Goof??

Face it, it's a goof. They needed a newspaper as a prop and didn't stop to think that Laura would be reading a New York paper.

Similar goof in the Twizzle episode. At the end, Fred Blassie is introduced as the world wrestling champion, but Blassie was only recognized as such on the West Coast at the time. Buddy Rogers would have been recognized in the Northeast as champ.

Who in New Rochelle would be reading a Los Angeles newspaper in the 1960s?

That's the reason why it's a flub.

About the only way you could try to make it seem realistic, would be to put in a story line about having a friend who just flew in from LA who gave her the paper because of some reason. But there's no way you could do this without seeming to really be stretching things.

On the other side of the argument, I imagine prop people in the early 60s didn't worry about something like a newspaper being held but not featured because the typical TV screen people had then would not let the paper be seen clearly enough to identify the paper.

Quite possibly, the idea of her reading a paper came up as they were doing the taping, or just before, and they just used what was handy because it didn't matter at all.

I live in Oregon and I read the New York Times, so, why not someone in New York reading the LA Times?

there is no reason but you would assume a person would read the local paper.

Well you could also look at it like this. Maybe they got the L.A times because they are in show business and wanted to keep up with what was going on in Hollywood. I mean I would not think it be a stretch that the Allan Brady show would keep up to date on stuff going on. Maybe Rob would bring the paper home from the Office.
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Years ago I read a book about The Dick van Dyke Show that talked about the foresight that they all had, but particularly Carl Reiner, for syndication. Carl Reiner was supposedly very good at reading scripts and stripping them of modern references that he knew would "date" the show. Every once in a while, a line or reference slipped by, like in the episode where Rob inherits the desk and the Abe Lincoln photo and he says, "The real Raymond Massey," in reference to the fact that, at the time, Raymond Massey had the most recognized performance as Abe Lincoln. He had played Lincoln in a movie. That notion eventually faded, and it dated that moment of the episode. There were a few others like that, but mostly, the show is timeless. Ultimately, a lot of shows have followed suit. Not a lot of references to pop culture in long-running shows like Law & Order or Modern Family. Even though L&O is ripped from the headlines, you get, at the most, one throwaway line about real life. So, weirdly, I think they did expect the show to go on for years. In fact, at one point, it held the record (30 years) for never being off the air. (Even I Love Lucy went off the air for three years from 1957 to 1960 while they pushed their one-hour format.) But DVD actually held the distinction for 30+ years of "never being off the air."

Yeah Buddy's memory must've been flawed! I think he was so scared about spending the night in a haunted cabin that he forgot how to add.

I wonder why Morey Amsterdam didn't say something. In the flashback episodes he and Sally were with Alan Brady for a while before Rob became head writer. And he became head writer at least a year before Ritchie was born.

What's strange about reading a "Final Edition"? Back then, newspapers printed more than one edition of a daily newspaper and the last one was the "final" edition.

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