Emergency!

Emergency! (1972)

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Show Biz - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Dr. Early is with the farmer with the unknown illness and talking to Dixie, there's a tall dark item sticking up on the left side of the farmer's buttoned shirt pocket, and then when Dr. Knott stops to ask him questions the item is sticking up on the right side of the buttoned pocket. It could not have simply shifted sides in the pocket, because the pocket flap is buttoned at the center.

Super Grover

Show Biz - S2-E3

Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny walks out of the ER, and finds out from Sally that Roy's been spreading advanced publicity about Johnny's 'modeling career', and then when Dr. Knott joins them, the outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the back of Roy's shirt.

Super Grover

Show Biz - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: During the rescue at the movie studio, when Roy and Johnny wrap the line around the stuntman's waist, Johnny's belt does not go through his pants' back center loop, but a moment later after the wagon falls, when they pull the stuntman up, Johnny's belt now goes through that back loop.

Super Grover

Show Biz - S2-E3

Visible crew/equipment: When Dr. Knott comes back to the ER to see the tractor driver before he's discharged, he walks down the hallway with the nurse, and when he stops near Brackett he looks down at the actor's tape mark on the floor, then steps up to his mark. Then after Dr. Knott experiences chest pains, the two actor's marks in the two spots where Brackett had been standing, are visible on the floor as they walk to the treatment room.

Super Grover

Show Biz - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Roy, Johnny, and Chet are cleaning the locker room/bathroom while talking about the models' upcoming visit, dispatch drops tones for 'man trapped in a ditch', and then we see Johnny and Roy coming from the kitchen which is on the opposite side of the firehouse.

Super Grover

Virus - S2-E4

Visible crew/equipment: When all the guys are on the roof trying to rescue the unconscious man on the scaffold, the outlines of the lav mic transmitters are visible on the backs of Johnny's and Captain Stanley's shirts, as well as the back of the other scaffold worker's shirt.

Super Grover

Virus - S2-E4

Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy are trying to get the boy with Meniere's Syndrome out of the treehouse, the bulging outlines of the mic transmitters are visible on the backs of Deputy Pauling's, Roy's, and Johnny's shirts.

Super Grover

Virus - S2-E4

Visible crew/equipment: When Morton is talking with the fireman's widow, DeSoto tells Morton that Early wants to see him, and when Morton walks through the door DeSoto's foot moves, and we see the actor's black tape mark on the floor by his foot.

Super Grover

Virus - S2-E4

Visible crew/equipment: After Brackett tells Jenny that they may have to put Koki down, Dixie walks into Jenny's isolation room, saying that they have the latest lab report, and the actor's tape mark is visible on the floor at Dixie's feet.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: When Johnny calls in to Rampart, Brackett answers and presses the two buttons to record the conversation, then tells Johnny to standby leaving the two buttons depressed, while the drunk driver is brought in. In the next shot, a closeup of Johnny, Brackett tells 51 to go ahead, and in the following shots Brackett continues to listen to Johnny, but none of the buttons are depressed on the tape machine to record the conversation. Then when Brackett gets off the line, he actually presses the tape machine's off button, as if the buttons had been depressed and the conversation recorded.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: When Kelly and Gage have at it about the portrayal of Native Americans in film, DeSoto quips, "What are you picking on me for?" as he faces Gage in front of him. Gage then walks to the other side of the table and after he says, "We call that white man royalty syndrome," he puts his arm around Kelly, standing beside him. We are then shown DeSoto's reaction shot, who still faces Gage in the same direction as his earlier quip, and we also see Kelly behind him, but no Gage.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: Before being shot at, when Gage and DeSoto climb up to the scaffolding, Gage lifts the man's head to rest on the scaffolding and stays that way in each of the following close-ups, but in the following four wideshots his head still hangs over the side.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: When DeSoto and Gage arrive at the corner shop for the gum ball machine rescue, in the overhead shot the front end of the parked RV is beside the lamppost, but in the next shot half its body is past the fixture.

Super Grover

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Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Visible crew/equipment: Just after the drunk driver is loaded onto the ambulance, when Roy tells Johnny about Debbie's pulse and respiration, and that she's in bad shape, then also when Roy tells Captain Stanley to make it quick, a crew member sitting atop a ladder with set lighting beside him are visible in the background.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Other mistake: When John and Roy are up on the scaffold with the injured man during the sniper fire, from the time they unfurl the large tarp and tie it off to the beams the sniper fires zero shots at them, zip, but later at the station Chet asks John, in all seriousness, if he got a good look at the tarp before they left, and tells him that the tarp looked like Swiss cheese due to the sniper fire.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are at the nurses' station telling Dixie about the girdle run, Squad 51 responds to the structure fire right up the street, and we see Roy and Johnny en route without the turnouts, but when they pull up to the house they're both wearing turnouts.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: Treatment 4 is beside the nurses' station, as seen when Roy and John are with Debbie's parents, while the drunk driver is being wheeled through the double doors. Later, when Brackett suspects that Debbie's father is with the drunk, as he rushes to the drunk's room he goes through the double doors to get to the room, but while Brackett's in the room speaking to Debbie's father we can see treatment 4's door right behind Brackett, even though they're supposed to be in a completely different area.

Super Grover

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: After Roy and Johnny find the source of the fuel oil getting into the water supply, when they pull up behind the van, there are three barricades with flashers. The flasher on the sidewalk barricade flips from one side to the opposite side between shots.

Super Grover

Breakdown - S6-E15

Charlie: I think you guys are playing games with me, and I don't like it.
Roy: Now, wait a minute. We're not playing games. We don't play games with the equipment...
Captain Stanley: Wait, hold on. C'mon everybody, look we're all on the same side here, aren't we?
Charlie: I wonder.
Captain Stanley: Charlie, why can't we put the squad in the shop and have us a reserve vehicle here?
Charlie: No, no, Hank. Not until I'm 100% sure that I can't fix it. If there's anything wrong with it. This coffee stinks. [Leaves the room.]
Captain Stanley: You guys playing some kind of joke on him?
John: We didn't make the coffee!
Captain Stanley: Not the coffee, you twit, the squad.
Roy: Cap, there's something wrong with that squad out there.
Captain Stanley: [sigh.] All right, if you say so... I made the coffee.

Super Grover

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The Game - S6-E1

Trivia: It's in this episode that the Heimlich Maneuver is used for the first time by the paramedics. At the USC game, when a guy is choking on a hot dog, John and Roy are called, and John uses the Heimlich. Up until season 6 we've seen the guys use other methods, such as the ChokeSaver which look like huge white tweezers, to remove obstructions in an airway, as seen in 4x9, "Foreign Trade."

Super Grover

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Show generally

Question: Why is the driveway in front of the station always wet? Day or night, whenever they pull in or out it looks like it was just hosed down.

Answer: It is standard practice to wet down driveways so that they stand out in a long shot.

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