Ok people talk about how out of scale the Brady's house is but have you ever noticed the Clampett mansion?

Ok first off;

When you enter through the front entrance, to the left there is a room, which I assume leads to a hallway which leads to the kitchen *they always go into that room and come out through the laundry room into kitchen*

BUT there are windows in the parlor on the left side as you enter in from the front hall! How can there be windows there when a "hallway" of some sort is supposed to be there leading to the kitchen?

Another thing that's funny is, I remember that room *on the left hand side of the front entrance in the front hall* being shown once, when Granny had Mrs Drysdale's father in there entertaining him, and it just looked like a regular room, no sign of any hallway leading out of it lol.


OK another thing is, in the exterior shots the front entrance is in the center of the mansion and it looks HUGE with a LOT of space on both sides of the door, but on the inside it clearly ends not far from the front entrance, b/c there is a window in that "mystery room" to the left of the front entrace.

I'd love to see a floor plane of the Clampett mansion.

Talk about confusing! It's murder in fanfiction! That's why I generally try to stay away from being to descriptive when I talk about moving from one room to the other.

Talk about confusing! It's murder in fanfiction! That's why I generally try to stay away from being to descriptive when I talk about moving from one room to the other.


The thing is, I always thought the Clampett's mansion was a REAL mansion on the inside, I mean I always thought they filmed in a real masion. At least that's what I was always told.

You know, that's another thing that's always confused me too. If it was a real house I feel sorry for the people who live there because I wouldn't be able to figure out how to get in and out of the damn place, let alone figure out how to get to the kitchen. I'm surprised they don't starve to death.

You know, that's another thing that's always confused me too. If it was a real house I feel sorry for the people who live there because I wouldn't be able to figure out how to get in and out of the damn place, let alone figure out how to get to the kitchen. I'm surprised they don't starve to death.

A friend and mine and myself sorta drew up a floor plan of the Clampett mansion.

The best we could come up with, the "mystery room" on the left hand side of the front entrance that leads to the kitchen leads outdoors, we have it to where there is a screened-in *or somehow enclosed "catwalk" type thing runs along side of the windows in the parlor.

And we put the kitchen in the front of the mansion but WAY over the far right of the front entrance if you're looking at the front of the house.

A friend and mine and myself sorta drew up a floor plan of the Clampett mansion.

The best we could come up with, the "mystery room" on the left hand side of the front entrance that leads to the kitchen leads outdoors, we have it to where there is a screened-in *or somehow enclosed "catwalk" type thing runs along side of the windows in the parlor.

And we put the kitchen in the front of the mansion but WAY over the far right of the front entrance if you're looking at the front of the house.

Ok, I think I'm getting a picture of what you're talking about. If the kitchen is where you think it is, then that would mean that the screen door leads to the side yard. So we actually never get to see the back yard unless that's where the tennis court is. In which case, we have seen the whole yard. Or maybe my brain is seeing the whole thing wrong. I've been handling fireworks and nearly blew my thumbs off, so there's a good chance I've inhaled too many chemicals! LOL!

Did they ever show the garage ? I'm sure they had one.

The answer is: you're not supposed to notice. It was assumed that most people wouldn't really give little details like that much thought and in fact most didn't. There are countless similar examples of inconsistencies between the exteriors and interiors of what was supposed to be the same TV house. It didn't seem to make a great deal of difference whether the exterior was somebody's real home or just a shell on the studio backlot, beyond matching of the front door and maybe location of a window or two, there was little or no consideration given to whether the contours of the sets matched the house whose interior was supposedly depicted.

On Knots Landing the production company actually owned the Val and Gary Ewing house and there were still obvious inconsistencies between the real house and the interior--though for TV it was about as good as it gets and much better in that regard than the other houses in the cul-de-sac.

Bewitched is another example of close--but not quite, despite the "house" being located on the studio backlot. My favorite though is Mindy's apartment from Mork & Mindy. The establishing shot from outside zoomed in on the stained-glass window in Mindy's kitchen. But if that's the same window shown on the outside of the building, watch your step exiting the door from Mindy's apartment, the first step is about a twelve foot drop!

Ok, I think I'm getting a picture of what you're talking about. If the kitchen is where you think it is, then that would mean that the screen door leads to the side yard. So we actually never get to see the back yard unless that's where the tennis court is. In which case, we have seen the whole yard. Or maybe my brain is seeing the whole thing wrong. I've been handling fireworks and nearly blew my thumbs off, so there's a good chance I've inhaled too many chemicals! LOL!


Yeah I'm my friend and I have the Kitchen being to the very far right in the front of the mansion. I'm thinking the billiard room/fancy eating room would be more toward the back. AND the Clampettes occasionally mentioned that it was a LOT further to the kitchen when you went there via the "mystery room" and that WOULD be a long way, like walking all the way around the mansion. And plus putting the kitchen in the front accounts for all that extra space you see on the side.

