Continuity mistake: When Dixie shows Johnny the newspaper, Johnny reads the ad aloud which states, "Wanted, 1925 Paige fire truck, $25,000, if in mint condition," and Johnny says that it is exactly what the ad submitter wants. The "it" being Roy and Johnny's refurbished fire truck. The problem is that in 3x2, "The Old Engine," when Johnny and Roy are telling Chet and Marco about their purchase, Johnny says that it's a 1932 Dennis, and when they're looking it over, the blue "Dennis" emblem is attached to the hood of the engine.
Super Grover
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: After the MI patient from the construction site is brought to treatment 1, when Early uses the laryngoscope for an endotracheal intubation, we can see that he merely places the laryngoscope at the side of the man's face, especially since we can still see the entire distal end beside the man's neck.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Trivia: At the end, when Johnny's tape recorder idea doesn't quite work out the way he and Roy had hoped, Johnny gets very flustered and frustrated with the recorder, and sets it down on the table, then Johnny looks right up into the camera lens and gives viewers an indescribable look, thereby "breaking the fourth wall."
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When the man injured in the manhole is brought to treatment 6, Early tells Roy to patch him up for an EKG, but the subtitles read, "Patch one from the EKG," and then Early tells the x-ray technician to do a skull and chest series, but the subtitles read, "Skull and chest searches." Subtitles from Universal Studios 2010 DVD.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: On scene at the traffic accident, when the woman and the boy with non-serious injuries are seated at the back of the ambulance, neither Roy or Johnny are going along with them to Rampart, yet Johnny puts the drug box inside the back of the ambulance with them, and the ambulance drives off. With their drug box! Captain Stanley even says that he'll advise dispatch that they're available for a run at the scene, while the guys will be looking for the dog.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Girl on the Balance Beam - S5-E18
Visible crew/equipment: When Brackett and Morton go to the outdoor eating area to speak with Nancy's father, just as Brackett sits down and crosses his legs, the actor's T-mark is visible on the floor in front of his chair.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Johnny and Roy get back to the station from their run, Roy leaves two cabinet doors wide open when he gets two coffee cups, but in the next shot as he shakes Jason's hand, those two doors are suddenly closed.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Squad 51 arrives at Homer's house, we can see the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire on the back of the old cowboy's shirt.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When the man with three bullet wounds is wheeled into the ER, he's taken into treatment 3 which has a windowless door, but in the shots from inside the room he's in treatment 1 with a window on its door, and the room has a different interior.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Squad 51 is dispatched to the hotel fire, when Roy shouts to John that the woman is about to drop the baby from the third floor, Roy's standing across the street beside the squad, but in the next shot he's suddenly standing in front of the hotel, right behind John.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Audio problem: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the hotel fire, Roy's holding the bullhorn in one hand to instruct everyone, and the HT in his other hand. After Johnny catches the baby, just before Truck 8 rolls in, when Roy says over the HT, "All right, set up the Truck...," he moves his hand with the HT away from his face and directs Truck 8, yet his voice is still booming as if speaking into it.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: During boat rescue, when Johnny's on the Biophone with Rampart, right after Brackett tells them to continue oxygen and maintain D5W IV, Roy has his hand out with the IV bag and tells 81's guy to hold it, but in the next shot 81's guy is taking a BP cuff from Roy's hand, not an IV bag.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny search for the missing man during the fire at the winery, Johnny jumps into the wine vat to rescue the drowning man, getting himself completely soaked, but when he and Roy bring the man out to the squad, Johnny's clothes are pretty much dry.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Revealing mistake: When Roy brings the man with a laryngeal obstruction into the ER and is taken quickly to treatment 1, his head is tilted back and Early places a laryngoscope into the patient's mouth and says that he sees the obstruction. The problem is that we can see that the laryngoscope is actually at the side of the patient's face. Then, when Early uses the forceps to remove the obstruction, once again we can see that it does not go into the patient's mouth.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny follows the nurse as she gets off the elevator on the fourth floor, the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of the nurse's white uniform.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Trivia: In addition to Randolph Mantooth's brother Donald appearing in this episode, while Roy and John are in Mrs. Johnson's apartment, when Roy's telling John some of the plants' names, John picks up a plant from the table and asks Roy what its name is. And when Roy answers, "Sadie", John smiles at the plant and says, "Hey, Sadie, how you doing?" Sadie is Mantooth's mother's name.
1st Jul 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When John and Roy are at the park with the injured football player and his son, the shadows that are cast over the entire area change significantly when the ambulance arrives.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Squad 51 is parked at ER receiving, John and Roy tell Dr. Early about the squad's engine problem, and when Early fixes the engine problem, we can see the reflection of numerous set lighting on the squad's chrome spotlight.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While climbing the tower to rescue the "man" at the top, after Johnny slips and slams into the cross beam, when he and Chet are heading back down the tower, the two lights attached to the tower keep switching from the right side to the left side, depending if it's a closeup of them or a wide shot of their doubles. Additionally, in the closeups the lights are large and round, but in the wide shots one of them is a small square.
28th Jun 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: During the fire at Hammond Chemical, when Engine 7 rolls up and lays duals, we can see the vinyl material adhered to the top of the cab covering the engine company's real number.
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