Visible crew/equipment: On site at the construction accident, when the man with the back injury is lying in the stokes and being lowered with the ladder, a crew member/cameraman is visible on the landing at the lower right side of the screen.
Super Grover
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Early and Dixie are in the treatment room with Jenny, after Early asks Jenny if she can move her legs, the moving shadow of the boom and mic are visible on the wall behind Dixie.
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)
Visible crew/equipment: At the scene of Paula's traffic accident, when Captain Hammer stands in Engine 51's cab and tells Marco to get the reel line, the reflection of equipment and set lighting are visible in the chrome surface of driver's side spotlight.
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)
The Lighter-Than-Air Man - S5-E8
Visible crew/equipment: At the scene of the bride and groom's traffic accident, when Johnny asks Crockett if he ever thought about a career as a marriage counselor, the outline of the lav mic transmitter is visible on the front of Johnny's shirt.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Chet falls through the roof at the structure fire, when Truck 3 raises their ladder, we can see the cameraman/camera's shadow just as the ladder reaches the roof.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Pressure 165 - S5-E7
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is dispatched to the structure fire at the flour company, while en route there's a closeup of Squad 51, and the reflection of the filming vehicle can be seen in the spotlight.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Pressure 165 - S5-E7
Other mistake: When Johnny brings in the bags full of groceries for the dinner he's cooking, and also later when he discovers that the liquid in the pot turned green, there is tape covering the brand names on the packages.
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)
Revealing mistake: When Station 51 responds to the traffic accident, after Captain Stanley hands Johnny the Ajax tool, in the closeup it's obvious that the hands are not really Johnny's. Then there's another shot of the real Johnny, but once he removes his goggles, interestingly it's the stunt double who's in the following shots by the car, even when Johnny cuts himself, it's the stunt double.
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)
Visible crew/equipment: When the dispatcher drops tones for the trapped victim of a traffic accident, just after we hear Captain Stanley say, "KMG365," we can see movement between the front passenger and driver seats of Engine 51, precisely where the camera is. Captain Stanley is still at the radio base station and Mike hasn't opened the door yet.
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Station 51 is dispatched to the injured sky diver, we can see the area around the electrical tower when they arrive, particularly where Roy and Johnny start climbing up. When Johnny rappels down with Lucky, in the wide shot, just as they reach the ground the crew's ladder can be seen at the right side of the screen, in the same area where Johnny and Roy started their climb.
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.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: It's Squad 39 at the construction site with the cardiac victim, but en route to Rampart we see Squad 51 following the ambulance.
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