Sitcom: Newhart
Set: The main parlor of the inn (where the registration desk was)
Direction: left (the doors to the Inn may have actually been set in the middle of the room, but most of the scenes were shot at the registration desk, which was to the right of the doors)
Show: Fawlty Towers
Set: Main Lobby
Direction: Right (actually, guests would enter through a door upstage, and proceed to the desk at the right).
Show: Family Ties
Set: Kitchen
Direction: Center
Show: News Radio
Set: Station Offcie
Direction: Left
Show: Frasier
Set: the Coffee Shop
Direction: Right
Show: Frasier
Set: Frasier’s apartment
Direction: Left
Show: Frasier
Set: the Radio Station recording room
Direction: Centre (door right in the middle between the two rooms)
Three in a row
Show: Frasier
Set: Niles’s apartment
Direction: Left.
Sitcom: MAS*H
Main Set: Camp
Direction: **Down (via helicopter), or if you prefer Right (by jeep)
Sitcom: Soap
Main Set: Campbell Residence Living Room
Direction: Left
PS: Same is true of Tate residence.
Sitcom: Everybody Loves Raymond
Set: Raymond’s living room
Direction: Right
Show: The Drew Carey Show
Set: Drew’s house
Entrance: left
The camp was not a set. There were several sets shown but most of them - the Swamp, Potter’s office, the OR, the mess hall - were entered from the right. The only two that were entered from the left were Margaret’s tent and the officer’s club.
So mainly right.
The Bob Newhart Show
Mostly left - Bob’s office and their apartment with the lobby being entered from left, right, or center.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Right - Mary’s apartment, the newsroom, and Lou’s office
Friends
Joey’s apartment
Right
and
Central Perk
upstage center
Hah! Run rings 'round you, logically!
two MTM spinoffs
Phyllis - left
Rhoda - right
Barney Miller - left - the squad room
E.R.
all over the freakin place
all 3 directions
oh, sorry, sitcoms
okay
E/R
reception desk - upstage center & left
actually ER - right