The answer is: you're not supposed to notice. It was assumed that most people wouldn't really give little details like that much thought and in fact most didn't. There are countless similar examples of inconsistencies between the exteriors and interiors of what was supposed to be the same TV house. It didn't seem to make a great deal of difference whether the exterior was somebody's real home or just a shell on the studio backlot, beyond matching of the front door and maybe location of a window or two, there was little or no consideration given to whether the contours of the sets matched the house whose interior was supposedly depicted.

On Knots Landing the production company actually owned the Val and Gary Ewing house and there were still obvious inconsistencies between the real house and the interior--though for TV it was about as good as it gets and much better in that regard than the other houses in the cul-de-sac.

Bewitched is another example of close--but not quite, despite the "house" being located on the studio backlot. My favorite though is Mindy's apartment from Mork & Mindy. The establishing shot from outside zoomed in on the stained-glass window in Mindy's kitchen. But if that's the same window shown on the outside of the building, watch your step exiting the door from Mindy's apartment, the first step is about a twelve foot drop!


Yeah that's the obvious reason, but I've always been very perceptive, even when I was like 6 or 7 years old I used to notice stuff like that. I used to ask my mom things like that when I was a little kid and she was like, "Oh you're not supposed to notice that!" lol

And I used to also wonder WHERE the Clampett's dining room was, SURELY a house that size would have a huge formal dinning room. I know they used the billard room for that, but WHAT did they think the real dining room was?

Did they ever show the garage ? I'm sure they had one.
on the christmas one wher Mr. Drysdale gave them a boat, TV, etc. (what ever happened tothose things, BTW?) din't he say something like "YOU'LL FIND A TRAILER FOR IT IN THE GARAGE"?

This is totally making my head spin. LOL!

An early episode shows four clips of Jethro running straight from the front door to the back door: entrance, parlor, pantry, and kitchen.

The main thing I don't understand is HOW there are windows in the parlor BUT there is supposedly a hallway on the other side of that wall leading to the kitchen.

I noticed that as a child.

[QUOTE=RandomGirl93]You know, that's another thing that's always confused me too. If it was a real house I feel sorry for the people who live there because I wouldn't be able to figure out how to get in and out of

One time when the Clampets came home after being out for a while Jed just oped the door. I thought, what isn't it locked? Aren't they afraid somebody will steal something? I know it's just a TV show, but still.

[QUOTE=RandomGirl93]You know, that's another thing that's always confused me too. If it was a real house I feel sorry for the people who live there because I wouldn't be able to figure out how to get in and out of

One time when the Clampets came home after being out for a while Jed just oped the door. I thought, what isn't it locked? Aren't they afraid somebody will steal something? I know it's just a TV show, but still.

I thought the kitchen was too small for as big as the house was.

[QUOTE=RandomGirl93]You know, that's another thing that's always confused me too. If it was a real house I feel sorry for the people who live there because I wouldn't be able to figure out how to get in and out of

One time when the Clampets came home after being out for a while Jed just oped the door. I thought, what isn't it locked? Aren't they afraid somebody will steal something? I know it's just a TV show, but still.

I thought the kitchen was too small for as big as the house was.

Actually the kitchen was HUGE.

I finally did get to get the floore plan of the house and the kitchen is HUGE.

The way the floorplan is it DOES match up, thought it's a little different that described in the show.

Actually the kitchen was HUGE.

I finally did get to get the floore plan of the house and the kitchen is HUGE.

The way the floorplan is it DOES match up, thought it's a little different that described in the show.
I thought the place was real and people use to come to the door all the time thinking the Hillbillies really did live there.

I heard it was a real house but the inside was a different house than the outside, the inside definitly does not match the outside.

that's right; the inside was a series of sets.

that's right; the inside was a series of sets.
I herd the show was filmed in a real mansion and people use to come there all the time thinking the Clampetts really did live there. In the episode where Jed's cousin comes to stay with his wife and he tells eveybody he's a movie star and him and his wife are up in one of the bedrooms with twin beds. I thougth that was odd. I thought all the rooms would have at leat a king size bed.

There is a book called TV Sets, it has blueprints to all the fictional places on television. The Clampett Mansion is in there. There is actually an arbortoreum located in the center of the house where the windows look out onto. If you can find this book, it will answer all the questions.

The rooms I remember is the enterance way, with the staircase, the parlor, and the kitchen. In my mind, you walk through the front door and you keep going straight through the parlor and out the kitchen to the backyard where the pool is, with Drysdale's house being The Clampett's backdoor neighbors.

The billiard room to me was either upstairs or when you go into the front doors, take a left and walk back behind.

There is a book called TV Sets, it has blueprints to all the fictional places on television. The Clampett Mansion is in there. There is actually an arbortoreum located in the center of the house where the windows look out onto. If you can find this book, it will answer all the questions.


I have that book, it's interesting, but the layouts are not exactly like they are described in the shows. I think in the book, the blueprints are as the houses would HAVE to be if they were real.

Like in the Clampett mansion it has the formal gardens enclosed in the center of the house, BUT in the show, we are obviosuly supposed to think those windows/doors in the parlor connected directly to the outside, since sometimes ppl used that route to go to tbe cement pond.

