Continuity mistake: The window from which the sniper is firing sustains damage with broken glass panes, but then the glass panes are whole and intact, and then they are broken again.
Super Grover
3rd Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When the Black Pearl swings alongside the Interceptor for the battle, Elizabeth shouts, "Fire all!" The next shot is from behind the lit cannon which is aimed at the Pearl and the following shot faces the Interceptor's cannon, as it goes off. In the shot facing the Interceptor, the raw wood scaffolding type beams are perfectly visible at the entire lower part of the screen, where the painted planks (below the gun ports, above the bilges) of the hull should be. (This is only visible on the video version.)
Visible crew/equipment: When the Interceptor is totally blasted by the explosion of the gun powder deck and after Pintel says, "Any of you so much as thinks the word 'parley', I'll have your guts for garters," just when Elizabeth goes under the rope, one can see a man with headphones on his head and a megaphone in his hand in the lower left corner of the screen - it looks like Gore Verbinski, the director (this is only visible on the video fullscreen version).
14th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
An Ounce of Prevention - S6-E13
Visible crew/equipment: After the rescues at the ferris wheel, when Dixie walks in while Brackett is examining the patient, the actor's black tape mark is visible on the floor, just as Morton and the nurse switch places.
16th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Pressure 165 - S5-E7
Other mistake: When Johnny prepares Chef Michel's recipe, he leaves the casserole dish in the oven while Station 51 is dispatched to the structure fire. When he and Roy return, Johnny opens the hot oven door to find it smoking and the dish bubbled over, and even though the oven door is supposedly very hot, Roy places his hand on the inside of that door and actually leans on it like there's absolutely no problem.
16th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the guys rescue the woman who was trapped upside down in the wrecked car, when they load her into the ambulance, the location set lighting is reflected on the glass of the ambulance doors.
19th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Gail, Laurie, and Pete realize they forgot Melinda, Johnny is wearing his leather jacket when Roy says "Look, it's a boy," but in the next shot Johnny's jacket is gone when he asks what happened.
14th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Karen, the new trainee, goes to the waiting room to speak to the elderly patient's wife, when Dixie walks over to Roy and Johnny to ask how she's doing, the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of Dixie's white uniform.
14th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Roy is electrocuted and falls from the second floor window, when Karen runs over to him and starts CPR, the bulging outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the back of Karen's white uniform.
16th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Bottom Line - S6-E17
Visible crew/equipment: A man walks into the ER with a white phosphorus burn on his arm, and when they wheel him into the treatment room, an actor's T-mark is visible on the floor below the gurney.
16th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy walk into the staff lounge, to join Morton, Brice, and the other paramedics for the tape review meeting, the two actors’ T-marks are visible under the table, where he and Roy are standing.
12th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, when Johnny is telling The Stewardess about the underwater rescue and in following shots, the outline of the lavalier mic wire and the dark strap (that holds the transmitter) around Johnny's waist are visible on the back of his shirt, and the mic transmitter is visible on the front, left side of his shirt, above his belt.
16th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Charlie is finishing up on the squad's engine, Captain Stanley hands Johnny the address in the canyon that has overgrown weeds, and when Johnny packs up the toolbox, Charlie holds out the roll of electrical tape and the combination wrench, with its open-end up. However, in the next shot the only thing Charlie holds out is the wrench, but with its box-end up.
16th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Boot shows up for the first time at Station 51, when Chet scares him away, there is a turnout coat and helmet hanging on the hook near the radio receiver base station, but when the dispatcher transmits the tones, the turnout coat and helmet have vanished as Chet turns away.
12th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the guys wake up in the morning and walk into the kitchen, the clear reflection of the camera dolly is visible on the oven glass door as it trucks to the right, when the guys see the empty mouse trap.
3rd Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are treating the officer, while hiding between the bakery truck and car, the sniper fires at them which leaves multiple bullet holes on the side of the truck. However, when Vince talks to the Sergeant on the handie-talkie and then fires the tear gas, all the bullet holes on the truck are gone, but they soon reappear.
8th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny are trying to get the basketball player (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) out of the car, and when Roy exits the car to get equipment, the outlines of the mic transmitters and wires are visible on the back, left side of Johnny's shirt, and back, right side of Roy's shirt.
9th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are heading to the parade in The Old Engine, and get sidetracked dealing with a fire rescue, they are wearing the old-style shirts with a ten-button, square bottom bib front, with five buttons on each side. When Captain Stanley laughs at them on the roof, their shirt style differs in the close-up, it's now a nine-button, pointy bottom bib, with four buttons on each side and one button at the bottom point.
3rd Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the sniper surrenders, Captain Stanley instructs Engines 12 and 51 to come to the rear of the building, and a few shots later the camera moves alongside Engine 12 as it's turning the corner. In this specific shot, up ahead we are able to see set lighting (including moleeno-style array lights), equipment, crew and actors (in the blue paramedic uniforms), some sitting on chairs in front of the parking attendant's booth (which was shot at by the sniper during the scene).
29th Dec 2013
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Brackett tells the orderlies to take the stock broker to the CCU and they tend to him, an actor's T-mark is visible under the gurney while it's still propped up, just before Dixie stands on that spot.
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