Visible crew/equipment: After Station 51 is dispatched to the possible heart attack, when they arrive at the scene it cuts to the interior shot of the pregnant woman walking to the door, and we can see the shadow of the cameraman moving across the lamp and curtains.
Super Grover
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Visible crew/equipment: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the baby with difficulty breathing, in the wide shot when the squad pulls into the driveway and heads to the front of the house, the cameraman steps out of the shadows on the right side of screen and walks toward the squad (then it cuts to the footage he was shooting), and in the next shot as the moving camera closes in on the squad in front of it, the cameraman's shadow becomes visible on the tree and house.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Visible crew/equipment: After inspecting Davey's Dogs, when John and Roy head to the squad discussing how only a total idiot would buy the stand, the reflection of the location's array lighting is visible on the squad's surface, and the reflection of the camera dolly can be seen on the chrome spotlight.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Visible crew/equipment: After Station 51 is dispatched to the fire, a dumpster fire already put out by Phyllis, when Mike parks the engine, the reflection of crew members are visible on the jumpseat window, and the location's array lighting is visible on the engine's surface.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Revealing mistake: After Roy and Johnny get to the hospital with the 18 month old baby who stopped breathing, when Johnny is rushing up the hallway giving mouth-to-mouth to the baby, we can see that the happy little baby is wide awake and even smiling.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny get back to the station talking about the ten fire inspections and two runs, the moving shadow of the boom mic is visible on the cabinets above Chet.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Other mistake: When the patient with the heart wound is brought to the ER, the anesthesiologist brings the cart with a ventilating unit close to patient, then there are two closeups of Bird's Mark 4 unit and the bellows housing showing inflation and deflation, and on the bellows unit it reads "Animal Anesthesia Ventilator" made by Bird. This is also the same closeup we see of the ventilator unit in 4x18, "Prestidigitation," during the surgery on Brackett's father.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Visible crew/equipment: During the fire at the chemical plant, a couple of shots after we see Captain Stanley walking between Roy and Chet as they're manning two hoses on the roof, we see a shot of Engine 15 as it heads toward the camera and then drives past it, and the reflection of array lighting is visible on the engine's surface.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Visible crew/equipment: Just as Roy brings the victim with the heart wound into treatment 2, in the upper left corner we can see the moving shadow of the boom mic.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Other mistake: When Johnny and Roy are in the kitchen talking about pooling money for Davey's Dogs, there are three small containers of milk on the table which have tape covering the brand names.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Other mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the victim who has a projectile in his heart from a lawn mower, Brackett asks for an EKG strip and there's a closeup of the Datascope monitor, even though the Datascope is not actually in the ER's base station room (it's also still in the squad at this point). Also interesting to note, when Brackett walks out of the base station and tells Early about the heart wound, Early turns the medical chart he's holding at an angle, looks down at it and it appears that he's reading his line from the chart. Then when the ambulance arrives at the scene, the stethoscope is around Johnny's neck, then it's back around Roy's neck as Johnny's lifting the patient, then it's gone from Roy's neck, and then Johnny puts it back around Roy's neck.
20th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Continuity mistake: When the patient with the heart wound is brought to the ER, he's wheeled into treatment 2, which has a window on its door, and is on the side of the hallway with the yellow line closest to it. Later we see treatment 1 twice, when Vince brings in the burglary suspect with a bullet in his leg, and also when John and Roy rush the baby to the ER. They used the same room as treatment 1 and treatment 2, but there are just two treatment rooms on that side of the hallway and only one of them has a window on its door - the one that's opposite the nurses' station, treatment 1.
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: During Johnny's surgery, the top of the set is visible over the door area when the camera angle tilts up, just before Morton comments that there's blood and wonders where it's coming from.
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After they load Johnny into the ambulance, just as it's about to pull away the reflection of the location's array lighting is visible on the back of the ambulance.
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the site of the hang gliding accident, when Captain Stanley and Marco are pulling the stokes up the side of the cliff, the outlines of the lav mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of Cap's shirt.
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Brackett examines the self-defense instructor, when Brackett speaks to Mrs. Grady in the hallway, the outline of the mic transmitter is visible at the front of Roy's shirt.
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: Near the end, when Johnny's walking from the locker room to the kitchen and checking his watch, the bulging outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the front of his shirt.
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Trivia: Throughout the run of the series, when there's a closeup of Squad 51's Motorola two-way radio unit, notice the spelling mistake on the self-adhesive label that reads "Resue Unit No. 51."
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Audio problem: When Roy and John are with the unconscious man during the fire at the Atlas Hotel, Chet and Marco bring the stokes and Chet tells them that the fire is getting worse, and when Roy responds, "If we move him now we're gonna lose him," we see that Roy continues talking as Chet listens to him, but we hear nothing.
19th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While the guys are sleeping at 12:47 am, the camera moves across the dorm, and just as the camera moves past the brick wall divider beside Roy's bed, it casts a moving shadow at the top.
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