Continuity mistake: At the start, there's a long shot of the Land Rover driving down a long stretch of road towards the camera and then passing it. That road, landscape, and mountains are very distinctive. As Roy, John, and Chet continue talking and driving, when they reach the scene of a traffic accident, Chet sets up a flare behind the Land Rover and another flare behind the pickup truck, then Chet sees a car coming from the direction which the Land Rover was headed. The problem is that the road/landscape/mountains shown earlier in the long shot of the Land Rover, which had been driving from the opposite direction, is the same that's shown here, as Chet tries to stop the car. Then to top it off, when Chet first notices the second car in the distance, it's coming from the opposite direction of the first car, but once again the view is exactly the same.
Super Grover
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the start, there's a closeup of Roy, Johnny, and Chet, and it cuts to a long shot of the landscape around them while they're driving, then it cuts back to the closeup. The landscape the Land Rover passed in the long shot is entirely different than in the previous and following closeups.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When all the guys are standing around the kitchen table, while Captain Stanley rips the paper so they can draw lots for using The Boat, the actor's tape mark is visible on the floor by Mike's foot.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: Near the end of the episode, when Charlie hitches up The Boat to his pickup truck and drives it away, the reflection of the array set lighting is visible on the pickup's door.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: In the bookmaker's apartment, while Roy. John, Marco and Chet are working on the bookie who's in full cardiac arrest, Vince walks in and speaks to Captain Stanley. Then Vince, who's wearing a watch and ring on his right arm/hand, reaches for all the ringing telephones, and one by one he removes the receivers from the bases, but the right arm/hand in the closeup has no ring or watch.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While the two victims of The Boat wreck are on the ground down below, just as the Coast Guard chopper begins to lower Roy on the line, the cameraman/crew member wearing a grey T-shirt is visible down below on the ground, just past Roy's left shoulder.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the Coast Guard chopper reaches The Boat that ran aground off Catalina, during the rescue Roy and Johnny are seen wearing water-type shoes, not their uniform shoes.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: During the rescue of The Boat wreck off Catalina, while John's waiting on the ground with one victim, when Roy and the other victim are in the basket being lifted onto the Coast Guard chopper, the shirtless cameraman/crew member wearing a red cap and shorts is visible down below, under the chopper.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the start of the episode, in the closeup shot of Roy, Chet, and Johnny as they're talking about not catching any fish on their trip, there is a chrome spotlight on the roof of the Land Rover, and we can see the reflection of the camera mounted on the vehicle's hood.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny's on the phone with Uncle Ernie about the new color TV, in the wide shot Johnny writes down the address of the warehouse, and puts the pen back in his shirt pocket. Then Johnny thanks Uncle Ernie, and when he hangs up the phone, in the next closeup the pen is back in Johnny's hand.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Station 51 is dispatched to 'man trapped at the rock quarry', when Squad 51 heads through the tunnel-like passageway on the right, it cuts to a shot from behind Mike who's driving Engine 51, and just as the engine heads through the left passageway, we see Squad 51 on the right, and can also see the top of the camera and the other cameraman covered in a dark blanket at the back of Squad 51, as he shoots the footage from that angle.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Brackett is in his office talking to Patsy's manager, he's paged and then told, "Treatment room 2, STAT," and he answers, "On my way," but Brackett doesn't rush to treatment room 2, he goes to room 230 which is Patsy's room, and Early even calls for a code blue in room 230.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Brackett and Morton are with Patsy in her hospital room, there are two closeups of the Datascope 850, but there's an entirely different unit at the foot of Patsy's bed monitoring her EKG, not the Datascope 850. The same thing happens again later, when Brackett rushes in and Early tells him that Patsy was throwing more PVCs.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Lighter-Than-Air Man - S5-E8
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is on the scene with the overturned truck carrying insecticide, that's causing toxic smoke, Captain Stanley asks dispatch to identify the toxicity of trimelanide, and three shots later a crew member walks onscreen from the left, right behind the overturned truck, then realizes his mistake and backs away.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Lighter-Than-Air Man - S5-E8
Continuity mistake: At the scene of the overturned truck causing toxic smoke, when Chet talks to the driver and then pops out the windshield, in the wide shots the two windshields are intact and not cracked, but in the closeups facing Chet and the closeups facing the driver there are long cracks in the windshield.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Station 51 is dispatched to the fire at the marine salvage yard, when they arrive at the scene we can see a second cameraman on his knees beside the camera, as he is shooting footage of the ship from that specific angle, which we see during this scene.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the guy who was injured in the manhole is brought into the ER, Dix tells them to bring him to treatment 6 (which is around the corner from the other treatment rooms, and has no color lines that run past its door), then we see him wheeled into treatment 6 in the shot from the hallway. However, in the next shot from inside the treatment room we can see they're not in treatment 6, but actually in treatment 1, note the red, green, and yellow lines on the hallway floor in front of its doorway, and treatment 6 has no color lines that run past its doorway.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the man who was unconscious for five minutes is wheeled into the ER, Morton has him taken to treatment 2, and when Carol is taking his blood pressure, the actor's tape mark is visible at her feet, under the gurney.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the two guys fill the fish tank with water, when they walk out of Brackett's office Dixie walks in, and as she comments that the tank is classy, the actor's tape mark is visible at her feet, in front of Brackett's desk.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the landslide, the address is given as 2283 Canyon Road, but when they arrive at the house the address is 4102.
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