Tonight's episode of the new NBC show "American Dreams" included an inadvertant historical flaw. The show, set around a Philadelphia family in 1963, is turning out to be a very interesting historical study for life in the area during this decade. However, not everything can be totally accurate. Although it was probably intended to be a generic name and nothing specific, it was mentioned that the local Catholic School played "St. Luke's" in football the week before. There was, of course, a St. Luke's private school in Wayne, located on land which is now Valley Forge Military Academy. The school came to Wayne in 1902, and its buildings were taken over by Valley Forge in 1929, after the Academy's previous home (the former Devon Inn) burned down. St. Luke's had been gone for more than 30 years by 1963. Though it's probably safe for TV writers to call a Catholic school anything that begins with "St.," this was definitely noticable to the few of us who know little details. Some other interesting local tidbits from the show: the mother noted that life was unpredictable like "the roller coasters at Willow Grove," and a girl talked about going to school at Bryn Mawr. The older son works as a waiter at a country club...suspiciously similar to Main Line clubs like the Merion Cricket Club.