Location Statistics
This weekend I stalked the house used as Darrin and Samantha’s home on the 1964 TV series
. Interestingly enough, the house, located in Santa Monica, California, was only the inspiration for the home seen on the series, but was never actually used for filming. An exact replica of the Santa Monica house was built on the Warner Brothers Ranch lot in Burbank and the producers used that home for filming. Even more interesting, the house on the Ranch lot is actually the complete opposite of the real home in Santa Monica – almost an exact mirror image – in that everything on the set house was switched to the opposite side. The peaked roof is located on the right side of the real house, but on the set version it is on the left. I found this location on Zillow’s fabulous
. Walking up to the house I felt like I had stepped back in time. Surrounded mostly by modernized and remodeled houses, the
house looks like it hasn’t been touched in years. But in a good way. 🙂 It’ll bring you right back to 1964! Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂
While Samantha and Darrin supposedly lived at 1164 Morning Glory Circle in West Connecticut, the real house can be found at 267 18th Street in Santa Monica, just north of Montana Ave. According to IMDB, the house was also used as Gidget‘s house in the TV series of the same name. Warner Brothers Ranch lot is located at 411 N. Hollywood Way in Burbank. Sadly (tragic really!) the Ranch is not open to the public. 🙁 This
has GREAT pictures and information about the Ranch, so at the very least you can stalk it from your computer screen. Many famous movie and TV locations are located on the lot, including the Griswold Family’s home from
, Danny Glover’s house in
, the house from
, and, my personal favorite, the fountain from the opening credits of
!