Episode chronology

[jaws]

I started purchasing the "Sony bewitched" series 1 through 5(accumately ofcourse) 4 years ago. Here's an observation/question: when I was watching the show in the 70's(in syndication) I always saw the episode "Business Italian style" as the episode that proceeded the Sargeant years, I thought at first it was the way our station played the series...but going back and forth from my home in Buffalo and Boarding school in Philadelphia at the time and stil seeing this same chonology on their local station is a bit of a head scratcher. Now I know stations don't necessarily have to play the episodes back to back, and the order of production dates differ(in some cases) than the air dates...But "Business Italian style" is a season 4 episode(so stations playing the eps. by production date makes no sense to me). Anyone have an explanation for this?

[catlover79]

No idea, except that some markets show episodes out of order. Here in Cleveland, one day they jumped from the middle of Season 4 to the end of Season 6 with no explanation.

[jaws]

Originally Posted by catlover79

No idea, except that some markets show episodes out of order. Here in Cleveland, one day they jumped from the middle of Season 4 to the end of Season 6 with no explanation.

I guess what I was really trying to say is I wonder if there was a different chronology from the original airdates...a rigid order most stations played when the episodes were played back to back.

As opposed to other television programs, Bewitched is one where chronology is important...you wouldn't want to watch an ep. in season 1 with baby Tabitha followed by an ep. where Samantha is expecting, would ya?. Continuity was important to this series especially in seasons 1.2. and 3, it was also important in the beginning of season 6. ....I say this because in season 4 the ep "That was no chic...that was my wife" Darrin's client thinks Samantha is an imposter....Louis goes to the Stephen's house to check on things at the same time Samantha had the same thought and Louis saw Samantha, By the end of the show Samantha calls in a favor from her cousin Sereena to have her meet Louis for the first time. In "Hippy Hippy horray" a season 5 ep. Both Larry and Louis find it difficult to beleive Samantha didn't get arrested, in fact the whole delivery of the episode made me think Larry and Louis were meeting Sereena for the first time.

Can anybody point out any other continuity gafs like this?

[DemandYourPickle]

Yeah! And WGN only shows season 3-8, and TV Land skips a million episodes in the first and second season. What's up with that?!

[Larry Tate]

In regards to Serena in Hippy Hippy Horray Larry didn't quite buy her existence as he had not seen them side by side & was bit sceptical about Louise's story, with Louise it was not a matter of not believeing in Serena but rather thinking that in this case that it was not Serena but that Samantha had indeed gone Hippy as she had not seen her for a while & as such thought that it was a plausible possibility.

Larry Tate

Originally Posted by jaws

I guess what I was really trying to say is I wonder if there was a different chronology from the original airdates...a rigid order most stations played when the episodes were played back to back.

As opposed to other television programs, Bewitched is one where chronology is important...you wouldn't want to watch an ep. in season 1 with baby Tabitha followed by an ep. where Samantha is expecting, would ya?. Continuity was important to this series especially in seasons 1.2. and 3, it was also important in the beginning of season 6. ....I say this because in season 4 the ep "That was no chic...that was my wife" Darrin's client thinks Samantha is an imposter....Louis goes to the Stephen's house to check on things at the same time Samantha had the same thought and Louis saw Samantha, By the end of the show Samantha calls in a favor from her cousin Sereena to have her meet Louis for the first time. In "Hippy Hippy horray" a season 5 ep. Both Larry and Louis find it difficult to beleive Samantha didn't get arrested, in fact the whole delivery of the episode made me think Larry and Louis were meeting Sereena for the first time.

Can anybody point out any other continuity gafs like this?