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# 176 <7.21> False Faces Crew background: This episode is written by REBECCA POGROW, executive producer JEFF FREILICH's assistant, and SUSAN ESTABROOK, the writers' assistant. Story editor LISA SEIDMAN supervises their first writing assignment for the series.   The recap for the previous episode shows a close-up of Kathryn during the same line of dialog she spoke in a long shot in the scene with Lance in # 175 — it is from one of the other takes of the same scene. In the recap for the previous episode, Kathryn tells Rosemont she will lead Lance around in so many circles he will be too dizzy to discover the truth. This piece of dialog is missing in the cliffhanger of # 175. The scene filmed for the previous episode used to be longer, but had to be shortened to match the usual one-hour program schedule (including commercials); the "superfluous" footage was used for the recap.
The act 1 scene with Angela and Lance in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion sun room was slightly different in early script drafts: They are having tea in the study. Towards the end of the scene, Carly enters and tells Lance she saved him some birthday cake in the fridge; she also nudges him, saying she is still on ice. When Lance ironically asks Angela if she cannot teach Carly a hobby, Carly dryly replies she should take up deer hunting. The part with Carly was omitted in rewrites.  Uncredited extra ROBERT HITCHCOCK appears in this episode again. This time, he portrays the CEO of the movie studio Richard just purchased. It is the only time he does not portray Mr. Winslow from the Tuscany Valley.Compare # 193 for biographical details about ROBERT HITCHCOCK's primary minor rôle as Winslow and for a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 032. In early script drafts, Rosemont did not play with the model railroad in Richard's New Globe office, but fingered the glass of an aquarium, tapping in it to excite the baby shark in the fish tank. This idea was dropped in rewrites.  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, plays one of the workers at Maggie and Richard's ranch house this episode. Not a wise decision to choose this extra because of his usual appearances as a Tuscany County A.D.A., particularly because he will also be seen at The Max later in this episode (see below).Compare # 187 for a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 063.
Early script drafts contained at scene towards the end of act 1, which was a continuation of Lance and Kathryn's meeting at The Max: They are standing at the door to her Del Oro suite and almost kiss before they say goodbye. When Kathryn enters, she finds Rosemont in her room. Only the final part made it to the final version of the episode. The way the scene is presented also suggests it takes place in Kathryn's apartment and not in her hotel room.
 When Rosemont waits for Kathryn Anderson at night, her apartment is filmed in the multi-purpose Del Oro suite set — with not much of a redress compared to the current decoration as Frank's suite (compare screen captures 1 and 2): Even the picture (details below) and the drapes are the same. For the current scene, only the sideboard from Frank's suite was replaced by a small table with a bouquet of flowers and chairs in the set.The colorful abstract with antelopes hanging in Kathryn Anderson's apartment is the same prop that was previously used in Cassandra Wilder's office at Wilder Advertising in seasons 4 and 5 and across from the door to Kit's suite in the hallway at the Del Oro in season 6 (compare # 132). Considering the above information about the reuse of the interior set, it was also in Frank's Del Oro suite (compare # 174). For LORIMAR's further use of this picture, check out the Beyond the Show – Props – Set Dressing – Decoration section.
Fictional entity: When Lance and Kathryn are at the airport, a sign of ConWest airline (known from # 119 and 173) is featured again.   The interior set portraying the waiting area at San Francisco International Airport is identical with the one used as the hallways in the Justice Department and the San Francisco Metropolitan Hospital in the previous episode — with only minor redecoration to minimize production costs.  Mistake: When the security guard at San Francisco International Airport chases Westcott, he is running past three atmosphere persons in particular, including a gray-haired man with glasses, who is on the far right in screen grab 1. In the subsequent frame, Kathryn and Lance's reaction shot, the same gray-haired extra is now standing next to them although it is impossible for him to have moved there within a fraction of a second.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.  Uncredited extra DOUGLAS MAIDA appears as Dave in this episode again — first, at San Francisco International Airport. For further appearances in this episode, see below.Compare # 224 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 034.
