Ventura County Movie and Television Locations (Oxnard, Thousand Oaks: house, beach, oil)

[Cyanna]

Poltergeist - filmed in Simi Valley
Cat in the Hat - filmed in the hills of Moorpark
Little House on the Prairie - filmed in Simi Valley
Robin Hood (the original) - filmed in Westlake Village
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman - filmed in the Camarillo area
M.A.S.H. - filmed in the Camarillo area.
Air America - filmed in the Ventura area
The Wild, Wild West - filmed in the Ventura area
How to Make An American Quilt - filmed in the Fillmore area
City Slickers II - filmed in the Fillmore area
Lost Horizons - filmed in Ojai
Face Off - oil rigs at Carpenteria

[SHNYROQ]

Swordfish - downtown Ventura
Little Miss Sunshine - Ventura beach

[BeenAroundTheBlock]

The Thorn Birds - Simi Valley
Twilight Zone - Indian Dunes, Ventura County

[Charles]

Russell Ranch (http://faculty.oxy.edu/jerry/russell.htm - broken link) (This is now Westlake Village and Oak Park)

http://faculty.oxy.edu/jerry/corrigan/corrigan.htm (broken link) (This is just north of the Simi Freeway on the Simi Side of the Santa Susana Pass)

http://employees.oxy.edu/jerry//homeloc.htm (broken link)

http://employees.oxy.edu/jerry//burrflat.htm (broken link) (this is the Santa Susana Field Lab for Rocketdyne)

http://employees.oxy.edu/jerry//goebel.htm (broken link) (this is Jungleland in Thousand Oaks)

http://employees.oxy.edu/jerry//iverson.htm (broken link) (This is in the hills to the northwest above Chatsworth Reservoir)

[ferretkona]

Originally Posted by Cyanna

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Little House on the Prairie - filmed in Simi Valley
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Actually filmed in Tuolumne County, CA. My wife and I watched many filmings there.

[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by BeenAroundTheBlock

Twilight Zone - Indian Dunes, Ventura County

Indian Dunes is correct for the Twilight Zone (and a bunch of other stuff including Ba Ba Blacksheep) but that's Castaic Junction, north L.A. County.

Seem to remember that portions of Sideways was filmed in Oxnard. Big Sky Movie Ranch (Simi Valley) was the location to Bonanza. The Paramount Movie Ranch near Chatsworth Peak was Gunsmoke's main street, but now we're back in L.A. County again.

In TV commercials I constantly recognize places like Oxnard Shores Park, the beach view of Santa Cruz Island, Oxnard's downtown Historic District, PCH near Mugu Rock to the big sand dune, and Fillmore's downtown railway visuals. Highway 126 near Piru and the town itself is often depicted as a faraway country village or other "out in the sticks" location.

[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by ferretkona

Actually filmed in Tuolumne County, CA. My wife and I watched many filmings there.

Little House may have been in part filmed in Tuolomne County, but at least the TV show was also filmed in Simi Valley at the north end of Tapo Canyon Road. In fact the buildings still stood until only a few years ago when they were consumed in a brush fire.

Big Sky Movie Ranch
Big Sky Ranch - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by Cyanna

M.A.S.H. - filmed in the Camarillo area.

Were portions of M.A.S.H. filmed in Camarillo? The main set was in Malibu Creek State Park (L.A. County).

[Cyanna]

Yes, according to a films and television shows database portions of M.A.S.H. were filmed in the Camarillo area but it didn't go into further detail.

[Cyanna]

Here's a great website about Corriganville:
Corriganville Movie Ranch