Actually, I was using the old Ed McMahon line he used with Carson.
No offense.
Oh, no offense taken, Mr. Blue Sky. It’s just funny that people always assume I’m a guy. I thought with a s/n associated with books and cats it would be obvious. :smack:
Correct me if I am hallucinating, but to me the walls on the ‘Leaver it to Beaver’ sets (later house) seem very straight with right angled corners… (both the Grant Street and the later Pine Street homes)
Let me explain, the first show I realize the walls were at really odd angles (to allow better camera angles, and reduce the chances of filming the edges of the fake walls) was the later seasons “Odd Couple” apartment (the first season had a more reasonable apartment design) - man, those angles were really obtuse…
This concept followed me, and you can see the (irritating) wide-angle walls throughout the years, through Three’s Company, Cheers, Home Improvement, Fraiser, and so on…
Somehow, the set designers of Leave it to Beaver got it right (I think), and the walls seem square (and over the years, well episodes (yes, TVLand), you basically see all four walls of the Kitchen, Wally and Beavers room, etc in various scenes).
Another set I think they got right is Jim Rockford’s Trailer Home/Office, and here we definitely saw all in four directions (and the roof/ceiling), oftentimes all in the same episode.
Anyway, I have a book from 1996 called “TV Sets - Fantasy Blueprints of Classic TV Homes”, which includes many shows of the 60s and 70s (including the aforementioned Leave it To Beaver (both sets), Odd Couple, Addams Family, Munsters, Dick Van Dyke, Bewitched, Green Acres, Flintstones, Happy Days, etc.) - some of the plans seem a bit off (I know the MASH compound is wrong); anyway they claim the Bedrooms are on the UPPER level on the Jupiter II (Power plant, Computer, Shuttle Bay, Orbit chairs on the LOWER level). This book also has both the Addams Family and Munsters mansions, the Munsters mansion being far more mundane than the Addams Family (although it’s hard to tell which is worse, the Addams Family swamps or the Munster’s quicksand)
I’ve always loved this kinda thing. Aside from how big most sit-com living rooms I’m struck by how many of them have staircases in both the living room and the kitchen! 
Yeah, many of his blueprints are inaccurate (Gilligan’s Island is only a couple hundred feet across?! Right :rolleyes: )
As I recall, in an interview he gave when that book was released, the artist Mark Bennett said he did them from memory. I would think that to be really accurate you’d need to have all the episodes on video or DVD so you could freeze-frame to catch all the minor details and occasional glimpse of rarely shown corners of rooms, etc.
Of course there’s a limit to how accurate you could draw most fictional houses. Many of them are sets that wouldn’t actually fit within the house shown in exterior shots. They also often will change or add rooms as a particular story requires.
As for Lost in Space and Voyage to the bottom of the Sea - It’s really hard to believe the floorplans don’t match the vessels. Irwin Allen is normally known for his accurate, realistic stories!
Eric
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I’ve always loved this kinda thing. Aside from how big most sit-com living rooms I’m struck by how many of them have staircases in both the living room and the kitchen!
The Huxtables could afford it, with that family's salaries combined. On just my uncle's orthopedic surgeon salary he could do it quite early, though their 2 staircases were off the entrance tot he living room and the family room. So, it's doable.
Many others would have to have obtained a rather large inheritance, though. The Tanners on Full House could have, as could the Friends gang, with the combined incomes, but not right at first, unless someone got a lot froma rich uncle (which is possible).
I used to rent the top floor of a house; they’d converted it (I assume it wasn’t built that way), and my apartment wasn’t accessible from inside the house. There was a front porch that had the main sliding glass door into the owner’s area, and then a second door at the side of the porch that opened on a staircase up to my apartment.
How many houses have used the Major Dad/The Nanny set? Seems like a lot of shows have the living room on the right, spiral staircase in the back pointing ot the left towards teh kitchen.