It strikes me that most sitcoms are set indoors.

So

1) give me some that aren’t, like I’ll say Gilligan’s Island

or

2) pick a show that’s usually indoors and tell me when the action went outside.

I can think of 3 times with One Day At A Time:

- Julie and Chuck are living in his van when they run away

- Julie gets married in the park

- Barbara and Mark driving in a car

Brady Bunch

Going camping , Grand Canyon and Hawaii

Brady Bunch

Going camping , Grand Canyon and Hawaii

Some other times the Bradys ventured outside was to climb (or more accurately, fall) treehouses, bounce on trampolines, and when they got older, walk around schools.

WKRP left the radio station to play some softball


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Some other times the Bradys ventured outside was to climb (or more accurately, fall) treehouses, bounce on trampolines, and when they got older, walk around schools.

Yes. Or ride a bike without her new glasses on and wreck the parents anniversary gift. :lol:

On Roseanne, Jackie and Roseanne driving a big rig to Kansas City to check out their Dad's mistress.

The tornado episode scene, showing how the wind was whipping up outside before the tornado.

Dan and his buddies working on a truck.

A BBQ they had on Mother's day.

Darlene's wedding in.the park.

The British sitcom The Last Of The Summer Wine, the majority of the series took place outside. If you want to see the English countryside, it's worth it alone for that.

WKRP left the radio station to play some softballWow thats awesome Opus :)

Fonzie jumped various things on his motorcycle outside, like garbage cans and sharks.

I think the Dick van Dyke Show only has one scene that was shot outdoors, when Rob rides back into town at the beginning of The Gunslinger's dream sequence.

There are also a couple of establishing shots, of a car and a (model?) airplane, and then a few outdoor scenes that were obviously filmed in the studio.

I believe one of those studio outdoor scenes on The Dick van Dyke Show is when Rob buys a motorcycle; he's seen with it out at a stop where a group of bikers are having something to eat.

I believe one of those studio outdoor scenes on The Dick van Dyke Show is when Rob buys a motorcycle; he's seen with it out at a stop where a group of bikers are having something to eat.

Yes, many three-camera sitcoms are shot totally on the soundstage.

For Two and a Half Men, the only location shot I can recall is Jake getting on the school bus one time. For Raymond, I remember only the trip to Italy. Anything else supposedly outdoors appeared to be on the soundstage.

“Outdoors” on a soundstage are perfectly legit responses. Anything where the characters are supposed to be outside. They don’t really have to be on location, although that’s good too.

There’s a Honeymooners where Ralph and Ed are in the front of the building in a car early in the morning trying to sneak away for the day. But Alice and Trixie are already hiding in the back seat.

Baywatch

In Seinfeld, the characters were seen walking on the sidewalk to visit the soup stand.

Myers Lake on the Andy Griffith show where they went fishing or took dates and had picnics

Baywatch

I’m thinking in here, just sitcoms. Dramas are a different beast.

But the Seinfeld one you did, that was going to be my next one :). They often wandered the streets, especially in the later seasons.

Sanford and son had some scenes outside the house in the junkyard . But actually away from the house outside, one time I recall. Fred and Lamont went camping . Oh also they went to Hawaii .

MASH would be outside in the compound quite often, and characters would occasionally be driving in Korea.

I’m thinking in here, just sitcoms. Dramas are a different beast.

But the Seinfeld one you did, that was going to be my next one :). They often wandered the streets, especially in the later seasons.

Oh, I missed that it's sitcoms only.

On The Golden Girls, Sofia once made friends with an Alzheimer's patient named Alvin. They would meet outside on the boardwalk.

In another episode, Sofia opened a pizza-knish stand with Max on the boardwalk.

On ALF, Alf and Willie searched for buried treasure outside in a desert area.

In another episode they ran to catch a train and rode the rails.

Another big Seinfeld outdoors is when they busted up Bette Midler at the softball game.

On The Golden Girls, Sofia once made friends with an Alzheimer's patient named Alvin. They would meet outside on the boardwalk.

In another episode, Sofia opened a pizza-knish stand with Max on the boardwalk.