 The transportation department of the CBS-MTM STUDIOS (now RADFORD STUDIO CENTER) warehouse / sound stage used as Chase and Tony's additional winery space (compare # 144) is now used as Cresant Trucking.LORIMAR's original map of this part of the studio lot is available for DFCF members in the Show – Production Office – Filming Locations – Movie Studios – Exterior Sets section. Inside joke: The name of Rocky Cresant, the owner of the transportation company, is a portmanteau of the names of BILL CRESANT, the show's transportation coordinator, and ROCKY REED, the CBS set truck driver. The original script drafts suggested the name Jay J. Swisher for the rôle.
  The establishing shot of the Card Club Casino is stock footage from a film library; the original production for which this clip was filmed has not been discovered yet. The establishing shot shows the sign of the Commerce Casino in Commerce, CA in Greater Los Angeles. The differences in the lettering are due to a name change of the casino.
 Uncredited extra ROBIN BLAKE participates again as the middle-aged blonde Tuscany Valley socialite — first, playing poker at Nellie Maxwell's table at the Card Club Casino. For another appearance, see below.Compare # 222 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 015.  Uncredited extra SHIRLEY ANTHONY appears as Dr. Lee Walkling again — first, as a patron at the Card Club Casino. For her second appearance in this episode, see below.Compare # 207 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 016.  After his first appearance in this episode (see above), uncredited extra DOUGLAS MAIDA participates as Dave again — now as a patron at the Card Club Casino. For the background player's third appearance in this episode, see below.Compare # 224 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 034. In early script drafts, Maggie calls Alison's number right before she tries to call Vickie's hotel in Europe. But she only reaches Alison's answering machine. After the call to the European hotel, the housekeeper enters the sitting area of the ranch bedroom and, while Maggie is near the window, picks up the brandy glass and sniffs it. The housekeeper moves off hurriedly as she is discovered by Maggie, who, in turn, fights off panic and the desire for another drink. These parts were omitted. Richard mentions AGATHA CHRISTIE and her crime novel "Murder on the Orient Express".  This season's usual bedroom set of the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion is redressed to portray Dr. Everdene's practice. Dressed slightly differently, it was used as judge Ambrose's chambers in the previous episode and as Vickie and Eric's hotel room in Switzerland in # 174.LORIMAR's original blueprints of this set and many others are available for DFCF members in the Show – Production Office – Filming Locations – Movie Studios – Interior Sets section. Early script drafts staged this scene at a park in San Francisco. This was changed shortly before the filming.  "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) and which was later in Melissa's den at the Agretti Residence (compare # 123), hangs now on the wall in Dr. Everdene's office. It is the very same prop as before, even the frame is the same.Angela still drives her light beige Mercedes-Benz 380 SL. This is the last time JANE WYMAN drives a car herself on the show. It has a different license plate number now: 2CSI908 — the same number Eric's gray Chevrolet Corvette C4 had at the beginning of this season; and the same number Chase's red Porsche 928 S4 had last season. The prop policy about the license plates is just disastrous.   Mistake: When Angela reaches out her hand for Dan, his right hand is on his baseball bat first. But after the cut, his right hand is on his hip.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 an act 2 scene in which Angela, after being informed by Carly about Dan's return and his plans to purchase Cresant Trucking, calls Max Correy from a bank's loan department. She lies that Dan still has not made one single payment for the cabin she sold him to get him a negative credit report. This idea was dropped during script revisions.  The establishing shot for Zanadew Lounge, the Colonial hotel in North Africa, is stock footage. It originated on LOUIS MALLE's 1985 movie "Alamo Bay" (produced by TRISTAR PICTURES, which is nowadays owned by SONY PICTURES STUDIOS). The structure was an exterior set specifically built for the movie somewhere near Rockport, TX where the movie was filmed. The neon sign with the name Zanadew Lounge was specifically designed for the movie and is visible in the stock shot.
Product placement: Angela mentions Disneyland.
 After her earlier appearance in this episode (see above), uncredited extra SHIRLEY ANTHONY portrays Dr. Lee Walkling again — now in the Del Oro lobby.Compare # 207 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 016.  After her earlier appearance in this episode (see above), uncredited extra ROBIN BLAKE participates again as the middle-aged blonde Tuscany Valley socialite — now as a patron in the Del Oro lobby.Compare # 222 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 015.
