Last night, I watched "Eye of the Beholder" and noticed the moment when the policeman phones Samantha to say that Darrin is lingering in the park. For a moment, we hear what the policeman hears in his receiver: The "ring-back" tone that allows the caller to count the rings. The ring-back tone that is used in the episode is one known to the old Bell System as "city ring" -- one that in 1964-1965 you would only hear when calling a bustling downtown location like McMann & Tate -- not Morning Glory Circle. There are a handful of ring-backs the officer may have heard instead in 1964-1965, but not the city ring they no doubt used from stock recordings. I've always been a fiend for the old phone switching network, and when I was a kid in early 1970's, I could only hear city ring by calling a metropolis, or the local "time lady" recording.
It's a blooper. You'll have to take my word for it!
"Sterbo... Vectra... Rangay... Zeem.
You're about to have a dream.
And, in the words of a wise philosopher, it's going to be a BEAUT!"
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