As a volunteer researcher and historian who works in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area, which owns the historic Paramount Ranch movie ranch, I'm always looking for movies or episodes of tv shows that used Paramount Ranch. We knew of one episode, from 1982 I think, which the Park Service had a filming permit for, "The Spaceman Made Me Do It". I suspected that there might be others from earlier years and started recording episodes with certain keywords or plot points in the synopsis once the show started running on tv again. My hunch has paid off. As of this week, I've now found three other episodes. "Death Watch" (1979) and "Moonlight" (1981) both used the old Western town set as movie sets where stunt movies were being filmed in the storylines. The most recent was "Satan's Angel's" (1980) where part of the open landscape of the ranch was used as the park where Bonnie confronts a biker gang and is abducted by them. Many of the male officers and Sgt. Getraer were on the property for the later scene where they all find out about the kidnapping and rendezvous. I'm always very happy to find new titles to add to the NPS television list. While we have some clues to productions that used the ranch, in many cases it's a case of following hunches or simply watching a lot of the old shows. Since I get to watch stuff that I grew up with years ago in my youth, it is a lot of fun!
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