Was there ever an exterior shot anywhere in the entire run of the show (car interiors don't count)? I can't think of one.

Me either, I always wondered if they did...As far as I know they didn't. :lol:

Let's see...
There were four soundstage "outdoor" scenes. Meaning, of course, that the scenes were not actually shot outdoors, but on a set made to look as if they were. They are:

Episode #10, "Fourty-four Tickets," in which Rob has the members of the PTA meet he and Laura outside the front of the building where the Alan Brady Show is filmed.

Episode #34, "The Attempted Marriage," in which Rob and Laura park in an Army jeep (top down), in a secluded spot, and he proposes marriage.

Episode #110, "Brother, Can You Spare $2500?," in which Rob loses a script for the show, and a bum finds it and calls him. He asks Rob to meet him in the park with $2500 to make an exchange.

And episode #125, "Br-room, Br-room," in which Rob gets a motorcylce, goes for a ride on it, and get's mistaken for a bike gang member by the police at a drive-in burger joint.

The only real outdoor scene that comes to mind is in episode #158, "The Gunslinger," in which Rob, under dental anesthesia, dreams he's a sherriff, and has to face a gunslinger for a quick-draw on the street in an old western town.

Those are the ones that come to mind.

Steve

Excellent Sawgrass!! I guess there were plenty.

Have you ever seen the show "Beat the Geeks"? You could be the Dick Van Dyke Show geek. (..that's a compliment, in case if you've never seen the show).

Thanks

Wow, Steve, that's pretty impressive! Lolac :D

Originally posted by dix
Have you ever seen the show "Beat the Geeks"? You could be the Dick Van Dyke Show geek. (..that's a compliment, in case if you've never seen the show)
Thanks, Dix and Lolac of Twilo!
No, Dix, I haven't seen the show, but I've been called worse. Thanks for the complement!

Steve

There were several outdoor scenes in the "flashback" espisodes, most especially those of Rob and Laura dating in the Army days at Camp Crowder. And in the "check grabbing" episode ("My Husband Is A Check Grabber", I think it was called) there is a brief scene of the car Rob and Larua are in on their way home. The car is a 1957 Dodge, though it's not shown long enough to know which series it was -- whether it was a Coronet or whatever. But there was never an outdoor shot of their New Rochelle home.

The fifth season ep "Talk to the Snail" also had an outdoor scene of sorts near or at the beginning of the show, when Rob, Sally, and Buddy are rummaging through a trash barrel outside where they see the memo where the network has told Alan to fire one of his writers to cut costs.

Wow LATTML, how did you know that was a '57 Dodge? I didn't think the outside of the car was ever shown.

In the scene where Laura goes, "A-HA! -- you see what you just did!" the car briefly screeches out of control and they show the exterior of the car. I'm an old car collector and, in particular, I'm a big Mopar fan. So, recognizing a 1957 Dodge is simple. I won't bore everyone with the details, but the '57s and '58s are very similiar, except the '57 has two headlights, while the 58 has four. This one has two, so it's a '57. Also, I'm not sure, but I think in "Talk To A Snail" when the gang is digging through the garbage, it's in the basement of the building, rather than outside.

Ok, how 'bout this?:

In how many episodes did Alan Brady come into the writers room? I can only think of one (the ep where Rob,Sally & Buddy all quit because they think they're going to be fired).

Well, Dix,
I think you nailed it. At least, that's the only one I'm certain of.

Steve

Originally posted by SawgrassSteve
Well, Dix,
I think you nailed it. At least, that's the only one I'm certain of.

Steve

I agree. I think Alan probably thought he was too big a star to associate with his writers. That's what Mel was for! LOL

Kristen