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CLASSIC SHOWS WITH CLASSIC ERRORS/GOOFS

Bill Myers said:
In the Emergency episode -
Also in Emergency, when the squad gets called out it's the usual Dodge truck. But then as the camera is showing street scenes of the squad driving to the call - the Dodge all of a sudden becomes an older model and then reverts back to the usual Dodge truck. Sometimes as you view the street scenes of the squad making it's way to the call, the windshield wipers would be stuck halfway up the windshield. Then another camera shot as the squad finally makes it's way to the incident - the wipers are back down again in the normal position. They must've stopped at AutoZone to get 'em fixed on their way to the call.
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Was probably Auto Shack back then! ;D :D
 
On 'Frasier', I believe in the episode when they had the 'Cheers reunion', and he introduced Martin to Norm, Frasier admitted lying to the Cheers gang about his parents, so they swept that under the rug.
 
Beverly Hills 90210, in the slumber party episode in the first season, Kelly lectures Amanda Pacer (who I believe appeared only in that episode) on the dangers of taking weight-loss pills. Yet a couple of seasons later, she herself passed out in the restroom after taking pills to lose weight.

And then there were the episodes when Brandon danced, and the episodes in which he supposedly "couldn't" dance.
 
firepoint525 said:
Beverly Hills 90210, in the slumber party episode in the first season, Kelly lectures Amanda Pacer (who I believe appeared only in that episode) on the dangers of taking weight-loss pills. Yet a couple of seasons later, she herself passed out in the restroom after taking pills to lose weight.
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Why would you consider this an "error?" I've known a number of drug abusers in real life who will hide their own drug use, but still lecture others on the evils of drugs. For that matter, I've known drug abusers who will talk about the dangers of drugs one minute and personally snort coke (or whatever) in front of you the next.

Drug abusers are not particularly good at consistency of thought and deed, or at thinking clearly.
 
Bill Myers said:
Also in Emergency, when the squad gets called out it's the usual Dodge truck. But then as the camera is showing street scenes of the squad driving to the call - the Dodge all of a sudden becomes an older model and then reverts back to the usual Dodge truck.
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That was more common in season 1 and 2. a example is the first season ep where they are responding to a Brush Fire and it goes from a 1972 Dodge to a late 1960s (68-69) Dodge. in Season 3 and 4, when Squad 51 is dispatched, they are parked next to a 1973 Ward Lafrance pumper, but when the shot of the rollout from the front is seen, they come out of the station with a 1965 Crown Firecoach parked next to it. In the Adam-12 episode the search, they switched from a 1971 Plymouth to a 1968 Plymouth so as not to wreak the car being used in that season.
 
cwf1701 said:
Bill Myers said:
Also in Emergency, when the squad gets called out it's the usual Dodge truck. But then as the camera is showing street scenes of the squad driving to the call - the Dodge all of a sudden becomes an older model and then reverts back to the usual Dodge truck.
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That was more common in season 1 and 2. a example is the first season ep where they are responding to a Brush Fire and it goes from a 1972 Dodge to a late 1960s (68-69) Dodge. in Season 3 and 4, when Squad 51 is dispatched, they are parked next to a 1973 Ward Lafrance pumper, but when the shot of the rollout from the front is seen, they come out of the station with a 1965 Crown Firecoach parked next to it. In the Adam-12 episode the search, they switched from a 1971 Plymouth to a 1968 Plymouth so as not to wreak the car being used in that season.
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This is really typical in TV shows - even today, but especially back in the 60s and 70s. I couldn't personally tell one fire truck from another, but I know cars. Police Story used to drive me nuts - a Chevy Caprice police cruiser would scream around a corner in hot pursuit and a Dodge Diplomat would come out the other side. They were obviously using stock footage and decided nobody would notice.

Recently, on a episode of Dexter, he gets in a car wreck with his new Ford Escape hybrid SUV. You don't really see the collision. In a later scene, he goes to get his belongings out of his wrecked SUV, which has clearly turned into an older Kia Sportage. Obviously, the producers don't have the budget to wreck a new $30,000 vehicle.
 
Lkeller said:
firepoint525 said:
Beverly Hills 90210, in the slumber party episode in the first season, Kelly lectures Amanda Pacer (who I believe appeared only in that episode) on the dangers of taking weight-loss pills. Yet a couple of seasons later, she herself passed out in the restroom after taking pills to lose weight.
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Why would you consider this an "error?" I've known a number of drug abusers in real life who will hide their own drug use, but still lecture others on the evils of drugs. For that matter, I've known drug abusers who will talk about the dangers of drugs one minute and personally snort coke (or whatever) in front of you the next.
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I attribute it to a change in writers. Often, there is not much continuity from one episode to the next. But this particular example was two years apart.
 
Limp73 said:
Were cart machines ever shown on episodes of WKRP?

Always remember Johnny Fever pushing buttons on the unseen console for Les Nessman's news intro but never saw the cart machine.
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There were several scenes where they used carts for comedic effect - the cart machine was built into the console.

In one episode, they have to fill time, and Andy is fumbling through the cart rack looking for a PSA, but Les puts his news open cart in and hits it instead.

