The Credit Intro has changed for the first time since the casting was dramatically changed. The first was Hazel offering umbrellas to each cast member as their names were placed on the screen. The second involves cast members on the phone - with the assumption being they were talking to George and His wife in Afghanistan.
Both were a break from the Baxter Family in the front yard with the family car - variations on some thematic micro short story.
Both were a break from the Baxter Family in the front yard with the family car - variations on some thematic micro short story.
Quick-eyed viewers will catch beyond the metal fence across the street Steve is walking with the Orchid is "Friend's Fountain Before a ruddy red brick, two-story building.
Shot on "Columbia Ranch," this places the house, not on "Blondie Street" where "Bewitched" and "I Dream Of Jeannie" houses are. The Steve Baxter Family live on "Park Blvd." Google Maps shows the house with the view of "Friend's Fountain" where "Blondie Street" and "Park Blvd" meet. When Hazel and Harold moved via a Fire Engine ride, there was only the street out front. The right side of the house had a brick structure off in the distance and no street to that side of the house.
Today, Google maps shows more commercial space encroaching on the lot.
Shot on "Columbia Ranch," this places the house, not on "Blondie Street" where "Bewitched" and "I Dream Of Jeannie" houses are. The Steve Baxter Family live on "Park Blvd." Google Maps shows the house with the view of "Friend's Fountain" where "Blondie Street" and "Park Blvd" meet. When Hazel and Harold moved via a Fire Engine ride, there was only the street out front. The right side of the house had a brick structure off in the distance and no street to that side of the house.
Today, Google maps shows more commercial space encroaching on the lot.
The new Baxter house is located at the the northeast end of Blondie Street, on what is now called Park Boulevard, but what was originally called Boston Street. The house (and the Boston storefronts next door) was built for the 1958 movie "The Last Hurrah" is known as the Skeffington house, named after Mayor "Frank Skeffington" the political boss played by Spencer Tracy in that movie. Over the years it has been used in a number of productions. It was the Congressman's house in the 1960s sitcom "The Farmer's Daughter" (with Inger Stevens), and was later seen as the eccentric Baldwin Sisters' mansion in "The Waltons". Although it is supposed to be far from Hazel's original Baxter house, it is actually only about 100 yards northeast of that first Baxter home on Blondie Street.
Since Hazel and Harold moved in with Uncle Steve Baxter, viewers seen the house and a bit of surroundings about the house.
For the first time, viewers see Steve Baxter lives across the street from a park with Black, Metal Fencing.
"Here comes Daddy," Susie Baxter exclaims to her mother, brother and Hazel while peering out the window as 'daddy' carries an orchid up the house walkway.
In brief, this episode places the house across the street from a park with tall metal fencing about it perimeter.
"Here comes Daddy," Susie Baxter exclaims to her mother, brother and Hazel while peering out the window as 'daddy' carries an orchid up the house walkway.
In brief, this episode places the house across the street from a park with tall metal fencing about it perimeter.