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Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox in CHiPs (1977)

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Return of the Turks

CHiPs

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Continuity

The license plate on Pete's motorcycle, 16A60, is the same plate that is used on Ponch's motorcycle.
The light-blue car Rudy drives at the beginning of the episode has a UCLA decal on the rear window with the "A" missing, but while Rudy and Sid are escaping from Ponch and Jon, the UCLA decal is complete.
During the first car chase when Rudy has lost control of the car, at one point you see him driving with one hand on the wheel and his left arm/elbow hanging on the window. Then when the view is inside the car, both hands are frantic on the steering wheel trying to control it.
When Ponch asks the EMT whether the iron lung can be moved out of the ambulance, the EMT tells Ponch, "No, it's bolted down," yet after the pipes have been removed from the ambulance and Kathy's iron lung has been removed, the iron lung is pictured being rolled on permanent wheels into another ambulance. Why would a piece of equipment that is bolted into an ambulance have wheels on it?
During the last chase the second car that Rudy runs off the road is a tan four door Pontiac sedan. A few moments later, after Rudy drops Sid off on the side of the freeway and takes off, he runs the same tan Pontiac off the road a second time (note damage to drivers side front fender and trim in both accidents).

Revealing mistakes

During the last chase, Rudy's passenger removes the keys from the locking ignition, but somehow Rudy is still able to steer and is able to pull over to the side of the road.

Plot holes

Ponch takes it all in stride when Getraer commends him for 278 citations, yet later a number of them come back that Ponch does not remember handling. It seems like this would be information that Ponch personally would be keeping in a log somewhere and perhaps a handwriting analysis would show they were not his.
Pete has his brother's police uniform, gun, and badge as they were likely given to him after his brother's death. But it seems difficult to believe that Pete would also have been given his motorcycle.

Character error

Soon after Rudy (with Sid in tow) starts bumping into other cars on the freeway for the second time, a CHP dispatcher makes the following announcement over the radio: "Attention all units: Reports of a reckless driver." Ponch and Jon immediately speed up, yet the dispatcher didn't indicate where the reckless driver was, so why do Ponch and Jon assume they're in the vicinity of the reckless driver? Moreover, why didn't the dispatcher indicate where the reckless driver was reported?

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