Your Favourite Sitcom House?

[toggleswitch2]

La vie est dur avec beaucoup d'argent.

Loved the Stephens' home.

To my complete surprise my parents' friends bought a house in the mid 70s very much like it in a posh CT location. (A part considered a suburb of NYC).

In the actual house I saw, the living room and dining room and entry are separated and tradtional in style (rather than the open-plan style shown on TV). The kitchen and den, too were larger.

The laundry room (HUGE!) on the main level was combined with a "gardner's bathroom" (toilet and slop-sink) that had easy access to the rear garden.

No Frigidaire Flairs in the kitchen; all appliances were harvest gold GEs. Double electric self-cleaning (pyrolytic) wall-oven and an electric coil GE cooktop (ss?) with fixed push-button heat controls. Just like Samantha's place, there was a gas grill in the kitchen under a huge vent-hood.

I LMAO in that it was nearly a quarter of a million bucks then, which was considered outrageously high. Today, with that (little) amount of money (in and around my city) you can't even wipe your @$$.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Anyone have a link to Lucy's house in Connecticut?

I only really remember the living /dining areas and the old-fashioned intercoms that Lucy and Ethel (sp?) used. I'd love to see what was supposed to be the kitchen.

I seem to remember two episodes only-- afte the move to CT.
The flower garden club competition and what she re-built when she lost her wedding ring.

Strange to me that they'd move to CT when Lucy (in real life) was actually from upstate NY. A move there (NY) would have made just as much sense to me as Ricky in the show, I think, still commuted down to Manhattan to his beloved club.

 

[rpm]

Almost Forgot

If I lived in Miami you know it would have to be The Golden Girl's house. They made a couple of references to using a dishwasher, but you never saw one.Maybe it had a matching front to the cabinets.
Poor Alice washing dishes for 9 people 3 times a day plus all the pots and pans.
Its a wonder she had time to do all that laundry. 112 knee socks per week and 63 pairs of underwear, assuming Marcia wore underwear.
At least she had only one bathroom to clean and it didn't have a toilet.

 

[bradross]

Samantha and Darren Stevens' house

My all-time favorite would be 1164 Morning Glory Circle - Darren and Samantha Stevens' house in "Bewitched". I've attached a pic of the washer and dryer featured - don't know the brand...any help?

Brad

http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html

 

[panthera]

Vintage:

Definitely the Stephen's house.
Especially if it comes with Derwood II.
Current:
The Hub at Roald Dahl Plas, as long as it comes with GDL and JB.

 

[~sudsshane]

my picks...

1- Samantha and Darren Stephens' house
2- Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's NYC apartment
3- Andy and Aunt Bee's house
4- The Cleaver house

 

[~sudsshane]

Brad~

That Washer and Dryer is GM Frigidaire.

 

[panthera]

In other words,

The "real" Frigidaire. As in Thumper.
Not the (deleted) piece of (deleted) White put out under their name.

Hey, now here's a horrid thought. GM goes under and gets bought by some off-brand company which relabels their Tatras or worse as Cadillacs.

Wow.

 

[iheartmaytag]

TV Favorites

Mary Tyler Moore's house, the one she lived in with Rhoda and Phyllis.

Doris Day's house and appartment. Loved the old farm house with half door. Then the spiral staricase in her apartment in the later shows. (Never did figure out what happened to her two kids on the show)

The house in the "Ghost and Mrs. Muir". The house in "Don't eat the Daisys"

OK--I like old rattle traps with character.

 

[iheartmaytag]

OK--I like old rattle traps with character.

I lied, have to take back some of that statement. I lived in a house like "Green Acres". I didn't have to climb the pole to use the phone, but I did have to go to the back yard to take a crap.

 

[ptcruiser51]

Donna Reed's

Which was the same as Dennis the Menace's.

With two kids, what could be better than a live-in pediatrician with an on-prem office?

Nice, bright, airy house. Tasteful furnishings. Dressing for dinner! She had a gas stove (I have a picture of her with it, but I can't identify the make).

The Cleaver's house was one of the few where you actually saw a bathroom.

Funny that most sitcom houses did not feature a television. Rob and Laura Petrie had an upscale house, expensive-looking kitchen appliances, but only a crappy 16-in. B&W portable on a tubular stand in the LR. Wassup wit dat?

 

[countryford]

My favorites

I always had a fascination for the Adam's Family home as well as the Munsters' Home. For the apartments I would have to say Ann Marie's apartment on That Girl, or Chief Ironside's apartment on Ironside and of course the apartment on Family Affair. For homes I liked the Bunkers home on All in the Family, Andy Taylor's home on Andy Griffith Show and Dr. Peter Brady's home on H.G. Wells' version of the Invisiable Man.

 

[whirlaway]

Ozzie@ Harriets

Their house has a bathroom,Ive seen shows where David just steps out of the shower,what a chest.Also Ricky singing in the shower.

 

[autowasherfreak]

I like Lucy and Ricky's apartment, but I love the old farm house they moved into.

 

[turquoisedude]

It was a dump

but I always liked the Douglas' kitchen on Green Acres. The pink Mobile-Maid and Maytag washer-dryer made up for it! The refrigerator (pink) had an unusual handle - I have never figured out who made it... And some episodes show a honking big 40 inch GE range in pink.
The charred outlets near the 'plug board' reminded me of some real scary wiring in an apartment where I once lived, too...

