Emergency!

Right at Home - S5-E17

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)

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Right at Home - S5-E17

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)

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The Mouse - S4-E20

Revealing mistake: After Station 51 is dispatched to the 'plane crash into a structure', when Engine 51 pulls over to lay the dual lines at the hydrant, we can see up the block on the left, the back side of the apartment complex where they are headed, and most of the back windows are boarded up. The following scene takes place at the front doors of those apartments, where people supposedly live. The show used some real locations (not just Universal's sets) where there had been real fires, to film carefully controlled fire scenes.

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Snakebite - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: At the start, there's a long shot of the Land Rover driving down a long stretch of road towards the camera and then passing it. That road, landscape, and mountains are very distinctive. As Roy, John, and Chet continue talking and driving, when they reach the scene of a traffic accident, Chet sets up a flare behind the Land Rover and another flare behind the pickup truck, then Chet sees a car coming from the direction which the Land Rover was headed. The problem is that the road/landscape/mountains shown earlier in the long shot of the Land Rover, which had been driving from the opposite direction, is the same that's shown here, as Chet tries to stop the car. Then to top it off, when Chet first notices the second car in the distance, it's coming from the opposite direction of the first car, but once again the view is exactly the same.

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Snakebite - S3-E6

Visible crew/equipment: At the start of the episode, in the closeup shot of Roy, Chet, and Johnny as they're talking about not catching any fish on their trip, there is a chrome spotlight on the roof of the Land Rover, and we can see the reflection of the camera mounted on the vehicle's hood.

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Tee Vee - S5-E11

Visible crew/equipment: After the two guys fill the fish tank with water, when they walk out of Brackett's office Dixie walks in, and as she comments that the tank is classy, the actor's tape mark is visible at her feet, in front of Brackett's desk.

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Audit - S2-E21

Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny pull into the parking space near the car with the toddler inside, as the camera moves we see its moving reflection on the side of the car. Then when the woman says "Certainly something's wrong with him, he's unconscious," as the camera pulls back we can see its reflection in the car window. We can also see the reflection of the large location lighting when Johnny tries to unlock the door with a wire hanger.

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Boot - S2-E19

Continuity mistake: After Brackett gets off the phone with Dr. Meier, he walks back to treatment 1, and when Brackett speaks to Morton about the patient being on warfarin, the stethoscope around Brackett's neck vanishes in his closeups, and reappears in wide shots.

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Honest - S2-E17

Visible crew/equipment: When the attendants wheel the boy who can't breathe into the ER, then stop at the nurses' station so Morton can have a look at him, there are two white tape marks visible on the floor, one is below the base station's tape recorder, where a nurse first stands, and the other is at the side of the main desk, where that same nurse (behind Dixie) stands a moment later.

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Drivers - S2-E13

Other mistake: Roy and Johnny are in the squad when they're dispatched to the fire at the junior high, and while en route in the interior shot, in the rear-view mirror we see the reflection of the driver's helmet, and it has an 18 on it, instead of 51.

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The Inspection - S5-E5

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.

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The Inspection - S5-E5

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.

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Insanity Epidemic - S6-E14

Revealing mistake: At the gas station with the broken pump nozzle, Captain Stanley and the station attendant head to the garage area to see the main shut-off circuit box, which is located at the far right corner of the garage, but in the next shot, we can see the attendant's reflection behind Roy, and he's standing somewhere else off camera, not where he's supposed to be in the next shot with Captain Stanley.

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Fools - S3-E16

Visible crew/equipment: After Station 51 is dispatched to the fire at the refinery, when they reach the refinery and make a right turn the view is from atop Squad 51's roof, and the reflection of the covered camera and part of the cameraman's head are visible in the squad's lightbar.

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Insomnia - S3-E8

Visible crew/equipment: After Squad 51 is dispatched to the 'heart attack' at Compu-Data, when Johnny and Roy walk in and then approach the victim in the office, the reflection of the moving camera dolly is visible on the office's large panes of glass. The camera equipment also casts a shadow on the three men as they walk toward the office, then on the glass as it moves back and forth.

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The Old Engine - S3-E2

Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy are leaning on the old fire engine talking about how it's not just some old car, and then when Johnny bends over and lays the mechanic's creeper on the ground, the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of Johnny's shirt.

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Camera Bug - S4-E10

Other mistake: When Engine 51 and Squad 51 first roll in during the school fire, we see the burning building has a flat roof. After Johnny and Roy have rescued the unconscious boy from the classroom, there is a closeup of two firemen standing on a slanted, tiled roof with a hose, which is from episode 3x2, "The Old Engine", just before 17's Captain Harmell falls through the warehouse roof.

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Trainee - S2-E8

Roy: I think you're on some sort of an ego trip, Ed. And in my book that makes you a very dangerous character.
Ed: [Laughs.] Ego trip, huh? Well, I didn't realize that psychiatry was part of the paramedic's training.
Roy: Oh that's good, Ed, you be funny. But that isn't gonna change anything. You wanna know what I figure? Well, I figure when you were working in Vietnam, it was rough. So rough you started playing over your head. And you were making it, you were doing real good. Considering it was a combat situation. And pretty soon you started getting all blown up about how Ed Marlowe is just as good as the real doctors. And you've been living on that ever since. And the trouble is, Ed, you are good. Except for two little problems. You can't quit competing with real doctors. And you can't face being wrong. You see, those people we treat out there, I mean the people we work for, the people who pay for this whole operation, they're real people, Ed, with real problems. And they have a right to expect more than just being used by you for some sort of trip. [Completely exasperated.] I guess what I'm trying to say to you, Ed, is that in my book you're just plain unprofessional.
[Ed walks out.]
John: Do you think it did any good?
Roy: Do you?

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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."

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Question: In quite a few episodes of Emergency there is a character that the doctors and other nurses call Nurse Carol. She is the older nurse with dark hair. I would say she is on at least a fourth of all episodes in all seasons yet I can not see this actress getting credited or listed as uncredited anywhere. I wonder if she was an actual nurse. Does any one know who she was. Yes there also were a couple of other actresses who played a nurse named Carol on one or two episodes and they are listed in the episode guides. She also is the patient with her arm in the cast talking to Dr. Morton in the episode 6:18 Firehouse Quintet.

Answer: On IMDB, actress Anne Schedeen is listed as playing Nurse Carol on six episodes from 1974-76.

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