• If this house looks familiar, it's because it was the inspiration for the Stephens' house in the classic sitcom "BEWITCHED", where Samantha and Darrin shared their unusual marriage.
  
  Located at 267 18th Street, on the northeast side of Santa Monica, CA. (near San Vicente Blvd), the house was copied by the "Bewitched" producers, who built a replica of this actual house on the lot of the Warner Bros ranch (in Burbank), which was used for the show's filming.
  
  When they built the replica, they opted to build it as a mirror image, the right side on the left side and vice versa.
  
  Click on the house photo above to see a larger version, as well as an old B&W screenshot of the Stephens house taken from the TV series.
  
  

• After the success of "Bewitched", Screen Gems launched another TV series about a normal man involved with a magical woman: "I DREAM OF JEANNIE".
  
  In the pilot episode of that show, astronaut Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman) finds himself stranded on a desert island after his rocket malfunctions. And while he's on the beach, hoping to be  rescued, he finds a bottle - which just happens to contain a wish-granting genie - named (what else?) Jeannie.

  

That wasn't an island, of course.  It was actually none other than Point Dume beach, in Malibu, California.  Point Dume's huge cliffs and rocky shore are instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with the Malibu area.

Point Dume is about 20 miles northwest of Santa Monica, CA, and about nine west of the Malibu Pier.

The beach, next to the Poit Dume cliffs, where Tony wrote "SOS" on the sand, is known as Westward Beach.  It lies to the immediate west/northwest of the cliffs - just past Pirate's Cove (which is the blue spot of water in the screencap above).

( Tony & Jeannie's home "in Cocoa Beach", on the other hand, was simply a permanent house set on the back lot of the Warner Ranch, in Burbank, the same place where they built the replica of the "Bewitched" home.  It still sits right next to the "Partridge Family" house at the ranch, and had previously been used as the Anderson home on the '50s sitcom "Father Knows Best". )

Alas, the new owner drastically remodeled the estate, so you won't recognize the old place. The mansion was originally built in 1935 by millionaire Lynn Atkinson, but his wife thought it was too ostentatious, and refused to live there!

   

• And while we're on the subject of popular TV sitcoms from the '60s, how about "MY THREE SONS"?
  
  The show starred actor Fred McMurray as the 'Steve Douglas', the widowed dad raising those three sons (with the help of his grumpy father-in-law), and it was on the air for a record 12 seasons..
  
  On the show (for the first eight seasons), the family was supposed to live in Bryant Park, a fictional Midwestern suburb. But never believe what you see on TV.
  
  In real life, the white, two-story Douglas home seen every week on the show, is an actual house located in Los Angeles, in a suburb just southeast of Hancock Park.
  
  You'll find it at 837 5th Avenue, Los Angeles.
  
  

  Here is a Google StreetView of the house.
  

  
  

   
  
  

When you see the "Minnow" sail off to "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" on that infamous "three-hour tour" (during the opening credits for that sit-com) the boat's supposed to be sailing out of an Hawaiian port.

Actually, that harbor scene in the opening credits was shot, at the Alamitos Bay marina, in east Long Beach, CA.

(They added a few palm trees to make it look more like Hawaii.)

The final episode of "THE FUGITIVE" (with David Janssen) drew the largest TV audience of any show up to that date. Set throughout Los Angeles, that final chase took Dr. Richard Kimble from the Los Angeles Produce Mart (near 7th and Central - see a map) in downtown (where he shielded his face from a policeman by carrying a box of lettuce on his shoulder), to the Los Angeles Zoo (in Griffith Park).

• The "Wayne Manor" mansion seen in the "BATMAN" TV series (starring Adam West) was located in Pasadena.
  
  "Batman" was shot at 380 S. San Rafael Avenue, on the west side of Pasadena.
  
  
  
  
  
  (However, the home is behind gates and is not visible from the street.)
  
  Some false reports have put it at 160 S. San Rafael Avenue, the same impressive home where scenes from "Being There" and "Rocky V" were shot.
  
  (That house burned down in a 2005 fire. The actual home is still standing)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  






• The "Bat Cave" in the "BATMAN" TV series (and the first two "Batman" movies) is located in Griffith Park. Known as the Bronson Caves, it has been used in numerous sci-fi/horror movies and Westerns, including 1993's "Army of Darkness," 1933's "The Three Musketeers" (with John Wayne), some "Star Trek" scenes, Gene Autry's old serial "THE PHANTOM EMPIRE" and the original "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS." It's about a quarter mile walk from the north end of Bronson Avenue (Canyon Drive) on the southwest side of Griffith Park.

(The trail leading to the Bronson Caves can be a bit tricky to find, so to make it easier to find, I've added a series of photos contributed by a fan of Seeing-Stars, as well as a trail map. To see the photos, just click here.)

One of Jack Webb's more popular TV series was "EMERGENCY!," a 70's show about the men of Los Angeles County Fire Deptartment's "Station 51" and its paramedics, 'John Gage' & 'Roy Desoto', who responded to emergencies, guided by the staff of "Rampart hospital."

Well, the actual fire station used in that series was Station 127, located at 2049 E. 223rd Street (just east of Wilmington Avenue), in the city of Carson, California.

In fact, the station has been named "The Robert A. Cinader Memorial" station in honor of the television producer who created the TV show, and a large plaque on the outside wall is dedicated in his name.

"Rampart General Hospital" isn't far away. It was actually Harbor General Hospital, now known as the Harbor UCLA Medical Center.  It is located on the outskirts of Carson (about four miles west of Station 127), at 1000 West Carson Street, in Torrance, CA.

• The squalid hotel depicted on the cover of "The Doors" 1970 album "Morrison Hotel" is located in a bad part of town, at 1246 S. Hope Street, in downtown L.A., just two blocks east of the Los Angeles Convention Center. *