Continuity mistake: After Johnny has gotten Sheba off the roof, he and Roy stand by ladder as Sheba takes off after the cat again, and in the shot of the dog running across the roof Roy and Johnny are gone - the ladder stands alone, but in the next shot the paramedics are by the ladder again. Also note that the door behind the ladder is alternately closed or open, depending on the shot.
Super Grover
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny climbs the ladder and then picks up Sheba to carry her off the roof, the outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the back of his shirt. Additionally, as he's lifting Sheba the big dog pushes up against the front of Johnny's shirt, and we hear the crackling noises that were picked up on Johnny's hidden mic.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John are in the apparatus bay talking about Joanne, just after Roy walks away, Boot steals the armboard splint package with the writing facing up in his mouth, but when Boot hides under the squad the reverse side is up in his mouth.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy have to go in search of the two boys lost in the storm drain, the air cylinder that Johnny grabs from the squad has two large red stickers, but when Roy and Johnny climb down below, Johnny's air cylinder has changed - both of their tanks now have the large arrow stickers.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: In the waiting room, when Dixie brings the couple with the sick little boy (lead poisoning) to the admitting desk, we can see the small tape mark on the floor behind them, where they had just been standing.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny walks into Rampart and sees the girl whose father has tetanus, he asks her about musical instruments, and when they walk away to get coffee, the outline of the lav mic transmitter is visible on the right side of Johnny's shirt.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: In episode 2x5, "Peace Pipe", when Brackett gets on the line with Johnny, who's at the scene of the drunk driver's accident, Brackett presses two buttons - the third and fifth, to record the conversation on the tape machine. However, in this episode when Dixie gets on the line with Johnny, while he's with the little girl whose arm is stuck in the pool drain, Dixie presses only one button - the second, to record the conversation.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are standing by the squad outside Rampart, talking about the man in a hepatic coma, both ER doors are wide open, but when the woman drives up and then shouts that she needs help both doors are closed, and this continues a few times depending on the angle of the shot.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Audio problem: After helping the guy who was trapped in his sofa bed, Christy, Roy, and Johnny get back into the squad, and then we hear Johnny tell the dispatcher that Squad 51 is returning to quarters, but we see that Johnny's not actually saying anything.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Ed chases after the possible OD into the car wash, Roy sits at the passenger side of Squad 51 to contact dispatch about the sheriff's ETA, but each time it cuts to the car wash employee the squad is empty behind him, even though Roy is still there in his closeups.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are rescuing the elderly man from the burning house, in the interior shot Roy exits the window by placing his left leg out the window onto the ladder, but when it cuts to the exterior shot Roy has his right leg out the window on the ladder.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: After Station 51 reaches the burning house, when Engine 210 rolls up and lays out a supply line, as the camera zooms in to the back of Engine 210, we can see the large, red, rectangular material that is adhered to the engine with the number 210 printed on it.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are with the elderly man in the burning house, the window is pushed up fully when Mike climbs the ladder in the exterior shot, but when Mike breaks the window with the axe, the window is halfway down in the interior shot.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
![Emergency! mistake picture](/images/screenshots/199000-199999/199868_sm.jpg)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the boy who is trapped on the crane, Johnny buckles the life belt around the boy's waist, and in the following shots the belt's direction flips around to the opposite way repeatedly. Note its stitched leather and tongue buckles.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When the tones drop and Station 51 is dispatched to the "structure fire", there's a closeup of all the guys running from the kitchen and the back heading to the squad and engine, and none of them are actually 51's guys.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the 'child in a coma', the address is given as "3705 Orchard", but when they park on the building's corner the street sign reads Colfax. As an aside, this is the same location/footage that is used in 2x5, "Peace Pipe", with the address given as "1017 Crocker" in that episode.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
![Emergency! mistake picture](/images/screenshots/199000-199999/199865_sm.jpg)
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Visible crew/equipment: Just after the drunk driver is loaded onto the ambulance, when Roy tells Johnny about Debbie's pulse and respiration, and that she's in bad shape, then also when Roy tells Captain Stanley to make it quick, a crew member sitting atop a ladder with set lighting beside him are visible in the background.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: Before Roy and Johnny climb up to the injured man (who was shot) lying on the scaffolding, they put on their life belts (pompier) with the tongue buckles and carabiner hooks towards their right sides, but both stuntmen wear their belts the opposite way. Also note the axe sheaths (attached to the pompier belts) are upside down on Roy and Johnny, but right-side up on the stuntmen.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are at the nurses' station telling Dixie about the girdle run, Squad 51 responds to the structure fire right up the street, and we see Roy and Johnny en route without the turnouts, but when they pull up to the house they're both wearing turnouts.
15th Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the woman who's having difficulty breathing, the address is given as "1017 Crocker", but when they pull up to the building's corner the street sign reads Colfax.
Join the mailing list
Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.