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# 118 <5.20> Flesh and Blood   Post-production mistake: The character names of some cast members are printed in capital letters in the opening credits. This is the case with EDWARD ALBERT and JOHN CALLAHAN in this episode as it will be for the rest of the season; it will also be the case with ABBY DALTON in # 122, 123 and 125 through 127. The other cast members' character names, however, are and will be listed in the usual combination of one capital letter and small letters (compare CESAR ROMERO's credit, for instance), just as they have always been since the beginning of this season.
RONALD REAGAN, Jr. is said to have been chosen as the actor to play Eric Stavros. Rumor has it that this was JANE WYMAN's suggestion. But NANCY REAGAN is said to have had second thoughts about her husband's ex-wife and to have prevented her son from accepting the part. So the rôle went to JOHN CALLAHAN.
Season time frame: It is winter as the characters' wardrobe indicates. Particularly striking are Sofia's fur hat and Eric's coat.
The actual scene inside the limo was filmed on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles near the Sheraton Town House Hotel, the camera facing west on Wilshire while the limo is moving in eastern direction.
Deleted scene: Towards the end of act 2, Chase is in his office with Riley and discusses the possibility of obtaining a restraining order against the sale of his stolen wine bottles. Riley says it might take a few days as the majority of Tuscany judges are on a legal convention in San Diego. This scene was removed in post-production.
  Mistake: During Angela and Peter's lunch, Angela's right hand is in different positions in subsequent frames filmed from different angles. This is a mistake caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details. Uncredited extra KEVIN G. TRACEY appears as the thick-eyebrowed Tuscany Valley gentleman again — first as a patron at the Tuscany Downs Turf Club. 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.
Product placement: Jeff Wainwright mentions The Times, the newspaper.   The filming location for the New York City hotel (suite and restaurant) where Maggie is staying during her promotional tour for her novel is a room in the Sheraton Town House Hotel in Los Angeles. That location had already been used for different purposes in # 061 and 062 (compare there). Uncredited extra SHARRI ZAK appears as the gray-haired Tuscany Valley socialite with the pony tail again; this episode as a patron at the same restaurant where Maggie and Jeff are dining. What a coincidence that she just traveled to New York at the same time — or maybe negligent casting of extras.Compare # 202 for biographical details about this rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 009.
 Uncredited extra KEVIN G. TRACEY's second appearance in this episode as the thick-eyebrowed Tuscany Valley gentleman is as a patron at the nightclub in San Francisco. 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.  DAVID GUST, the tall, black-haired and mustached uncredited extra, who is best known for his rôle as an assistant district attorney (# 091, 092 and 154), but who also plays different characters in the series, is a patron at the San Francisco nightclub where Terry confronts Jordan in this episode.Compare # 187 for a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 063. Early script drafts contained a night segment in act 3, immediately before the aforementioned nightclub scene, in which Terry is observing Jordan's apartment building. First, she sees Greg leave, then she follows Jordan to the nightclub. The scene was scheduled to be filmed in front of the Sheraton Town House Hotel in L.A., standing in for The Comstock on Nob Hill. The scene was omitted, however, in the final rewrite just before shooting. The script did not contain the more "violent" parts of Richard and Terry's coming together in hot passion. It only suggested for their foreplay that Richard grab her wrists and, after she managed to break free, he take her by the neck, pulling her to him in a kiss after which they move to the bed and unbotton each other's clothes. DAVID SELBY and LAURA JOHNSON did some great improvisation in this scene though: Richard forcefully grabs Terry, lifting her up over his shoulders, carrying her to the couch and dropping her where they hungrily kiss as she rips his shirt open, tearing off all the buttons. It made their first sex scene much more hilarious. The piano piece Eric plays in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion living room is the beginning of FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN's (1810 – 1849) étude Op. 10 No. 3, "Tristesse". JOHN CALLAHAN only creates the illusion that he plays the grand piano. The piece was actually added to the scene from a professional recording during the music editing process.   The stolen shipment of Gioberti Winery Chardonnay Reserve was relabeled JS Chardonnay Reserve by Sloan Wine & Spirits.Sloan Wine & Spirits is apparently the same company as Jack Sloan's company Lance had problems with in # 008. The Sloans, however, are portrayed by different actors; in # 008, Jack Sloan by JAMES SLOYAN; in # 118, Sloan (no first name mentioned) by ROGER HAMPTON. As a guy named Judd Sloan will be mentioned in # 121, it seems logical that this is the character from the current episode — apparently another member of the Sloan family.
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