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# 185 <8.02> Farewell My Lovelies The episode title is an allusion to the 1940 novel "Farewell, My Lovely" by American-British writer RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888 – 1959). Richard claims he was outside of Geneva in Switzerland while he and the government destroyed The Thirteen. This, however, is in contrast to the establishing shot of the place where he stayed in the cliffhanger scene of # 183: Schloss Neuschwanstein (Neuschwanstein Castle) in Germany. Or is it for Richard, being American, just a short distance between Geneva and the Castle? This also seems strange due to his educational background in Europe. Maybe he was at the Castle only when Angela visited him whereas he spent all the other time of his absence from the U.S. in Switzerland.
 Fictional entity: Reporter Terri Schooly, who interviews Richard, works for KSFB 3 News, a San Francisco based TV station. KSFB 3 News was first visible at the rescue site after the plane crash in # 069. The logo was also visible on a camera outside the QVH in # 099. A KSFB 3 News crew was also seen at the QVH in # 102 and at the Tuscany Valley Parish Church in # 128.For more details about the KSFB 3 logo, check out the Beyond the Show – Props – Signage section.
Real-life allusion: Angela mentions MARK TWAIN, the popular American writer, to Christopher Harris, the owner of Harris Rare Books, document expert and forger.   Mistake: In the bookstore scene with Angela and Harris, Angela first places the old document on the desk, but still holds it in the following frame filmed from across and finally puts it on the desk again.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 KEVIN G. TRACEY appears as the thick-eyebrowed Tuscany Valley gentleman again — this time in the hallway to the executive office at Channing Enterprises again.# 136, 156, 158, 163, 164, 167 and 171 reveal that the character played by KEVIN TRACEY worked as one of the concierges at the Del Oro Spa & Country Club at that time. In contrast, the extra obviously played other minor rôles in # 060, 101, 128 and 168. The extra was also seen on various occasions in # 001, 015, 016, 017, 026, 030, 032, 033, 038, 044, 053, 061, 065, 066, 072, 074, 075, 076, 088, 091, 092, 104, 116, 118, 121, 122, 132, 133, 138, 140, 141, 144, 145, 153, 170 and 184. For details about the extra, compare # 001.  Uncredited extra SHARRI ZAK appears as the gray-haired Tuscany Valley socialite with the pony tail again; this episode in a business meeting with Richard in his Channing Enterprises office.Compare # 202 for biographical details about this rôle and a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 009.   Different camera angles in the sneak preview and the scene itself: The moment when the conversation between Richard and Peter begins is filmed towards Richard in the sneak preview (left screen grab) whereas it is filmed towards Peter in the scene itself.According to Richard, Eric was taken to a psychiatric sanitarium, the Clinique de Seze, outside Paris / France. Early script drafts contained an act 1 scene in Angela's Del Oro suite with her and Lance looking at a New Globe newspaper featuring the lower left column headline "Richard Channing Alive" with a photo of Richard and the caption "Media magnate suspected of working with covert government operation." The scene continues with Angela asking Lance to join her meeting with Ken Lone about the appeal in the Falcon Crest case and their conversation about a new sprinkler system for Tuscany Hill as well as Angela's request that Lance take her falcon pin with the broken clasp to the jeweler. This scene was omitted.