 

[autowasherfreak]

If I remember right, whatever appliances Lisa was using had to add up to 7 and no higher or the generator would blow. Reminds me of the house my mom and I lived in once, and an old apartment that I once lived in.

For some reason, I thought Lisa appliances were Frigidaire, but they were sure purdy in pank!

 

[djmjlcst]

Sitcom Fave Houses

Several homes come to mind for me.

1. The Munsters house
2. Cleavers house (rumor has it was also Marcus Welby M.D.'s
too)!
3. The Stephen's home
4. Wayne Manor (with the Bat Cave intact)!
5. My Three Sons home
6. The Clampett Mansion
7. The Donna Reed home
8. The Patty Duke home
9. The Farmer's Daughter home (with the riding stair chair)!

 

[toggleswitch2]

Generator?

Does anyone have a still pic or a video clip of the charred outlets and the plug-board on Green Acres?

 

[twintubdexter]

so modern...

I never could figure out how Alice was able to prepare a meal in that crummy Honeymooner's kitchen.

 

[rp2813]

Oh yeah, Congressman Morley's house in Farmer's Daughter with that oh so intriguing stair chair. I recall one episode where Katy was celebrating something and dancing her way up the stairs--in the chair--and got caught in the act.

Ralph

 

[rinso]

My favorite TV home is the Miami residence of the Golden Girls. Who cares if the floorplan is technically impossible?

 

[launderess]

Cold Water

Tenament flat.

All to common in NYC, and many other urban areas until laws and zoning rules made for better multifamily housing.

One can imagine why post WWII, so many American families were looking forward to, if not demanding better housing, and why places such as Levittown in LI (and elsewhere), seemed like heaven on earth.

L.

 

[alr2903]

Rock Hudson: McMillan & Wife they had a nice house, and the kitchen had what i remember as a 36 inch gas stove with eye-level oven, in coppertone yet. "Sally & Mildred" were in the kitchen a lot. Anybody remember Sally's stove?

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Green Acres

You can't plug in a 2 with a 6

http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ga9.asp

 

[dogboy44]

Make Room for Daddy

They had a beautiful Manhattan apartment, step down living room!

 

[whirlcool]

I am surprised that more people didn't choose the MTM apartment with the sunken living room. I've heard that many people have gone to the home pictured in the opening to the show asking to rent the space, only to find out that it is only a vacant attic space. MTM productions also got requests for plans for the space for others to build one of their own.

 

[countryford]

Book

There is a Book called "TV Sets, Fantasy Blueprints of Classic TV Homes" written by Mark Bennett. It has a number of homes that he best figured out the layout of the home from your fav tv shows. Some of the blueprints are pretty accurate. Some of them are different and some of them are next to impossible. But all in all its a fun book. Here are a list of the homes they have listed in the book

Ward and June Cleaver's home in Leave it to Beaver. Has both.
Jim and Margaret Anderson's home in Father Knows Best.
Dr. Alex and Donna Stone's home in The Donna Reed Show.
Martin and Natalie Lane's home in The Patty Duke Show.
George and Dorothy Baxter's home in Hazel.
Wilbur and Carol Post's home in Mr. Ed.
Olier and Lisa Douglas' home in Green Acres
Andy Taylor's home in The Andy Griffith Show.
Victoria Barkley's home in Big Valley
Jim West's train coach home in The Wild, Wild West.
Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's New york apartment, Connecticut house, and their Beverly Palms Hotel Suite in I Love Lucy
William Davis' apartment in Family Affair.
Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar's apartment in The Odd Couple.
Jed Clampett's Mansion in The Beverley Hillbillies.
Herman and Lily Munster's home in The Munsters
Gomez and Morticia Adams' home in the Adams Family.
Robert and Laura Petrie's home in The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Darrin and Samantha Steven's home in Bewitched.
Mike and Carol Brady's home in The Brady Bunch.
Howard and Marion Cunningham's home in Happy Days.
George and Jane Jetson's home in The Jetsons.
Ralph and Alice Kramden's apartment in The Honeymooners.
Fred and Wilma Flintstone's home in the Flintstones.
Archie and Edith Bunker's home in All in the Family.
Stephen Douglas' home in My Three Sons. Has both homes.
Frances Lawrence's home in Giddget.
Porter Ricks' home in Flipper.
Shirley Partridge's home in The Partridge Family.
Mary Richards' first apartment in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Laverne and Shirley's apartment in Laverne and Shirley.
Professor John Robinson's ship/home in Lost In Space.
Also has Perry Mason's Office in Perry Mason.
The Mash Compound from M.A.S.H.
Gilligan's island.
Town of Hooterville in Green Acres.
Town of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show.

An intresting book for all you old tv show fans.

 

[whitekingd]

The house on Leave it to Beaver, the Ricardo's second apartment (the downstairs apartment) and Mary Tyler Moore's apartment.

 

[sudsmaster]

Any house...

... on "This Old House" ...

 

[launderess]

Regarding The Book on Television "Homes"

And how to build.

Many shows used different exteriors and inside. Often the indoors set rarely if not could not match what was shown outside.

Sam's house for instance has more bedrooms than seen from the outside. There was also the matter of the on again and off again backstairs that didn't go upstairs (where would it?).

Don't get me started on "The Golden Girls", there is no way that small house shown from the outside had four rather large bedrooms.