Script # 37429; Episode #3.20; Airdate: 2/16/1974
Writer: Preston Wood
Director: George Fenady
Guest Cast: Brendan Boone, George Orrison, Gil Peterson, Don Hanmer
Story: Roy stays at Johnny’s place
while his house is being fumigated and it’s a little too much togetherness for Roy. A
woman is trapped in a burning car. An ambulance carrying Roy and a victim is hit by
a car. A man having a heart attack refuses to leave a poker game unless Johnny agrees to
play out the hand. The station responds to an explosion at an abandoned refinery and
rescues several people.
Goofs: (1) Watch the engine closely…on
the first call, when they pull out of the station, no one is riding on the back
(as it should be), but a few seconds later you catch a quick glimpse of the back
of the engine and there are two guys on the back! (2) After the ambulance
crash, the patients are transferred to the large modular Mayfair Ambulance. As
the Mayfair is responding, note that it has a Ford Cab. En Route to Rampart, the
stock footage shows a Chevrolet Cab on the ambulance. Did Squad 51 secretly
change ambulances again? (3) If
you notice in the first scene, as the ambulance nears the intersection, there are several
people on the corner. As another view shows the ambulance approaching, the people are
gone. The final view showing the actual collision, the people are miraculously back.
(4) In Propinquity, Johnny responds to
Roy's accident (the ambulance) alone. But in Involvement Roy gets
permission from Rampart to let the patient continue to the hospital unattended so that he
and Johnny can respond to another accident. How come Johnny just doesn't respond by
himself this time too? (Steve's comments)