I remember seeing carts any number of times, including in the handoff between Johnny and Les.

The one thing I do remember from WKRP is that the jocks didn't wear headphones as a rule. Except that one time where Les was listening to the Del's Stereo and Sound "hold up" remote, and the Big Guy came in and turned up the headphone volume so loud that Les screamed in pain...
 
Love to see the changes in the police cars on Dukes Of Hazzard. "Hot Pursuit" in a Chrysler product, then and AMC Matador (What's a Matador?) crashing into a tree. The General Lee, suddenly is jacked up with a 4WD chassis under it, Uncle Jesse's truck in various stages of clean and dents. Sirens changing from electronic to mechanical and back again.

WKRP, they inserted the carts into the board, it looked more like 8 track than standard broadcast carts. Music playing with the tone arm in the cradle, Les never wearing "cans" when doing the news, or anyone else for that matter. Did Andy Travis ever work?

Emergency, lots of equipment things, like turnout gear not worn properly, the changing back and forth of engines and squads during run scenes. It is a lot of fun to look for those things.
 
1st of 5 said:
An episode of MASH has a model of Bell UH-1 Huey helicopter hanging behind Col Blakes desk in his office. At that time period helicopters were not powered by gas turbine engines, only good old piston cranking horsepower. Hueys made their debut during the Vietnam War, a few years later.
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M*A*S*H* is supposed to be about the Vietnam war. CBS thought we wouldn't know better.
 
Just noticed this the other day when watching part of the pilot episode of the "Cosby Show" on Youtube. We all remember that in the pilot the Huxtables' living room was designed differently (IMO almost like an apartment living room)--but if you look carefully at the 2:30 mark of the video of Part 1 when Cliff enters the kitchen, you can barely see the background to the Huxtable living room that is similar to what we would be accustomed to seeing throughout the rest of the series. Makes me wonder if the opening kitchen scene was the last portion of the pilot to be filmed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kezs4Y6PoeI
 
The pilot episodes of most shows are often very different from what comes later. Cases in point: The Brady Bunch and Beverly Hills 90210.

In the case of The Cosby Show, they "only" had four kids (and even made reference to that fact in one of those early episodes), but somehow, later that season, or in the next season, a fifth kid, that college girl, just "magically" appeared!
 
Kelly Watts said:
WKRP, they inserted the carts into the board, it looked more like 8 track than standard broadcast carts. Music playing with the tone arm in the cradle, Les never wearing "cans" when doing the news, or anyone else for that matter. Did Andy Travis ever work?
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I remember reading the producers decided not to use headphones as viewers wouldn't understand that speakers in control rooms mute when the mike is on.

I have seen PDs who didn't work any more than Andy Travis... although they at least did a board shift.
 
Andy Travis' major "PD work" on the show was complaining to Johnny for not playing hit music. :D

He did other stuff, too, but the off-air duties of a PD in the mid-1970s were mostly not grist for the TV mill.
 
Kelly Watts said:
Love to see the changes in the police cars on Dukes Of Hazzard. "Hot Pursuit" in a Chrysler product, then and AMC Matador (What's a Matador?) crashing into a tree.
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From a baby-boomer car nerd: American Motors made Ramblers, which were good cars, but homely and frumpy. They had a bad public image as the kind of car only your Grandma would drive.

So in the early 70s, the company re-branded as "AMC" and came out with a line of poorly designed cars including the Matador, Hornet, Gremlin (Hornet with the trunk chopped off), and most notably - the Pacer, which became a laughing-stock as soon as it came out. Wayne and Garth drive a Pacer in Wayne's World. The problem was - pretty much NOBODY wanted to buy these cars, not even your Grandma.

The one thing AMC did right is convince a lot of police departments to buy fleets of Matadors as police cruisers. LAPD used them in the 70s for a couple of years, so it wasn't unusual to see them in TV shows and movies.

Rest of the story: by the early 80s, AMC had given up on trying to sell passenger cars, but their Jeep division got hot when they came out with America's first smaller 4 door SUV - the Cherokee. That kept the company afloat for a few years until Chrysler bought them out (mid 80s, I think).

I apologize if this was TMI. ;D
 
There was a 70's James Bond movie (The Man with the Golden Gun?) that had an AMC Matador in a chase scene somewhere in Asia. How possible is that in real life?
 
Love to see the changes in the police cars on Dukes Of Hazzard. "Hot Pursuit" in a Chrysler product, then and AMC Matador (What's a Matador?) crashing into a tree.

I was quoting a line from an old AMC commercial, when they introduced the Matador. Our local police had two, and they hated them! The officers did their best to blow them up, and I think they finally succeeded!

BTW AMC was in partnership with Renault for a few years before Chrysler bought the Jeep division.

I was a young active volunteer fireman back in the first run days of Emergency, a bunch of us used to sit there and watch for errors.

WKRP, I guess the poster is right, people would not have understood the concept of muting. I did work at a station that had a low level monitor so you really could not wear headphones. I still preferred them so I could kill my hearing. LOL
 
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