How about all the scenes on the lanai. Is that outdoors? I’m not 100% sure what a lanai is.

How about all the scenes on the lanai. Is that outdoors? I’m not 100% sure what a lanai is.

It's like a roofed patio, so it is outdoors.

Right. Some are so fake looking too.

Right. Some are so fake looking too.

Sometimes the fakeness is the best part :)

Ralph leaves Alice sitting at the table in the snow outside the building in Please Leave the Premises, The Honeymooners.

ALF went outdoors when he got a paper route.

All in the family, there was a scene on the front porch , and on Archie Bunker's place a scene in the back yard.

On The Munsters, outdoor scenes occurred pretty often like when Herman played golf and baseball.

Another big Seinfeld outdoors is when they busted up Bette Midler at the softball game.

Kramer takes the reins for a horse and carriage ride. In another episode he repaints lines on a highway.

He also drives a mail truck to Saginaw and retrieves golf clubs that I think fell out of Jerry's stolen car that he spotted.

And chases a landing plane on foot.

Lotsa stuff...

Sometimes the fakeness is the best part :)

On Small Wonder (yeah, right) there was a fishing scene set that was SO bogus.

Kramer takes the reins for a horse and carriage ride. In another episode he repaints lines on a highway.

He also drives a mail truck to Saginaw and retrieves golf clubs that I think fell out of Jerry's stolen car that he spotted.

And chases a landing plane on foot.

Lotsa stuff...


Seinfeld definitely had “outdoor” money.

On The Munsters, outdoor scenes occurred pretty often like when Herman played golf and baseball.

Leo Durocher reminds me of Mr. Ed sliding into home

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"Saved by the Bell" featured the gang taking on summer jobs at the Malibu Sands Beach Club.

The Heck family from "The Middle" visited WDW.

"Saved by the Bell" featured the gang taking on summer jobs at the Malibu Sands Beach Club.

Leah Remini was so beautiful in that. :)

Everyone knows what Cheers is. Happy's Place is a current sitcom starring Reba McEntire that is also set at an inside bar. A flop sitcom that was set at an outside bar: Abby's which aired 10 episodes on NBC in 2019. Neil Flynn, after starring in two long running sitcoms Scrubs and The Middle, went to Abby's right after. But NBC just thought of it as schedule spackle, left for a midseason premiere the last week of March and not advertised at all. Abby's won't be known to most. But neither will the new sitcom NBC premiered fall 2018 called I Feel Bad, which had a bunch of obscure names in the cast. If Abby's had that slot with proper promotion, it might have been more successful.

On Threes Company right now Jack is meeting an ex girlfriend in the park. It does NOT look real.

Nickelodeon teen sitcom "Hey Dude" filmed entirely on location at the Tanque Verde Guest Ranch in Tucson, Arizona.

The sets built for the show, about a mile from the guest ranch, are still there today.

"Boy Meets World" featured many scenes with Mr. Feeny interacting with the Matthews' family, mainly Cory, in their neighboring yards.

Interesting topic. Yes when a lot of sitcoms whose storylines take place indoors , or mostly take place indoors, then whenever there is a scene "Outdoors' it is obviously NOT outdoors literally.

A lot of "I Love Lucy," or "The Lucy Show," or "Here's Lucy" episodes, whenever an outdoor scene was depicted, was so apparently just an indoor studio with lots of foilage to appear like a park or golf course or other outdoor place (of course there was once a scene in which Lucy and Mr Mooney were stuck up in a tree house and it was obviously not a real outdoor scene, also that other well-known episode in which Vivian and Lucy stole a statue from atop an outdoor structure on college grounds) . A lot of Mr. Ed episodes were "outdoors" or in a barn.
If a street scene is depicted then it too is apparently an indoor studio made to appear like a street with buildings and their stair-cases to doorways (etc).
Yet those "staged outdoor scenes" have their ambiance if you stop to think about them. Of course many may disagree about that.
As a kid I used to wonder why the scenes are not actually filmed outdoors because the filming sets just don't convince you that the characters are genuinely in some outdoor area, but when I got much more mature, so to speak, I realize that the replicas of the outdoors, in whatever form, can really be charming, interesting, and done very nicely.