 Mistake in the scene with Maggie and Vickie on the Channing Ranch terrace: In the long shot as well as in the close-ups filmed towards Maggie, Maggie's glass of iced tea is almost comletely full. In the close-ups filmed from across featuring Vickie, however, Maggie's glass is half empty already.In the usual process of making a movie or a TV show, scenes are shot from different angles (e.g. 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. New stores in downtown Tuscany are seen for the first time. Photography was initially planned on South Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, CA (Greater L.A.), which will later be used for the scenes in front of The Toy Garden in # 191. All of the downtown Tuscany scenes in this episode ended up being filmed on the backlot of CBS-MTM STUDIOS (now RADFORD STUDIO CENTER) near stage 11 on My Three Sons Street (compare # 152, 165, 183 and 189); this set was completely revamped around 2003. 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. The following are the businesses (from left to right):
Inside joke: The Tuscany Jewelry Shoppe owner, Mr. Stern, is named after co-producer HENRY STERN.   Mistake in the scene with Lance and Melissa in downtown Tuscany: Lance has almost reached the entrance to Jeeter's when, a few steps behind him, a young woman (uncredited extra) with a baby stroller appears. Just about two seconds later (after the cut), the same woman with the stroller is way farther back on the same street, i.e. in front of Italian Pastries where she almost bumps into Melissa on the sidewalk.In the usual process of making a movie or a TV show, scenes are shot from different angles (e.g. 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.   A similar mistake occurs only a few moments later in the scene with Lance and Pilar at Jeeter's: A blond extra is walking past Pilar and takes a seat in the booth behind her. Although he has been sitting for a few seconds, he walks towards the booth again when Pilar leaves the restaurant. A new establishing shot is used for the Del Oro for the first time. This building apparently portrays the spa building with its restaurant.The clip is 1970's stock footage from a film library. It features the historic core of the Ojai Valley Inn in Ojai, CA. That part of the nowadays vast building complex, which has been annexed multiple times over the last few decades, currently houses The Oak Restaurant. It is filmed from the golf course in southwestern direction.
 The Spa Restaurant at the Del Oro is seen for the first time: This interior set is obviously the redecorated set of The Max nightclub from season 7, as later episodes will reveal in particular (compare screen grabs from # 187 and 192).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.  Uncredited extra PAUL VAN appears in his usual rôle as the mustached Tuscany Valley doctor again — this time as a patron at the Del Oro Spa Restaurant.Compare # 227 for biographical details about this minor rôle and a list of all his appearances throughout the series. For details about the extra, compare # 014.   An old establishing clip of the Tuscany Valley Inn is inserted. It is followed by a scene on the northern terrace of the CBS-MTM (RADFORD STUDIO CENTER) administration building, which usually poses as the Coit Café (compare the screen capture from # 180). For the heavy use of that building, compare # 074.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. It was not a smart decision of the prop department to keep using the tapestry from the Coit Café where it has been a wall decoration since # 180.
  The shot of Pilar on the terrace of the Tuscany Valley Inn in the current version of this season's main title (right screen capture) is from an unused version of the scene in this episode (compare the left screen grab for the version used this episode).The producers originally planned to photograph KRISTIAN ALFONSO's main title shot in front of the Tuscany Valley Bank; they had selected a building on South Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, CA for that purpose (see above). But the shooting schedule was revised on short notice. It remains unanswered why the alarm system does not start buzzing when Angela and Chao-Li break into the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion. Did Melissa not switch it on? Or was Angela able to switch it off from outside — knowing the code, which, like the number of the safe in the study, might not have been changed as yet?   Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion — set inconsistency: The window in the replica consists of casements opening to the outside. If this replica is supposed to resemble the window in the study, this is apparently wrong because the window elements in the study of the real Villa Miravalle are sash windows — without being divided in so many panes. If the replica is supposed to resemble the sun room, it matches the corresponding interior set, but there is no such window anywhere in the real Villa. Uncredited stand-in MARTHA MANOR appears as an extra again — this time as the blonde lady in the anteroom of the Channing Enterprises executive office. It is her real hairdo this time, by the way.Compare # 213 for a list of appearances throughout the series. For details about MARTHA MANOR, compare # 001. Real-life allusions: Richard compares R.D. Young with mystery writers RAYMOND CHANDLER and DASHIELL HAMMET.  