Trivia: Blink and you'll miss it. At Rampart, when Art walks away from the nurses' station, much to Dixie's relief, he heads toward the waiting room and then Roy and Johnny follow him. Pay attention to the guys in the background as they're nearing the waiting room, Johnny quickly pokes the nurse in her side, as he passes her. (00:13:05)
Super Grover
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: During the structure fire, when Roy, Johnny and the security guard are in the upstairs room and Roy closes the doors, just as they start to walk toward the window, the moving shadow of the cameraman and camera are visible on the wall. The shadow is not moving in sync with the guys so we know it's not theirs.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the structure fire, after the security guard is safely down the ladder, Johnny follows him as Roy watches from the window, and when the fire flashes through the doors, we can see the hand of a crew member pushing the lower boxes causing them to tumble.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: During the structure fire, Johnny and Roy rescue the security guard, and when Roy breaks the window with the chair, we can see a couple of crew members, equipment, and lighting on a c-stand outside down below.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 arrives at the salvage yard's fire, Johnny gets out of the squad, and when he puts on his turnout coat as the camera zooms out, a dark haired crew member wearing a short sleeve white shirt is visible at the lower right corner of the screen.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy are with the woman who slipped down into an old abandoned well, the outlines of the lav mic transmitters are visible on the sides of their shirts - Johnny's at his left and Roy's at his right.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Squad 51 is dispatched to a "man locked in a safe", when Johnny exits the squad and later when he gets back in, the outline of the lav mic transmitter is visible on the back of his shirt.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to a "man locked in a safe", at 1817 South Maplemoor, after the escape artist lets himself out of the safe, when Roy and Johnny head back to the squad the house address reads 4017.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When the dispatcher sends Station 51 to 26309 Barcelona Drive, as the squad pulls up in front of the house, the number on the mailbox post reads 4050.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: On scene at the two vehicle accident, when Roy and Johnny are tending to the teenagers in the overturned car, the outlines of the mic transmitters and wires are visible on the sides of their shirts.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When the dispatcher sends Squad 51 to the heart attack at the bank robbery location, the address is given as "2057 North Hillcrest, cross street Barker," but when they arrive at the corner bank, the sign reads Celis Street.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After they finally get an address for the attempted suicide Squad 51 takes off, and when Engine 51 pulls away from the curb, the shadow of cinematographic equipment is visible on the engine's front, and the reflection of lighting equipment is visible on the side of the engine.
13th Feb 2014
The Simpsons (1989)
Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1
Continuity mistake: In "The Thing and I": After the kids have found Hugo in the attic, when Marge and Homer return home, both front door knobs (inside and outside) do not have backplates, but once Hugo escapes both door knobs have backplates. The two backplates vanish and reappear repeatedly in following shots. It's funny because when they leave to search for Hugo, Homer shuts the door with no backplates, but then Bart uses a key in the backplate to lock The Front door.
13th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy tells Johnny to call Barbara, who heard something that he didn't even say at the movies, in the view from the kitchen Engine 51 is not in the apparatus bay which means everyone else is on a run, but when dispatch drops tones we hear Captain Stanley respond KMG365, and then see the engine parked in the bay.
11th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Visible crew/equipment: After Johnny rescues the man from the wine vat, when he and Roy lay the man down on the ground near the squad, the outlines of the lavalier mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of Johnny's shirt.
11th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy stop by Mrs. Johnson's home to water her plants, two actors' tape marks are visible on the floor by the door.
11th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the refinery fire, when Johnny and Roy are on the tower with the collapsed worker, Roy throws the line down to Truck 127's Snorkel for their gear, and as Roy pulls it up, the gear is tied up quite differently depending on the angle of the shot.
11th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Kent (Bobby Sherman) is ready to leave Station 51, the guys are about to sit down to dinner and the table is full of food, plates, cups, utensils, etc, but when the tones drop for the refinery fire and everyone rushes into the apparatus bay, the table is seen behind them and it's bare. Also, the order in which the guys run out of the kitchen is completely different, depending on the angle of the shot.
7th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
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.
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.
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