I recall one Honeymooners episode in which Ralph and Norton were on the street outside their building and the plot or sketch involved getting a car out of a nearby garage that was in some building (or so it seemed).
Also I have come to notice the "Scene" outside the Kramden's kitchen window. Ralph and Alice are supposed to be in an older tenament like apartment with a view of other windows on nearby buildings and they have a fire escape outsided their window. It is reminiscent of the building I grew up in.

Home Improvement featured many scenes with Tim Taylor talking with his neighbor, Wilson, through their backyard fence.

I am not sure if anyone mentioned this already, but the outdoor scenes on The Brady Bunch were, more-often-than-not, in their own back yard which definitely looked like a studio set up to look like a fenced-in grassy back-yard area. When The Brady Bunch were on a camping trip, the scenes outdoor were apparently really in the outdoors, also when they went to Hawaii (at least I think I recall an episode in which they went to Hawaii).

Oh, and also when the Brady's were at an amusement park. It was genuinely an amusement park.
There was also an episode on The Partridge Family in which the Partridges were at an amusement park. It was actually shot on location. (I think there were other, older sitcoms in which the characters were filmed in actual amusement parks. I cannot think of any now, but that well-known Leave It To Beaver episode in which Beaver had to talk himself into going on a scary roller coaster at the dare of his friends, was not one of them).

However when it came to outdoor scenes, what went for the Bradys, went for the Partridge Family too.
There were outdoor scenes in the Partridge Family outside the Partridge's house that seemed to be really outdoors. The episode in which Shirley and Lori went on a camping trip together for a "Mother and daughter outing," and Keith and Danny and Mr. Kinkaid all tried to follow them thinking that the girls cannot manage on their own had scenes of the "outdoors" that were obviously just an indoor film set with lots of fake trees and grass, though what I recall of that episode, a group of Girl Scouts found the 3 guys (as the guys became lost and unable to fend for themselves outdoors trying to keep up with Lori and Shirley) and as the camera panned to the group of Girl Scouts it definitely seemed as if they were standing on a rock near some bushes and it was seemingly a genuine outdoor area.

Martin Short plays that weird little boy character on SNL and meets Reese Witherspoon maybe? in a park. A very obvious not real outside scene.

I remember one "Outdoor" scene when Buffy and Jody (Family Affair) were walking a lamb on a leash (they had won the lamb as a pet when they participated in some kid's game show to my best recollection) and the lamb breaks from its leash and runs away. Another "Outdoor" scene was when Buffy and Jody were talking to a portly girl who had a crush on Jody but believed that he would not be attracted to her because of her weight. In Family Affair, a a good many "Outdoor" scenes were of Buffy and/or Jody in the schoolyard and it was obviously not a real outdoor area.

Also on Nanny and The Professor, there was an "Outdoor" scene in which Nanny and Prudence, Butch and Hal were all painting a public-park statue that had not been maintained for years and had become old and forgotten-looking. The episode was about how Nanny and the 3 kids got together to bring the old statue, which was part of a decorative fountain, back to working order.
I recall that the scenes at the park looked like a studio or soundstage, not like the real outdoors.

There was also an episode in which Hal Butch and The Professor built a boat and attempted to sail it in a small lake in the park. That scene seemed to possibly be outdoors though probably in an outdoor fliming set.
There was also a similar plot in Please Don't Eat The Dasies, in which the boys and their dad built a boat and sailed it either in a small lake in the park or in their back swimming pool.
I have a faint recollection of that episode but I think it did not seem to be genuinely outdoors.

"The King of Queens" would feature scenes in the front and backyard of the Heffernan house.

Also, Doug driving the delivery truck would count as being outside.

Holliston - Season 2 episode 'Hobgoblin', this is pretty much the only episode that is set primarily outside.

I have been watching the Lone Ranger and the production crew made a ton of episodes. Some 52 a year. There are actual outdoor riding the horse scenes and then you will see a studio type scene when the horse comes to stop and actors talk. . So when you mention outdoor scenes, are you saying the set was outside or a on location in park or street scene.?