Feb 09 2023 11:27 AM
In the premier episode (“Buffy”) of the great American sitcom Family Affair, which originally aired September 12, 1966, manservant Giles French (Sebastian Cabot) gently interrupts the bath of his employer, high society-but-rugged hydroelectric engineer Bill Davis (Brian Keith), in order to present the week's social calendar: “Tomorrow, the horse show at the Garden with Miss Forrester; Wednesday, the races at Aqueduct with Miss Carstairs; Wednesday night, optional — the theatre with Miss Davenport, or the Mets against the Dodgers at the Stadium?”
Such is the faith Mr. Davis has in his “gentleman's gentleman” that he invites Mr. French to anticipate his response. “How do we feel about that?” he asks from the tub.
“We suggest the Mets against the Dodgers, Sir,” French knowingly replies, to which Mr. Davis gives his smiling assent.
The Mets hosted the Dodgers nine times in 1966, but never on a Wednesday evening. Considering Mr. French's scrupulous attention to matters of the calendar, this would suggest that the events depicted in the episode occurred in an earlier season or an alternate universe.
