Continuity mistake: When Tommy's in the treatment room, drinking chocolate milk and playing with the Lincoln Logs, the building he's putting together changes significantly between the two side shots and the shot facing him.
Super Grover
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After the paint factory fire, when Roy and John are with the lawyer in Captain Stanley's office, Roy's chair is either directly in front of the desk or off to the side, depending On Camera angles. Their body positions change between shots as well.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: During the fire at the paint factory, just after the barrels at the back of the pickup up truck explode, in the next shot we see Marco and Chet manning a hose. In this closeup, another fireman runs up to them and he's wearing a helmet with 51 on it, but it's obvious he's not one of 51's guys, plus Roy and John are with the burn victim and Mike's at the engine. The fact that it's a closeup and we can see perfectly well that he's not actually from 51 makes this too odd.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When 51's guys are sitting around the table discussing the inheritance, numerous overhead set lights are reflected on the chrome coffee pot's surface.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Dixie opens the door to Brackett's office, there's a pile of white papers on the desk in front of Brackett, but when he walks out of the office, in the view from the hallway, the desk lamp has moved and there are no papers where there were in the previous shot.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Johnny tells Roy not to phone Joanne about the inheritance, when Chet walks into the kitchen announcing that it'll cost $2.25, the small black tape mark is visible on the floor where Johnny and Roy were standing.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: After Mr. Winthrop is brought to the ER, there is a closeup of his EKG monitor as it's picking up multiple PVCs, but when Brackett asks him about the tension in his life, the monitor seen behind him is showing a flat line. This happens once again after Roy and John leave the treatment room, just before they move him to CCU.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: After Roy and Johnny get back to the station, when Johnny takes the container of milk out of the fridge, we can see the black tape around it covering the brand name. There's another container in the fridge with red tape covering its brand name as well.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: Just before dispatch drops tones for Squad 51 to respond to a heart attack, Johnny's walking past the rear bay door, and we can see the top of the set over the bay door.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is dispatched to The Boat explosion, just after Captain Stanley responds, "KMG365," as he walks past the camera to the engine, we can see the open top of the set at the rear corner of the apparatus bay.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Roy breaks the window with the chair, the guys place the ladder against the window and Marco starts to climb up. In the next interior shot, just as Roy and Johnny lift the security guard, right outside the window we can see the corner of something else (platform-like), besides the top of the ladder.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the apartment complex fire, after Truck 82 sets its outriggers, Engine 28 is right behind them with their supply line and duals laid out, but quite a few shots later Engine 28 is just pulling up behind 82, even though they were already there all set up.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the apartment complex fire, when Truck 82 raises its ladder, we can see the second floor balcony behind the rig, and there is a crew member wearing a long sleeved blue shirt and white hat, standing in front of the corner apartment, where there should be smoke pouring out, but there is none. The reflection of the cameraman/crew member wearing a white hat also becomes visible in Truck 82's wing mirror.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: During the fire at the apartment complex, there are strips of black material nailed to the tops of windows where the FX fire shoots out from below, and the doorway Roy passes when he's pulling on the hose has a fake ceiling and wall nailed directly into the door jamb, to control the strip of FX fire at the side.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: At the apartment complex fire, just as Chet climbs the ladder and Marco holds the top of the ladder on the second floor balcony, we see the plumes of FX smoke spurting from the side inside the doorway behind them, and even see something quickly fanning the smoke.
6th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: During the fire at the apartment complex, when John and Roy go into the apartment to rescue the woman, they throw a coat over her, but then the explosion occurs knocking John and the woman unconscious. When Roy puts her over his shoulder and starts walking out the coat is not over her, but when he gets to the balcony she's covered by the coat, yet when the Pasadena fireman goes back for John, that coat is still lying on the floor.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the site of the vehicle accident, the outlines of the lavalier mic and wire are visible on the back of Roy's shirt, particularly when he's with Eddie as his father's being taken in Copter 10 to Rampart.
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Engine 51 and Copter 10 are dispatched to the "traffic accident with injuries" Engine 51 is instructed to switch to frequency 3, and when Copter 10 takes off with Brackett, the moving shadow of the filming helicopter is visible near the shadow of Copter 10 chopper. (00:09:10)
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After landing at the base camp, when Brackett and the others walk away from Copter 10 we hear the comment, "The coffee's lousy but the food's great," then we get a bird's-eye view of the base camp, and can see the moving shadow of the filming helicopter at the lower right corner of the screen. (00:06:20)
5th May 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to a structure fire (with the two girls trapped upstairs) the address given is 1911 Harper Ave, but when they reach the house with the fire, directly across the street that house number is 1637.
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