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.
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