Although I have loved both this & "Jeannie" since I was a kid, later viewing of tons of reruns has revealed many disappointments about the programs from their continuity to casting - which just a sideways glance at the tv just now unearthed yet one more; did contemporary audiences pick up on these discrepancies? And if so, was anything made of them whether from just among themselves to the purveyors of these productions? "Methinks not" of the latter, unless if so they just shrugged it off & kept on going, because why else would these blurbs & flaws kept continuing? Long have these "switcheroos" lost the "Oh look Wilma!" delight of discovery aspects they used to, replaced by as finding more & more of them a great exasperation. Despite filming of both these shows having been done on some purported "ranch" & set in 2 wildly diverse locations, the budgets were evidently so cheap (& the "ranch" ironically so cramped) that there was no other area for the "domestic" scenes of one to have occurred without overlapping the other? I did get a fresh (& likely last) laugh recently at one b&w IDOJ discontinuity of Nelson sprinting madly out of his house up towards & then leftwards past the established Stephens house - fronted clearly by the plain portal when depicted as the Bellows house - to fetch up a surprisingly few doors away at the good doctor's place. They even managed to throw Samantha & Darrin completely out at least once for a contiguous shot, though subsequently the Stephens exterior (at night are what I saw) was paired with totally unmatching Bellows interiors. That as far as I'd so far seen were the extent of the "reverses" between the 2 (the shocking "standalone" appearance of the Stephens house as Gale Sayers's crib in "Brian's Song (1971) while they still "lived" there is the last I recall seeing that cute 1164 pad on film.) So comes now in this episode, "in super-stupendous, glorious" color - to borrow from Uncle Arthur earlier - the Tates talking in their kitchen which, without the least alteration including the swinging door, is actually Jeannie's kitchen! (Cue the rolled eyes.) I don't know if this had happened before - when conversely both the exterior & other Tate house interiors were depicted as more luxe than Samantha's or Jeannie's - I expect definitely not after, on the same tip - but if there's any documentation on why these things happened thus in the old days, I'd certainly like to know it. Just so strange to me. This leaves me only to wonder at both these places having turned up in shows I didn't like - which weren't few - but I ain't about to go looking into any of them on the off-chance of such appearances! These 2 with their "house swapping" is more than enough already.
