Season 4, Episodes 11-13

The fourth season started out with three episodes where air travel was a major theme. Here we get three in a row with some significant nautical footage.

Episode 11: The Farkas Fracas

Most of the episode takes place in the Smarts' apartment building, but starts off with a shootout in a pier that is supposed to be Washington, but the establishing shots are of San Francisco.

The Abbott sign was the key to narrowing down the location.

Here is a photo from the opposite direction, from 1966.

The Abbott tower is gone, but the buildings on the Embarcadero remain.

One final shot of a dock at night, don't know if this is also SF.

Episode 12: Temporarily Out of CONTROL

Most of this episode was shot aboard the USS Yorktown, docked in Long Beach, California. Here is an overhead shot.

Here is a current look at the two piers with the angled edges.

We get a good look at the USS Yorktown sign in this shot.

I believe the bridge in the background is the Vincent Thomas Bridge. 

Here is a somewhat similar angle today. 

I like the sign here. 

This 1966 photo gives a general sense of the Yorktown in relation to other ships in the harbor.

Here's something we haven't seen in a while - a prop newspaper. The main headline is a rare reference to the domestic current events of the time. But that minor headline is one that pops up in a lot of other prop newspapers - Transit Problems Given Airing at B-M-R Convention.

That headline can be seen in a variety of movies and TV shows, as recently as the early 1990s. In no particular order, Mission Impossible.

Hawaii Five-O.

 

Brady Bunch.

The Lieutenant.

Hard to Kill.

Q: The Winged Serpent.

My personal favorite: the prop paper in Back to the Future Part II, the paper where Marty finds out about his father's 1973 death in the alternate 1985.  

The last scene is an extension of the same helicopter shot seen earlier.

We get a broader look at the Main Channel off of Long Beach. All of this is pretty near where the boat scenes in the pilot episode were filmed.

This is somewhat the same view today.

Episode 13: Schwartz's Island

This scene was filmed on producer Burt Nodella's boat. Not sure if this is the same one he and Barbara Feldon lived on; they were just starting their relationship at this time.

Schwartz's Island was filmed on the set of Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island.

Here is a similar shot of the lagoon as it appeared on that show.

Siegfried's hut looks like a stripped-down version of one of the huts on Gilligan's Island.

Take the grass off the walls and it might be a match.

The boat seen here is the USCGC Androscoggin. 

The ship saw action in Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, and the Sinatra film Assault on a Queen (the movie whose submarine set was used in Rub a Dub Dub, Three Spies in a Sub).