1970PT Watching Project Addendum Revisited

[Watching Project]

Since we've reached the same point in the Watching Project as we had when I'd originally posted this, you might want to look back at this topic to see just how much the shooting of hoDS impacted the taping of the daytime show:

1970PT Watching Project Addendum

[DarkLady]

Thanks, WP! I never realized how many episodes were shot out of order! Was it always like that, or was it just to accommodate the film-shooting schedule?

And imagine drawing up a schedule like that without Excel. Some poor soul probably just used a batch of postcards carefully placed on the living-room floor.

[Gothick]

They did often tape shows out of order.  In Thayer David's Spring 1969 radio interview, he refers to taping of shows having been re-scheduled from what had initially been posted.

A lot of the people on the show reportedly worked without contract, which may have had to do with juggling schedules if they chose to go off and do a play, as did happen with several of them from time to time.

G.

[DarkLady]

That's true--JB did some plays while Elizabeth was supposedly in a coma or buried alive or whatever.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Sometimes they would also tape out of sequences due to the sets that were being used. If a set like, say, Vicki's or David's room was going to be used frequently in a series of upcoming eps but not in all those upcoming eps, they would sometimes tape in a row all the eps using that set so that they wouldn't have to dismantle the set only to reassemble it in a couple days or so.

[Uncle Roger]

I think that that they would also shoot out of sequence if an episode contained multiple time periods and required actors to play more than one character.

[MagnusTrask]

Which resulted probably in the actors being as disoriented, flummoxed and/or bewildered as the characters were supposed to be, or more so.  How surprised am I supposed to be by this?  Do I know such and such already?  Has my attitude changed toward this character?  etc etc.

[michael c]

I've heard that cast came directly from the Lyndhurst shoot in their "period costumes" to the studio to shoot the parallel time "costume party" sequence. or vice versa...

I've never actually compared them side by side.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Interesting. I don't know about all the hoDS actors who are involved in both, but the question did come up once as the whether or not the dress that KLS wears on the daytime show is the same one she wears in the movie - and we checked and it is.

It would also be interesting to compare the dates on the hoDS shooting schedule for the costume party and the dates of the daytime show's taping to see if they coincide...

[michael c]

I seem to recall Joan in costume in both the film and the series as well. maybe Louis too?

obviously Lara and David Selby did not come from the film shoot. I forget who else attended the ill-fated costume party on the series.

[michael c]

and leave it to DC to pinch a few pennies by utilizing the rented period costumes for both applications. 

[Gothick]

According to the episode guide compiled by Ann Wilson in the 35th Anniversary Edition of DS Memories, the PT 1970 Costume Ball sequence was taped over 5/21 and 5/22.  I think the film shoot had already wrapped some weeks previous to that.

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Yes, it definitely had wrapped, so, so much for that rumor...

Thanks for checking the dates, Gothick. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

and leave it to DC to pinch a few pennies by utilizing the rented period costumes for both applications. 

Like I said, I'm not sure about any of the costumes other the one KLS wore, but with that one DC got even more use out of it than hoDS and the 1970PT costume party because KLS also wore it as Kitty/Josette when she encountered the ghost of Jeremiah on Widows' Hill.

[DarkLady]

Michael C, Barnabas attended both costume parties--in the movie and the TV show--and wore the same costume in both.

In the movie, both Jeff Clark and Chris Jennings attended the costume party.