15 Shows That Recycled Another Show’s Sets

TV sets are expensive, so once a production builds a perfectly good living room, school hallway, spaceship, or entire town, Hollywood is not always eager to throw it away. A fresh coat of paint and some new furniture can apparently do wonders. That is how familiar sitcom homes have turned into crime scenes, cheerful small towns have become suspicious ones, and one very recognizable high school somehow kept enrolling new TV teenagers for years. Sometimes the recycling is almost impossible to spot. Other times, once you know what you are looking at, you cannot unsee it. Here are 15 shows that recycled another show’s sets.

Star Trek Turned Mayberry Into Another Planet

Star Trek reused Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show in multiple episodes, redressing the familiar backlot as everything from an abandoned town to 1930s New York.

Mannix Moved Into the Brady House

The Brady Bunch living room, patio, and backyard all appeared on Mannix. Even with new dressing, some of that famously colorful Brady architecture was hard to hide.

Mission: Impossible Also Borrowed the Brady Living Room

Apparently one second life was not enough. Mission: Impossible redressed the Brady Bunch living room, turning a family sitcom set into an espionage backdrop.

The Office Checked Into Sacred Heart

When Jim and Pam visit a hospital on The Office, they are walking through the same former medical center used as Sacred Heart throughout Scrubs.

Smallville Borrowed The West Wing’s Oval Office

Lex Luthor’s presidential vision looked unusually convincing because Smallville filmed it on The West Wing’s Oval Office set instead of building its own.

Mike & Molly Gave Roseanne’s Living Room a Makeover

Molly’s home on Mike & Molly was built from the bones of the famous Roseanne living-room set, with enough changes to make the old Conner house less obvious.

Pretty Little Liars Inherited Stars Hollow

Warner Bros. redressed parts of the Gilmore Girls backlot for Pretty Little Liars. Stars Hollow landmarks quietly became pieces of the considerably less comforting town of Rosewood.

Hart of Dixie Also Moved Into Stars Hollow

Rosewood was not Stars Hollow’s only second life. The same Warner Bros. streets were redressed again to create Bluebell, Alabama, for Hart of Dixie.

That’s So Raven Went Back to Bayside High

The school set from Saved by the Bell survived long enough to become a high school again on That’s So Raven. Both schools were even called Bayside.

Victorious Went to iCarly’s School

The school hallways in Victorious were built from the same basic set used for Ridgeway on iCarly, with new colors, doors, and dressing to turn it into Hollywood Arts.

Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper Took Over the Seaver House

The pilot of Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper reused the Seaver family living room from Growing Pains, which had ended only months earlier.

The Golden Girls Inherited Someone Else’s Kitchen

That Miami kitchen did not start in Miami. The Golden Girls reused a kitchen originally built for the short-lived 1980s sitcom It Takes Two.

Doctor Who Borrowed Ancient Rome From Rome

For “The Fires of Pompeii”, Doctor Who traveled to Cinecittà and reused elaborate Roman sets originally built for HBO and BBC’s Rome.

Outlander Took Over the Black Sails Fleet

When Outlander headed to the Caribbean, production reused ships and sets from Black Sails. Two of its vessels had previously sailed through the pirate drama.

I Dream of Jeannie Visited the Bewitched House

The Stephenses’ Bewitched house had several television lives, including appearances on I Dream of Jeannie, where parts of the familiar home were repurposed for other characters.