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Season TWO's Version of "A Vision of Sugar Plums"

posted 5 years ago by [email protected] (1732)
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Odd how they "repeated" this. Instead of just rerunning the ep (the way they would now),
they have Sam taking off her white coat (just after the opening teaser), revealing her very
pregnant self, and Sam and Darrin receiving a one-year Christmas card from Michael.

It's clever, but odd in that the opening teaser is the exact same footage from season one.
Except, here, Sam is supposed to be pregnant. I guess Christmas trees were STILL $18,
Sam made it a miniature (again) and Sam and Darrin shared the exact same dialogue, lol!

I think I read that, in those days, in order to get "fully paid" for a "new" episode, some
new footage had to be shot to make it "new." They did the same thing when they repeated
"Samantha Meets the Folks." It opens with Sam (in braids!) feeding baby Tabitha and
"recalling" the first time Phyllis and Frank came over.

[–] phoebemunster (14) 5 years ago

I was really excited when I saw these two episodes were going to be on DVD, since I had never seen them in syndication. When I finally saw the Christmas one, I too thought it was odd that the opening teaser is the exact same footage as the original episode. It was convenient Sam was already wearing that large coat where she conceivably could be pregnant! They also did this with a New Year's Eve 1964 repeat of the pilot. They added a very brief scene of Sam and Darrin toasting to the New Year, then recalling the events of the pilot.

I think they got this idea from I Love Lucy, which had a lot of reruns during the original CBS run where they filmed new introductory scenes. In "The Lucy Book" by Geoffrey Fidelman, they list a lot of reruns like this that were peppered throughout season 2-5. You probably already have it, but it's a really cool book that lists every single TV appearance by Lucy (for better or worse).