During the first two seasons, immediately out the front door were steps that directly went to the city street where Patty/Cathy could walk out and get a perfect view of the Manhattan skyline on the other side of the river.

Then, they moved production to LA and while the inside of the Lane House stayed exactly the same, on the outside, the front steps were above this rather large and grassy front yard!?! Oh and there seemed to be houses on the other side of the street so no more Manhattan skyline or other usual sights from Brooklyn Heights.


Too bad no one asked Patty 'what she did over the summer' that caused her tiny sidewalk to expand into an actual front yard!:lol:

I think they must have had a flood and the house floated across the country.

The entire interior of the Lane house changed too. Perhaps the Brooklyn Heights Historical Society finally managed to have Martin and family booted out of historic Prescott Manor, so they moved to a different house quietly over the summer hiatus. You'll also notice that The Shake Shoppe has quietly become Leslie's Ice Cream Parlor, and that J.R. Castle has been replaced by T.J. Blodgett as Martin's boss, but not even the same T.J. Blodgett whose political campaign was torpedoed by Patty and Cathy.
Of course, the real answer is that the series moved production to California, which doesn't look a thing like Brooklyn Heights.

I wanted to leave it to experts but now that it's been made clear, I thought the interior changed, too. The front door was a noticeable change--I think the third season door has a curved top.

Considering the total theme re-do, it's almost a different show.

glad I found this thread
so much change in the front of the house scenes

Manhattan View to Houses (?)

LOL

Of course, an easy explanation would have been to acknowledge moving to a new house.

Although I think UA supposedly balked at a switch, the third season should have been in color. I think even CBS had succumbed to it by 1965, at least for all their scripted shows.

I believe that the TV series The Farmer's Daughter also used the same front of the house as the Patty Duke Show. I haven't seen Farmers Daughter recently but I believe both house fronts are the same.