Continuity mistake: At the start of shift, after Captain Stanley gives the guys assignments, when the last shift rolls up in the squad, in the closeups Roy is suddenly holding his helmet while he and Johnny are talking to Dwyer, but it's gone again in the wide shot. When the squad is dispatched, Roy grabs his helmet which had been lying on the engine's running board in all the wide shots.
Super Grover
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Visible crew/equipment: After the man with the herniated lumbar disc is removed from the waterbed and loaded onto the ambulance, when John gets into the squad, the reflection of a crew member is visible in the passenger side wing mirror.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Continuity mistake: While Johnny tells the other guys that the losers of the baseball game, between 51 and 36, will have to pay for the entire cost of the picnic, Chet's eating an apple which has less eaten by the time he tosses it into the garbage.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Other mistake: After Chet says that he doesn't like when people expect too much of him, Squad 51 is dispatched to "man bit by an animal," and when Roy gets into the squad the highly reflective chrome spotlight has been sprayed with a dulling spray, to temporarily dull the surface.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny walks into the kitchen and gets the cold shoulder from Marco and Mike, and then when Chet walks in, the reflection of production equipment is visible on the oven's glass.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 dispatched to 'man bitten by animal', the center chrome on lightbar is a solid piece, but en route the chrome center is striped and its trim is covered with black tape. Then when they approach the car lot, the black tape is gone.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Visible crew/equipment: After Mike and Marco ignore Johnny as he walks into the kitchen, when Roy holds the chrome coffee pot and pours Johnny a cup of coffee, the reflections of the camera/lights are visible on the coffee pot's chrome surface.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After the OD is dropped off and left at the ER, during her examination Brackett finds the marks on her foot, and in the closeup the marks have moved and are more pronounced than in the wide shots.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy drives off in the squad just as Animal Control shows up at the store with the tiger, we can see multiple reflections of array lighting on the vehicle and also the store's windows across the street.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Roy and John are still aboard the Coast Guard helicopter during the cliff rescue at Catalina Island, when the chopper's on scene, in the overhead shot from inside the chopper, we can see where the victim is lying on the rocks, however, in the next shot from ground level, the victim is now lying on the other side of the jutting rock.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Early, Morton, and Dixie are examining the young boy who fell, Early's wearing a gold ring (wedding band in real life) on his left hand's ring finger, but when Dixie finds the tick she asks Early to have a look, and in the closeup of the boy's head, Early's gold ring has vanished.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: During this episode Brackett is wearing a tie with white, light blue, and dark blue broad stripes, which should be tied in an identical manner in consecutive shots, but it's not. One example is when Brackett examines the tree surgeon, but when he waits in the hall with Morton and Dixie while Malcolm takes x-rays, Brackett's tie is tied differently, and when he walks back into the room the tie reverts back.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Engine 8 is dispatched to "man unconscious at construction site," we see Engine 8 going past Curson Ave, then the next shot Engine 8 is driving up from the other direction of Curson Ave and passes it going the other way. Neither are flipped shots. Other than seeing the sign for Curson Ave, other giveaways are the same signs or parked vehicles.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy's injured during the warehouse fire and is carried out, in the closeup he and Johnny are not wearing their turnouts, but in the next wide shot Johnny's suddenly wearing his turnout again as he contacts Rampart via Biophone.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny walks into the office to drop off the trash bin, he sees the Chief's clock on the wall and it reads 2:09, but when Johnny brings the clock to Captain Stanley and he gives it to Chet to hide, the clock's hands read 6:44. And when they're all dispatched, the timeout is 14:15.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to an 'unknown type rescue', as the squad rolls out we can see the Crown engine from the show's first two seasons parked in the apparatus bay, instead of 51's current Ward LaFrance.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Karen asks Roy and John for an evaluation of that morning's run, a coffee cup suddenly appears near her arm, which promptly disappears, until Roy soon places his coffee cup near her arm when he sits down beside Karen.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy tells Karen that she'll know when she can do it on her own when she'll have to, the reflection of set lighting is visible on the squad's chrome spotlight. Additionally, when Station 51 is dispatched to the structure fire the rear bay door closed, but when the rigs roll out the rear bay door is open.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Pressure 165 - S5-E7
Continuity mistake: After Johnny discovers that the white stuff he left cooking on the stove has turned green, Station 51 is dispatched to the structure fire, so everyone rolls on the call. When Johnny and Roy return, and Johnny decides to dump all the food he cooked, a large stock pot has mysteriously and conveniently appeared on the counter, where it did not exist when they left.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the landslide, the engine company get into their turnouts and roll out, but in the next exterior shot as the engine drives past the camera, not only are the guys not in their turnouts, it's too obvious that none are 51's guys, and the one in Chet's jumpseat even leans forward. Presumably they're 127's guys. Also the light bar on the squad and the rotating light on the truck are not on.
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