***Can't figure out why this was done. Was it so some of the scenes could be interchanable in the editing room? Was it to save money on cosumes? (That idea won't fly...if that were the case they would just use a white or blue shirt.***
Why they chose plaid, I don't know, but based on the photos of me taken from the mid 1960s through the early 1970s, plaid was surprisingly popular in those days. But as to why Opie would be wearing it in so many episodes, it could very well be because multiple scenes from multiple episodes were shot at one time. Perhaps this was to accomodate a shooting schedule because a star was doing a movie (Ronny Howard did appear in a rather disastrous movie about that time called "Village of the Giants") and wasn't available to be on the set. So they went with the "MacMurray method," named because Fred MacMurray shot all of his "My Three Sons" scenes for an entire season in just a few days. The 1950s version of "Adventures of Superman" did the same thing (all scenes in Perry White's office for an entire season were shot in one day, so everyone always wears the same clothes). Dixon _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
