Fleet
03-28-2010, 04:51 PM
TV Land is running the episode from the 1st or 2nd season in which Samantha is "sick." Spots on her face. Aunt Clara gives Darrin a list of necessary ingredients for the cure.
He is able to get all but one... an ostrich feather. He tries to buy one from a lady wearing a hat with feathers and both are questioned about it at police headquarters. I would have to watch the scene again, but there is a map on a wall at the police station which sure looks like a map of Los Angeles!
Madame X
03-28-2010, 06:31 PM
Good eye, Fleet! If it was a map of Connecticut, the ocean would be on the right!
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TV Knowledge Fan
03-29-2010, 02:01 AM
...Screen Gems/Columbia was notoriously cheap, often "redressing" and reusing their standing sets on their other sitcoms, saving a ton of money in the process [Samantha and Darrin's living room, for example, could be slightly disguised and utilized in a concurrent episode of "I DREAM OF JEANNIE", "HAZEL", or "THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER"]. The same with props- certainly no one was going to notice a Los Angeles city map "standing in" for another {fictional} city in back of a desk sergeant on, say, "BEWITCHED" or "THE DONNA REED SHOW".
And let's not forget that "suburban neighborhood" on the Columbia Ranch was seen on virtually ALL Screen Gems sitcoms from the '50s through the early '70s, representing "Springfield", "Hillsdale", "Westport", "Cocoa Beach", et. al.
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Fleet
03-29-2010, 04:35 AM
Yeah, that Warner Bros. "neighborhood" has been seen in a lot of different TV shows... Bewitched, Leave it to Beaver, Gidget, etc.
treky
03-30-2010, 02:21 AM
and a shot of it was seen in the opening of "FRIENDS"-the fountain was across from the Nelson house from "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" and was near the Stevens house from "BEWITCHED".
And another thing you should note:
MOUNTAINS in Connecticut and NYC! there have been many an episode that I have seen a mountain ridge in the background of Morning Glory Circle (Notable example [that I know of]: the end of "My Friend Ben") and even in downtown New York scenes (in the episodes "Red Light, Green Light", "That was No Chick" and "If They Never Met").
Somebody's geography totally sucked there.