This kitchen looks familiar

Could it be the kitchen from 'The Golden Girls'?

But, what are Patty Duke and Richard Crenna doing there?

No style. No sunny curtains. No brass knick knacks on the wall. No "Men Of Blanche's Boudoir" calendar on the swinging door.

For the cheap seats: This was part of the main set of "It Takes Two," a 1982-83 sitcom about a couple in Chicago (Patty Duke, Richard Crenna) and their young adult children (Anthony Edwards, Helen Hunt).

The show was a Witt-Thomas-Harris production, and they recycled the kitchen for The Golden Girls in 1985.

What I wonder is: Why and how? Were they just like, let's hang on to this kitchen? Is that customary? They also recycled a few other sets—Father Flotsky's mother's home on Soap later became Dorothy's grandmother's house on Golden Girls, and the Sunnies' HQ on Soap was used a couple of other times.

I thought when series ended, sets were struck, and that was that. They paid to store them somewhere?

Reddit beat you to the punch.

Didn't someone post on her that the Golden Girls set/stage was later used for Ally McBeal's apartment? No idea if that's true

Weird seeing high-rises outside the window instead of palm trees.

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Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman?

Does the laundry room still lead the the garage?

In the Golden Girls Forever book, the designers explain that there weren't any kitchen scenes in the original pilot script, so Ed Stephenson, the set designer, only designed the house with the three rooms the script called for: the living room, the lanai, and Blanche's bedroom. At the last minute, they got a new script that called for a kitchen, so one of the others went through the Witt-Thomas-Harris archives looking for a kitchen that would work. They found the It Takes Two kitchen, removed some things (it had a stove on the right wall that was then removed) and added it onto the Golden Girls set. That's why the layout of the house doesn't make sense. (They added the back hallway to lead to the girls' bedrooms--even though the door to the garage from the kitchen would lead there.)

**oven on the right, not stove. The stove was still on that little island, and the Girls had to pretend there was an oven under it, even though there wasn't, just a fake door since the oven from the It Takes Two kitchen had been removed.

Sets are reused all the time.

Fun fact: the basic courtroom set at Chelsea Piers, used for SVU and other shows, was re-built from an old LA Law set shipped from Calif. to NY.

R11 does it say why Blanche's bedroom was relocated?

I hope this kitchen isn’t violating the golden triangle!

r14, no, not that I remember.

R11 has helped clear up one of DL's greatest mysteries. I wonder what configuration they would have come up with if they'd had more time

Ah, the “No? Troll” returns.

I know it’s the Golden Girls kitchen, but it also reminds me of Mary’s kitchen from Soap.

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Pity.

[quote][R11] does it say why Blanche's bedroom was relocated?

The massive amount of foot traffic.

I still love Jessica Tate's kitchen from 'Soap'. It wouldn't have been very Miami, but I always enjoyed seeing the convos over coffee in there. (And Benson attempting to teach her how to cook.)

[quote] Fun fact: the basic courtroom set at Chelsea Piers, used for SVU and other shows, was re-built from an old LA Law set shipped from Calif. to NY.

Was there something sufficiently special about that "basic" set that justified the expense of shipping it across the country? Courtrooms and courtroom sets all look pretty much the same to me.

I liked that movie 🎥 where Richard Cremona gets fucked up the ASS.

SImilarly, I've always thought that the set from Two and a Half Men was Laverne & Shirley's California apartment.

It wasn't open concept. How did they entertain?

It wasn’t shipped just for SVU. Lots of Calif. sets end up elsewhere due to the great expansion of studios beyond the LA area.

R21 I always thought it made more sense for Blanche's bedroom to be at the front so she could have her screaming ecstasy without waking the other girls, come in at all hours and spy passing handsome men on the road.