Continuity mistake: When the man who doesn't speak English is in treatment 4, there's a closeup of the Datascope 850 monitor, and then the girl points to the EKG monitoring unit behind the gurney and asks Dixie why the thing is bouncing up and down. Problem is that the Datascope 850 is used by the paramedics and it's not actually in that treatment room. The treatment room has a Zenith Travenol unit.
Super Grover
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the man trapped in the freezer, Johnny and Roy get into the squad, and the reflection of the large set lighting can be seen on the passenger door and vent window.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Squad 51 arrives at the scene of the parachutist who's stuck in the tree, when Roy tells dispatch to have an engine respond to their incident, the reflection of array set lighting is visible on the squad's surface.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When John and Roy are tunneling through to the little girl trapped in the hole, they're in the second larger hole that has been shored up on all sides with wood (to keep it from collapsing), but when Roy points the chrome flashlight down the lateral hole Johnny's digging in, we can see in its reflection that the fourth wall doesn't exist, where the camera and lights are located.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: On scene with the little girl trapped in the hole, when they shine the flashlight down the hole in the overhead closeup, it's too obvious that it's a doll with its arm raised up, plus the fact that we see plenty of space around the doll, contradicting the plot of the little girl being wedged in a tight space.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Johnny and Roy are on the schooner, with the unconscious man hanging upside down from the mast's rigging, as they pull the man up the safety harness around the stuntman's ankle is visible.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Nurse's Wild - S1-E7
Revealing mistake: When John and Roy get back to the station and are discussing the cardiac patient they brought to Rampart earlier, the usually highly reflective passenger spotlight has been sprayed with a dulling spray, to temporarily dull the surface.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Nurse's Wild - S1-E7
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy and Johnny are at the house with the unconscious woman and barking dog, the set lights are reflected in the deputy's helmet.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the truck driver who felt like his head exploded is in the treatment room with Early, Brackett and Dix, as the camera passes behind Brackett it casts a moving shadow along the two walls.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy walks into the ER with the man who attempted suicide three ways, due to the low angle of the camera we can see part of the unfinished ceiling of the ER set, near the nurses' station.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the attempted suicide, the dispatcher states that he's in apartment 2A, and when Roy and John arrive at the scene the police officer also says he's in apartment 2A, but when they get to the second floor they pass apt 2A and go to the apartment at the end of the hall.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Revealing mistake: When the boy is discharged from the ER and is reunited with his dog, John and Roy are standing near the squad watching the reunion, and the usually highly reflective surface of the passenger side spotlight has been sprayed with a dulling spray, to temporarily dull the surface.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Johnny and Roy get back to the fire's base station and hand the looter over to Vince, when they find Grover in the pen with the other dogs, Roy checks the dog's ID tag and in the two wide shots Roy's holding it with one hand while the other hand is up on the gate, but in closeup both of Roy's hands are holding the collar and ID tag.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John leave the ER after the baby delivery, the base station dispatches them to the motorcycle accident, and in the next shot as the squad turns the corner, there are three people in Squad 51, we see Roy, Johnny and someone seated between them, while they're en route.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Cook's Tour - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 is dispatched to the 'injury in alley', after John defibs the teenager, when he removes the diagnostic penlight from his belt holster, the kelly forceps fall out of the holster, but when he puts the penlight back into the belt holster the forceps are back in its place.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: On site at the construction accident, when the man with the back injury is lying in the stokes and being lowered with the ladder, a crew member/cameraman is visible on the landing at the lower right side of the screen.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Early and Dixie are in the treatment room with Jenny, after Early asks Jenny if she can move her legs, the moving shadow of the boom and mic are visible on the wall behind Dixie.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Roy finds Bonnie in the back seat of the wrecked car, Paula's luggage flips itself around and upright between shots.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: At the scene of Paula's traffic accident, when Captain Hammer stands in Engine 51's cab and tells Marco to get the reel line, the reflection of equipment and set lighting are visible in the chrome surface of driver's side spotlight.
29th Apr 2014
Emergency! (1972)
The Wedsworth-Townsend Act - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the tunnel worker who's in V-tach, the lights go out in the tunnel and Roy places one of the lanterns on the Biophone, but in closeups of the Biophone the lantern has vanished, then the lantern is back again once they've defibbed successfully.
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