More "little things:"
(1) Notice the flower boxes in front of the "Friendly's" dinner? That's yet another deviation from the real in favor of the ideal in Antin's Rawley: flower boxes are rare in U.S. towns (unlike European towns), and real "Friendly's" restaurants (like
this one) generally don't have flower boxes under their windows.
(2) I recently watched the series in a version aired in Europe (French credits, Spanish dubbing); this version, which can be found on Youtube by searching for "Jovenes Rebeldes," has superior visual quality to the U.S. version on YouTube, although the dubbing is dreadful. I am struck by the omissions in the version aired in the U.S., necessitated of course by the greater time allocating to advertising in U.S. commercial television. Many lovely "little things" were cut. In particular, many establishing shots, for example of the town of New Rawley, were cut: in the European version, the camera takes us on leisurely tours of Havre de Grace.