Emergency!

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: On scene at the drunk's car accident with the little girl trapped in the car, in the shots facing the girl's mother she's standing with Vince behind the back of the car, near the crowd of bystanders, but in Roy's closeups while he's in the car with Debbie getting her vitals, we see the mother's legs (note her yellow polka-dot dress) right behind Roy, near the open front passenger door.

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Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: After watching the movie on TV, Chet says he has royal Indian blood, and when Johnny walks over to Chet he puts his arm around Chet's shoulder, and tells him it's called, "White man royalty syndrome," then it cuts to a closeup of Roy, and we see Chet still standing by himself.

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Show Biz - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: After Early tells Dixie about the patient with an unknown illness, in the shot from the hallway, we see Carol taking him into treatment 4, which has a windowless door, but when Morton is examining him in the shot from inside the room there's a window on the door (looks like treatment 6).

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Show Biz - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When the woman from the car accident is brought to the ER, she's put into treatment 4, as mentioned by Dixie and all three doctors, and it has a windowless door, but when Early and Morton are speaking to the patient about the car accident, they're all in a treatment room with a window on the door (looks like 6, the one opposite the nurses' station).

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Kids - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the injured hiker (John Travolta), after the gear-filled stokes is lowered to them Johnny places it right behind the hiker's head, but in the hiker's closeups the stokes basket vanishes, only to reappear in wide shots.

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Saddled - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: While the children from the bus accident are being lowered on 43's snorkel, Roy and Johnny are in the bus with the nun. Then even though quite some time has passed, by the time Roy and John are ready to free her from the wreck, it cuts to the shot of the same children still being lowered on the snorkel.

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Saddled - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: After Sister Barbara is brought to the ER, when Dixie tells Roy to get coffee with her, Dixie has long nails with light colored polish as usual, but when it cuts to the closeup of Dixie's hands getting coffee from the urn, the long nails are unpolished.

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Trainee - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: Just after the paramedics witness the purse snatching, when Johnny and Ed take off after the two purse snatchers, there are four cars parked at the curb in front of the squad, but just before Johnny leaps over the white picket fence, behind him we see that there are now six parked cars in front of the squad.

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Drivers - S2-E13

Audio problem: When Roy and John are with the unconscious man during the fire at the Atlas Hotel, Chet and Marco bring the stokes and Chet tells them that the fire is getting worse, and when Roy responds, "If we move him now we're gonna lose him," we see that Roy continues talking as Chet listens to him, but we hear nothing.

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Helpful - S2-E12

Audio problem: At the start of the episode, while Johnny's mopping and Roy's fidgeting with the resuscitator, during their conversation, in the background we hear Captain Stanley talking to the other guys in the kitchen. The key words we hear Cap say are, "New problem location in our area...Molded products...Cardboard cartons...Two rows, aisles in between, up to 8 ft high...Bottoms get soaked." Then we hear Cap repeat, "New problem locations in our area," and continues, "1806 North Oak," and we hear all the guys laugh, though nothing's funny. Captain Stanley's dialogue is from 2x1, "Problem," at the start of that episode.

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Trainee - S2-E8

Visible crew/equipment: While Roy's in the office making out the activity report for the training center, Johnny walks over to Ed who is standing beside the map, and when they're dispatched to the overdose, as they get into the squad we can see two tape marks (one white, one black) on the floor, where Johnny and Ed had been standing.

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Trainee - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: While Ed is in the field with John and Roy, it's the three of them sitting in Squad 51 when they're en route to their destinations, but in some shots of the moving squad Ed is not seated between them, such as when they respond to the cliff rescue. Additionally, after the purse snatching incident, when they head to Rampart for John's hand injury, only one person's in the squad as it backs up to receiving, even though it should be three.

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Seance - S2-E18

Visible crew/equipment: When John and Roy are dispatched to the couple's house, for the second time, after they've checked the rooms upstairs and downstairs they join the couple in the living room, and the reflection of the large overhead set lighting is visible in the mirror hanging over the mantel.

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Seance - S2-E18

Visible crew/equipment: During the rescue of the man trapped in the submerged car, when 110's Captain is handing John and Roy (who are in the water) the cave-in gear's air hose, in the shots from behind him on deck, the reflection of a crew member wearing white pants can be seen on the chrome surface beside him.

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Seance - S2-E18

Visible crew/equipment: The first three times that Squad 51 is dispatched to 1012 Clinton Drive, before they leave the apparatus bay, we can see the reflections of set lighting in the squad's spotlights, particularly the driver's side.

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Decision - S2-E1

Visible crew/equipment: After Roy gets chewed out by Dr. Sunderlin, when he and Johnny get back to the station, the spotlight on the passenger side is shiny and reflective, and set lights are reflected in it, then when the dispatcher drops tones for the next run, the spotlight has been sprayed with a dulling spray.

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Decision - S2-E1

Visible crew/equipment: While en route to the mechanic whose engine fell on him, Mike is driving Engine 51, and seated backwards in the jumpseat behind Mike is Marco, who's wearing a helmet and his turnout, but in the shot from the POV behind Mike, we see the reflection in the rear-view mirror of the grey haired crew member, who is seated facing forward behind Mike.

Super Grover

Trainee - S2-E8

Roy: I think you're on some sort of an ego trip, Ed. And in my book that makes you a very dangerous character.
Ed: [Laughs.] Ego trip, huh? Well, I didn't realize that psychiatry was part of the paramedic's training.
Roy: Oh that's good, Ed, you be funny. But that isn't gonna change anything. You wanna know what I figure? Well, I figure when you were working in Vietnam, it was rough. So rough you started playing over your head. And you were making it, you were doing real good. Considering it was a combat situation. And pretty soon you started getting all blown up about how Ed Marlowe is just as good as the real doctors. And you've been living on that ever since. And the trouble is, Ed, you are good. Except for two little problems. You can't quit competing with real doctors. And you can't face being wrong. You see, those people we treat out there, I mean the people we work for, the people who pay for this whole operation, they're real people, Ed, with real problems. And they have a right to expect more than just being used by you for some sort of trip. [Completely exasperated.] I guess what I'm trying to say to you, Ed, is that in my book you're just plain unprofessional.
[Ed walks out.]
John: Do you think it did any good?
Roy: Do you?

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The Promise - S3-E11

Trivia: During Richard's rescue from the ledge at Rampart, the snorkel that Roy and Brackett climb onto is Truck 127, from Station 127 aka Station 51. Truck 127 is used in many episodes requiring a snorkel, including 1x6, "Dealer's Wild" and 3x16, "Fools." There's a particularly nice shot at the end of this episode, when Engine 51 and Squad 51 are parked parallel to each other, and when Johnny responds to dispatch that Squad 51 is available, Truck 127 drives away between 51's vehicles. Nice touch.

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School Days - S2-E14

Question: Who are the two baseball players that walk up to the nurses' station to talk about their teammate and discuss his relationship status with his girlfriend to Dixie?

Answer: I was rewatching a few first season episodes of Charlie's Angels (1976), and in S1xE6 "The Killing Kind," I recognized the same actor. So, to finally fully answer your question, the two baseball players in School Days are played by Rod Perry and Sean Fallon Walsh.

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Answer: I took a screenshot of the two actors, with Rod Perry on the right (https://imgur.com/GCW1myD). Hopefully someone will know the name of the actor on the left. Both actors are uncredited in the episode's credits.

Super Grover

Answer: The guy on the right is actor, Rod Perry. Two years later he played Deacon in the 1970s TV show S.W.A.T. As for the actor on the left, I recognize his face and voice, but I can't recall from what.

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