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I could say the same thing about some of the readers of The
Adventures Continue -- What eyes! Metropolis
and Mayberry started when Jack Thompson wrote to tell
me he noticed what appeared to be Tara (from Gone With The
Wind) in the distant background just before Clark ducked
behind the shed to change into Superman in "The Mind Machine."
Knowing that Randy Garrett is much more knowledgable than
I regarding the history of the back lot where the Adventures
of Superman was filmed that first season, I turned it over
to him. Sure enough, Jack was right... and Randy, along with
Jack Thompson and Jerry Krumm, soon began gathering the information
and photos now posting in Metropolis
and Mayberry.
And please take a look at some of the other photos at The Andy
Griffith Rerun Watchers Club.
I've now posted all but one or two pages of Randy's article,
and I thought that would be the end of it. But then... along
came this question from Hinkley Waite:
Jim, after I clicked to enlarge your
photo of the Desilu studio back lot, I noticed something in the
upper right corner. I wonder if that could be the location for
Hogan's Heroes? It looks like high fencing, guard tower, and
barracks. Thanks, Hinckley Waitt
So back to Randy I went. His reply:
Yes that is indeed the set for Hogan's
Heroes in the upper right corner of the aerial shot of Forty
Acres. (Notice all the fake snow.) Interestingly enough, just
over the hill on the upper left side of the picture, you can
see the Marine barracks where Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. was
filmed. So it would seem that a Nazi prison camp was once only
a short distance from a Marine base! Also, the Hogan set
was on the very spot were Tara from Gone With The Wind
once stood and close to the Atlanta Train Station (which was
still standing) at the time Hogan's Heroes was in production.
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