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# 034 <2.16> Deliberate Disclosure Tentative title: Deliberate Disclosures.   Mistake in the aerial view of the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion: The opening shot of the episode shows the front door closed (yellow arrow) while the subsequent interior scene features Lance entering through the front door with the newspaper. He would have to have been visible in the exterior shot. Post-production used an inconsistent establishing shot. The downtown Tuscany park where Vickie sees Nick is a pocket park at the intersection of Bundy Drive, West Ohio Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA.Original script drafts staged the scene with Vickie and Nick at the Tuscany park (with their discussion about wholesome food, etc.) in a health food store named To Your Health on Main Street in Tuscany. For the scene, LORIMAR had rented a real health food store named Full of Life, which was located at 2151 Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank, CA at the time. The segment was scheduled to shoot in the early morning of Dec 6, 1982, but JAMIE ROSE was 90 minutes late, forcing the company to the next filming location (the place portraying Château du Monde; see below) in order not to lose more time. The crew managed to squeeze in JAMIE's segment with Vickie and Nick as a revamped "walking and talking" scene at the park on short notice after filming said restaurant scene at Château du Monde. Further details about JAMIE's delay are addressed in an exclusive DFCF interview with production intern JOHN CHIP CORBIN.  Uncredited extra DAN COTTER appears in this episode again as the white-haired mustached San Francisco Metropolitan Hospital doctor — this time as a patient himself at the Tuscany Valley Memorial Hospital.Compare # 140 for a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 016. Fat Joe's (Fat Jacks in early script drafts) is a burger restaurant in Tuscany. Vickie and Nick think about having lunch there.   Two well known cars are visible on the street in the background of the park: the black / beige Buick LeSabre (screen capture 1; check # 013 for details) and, a few moments later, the light yellow Ford Pinto Runabout (screen grab 2; check # 001 for details).  This episode marks the first appearance of uncredited extra DOUGLAS MAIDA. He is an American background actor (and later a casting director among his many other skills and jobs), who has participated in countless TV series and movies since the 1970's. He particularly often appeared on "The Love Boat" and "Dallas", just to name a few of his regular series. With a total of 66 episodes (in which he is visible in the final cut), DOUG outnumbered any other "regular" extra on "Falcon Crest". He shared lots of background information about his work in an exclusive DFCF interview in 2022.In this episode, he is introduced in the scene when Vickie and Nick meet at a park in the Tuscany Valley. For another appearance in this episode, see below. He plays Dave (name revealed in # 206) and will appear in that rôle in many episodes all through the series. Compare # 224 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. Post-production mistake: As in # 031, old stock footage of the (New) Globe executive building with the old Globe sign is reused again.   Mistake: In the scene with Richard in his New Globe office, the position of his hand is different in subsequent frames.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. Fictional entity: American Independent Pictures (United American Studios in early script drafts) bought the motion picture rights to Maggie's screenplay for $ 100,000. Early script drafts included a scene in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion living room from where Lance would hear an unfamiliar female voice reciting a nursery rhyme. Entering, he finds Melissa deeply engrossed in doing her nails while a woman's voice in hypnotic tones from a tape in a cassette recorder fills the room with an old nursery rhyme and Joseph falls asleep in his crib. Melissa then complains about being disturbed in her manicure. The scene was rewritten several times. Revised script drafts staged the scene with Melissa in the Falcon Crest Gardens — without Lance, but with a nurse, who is visibly disgusted at Melissa's playing the recorded rhyme to the baby. Cole, standing by his Jeep, is watching with binoculars from afar. He is surprised by Chase, who arrives in his truck, and tries to cover what he is doing, but Chase sees through him, and Chase's face is reflecting grave concern. The scene was filmed in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, but deleted in post-production because the producers felt that it was not Melissa's nature to neglect her child.  Uncredited stand-in GORDON HODGINS appears as an extra again — this time in his usual rôle as a Tuscany Valley gentleman in front of the Tuscany County Building.Compare # 182 for a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about GORDON HODGINS, compare # 001.  The curly haired blonde played by uncredited extra BETTY JEANNE GLENNIE passes by the front of the Tuscany County Building in this episode.Continuity oddity: During the scene, she passes by the Tuscany County Building various times in both directions, just as some of the other extras do in this scene. Compare # 175 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 015.
