Continuity mistake: When John and Roy are at the park with the injured football player and his son, the shadows that are cast over the entire area change significantly when the ambulance arrives.
Super Grover
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Squad 51 is parked at ER receiving, John and Roy tell Dr. Early about the squad's engine problem, and when Early fixes the engine problem, we can see the reflection of numerous set lighting on the squad's chrome spotlight.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While climbing the tower to rescue the "man" at the top, after Johnny slips and slams into the cross beam, when he and Chet are heading back down the tower, the two lights attached to the tower keep switching from the right side to the left side, depending if it's a closeup of them or a wide shot of their doubles. Additionally, in the closeups the lights are large and round, but in the wide shots one of them is a small square.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: During the fire at Hammond Chemical, when Engine 7 rolls up and lays duals, we can see the vinyl material adhered to the top of the cab covering the engine company's real number.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Loose Ends - S6-E12
Visible crew/equipment: During the fire at the train yard, when they carry out the second toxic fume inhalation victim from the boxcar, just before they pass the camera, the shadow of the camera tracking backwards is visible on the boxcar, to the left.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Paper Work - S6-E11
Other mistake: When Marco is taking inventory of what's in the refrigerator, the containers on the door have their brand names covered.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is being dispatched to 'auto accident with injuries' there's a closeup of Sam Lanier, the dispatcher, and in the next overhead shot of the apparatus bay, we can see the reflection/shadow of equipment moving on Engine 51's windshield, at the bottom left corner.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
An Ounce of Prevention - S6-E13
Continuity mistake: After Early has examined the woman who was stuck up on the ferris wheel with her husband, he tells her she could go to the waiting room, and when Early leaves treatment 2 the stethoscope is around his neck, but next shot from the hallway as he exits the stethoscope is gone.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Paper Work - S6-E11
Continuity mistake: When John's in the storm drain with the boy, in the closeups the water rushing from the broken hydrant has a very strong current, and Roy's holding the boy's head up out of the water, but in the wide shots the current is nearly calm, nowhere as intense as the closeups, and Roy's not holding the boy's head.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Roy and John are with the man whose back went out, when Thadeus runs off with the BP cuff and Roy chases him, Roy has the stethoscope around his neck with the chest piece hanging down, but once Roy falls into the pool the chest piece is suddenly tucked down into the front of Roy's shirt.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Continuity mistake: During the police chopper rescue, three ropes are tied off onto Engine 51's eyes, and when Mike backs the engine up while the stokes carrying Frank is pulled up, in shots facing the engine the three lines are being pulled backwards simultaneously, but in the shots of Marco, the stokes, and the ground, only the line with the stokes is being pulled up, the other two ropes are lying on the ground completely still.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy, John, and Chet are standing near the stove talking about Hookrader's party, just as John tells Chet, "And you! You with that speech!" they walk towards the table, and the shadow of the overhead boom mic swoops across the cabinets on the right.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Other mistake: When John, Roy, and Chet are standing near the stove talking about how much they enjoyed Hookrader's party, there's a can of cleaning powder which has tape swirled around the can to hide the recognizable design and its brand name, which is Ajax.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John are helping Jeanine get her head unstuck from the table, Jeanine's braid is very loose and coming apart, but when her head is free and she jumps into her mother's arms, Jeanine's braid is braided properly.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Character mistake: When Mr. Grady, the self defense instructor, and his wife are in the ER waiting room after Brackett taped up his fractured ribs, Mr. Grady makes a comment about being flipped, and instead of saying Mrs. Pestone he says the name incorrectly as Prestin, then a few moments later he says her name properly, just as he did earlier during the class.
24th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: Dispatched to the structure fire in the middle of the night are Station 51, Engine 95, Engine 105, and Truck 107, but on scene we see Engine 800, Engine 801, and also Engine 10, which is all footage from the first season's pilot episode "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act."
24th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After treating the girl who had a soda pop bottle explode in her face, when John and Roy are carrying the stretcher out the door, they're facing the stretcher and each other in the interior shot, but in the exterior shot John has turned around, with his back facing Roy while carrying the stretcher.
24th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John climb up to the scaffold John removes his gloves, but the stuntman keeps his gloves on for quite a few of the following shots, until he also removes his gloves.
24th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: On scene at the drunk's car accident with the little girl trapped in the car, in the shots facing the girl's mother she's standing with Vince behind the back of the car, near the crowd of bystanders, but in Roy's closeups while he's in the car with Debbie getting her vitals, we see the mother's legs (note her yellow polka-dot dress) right behind Roy, near the open front passenger door.
24th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: After watching the movie on TV, Chet says he has royal Indian blood, and when Johnny walks over to Chet he puts his arm around Chet's shoulder, and tells him it's called, "White man royalty syndrome," then it cuts to a closeup of Roy, and we see Chet still standing by himself.
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