 After his two earlier appearances in this episode (see above), uncredited extra DOUGLAS MAIDA participates as Dave again — now, as usual, as a bellboy at the Del Oro again.Compare # 224 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 034. In early script drafts, the scene with Dan and Melissa contained a dialog about Norm Allen at Tuscany National having declined his loan application. Omitting this line during rewrites also totally eliminated this previously unknown bank from the series. The writer's draft of the script suggested that Mrs. Miller (who was to be working at Maggie and Richard's ranch now; compare # 175), in the scene giving her notice, be very blunt and critical of Maggie's relationship with Richard and her drinking alcohol ("You haven't been the same since Mr. Gioberti died!"). As LESLEY WOODS was unavailable, the writers had already created a new character, Mrs. Raynor, for the previous episode (compare # 175). Unfortunately, they could not add the allusions to Maggie's past with Chase that way. The scene at the park with Maggie and Angela (details in the following paragraph) was originally staged at Maggie and Richard's ranch in early script drafts: Angela appears at the door of the main house just when Mrs. Raynor leaves the property with her suitcase. Angela gives Maggie the stuffed tiger she wanted to buy Michael at The Toy Shoppe in # 175. The basics of this segment with slight dialog adaptions were moved to the park scene.   The small park area known from # 135 (see there) and other episodes, which is located near office building 5 (behind Maggie; also compare # 091, 094, 160 and 174) on the backlot of CBS-MTM STUDIOS (now RADFORD STUDIO CENTER), is used again as a Tuscany Valley park (Maggie, Michael and Kevin meet Angela). Bungalow 8 can also be seen again (compare # 143 and 149).LORIMAR's original blueprints of this set and many others are available for DFCF members in the Show – Production Office – Filming Locations – Movie Studios – Exterior Sets section.
  Mistake: In the scene with Angela and Maggie at the park, their hands are in different positions at the fence in subsequent frames — depending on the direction from where they are filmed.Once 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.  A paper clip is exactly on the page that deals with Hobart in Professor McCloud's book. The prop masters included it to make it easier for LEN LESSER to find the right page quickly. But this preparation should not have been visible in the final version after the editing process.Historic background: Professor McCloud mentions the big 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. Early script drafts demanded a prop sign with the professor's full name: Wally S. McCloud. This idea was changed during rewrites.
Early script drafts contained an act 3 scene in which Angela gives orders to a worker at the Gioberti Winery how to replace the old Gioberti logo with the Falcon Crest coat of arms on the wall. When the laborer begins to do his work, Carly appears to let Angela know about her research with Professor McCloud. In this conversation, Carly disdainfully refers to Melissa as Medusa. Towards the end of the segment, the newly hung sign falls to the floor — to Angela's dismay. This scene was omitted in rewrites. In the scene with Maggie and Alison at the ranch, the forged telegram (allegedly from Vickie) is not presented in a close-up. Fortunately! Because the prop department was negligent since they put the following address on it: Mrs. Maggie Channing, 7733 Saddleback Road, Tuscany Valley, CA 74281. Whereas the street is a nice allusion to the filming location (Saddlerock Ranch), it is a completely implausible zip code (would have to begin with a "9"); it is the same zip code, which was used for Arliss, OK in # 173.   Different takes in the sneak preview and the scene itself: When Maggie dances with "Tall, Dark and Handsome" at The Max, the sneak preview shows a much tighter close-up (a different take; left screen grab) than the one used in the episode. 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 Max again this episode. For his earlier appearance in a different rôle in this episode, see above.Compare # 187 for a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 063. Early script drafts emphasized Richard's hostility towards Alison at the end of the scene at The Max with a threat: "If you ever come near my house or my wife again, you will be a very sorry woman." Garth was supposed to remain a few beats, staring her down to accentuate the threat. This kind of brutality was softened in the final shooting script. In early script drafts, act 4 opened on Maggie, with a hangover from the night at The Max, in the ranch bedroom the next morning: She is lying in bed, a wet cloth covering her forehead, when Garth reminds her through the intercom that the applicants for the housekeeper's position have been waiting for half an hour. This scene was omitted in rewrites. The job interviews with the potential housekeepers