#Set design

In the same vein as I’ve Seen These Walls Before and Name that Stock Footage I bring you: Thank you for reusing this prop!

First up, the fireplace cover:

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Nice, little Peacock piece, seen in Candidate for Crime. shows up up again in Negative Reaction.

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Very cute. But while we’re on the same image, let me direct you to my second favourite piece,on the other side of the frumpled detective, the lemon christmas tree in a basket.

The lemon christmas tree basket

It is a work of absolute tacky and horrid art and it is beautiful. And they reused it in Playback.

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It got a little traveling pouch, it’s going places, going from fancy crime house to fancy crime house.

But, my favourite prop reused so far

Dog Statue

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Stately dog with a collar and chain that belong on something more, uh, erotic. (This was the escort’s apartment)

Shows up again in Publish or Perish (in said stock footage apartment from Rockford Files)

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a dog that is also going places. But he’s there to help their owners do the right thing.

I can’t wait for more weirdo props to reoccur.

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Columbo set design, Season 1. The Louis XVI-style walls keep showing up in different colours and patterns throughout the season.

Bonus, a bed so ostentatious they used it twice:

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The Louis-XVI style sets return as….sets within a set in Season 2′s “Requiem for a Falling Star” (and that checkerboard floor has been used before)

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Back again for Lovely but Lethal as a fashion runway

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