A couple of other TV writers have written me to suggest another reason there might be no Scene F in that Dick Van Dyke Show script. Sometimes, they note, the folks prepping the scripts will skip "F" to avoid confusion since it looks a lot like an "E" and it's pronounced a lot like an "S". That's true in some cases…but I just asked Rose Marie and she says they didn't do that on the Van Dyke Show and the two other scripts I have from it both have Scene Fs in them.
Hey, you might be interested to hear why I was talking to Rose Marie — who, of course, starred on that series and in so many other fine shows and movies in her almost-90-year-career. That is not a typo. She first performed on a stage when she was three years old and she just turned 91.
There's this great restaurant chain you may know called The Palm. They're famous for their steaks (great) and their chicken parmesan (better) and for the caricatures they have on their walls. The Palm over on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood is moving. That location has closed and workmen went in last week and cut out sections of wall to try and save as many of the caricatures as they could…since they were painted right onto the walls.
Today only, if your caricature was on the wall there and (and this was not true of all of them) the workmen were able to salvage it, you or your representative could go over today and claim it. So that's what I did on Rose's behalf. I went over and got her caricature for her. I'll try and get a photo of her with it when I find time to take it over to her.
That and several other things kept me so busy that I didn't have time today to finish the second part of the story I started yesterday. It'll be along in a day or so. It's a long one.