Other mistake: There are two specific pieces of stock footage used from season 3 onward, when the camera faces the fire station, it shows either just Squad 51, or both Squad 51 and Engine 51 pulling out of the apparatus bay, then turning left (viewer's right) onto E 223rd St, and the real Station 127's Truck 127 can be seen parked in the side driveway. Examples are: In season 6, "The Exam", when Squad 51 responds to Molly's phone call, and in "Hypochondri-Cap", when Station 51 is dispatched to an 'unconscious female in a car'.
Super Grover
26th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
26th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Roy and John get back to the station, Chet informs Roy that Captain Stanley wants to talk to him, and when Roy's in the office the actor's tape mark is visible on the floor, as Cap tells him not to tell the other guys and when Roy asks what happened.
26th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After their shift is over, all the guys wait in the apparatus bay for Captain Stanley to come out, and when Medford walks over to them, an actor's tape mark beside Chet's foot and another near Marco's foot are visible on the floor. Then when Cap walks out, another tape mark is visible on the floor in front of Mike's foot.
26th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the refinery fire, after Roy gets into the ambulance with the patient Johnny shuts the back doors, and when the ambulance backs up the reflection of a crew member with paperwork (script?) is visible in the left ambulance window.
26th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Pressure 165 - S5-E7
Continuity mistake: While Johnny and the doctor are in the pressurized chamber with the diver, the guy outside the chamber tells them that they're at 165 and vetting, as he holds the mic up to his mouth with his left hand, but when it cuts to the interior shot, the mic is held up in his right hand.
26th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Pressure 165 - S5-E7
Deliberate mistake: When Roy and Johnny are on the Coast Guard helicopter, approaching Catalina Island with the injured diver, there is a closeup shot of them looking out the windows, which is a flipped shot - note the backwards paramedic patch on the right sleeve, instead of being on the left sleeve.
26th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the 'unconscious female in a car' it's 8:20, but when Roy is on the Biophone with Rampart his watch reads 11:05, and John's watch reads 12:30 as he's checking the woman.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
[Henry, the dog who is never ever off the couch, whimpers.]
Johnny: [Talking to Henry, while typing on the typewriter.] Sorry. Didn't mean to disturb you. Acting kinda uppity aren't you? I may put you in the script. Yeah. A dog that does nothing. [Henry whimpers.] Just sits there. People like that, y'know. A schleppy dog. You'll schlep out on stage and schleep on the couch. Dumb dog! [Henry whimpers.] Making me feel guilty. Why don't you howl or something?
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the squad and engine pull up to the theater, when the manager of the band tells Johnny about the musicians wigging out onstage and then 51's guys follow him, the reflections of the camera dolly and moving crew members are visible on the surface of Squad 51.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Johnny and Roy are with the unconscious man who ate daffodil bulbs, when the officer asks the bystanders to move back, the outlines of the lav mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of the officer's shirt, when he turns around.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: After Station 51 arrives at the structure fire, Captain Stanley tells Mike to get water to their lines (charging the two lines) and then mule the supply line back to the hydrant. When Marco and Chet get the two lines, they head to the house with Captain Stanley and start hosing the fire down with charged lines. A few shots later, we see Mike going to the back of Engine 51, and the two lines that Chet, Marco, and Cap have been using are flat and not even charged yet.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
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.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy, Johnny, and Karen are waiting outside the treatment room with the elderly patient, with Brackett and then with Dix, the outlines of the lavalier mic transmitters are visible on the left sides of Roy's and Johnny's shirts, over their belts.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Heavyweight - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: At the structure fire, after Roy helps the pregnant woman down the stairs, when Johnny brings the O2 and blankets for her, we see that Johnny's wearing a SCBA tank with no markings. However, after Roy tells Johnny to take off, when Johnny hurts his shoulder, his tank has two large stickers - a white and a red.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Brackett asks Early to see the patient (Jamie Farr) who belongs to an occult group and has no function in his right arm, Brackett's wearing a blue/white striped tie, Early's wearing a red/blue striped tie, and Dixie's wearing a uniform dress. However, in the previous and following shots, Brackett's wearing a blue/red/gold patterned tie, Early's wearing a solid black tie, and Dixie's wearing a 2-pc nursing uniform with pants.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny is taking Boot's temperature, the uncovered top of the set is visible at the corner behind Marco and Captain Stanley.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Boot goes missing and 51's guys search for him, Roy finds Boot under the bed in the dorm, and the outlines of Johnny's mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of his shirt.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Character mistake: After the cat has her kittens, when Squad 51 is dispatched to the 'man trapped in boating accident', we hear Captain Stanley respond, "Station 51, KMG365," even though his response should have been, "Squad 51, KMG365," since it's only John and Roy that were dispatched, not the entire station.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Deliberate mistake: Rampart's ER is located in the south lower wing of the hospital complex and it is only a two-storey building (with a basement), but the elevator, which is located past the nurses' station at the wing's far south end, has two floor indicator panels listing eight floors - one panel over the elevator doors and another we see every time the elevator doors open, which is not possible.
24th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: After Battalion Chief tells Squad 51 to go to the elevator shaft, when Roy, Johnny and Jason enter the building, the DVD subtitles read that Captain Stanley says "Here, the elevator, it's jammed," when in fact it's the Battalion Chief who says that - Captain Stanley is not even with them. Additionally, Johnny asks, "Is somebody in here, Cap?" even though he's addressing the Battalion Chief, not Captain Stanley. Then it's Roy who asks for the oxygen, but subtitles read that Johnny asks for it.
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