Revealing mistake: When Squad 51 gets back to the station, while Johnny's trying to convince Roy to coach their singing, the usually highly reflective chrome surface of the spotlights have been sprayed with a dulling spray, to temporarily dull the finish for this shot.
Super Grover
29th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
29th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Camera Bug - S4-E10
Other mistake: At the end of the episode, when Johnny's telling the other guys that his photograph was bought, the box of cereal and carton of milk that are on the table have tape affixed to them, to deliberately cover their brand names.
29th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Camera Bug - S4-E10
Continuity mistake: After Roy and Johnny are dispatched to Station 68, Bob is lying on the floor with his shirt buttoned up and Roy has his hand on Bob's chest taking his respiration, but when it cuts to Bob's closeup his shirt is already unbuttoned, with the ECG electrode discs and leads in place on his chest. Additionally, in Bob's closeups the leads go from attached to the discs, to unattached, to attached again.
29th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the liquor store shooting, en route they are almost hit by a driver who passed a stop sign at the intersection. This is the same footage from season 2, episode 13 "Drivers", when the squad is almost hit by a car while responding to a football injury.
28th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Johnny and Roy are at the top of the open drawbridge, Johnny is wearing a watch on his left wrist, but when his stunt double rescues the woman in the car dangling off the edge, he is not wearing a watch. Additionally, the stuntman's pompier belt has a large axe sheath attached to it, but Johnny's life belt does not, and the stuntman's arms are much hairier, as usual.
28th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After the woman has staggered into the ER she is seated in the wheelchair, and when she jumps out of the wheelchair there is a tall ashtray can behind her beside the wall, but in the next shot that tall ashtray can has vanished.
28th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny climb up the open drawbridge, just as they reach the top and see the car dangling off the edge, when Roy says "Boy," the second cameraman is visible behind Roy sitting on the bridge.
28th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are with the boy who is in anaphylactic shock from the bee sting, Johnny's watch reads 2:25, then 2:35, and then 2:25 again.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Transition - S4-E15
Visible crew/equipment: At the start of the episode, when Captain Stanley leans over to hang up the telephone and walks out of his office, the outlines of the lavalier mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back, left side of his shirt.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is on scene at the vehicle accident in the canyon, after Marco uses a crowbar to free the driver of the station wagon and he pulls the driver out, a crew member standing behind the FX 6-ft wind machine fan (to blow smoke) are visible in the background beside the other overturned car. As an aside, in the previous and following shots that crew member and wind machine fan are in the same spot where Chet and Johnny supposedly are.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When John and Roy help the driver out of the overturned armored truck, the bulging outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the left side of the driver's shirt, and when Roy's arm is around the man's waist, Roy even puts his palm over the mic transmitter as he bends to pickup the man's gun.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Propinquity - S3-E20
Visible crew/equipment: When the ambulance that Roy is riding in is involved in a traffic accident, the ambulance driver, Hal, comes out to help, and the outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the back of Hal's white shirt.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Station 51 is dispatched to the fire/explosion at the chemical company, when John heads inside to rescue the chemist, the SCBA cylinder he's wearing has one white sticker and one pinkish sticker. By the time John brings the victim out to the sidewalk, his air tank has changed back and forth repeatedly to one that has two red stickers.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: Just before the hermit leaves Rampart, the actor's mark is visible on the floor in front of the market owner's feet, and when Dixie turns the hermit's wheelchair, the tape mark in front of Brackett becomes visible.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny are in the basket with the man who was electrocuted, after they finally get the victim on the ground and surround him, the shadows of the cameraman/camera are visible mainly on Roy and Captain Stanley.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When John and Roy get back to the station, Captain Stanley asks them to step into the office, and as Cap walks through the doorway the camera's shadow is visible on the wall at the left. Also note the coiled electrical wire lying on the floor in front of the squad, and the shadow of something that is directly in front of the squad, even though the squad just rolled in.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the woman staggers into the ER a nurse rushes over, and the actor's T-mark is visible on the floor in front of the admitting desk, where the nurse was just standing.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny get back to the brush fire's base camp, they join the rest of 51's guys who are sitting and eating. During this entire scene, continuity between shots is off. Chet's coffee keeps switching from Johnny's hand to being on the ground, and then between both of Chet's hands to being on the ground. Also, the bread on Chet's sandwich is either white or a darker type, the sandwich size varies, and it also changes hands.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the chimney explosion, en route there is a moving bird's-eye view as the filming chopper follows 51's vehicles making a right turn. On the ground below, there are two people standing beside a blue station wagon, and one points up to the chopper flying overhead.
24th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Station 51 is dispatched to the bulldozer accident, just before Engine 51 comes to a stop at the junkyard there's a shot from the perspective of Engine 51's roof, with the Beacon Ray dome light in front, and on the light's red and chrome surface we can see the reflection of the camera mounted on the roof behind the dome light.
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