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Moon River was written for 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and was not around in 1957, so it had to be added when the episode was edited to squeeze in Ricky's segments. Meanwhile, this appears to be a scene that got removed to make room for Rick, which is kind of a shame:

One of them may have been, but you'll see most of Thorny's season five episodes have the eagle over the fireplace. That was introduced in season five (Harriet hated it, by the way). So my guess is Thorny did start season but was gone after just three or four episodes.

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I've just about completed the Time-Life set (an episode or two remaining) and while the set is certainly the best presentation the show has ever been given on video, a few episodes have problems. Most are minor but the one that bothered me most was 'The Traffic Signal'. The main problem is the...

I noted this above in 'David Loses His Poise' which is the worst case I've seen so far. A couple of spots bothered me elsewhere but they were not as bad as DLHP.

FYI: The first few minutes of ‘Rick Counts the Ballots’ appears to be from a 16mm print. One of the episodes began with a Kodak ad showing Dave and Ricky and their dates taking pics at the San Diego zoo. I didn’t recognize Rick’s girl but that sure looked like June Blair with Dave. In bedtime...

Watching 'An Old Friend of June's' I noticed Joan Staley as a shapely temp secretary at Dave's law office. She would go on to play Stu Bailey's secretary on the final season of '77 Sunset Strip'. Her character name was Joan McWhirter. Kent McWhirter (later known as Kent McCord) was a regular on...

I suppose they wanted to use the episode because of Tuesday Weld but she was in several other episodes they could've used. Watched 'Secret Passage' earlier today. Color looked great; saw 'Constance Harper as Miss Edwards' in the end credits but I don't think she appeared in the story at all.

'Nelsons Revisited' (which I had never seen before) was B&W because it was part of the previous season and held back until season 14. (This happened now and then during the show's run.) I agree about the vibrant color in the last season episodes. They put a lot of color in the sets too and it...

I watched the 'Kappa Sigma Party' today. The running time is a smidgen under 26m but compared to a 29m print there's nothing missing except commercials. It's always been a sentimental favorite of mine because after I saw it as a kid I never forgot Ozzie's 'point of weakness' football tactic. In...

Correct, it is 'Travelin' Man'. I watched some of the extras last night. The one with Sam Nelson on restoring was not what I expected. I thought there would be an explanation of the techniques used, how the video was cleaned up, maybe with a split screen. The seven minutes were basically about...

Let's just say I got several things wrong in that comment and leave it at that. ;)

Again on the timings, Dave Loses His Poise doesn't include the opening Mounds commercial, but David Gets a Raise does include the opening Coke commercial (with Anita Bryant and the Brothers Four). I found the first technical issue in David Loses His Poise. The sound is overly filtered or...

Skimming thru the sets to check out the timings, one stuck out: 'Road Race' comes in at only 25:43. I checked to see if there was a song at the end that might have been cut for copyright reasons, but the song was there. So I dug out a dim, fuzzy copy that clocked in at 29:23 and started running...

The 'book' ia really a booklet - 36 pages counting the covers. Each episode has several declarations at the end: • Dubbing and restoration (c) 2020 • Music (c) 2020 (I'm not a copyright lawyer but it seems to me that horse has already left the barn) • All characters trademarked. Sam...

Yes I just checked and the screen grab is from 'The Campers'.

As for commercials, the couple of episodes I watched had show opens and endings where there were ads, often but not always with the cast, but didn't have any commercials between the acts. The first batch I looked at timed at 27-28m each.

My error. I've been working lately on a lot of video files, many at 24fps, and I forgot (if I ever knew!) that DVDs don't support it. My apologies and thanks for setting me straight.

An example of some film deterioration (apparently) in a first season episode closing credits (the opens and ending complete with original sponsor plugs were included). First disc has episodes mastered at 30fps; I would've expected 24fps but as Art Fleming would say on Hollywood Squares, maybe it...

The image from the show is just a quick screen grab. Don't take it as representative of framing etc as I just grabbed a square on the screen and there was a little more around the edges than you see here.

I ordered it without blinking an eye. For a fan of America's Favorite Family this is like finding nuggets of gold with the hope that they might lead to the mother lode. But my intuition tells me that there may be some (many?) episodes that were not restorable, and that's why some key episodes...

In his autobiography Ozzie says Don had requested to leave the show to devote full time to movies. I remember reading something where Don said that Ozzie never talked to him about staying on. The truth may be somewhere in the middle...or something else entirely. After DeFore left the show there...

There are quite a few floating around on the Internet Archive and youtube. Quality varies greatly; flaws may include a fractured flickers type jerky motion that suggests dropped frames; stretched out to wrong aspect ratio, overly dark or light, etc. But there are also titles that are quite...

Every time I read about the cleverness of someone on tv 'breaking the fifth wall' I'm reminded of how Ozzie Nelson was doing it in the 1950s. Oz, who created a filmed sequence to go along with Rick's 'Travelin' Man', has also been credited with pioneering the concept of the music video (though...