The New Globe computer file system indicates R.D. Young, the mystery writer, has had a subscription to the newspaper since 1972 under the name of Efrem Babcock, one of his fictional detectives. His address is: 2411 Howze Street, Mill Valley, CA. His phone number is: (707) 555-2242. Mistake: The area code for Mill Valley is (415) in real life; (707) — the usual Tuscany Valley area code — is the real-life area code of Napa and Sonoma Valleys.Series time frame: Emma reads R.D. Young's New Globe secretary ad scheduled to be published in the issue of the following day (10/31/1988). That means day 3, when Emma reads the ad, must be Sunday, 10/30/1988. It is surprising, by the way, that Emma and Richard are in the office on Sunday. Night 4 remains unseen in this episode, which can be derived from the fact that Peter tells Vickie he will be leaving "tomorrow" and no more night scene is featured before their departure. As the episode closes in night 5, the night of the fire at the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion must be the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, Nov 1-2, 1988. According to Melissa, it will be Joseph's birthday "next week". As stated in # 160 (details there), the writers completely ignored that Joseph was born in August 1982 (compare # 025). Or was it their intention to imply with that wrong remark that Melissa was completely insane now? The scene in Angela's Del Oro suite during her lunch with Peter was shortened in the editing process: What is missing is the introduction, explaining that Peter's favorite is Scottish smoked salmon. Original plans for that scene called for a picnic on the Falcon Crest grounds (in memory of their legendary picnic in season 5); the producers planned to photograph the scene in the back yard of Saddlerock Ranch posing as the Gioberti Estate again, just like in the scene with Angela and Michael in # 184. During her lunch with Peter, classical music is playing from Angela's stereo. It is part of WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART's (1756 – 1791) sonata for oboe and piano in C major (KV 14).
  Props: The wicker chairs on the veranda of R.D. Young's Victorian home are the same as the ones that have been in use on the veranda and terrace of the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion since season 1.This wicker furniture set was also used at Francesca's home in Italy (compare # 075). For LORIMAR's further use of these wicker chairs, check out the Beyond the Show – Props – Set Dressing – Seating section.
  Interior set of Maggie and Richard's ranch: There is a new den with a very characteristic fireplace featured for the first time. This is apparently not filmed on location at Saddlerock Ranch, but is a set. The furniture is not the same style as the rest of the house; neither is the door frame. For this set, also see # 206.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. All other rooms except this one, the bedroom and the children's room are portrayed by the real rooms at Saddlerock Ranch.
Deleted scene: The original act 3 opener was a scene with Melissa being jealous of Pilar (because of Lance) and starting a public fight with her in front of the Tuscany Interstate Bank building. Angela and Frank, sitting on the bench in front of the bank (compare the next paragraph), witness the scene; Frank offers Melissa taking her home, but she refuses; Angela meets Pilar again for the first time. Filming occurred in front of office building 5 at CBS-MTM (now RADFORD STUDIO CENTER) although originally scheduled on South Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, CA (compare above). That segment, however, was removed in post-production.  The scene with Angela and Frank sitting on the bench in downtown Tuscany is shot in front of office building 5 at CBS-MTM (now RADFORD STUDIO CENTER). The front of this building is known as the Sheriff's Department from # 173 and will portray the Tuscany Interstate Bank this season (first seen in detail in # 187). The establishing shot for this scene, however, is an old clip from Sonoma Plaza (Market Street, Tuscany).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. Before Vickie's farewell scene, early script drafts contained a scene in the living room of Maggie and Richard's ranch, in which Michael and Kevin say goodbye to her. Michael asks her to send them post cards from France, and Kevin wants a kangaroo from Australia. After that, Vickie and Maggie head towards the front door. This segment was omitted.
 In Vickie's farewell scene, Richard arrives from San Francisco the very last minute. But his Jaguar comes to a stop in front of the main house in the wrong direction — he comes from the cul-de-sac where the garages are located; the driveway leads to the ranch from the opposite direction only. It is also impossible that Richard came from that driveway and turned around his car because Peter's limousine is blocking the driveway.New license plate number of Richard's dark gray Jaguar XJ-SC Targa: 2MRO968. Itis the same number that was mounted on Cole's / Chase's Jeep Grand Wagoneer between # 129 und 138. Not an appropriate prop policy!  The interior set used as the conference room in Russ Carlson's law office is the same as the one portraying Eric and Vickie's hotel room in Switzerland in # 174, judge Ambrose's chambers in # 175 and Dr. Everdene's office in # 176. The set, however, is filmed from a different angle this time.Melissa's attorney, Russ Carlson, was called Lester Peterson in early script drafts.
