As their relationship becomes more serious, Samantha becomes worried that she will soon have a stepmother, however the Chief is in no way ready to consider re-marriage. Soon after, the two of them hit it off and begin dating. However, the Chief quickly learns this may not have been the best idea.Īn old high school classmate ( Rue McClanahan) accidentally hits the Chief's squad car. He fixes her up with one of his co-workers. This is when the Chief comes up with a plan to make her feel better. After a terrible evening having to deal with a variety of weirdos, Nell becomes depressed. Nell and her friend Angie go out to a singles bar. Note: This episode marks the first appearance of Howard Morton (Ofc. Fortunately Nell helps the two reconcile by helping them coming to terms with losing Margaret. This led to a huge argument between Katie and the Chief, resulting in Katie being ordered to move out. In the series premiere, a series of events unfolds: Samantha comes home with a black eye, and Nell teaches her a few skills on how to fight Julie and her friend are studying "where babies come from," and as the Chief comes home, he walks into the kitchen and finds them kissing and finally, Officer Simpson arrives at the house with Katie, who was picked up for shoplifting. Stalk It: The Kanisky house from Gimme a Break! is located at 515 South Norton Avenue in Windsor Square.Episodes Season 1 (1981–82) No. On Location Vacations also tipped me off to the residence’s stint as the home of Marisol (Veronica Osorio) and Richard Onsted (Peter Mark Kendall) on the television series Strange Angel, which aired from 2018 to 2019.įor more stalking fun, follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Los Angeles magazine, and Discover Los Angeles.īig THANK YOU to Chas, from the It’s Filmed There website, for finding this location and to Owen for initiating the hunt! Only the interior of the property was shown in the episode. Thanks to On Location Vacations, I learned that Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) took Rebecca (Mandy Moore) to an open house there in the Season 3 episode of This Is Us titled “A Philadelphia Story,” which aired in 2018. Gimme a Break! is not the pad’s only claim to fame! The interior of the Kanisky house was just a set located on a soundstage at the now-defunct Metromedia Square in Hollywood, where Helen Bernstein High School now stands. Only the exterior of 515 South Norton appeared on the series. It truly is a feat that so little of the property has been changed considering 39 years have passed since Gimme a Break! first hit the screen, not to mention how prevalent remodels are in L.A. And there, on the sixth street he searched, was the Kanisky house. Andrews Place and continued on that way in a grid-like fashion, moving west. He then ventured back toward Beverly on North St. He began his search at Beverly Boulevard and Manhattan Place at the very eastern edge of Windsor Square and, using Street View, worked his way south on Manhattan until he hit Wilshire Boulevard. Like me, Chas had a feeling the property was most likely located in Hancock Park and its environs. Said to be at 2938 Wells Drive in the fictional town of Glenlawn, the pad popped up in Gimme a Break!’s Season 1 and 2 opening credits, which you can watch here. So it’s no surprise it found its way to the screen. It really is a handsome property, with plenty of Anywhere, U.S.A. In real life, the 1910 home boasts 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3,022 square feet, a fireplace, a 0.16-acre lot, and a detached 2-car garage with what appears to be an in-law unit upstairs. As it turns out, my hunch about Hancock Park was right on the money! The Kanisky residence can be found at 515 South Norton Avenue in Windsor Square, looking pretty much exactly as it did during the Gimme a Break! days almost four decades ago! It was not until the end of May that the home was finally identified thanks to fellow stalker Chas, of the It’s Filmed There website. I did some digging in the area, but came up empty. One look at its stately architecture told me the property was likely in Hancock Park. As he wrote to me, “I’m guessing this is one of the few remaining popular ’80s sitcom houses that has yet to be found.” I was, of course, intrigued. Owen isn’t actually a huge Gimme a Break! fan either, but bored during quarantine, caught an episode on YouTube and quickly zeroed in on the traditional-style pad shown in the opening credits. So when my friend Owen emailed in April asking if I had any intel on the supposed Glenlawn, California residence where widowed police chief Carl Kanisky (Dolph Sweet) lived with his three daughters, Katie (Kari Michaelsen), Sam (Lara Jill Miller) and Julie (Lauri Hendler), and their housekeeper, Nell Harper (Nell Carter), on the series, I was at a loss. Though I definitely consider myself a child of the ‘80s, somehow I never watched Gimme a Break!, which aired on NBC from 1981 to 1987.
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