Given you were writing from a distance, how did you capture L.A. so faithfully?

It was among the first trees we planted when we moved in a decade ago, and it faithfully gave its delicious crop for years.

Espino asked parishioners at Sacred Heart Church in Lincoln Heights, where Madrigal had faithfully attended Mass for decades, about her whereabouts and put the word out in other Catholic parishes across Los Angeles.

But the decision was quickly made to replace them as faithfully as possible – with oak from the forests of France.

In their dedication to authenticity, Fehlbaum and his production team sourced period-accurate equipment from old television stations and collectors, much of it still working, to re-create the analog control-room setup as faithfully as possible.