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# 033 <2.15> Broken Promises
 While the hillside road from which Vickie and Nick overlook the valley in the preceding episode was filmed on the road to the lagoon area on the backlot of THE BURBANK STUDIOS (nowadays WARNER BROS. STUDIOS), the continuation of that scene with Vickie and Nick making out in his car, is from a spot near the small pond on the backlot. Said pond initially sprung off from the studio's lagoon to the north; it was filled up in 1995 though. Post-production mistake: An exterior night view of The Comstock, a luxurious apartment high-rise at the southwest corner of Jones and Washington Street on Nob Hill in San Francisco, is used to establish Phillip's apartment. According to # 031 (see there) and following episodes, however, Phillip's apartment is located in the Royal Towers condominium high-rise in San Francisco. The editors accidentally inserted a wrong clip here.  Mistake: When Phillip turns on the stereo in his apartment, the bottle of sherry next to it is turned so the label cannot be read clearly. In the subsequent far shot, the label is now full facing towards the camera.In the usual process of making a movie or a TV show, scenes are shot at least twice — as a wide angle shot and in close-up, which bears the risk of inconsistencies. Compare # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for the advantages and disadvantages of this shooting procedure.  The filming location for the road to the Gioberti Estate is Lima Street on the backlot of THE BURBANK STUDIOS (WARNER BROS. STUDIOS), filmed in northern direction when the police cars and, shortly after, Nick and Vickie turn into the driveway.It is the same location that was featured during Phillip's nightly car ride in # 030. It will be used as Hilltop Road from season 3 on. The driveway to the front gate and one of the gate pillars (yellow arrow) to Richard's future home in season 3 — 2055 Hilltop Road — are used as the driveway to the Gioberti Estate in the current episode. Compare # 049 for more details about this prop gate, which had originally been built for "Hart to Hart" just for the 1982-83 TV season.
 The curly haired blonde played by uncredited extra BETTY JEANNE GLENNIE is at the Tuscany Valley Memorial Hospital in a nurse's outfit in this episode. She obviously works there.Compare # 175 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 015.
Richard starts working at 7:00 AM. Cole's room at the Tuscany Valley Memorial Hospital is number 201. Mysterious: Would it not have been inevitable to discover an injury on Cole's head, proving that he was hit unconscious in the garage?! — The sheriff and the doctors do not seem to take their jobs too seriously. Early script drafts contained some valuable information about the head injury: Dr. Shields misinterprets the blow as an injury Cole sustained when falling to the ground as he succumbed to the fumes. It remains a mystery why this line was dropped during rewrites.  Uncredited extra KEVIN G. TRACEY appears as the thick-eyebrowed Tuscany Valley gentleman again — this time at the Tuscany Valley Memorial Hospital. For his second appearance in this episode, see below.Compare # 185 for a list of all his appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 001.
 Uncredited extra KEVIN G. TRACEY appears as the thick-eyebrowed Tuscany Valley gentleman again — now in front of the Tuscany Valley Memorial Hospital. For his earlier appearance in this episode, see above.Compare # 185 for a list of all his appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 001.
 Mistake: In the scene with Richard and Chase in Chase's Tuscany County Building office, Chase opens the upper drawer of a gray filing cabinet. In Richard's close-up, however, the drawer is closed and Chase is nowhere to be seen. In the subsequent frame filmed from across, however, the filing cabinet is open again, and Chase finally shuts the drawer.Again, this is the typical mistake caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details. Early script drafts contained Apollo in the scene in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion living room before dinner. The animal was dropped in rewrites though. Early script drafts contained a scene in late act 4 in Nick and Sheila's home, in which he hopes that her rekindled affection is heartfelt and not as manipulative as usual. They have their first romantic encounter in months. This scene was omitted.
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