Real-life allusion: Angela wanted to see "Tosca", the opera by GIACOMO PUCCINI, with Phillip.
  Editing mistake and set inconsistency: When Melissa arrives in front of the Gioberti House, she looks up to Chase standing on the veranda as if he were on top of a two-story building. It is usually easy for people sitting in a car on the driveway to see what is going on on the veranda from that position. This is caused by the split filming technique and the editors' combination of the clips of Chase from the sound stage (veranda replica) and the ones of Melissa from the studio backlot. The filming location for the café on Main Street in Tuscany where Maggie meets the producing staff of her film is what used to be the former cabaret-style La Strada Restaurant at the corner of Los Feliz Boulevard and Boyce Avenue in Atwater Village in Los Angeles. The interiors of the building have been remodeled a few times since filming.The location manager originally planned to film the scene inside the Alpine Haus Restaurant in San Fernando, CA whose exteriors were used as O'Brien's in Tuscany in # 032. There is no information available at this time why the location was changed. Among the patrons at that café is Dr. Fong (played by uncredited extra GEORGE SASAKI; yellow mark). Compare # 222 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 026.  The art director for Maggie's movie is called George Sims (unit production manager George Poole in early script drafts).Inside jokes: The character is named after MARLEY SIMS, the actress playing producer Rita Clay (art director in early script drafts) in this episode. George Sims is portrayed by SCOTT HAMNER, this episode's writer and son of series creator EARL HAMNER; SCOTT, however, receives no on-screen credit for this rôle. Deleted rôle: Early script drafts suggested a studio head by the name of Howard Lister. His attendance in the meeting with Maggie, Rita, George and Darryl was deleted from the final shooting script. The final part of the scene at the café when Maggie leaves and Rita follows her was originally staged outside the café. While filming, it was changed to an interior scene with Maggie and Rita just descending from the gallery to the first floor. The reason for the change was caused by a delay in the shoot: The owner of the location, La Strada Restaurant, showed up one hour too late to open his business, and LORIMAR's early-morning permit for exterior filming had expired by the time he finally opened the place. Early script drafts played around with a variety of possible motives for Angela to kill Carlo in the scene with Melissa and Chase going through Carlo's personal papers in the Gioberti House. In one of the original drafts, they find an unsigned new will Carlo wrote the day before he died, leaving everything to Melissa, but with the stipulation should she try to sell the Agretti Vineyards to Angela or attach them to Falcon Crest in any manner, the land would automatically revert to the Agretti trust. During rewrites, this was changed a couple of times until the writer came up with the final version that had Chase discover the letter from Angela to Carlo, demanding he be more cooperative as far as uniting the Agretti Vineyards with Falcon Crest was concerned. The scene with Cole asking Steve Barton about his chances to get custody for Joseph was originally staged in front of Barton's law office. LORIMAR had a location agreement to use the exteriors of Tam O'Shanter at 2980 Los Feliz Boulevard in Atwater Village in Los Angeles (just across from the La Strada Restaurant; see above). The scene was scheduled to be shot on Dec 3, 1982 first thing in the morning, but guest star MICHAEL C. GWYNNE did not report for work that day, so the shoot had to be canceled. The scene was filmed on a later day on the sound stage at THE BURBANK STUDIOS (WARNER BROS. STUDIOS).  Richard tells Angela in her Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion study: "Elliot McKay passed away." The scene abruptly cuts to Angela's reply. From Richard's intonation, it sounds as if his sentence was not finished. The shooting script gives away that his line originally ended with the words "last night", which were dropped in the final cut for unknown reasons.The McKay Vineyards are a neighboring estate to Falcon Crest.   The filming location for the Château du Monde restaurant in Tuscany is a former restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica, CA. The place has been remodeled and used for different purposes since.Mistake: During Maggie and Chase's conversation at Château du Monde, the wide angle shot and the close-ups are from various takes that were combined in the editing process. This becomes apparent because Maggie first touches Chase's arm (filmed towards Chase), but it is only his hand that was touched by her in the next frame (filmed towards Maggie). This is a mistake caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details.  After his earlier appearance in this episode (see above), uncredited extra DOUGLAS MAIDA participates as Dave again — now as a patron at Château du Monde in Tuscany.Compare # 224 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. 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