at the ranch were staged in the Chinese room in the earliest script draft — a room adjacent to the living room at Saddlerock Ranch, leading to the terrace (southwest). This room was only used once for filming — as a room in Fred's psychiatrist's practice in New York (see # 183), but only from an angle that did not give away any of the Chinese-style décor. The revised final draft of the script relocated the scene to the kitchen. During filming, however, it was decided that the terrace would be the best location. Early script drafts contained an act 4 scene in the ranch kitchen in which Richard offers Nellie additional $ 500 a month for keeping an eye on Maggie and her confidenitality. During the filming, this scene was replaced with the segment in which Garth tells Richard about Nellie's connection to Angela. Edited scene: The scene in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion living room with Angela confiding in Father Bob about her fear that a custody suit about Michael might hurt the little boy was initially longer. It started on Angela telling the priest that she only wanted two things in life, to grow beautiful grapes and raise a beautiful family, and sharing her insecurity if she had been a bad mother or could have done anything different. Father Bob actually does not reply, but tactically gives all her questions back to her, underlining the fact that she has a conscience and actually knows all the answers herself. These early sentences were removed in post-production to stay within the one-hour program schedule. Early script drafts contained an act 4 scene in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion dining room in which Carly confronts Angela because she fixed it so Dan could not get a loan (see above for other changes concerning this storyline). But they both agree to remain friends in the end despite this conflict. This scene was omitted in rewrites. Maggie says she sometimes feels like "The Prisoner of Zenda" — just like the 1937 movie title. Inconsistency: The front license plate number of Melissa's white Porsche 911 SC Targa is 2GNI570 in the scene in Hobart only. A few scenes later, the license plate number is 2CQI406 as it was in the previous scenes. It is the same number that used to be on Melissa's previous Chevrolet Corvette C4 Convertible in season 6.  The bend of the small road used as the location where Dan meets Red's staff in this episode (and in # 180) is the heavily filmed bend behind stage 4 on the backlot of CBS-MTM STUDIOS (now RADFORD STUDIO CENTER). It was also seen in # 073, 084, 089, 113, 121, 135, 137, 148, 172 and 174 (see there) and will also be used in # 191, 192, 196, 207 and 213.  Mistake: In the scene with Melissa and Dan on the private road to Red's property, the close-ups are from different takes that were combined in the editing process. This becomes apparent because Melissa holds Dan's hand in one moment, but does not have her hand anywhere near his in the subsequent frame filmed from across. This mistake happens several times during the scene. Only two examples are pictured here.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.
 The exterior shots of North Africa towards the end of the episode — Lance and Kathryn's conversation with the general and the soldiers' graves — are from the jungle near the lagoon at CBS-MTM STUDIOS (RADFORD STUDIO CENTER).Remick's faked grave at the soldiers' cemetery in North Africa is number 4949. Early script drafts had Lance find a small metal box in the otherwise empty casket in Remick's alleged grave: It contains a single piece of paper saying "Contact... Estabrook... New Globe... there lies John Remick." — This idea was dropped in rewrites. It was changed to the note Lance will find in his passport in the following episode.  Real-life allusion: Richard goes to an Al-Anon meeting, a family group of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) because of Maggie's drinking problem.The interior set of the Al-Anon meeting hall is the redressed set that was used earlier this episode as the Card Club Casino. See above for more details. Original draft of this episode's finale: In one of the final scenes, the writers had Maggie receive an anonymous letter saying nothing more than "I am alive". They wanted to leave unanswered if the message was from John Remick or Chase. The cliffhanger was originally supposed to be a scene with Maggie and Alison in downtown Tuscany: While window shopping, Maggie sees a person in the distance (out of sight for the audience) and says she believes she just saw Chase. These ideas, however, did not make it to the screen. The creative forces decided to postpone these plans. JEFF FREILICH explained his concept for season 8 in an exclusive 2007 DFCF interview. Season time frame: This episode opens Sunday, 03/06/1988 and closes Thursday, 03/10/1988. Compare # 173 and 178 for details on how to find out these dates. ← Previous episode... → Next episode... |
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