... I'd go back to mid-October 1971 and r-a-c-e race into the ABA to complain about the appalling (lack of) continuity in this episode of Division 4, where Judy Jack is outside a shop in a completely different outfit to the one she is wearing once in the shop.
(She is playing Isobel Hughes, who has a scam going with a man variously called Allen Lee, Lee Allen, Allen Scott etc, where in this case she pretends to be an unconnected customer in this shop.)
Now, outside, she's wearing the 'outside clothes' again.
I guess I could rail against the continuity person, but I suppose also the actor herself should (??? it was probably months later) have remembered what she was wearing between the two elements of the sequence.
But what is perhaps most important is that, in my opinion, the outside scenes aren't necessary and could have been snipped out without any particular damage to the story. They could have fitted another ad in!
I am reminded of a time when I worked in magazines and a designer (she put her hand up to it) put the wrong date on one of the crummy mags and it was covered with a sticker saying 'find the deliberate mistake on this cover and win $50' (or something equally pathetic) but anyway there does not seem to have been any outcry or excuses made by Crawfords for this shitty egregious error.
Oh by the way, great episode. It's one where no-one ends up in jail, it's a rare example of a comedy D4 which is actually well-done (note I didn't say funny). The guest stars are the real magic here.
What an extraordinarily awful line-up for Channel 9 that night. Well, I guess I liked Nanny and the Professor then so I can't be too judgy.
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