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Seeing Stars: Where the Movies Were Shot on Location
PART 4
Filming locations
of TV Shows,
Made-for-TV Movies & Music Videos.
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- A jungle treehouse played a key role in the kid's
series, "LAND OF THE LOST,"
wherein a family is sucked into a portal and ends up in a prehistoric world
with dinosaurs and cavemen.
That treehouse still stands, in Descanso Gardens,
which doubled as the jungle in that TV series. It's located at 1418
Descanso Drive, in the city of La Cañada/Flintridge (northwest
of Pasadena). 
In the 1982 music video "THRILLER,"
Michael Jackson is chased by ghouls
through a neighborhood of old Victorian homes. That neighborhood is Carroll
Avenue (east of downtown L.A., the same street where you'll
find the "Charmed"
house), and the main house in that video can be found at 1345
Carroll Avenue. *
- The outdoor scenes at the Carrington mansion from
the 80's TV series "DYNASTY"
were shot at a Pasadena home, located at 1145 Arden Road.
- The Colby mansion from "THE COLBYS"
is at 1060 Brooklawn Drive,
in Bel-Air.
- The 1987 music video of the song "Where
The Streets Have No Name," by supergroup "U2,"
was performed on the roof of a row of stores located at the corner of 7th
Street & Main Street, near the Skid Row section of downtown
Los Angeles (before the cops broke it up). *
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- Those twin skyscrapers with the tall fountains out
front, which you saw each week in the TV detective-romance series "REMINGTON
STEELE" were in fact the twin Century
Plaza Towers, at the ABC
Entertainment Center (2040 Avenue of the Stars) in Century
City, as seen from Avenue of the Stars. [Buy
the videos]
The same towers were used in "MOONLIGHTING"
with Cybill Shepherd and Bruce
Willis. [Buy
CD]
- If you've seen the TV series "CHiPs"
or any other number of Hollywood productions about the weird side of L.A.
beach life, then you've glimpsed the infamous Venice Boardwalk
(Ocean Front Walk), just south of Santa Monica. It's here that
producers love to capture mimes, jugglers, fire-breathers and bikinied
blondes roller skating while wearing headphones...
From 1979-1976, in the TV series "BENSON,"
Robert Guillaume went from butler
to chief executive at the Governor's Mansion. That mansion was actually
a Pasadena home, located at 1365 S. Oakland
Avenue.
  
* Locations marked by an asterisk (*)
may be located in areas with high crime rates.
Exercise reasonable caution.
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For information about watching TV sitcoms
being taped live in the studio, see the separate page about getting tickets
to live TV tapings.
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