The rooms I remember is the enterance way, with the staircase, the parlor, and the kitchen. In my mind, you walk through the front door and you keep going straight through the parlor and out the kitchen to the backyard where the pool is, with Drysdale's house being The Clampett's backdoor neighbors.

The billiard room to me was either upstairs or when you go into the front doors, take a left and walk back behind.

You're right, when you walk in the front door, go left into the "reception" room, then the next room is the billiard room.

TO go to the kitchen, you go through the parlor, turn right down a hallway, enter the butlers pantry then into the kitchen. OR you can exit the parlor, turn right, then turn left into the food pantry, then enter the laundry room and THEN the kitchen.

The Billiard Room was "The Fancy Eating Room". There didn't seem to be an actual Dining Room.

The Billiard Room was "The Fancy Eating Room". There didn't seem to be an actual Dining Room.
you mean "th' fancy eatin' room" with the "billi-yard" table and the head of "a billi-yard" hanging on the wall.:lol: :lol:

The Billiard Room was "The Fancy Eating Room". There didn't seem to be an actual Dining Room.

According to the floorplan there IS a dinning room, it is right before you get to the pantry that leads into the kitchen, there is a door in the parlor that connects to the dinning room. So I dunno if they just never found it or what they thought it was lol

Somoene suggested maybe they thought it was the slaughter room like where to kill and clean the animals they hunted for food.

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Who owns that house? It is a real house. Has anyone ever taken pictures of the inside of the real house?

The house is real. That is the exterior portion of the house. A fellow named Kirby owned it and leased it out to the film crew. After 3-4 years he no longer wanted the crew to film scenes. From then on you only saw limited scenes of the front doorway area. As for inside the house, All a Hollywood set.

The house is real. That is the exterior portion of the house. A fellow named Kirby owned it and leased it out to the film crew. After 3-4 years he no longer wanted the crew to film scenes. From then on you only saw limited scenes of the front doorway area. As for inside the house, All a Hollywood set.
it was the first 2 seasons that they filmed there. (the black-and-white seasons)

Aerial shot of the mansion and grounds. Obviously, the layout of the TV interior does not match up with real mansion at all.

right, the interior was just a series of sets.

Looks like a place the Queen of England would have.

Ok people talk about how out of scale the Brady's house is but have you ever noticed the Clampett mansion?

Ok first off;

When you enter through the front entrance, to the left there is a room, which I assume leads to a hallway which leads to the kitchen *they always go into that room and come out through the laundry room into kitchen*

BUT there are windows in the parlor on the left side as you enter in from the front hall! How can there be windows there when a "hallway" of some sort is supposed to be there leading to the kitchen?

Another thing that's funny is, I remember that room *on the left hand side of the front entrance in the front hall* being shown once, when Granny had Mrs Drysdale's father in there entertaining him, and it just looked like a regular room, no sign of any hallway leading out of it lol.


OK another thing is, in the exterior shots the front entrance is in the center of the mansion and it looks HUGE with a LOT of space on both sides of the door, but on the inside it clearly ends not far from the front entrance, b/c there is a window in that "mystery room" to the left of the front entrace.

I'd love to see a floor plane of the Clampett mansion.

Interesting, thinking about the Clampett Mansion, I suppose I always just expected there was more to the place than what we saw on the screen.

Aerial shot of the mansion and grounds. Obviously, the layout of the TV interior does not match up with real mansion at all.

Yes, I always just "explained" it to myself that there were many rooms we didn't see, perhaps many that the Clampetts never even used much, or at all.

Of the several mockups I've seen, this one answers many of the problems mentioned above, such as how people end up in the laundry room from two different rooms, and the windows in the parlor.

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Considering how fancy the interior looked I just assumed it was cheaper to film at an actual mansion.

The apt in the old bob Newhart show was also a disaster, sometimes when they are o the patio you can see the tops of trees, those would be extremely tall trees and there are no trees when they show the outside of the apt building, also when you go into the hall way there is an apt door that would lead to the outside of the building.

I do like the diagram shown above the best, it comes the closest it how it WOULD have looked had it been real. But there are still problems. Some times characters would exist via the parlor windows, indicating it was open to the exterior outdoors and not just an enclosed garden like in the diagram. Also I seem to remember characters taking a shortcut to the "cement pond" through those windows, implying the "cement pond" was near the parlor, when actually it would have been on the opposite side of the house. If I'm not mistaken, I thought Jethro even ran through one of those windows and you could hear him splash into the pond lol

My friend and I actually drew up a floorplan once that fit pretty well..... We put a "catwalk" type thing leading from the room off the front hall around the parlor windows. We put the kitchen in the front of the house actually, way over on the right hand side, the back door would actually lead out of the front right hand side of the house.... this could explain how the characters get from the front drive way to the kitchen so fast just by walking around the house... they would be in the front lawn and walk AROUND the house to the kitchen, when it seems going through the house would have been MUCH faster....walking around all the way around would be a long-ass walk lol but it would make sense if the kitchen was just right there on the front right side.