Goofs

"The French Chef" was recorded in what later became called "live on tape," shot continuously with no stops and starts.

The show's director, "Russ Morash" is shown "directing" on the studio floor. This and other TV shows are directed from the control booth, where directors can give directions to camera operators and can watch pictures from all the cameras and choose which to put on the air at any given time.

Touch-Tone phones are shown being used in some offices, but these weren't available at the time the events depicted in the first season occur. The French Chef debuted in February 1963, but AT&T didn't introduce Touch-Tone service for customers until November 1963, in the Pittsburgh area.

WGBH-TV is repeatedly referred to as "public television." At the time, noncommercial public service broadcasting was still called "educational television."

They mention going to Kennebunkport, Maine for lobster rolls. Episode #3 is set in 1962 or 63; lobster rolls were not generally served in Maine until 1970.

Season 2 takes significant dramatic license with the historical record of Julia Child's career in the 1960s. The second season of The French Chef aired in early 1964. The show's Emmy award was awarded 1966. The White House dinner was in 1967 and WGBH aired the documentary in 1968, all during a four year hiatus of The French Chef between 1966 and 1970. Despite the four year span of time in history, these events are all interwoven in the second season as occurring more or less simultaneously.

The Alice character is totally fictional, unlike all of the other leads. In any event, a black woman in Boston in 1962 would not be present and speaking negatively in a production meeting, let alone taking over a show, even at the star's behest.

Historically inaccurate as to cigarette smoking. The lead characters except Judith all smoke in the first episode, then only Avis smokes, then no one smokes is the last episodes.