When he is pursuing the drug buyer, the headlight on Bruce Nelson's motorcycle goes from off to on.
When Poncherello is at the relay practice talking about C.T. not being present for two days, he is in a CHP t-shirt and tells Linda he'll be right back. In the subsequent scene when he visits C.T.'s home he is in full uniform.
In the parking lot, Poncherello rides past the same brown Mazda RX-7 twice, once after he and Nelson split up, then again several seconds later after the suspects are driving away. The officers are then shown back together in the following scene even though they had gone in different directions seconds earlier.
In the parking lot prior to the CHP officer crash, Nelson is immediately behind Poncherello, yet it takes him 5 seconds to arrive at the crash.
Poncherello tells the explorers to go home and change. No parents or other adults are seen. It is apparent only a couple are old enough to drive, yet in the subsequent scene all are at the LAPD with CHP explorer uniforms.
CHP cadets do not perform solo patrol- as was shown in Pilot (1977) and later in Ponch's Angels: Part 1 (1981), new motorcycle officers are assigned a training officer. Cadets do not ride motorcycles. Additionally, Cadet Nelson had no police authority to pursue the drug buyer as he was not yet a sworn peace officer for the State of California. His violation of both the law and CHP policy would result in immediate dismissal. Arguing with a CHP supervisor about whose case it was would aggravate the circumstances.
The CHP does not investigate burglaries to autos in shopping center parking lots.
The CHP explorers are shown as mostly a bunch of misfits that do not want to be in the group. Police explorer groups consist of young people interested in a career in law enforcement and are comprised of volunteers that can leave the group at any time. Additionally, with the negative attitudes displayed, they would be expelled from the group by the agency.
CHP officers on light duty do not wear uniforms or carry firearms. Additionally, they do not perform normal duty functions such as using children for an auto burglary investigation.
CHP patrol officers do not follow up on suspected drug deals. The information would be turned over to local law enforcement, particularly a specialized drug unit.
Prior to impact with the green car in the parking lot, the stunt rider for Poncherello is seen standing up on the motorcycle to jump over the car. He barely clears the hood of the car and is about to hit the ground head first, yet in the subsequent scene he is far higher in the air and his left arm and back hits high on the side of the van, which was several feet away from the car. The stunt performer used his back to create the impact with the van, not his left arm.
In the footage where Poncherello and Nelson are responding to the parking lot, Poncherello looks over his left shoulder to change lanes. There is a silver Mustang II behind them and a light green Oldsmobile parked at the curb. This footage was reused from Fox Trap (1983) when they were dispatched to assist Linahan with the suspect in the blue car.
Getraer mentions they had to process the drug buyer out of the system since he had no drugs. While that was true, the suspect violated a number of criminal traffic laws such as attempting to elude an officer and reckless driving. All of these were moot not due to the lack of drugs but rather due to Bruce Nelson's lack of being a sworn peace officer.
The CHP officers are dispatched to two suspects at the west end of the parking lot. The location is not specified, nor is the type of crime.
When first speaking to Madlyn Rhue, Linahan introduces Bruce Nelson as Officer Nelson. Since he was a cadet and not a sworn officer at the time, the title was incorrect.
Numerous mistakes are made using the hand held two-way radios when the explorers are conducting surveillance. They include someone else talking when not holding the radio- the person holding the radio is the only one that could push the transmit button- and a character holding it like a telephone. His voice would not be heard since the microphone is not at the bottom of the radio like it is on a phone handset.
Mrs. Sloane makes it sound like her neighborhood is a ghetto due to drug deals, yet the interior of her apartment is well furnished and she is well groomed, indicating she could easily afford to live elsewhere.