Continuity mistake: When Roy and John are with Boat 110, after the Harbor Patrol cancels their incident response, we hear that Engine 110 and Engine 58 are dispatched to 'aircraft down' and Boat 110 heads there as well, but when Boat 110 reaches the shore, we see an engine and a squad behind the airplane, just before more of 110's guys appear.
Super Grover
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Johnny and Roy rappel down into the canyon to rescue the unconscious hiker, when Johnny reaches the hiker, suddenly there's a grey 12" reflective strip attached to the back of his life belt, where there was none before. Then it vanishes when he gets the stokes basket, but it reappears when they attach the stokes to Truck 43's snorkel.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Johnny moves the squad forward in the apparatus bay, he heads to the kitchen to get Roy, and in the next shot there's a rolling mop bucket with two mops that suddenly appear in front of the kitchen doorway.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the guys are in the garage with the mechanic who had an engine fall on him, when Johnny contacts Rampart, Dixie presses the fifth button on the tape recorder, to record the transmission. Once they lift the engine off the mechanic, when Johnny contacts Rampart again, Brackett presses both the third and fifth buttons to record the transmission.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: Before 51's guys rescue the burglar trapped in the air conditioning duct, Vince's helmet has a highly polished and reflective surface, but when Vince reads the Miranda rights he's wearing a different helmet, it now has a matte surface.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the man who doesn't speak English is lying in treatment 4, in Dixie's closeups she and the patient's 'friend' are standing in front of the wall with the white dispenser, but in the repeated wide shots of Early with the patient, that wall is seen behind Early and nobody is standing in front of it.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the man who doesn't speak English is in treatment 4, there's a closeup of the Datascope 850 monitor, and then the girl points to the EKG monitoring unit behind the gurney and asks Dixie why the thing is bouncing up and down. Problem is that the Datascope 850 is used by the paramedics and it's not actually in that treatment room. The treatment room has a Zenith Travenol unit.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the attempted suicide, the dispatcher states that he's in apartment 2A, and when Roy and John arrive at the scene the police officer also says he's in apartment 2A, but when they get to the second floor they pass apt 2A and go to the apartment at the end of the hall.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Johnny and Roy get back to the fire's base station and hand the looter over to Vince, when they find Grover in the pen with the other dogs, Roy checks the dog's ID tag and in the two wide shots Roy's holding it with one hand while the other hand is up on the gate, but in closeup both of Roy's hands are holding the collar and ID tag.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John leave the ER after the baby delivery, the base station dispatches them to the motorcycle accident, and in the next shot as the squad turns the corner, there are three people in Squad 51, we see Roy, Johnny and someone seated between them, while they're en route.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Cook's Tour - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the 'injury in alley', after John defibs the teenager, when he removes the diagnostic penlight from his belt holster, the kelly forceps fall out of the holster, but when he puts the penlight back into the belt holster the forceps are back in its place.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy finds Bonnie in the back seat of the wrecked car, Paula's luggage flips itself around and upright between shots.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Wedsworth-Townsend Act - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the tunnel worker who's in V-tach, the lights go out in the tunnel and Roy places one of the lanterns on the Biophone, but in closeups of the Biophone the lantern has vanished, then the lantern is back again once they've defibbed successfully.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Wedsworth-Townsend Act - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Roy's on the Biophone with Brackett, after telling him that Dix is one of the victims, Johnny reaches out and takes the receiver from Roy with his left hand, but in the next shot he's taken the receiver with his right hand.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Dixie is having a heart to heart talk with Karen, in the shot facing Dixie she reaches out with her left hand to take the napkin from Karen, but in the closeup it's her right hand that takes the napkin. Additionally, the napkin she takes from Karen is perfectly folded, but it was wrinkled and messy when Karen held it.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Karen first walks into Station 51, her handbag is over her right shoulder, then over her left shoulder and back to her right shoulder again.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Station 51 is dispatched to 'traffic accident, victim trapped', when they get the anti-shock suit on the boy Roy's watch reads 5:25. Then at the hospital, when Johnny asks Roy about the time, Roy looks at his watch and says "About 5:00."
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the scene of the vehicle accident, when the boy is removed from the overturned car, he has a bruise near his chin that reaches below his mouth area. When he's in the ER, that bruise is now twice the size and reaches his cheek area.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny climb the electrical tower to rescue the sky diver, in the closeups Johnny hangs onto the diagonal cross beam when he reaches out to Lucky, but in the wide shot the stunt double hangs onto the tower's main vertical frame when he reaches out to Lucky.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are with the heart transplant patient who is having chest pains, after they contact Rampart, in the wide shots Johnny has the stethoscope around his neck, but in his closeups the stethoscope is gone.
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