Ive recently begun watching the classic Untouchables on late night TV when I get home from work. I noticed at the end of one of the episodes that the show was produced by Desilu Studios. So I wonder, if anybody knows, were the sets from a Piece of the Action (e.g the cars, costumes, even street scenes) originally from the Untouchables?
A Piece of the Action and the Untouchables
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^^Absolutely. That's the whole reason "A Piece of the Action" was written in the first place: so they could save money by recycling stuff from The Untouchables. When ST was first being shopped around, there were a lot of concerns about how costly it would be to depict alien worlds on a weekly basis, so Roddenberry came up with the "Parallel Earths" premise as an excuse for recycling old props, costumes, sets, stock footage, etc. in order to make the show affordable. (This is also why the 24th-century shows did so many holodeck episodes.) One of the initial "seed" story ideas in the original ST proposal was "PRESIDENT CAPONE: A parallel world, Chicago ten years after Al Capone won and imposed gangland statutes on the nation."
As for the street scenes, they were shot on the "New York Street" portion of Paramount's backlot, which has been used in many, many shows and films over the years, including The Untouchables.
As for the street scenes, they were shot on the "New York Street" portion of Paramount's backlot, which has been used in many, many shows and films over the years, including The Untouchables.
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