Other mistake: At the fire, while they're searching for the missing boy, Marco feels the partition for heat and shouts to Captain Stanley, "Hey, Cap! Cap!" but the subtitles read, "Hey, Chet! Chet!" Then after the boy's rescue, we hear the Battalion Chief say, "LA, this fire's contained. All copy. Out 1 hour," but subtitles read "Talk 1 hour." Subtitles from Universal Studios 2010 DVD.
Super Grover
19th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
19th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
School Days - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: Before the housekeeper leaves the library to open the door for 51's guys, we see Dr. Temple pinned under the bookcase and two red armchairs in front of the fireplace, but when she returns to the room with everyone following her one of those armchairs has vanished.
19th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: At the start of this episode Squad 51 heads out to the construction site with the screaming woman, and Roy and John are in their full turnout gear, which means they've just spent the night at the station and it's early morning at the end of their 24-hr shift, yet back at the station Roy and John are getting into their uniform at the start of their shift, which is 8:00AM. Joanne Worley's screaming segment was filmed for an earlier episode, but was inserted into this episode.
19th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Promise - S3-E11
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy get back to the station and talk to Paula in the rec room, in the wide shot Johnny has his hands on his hips and then subtly moves his elbow behind Roy, but it cuts to a close-up and his elbow is still blocking Roy.
19th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Promise - S3-E11
Visible crew/equipment: After Squad 51 is dispatched to 'woman down', just as the squad rolls up in front of the apartment building we can see a bit of the camera's production equipment at the bottom left corner of the screen, which is then pulled quickly out of shot.
19th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Other mistake: Eric Shea appears in "The Hard Hours" as Clyde, the boy who built a full size rocket, but he's mistakenly listed in the credits at the end of this episode.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Revealing mistake: When Roy and Johnny are at the nurses' station with Dix, Roy decides to deliver the plant that was left for Mrs. Johnson so he and Johnny get into the elevator, and when Roy says, "Six," the floor indicator light on the control panel turns itself on before Johnny even presses the 6th floor button. That light would not turn on if someone up on the 6th floor pressed for the elevator.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When Johnny and Roy are with the baby who's sleeping in the back seat of the locked car John says, "The roof is hot, I think the heat might have built up inside," and the bystander says, "Lord knows how long he's been lying in there broiling in the sun," but what's funny is that they're all wearing winter coats and jackets.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Other mistake: During the refinery fire, while Roy is with Fernando the first victim, we hear Roy say, "It's OK, you're gonna be all right," but the subtitles read that Johnny says that. Subtitles from Universal Studios 2010 DVD.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Visible crew/equipment: Just as Roy opens the door to Mrs. Johnson's apartment and he and Johnny walk in, the shadow of production equipment (looks like a reflector screen on a tripod) is visible on the wall behind them.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Continuity mistake: In the first shot as the engine and squad roll up to the winery fire, the entire trailer with the wood barrels is engulfed in flames with huge plumes of black smoke, but when it cuts to the next shot the trailer and barrels are fine, and there's only a very small fire burning on the ground while Marco pulls the hose off the engine, before the explosion.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Continuity mistake: When the squad and engine roll up on scene at the winery fire, there are wood barrels at the back of the burning trailer, and in consecutive shots the short barrel at the back left corner suddenly appears out of nowhere, then disappears, and then it reappears again.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
I'll Fix It - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: While Roy and Johnny are under the house with the oil eruption trying to free the trapped man, they get covered in black oil and mud even though they're wearing turnout coats. It drips down their necks and their pants are soaked with it. When they get to Rampart with the victim, Roy says that he and John should get washed up, but when they talk to Dixie they haven't just washed up, their clothes are now impossibly spotless.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Roy and Johnny are working on the guy who fell from the horse, since Roy's hands are busy he has the IV line dangling from his mouth before setting up the patient's IV, and in wide shots the cannula is dangling at the left side of his mouth, but in closeups the IV line and cannula have switched sides.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Roy and John are on scene with the "car over cliff" Johnny heads down to the car too quickly, and when he ends up falling his mic transmitter and wire slip out from their hidden area, and become visible on the front of his shirt.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Old Bill is wheeled into treatment 3, there's a pillow under his head and the gurney he's lying on has grey trim, horizontal bars under the bed and flat steel plates over the wheels, but when it cuts to inside treatment 3 as he's brought in, the pillow has vanished and the entire style of the gurney he's lying on is completely different.
17th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the 'stove fire' it's nighttime, but when they roll up to the apartment complex it's still daylight.
4th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Engine 8 rolls up on scene at the warehouse fire, as it passes the camera in the overhead shot we can see the real company number 60 printed on the surface between the jumpseats.
4th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Tycoons - S5-E23
Other mistake: At the chemical plant, when Captain Stanley gets to the roof and realizes they have to shut off the main valve, over the HT he says, "Engine 8, HT 51, shut off the power..., Engine 15 supply Truck 8...," but the weird subtitles read, "Engine 80, Team 51, shut off the power..., Engine 15, Supply Truck 80..." Then a bit later Captain Stanley tells Mike over the HT, "Engine 51, HT 51, charge the line," but the subtitles read, "Engine 51, Team 51, start your line." Then as soon as Mike charges the line, Captain Stanley tells Roy and Chet, "Okay, full fog, full fog...," but again the weird subtitles read, "Okay, hold strong, hold strong."
4th Nov 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the nurses' station, after Roy tells Brice that Brightweiser will be okay the two of them walk to receiving carrying their gear, with Roy holding the Biophone and defibrillator, but as they head through the doors both the Biophone and defibrillator have each turned around in Roy's hands, and now face the opposite way.
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