When Jerry goes to Gazzarri's, he is seen standing at the bar. However, it is the same bar that he was at in the previous location, The Mayfair Theatre, where he was waiting for Rockford to come out of the bathroom.
Jim's car changes throughout the episode. Some scenes it is a 1974 model with the smaller rear window and in others it is the 1975 model with the wraparound rear window.
During the car chase near the end of the show (just before the airplane shows up), the rear window of Rockford's car is missing and then reappears. The window continues to disappear and reappear several times.
Before Angel starts to look through the files, he is holding a lit cigarette in his hand. In a close-up shot, his hands are empty, but when the camera returns to the wider shot, the cigarette is back in his hand.
When the city bus is driving to the beach, the driver is shown as a white man with short brown hair. When the bus arrives at the beach and the driver turns to tell the last passenger to get off, he is a young black male with a prominent black Afro.
Jerry ordered a mixed drink at the bar but is seen with a beer mug.
In the gunfight scene with the airplane, Jim Rockford (James Garner) uses his non-dominant hand grasping his dominant wrist to steady his revolver. This is a common handgun handling error in many TV series of the time.
Experienced shooters do not hold their handguns that way two-handed. They hold them with the fingers of the non-dominant hand around fingers of their dominant hand with the non-dominant thumb next to the dominant thumb.
Experienced shooters do not hold their handguns that way two-handed. They hold them with the fingers of the non-dominant hand around fingers of their dominant hand with the non-dominant thumb next to the dominant thumb.
The file folders Angel looks through for Rockford are all unlabeled.
There are no bullet impacts in the sand during most of the strafing runs in the desert, but in a couple of the shots there is, so there should be impacts seen from most of the runs.
The shots of Mrs. Elias' house is a stock photo with a crease in the middle.
When Rockford hangs up the pay phone, the coins don't drop, proving he hadn't placed a call.
During Rockford's first meeting with Sara, she explains that the police weren't able to help her, so they (Dennis Becker, specifically) referred him to her. Later in the episode, Rockford becomes disgruntled during the case, asking her who sicked her onto him. She answers "the cops", and he reacts as though he hadn't been aware of that.
Mrs. Elias beautiful house - shown in the first establishing exterior shot as a stoned, Tudor-style home, with sweeping views from a hill-side perspective, is, in fact considered an iconic example of modern architecture, in the Hollywood Hills. It's Stahl Case House No° 22 - 1635 Woods Drive, Los Angeles, CA.
When Jim and Sara drive to Las Vegas, they're shown going along a two-lane desert road. Since time was of the essence, they would've taken I-15, a major interstate highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
When Sara answers Rockford's phone call at her bikini shop she answers with a terse "Yes?" She had no way of knowing it was Rockford calling. A proprietor of a small shop would not answer the phone in such a rude manner.