Category: TV Locations

  • The Huxtable’s House

    The Huxtable’s House

    ‘ I must be in a New York state of mind this week, because here I am yet again with another NYC filming location.  🙂  One of my very favorite blocks in all of Manhattan is called Saint Luke’”‘”‘s Place and it just happens to be the location of a famous brownstone from TV – the Huxtable Family’”‘”‘s house from .  St. Luke’”‘”‘s Place…

  • Pharaoh’s Lost Kingdom from “CSI”

    Pharaoh’s Lost Kingdom from “CSI”

    ‘ While watching the Season 4 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled “Turn of the Screws” way back in May 2004, I became just a wee-bit obsessed with tracking down the theme park that stood in for the supposed Las Vegas-area Sphinx Amusement Park.  My mom was the one who ended up locating it…

  • The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from “Veep”

    The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from “Veep”

    ‘ I don’t do museums, as many of my longtime readers well know.  One that I did partake of and thoroughly enjoy, though, was The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, which I visited with my parents and the Grim Cheaper waaaay back in 2005 (so long ago that when I went looking for…

  • Hilton Garden Inn Arcadia from “Veep”

    Hilton Garden Inn Arcadia from “Veep”

    ‘ It has been said that everyone has their own special superpower.  I don’t know if that is true or not, but if so, mine is definitely my brain’s ability to take note of small, seemingly insignificant and rather trivial details, and commit them to memory, completely of its own volition.  Case in point –…

  • Melrose (aka Greenwood) Place

    Melrose (aka Greenwood) Place

    ‘ The apartment building used as the exterior of the fictional apartment complex “Melrose Place” on the TV show of the same name cannot actually be found on, or anywhere near, the real Melrose Avenue. In real life, the complex is called the “El Pueblo Apartments” and is located on Greenwood Place in Los Feliz,…

  • “The Big Bang Theory” Rooftop – Where Howard and Bernadette Got Married

    “The Big Bang Theory” Rooftop – Where Howard and Bernadette Got Married

    ‘ This past Monday evening, the Grim Cheaper and I sat down to catch up on a slew of television episodes that we had backlogged over the past week, one of which was The Big Bang Theory’s “The Countdown Reflection”.   In the episode, which has to be one of the cutest of the entire series,…

  • Valli Tropics from “Wicked City”

    Valli Tropics from “Wicked City”

    ‘ Locations, locations, locations!  Aside from Ed Westwick, locations were easily the best aspect of the now cancelled ABC series Wicked City.  The show took place in Los Angeles circa 1982 and the location manager did a fabulous job of securing spots evocative of that era.  None was more spectacularly retro than the apartment building…

  • Pico House from “My Sister Sam”

    Pico House from “My Sister Sam”

    ‘ The name of my blog is (obviously) meant in jest.  I always feel a pang of guilt over having chosen it, though, when I think about Rebecca Schaeffer, the young actress who was gunned down in her doorway by a deranged stalker at the tender age of 21 in 1989.  My grandma and I…

  • My Latest Mike the Fanboy Article – About Sur Restaurant

    My Latest Mike the Fanboy Article – About Sur Restaurant

    ‘ Be sure to check out my latest article for Mike the Fanboy, about my best advice for having a Vanderpump Rules experience.  You can read it here. ‘

  • “The Unicorn” House

    “The Unicorn” House

    ‘ The Fall 2019 television season is chock full of fabulous new series!  The Grim Cheaper says the deluge brings him right back to the Must-See TV days of the ‘90s.  A few of our favorites include The Morning Show (as mentioned here), All Rise, Bluff City Law, Prodigal Son, and The Unicorn.  The latter, based…