Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny get to the gas station, Captain Stanley tells them to look at the owner of the station, and when the owner leans over and places the nozzle back on the pump, the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of his shirt.
Super Grover
7th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
7th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny is in the ambulance with the boy who ingested poison, the shadow of the cameraman holding the handheld camera is visible on Johnny as he sits beside the stretcher.
7th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Dixie has her hand caught in the coffee dispensing machine, Roy gets it free, and when she pulls her hand out all of her nails on that hand are very short in the closeup, but in following shots her nails are quite long, as usual.
7th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Audio problem: When Johnny and Roy send down the boy who was trapped on the crane, once he's carried by Chet and the others, we hear Captain Stanley say, "Alright, let's get him into the Stokes, and get him outta here as fast as we can," but his mouth is not saying those words (though Chet's helmet blocks Cap's mouth for part, it applies to the rest). Additionally, it doesn't make any sense that he would even say that, because they're loading him straight onto the ambulance stretcher, not a Stokes.
7th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are on the "child locked in a bathroom" run, Johnny makes a hasty retreat leaving Roy to deal with the "child." The bar of soap Roy uses is on a curved pedestal soap dish, and that dish is either curved towards the wall, or turned the opposite way, depending on the camera angle.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Propinquity - S3-E20
Continuity mistake: When the victims are loaded onto the second ambulance with Roy, after the original ambulance was hit by the car, we can see the license plate, Z99977, as Johnny closes the back doors. Then while en route to Rampart, the ambulance's make/model changes with plate, Z99953, then the make/model changes yet again, but still has the same plate, Z99953.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Propinquity - S3-E20
Visible crew/equipment: At the abandoned refinery, just after Roy attempts to pull out the man pinned under a tank, but is unsuccessful the first time, when it cuts to Captain Stanley and Chet, who are on the third level hosing the fire through the doorway, at the left of the screen a crew member is visible, watching them.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Propinquity - S3-E20
Visible crew/equipment: When Engine 51 first arrives at the abandoned refinery and stops to hook up to the hydrant, the multiple location set lights are reflected on the engine's large windshield.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Propinquity - S3-E20
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy moves the squad forward to tow the wrecked car away from the flames, as he opens the driver side door to get out, we can see the reflection of the silver reflector screen in the squad's long wing mirror.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Propinquity - S3-E20
Revealing mistake: When Johnny and Roy are figuring out how to free the woman trapped in her wrecked car, the flames spread and Johnny's pant leg catches fire, but as he's trying to smother that flame, the strip of fire stunt gel that was smeared on his pant leg is visible.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Propinquity - S3-E20
Other mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the traffic accident, while en route first we see Engine 51 with nobody on the back, but then we see two firemen standing at the back, and they are Johnny and Roy. This footage is from the episode "The Old Engine" in season 3, when Station 51 got the new Ward La France engine, and since the previous shift was still out with the squad, Cap told Roy and Johnny to jump on the back and join them on their first run with the new engine.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Inventions - S3-E22
Other mistake: After Johnny and Roy are seen carrying the semi-conscious worker during the chemical leak, Captain Stanley tells Mike to get the life gun, and tells Chet to secure a lifeline, then before he mentions getting the guys from the catwalk via the lifeline, we hear Captain Stanley tell the Battalion Chief (into his handie-talkie), "Battalion 14, Engine 41," even though he's Engine 51, not 41. Additionally, when Cap tells Chet about the lifeline, two firemen behind Chet are wearing helmets with no company numbers on them.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Inventions - S3-E22
Visible crew/equipment: After Roy and Johnny rescue the worker in the midst of the chemical leak, when Captain Stanley asks the Chief over the HT to send the ambulance, two crew members are seen behind him. When the victim is pulled across the lifeline, as he reaches the engine a crew member, with black hair wearing a white shirt, is seen standing behind the engine. Then, when Johnny hauls himself across the lifeline, just as he reaches the engine we see a crew member, with black hair wearing a white shirt (likely same one as earlier), who arches up then ducks back down behind the engine.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Inventions - S3-E22
Visible crew/equipment: On site at the major chemical leak, when Johnny burns his hand and falls backward, on the ground behind him there's a crew member that can be seen crouching behind stacked cement bags, looking in Johnny's direction.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Inventions - S3-E22
Visible crew/equipment: On site at the chemical leak, when Captain Stanley talks into his handie-talkie and says "Engine 36, we're not doing any good with this, let's try light water," in the next shot, while the camera pans to the right, we can see a cameraman (filming Deluge 105's closeups that we see during this scene) holding his handheld, standing in front of an engine and facing Deluge 105, just before the camera focuses on the guys with the hoses.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Inventions - S3-E22
Visible crew/equipment: At the site of the major chemical leak, after Johnny falls from the pipes and Roy lifts him up, a couple of shots later there is a medium shot of one of 105's guys on Deluge 105 pumping out water, and we can see a cameraman (filming Deluge 105's closeups that we see during this scene) holding a handheld on the right of the screen, behind the pillar.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Inventions - S3-E22
Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is on site at the major chemical leak, Roy and Johnny are wearing SCBA tanks that have distinctive markings/stickers, and their tanks change while they search, locate and rescue the worker.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Inventions - S3-E22
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Dixie are talking at the nurses' station about the "radioactive" truck driver, Johnny walks up to them, and when he removes the rope and stanchion, the actor's tape mark is visible at Johnny's feet.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are in the basket with the man who was electrocuted by a power line, they are atop three more power lines. Chet and Mike cut the two outer lines and only the center line remains, but in the closeup of the basket there are still three power lines under the basket.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Captain Stanley's clam chowder lunch, the tones drop for the unknown type rescue, and when Cap hands Roy the piece of paper with the location, the reflection of a female crew member is visible on Squad 51's vent window, beside Roy.
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