motorist come in, the speedometer on Jon's motorcycle reads 20 MPH while the tachometer reads 3500 RPM. In the subsequent radio cal and shot the speed has increased to 25 MPH and the RPM to about 4250. Since top gear (fifth in the case of a KZ1000p police bike) is used for freeway patrol, these indicate the motorcycle was in a lower gear when that shot was filmed.
With the number of assaults that occur with stranded women by the tow truck driver, no one thinks about having a female officer pose as a decoy as a way of capturing him.
Inside the mini-mart, all of the cylindrical cans on the shelf are seen upside down, the clerk being tied up underneath them. When the thief opens up the cash register, he has to lean over the counter to open it, as it opens on the opposite side of the counter, not on the side the clerk was being tied up on.
In the second tow truck pursuit, they are supposedly on the Golden State freeway near the Ventura exit, however, the sign they pass says La Tuna Canyon Road exit. There is no La Tuna Canyon Road exit on the Golden State freeway. The footage was filmed on the Foothill freeway.
When Ponch and Jon first begin pursuing the drunk lawyer, they are headed eastbound on the Santa Monica Freeway at La Brea Avenue, yet when they finally pull him over, they are in Downtown Los Angeles and pass through the 2nd Street tunnel. This means that the two CHP officers follow a drunk driver for miles (from the 10 east to the 110 north and possibly onto the 101 south) and fail to call for backup the entire time. Because of how complicated the offramps are on the 110, it's unlikely that both the drunk driver and the still drugged Ponch would be able to maneuver as well as they do.
While there was cause for a DUI arrest based upon the driving and actions of the driver, Jon failed to offer him standardized field sobriety tests, which the attorney/defendant had named to Ponch, such as walking a line, finger to nose, and reciting the alphabet.
A CHP cruiser arrives at the crash seconds after Poncherello stops chasing the tow truck. He could have resumed the pursuit as the KZ1000p police motorcycle is far faster than an older model tow truck. Due to the serious nature of the crimes (robbery) and the threat to other motorists due to two prior robberies he was actually negligent for failing to do so.
Poncherello stands in the stream of an unknown gas to get the uninjured truck driver out of the cab. He could have done so from the passenger side without risking exposure to the gas.
Jon's off duty behavior with the guys sitting on his car was wrong. He should have identified himself as a law enforcement officer and if necessary arrested the guy. Jon himself could have been arrested for assault and battery.