Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Smoke Eater - S4-E16

Continuity mistake: After Dr. Early is called a miracle worker and then again tries unsuccessfully to get the apple from the machine, it cuts to Squad 51 pulling backwards into the apparatus bay, and the engine we see parked in the bay is the Crown from the first two seasons, not their current Ward LaFrance.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Transition - S4-E15

Continuity mistake: When Gil's in the basket ride at the amusement park, while Captain Stanley swings the line that Johnny's hanging on, in the closeups the open cage door is facing Johnny, but in the long shot looking up the basket's open door is on the opposite side, and Johnny would not have been able to enter it as easily.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Transition - S4-E15

Continuity mistake: When Roy walks into the ER with the chemical burn patient they rescued from a kitchen filled with hydrogen sulfide, Dixie tells them treatment 1 which has a windowless door, but in the shot from inside the room the door has a window, and we can tell it's treatment 3 they're in.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Transition - S4-E15

Continuity mistake: After Brackett and Johnny try to convince Gil that he's not responsible for the MI patient's death, when Johnny walks out of the treatment room he says he's going to check on Roy, and as he opens the door we can tell that he's in the room across from the nurses' station. Then when he and Roy leave the treatment room where Early had examined Roy, we can see that it's the very same treatment room that Johnny had just been in with Brackett.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Emergency! mistake picture

The Bash - S4-E14

Continuity mistake: While Johnny, Roy, and Vic try to outrun Charlene inside Stage 3, after heading down the ladder, when Roy opens the door to find Charlene standing there, Johnny's holding the red extinguisher in his right hand and the nozzle in his left hand, but next shot they've switched hands.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

The Bash - S4-E14

Continuity mistake: When Dixie tells Roy and John that Vic wants to see them the guys walk into treatment 2, but in the shot from inside the room we can see that they're actually in treatment 3, on the opposite side of the hall.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

The Bash - S4-E14

Revealing mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the bomb threat, just as they roll up on scene, in this specific POV the corner edges of the screen are blacked out due to the lens that was used, but when it cuts to other angles it's gone, then it reappears with that POV. We see it three times.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Details - S4-E12

Other mistake: After Station 51 is dispatched to the structure fire, just as Roy and Johnny start heading upstairs we see footage from 4x3, "Gossip," when Johnny brings the hose to the stairs at the chemical fire, but the line doesn't reach so he leaves the hose at the bottom step, and they continue up.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Details - S4-E12

Other mistake: During the structure fire, when Engine 98 rolls up we can see the large red vinyl adhered to the top of the engine's cab. Then, when Truck 106 rolls up we see its company number 106 on the door, but in the overhead shot we can see the number 8 on the roof of the cab, not 106. This presumably means that the door has one of the prop dept's magnetic decals imprinted with 106, and the roof still shows the Truck company's real number.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Camera Bug - S4-E10

Other mistake: While Roy and John are at 68's, Roy goes to the stove to see what Bob was cooking when he started having pain, and the closeup footage we see of the pot of bubbling chilli is the same as some of the footage of Chet's chilli in 4x1, "The Screenwriter," when 'Miss October' stops by the station.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Foreign Trade - S4-E9

Other mistake: During the rescue at the top of the open drawbridge, in the shots of Engine 2 we can see the red, vinyl material with the company number imprinted on it, adhered to the front of the engine.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Quicker Than the Eye - S4-E8

Visible crew/equipment: While en route to the accident, just as we hear the dispatcher inform Engine 51 that the fire is out, in the exterior shot of Squad 51 there's black tape covering much of the lightbar's chrome atop the cab, which vanishes when they roll up on the accident scene.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Quicker Than the Eye - S4-E8

Revealing mistake: When Roy's in the ambulance with the man who was rescued from under The Boat, he's on the Biophone with Rampart, and just after Roy says, "So we've occluded the arterial flow in the right arm," in the next shot from inside the ambulance, we can see that they pass a couple of parked GlamourTrams. The ambulance drives around Universal's lot while shooting the footage inside the moving ambulance, en route to Rampart.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Transition - S4-E15

Visible crew/equipment: When the three victims of the accident are all in treatment 2 with Morton, in the wide shot just as Brackett, Early, Roy, John, and Gil walk in, at the top of the screen we can see the boom mic dipping down into view.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Smoke Eater - S4-E16

Continuity mistake: When John and Roy are with the possible MI, while Roy's setting up the IV bag John's on the Biophone with Rampart, and after Brackett orders the IV TKO with MS, we see that Roy's pant leg has nothing on it, but then it cuts to the closeup and suddenly there are strips of torn tape (for IV as usual) on Roy's pant leg.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Smoke Eater - S4-E16

Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is dispatched to the 'structure fire', in the shot facing the squad as it starts to roll out, we can see the black tape covering the lightbar's chrome surface atop the squad, which also vanishes at the incident.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Smoke Eater - S4-E16

Audio problem: While Roy and John are with the asthmatic boy, Roy's on the Biophone with Rampart, and we hear Early say, "Administer 0.3 milligrams epinephrin IM," but his mouth is not in sync with the last part, and it looks like he actually said, "Epinephrin IV."

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Kidding - S4-E17

Other mistake: All the guys are sitting around the table in the day room discussing how smart kids are, and when the tones drop we hear the dispatcher say, "Squad 51 possible assault victim," yet all the guys from the engine company rush off and head to the rig in the apparatus bay, even though only Roy and John were called.

Super Grover

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