Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the man trapped at the construction site, there are closeups of the shaky concrete wall that may collapse before they shore it up with 4x4 support beams, but in following closeups of the same angle those support beams they added have vanished, then they reappear.
Super Grover
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Engine 51 rolls up to the Teal house and quickly enter, we can see the flames inside through the living room window - no shade blocks the view, but in the next shot from the living room, the shade is now pulled halfway down the window.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When all the guys are asleep in the dorm, at 12:47 AM the dispatcher drops tones for Squad 51 and we hear him say, "Squad 51, person sick," yet the footage that is shown is of all the guys getting up, not just Roy and Johnny, putting on their turnouts.
5th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: During the fire at Rampart's lab building 8K, when Roy and Johnny are placing the salvage covers on important records, Johnny is wearing the SCBA tank with the two red stickers and Roy's tank has a large arrow sticker, but when they exit the building their tanks have switched.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Boot follows Chet into Captain Stanley's office and the guys follow Boot, the outlines of Johnny's lav mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of Johnny's shirt.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Roy and Johnny help the woman whose hair was caught in the meat grinder, when they're putting their gear back in the squad, the outlines of the mic transmitters and wires are visible at the backs of Johnny's and Roy's shirts.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Captain Stanley runs into the burning house looking for Johnny, the floor beside the stairs (under the table) is visible behind him, and there is no rug only wall-to-wall carpet, but when Johnny and Toby fall from the stairs, that area of floor is covered in a rug raised up like a platform, covering the crash mat for the stunt, then the rug vanishes when the guys get Johnny and Toby.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny runs inside the burning house to get to Toby and his grandfather, he's wearing a distinctive SCBA tank on his back, but when Johnny's inside the house he's wearing a different tank. Additionally, when Roy takes the mother's pulse he's also wearing a tank, but when Johnny and Toby have come out his tank is different.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny is in the pool with the guy who somersaulted off the roof, he and Roy insert an esophageal airway to ventilate, but when they lift him out of the pool and load the guy onto the stretcher, the esophageal airway has vanished.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy are speaking with the Battalion Chief in the apparatus bay, about who could have stolen the money, when they walk forward there are two tape marks visible on the floor behind them, where they were just standing.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny, Roy, and Captain Stanley are rescuing the people trapped inside Olive View Hospital, they are wearing distinctively marked SCBA tanks on their backs, and when all three firemen exit the doorway, Cap is wearing an entirely different tank, and the tanks that Johnny and Roy are wearing have been switched. Then when Johnny jumps off Engine 82, his tank differs again, and when he walks over to the Battalion Chief it's changed yet again.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny are with 110 and are on scene at the downed airplane, as they remove the pilot from the aircraft, the silver fire starting canister used for the stunt is visible under the plane, before it becomes engulfed in flames.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are tending to the actor with the possible heart attack, Brackett asks for an EKG strip, so Roy holds out his right hand to give Johnny the cable, but in the next shot Roy's holding out his left hand with the cable.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: After Johnny and Roy are dispatched to the actor with the possible heart attack, Brackett asks them to send an EKG strip, and when Brackett lifts the chart paper to read it, he is not looking at the side that would have the line tracing recorded by the stylus, he is actually looking at the back of the paper as it's rolling out of the machine. Also note that the chart paper is quite blank on both sides. Additionally, just prior to this, when Brackett presses the record tab on the recorder, it just pops back up and does not engage.
4th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the man who has difficulty breathing, once they arrive and it cuts to a closeup, at the top of the screen there is a small dark film square that moves towards the left corner, and then it stays there in the following shots facing Johnny, until he contacts Rampart on the Biophone.
1st Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the guy who somersaulted off the roof into the pool, Johnny is in the pool giving him oxygen, and in the closeups Johnny's left hand varies between very hairy, not hairy at all, normal fingernails and bitten up fingernails. Additionally, the hand holding the mask on the boy's face changes back and forth between Johnny's left and right hand, between shots.
1st Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Station 51 is dispatched to the fire and explosion, in the overhead wide shot we see Gage getting into the squad on the passenger side, but in the closeup Gage is in the driver's seat, and when they arrive at the scene it's DeSoto who's driving.
1st Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: At the start of this episode the tones drop and Station 51 is dispatched to a fire and explosion. In this closeup, all the guys come running from the kitchen into the apparatus bay and head for the vehicles, but wait, none of them are actually 51's guys.
1st Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When the tones drop and the lights come on, waking up 51's guys in the middle of the night for the industrial fire, there are two closeups of the guys putting their feet into the boots and pulling up their turnout trousers. The problem is that the closeups are not Station 51's guys - note the beds, linens, walls, floor are all different. The two closeup shots are from the first episode "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act", and the guys are from Station 10.
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