Almond's Magic Beard: The Episodes Shown out of Order Thread

[ottoDbusdriver]

Moving this over from a post initially in the "Ancient. Chinese. Secret." thread

 

For some brilliant reason known only to programming execs, Fox has decided to go full-on "Almost Human" and air Backstrom episodes significantly out of order from which they were produced which makes certain plot threads confusing as well as making Almond's beard appear/disappear/reappear.

 

Here's the original post:

 

The Pilot episode was filmed about 2 years ago (I'll call that Production Episode 0 for simplicity since it's production code is way out of order), but based on the production codes of the episodes since the pilot (https://en.wikipedia...eries)#Episodes), the order appears to be as follows:

Aired Episode           Production Episode
-----------------         ------------------------
      1                                     0
      2                                     4
      3                                     1
      4                                     2
      5                                     7
      6                                     10
      7                                     3

 

Based on that list there are two produced episodes (#8 and #9) that seem to be missing from the order between aired episodes 5 and 6, so I think that Niedermayer and Paquet's relationship probably developed over those two so far unaired episodes.

 

@Mecca is spot on about the beard -- Almond had a mustache and goatee in the first four aired episodes, that then went missing for Aired Episodes 5 and 6, and is back in the previews for next week. So somewhere between production episodes 4 and 7, Almond shaves it all off.

 

[ottoDbusdriver]

Updated to include the next episode that's not airing for 3 weeks.

 

Aired Episode           Production Episode
-----------------         ------------------------
      1                                     0
      2                                     4
      3                                     1
      4                                     2
      5                                     7
      6                                     10
      7                                     3
      8                                     6

 

Backstrom's former fiancee is back, and Almond's beard is gone -- again -- in the next episode (#8).

[marketdoctor]

I hope they fix this in the DVD (also that there is a DVD, though I could see why when you have $5 worth of packaging and materials and sell the DVD for $30, how could you make any money?)

 

If they ever do a remake of Police Squad!, I hope they address this, because it seems to hurt every show that has a glimmer of continuity.  (Also the callback to the serial killer would have made a lot more sense in an earlier episode.)

[ottoDbusdriver]

Updated to include the next 3 aired episodes (episodes #9, 10, 11), per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstrom_%28TV_series%29)

 

Aired Episode           Production Episode
-----------------         ------------------------
      1                                     0
      2                                     4
      3                                     1
      4                                     2
      5                                     7
      6                                     10
      7                                     3
      8                                     6

      9                                     5

     10                                    8 

     11                                     9 

 

Here's the really weird part -- in the episode 9 previews, Backstrom is

only just now figuring out that Valentine is his son, despite the fact that this is a known fact in previous aired episodes. Man, this makes things confusing.

 

I would love to know the logic of why Fox feels the need to to air shows out of order -- since this isn't the first time they have done it .

[Glory]

Frustrating. I'm still watching and quite like it. But I watched Almost Human to the end too.

[Actionmage]

Thank you, otto! Yeah, I wonder which list is shorter: FOX shows that aren't shown out of order or cancelled FOX shows that were. (Keeping good thoughts about Backstrom, though. It's actually a good show.)

[ottoDbusdriver]

Updated to include the final 2 aired episodes (episodes #12, 13), per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia...rom_(TV_series))

Aired Episode           Production Episode
-----------------         ------------------------
      1                                     0
      2                                     4
      3                                     1
      4                                     2
      5                                     7
      6                                     10
      7                                     3
      8                                     6
      9                                     5
     10                                    8

     11                                     9

     12                                     12

     13                                     11

 

Next week's episode (aired episode # 12) is supposed to the be the season finale per the production codes.

 

Not sure why they would move it (the season finale) up a week and then show the penultimately produced episode as the final episode.  Man, Fox sure knows how to screw things up good.

Edited April 17, 2015 by ottoDbusdriver