Other mistake: During the singles club fire, after Johnny and Roy check the men's room upstairs, there's a shot of firemen in full turnout gear with hoses, and this footage is from the first season's pilot episode, "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act."
Super Grover
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: During the actual cliff rescue of the hang gliding accident victims, Roy and John are wearing hiking-type shoes with ridges on the soles, not their uniform shoes.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to "plane that hit building," after they rescue the two aboard the plane, just before the explosion when the orange combustible drum is propelled into the air, we can see the stunt's projectile to get the drum airborne.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to "accident with injuries," en route one of the camera angles is from the POV behind Roy and John, where the back of the squad is located. The problem is that there's bright sunlight on their backs as they’re driving, when it shouldn't be there. Artistic license is acceptable, but having so much sunlight where it should not be reveals that Squad 51 is not in its normal state.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Roy explains to Mrs. Evans that she shouldn't call them every time Simba runs off, when Chet finds Simba, Johnny holds him with his right hand behind the front legs and left hand under the tail, but closeup Johnny's hands are in the opposite positions.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When 51's guys are on the roof of the jail, Johnny sets up the red hose roller with a safety line on the roof edge between the two ladders, but when Roy climbs up the orange ladder to go over the edge, that hose roller with the safety line are not on the roof edge and can be seen still lying on the ground, then it reappears in place in the aerial shot. Additionally, when Roy goes over the roof to make his descent, there's a second silver hose roller at the base of the overhang, which was never actually placed there.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the USC game, after Johnny uses the Heimlich on the choking guy, when Roy asks him to take a deep breath Roy's left hand is on the man's chest, but in the next shot it is Roy's right hand that's on the man's chest.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Early walks into the staff lounge after Johnny's surgery, and joins Roy at the table, Early's holding the cup of coffee with his right hand in the shot facing Roy, but in the shot facing Early he's holding the cup with his left hand.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Early is examining Johnny in the ER, telling Roy about symptoms for ruptured liver or spleen, in the closeup Roy's holding up the IV bag with his right hand, but next wide shot it's held up in Roy's left hand.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the dispatcher drops tones for the 'possible heart attack', just as we hear Captain Stanley respond, "KMG365," we can see movement between Engine 51's front driver and passenger seats, where the camera is located. Captain Stanley is still at the radio base station and Mike hasn't opened the door yet.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Pressure 165 - S5-E7
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny are with Chef Michel, the outline of the mic transmitter can be seen on the front of Johnny's shirt.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Johnny and Roy are driving in the squad, they're dispatched to an 'unknown type rescue', and when they arrive at the incident which is a football player who kicked in his TV screen, Roy's hair is much shorter - note the front and sideburns. Then back in the squad it's the same length as earlier.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are leaving the home of the football player who kicked in his TV screen, in the interior shot as they're walking out, Roy has a stethoscope around his neck and is holding the Biophone with his right hand and drug box with his left. In the next exterior shot, the stethoscope is gone and the drug box and Biophone have switched hands.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the start of shift, after Captain Stanley gives the guys assignments, when the last shift rolls up in the squad, in the closeups Roy is suddenly holding his helmet while he and Johnny are talking to Dwyer, but it's gone again in the wide shot. When the squad is dispatched, Roy grabs his helmet which had been lying on the engine's running board in all the wide shots.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Visible crew/equipment: After the man with the herniated lumbar disc is removed from the waterbed and loaded onto the ambulance, when John gets into the squad, the reflection of a crew member is visible in the passenger side wing mirror.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Continuity mistake: While Johnny tells the other guys that the losers of the baseball game, between 51 and 36, will have to pay for the entire cost of the picnic, Chet's eating an apple which has less eaten by the time he tosses it into the garbage.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Other mistake: After Chet says that he doesn't like when people expect too much of him, Squad 51 is dispatched to "man bit by an animal," and when Roy gets into the squad the highly reflective chrome spotlight has been sprayed with a dulling spray, to temporarily dull the surface.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny walks into the kitchen and gets the cold shoulder from Marco and Mike, and then when Chet walks in, the reflection of production equipment is visible on the oven's glass.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 dispatched to 'man bitten by animal', the center chrome on lightbar is a solid piece, but en route the chrome center is striped and its trim is covered with black tape. Then when they approach the car lot, the black tape is gone.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Visible crew/equipment: After Mike and Marco ignore Johnny as he walks into the kitchen, when Roy holds the chrome coffee pot and pours Johnny a cup of coffee, the reflections of the camera/lights are visible on the coffee pot's chrome surface.
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