Your Favourite Sitcom 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.

 

[sudsmaster]

Anybody remember Jack Benny's house on his show? I remember once he had to go visit his money. It was in his basement, which had a moat with alligators in it. I remember my mom getting a big kick out of that bit.

 

[spankomatic]

My Three Sons

I wonder what Uncle Charlie would have to say about all this...

 

[spankomatic]

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[butch-innj]

Personally, I always have loved the house that the Cartwrights lived in on Bonanza. Poor HopSing was always in the kitchen and it made me wonder who kept the rest of the place so clean?

 

[sudsmaster]

I *think* it was the Donna Reed show that had the type of house I liked. It was an older two-story affair, with the front door opening into an open area with the curved staircase directly in front of it, and the living room over to the right of the door as you come in. I think the dining room and kitchen were over to the left of the entry as you come in. This seems like it was a very common layout in film and tv homes of the 30's, 40's, and early 50's. Nothing spectacular, just quite livable and to a certain degree, comforting.

For some reason the low slung slab foundation homes of later times have always seems a bit grungy to me, with a musty odor. Maybe it's the fact that they get less air circulation by being on a slab directly on the ground, without a crawl or basement underneath. And because they are on a slab, they usually have carpeting over cement, instead of wood flooring. And that carpeting can get fairly nasty after a while.

 

[jeffg]

Not sure if anyone has posted this link before, but it's pretty cool. I recognize everything from the Stevens' house (on Blondie Street) to Batman's Gotham City (New York Street):

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