Other mistake: When Station 51 is dispatched to the structure fire in the middle of the night, once they arrive at the burning house, one of the first shots shows a crowd of bystanders, many in their robes. That footage is from season 1, the pilot episode "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act", during the factory fire at the start of that episode.
Super Grover
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the guys of Station 51 are dealing with the rescue of the doctor from the radioactive lab, Johnny's, Chet's, and Marco's SCBA cylinders change during this scene while they're all wearing them. Differences such as tall, slim, with a flat top vs short, wide, with a rounded top, and also the writing on the tanks. Marco's even changes between shots, when he exits the lab's doorway.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy tells the other guys of 51 what they need to do to rescue the doctor, once they're in the hot room, in the wide shot Roy's holding the handie-talkie in his right hand as he's gesturing with that hand, but when it cuts to Roy's closeup the HT has vanished from his right hand, as he's still gesturing.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After John makes a sarcastic comment, while he and Roy are in the treatment room with Dr. Early, Roy takes the squad's oxygen tank with him when he leaves the room, but when he exits the ER to get into the squad, the oxygen tank is gone.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Squad 51 is dispatched to an 'unknown type rescue', after stopping at the side of the road to talk to the two guys, when the squad follows the motorbike, the corner of the crew's reflector screen becomes visible as the squad pulls onto the road and drives off.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After rescuing the man from under the engine, when Roy and Johnny load him into the ambulance, the reflections of the array set lighting are visible on the ambulance windows, as Johnny and Roy close the back doors.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and John are at the bull corral, trying to rescue the guy who's been gored, in the closeups of the bull we can see metal piping at the top, right corner of the screen, as the camera moves.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy has trouble sleeping in the middle of the night, he gets up, and when he goes to the bathroom sink, there is a fully dressed crew member whose reflection is visible in the mirror, as he moves around and looks through the door window towards the actor. Then 51's tones drop, and in the next shot we see that all the other guys of Station 51 have been lying in their beds, before getting up and putting on their turnouts.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Character mistake: When Roy and Johnny are waiting outside the radioactive lab, Roy sends Marco and Mike to replace Chet and the captain. When Chet and the captain come out, the captain points to Chet and then points up the hallway, while he says "All right, take off you two," even though it's only Chet who's heading outside to be decontaminated, and he could not have meant, "All right, take off you too," for the same reason.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: A few shots after Johnny informs Brackett of the victim of the radiation incident, there's a shot of the ER with two orderlies pushing a gurney towards the camera, and the two actors' tape marks are visible on the floor at the bottom of the screen, just before Brackett and Dixie stop there, when Brackett tells Dix to notify the radiation security guard.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy go into the radioactive lab, Johnny removes his glove to check the doctor's carotid pulse and when they walk through the doorway both his gloves are off (he's holding them), but in the next shot exiting the doorway both of Johnny's gloves are back on.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: After Station 51 responds to the 'man caught in an air conditioning duct', when they get on the elevator its metal sliding doors and metal jamb on the lower lobby have scratches and dents on the exterior, and the same scratches and dents are on the doors and jamb, when they reach the upper level.
2nd Mar 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When 51's guys are watching an Adam-12 episode on TV (in Emergency!'s pilot, Reed and Malloy are real), on that show just after Reed is knocked out, the hitman says "Nate would've blown his stack if I'd let you go," (refers to hitman's partner, Nate), but Emergency!'s DVD subtitles read, "Pete would've blown his stack," (Pete Malloy is Jim Reed's partner). Moments later hitman Nate yells, "I wanna talk a deal," but subtitles read, "I wanna talk to Neil," and there isn't even anyone named Neil.
27th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Chet tells Roy that Captain Stanley wants to see him in the office, a tape mark is visible on the floor in front of Cap, just as he tells Roy not to tell the other guys, and then when Roy asks what happened.
27th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Roy helps the looter into the squad, when Johnny goes to the motorcycle and finds the leather bag full of jewelry, the mic wires that run from under his shirt/belt into his right pants pocket (with the transmitter bulge) are visible as he bends down.
27th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the looter is helped into the squad, just as Roy gets into the driver's seat, the reflection of camera equipment becomes visible on Squad 51's vent window (not to be confused with Roy's arm or the reflection of the red wing mirror).
27th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny finds the looter's leather bag with the stolen jewelry, the bag's large front flap goes from being flipped open facing Johnny to the opposite way, between shots.
27th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Dixie tells the attendants to wheel Ruthie, the woman who went berserk at the salon, into the treatment room where Dr. Early's waiting, there are two T-marks visible on the floor at Dixie's and Johnny's feet.
27th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: At the end of the episode, when 51's guys are in the kitchen waiting to see the "terrific idea", in the closeup John presses the tape recorder's third white button to play it, and we hear the dispatcher's voice, but in the next shot we continue to hear the dispatcher saying, "1305 Overland Ave, apt C, cross street, Pacific..." despite the fact that we can see all the white buttons are now up, none are actually depressed.
27th Feb 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: After Squad 51 is dispatched to the motorcycle accident, there are wide shots of the squad driving through the hills, then in the closeups of Roy and John, the squad shakes from side to side to mimic driving, but we can see that the surrounding rocky area behind the squad (matte painting) does not actually change at all.
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