Visible crew/equipment: After the fire at the Kiddytime Toy Factory, when Roy is in the ambulance and Johnny closes its back doors, the location set lighting is reflected on the glass of the ambulance doors.
Visible crew/equipment: When the dispatcher calls for Station 51 to respond to the "structure fire at the Kiddytime Toy Factory," while Captain Stanley is at the radio receiver base station, the reflection of the camera equipment is visible on the back of the squad's cab as it trucks left.
Continuity mistake: When the deaf woman is lying on the sidewalk having contractions, Johnny and Roy carry the pregnant woman on a cot into the market, and in the closeup of her face she is still lying on the sidewalk outside.
Visible crew/equipment: During the structure fire, when Roy, Johnny and the security guard are in the upstairs room and Roy closes the doors, just as they start to walk toward the window, the moving shadow of the cameraman and camera are visible on the wall. The shadow is not moving in sync with the guys so we know it's not theirs.
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy are with the woman who slipped down into an old abandoned well, the outlines of the lav mic transmitters are visible on the sides of their shirts - Johnny's at his left and Roy's at his right.
Visible crew/equipment: After Squad 51 is dispatched to a "man locked in a safe", when Johnny exits the squad and later when he gets back in, the outline of the lav mic transmitter is visible on the back of his shirt.
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to a "man locked in a safe", at 1817 South Maplemoor, after the escape artist lets himself out of the safe, when Roy and Johnny head back to the squad the house address reads 4017.
Visible crew/equipment: On scene at the two vehicle accident, when Roy and Johnny are tending to the teenagers in the overturned car, the outlines of the mic transmitters and wires are visible on the sides of their shirts.
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Visible crew/equipment: After Johnny rescues the man from the wine vat, when he and Roy lay the man down on the ground near the squad, the outlines of the lavalier mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of Johnny's shirt.
How Green Was My Thumb? - S3-E17
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny and Roy stop by Mrs. Johnson's home to water her plants, two actors' tape marks are visible on the floor by the door.
Continuity mistake: At the refinery fire, when Johnny and Roy are on the tower with the collapsed worker, Roy throws the line down to Truck 127's Snorkel for their gear, and as Roy pulls it up, the gear is tied up quite differently depending on the angle of the shot.
Continuity mistake: When Kent (Bobby Sherman) is ready to leave Station 51, the guys are about to sit down to dinner and the table is full of food, plates, cups, utensils, etc, but when the tones drop for the refinery fire and everyone rushes into the apparatus bay, the table is seen behind them and it's bare. Also, the order in which the guys run out of the kitchen is completely different, depending on the angle of the shot.
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny get to the gas station, Captain Stanley tells them to look at the owner of the station, and when the owner leans over and places the nozzle back on the pump, the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of his shirt.
Continuity mistake: When Dixie has her hand caught in the coffee dispensing machine, Roy gets it free, and when she pulls her hand out all of her nails on that hand are very short in the closeup, but in following shots her nails are quite long, as usual.
Audio problem: When Johnny and Roy send down the boy who was trapped on the crane, once he's carried by Chet and the others, we hear Captain Stanley say, "Alright, let's get him into the Stokes, and get him outta here as fast as we can," but his mouth is not saying those words (though Chet's helmet blocks Cap's mouth for part, it applies to the rest). Additionally, it doesn't make any sense that he would even say that, because they're loading him straight onto the ambulance stretcher, not a Stokes.
Propinquity - S3-E20
Continuity mistake: When the victims are loaded onto the second ambulance with Roy, after the original ambulance was hit by the car, we can see the license plate, Z99977, as Johnny closes the back doors. Then while en route to Rampart, the ambulance's make/model changes with plate, Z99953, then the make/model changes yet again, but still has the same plate, Z99953.
Inventions - S3-E22
Continuity mistake: When Station 51 is on site at the major chemical leak, Roy and Johnny are wearing SCBA tanks that have distinctive markings/stickers, and their tanks change while they search, locate and rescue the worker.
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are in the basket with the man who was electrocuted by a power line, they are atop three more power lines. Chet and Mike cut the two outer lines and only the center line remains, but in the closeup of the basket there are still three power lines under the basket.
Continuity mistake: After Dr. Early fixes the squad's engine problem, while Roy is driving we see a two-way radio mounted at the top of the dashboard, just past the steering wheel. When the dispatcher calls on Squad 51 to respond, there's a closeup of the Motorola two-way radio/Interceptor units which are mounted under the dash (near gas pedal), and Johnny lifts this mic, but then we see that he's speaking on the mic from the top of the dash. Additionally, in those two closeups of the two-way radio, we can see the gas pedal, but Roy's foot is nowhere to be seen, even though the squad has been moving all along.
Smoke Eater - S4-E16
Continuity mistake: When Captain Robertson voices his disapproval about the paramedics, while the guys are in the kitchen eating, there are plates, cups, saucers, and utensils on the table. Then Station 51 is called to respond to a child trapped at the storm drain, and when the guys run out of the kitchen we see behind them that the table is now bare.
Answer: On IMDB, actress Anne Schedeen is listed as playing Nurse Carol on six episodes from 1974-76.
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