Emergency!
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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: During the emergency surgery on the boy who was shot with a pellet gun, the wired microphone that is taped to Brackett's shirt with black tape and hidden under his white coat becomes visible when he puts the gloves on, and during the surgery.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: After Station 51 is dispatched to the back hoe that flipped over trapping the driver, when Roy gets out of Squad 51 upon arrival, the reflections of a crew member and part of the camera are visible on the squad's door.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny is reading out loud from a transcript, while he and Roy head to the tape review meeting in the staff lounge, just after they turn the corner, the three tape marks are visible on the floor. One is for Johnny near the door, and two are for Roy - the first mark for where he originally stands and the second one for when he walks back over to Johnny.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When Roy, Johnny, and Morton leave the staff lounge talking about Brice, they stop at the nurses’ station, and when Johnny and Roy walk away, the two actors’ tape marks are visible where Morton is still standing and where Roy had just been standing. Additionally, the outlines of the lavalier mic transmitters are visible on the left sides of Roy's and Johnny's shirts, particularly when they stop at the fountain.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When the woman runs into the ER screaming that her son accidentally shot himself, as she and Brackett race to the door, the actor's black tape mark is visible on the floor behind her, where she had been standing.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When Brice and his partner see Brackett and he starts talking to Brackett about the regulations regarding reporters, as they walk down the hallway the actor's tape mark is visible on the floor behind them, where Bracket had been standing.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When the boy who was shot by a pellet gun is wheeled into the treatment room, at the start of the next shot there is a closeup of the domed surgical light fixture, which provides a reflection of crew and equipment, albeit upside-down.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When the injured father and daughter are wheeled into the treatment room, an actor's tape mark is visible on the floor under the daughter's gurney, and another tape mark is visible on the floor under the father's gurney.

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Limelight - S6-E24

Visible crew/equipment: At the site of the back hoe accident, after the ambulance arrives, when the father of the girl who's trapped under the back hoe gets up and starts walking away from Roy, the reflection of set array lighting is visible on the surface of Squad 51.

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The Indirect Method - S5-E6

Factual error: When Roy is electrocuted and falls from the roof, after Karen uses the defibrillator paddles on Roy, she lifts both paddles, looks at the EKG monitor and says "He's converted." How exactly could Karen have known that he's converted? It's impossible for the EKG monitor to show anything at all. Either the defib paddles have to be in contact with Roy's body for the "quick-look" to get a reading, which they weren't, or the ECG electrode discs have to be on Roy's chest connecting him to the EKG monitor, and they weren't. As an aside, just watching Marco having problems attaching the air mask, and quickly glancing up towards the camera frustrated, then giving up is priceless.

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Trivia: On May 16, 2000, 28 years after the debut of "Emergency!" on television, due to the profound impact "Emergency!" had on the American EMS system, key props and memorabilia from the show were inducted into the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Division of Cultural History - the Public Service sector, located in Washington, D.C. Some of the items included: Original scripts, Biophone, trauma boxes, defibrillators, monitor, radios, turnout gear, helmets, and Roy's and Johnny's uniforms.

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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.

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

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