Here's a tour of the office and home of Mr. Robert Petrie, the head writer of the popular program, The Alan Brady Show. The folks who put these together, carefully researched what we saw of those locations on The Dick Van Dyke Show and ad-libbed their way around the other parts. When we're looking at the office, the host tells us this is how it would have looked if you were in the audience looking at the set. Well, I was in the audience once looking at the office set and their version looks like what I remember seeing except that I think their re-creation is a lot more spacious.
I remember noting how much smaller the office looked in person. (Before anyone asks: The episode I saw filmed was the one in which Rob and Laura bought their house in New Rochelle and the only scene that took place in that house was in the basement. In that basement there was a huge rock which had not been there in an earlier episode in which Rob was hustled in a pool game that took place in his basement.) But it's all a fascinatimg exercise in architectural rendering — or whatever you'd call this kind of 3-D tour…