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# 123 <5.25> Dangerous Ground
 
 
(revised 12/04/2023)
 
 


 
 
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Different camera angles: The recap for the previous episode shows a close-up of Peter during his wedding with Angela; this camera angle is missing in the scene in # 122 (see there).

 
Lance has a new bedroom in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion: It is the first new interior set without using the previous wall elements (compare # 099). His bed, however, is still the same.
 

LORENZO's tattoos are covered with make-up again; but the camouflage is too dark. Compare # 047 for this problem in general.

 
Mistake: When Greg confronts Lance at the front door in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion foyer about having slept with Jordan, Lance is looking downward apologetically in the shot from the side. In the very next frame after the cut (filmed from behind Greg), Lance is looking at him before starting to look down. It seems some movement on Lance's part between these frames got lost in the editing process.
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.
 
Real-life allusions: Maggie mentions the writers JAMES JOYCE (1882 – 1941) and F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896 – 1940).
 
Early script drafts suggested an act 1 scene in the Gioberti House kitchen in which Terry apologizes to Maggie for her proposal that Cole seduce Melissa to secure the Agretti crop (deleted scene in # 121). Towards the end of the scene, Chase appears and overhears Terry saying that Richard somehow rescued Tuscany Downs from bankruptcy. This idea was omitted.
 
Uncredited extra SHARRI ZAK appears as the gray-haired Tuscany Valley socialite again; this time with open hair as a patron at the Tuscany Downs Turf Club.
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 DOUGLAS MAIDA appears as Dave in this episode again — as usual, as a Tuscany Downs Turf Club waiter.
Compare # 224 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series.
For details about the extra, compare # 034.

 

Uncredited extra LARRY HUMBURGER appears again; first, as a patron at the Tuscany Downs Turf Club in this episode. See below for two more appearances in this episode.
Compare # 227 for a list of appearances throughout the series.
For details about the extra, compare # 078.

 
Mistake: In the restaurant scene with Richard, Julia holds the fork in her left hand and the knife in her right hand in the wide angle shot. In the subsequent close-up from the left behind her, however, she holds the fork in her right hand only.
This is a mistake caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details.
 
The red Chippendale chairs at the restaurant in the Tuscany Valley where Richard is having lunch with Julia are the same props that were used to furnish both the Tuscany Valley restaurant where Richard saw Lance and Lorraine in # 093 and an area of Cyrano's in # 097 (compare there). They were also used to dress the San Francisco restaurant where Peter proposed to Angela in # 102 (also compare there).
 
After his earlier appearance at the Tuscany Downs Turf Club in this episode (see above), uncredited extra LARRY HUMBURGER appears a second time in this episode; now as a patron at the Tuscany Valley restaurant where Richard and Julia are having lunch. For a third appearance in this episode, see below.
Compare # 227 for a list of appearances throughout the series.
For details about the extra, compare # 078.
 
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, appears in the restaurant where Richard and Julia are having lunch this episode.
Compare # 187 for a list of appearances throughout the series.
For details about the extra, compare # 063.
 
The Chinese first name Li-Ying means "beautiful gemstone necklace".
 
Mistake in Li-Ying's arrival scene in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion: When Chao-Li and Li-Ying move through the foyer, JANE WYMAN's legs and her black skirt are visible between the balusters of the staircase landing (arrow on screen grab 1). Both she and CESAR ROMERO were obviously awaiting their cue to come down the steps, and the camera caught them waiting. From the moment captured in screen grab 1, it takes a little over seven seconds before they actually start walking down the stairs as pictured in screen grabs 2 and 3.
 
At age 9, Jordan stayed at the Plaza Hotel in New York with her parents — a real hotel.
 
Real-life allusion: Jeff Wainwright is a Harvard University graduate.
 
In Maggie's book, "Sudden Friendship", the character Chad Armanino is modeled after Chase Gioberti. Armanino was the last name the writing staff originally intended to use for Francesca's grandmother (compare # 076).
 
