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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 441415" data-attributes="member: 57984">The un-aired pilot, The Vintage Years (which you can sometimes find on Youtube), filmed inside the actual Villa Miraville house. But it was rewritten and restructured (by Bob McCullough) because the pilot was too cluttered. (Richard was already there, a different actor, already Angela&#039;s son and her essential gofer, with a different Chase &amp; Maggie in the form of Clu Gulager and Samantha Eggar).Yes, the foyer is not as deep in the actual Villa Miravalle House, while real-life the study and living room are much deeper! (Later, when FC added the sun room, they should have placed it on the rear of the living room -- or off the dining room where it actually is at Villa Miravalle -- instead of off the study, which is where the kitchen should have been).NOTE: the &quot;P&quot; over the front door, which they oddly recreated for the studio set (before removing it several seasons in) is for &quot;Parrot&quot; because, built in 1885, it was The Parrot House, which, is how they arrived at the name &quot;Perrault&quot; for Lana Turner&#039;s character0 (It was the name of the original owner)... So the series&#039; falcon motif is actually made up of parrots!<img src="https://www.falconcrest.org/common/news/updates/fcvm-stairwaywindow.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 709px" />On DALLAS, they apparently chose the Calder house because it had three windows on either side of the front door (like the exteriors of the Duncan House/Southfork).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 441415, member: 57984"] The un-aired pilot, [I]The Vintage Years[/I] (which you can sometimes find on Youtube), filmed inside the actual Villa Miraville house. But it was rewritten and restructured (by Bob McCullough) because the pilot was too cluttered. (Richard was already there, a different actor, already Angela's son and her essential gofer, with a different Chase & Maggie in the form of Clu Gulager and Samantha Eggar). Yes, the foyer is not as deep in the actual Villa Miravalle House, while real-life the study and living room are much deeper! (Later, when FC added the sun room, they should have placed it on the rear of the living room -- or off the dining room where it actually is at Villa Miravalle -- instead of off the study, which is where the kitchen should have been). [B][I]NOTE[/I]:[/B] the "P" over the front door, which they oddly recreated for the studio set (before removing it several seasons in) is for "Parrot" because, built in 1885, it was The Parrot House, which, is how they arrived at the name "Perrault" for Lana Turner's character0 (It was the name of the original owner)... So the series' falcon motif is actually made up of parrots! [IMG width="709px"]https://www.falconcrest.org/common/news/updates/fcvm-stairwaywindow.jpg[/IMG] On DALLAS, they apparently chose the Calder house because it had three windows on either side of the front door (like the exteriors of the Duncan House/Southfork). [/QUOTE]

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