Filmed in my old town...
The house in this film is located in the "Greenfield Hill" section of Fairfield, CT, right up the street from my friend's house.
We would go up and watch the crew filming Katherine Ross and company.
Other scenes were filmed throughout southern Connecticut, so most of the scenery that ended up in the film was familiar.
When the movie finally came out, my friends and I went to go see at a theater in nearby Norwalk, which had lesser-income citizens.
What an experience!
Seeing all those locales on the screen framing the sci-fi story was CRAZY!
We also had a great time noticing all the breaks in geography ("Hey - that's not down the street!" or "That mall is two towns away!")
We also thought Tina Louise was a HOOT! "Ginger Grant" playing a respectable "Trophy Wife"!
Then - when Joanna's husband complains to her that "My kids look like they are on the welfare" - the local black patrons started yelling at the screen: "Yo! You hear that?! Go to hell, man!"
I was never able to take this movie seriously.
Then, my mother (of all people) told me she and her female pals had set up a movie night outing to see this movie. I simply looked at her and laughed: "What???!!! 'Stepford Wives' in the round???"
Later, she came home and imitated "Bobbie": "And I thought you said we were friends? And I thought you said we were friends? And I thought you said we were friends?"
Oh dear...
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"