A few nuggets from the middle of Season
4 . . .
Episode 15: Hurray for Hollywood
Is "Uncle Tim's Mansion" a play on "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? Also, the actor in the middle photo looks very familiar . . .
. . . Producer Burt Nodella? Looks a lot like him to me. This would have been around the time he and Barbara Feldon started their long relationship.
The posters on the theater walls were interesting to research. Here we see A Rural Sherlock Homes and Her Dangerous Hour.
I couldn't find anything online about these being real productions, but found the posters in a listing on an auction site called Leland Little. They called them 1920s/1930s theater posters and that they were printed by Quigley Litho in Kansas City, MO. The auction house sold them for $210.
Later in the scene Max and 99 stand in front of a poster for another production, Goldstein & Murphy.
Like the other two posters, I couldn't find anything about this production except for another auction listing, this time from Kestenbaum & Co., which had minimal information other than, like the other two, it was produced by Quigley Litho. This one was estimated at $1,500-$2,000!
So what were these? Were they real posters for some kind of local theater productions, the existence of which has otherwise vanished (at least digitally)? Quigley Litho was a real company operating in the early 20th century making posters. Perhaps decades after they were originally made they ended up in the props department at CBS Studios. Hopefully that is the case, and not that they were fabricated by the prop department themselves, and then ended up at auction houses claiming that they were decades older.
Episode 16: The Day They Raided the Knights
KAOS made a spelling mistake on their crate - "Accompaned"
The want ads in 99's newspaper seem to be completely normal but fake, but still a fun read especially with all of those 1960s style phone numbers.
The stamp books all say "Save OK Stamps".
These were props from a 1961 episode of Ozzie and Harriet.
Episode 17: Tequila Mockingbird
My new obsession with prop newspapers led me to notice a blooper. When 99 writes the red AX on the scrap of newspaper, you can see that the newspaper is in Spanish, which makes perfect sense as the episode takes place in Mexico.
In the next scene, she is confronted by KAOS agents and attempts to burn the evidence. We get another close up, but this is a completely different newspaper, this time printed in English. I guess this was filmed separately from the other scene.
