Continuity mistake: After Squad 51 is dispatched to the hotel fire, when Roy shouts to John that the woman is about to drop the baby from the third floor, Roy's standing across the street beside the squad, but in the next shot he's suddenly standing in front of the hotel, right behind John.
Super Grover
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Audio problem: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the hotel fire, Roy's holding the bullhorn in one hand to instruct everyone, and the HT in his other hand. After Johnny catches the baby, just before Truck 8 rolls in, when Roy says over the HT, "All right, set up the Truck...," he moves his hand with the HT away from his face and directs Truck 8, yet his voice is still booming as if speaking into it.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: During boat rescue, when Johnny's on the Biophone with Rampart, right after Brackett tells them to continue oxygen and maintain D5W IV, Roy has his hand out with the IV bag and tells 81's guy to hold it, but in the next shot 81's guy is taking a BP cuff from Roy's hand, not an IV bag.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny search for the missing man during the fire at the winery, Johnny jumps into the wine vat to rescue the drowning man, getting himself completely soaked, but when he and Roy bring the man out to the squad, Johnny's clothes are pretty much dry.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Revealing mistake: When Roy brings the man with a laryngeal obstruction into the ER and is taken quickly to treatment 1, his head is tilted back and Early places a laryngoscope into the patient's mouth and says that he sees the obstruction. The problem is that we can see that the laryngoscope is actually at the side of the patient's face. Then, when Early uses the forceps to remove the obstruction, once again we can see that it does not go into the patient's mouth.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny follows the nurse as she gets off the elevator on the fourth floor, the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of the nurse's white uniform.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Trivia: In addition to Randolph Mantooth's brother Donald appearing in this episode, while Roy and John are in Mrs. Johnson's apartment, when Roy's telling John some of the plants' names, John picks up a plant from the table and asks Roy what its name is. And when Roy answers, "Sadie", John smiles at the plant and says, "Hey, Sadie, how you doing?" Sadie is Mantooth's mother's name.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When John and Roy are at the park with the injured football player and his son, the shadows that are cast over the entire area change significantly when the ambulance arrives.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Squad 51 is parked at ER receiving, John and Roy tell Dr. Early about the squad's engine problem, and when Early fixes the engine problem, we can see the reflection of numerous set lighting on the squad's chrome spotlight.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While climbing the tower to rescue the "man" at the top, after Johnny slips and slams into the cross beam, when he and Chet are heading back down the tower, the two lights attached to the tower keep switching from the right side to the left side, depending if it's a closeup of them or a wide shot of their doubles. Additionally, in the closeups the lights are large and round, but in the wide shots one of them is a small square.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: During the fire at Hammond Chemical, when Engine 7 rolls up and lays duals, we can see the vinyl material adhered to the top of the cab covering the engine company's real number.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Loose Ends - S6-E12
Visible crew/equipment: During the fire at the train yard, when they carry out the second toxic fume inhalation victim from the boxcar, just before they pass the camera, the shadow of the camera tracking backwards is visible on the boxcar, to the left.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Paper Work - S6-E11
Other mistake: When Marco is taking inventory of what's in the refrigerator, the containers on the door have their brand names covered.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is being dispatched to 'auto accident with injuries' there's a closeup of Sam Lanier, the dispatcher, and in the next overhead shot of the apparatus bay, we can see the reflection/shadow of equipment moving on Engine 51's windshield, at the bottom left corner.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
An Ounce of Prevention - S6-E13
Continuity mistake: After Early has examined the woman who was stuck up on the ferris wheel with her husband, he tells her she could go to the waiting room, and when Early leaves treatment 2 the stethoscope is around his neck, but next shot from the hallway as he exits the stethoscope is gone.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Paper Work - S6-E11
Continuity mistake: When John's in the storm drain with the boy, in the closeups the water rushing from the broken hydrant has a very strong current, and Roy's holding the boy's head up out of the water, but in the wide shots the current is nearly calm, nowhere as intense as the closeups, and Roy's not holding the boy's head.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Roy and John are with the man whose back went out, when Thadeus runs off with the BP cuff and Roy chases him, Roy has the stethoscope around his neck with the chest piece hanging down, but once Roy falls into the pool the chest piece is suddenly tucked down into the front of Roy's shirt.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Continuity mistake: During the police chopper rescue, three ropes are tied off onto Engine 51's eyes, and when Mike backs the engine up while the stokes carrying Frank is pulled up, in shots facing the engine the three lines are being pulled backwards simultaneously, but in the shots of Marco, the stokes, and the ground, only the line with the stokes is being pulled up, the other two ropes are lying on the ground completely still.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy, John, and Chet are standing near the stove talking about Hookrader's party, as they walk towards the table, the shadow of the overhead boom mic is moving over the cabinets on the right.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Other mistake: When John, Roy, and Chet are standing near the stove talking about how much they enjoyed Hookrader's party, there's a can of cleaning powder which has tape swirled around the can to hide the recognizable design and its brand name, which is Ajax.
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