In the episode "Log 51", we see Reed and Malloy in the 1968 Plymouth Belvedere during most of the episode. The scene after the suspect hitting the Adam-49 squad car, we see Reed and Malloy in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere. It's little thing things like this that I find interesting. I only posted it because maybe there is someone else like me who finds things like this interesting.
shareI love finding little inconsistencies or goofs in these shows. Not because I'm "making fun" or finding fault, but because it's interesting to piece together everything that goes into making a show. Maybe in one scene they don't want to damage the "main" car, so they use a slightly different one when it gets in a fender-bender or something like that. Or when stock footage doesn't match "real" episode footage, but they use it because it saves time and money. It makes the shows more interesting to me, rather than less. Especially since in most current shows, you probably wouldn't find goofs or mismatches like these.
shareNot a goof but pay attention to the license plates on vehicles in 70's TV shows/made for TV movies (Rockford, Adam 12, and Dennis Weavers' red Valiant in 'Duel'(1971)... the letters'PCE'are used in many plates during that era, I can't believe it's coincidence and wonder if Hollywood had many issued from DMV for 'movie cars' for lack of a better way to say it...
It may just seem like it to me, but whether we see the plate or not, a lot of the plates they call in to dispatch tend to have 'ida ocean' as the first two or last two letters at the end of a plate. If this board were as gung-ho as the Emergency! board, there'd probably be a thread with all the plates mentioned in every episode.
I heard the plates had Victor Ida Ocean or some variant because California plates never had an O or I as third digit because it could be confused with zero or one. This way they never accidentally used a real plate.
shareStock footage is the main reason for these goofs. Cheaper to re-use scenes than film everything new. When shows were only on once a week it wasn't as easy to spot but now that we can see them every day or more often we see them.
Hawaii Five-O was terrible with this. Numerous times you should see McGarrett run out of the palace and get into a 2 door Falcon with a red interior only to arrive at the scene in his 4 door Mercury.
Emergency! is also bad sometimes. Certain scenes of the squad responding are of a much older truck with completely different lights on top.
Also, if they 'destroy' a car with an explosion or wreck it they often substitute a older/cheaper model or sometimes even just the body to save money.