“Too Close for Comfort” Final Season Filming Locations

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The first five seasons of the show were set in San Francisco, where a house at 171-173 Buena Vista Avenue East was shown in establishing shots. But in 1986, for the sixth and final season, the program was renamed The Ted Knight Show, and the plot moved the characters across the bay to Mill Valley where Henry (Ted Knight) had purchased a minority share in a local newspaper, the Marin Bugler. In real life, Ted Knight passed away at the end of the season, concluding the series. Subsequently, the sixth season was renamed “Too Close for Comfort,” and is included along with the rest of the series in syndication packages.



With the fictional move to Mill Valley came new establishing shots and an updated opening title. The real-life location of the primary characters’ main residence—a grand Victorian, complete with a turret and perched on a hill—seemed to go unidentified for years. While planning a trip to California this summer, I made a point to see if I could finally track it down.

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Something to take note of is during the sixth and final season (or technically, the first and only season of The Ted Knight Show) the first-run episodes began to air infrequently. The month of June 1986 had just one new episode airing that month...only two aired in July 1986...no new episodes aired in August 1986...but from September to November first-run episodes aired consistently each week...after no new episodes aired in December 1986 the final two episodes that had been taped in the first half of 1986 finally aired in 1987 (one in January and another in February).