40 Acres Sighting
I'm so excited! I just made another 40 Acres sighting. It was on an episode of Mission Impossible from the first season titled A Spool There Was. In the last, oh, fifteen minutes maybe, there was some location shooting that I thought was on the Mayberry lot because I recognized the sides of All Souls Church in the background. Then later, I caught sight of something more familiar, grabbed the remote, and hit pause. Before I could say anything, my 12-year-old daughter said, That's Mayberry! I said, Yeah! Do you know what building that is? She said, It's the courthouse. It was shot from an angle, and of course the signs were not on the doors, but I recognized it right away. What surprised me is that my daughter spotted it so quickly without my cluing her in that it was shot on 40 Acres. I thought that was pretty good! Anyway, it was fun to see Mayberry show up again on Mission Impossible. Thelma Lou (Janet) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Re: 40 Acres Sighting
At 12:00 PM 9/10/2012, you wrote: Message: 6 Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 23:10:04 -0500 From: Janet Anderson janetsph...@msn.com To: WBMUTBB? Digest WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com Subject: 40 Acres sighting Message-ID: snt115-ds1c0cf70d6457d211dfe07ae...@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Tonight my daughter and I sat down and watched the first episode of the first season of Mission: Impossible on DVD. During an outdoor scene fairly early in the episode, a church was in the background, and it looked very much like All Souls Church on TAGS. Then I noticed some storefronts that looked like ones I had seen on TAGS. One scene had a character hiding in a doorway, and it looked like the entry to Floyd's barber shop. I didn't know anything about the show's production, but I was sure these outdoor scenes were shot on Forty Acres, though it was obvious that some of the storefronts had been altered. I watched all the way through the credits and saw that MI was a Desilu production. However, I don't recall anyone on the digest identifying Mission: Impossible as a show that used the Forty Acres lot. I know Star Trek had one episode shot there, plus a Batman show or movie, as well as a couple of films that have been mentioned. Can anyone confirm for me that these scenes were shot at Forty Acres? Thelma Lou (Janet) Hi Janet, According to Kipp Teague's excellent 40 Acres site: http://www.retroweb.com/40acres_desilu_years.html it seems that the first season of Mission: Impossible did indeed use 40 Acres for some exterior filming. Good noticing! Robbie ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
40 Acres sighting
Tonight my daughter and I sat down and watched the first episode of the first season of Mission: Impossible on DVD. During an outdoor scene fairly early in the episode, a church was in the background, and it looked very much like All Souls Church on TAGS. Then I noticed some storefronts that looked like ones I had seen on TAGS. One scene had a character hiding in a doorway, and it looked like the entry to Floyd's barber shop. I didn't know anything about the show's production, but I was sure these outdoor scenes were shot on Forty Acres, though it was obvious that some of the storefronts had been altered. I watched all the way through the credits and saw that MI was a Desilu production. However, I don't recall anyone on the digest identifying Mission: Impossible as a show that used the Forty Acres lot. I know Star Trek had one episode shot there, plus a Batman show or movie, as well as a couple of films that have been mentioned. Can anyone confirm for me that these scenes were shot at Forty Acres? Thelma Lou (Janet) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
