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post #31 of 34
4/11/09 at 5:09pm

Re: "The Fugitive: Season 2, Volume 2" -- A Personal Review

The backlot is almost always easy for me to spot in just about any TV show of this era. For "Fugitive" ones, Pt. 2 of "Landscapes With Running Figures" comes to mind with the town Kimble and Mrs. Gerard are stranded in being an obvious backlot community.
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post #32 of 34
4/11/09 at 5:20pm
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Re: "The Fugitive: Season 2, Volume 2" -- A Personal Review

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The backlot is almost always easy for me to spot in just about any TV show of this era.

Definitely. It sticks out like a sore thumb.


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For "Fugitive" ones, Pt. 2 of "Landscape With Running Figures" comes to mind with the town Kimble and Mrs. Gerard are stranded in being an obvious backlot community.

Yes. Definitely.

And it's funny you mention that exact episode, because when I watched "Scapegoat" today, I was thinking to myself, I think "Landscape" has a lot of backlot scenes too, when Kimble and Marie are isolated on what looks like an old western-type backlot set.
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post #33 of 34
4/11/09 at 5:38pm

Re: "The Fugitive: Season 2, Volume 2" -- A Personal Review

I really learn to live with the backlot after awhile. IMO "Fugitive" location stuff could suffer when all too familiar California mountains could be seen in the background for shows ostensibly set in the mid-west or in one case, Connecticut. (Bewitched though was the worst case of a show where the CA mountains overlooking a backlot rendered ridiculous the notion that Darren worked in New York City).
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post #34 of 34
4/11/09 at 5:48pm
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Re: "The Fugitive: Season 2, Volume 2" -- A Personal Review

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I really learn to live with the backlot after awhile.

Well, really, what choice do we have? Hari-kari?

I guess maybe we could hire animator Dale K. Myers and have him "render" some brand-new realistic-looking towns and cities to replace the backlot scenes in various series. (But then we'd have to battle the purists because we had change the way the show originally was aired. Of course, I'm a "purist" myself most of the time, so I guess I'd be battling myself in that regard.)
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