When carrying the baby to the ambulance, Jon and Ponch pass the same stopped yellow Corvette twice.
When Ponch and John are coming down the canyon with baby Henry to meet the ambulance, they pass a yellow Corvette and brown Pinto, twice.
When checking for the bus in the stalled traffic, all three officers are shown going in the same direction as the stalled traffic, with the exception of a couple of vehicles that were going in the opposite direction. In a subsequent scene, Ponch is shown riding in the opposite direction to the stalled traffic.
The soot from the fire is on the front of the driver's suit jacket, and Ponch is seen holding him from behind, yet Ponch is later seen with soot all over the front of his uniform.
The yellow Corvette that Ponch and Jon would later pass twice while transporting the baby can be seen behind them earlier, just as the boxes start falling off the truck.
Opening the hood of an overheating car or even one with an engine fire would not cause an explosion. Removing the radiator cap would cause a spray of hot coolant.
Ponch turns on the TV to watch a daytime soap opera. It had just started when Getraer walks in. The clock in the briefing room showed the time as 9:44 AM. Television shows in 1977 did not begin on the quarter-hour.
After the baby is strapped to Jon's chest, it is clearly a dummy that is not moving.
When Ponch & John are helping the wrong-way driving little old lady get back off the freeway, you can see the "simulated traffic" cars turning around in the background in order to create traffic on the opposite side of the freeway.
The number of boxes falling out of the truck from the right side and then later the remaining two columns increases despite it being on a level road, indicating a crew member was pushing them out.
When Jon and Ponch enter the room to watch the soap opera around 9:45 AM, the windows on the side of the room show as black. Either the filming was done at night, or they were blacked out so not other parts of the set could be seen.
The dog is heard to bark while Jon had its mouth held shut.
The baby food spill takes place on the Foothill Freeway near La Tuna Canyon Road, a popular filming location. Central LA units would not patrol this section of freeway as it was in the Glendale district at the time. The Glendale station was closed in 1986 and the Altadena station, designated the Verdugo Hills Area Station at the time, was built only 8 miles from that location.
Getraer warns the Volvo driver about speeding then makes a lane change without signaling.
Getraer is heard talking to the baby food company man on the phone. The man references a loose load ticket that was shown earlier being written by Jon. Getraer is then shown trying to figure out who wrote the ticket. In California as with other jurisdictions, the officer issuing a ticket is identified by name and/or number on the citation. Even if this was illegible, Getraer as the one that issues ticket books to his subordinates could check the ticket number and see to which officer it had been issued.
Jon mentions they will have to have the DMV re-test the wrong-way driver. While he briefly held her driver license, he did not take down any of her information, which would be required to have a driver re-tested.
When the alert is broadcast for the lost baby food, the dispatcher says it was lost on the Golden State southbound near 9th. There is no such interchange, as the highest numbered road that intersects the Golden State is East 4th in downtown Los Angeles. The scene where the food was lost was filmed almost 20 miles away on the Foothill Freeway near La Tuna Canyon Road, as evidenced by the overhead sign when the truck was shown being pulled over. This error is repeated when Getraer asks the female clerk about loose load citations on the Golden State, in the news broadcast, where the Golden State freeway is mentioned, and by Ponch when he tells Getraer about the bus.