Holy cow! In the fight scene at the mansion in Sometimes You Gotta Sing the Blues the stunt doubles are so very noticeable. The one guy looked like his wig was gonna fall off, and the guy doubling for Kurtwood Smith looked nothing like him. I realize it was the '80's, but that was almost as bad as the squealing tires on the dirt road from Mr. Majestyk.
married with a daughter and a dog, but I feel like a single parent of 3 little kids
One thing to keep in mind is that this show was produced in the VERY early stages of large rear projection screens starting to make their way into homes. The most common TV screens at the time were 19" or 25". It was a lot harder to see those details on the smaller screens. For many years now, most of us are watching this stuff on 55" widescreens, or larger, and the film used to make these shows captured enough detail for us to see those things clearly on the larger screens.
One recent example of this that cracked me up is a scene on the Carol Burnett show, where Harvey Korman and Tim Conway are commandos preparing for a parachute jump. Korman puts pitch on Conway's face. When Conway returns the favor, he puts the pitch in Korman's eyes, his ears, up his nose ...
On big screens, you can clearly see Korman mouth, "You son of a bitch." LOL In the 70s, if they thought you could make that out, it would have never seen the air. :-)
It's very common now for me to see major differences when stuntmen are on the screen, but when I originally saw these shows in the 60s and 70s I never noticed.