  Mistake: After Melissa scratches Lance during the lawyers' meeting, the scratches on his face look different, depending on the angle: In the close-ups filmed from behind over Lance's shoulder, the scratches seem to be under Lance's short sideburn, and the bottom scratch curves upwards. In the close-ups filmed over Melissa's shoulder, in contrast, the bottom scratch angles downwards, away from the top one, which is also longer than in the reverse angle; also, the scratches are farther away from the sideburn and more towards Lance's cheek.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. In this case, LORENZO's make-up was apparently applied differently between takes. Deleted scene: The original act 4 opener was a scene with Lance suspicious of Angela having replaced the real Falcon Crest deed with a phony one to con Melissa. It was staged outside Carlson's law office — Lance and Angela coming out of the building and heading towards the limo. Filming occurred between My Three Sons Street and office building 5 on the backlot of CBS-MTM (now RADFORD STUDIO CENTER) although originally scheduled on South Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, CA (compare above). This scene was omitted. New license plate number of Melissa's white 1980 Porsche 911 SC Targa: 2DHO435. The same number used to be on Angela's white Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II (compare # 135) — not an appropriate prop policy.   Frank shows Melissa the Agretti lands — old stock footage from Stags' Leap (originally used in # 010).The scene itself, however, is photographed in the avocado grove at Saddlerock Ranch.   Editing mistake: In subsequent frames, Angela's hands are in different position at her jewelry box. The transition between the different camera angles was not edited exactly.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 suites at the spa are completely different in style this season as it can be seen easily this episode. As the establishing clips suggest, they seem to be located at the spa building whereas the season 6 and 7 suites were located in the country club (main) building and in the cottages near the main building of the Del Oro. All the suites this season, by the way, are the same interior set, which consists of three rooms. The basic layout is a living room with a fireplace in the center (beige paint); when entering the suite, there is one room with decorative frame-like wall elements in pinkish décor to the left and one room with such frame-like elements in green décor to the right. The set is just refurnished for the specific needs of each scene with the green room being either a bedroom / bathroom or a dining room / kitchen (depending on if the set is used as a 2- or 3-room suite) — while the pinkish room (if a 3-room suite is featured) is always used as a bedroom. The furniture and the pictures on the walls are usually the same, but placed in different positions in each suite; the style and color of the drapes and matching pillows, however, vary from suite to suite. That way, various suites are created with a minimum of production requirements. This season's suites in detail:
 For Angela's suite (featured in # 184 through 188 and 190 through 193), the whole interior set was used — the living room in the center; when entering, the pinkish bedroom with a walk-in-closet and a bathroom on the left, and a green dining room with a kitchenette on the right. In her suite, the drapes, pillows and bedcover are blue-gray with some small brighter ornaments.
  Lance, in contrast, has a 2-room suite only (visible in # 185 through 187, 189, 191, 192, 194, 195 and 197): The area that serves as the bedroom in Angela's, Maggie's and Anna's suites respectively was closed off, using folding doors that create the illusion of a closet. The beige-painted room is the living room in Lance's suite, too, while the room in green décor was furnished as the bedroom in this suite, with a bathroom instead of the kitchenette. In Lance's suite, the drapes, pillows and bedcover are in checkered green-gray fabric.
  Emma has a 2-room suite also (featured in # 190 through 193). In her suite, however, the room in green décor was closed off with folding doors (suggesting a closet). The bedroom is in the room with the pinkish décor; it has an en-suite bath and a walk-in closet.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.
Strange: The stairway in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion is not in flames although Melissa poured gasoline all over. Original drafts for this episode's cliffhanger were slightly different:
 The last name of the guest star playing Kenneth Lone, RYAN MacDONALD, is awkwardly written with all capital letters although "Mac" is a prefix. The show usually uses either a combination with small letters or small caps for that purpose. This awkward way of writing the name comes as a surprise since the name was written correctly as "MacDONALD" in the end credits of # 079.← Previous episode... → Next episode... |
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The same is the case with Malcolm's suite (visible in # 201 and 202).
