# What T.V. show house did you want to live in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626 "2002-03-16T16:33:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/1 "2002-03-16T16:33:28Z")
When I was a kid I loved the Brady Bunch house, although their staircase bothered me. It looked like a small child could fall out the back of it. And those ugly couch things in the den would have to go. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/2 "2002-03-16T17:37:07Z")
Maybe this should go to another thread, but it fits here. **The Addams Family** mansion, definitely. (although, I always like Grandpa Munster’s laboratory, too…) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/3 "2002-03-16T17:59:56Z")
I always liked the house in **Family**. I liked the back staircase to the kitchen and the swell guest house that whatshername - Meridith Baxter Birney’s character - lived in, and then Willie after MBB moved out. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/4 "2002-03-16T19:46:35Z")
I’ll second the Munsters house, but only if I get to keep Spot under the stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/5 "2002-03-16T20:05:03Z")
The Ewings’ house on _Dallas_. Southfork? However, without Ewings, and not in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/6 "2002-03-16T21:08:03Z")
I’m partial to the Robin Masters’ estate in Hawaii from Magnum P.I. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/7 "2002-03-16T21:56:16Z")
Phillip Drummond’s Upper East Side penthouse from _Diff’rent Strokes_. (Assumes a cast-free existence, of course). ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/8 "2002-03-16T22:03:26Z")
The title venue from _Deep Space Nine_. A nice little pad on level three of the habitat ring would do just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/9 "2002-03-16T22:05:06Z")
Stately Wayne Manor WITH Alfred, whose first job would be to remove all those Bat signs from the cave. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/10 "2002-03-16T22:24:33Z")
The house on _The West Wing_ would be pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/11 "2002-03-16T22:42:18Z")
My one great criticism of houses is that they are so very stationary. The houseboat on “Surf-Side Six” was neat, but I’m leaning toward the train car on “Wild, Wild West”. Then again the schooner on “Adventures in Paradise” was really nice. Nope, I’ve decided. It’s the Tardis from “Dr. Who”. You not only get to decide where you’ll be living, but when. Not to mention you can change the external form at the drop of a floppy brimmed hat, although the police call-box design never really goes out of style, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/12 "2002-03-16T23:09:02Z")
The Skypad Appartments on the Jetsons. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/13 "2002-03-16T23:20:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Labdad \* > \*\*I always liked the house in **Family**. I liked the back staircase to the kitchen and the swell guest house that whatshername - Meridith Baxter Birney’s character - lived in, and then Willie after MBB moved out. \*\* Darren and Samantha’s house on **Bewitched** have that same back staircase, which I always thought was quite cool. Unfortunately, such floorplans lost favor after World War II. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/14 "2002-03-17T00:27:33Z")
Along the same lines, the apartment shared by Oscar Madison and Felix Unger in **The Odd Couple** … the _old_ apartment, with the secondary entrance and the dumbwaiter. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/15 "2002-03-17T03:19:08Z")
_ **Slight HiJack** _ Has anyone besides me noticed that the house on Bewitched is the same house as Dr. Bellows’ on I Dream of Jeannie? Take a close look…it’s the same set… As far as fave house, or house I would want to live in… The Brady Bunch house…but with 21st century updates…the avocado color scheme has GOT to go… ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Broken\_Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/16 "2002-03-17T04:28:34Z")
The house I live in right now bears a vague resemblence to the house on Malcolm in the Middle, complete with dead grass on the front lawn. The house from “I Love Lucy” when they moved out to the country would be pretty nice. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/17 "2002-03-17T05:26:27Z")
One of 2 mansions. The Beverly Hillbillies’ or the Addams Family’s. I like that the Clampet’s place has a pool (excuse me… “cement pond”), and a huge front lawn with big gates and all. But then again, the Addam’s place has more cool things than I can even mention. Does it come with all of the furnishings? And Thing, gotta have Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/18 "2002-03-17T05:46:02Z")
Either Frasier Crane’s apartment, or the Satellite of Love from MST3k…or maybe Deep 13. It always seemed cozy. Ranchoth (Or Castle Grayskull) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-t-v-show-house-did-you-want-to-live-in/98626/19 "2002-03-17T07:26:30Z")
I’d say it’s a tie between the house on _Webster_ (hello?! Secret Passageway, anyone?) and the one on _Silver Spoons_, complete with duck telephone. Colin