Continuity mistake: When Charlie asks Dave how Sue is, Charlie has an oxygen mask on with the elastic around his head, but after Dave tells Charlie that Sue's fine and that Johnny's got her on O2, in the wideshot as Dave walks away the oxygen mask has vanished from around his head.
Super Grover
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Johnny tells Sue that Charlie's injury means paid vacation, Johnny is wearing his turnout gear and the coat has long sleeves, but in the closeup when he places the oxygen mask on Sue's face, the arms we see are bare.
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: In the interior shots of Station 51 (the studio set), when facing the rear apparatus bay door, the right wall has a door to Captain Stanley's office, a very large map, the radio receiver base station where they respond to dispatch, the kitchen doorway, and a double-door closet, that's it. However, when Station 51 is shown in the exterior shots (the real Station 127 aka 51), as either the engine or squad exits when the apparatus bay door is up, we see that the right wall has many more doors on that wall. Additionally, the opposite wall on the set has only two doors - one to locker room/bathroom, and one to the dorm, however at the real 127's, that wall has three doors - two of them are to the dorm.
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Evelyn and her husband pull up in front of Graymar Plaza, while they're talking in the car, in the shots facing Evelyn the reflection of crew members standing beside the car, on the driver's side, is visible on the building's glass doors.
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: When dispatch drops tones for the fire at Graymar Plaza, we see Engine 8 rolling out of the apparatus bay and heading down the street, but the problem here is that this footage of Engine 8 is from season 5, episode "Equipment", when Johnny was at Station 8 doing overtime, and we can actually see Johnny sitting there on Engine 8 as it rolls by.
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Engine 51 gets dispatched to their first run on the new Ward LaFrance engine, Captain Stanley tells Johnny and Roy to get their gear to go with them. When the paramedics go to the closet to get the turnout coats, the bulging outlines of the mic transmitters and wires are visible on the sides of their shirts before putting on the turnouts. The outline of Johnny's mic transmitter is also visible when he first walks over to the new engine.
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Engine 51 arrives at the scrap yard fire, just before Captain Stanley opens his door and steps out in the closeup, the reflection of a crew member/cameraman, wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt is visible on the engine's red surface.
27th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Girl on the Balance Beam - S5-E18
Visible crew/equipment: When the ambulance arrives at the scene of the drunk driver's car accident, and then when the drunk man is loaded into the ambulance, the reflection of the location set lighting is visible on the window, at the side of the ambulance.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Trivia: The producers had Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth sit in on paramedic classes (with students who were to be future paramedics), and they also went on extensive ride-a-longs with the Los Angeles County Fire Dept, in order for the two actors to have a realistic appearance, and give a believable performance during the scenes. However, the two actors did not take the written exams. They have never been real certified paramedics.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Girl on the Balance Beam - S5-E18
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny are with the young gymnast, the outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the left side of Roy's shirt, as he takes her vitals and places the oxygen mask on her face.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Girl on the Balance Beam - S5-E18
Other mistake: The dispatcher gives the address of "woman trapped on a wire" as "Commercial Studios,1122 Dellini Plaza", and as Engine 51 drives past the front gates, the large sign reads "World Pictures Corp." Additionally, the address of World Pictures Corp is 1731 Carlson, when we see the same footage of Engine 51 driving past the sign in episode "The Exam" in season 6.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny removes David's red helmet after his motorcycle accident, the reflection of array set lights are visible on the red surface.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the TV catches fire in the kitchen, Captain Stanley unplugs it, and when it cuts to Roy running into the kitchen with the fire extinguisher, he passes Marco, who just ran into the apparatus bay. All of this while we hear Cap's voice telling Marco, who already ran out, to get the asbestos blanket. Then, in the next shot, Marco is still standing behind Captain Stanley in the kitchen.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Roy climbs down the manhole, he leans to the right (the second time), and when he points the flashlight down the tunnel on the right, the moving shadow of camera equipment is visible on the wall. We know it's not Roy's shadow because when he leans back to the left, that shadow is still moving on the tunnel wall.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny are dispatched to the plant with an 18 yr old whose arm is caught in a machine, the outlines of the mic transmitters are visible on the left side of Johnny's shirt, when he's on the Biophone, and on the left side of Roy's shirt, when he's putting the tourniquet on the 18 yr old.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: Brackett has Johnny and Roy in his office to listen to recordings on two cassette tapes - the first of 51's transmission with Rampart, and the second of 49's transmission with Pediatric Clinic. Brackett plays the first tape, pops it out and then plays the second tape. The problem is that when Brackett puts the first cassette tape back in the player, it's been rewound, even though Brackett never actually rewound the tape.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Dianne's OD, once she passes out and Johnny begins to work on her and inserts the esophageal airway, the bulging outlines of the mic transmitter and wire are visible on the back of Johnny's shirt.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Captain Stanley and Roy get the trucker out of the wrecked cab, when Stanley takes his pulse, the outlines of the lav mic transmitter and wire is visible on the back of his shirt.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Other mistake: When Roy and Johnny rescue the deputy from the wrecked chopper that sank in the water, they emerge from the water soaked from head to toe, but when they are pulled to the top of the cliff, Johnny and Roy are both completely dry except for a few small wet patches on their shirts.
25th Jan 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Visible crew/equipment: When Marco is speaking with the deputy at the site of the wrecked chopper, the bulging outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the left side of his shirt, above the belt.
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