Agretti Residence interior set: A newly designed den is used for the first time — with pinkish walls instead of the overall wooden decoration (compare the screen captures from # 125). The upper parts of the frames of both the shelves and the doors are no longer formed in a typical Tudor style décor, but just have a straight frame now.
LORIMAR's original blueprints of the den set and many other sets are available for DFCF members in the Show – Production Office – Filming Locations – Movie Studios – Interior Sets section.
 

Product placement: An issue of the Vogue magazine (among others) is on the table in Melissa's den.

 
In the newsly renovated den at the Agretti Residence, there are twomatching armchairs in colorful pastel tones now (screen capture 2). One of them was already used as a prop in Maggie's hotel suite in Chicago in # 121 (screen grab 1 — on the left of the frame, partly out of the camera angle).
 
"Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice", the CANALETTO painting, which was on an easel in Paolo Bellini's house in # 119 (compare there for details), is now on the wall next to the door in Melissa's den. It is the very same prop as in # 119, even the frame is the same.
 
Real-life allusion: Peter mentions NAPOLEON.
 
Li-Ying refers to the heavy earthquakes in China in 1975 and '76. At least in 1976, there was a heavy tremor there, indeed.
 

PETER PAUL EASTMAN (uncredited extra) plays the maître d' at the Tuscany Valley restaurant where Richard and Terry have dinner in this episode.
Compare # 221 for a list of appearances throughout the series.
For details about the extra, compare # 021.

 
Uncredited extra ROBERTA STORM appears in this episode again as Mrs. Winslow — as a patron at the same restaurant where Richard and Terry are dining.
Compare # 219 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series.
For details about the extra, compare # 035.
 
After his two earlier appearances in this episode (see above), uncredited extra LARRY HUMBURGER appears a third time in this episode; now as a patron at the Tuscany Valley restaurant where Richard and Terry are having dinner.
Compare # 227 for a list of appearances throughout the series.
For details about the extra, compare # 078.
 
The restaurant where Richard and Terry are having dinner, by the way, is the same filming location in Pasadena, CA that was used for the earlier restaurant scene with Richard and Julia in this epsisode. The room was just filmed from across. The show seems to suggest these are two different dining rooms (with different chairs) in the same Tuscany Valley restaurant.
 
The filming location for the real estate offer (Emma and Dwayne are looking at a Tuscany Valley home in an elegant neighborhood) is a Spanish style mansion in Pasadena, CA.
 
Emma's assets have a total value of at least $ 30 million because Emma says she could afford ten houses at $ 3 million each.
 
Louella, the real estate agent, drives a burgundy Jaguar XJ (Series III).
The same picture was previously used in # 078. For a complete list of episodes compare there.
For LORIMAR's further use of this picture car, check out the Beyond the Show – Props – Picture Cars section.
 
JERRY HOFFMAN, the actor who plays Frank, the gun salesman this episode, also portrayed the Tuscany Valley County Deputy serving Lance the divorce papers in season 3.
 
Early script drafts suggested an act 4 scene in Tuscany Downs: Cole enters the Turf Club where he happens to see Lance. Having a drink together, they are recalling their relationships with Melissa and everything they found annoying about her. They burst out in laughter. When two attractive women enter the Turf Club, Lance wants to get them as dates for him and Cole, who is dragging his feet about new love interests, but the ladies head right towards two other guys, their dates.
 
Mistake: In the scene in the Agretti Residence den, the blueprints for the Agretti Stavros Winery are on the floor in front of Melissa and Eric at the beginning, but suddenly behind them towards the end of the scene although nobody touched the drawings.
This is a mistake caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details.
 
Fictional entity: Maggie finds details about Wainwright's past in the Boston Evening Examiner, a newspaper.
 
Mistake: In the scene with Maggie and Chase in the Gioberti House living room, she holds the Boston Evening Examiner at an angle in front of her when she begins to quote from the paper. But in the subsequent shot filmed from the other direction, her forearm and hand holding the paper are considerably lower.
Again, this is they typical mistake caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details.
 
The name of ALAN BUCHDAHL, who does the voice overs as the Tuscany Downs race track announcer, is misspelled in this episode's end credits (BUCKDAHL); compare the correct spelling from previous episodes.
 
 

 
 
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