Goofs

The front bumper on Oliver Pope's car appears and disappears at the end.

At the end, the car's headlights are intact even though Oliver smashed them and the horn with a hammer earlier in the garage.

Near the beginning, Oliver's 1956 Ford Fairlane 2-dr sedan is seen with rear fender skirts. Later, when his wife, Lillian, attempts to drive the car through the intersection of 3rd & Park (and subsequently breaks down and stalls), the Ford still has rear fenders skirts. In all remaining scenes, however, the skirts are absent.

By the time the witness arrives on the scene, Oliver Pope is already in the vehicle, which is facing away from her and is completely different from the one driven by Pete Radcliff, whom she was certain was responsible for the hit-and-run.

It is well documented that eyewitness testimony often is unreliable. The Association for Psychological Science documents that it is a myth that "Eyewitness Testimony is the Best Kind of Evidence" and backs up the statement by identifying that of 358 cases from the 1980s that were overturned by DNA analysis, "71% had been convicted through eyewitness misidentification".

As Oliver Pope is driving home, he glances over his right shoulder. Then the accident occurs, and he leaves. As he's driving away, the producers use the same clip of Pope looking over his right shoulder.

In the beginning, when the paper boy falls off of his bike after colliding with Pope's car, he rolls onto the ground; there are no newspapers strewn about and his bike is undamaged. However, when Pope exits his car to check on the boy, there are newspapers strewn about and the bike's front wheel is severely damaged.

The age of Timmy Danvers, the hit-and-run victim, is given as 12 years. The actor who portrays him, Michael Gorfain, is all-too-clearly older than 12.

As the car pulls itself out of the garage toward the end, the outdoor set lights are reflected in the car's windows.

The site of the accident is frequently given as "3rd & Park", but the announcer on the car radio at the end says it occurred at "3rd & Elm".

Pete says that the unknown driver left the kid "just lying there in the rain". It wasn't raining at the time, though it did so in a subsequent scene.

After Oliver returns from the garage, he tells his wife the car lights kept going on and off by themselves. She says, "I just paid the repair shop $35 to have it put into shape.", indicating that it's "their" car. Later, when they're in bed and the car's horn is honking at 3 a.m., she declares, "Ollie, that's your horn" rather than "our horn".