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.
Super Grover
13th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
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.
13th Apr 2014
Jaws (1975)
Continuity mistake: After Hooper enters the shark cage, Brody takes Hooper's eyeglasses and places the left earpiece in his mouth, but when Hooper tells them to try and keep the shark off him till he's lowered, it's the right earpiece that's in Brody's mouth. (01:52:20)
9th Apr 2014
Jaws (1975)
Visible crew/equipment: After Brody buys the sign supplies, when Hendricks shows up Brody places the box in the front seat, and as Hendricks tells Brody about the Boy Scouts, pay attention to the left window across the street, where we can see one of the local residents holding a camera and looking out the window facing the location shoot, taking pictures of the actors and film crew. The filming took place at the corner of Main St and S. Water St, Edgartown. (00:10:50)
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.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After examining Tommy, when Brackett speaks to Mrs. Lawson, the boy's mother, her handbag is hanging off her shoulder in all the shots facing Brackett, but in all the shots facing Mrs. Lawson the bag is gone.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Deliberate mistake: When Johnny and Roy are on the Coast Guard copter, responding to 'victim down at cliffs at Catalina Island', there are four closeups of the guys looking out the windows which are flipped shots - note their uniforms are backwards, the paramedic patches are on their right sleeves instead of their left.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the man, who walked in with his daughter, has a heart attack at Station 51, while he's lying on the floor in the apparatus bay we can see the top of the set, the part of the ceiling that's incomplete.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the ambulance transporting the cardiac victim is involved in a traffic accident, when Roy contacts the dispatcher about the accident, the reflection of location set lighting is visible on the back window of the ambulance.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After the ambulance is involved in a traffic accident, when Marco shows up in Squad 51, he parks it parallel to a blue pickup truck and gets out of the squad, but in the next shot that pickup has suddenly vanished and the squad is now parked beside the sidewalk.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After everyone worked together on the cardiac arrest while the visiting administrators watched, at the nurses' station, when Johnny pours the coffee for himself, which Roy promptly takes, the reflection of set lights and equipment are visible in the very reflective chrome coffee pot.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: In the waiting room, after Mrs. Evans complains that she's been waiting in the ER for two hours, Dixie walks up the hallway to Brackett, who's beside treatment 1, but after Brackett tells her about the visiting administrators, Dixie walks away headed toward the nurses' station. Yet in the next shot, Dixie is back at the opposite end of the hallway, by the waiting room, as she heads up the hallway before the man walks in with his injured son.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the dispatcher sends Squad 51 on an 'unknown type rescue', the address is given as 2608, but when they're at the house the address is 4654.
6th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
It's How You Play the Game - S4-E19
Visible crew/equipment: When Squad 51 is en route to the car salesman who was bitten by a tiger, just before the squad turns into the car lot, the reflection of the filming vehicle is visible in the squad's spotlight.
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