Continuity mistake: During 51's basketball game against 16's, the sweat stains on the guys' clothing keep changing between shots.
Super Grover
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: During 51's basketball game against 16, when Chet takes his first shot and makes the basket the scoreboard now shows 51's at 16 and 16's at 30, then Chet makes the second basket, but the scoreboard shows 51's still at 16 and 16's at 32.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Loose Ends - S6-E12
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy, who are off duty, show up at the nurses' station so Johnny can sell some more tickets, note the paramedic status board on the wall in the base station room. In the closeups 51's red and yellow magnets show that both the engine and squad are at the station, but in the wide shots both magnets are in the other columns.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Loose Ends - S6-E12
Continuity mistake: At the freight yard fire, after the two men with toxic fume inhalation are located and rescued from the boxcar, Battalion 14 arrives and we see that the Battalion Chief is McConnike, and Captain Stanley even calls him "Chief." The problem is that it's not until episode 6x14, "Insanity Epidemic," in which McConnike is made the Battalion Chief, and that causes Cap to act a bit like a paranoid nut due to an incident years before. Episodes were often aired out of the order of which they were filmed. As an aside, when McConnike arrives, watch him trying to put on his turnout.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Station 51 is dispatched to Oceanland Park, when the engine and squad drive through the parking lot and pull up in front of the sky-tower, the entire left side of the lot is completely empty, but in the overhead shot as they head to the top of the sky-tower for the rescue, that side of the lot is filled with buses, cars, and other vehicles.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to Oceanland Park, when the engine and squad arrive on scene at the sky-tower, Engine 51's hosebed is suddenly entirely covered with green canvas.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
An Ounce of Prevention - S6-E13
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are rehearsing in front of Captain Stanley and the other guys, after Johnny uses the bug spray on the flame, in the wide shots Roy's hands are in his pockets and the hairspray can is on the table, but in the closeups Roy's still holding the hairspray can.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
An Ounce of Prevention - S6-E13
Continuity mistake: While at the Tom Jensen Show, after one of their crew receives an electrical shock, Roy comes back from the squad and carries the drug box in his right hand and Biophone in his left, but next shot they've switched hands.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
An Ounce of Prevention - S6-E13
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny walk into the day room all spiffy and ready to leave for the Tom Jensen Show, Chet's legs go back and forth from being uncrossed to crossed, depending on the angle of the shot. As an aside, something to watch for is Henry the dog burying his face between Chet's legs, and Chet's reaction.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Welcome to Santa Rosa County - S6-E10
Continuity mistake: When Bittner brings John and Roy back to the lake for the fishing, The Boat on the lake explodes and Roy and John dive into the lake and rescue the burn victim, but when they're at the back of the camper with the victim, heading to the clinic, Roy's and John's jeans and shirts are completely dry.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Roy, John, Brice, and Bob are standing at the nurses' station, there's a closeup of Brice's arm as he explains that he's checking his drug box, and the watch he's wearing in the closeup has a gold/silver metal link watchband, but Brice is wearing a different style watch, with leather straps and buckle.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Brice completely ticks off John regarding the advisory committee while standing at the nurses' station, when John and Roy walk up the hallway to the receiving entrance Roy's not wearing his watch as he's carrying the drug box, but at receiving he's wearing his watch.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Roy explains to Mrs. Evans that she shouldn't call them every time Simba runs off, when Chet finds Simba, Johnny holds him with his right hand behind the front legs and left hand under the tail, but closeup Johnny's hands are in the opposite positions.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When 51's guys are on the roof of the jail, Johnny sets up the red hose roller with a safety line on the roof edge between the two ladders, but when Roy climbs up the orange ladder to go over the edge, that hose roller with the safety line are not on the roof edge and can be seen still lying on the ground, then it reappears in place in the aerial shot. Additionally, when Roy goes over the roof to make his descent, there's a second silver hose roller at the base of the overhang, which was never actually placed there.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the USC game, after Johnny uses the Heimlich on the choking guy, when Roy asks him to take a deep breath Roy's left hand is on the man's chest, but in the next shot it is Roy's right hand that's on the man's chest.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Early walks into the staff lounge after Johnny's surgery, and joins Roy at the table, Early's holding the cup of coffee with his right hand in the shot facing Roy, but in the shot facing Early he's holding the cup with his left hand.
9th Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Early is examining Johnny in the ER, telling Roy about symptoms for ruptured liver or spleen, in the closeup Roy's holding up the IV bag with his right hand, but next wide shot it's held up in Roy's left hand.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Johnny and Roy are driving in the squad, they're dispatched to an 'unknown type rescue', and when they arrive at the incident which is a football player who kicked in his TV screen, Roy's hair is much shorter - note the front and sideburns. Then back in the squad it's the same length as earlier.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are leaving the home of the football player who kicked in his TV screen, in the interior shot as they're walking out, Roy has a stethoscope around his neck and is holding the Biophone with his right hand and drug box with his left. In the next exterior shot, the stethoscope is gone and the drug box and Biophone have switched hands.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the start of shift, after Captain Stanley gives the guys assignments, when the last shift rolls up in the squad, in the closeups Roy is suddenly holding his helmet while he and Johnny are talking to Dwyer, but it's gone again in the wide shot. When the squad is dispatched, Roy grabs his helmet which had been lying on the engine's running board in all the wide shots.
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